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* Kiefer, Anselm & Michael Auping. Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth. Prestel. 2005. c.184p. photogs. ISBN 3-7913-3387-9. $65. FINE ARTS Published to complement a traveling exhibition on view at the [...]

Jariwala, Kapil (text) & Justin Westover (photogs.). Cultural Ties. Westzone, dist. by Trafalgar Square. 2001. 176p. photogs. ISBN 1-903391-08-3. pap. $40. FINE ARTS London gallery owner Jariwala began the project [...]

Artspace Is/Artspace Was: A Place in Time. Artspace, dist. by D.A.P. 2001. 195p. ed. by Anne MacDonald. illus. ISBN 1-891273-02-7. $39.95. FINE ARTS Edited by founder MacDonald, this largely pictorial [...]

Hyper Mental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000; From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons. Hatje Cantz, dist. by D.A.P. 2001. 166p. photogs. ISBN 3-906574-11-3. pap. $39.95. FINE ARTS Liberating artworks from their conventional [...]

Magnum Stories. Phaidon. 2004. 512p. ed. by Chris Boot. photogs. ISBN 0-7148-4245-1. $79.95. PHOTOG This book chronicles the work of three generations of Magnum photographers and the history, culture, and [...]

Varieties of Modernism. Yale Univ. 2004. 352p. ed. by Paul Wood. illus. index. ISBN 0-300-10142-2. $60; pap. ISBB 0-300-10296-8. $30. FINE ARTS Collaborating with Yale University Press, Britain's Open University [...]

powerHouse. (Blind Spot Book). 2003. 176p. photogs. ISBN 1-57687-194-0. $65. PHOTOG Capturing fragments of street ephemera, the calligraphic rhythms of oil puddles, or the gentle undulations of rock formations, Siskind's [...]

Abrams. 2003. 272p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2002151721. ISBN 0-8109-4231-3. $60. FINE ARTS In this landmark study, which accompanies a traveling exhibition that debuted at the Columbus Museum of Art [...]

Celant, Germano & Marina Abramovic. Marina Abramovic: Public Body: Installations and Objects 1965-2001. Charta, dist. by D.A.P. Feb. 2002. 495p. photogs. ISBN 88-8158-295-3. $75. FINE ARTS This monograph begins with [...]

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Vol. 19: Violence. Univ. of North Carolina. Nov. 2011.368p. ed. by Amy Louise Wood. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 9780807835227. $45; pap. ISBN 9780807872161. $24.95. [...]

Wood, Rebecca (text) & Peggy Markel (illus.). The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating. 3d ed. Penguin. 2010. 450p. illus, index. ISBN 9780143117438. pap. $20. REF [...]

Liebman, Roy. Musical Groups in the Movies, 1929-1970. McFarland. 2009. 227p. ISBN 978-0-7864-3484-8. $49.95. REF The most comprehensive subject resource to date, this trim guide charts hundreds of musical groups [...]

Since he started writing the Globe and Mail's weekly 'New York Diarist,' a column that first appeared in September 2003, Simon Houpt has trained his attention on the art world, [...]

* Houpt, Simon. Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft. Sterling. Oct. 2006. c.192p, illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 1-40272829-8 [ISBN 978-1-4027-2829-7]. $24.95. FINE ARTS Houpt is best known [...]

Cappock, Margarita. Francis Bacon's Studio. Merrell, dist. by CDS. 2005. 239p. illus. bibliog, index. ISBN 1-85894-276-4. $59.95. PHOTOG It could be said that entering an artist's studio is not unlike [...]

Agle, Josh. Shag: The Art of Josh Agle. Chronicle. Oct. 2005. c.224p. illus. ISBN 0-8118-5096-X. $40. FINE ARTS This book marks the first comprehensive monograph on graphic turned popular artist [...]

Barker, Clive. Clive Barker: Visions of Heaven and Hell. Rizzoli, dist. by Random. 2005. c.352p, illus. ISBN 0-8478-2737-2. $50. FINE ARTS Though he regularly shows his work in Los Angeles [...]

Gilden, Bruce. A Beautiful Catastrophe. powerhouse. 2005. c.140p, photogs. ISBN 1-57687-238-6. $40. PHOTOG Of the many bibliographic celebrations of NewYork, Gilden's is among the deftest at underscoring the magnetism and [...]

Davis, Keith F. & others. The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawings, Collage. Yale Univ. in assoc. with the Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation. 2005. c.240p. illus. index. ISBN 0-300-10783-8. [...]

* Smith, Joel. Steinberg at the New Yorker. Abrams. Apr. 2005. c.240p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-8109-5901-1. $50. FINE ARTS Rich in ingenious detail and insightful metaphor, Saul Steinberg's work is [...]

