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Contemporary Art

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


Barbara Kruger. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2010. 250 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780847833252)

Accame, Giovanni Maria, David Carrier, Sue Hubbard, Gavin Morrison, Jasper Sharp, and Lilly Wei. Unique Act: Five Abstract Painters; Frederic Matys Thursz, Sean Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Seán Shanahan, Ruth Root. Exh. cat. Dublin: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in association with Lund Humphries, 2008. 152 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9781848220027)

Acton, David. 60 Years of North American Prints. Boston: Boston Printmakers, 2009. 200 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $42.50 (9780615312361)

Adler, Dan. Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880–1983. London: Afterall Books, 2009. 112 pp.; 32 color ills. Paper $16.00 (9781846380501)

Allen, Terry. Terry Allen. Series in Contemporary Art. Edited by M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley. Austin: University of Texas, 2010. 334 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780292722460)

Allthorpe-Guyton, Marjorie, Michael Tucker, and Catherine Lampert. Ian McKeever: Paintings. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2009. 208 pp.; 110 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (9781848220379)

Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris. Basics Design: Design Thinking. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411177)

Anderberg, Birgitte, ed. Bjorn Norgaard: Re-Modelling the World. Exh. cat. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth DKK 198.00 (9788792023445)

Argos, Collectif. Climate Refugees. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. 171 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262514392 )

Ashton, Dore. Cecily Brown. New York: Rizzoli and Gagosian Gallery, 2009. 264 pp.; 125 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780847830923)

Asselin, Olivier, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross. Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 448 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780773533851)

Ausoni, Alberto. Music in Art. Trans. Stephen Sartarelli. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780892369652)

Baert, Barbara, ed. Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visal Arts. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2009. 160 pp.; 20 ills. Paper $39.50 (9789058677167)

Bastian, M.S., and Isabelle L. Bastokalypse. Zurich: Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess, 2010. 72 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9783858812964)

Biesenbach, Klaus, ed. Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. Exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2010. 224 pp.; 345 ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780870707476)

Biggs, Bryan, ed. Art in a city Revisited. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 170 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9781846310836)

Blomberg, Nancy J., ed. [Re]inventing the Wheen: Advancing the Dialogue on Contemporary American Indian Art. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2009. 172 pp.; many color ills. Paper (9780914738596 )

Boime, Albert. The Birth of Abstract Romanticism: Art for a New Humanity; Rumi and the Paintings of Kamran Khavarani. San Francisco: Sybil City Books, Co., 2009. 300 pp.; 177 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Cloth $120.00 (9780981673905)

Bonami, Francesco, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, eds. Whitney Biennial 2010. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. 256 pp.; 150 color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300162424)

Borland, Polly. Bunny. Exh. cat. London: Other Criteria and Michael Hoppen Gallery, 2010. 100 pp.; 50 color ills. Cloth $104.00 (9781904212379)

Brody, Jennifer DeVere. Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. 240 pp.; 23 b/w ills. Paper (9780822342359)

Brophy, Noémie, ed. The Final Fifty/The Undiscovered Letter Book. Exh. cat. Vol. 6. ADC Young Guns. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010. 478 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780811869454)

Brown, Elizabeth A. KiKi Smith: Photographs. Exh. cat. New York: Prestel, 2010. 208 pp.; 240 color ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783791344652)

Buchloh, Benjamin H.D., ed. Gerhard Richter. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 200 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (9780262513128)

Buntrock, Dana. Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Japanese Architecture: Tradition and Today. New York: Routledge, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $62.95 (9780415778916)

Capon, Edmund, and William Wright. Tim Storrier: Moments; In Response to Memories and Ideas of Mortality. Victoria, Australia: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2010. 332 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $130.00 (9781921394140)

Carrier, David. Proust/Warhol: Analytical Philosophy of Art. Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang, 2009. 128 pp. Cloth $58.95 (9781433104336)

Cándida Smith, Richard. The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 256 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780812241884)

Cooke, Lynne, ed. Thomas Schutte. Exh. cat. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2010. 110 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9783791350509)

Cotton, Charlotte. Words Without Pictures. Ed. Alex Klein. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2010. 510 pp. Paper $24.95 (9781597111423)

Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009. 168 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780300151039)

de Bruin-Derakhshani, Fariba, and Barbara Murray, eds. Culture and the Human Body: Prince Claus Awards 2008. Vol. 12. Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Amsterdam: Prince Claus Fund, 2010. 152 pp.; Many color ills. Paper (9789076162140)

de Pascale, Enrico. Death and Resurrection in Art. Trans. Anthony Shugaar. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780892369478)

