Individual Artists - Essays
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Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing
$30.00 Add to cartFollow the friendship and romance of storied artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, from the US to Italy and back again, through previously unpublished letters, postcards, candid portraits and contact she
- Author: Thek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988573685
- Language: English
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Happiness Ruined Everything
$23.00 Add to cart“One of the strange joys of being in love with someone is how happiness ruined everything. No more courting the dark. I’ve always worn my own darkness and haven’t tried-I hope I haven’t tried-pretendi
- Author: Klein, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0913123544
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Studio
$32.00 Add to cartWilliam Kentridge, one of the leading artists of our time, offers a personal account of his childhood, creative practice, and the studio spaces–understood both as physical places and a way of thinkin
- Author: Kentridge, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 080216725X
- Language: English
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Joseph Grigely: Otherhow: Essays and Documents on Art and Disability, 1985-2024
$30.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Deaf artist and writer collects decades’ worth of material addressing issues of art and advocacy
American visual artist and scholar Joseph Grigely (born 1956) here brings together writing
- Author: Grigely, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991036719
- Language: English
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Agnes Martin: On Beauty
$35.00 Read moreAn exploration of Martin’s intuitive, idiosyncratic approach to beauty, as evinced through her written meditations and reproductions of several key paintings
“When I think of art I think of beauty. Bea
- Author: Martin, Agnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1948701839
- Language: English
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Kawase Hasui: Capturing the Soul of Japan
$45.00 Read moreDiscover the timeless beauty of Kawase Hasui, the master of shin hanga, in this stunning new book, featuring his most breathtaking woodblock prints and expert insights into his legacy.
Kawase Hasui (1- Author: Uhlenbeck, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9464781181
- Language: English
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Salvador Dal? the Persistence of Memory: MoMA One on One Series
$14.95 Add to cartA fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of Surrealism
In 1931, Salvador Dal? (1904-89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both wi
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1633451755
- Language: English
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Making Art and Making a Living: Adventures in Funding a Creative Life
$30.00 Add to cart“Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age.” –Cal Newport,
- Author: Currey, Mason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1250824524
- Language: English
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Surrealism and Anti-Fascism: Anthology
$70.00 Read moreA detailed and intellectually invigorating collection that places Surrealism in the thick of the battle for political emancipation
The Surrealist movement famously initiated a revolution in visual and
- Author: Muhling, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 3775758771
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter
$60.00 Add to cart- Author: Schwarz, Dieter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 2386110591
- Language: English
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Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing
$30.00 Add to cartFollow the friendship and romance of storied artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, from the US to Italy and back again, through previously unpublished letters, postcards, candid portraits and contact she
- Author: Thek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988573685
- Language: English
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Brightening Glance: Art and Life
$28.00 Read moreFor more than five decades, Pat Lipsky has been a leading figure in American color field painting. In loosely connected vignettes, this extraordinary book looks back on a life starting in 1970s SoHo: … [more below]
- Author: Lipsky, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: October 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1685970346
- Language: English
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AI Weiwei Handbook
$18.95 Add to cartA compact and amply illustrated guide to the prodigious artist, activist and dissident
Emerging from a tumultuous background of political and cultural critique, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) uses a diverse ran
- Author: Weiwei, Ai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988928645
- Language: English
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Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright
$65.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated exploration of newfound connections between American cultural icons Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright. This groundbreaking volume places the artist and architect side by sid… [more below]
- Author: Rovang, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0847875792
- Language: English
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Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
$35.00 Add to cartA classic collection of Whitten’s writings and process notes, updated to include additional transcriptions and a new afterword
A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New
- Author: Whitten, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 3907493117
- Language: English
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Magic Art
$95.00 Add to cartBreton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography
What is “Magic Art”? In 1953, Andr? Breton, founder of the Surrea
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1399971182
- Language: English
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Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews
$38.00 Read moreAn expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today
This long-awaited and essential volume collects writings
- Author: Ligon, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 3906915883
- Language: English
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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
$15.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement
“The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Neal, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231204
- Language: English
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Marcel Duchamp
$125.00 Read moreDuchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonn?-cum-artist’s book now back in print in a facsimile edition
A New York Times critics’ pick Best Art Books 2021
Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary mon- Author: Duchamp, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 3906915514
- Language: English
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ISA Genzken
$50.00 Add to cartGenerously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages.
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary
- Series: October Files #17
- Author: Lee, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527111
- Language: English