* SPEED, JULIE (illus.) & ELIZABETH FERRER & EDMUND P. PILLSBURY (text). Julie Speed: Paintings, Constructions, and Works on Paper. Univ. of Texas. 2004. 193p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-292-70272-8. $45. […]

KABAKOV, ILYA (ILLUS.) & OSKAR BATSCHMANN & BORIS GROYS (TEXT). Ilya Kabakov: Installations 1983-2000; Catalogue Raisonne. 2 vols. Richter Verlag, dist. by D.A.P, Jun. 2004. 1008p. ed. by Toni Stooss […]

Rosler, Martha. Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001. MIT. Jun. 2004, c.390p, illus. ISBN 0262-18231-9, $34.95. FINE ARTS Artist, critic, and Rutgers University professor Rosler (If You Lived Here) is […]

Jean Dubuffet: Trace of an Adventure. Prestel. 2004. 240p. ed. by Agnes Husslein, tr: from German by Pauline Cumbers & others. illus. bibliog. ISBN 3-7913-2998-7. $65. FINE ARTS Written to […]

Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. 2003. 384p. photogs, index. ISBN 0-500-23813-8. $29.95. FINE ARTS Renowned for his codification of American Abstract Expressionism (The New York School), Sandier presents a [...]

Abrams. 2003. 416p. ed. by Coco Fusco & Brian Wallis. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0 8109-4635-1. $40. PHOTOG Written to accompany the traveling exhibition of the same name prepared by [...]

Duke Univ. 2003. 128p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8223-3208-6. $39.95. PHOTOGS Its pages radiant with crackling sparks, searing flames, pinkish dawns, and indigo twilights, On Fire offers a captivating photo-documentary of [...]

Oxford Univ. (History of Art). 2003. 256p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-19-284271-4. pap. $19.95. PHOTOG Photography is a profoundly influential medium, as it traverses language barriers, molds perceptions, and shapes human [...]

HarperCollins. Oct. 2003. c.792p. illus. index. ISBN 0-06-053075-8. $39.95. FINE ARTS In the spirit of postmodern revisionism, which looks to reappraise fundamental assumptions about culture, its evolution, and its production, [...]

Abrams. 2003. 120p. illus. bibliog. LC 2003102103. ISBN 0-8109-9188-8. $35. FINE ARTS Best known for his paintings of bulbous in-genues with seemingly elasticized extremities, contemporary American painter Currin first achieved [...]

2d ed. Univ. of Chicago. 2003. c.536p. ed. by Robert S. Nelson & Richard Shift. illus. index. ISBN 0-226-57166-1. $65; pap. ISBN 0-226-57168-8. $25. FINE ARTS Originally published in 1996, [...]

Univ. of Chicago. 2003. c.275p. illus. index. ISBN 0-226-41536-8. $35. FINE ARTS With this book, litigator and culture critic Julius (T.S. Eliot and Anti-Semitism) has written the first thoroughgoing investigation […]

Univ. of Washington. 2003. 224p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 90-400-8708-3. $65. FINE ARTS Written to accompany an exhibition traveling this year from Paris's Musee d'Orsay to Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, […]

Abrams. 2002. 528p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 2001056749. ISBN 0-8109-0559-0. $85. PHOTOG Marien (fine arts, Syracuse Univ.) winnows the abundant photographic production of the mid-19th to the late 20th centuries […]

Yale Univ. 2002. 210p. illus. index. LC 2002001895. ISBN 0-300-09706-9. $45. FINE ARTS A compilation of Herbert's articles, published between 1960 and the mid-1990s, this book offers a valuable survey [...]

MIT. Nov. 2002. c.440p. illus. index. ISBN 0-262-20140-2. $39.95. FINE ARTS Troy (chair, art history, Univ. of Southern California) here offers the first thoroughgoing examination of the relationship between modern […]

Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. Oct. 2002. 560p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2001093466. ISBN 0-500-23792-1. $75. FINE ARTS Eschewing the conventional genesis story of American art, one that locates [...]

Univ. of Texas. 2002. 281 p. permanent paper. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2001044296. ISBN 0-292-77750-7. $39.95. FINE ARTS This monograph offers an unprecedented opportunity to reconsider Wilfredo Lam's (1902-82) work [...]

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, dist. by D.A.P. 2002. 85p. illus. ISBN 0-9713844-1-X. $60. FINE ARTS Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name mounted in New York City by Mitchell-Innes [...]

Yale Univ. 2002. 351p. ed. by Ann Temkin. illus. bibliog. index. LC 2001059841. ISBN 0-300-09429-9. $65. FINE ARTS Time has served to make the laconic visual language of Barnett Newman [...]

Abrams. 2002. 160p. illus. index. LC 2001004989. ISBN 0-8109-6553-4. $45. FINE ARTS The first extensive monograph on this photorealist painter, this book offers an absorbing retrospective portrait of one of [...]

Lobel, Michael. Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art. Yale Univ. (Publications in the History of Art). 2002. 196p. permanent paper, illus. bibliog. index. LC 2001045347. ISBN [...]

Putnam, James. Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium. Thames & Hudson, dist. by Norton. 2001. 208p. photogs. bibliog. index. LC 2001088626. ISBN 0-500-23790-5. $45. FINE ARTS Curator of the [...]

Ferguson, Russell & others. Douglas Gordon. MIT. 2001. c.184p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-262-06222-4. $40. FINE ARTS A companion guide to the retrospective now on view at Los Angeles's Museum of [...]

* Casebere, James & others. James Casebere: The Spatial Uncanny. Charta, dist. by D.A.P. 2001. c.192p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 88-8158-3151. $49.95. FINE ARTS Casebere's vacant interiors, bereft of all [...]