DeVuono, Frances, Peter Frank, and Susan Platt. Deborah Faye Lawrence: Dee-Dee Does Utopia. Seattle: Marquand Books, Inc., 2009. 36 pp.; 22 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780977802845)

Di Bello, Patrizia, and Gabriel Koureas, eds. Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 26 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754668633)

Dobkins, Rebecca J. Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs. Exh. cat. Salem, Ore. and Seattle: Hallie Ford Museum of Art and University of Washington Press, 2010. 128 pp.; 95 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9780295988603)

Dodsworth, Simon. The Fundamentals of Interior Design. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $34.95 (9782940373925)

Doherty, Claire, ed. Situation. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery, 2009. 240 pp. Paper $24.95 (9780262513050)

Dyson, Frances. Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. 262 pp.; 8 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780520258990)

Essl, Karlheinz, Robert Fleck, and Jonathan Meese. Jonathan Meese: Fräulein Atlantis. Exh. cat. New York: Prestel, 2010. 184 pp.; 146 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9783791341101)

Fairbrother, Trevor. The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2009. 80 pp.; 56 color ills. Paper $19.99 (9780295989716)

Fassi, Luigi, Lucy Gallun, and Jakob Schillinger, eds. Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. 111 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $16.95 (9780300159028)

Flórez, Fernando Castro. Juan Cruz-Plaza: En torno al horizonte. Exh. cat. Tarragona: Diputació de Tarragona, 2009. 141 pp.; many color ills. Paper (9788495835789)

Forrest, Tara, and Anna Teresa Scheer, eds. Christoph Schlingensief: Art without Borders. University of Chicago Press, 2010. 30 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781841503196)

Foster, Carter E., and Franklin Sirmans. Steve Wolfe on Paper. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009. 102 pp.; 45 color ills. Cloth $19.95 (9780300158984)

Frantz, Susanne K. Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass. Exh. cat. Tacoma: Museum of Glass in association with University of Washington Press, 2009. 208 pp.; 192 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780295988252)

Frascina, Francis, ed. Modern Art Culture: A Reader. London: Routledge, 2009. 488 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780415231527)

Fryer, Paul. Radiations. London: Other Criteria, 2010. 96 pp.; 68 color ills. Cloth $70.00 (9781904212386)

Garcia, Claire Watson. Painting for the Absolute and Utter Beginner. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 160 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $21.99 (9780823099474)

Gérin, Annie, and James S. McLean, eds. Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780802095688)

Glassie, Henry. Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 488 pp.; 185 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780253354396)

Glier, Mike. Along A Long Line. Lenox, MA: Hard Press Editions, 2009. 208 pp.; 240 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781555953195)

Gordon, Alastair. Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 320 pp.; 105 b/w ills. Paper $17.00 (9780226304564)

Graham, Beryl, and Sarah Cook. Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 354 pp.; 68 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262013888)

Griffel, Lois. Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2010. 144 pp.; 170 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780823095193)

Grigor, Talinn. Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs. New York: Periscope Publishing, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781934772782)

Gury, Al. Alla Prima: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Direct Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 176 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823098347)

Hashmi, Salima. Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society Museum, 2009. 160 pp.; 78 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780300154184)

Hayes, Kenneth. Milk and Melancholy. Critical Perpectives in Contemporary Art. Ed. Scott McLeod. Toronto: Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 2010. 156 pp.; 95 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780262083812)

Holman, Martin. Graham Crowley. Burlington, Vt.: Lund Humphries in association with Broken Glass, 2009. 128 pp.; 80 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781848220249)

Hough, Jessica, and Monica Ramirez-Montagut, eds. Revisiting the Glass House: Contemporary Art and Modern Architecture. Exh. cat. Ridgefield, Conn., Oakland, and New Haven: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in association with Mills College Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2009. 134 pp.; 89 color ills.; 11 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780300135879)

Huldisch, Henriette, and Shamim M. Momin. Whitney Biennial 2008. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008. 288 pp.; 242 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300136890)

Humphrey, David. Blind Handshake. Pittsburgh: Gutenberg Periscope, 2009. 224 pp.; 176 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9781934772324)

Irish, Sharon. Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 11 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816660964)

Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2008. 304 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780932216601)

Jacob, Mary Jane, and Michelle Grabner, eds. The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 69 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780226389615)

Joselit, David. Feedback: Television against Democracy. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. 51 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9780262514026)

Kelley, Jeff. Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection. Exh. cat. Berkeley and San Francisco: University of California Press and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009. 85 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780520257795)

Kennedy, Brian P., and Emily Shubert Burke, eds. Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Exh. cat. Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2009. 240 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9781584657873)

Kim-Cohen, Seth. In the Blink of an Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sound Art. New York: Continuum, 2009. 296 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780826429711)

Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Delinger, eds. The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 368 pp.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (978080322781)

Kuspit, Donald. Basil Alkazzi–New Horizons...: Recent Works, 1994–1997. Channel Islands: Izumi Art Publications Ltd., 2009. 43 color ills. Cloth (1898467056)

LaVallee, Michelle. Wally Dion. Exh. cat. Regina, Canada: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2010. 32 pp.; 14 color ills. Paper (9781896470719)

Leonard, Joanne, and Lucy Lippard. Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 212 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9780472114023)

Linton, Meg, and Meg Linton. Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design, 2009. 76 pp.; 56 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (0930209168)

Long, Timothy, and Shauna McCabe. Ronald Bloore: Fragments of Infinity. Exh. cat. Regina, Canada: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2010. 29 pp.; 13 color ills. Paper (9781896470641)

Long, Timothy, Elizabeth Matheson, and Nancy Tousley. Theatroclasm: Mirrors, Mimesis and the Place of the Viewer. Exh. cat. Regina, Canada: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 2010. 64 pp.; Many color ills. Paper (9781896470726)

Macaya, Alber, Perico Pastor, Joan Vallès, Macarena de la Vega, Imma Boj, Enric Miró, Estela Rodríguez, and Alfred Porres Pla Pla. El museu i l’educació per a la diversitat cultural de les arts. Tarragona: Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona, 2009. 164 pp.; many color ills. Paper $0.00

McCullough, Holly Koons, and Derek Mahon. Palliser. Exh. cat. Savannah, Ga.: Telfair Museum of Art, 2008. 60 pp. Cloth $29.95 (9780933075092)

Maranda, Michael, ed. The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files: And While I Have Been Lying Here Perfectly Still. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2009. 132 pp.; 111 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780921972532)

Markonish, Denise, ed. Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape. Exh. cat. Cambridge, MA and North Adams, MA: MIT Press and MASS MoCA, 2010. 232 pp.; 151 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780262633666)

McGregor, Ken, and Jenny Zimmer. Robert Jacks. South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2009. 144 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781921394157 )

McVarish, Emily. The Square. New York: Granary Books, 2009. 64 pp. Cloth $1200.00

Miliani, Antonio Salcedo. Comella Escultura Natura: Rufine Mesa un projecte de vida. Exh. cat. Tarragona: Disputació de Tarragona, 2009. 185 pp.; many color ills. Paper with DVD (9788495835703)

Monk, Philip. Matthew Brannon: To Say the Very Least. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2010. 184 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $60.00 (978-0921972501)

Moorhouse, Paul. Anthony Caro: Presence. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781848220539)

Morley, Simon, ed. The Sublime. Documents of Contemporary Art. Edited by Iwona Blazwick. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. Paper $24.95 (9780262513913)

Mould, Philip. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures. New York: Viking, 2010. Cloth $26.95 (9780670021857)

Noble, Richard, ed. Utopias. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery, 2009. 240 pp. Paper $24.95 (9780262640695 )

Obrist, Hans Ulrich, ed. Formulas for Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008. 160 pp.; 48 color ills.; 57 b/w ills. Cloth £12.95 (9780500238509)

Bjerkhof, Sven, ed. Reality Check. Intro. Karsten Ohrt. Exh. cat. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2010. 150 pp.; Many color ills. Paper DKK 198.00 (9788792023216)

Peltomäki, Kirsi. Situation Aesthetics: The Work of Michael Asher. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 256 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $27.95 (9780262013680 )

Petersen, Anne Ring, Mikkel Bogh, Hans Dam Christensen, and Peter Nørgaard Larsen, eds. Contemporary Painting in Context. Vol. 1. The Novo Nordisk Art History Project. Ed. Mikkel Bogh, et. al. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010. 220 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $34.00 (9788763525978)

Phaidon. Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Intro. Anne Ellegood. New York: Phaidon, 2009. 352 pp.; 500 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780714849744)

Phillips, John Ransom, and Alan Trachtenberg. Ransoming Mathew Brady. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2010. 266 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781555953263)

Pichler, Michalis. Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. Berlin: Michalis Pichler, 2010. 32 pp. Paper €38.00 (9783868740011)

Platt, Susan Noyes, and Michelle LeBaron. Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden. Exh. cat. Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 2009. 128 pp.; 91 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780924335297)

Poblet i Tous, Josep, and Alex Mitrani. Biennal d'Art 2009: Museu d'Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona. Exh. cat. Tarragona: Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona, 2009. 88 pp.; many color ills. Cloth

Ratcliff, Carter. Albert Paley in the 21st Century. Exh. cat. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780615353920)

Reeder, Jan Glier. High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010. 355 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300155228)

Renfrew, Elinor, and Colin Renfrew. Basics Fashion Design: Developing a Collection. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940373956)

Robertson, Jean, and McDaniel Craig. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780195367577)

Roble, Adbi, and Doug Rutledge. The Somali Diaspora: A Journey Away. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 208 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780816654574)

Rondeau, James. Cy Twombly: The Natural World: Selected Works, 2000–2007. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2009. 96 pp.; 61 color ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780300146912)

Russett, Robert. Hyperanimation: Digital Images and Virtual Worlds. New Barnet, U.K.: John Libbey Publishing, 2009. 300 pp.; 205 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780861966547)

Sabatino, Michelangelo. Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780802097057)

Sandweiss, Lee Ann, ed. Perpetual Motion: Michael Goldberg. Exh. cat. UAM Hampton COllection Series, Vol. 3. Long Beach: University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, 2010. 31 color ills. Paper (978093627056)

Sheehy, Colleen J., ed. Cabinet of Curiosities: Mark Dion and the University as Installation. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Weisman Art Museum in association with University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 128 pp.; 44 color ills.; 46 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780816644704)

Sheffield, Margaret. The Expressive Edge. Milan: Charta, 2010. 6 color ills.; 31 b/w ills. Cloth $37.95 (9788881587377)

Signer, Roman. When You Travel in Iceland You See a Lot of Water: A Travelbook Including a Discussion Between Tumi Magnusson and Roman Signer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Scheidegger and Spiess, 2010. 35 color ills. Cloth $19.95 (9783858812995)

Silverman, Kaja. Flesh of My Flesh. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 304 pp.; 80 ills. Paper $21.95 (9780804762083)

Sirmans, Franklin. Is There Life Before Death? Exh. cat. Houston: Menil Collection, 2010. 128 pp.; 50 color ills. Cloth $30.00 (9780300146882)

Smith, Elizabeth A. T., ed. Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2008. 240 pp.; 365 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (9780300137460)

Sparagana, John, and Mieke Bal. Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 136 pp.; 33 color ills. Cloth $35.00 ( 9780226035529)

Steinbach, Haim. OBJECT. Paris: Three Star Books, 2010. 64 pp. Cloth

Storr, Robert. Cage: Six Paintings by Gerhard Richter. London: Tate Publishing, 2009. 160 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $42.50 (9781854378569)

Szewczyk, Monika, ed. Meaning Liam Gillick. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 218 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780262513517)

Tejada, Roberto. Celia Alvarez Muñoz. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Resource Center, 2009. 128 pp.; many color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780895511126)

Thom, Ian M. Challenging Traditions: Contemporary First Nations Art of the Northwest Coast. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 176 pp.; 85.00 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780295989198)

Thompson, Don. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp.; 8 color ills. Cloth $26.00 (9780230610224)

Vargas, George. Contemporary Chican@ Art: Color and Culture for a New America. Austin: University of Texas, 2010. 288 pp.; 14 color ills.; 61 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780292721173)

Cox, Christoph, Branden W. Joseph, Liz Kotz, Ulrich Loock, Peter Pakesch, and Alex Potts. Max Neuhaus: Times Square, Time Piece Beacon. Intro. Lynne Cooke. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2010. 174 pp.; 46 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780300151671)

Vinti, Carlo. Mark McGinnis. Front Forty Profiles, vol. 1. Edited by Front Forty Press. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 80 color ills. Paper $20.00 (9780982545805)

Wallis, Claire, ed. Richard Long: Heaven and Earth. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2009. 240 pp.; 120 color ills. Paper $37.50 (9781854378415)

Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years. Intro. Shamim M. Momin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2009. 192 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300139334)

Widener, Daniel. Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 384 pp.; 48 ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822346791)

Wigan, Mark. Basics Illustration: Global Contexts. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940373949)

Willis, Deborah, ed. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot." Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 42 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9781439902059)

Wolf, Gita. SSSS: Snake Art and Allegory. Paris: Tara Books and Musée du Quai Branly, 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $24.95 (9788190675666)

Wolfe, Ann M., ed. Chris Drury: Mushrooms|Clouds. Exh. cat. Chicago: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago in association with Nevada Museum of Art, 2010. 96 pp.; 67 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781935195047)

Zimmerman, Philip. Sanctus Sonorensis
. Tucson, AZ: Philip Zimmerman, 2010. 90 pp. Cloth $50.00