Art, Architecture & Photography
gesture or expression. Kelsey
points out that, historically,
this proneness to chance has
been a mixed blessing for
those seeking to make photographic art.
LITTLE, BROWN
Hold Still: A Memoir
with Photographs by Sally
Mann (May 12, hardcover,
$32, ISBN 978-0-316-
24776-4). In her memoir, a
unique interplay of narrative and image,
acclaimed photographer Mann crafts a new
form of personal history that offers her family’s history and its influence on her life as
an artist. 75,000-copy announced first
printing.
MENIL COLLECTION
Barnett Newman: The Late Work,
1965–1970 by Bradford A. Epley and
Michelle White (Apr. 28, hardcover, $55,
ISBN 978-0-300-21176-4). An enlightening study of painter Barnett Newman’s last
works is based on a decade of exhaustive
research
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
OF ART
Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700:
Opulence and Fantasy by Navina Najat
Haidar and Marika Sardar (May 5, hardcover, $65, ISBN 978-0-300-21110-8)
surveys the visual and decorative arts created by India’s Deccan kingdoms in the
16th and 17th centuries.
MIT
Design, When Everybody Designs:
An Introduction to Design for Social
Innovation by Ezio Manzini, trans.
by Rachel Coad (Feb. 13, hardcover,
$24.95, ISBN 978-0-262-02860-8) draws
a comprehensive picture of design for social
innovation: a dynamic field of action for
both expert and nonexpert designers in the
coming decades.
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of
the Classical Roman Capital, edited by
Paul Shaw (Feb. 6, hardcover, $55, ISBN
978-0-262-02901-8). An illustrated
examination of the enduring
influence of, and many varia-
tions on, the classical Roman
capital letter, including a
series of essays by some of the
most highly regarded practi-
tioners in the fields of typog-
raphy, lettering, and stone
carving.
NATIONAL GALLERY
LONDON
Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern
Art Market, edited by Sylvie Patry (May 12,
hardcover, $65, ISBN 978-1-85709-584-5)
examines the career of art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, revealing the crucial role he played in
the development of French Impressionism.
NEW PRESS
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Bordered Lives: Transgender Portraits from Mexico by Kike Arnal (Feb.
17, paper, $21.95, ISBN 978-1-62097-
024-9). Arnal’s photographs explore what
it is to be transgender in Mexico, seeking
to push back against the transphobic
caricatures that have perpetuated
discrimination against the transgender
community. 10,000-copy announced first
printing.
NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS
Go Figure! New Perspectives on
Guston, edited by Peter Benson Miller
(Mar. 10, hardcover, $60, ISBN 978-1-
59017-878-2). This illustrated volume of
essays about Philip Guston (1913–1980)
considers the late work of the man who
was a friend and contemporary of Jackson
Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
NOBROW
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Eventually Everything Connects by
Loris Lora (Mar. 17, hardcover, $40, ISBN
978-1-907704-88-8). Author and illustrator Lora makes all the creative connections
between the movers and shapers of the arts
in the Californian modernist movement in
a full-color concertina book that unfolds to
four meters in size.
OTHER DISTRIBUTION
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Walking Sculpture 1967–2015 by Lexi
Lee Sullivan (May 26, hardcover, $25, ISBN
978-0-300-21243-3). Titled after Michelangelo Pistoletto’s performance Walking Sculpture, this catalogue features 50 color illustrations ranging from photographs of Yvonne
Rainer’s street actions to Francis Alÿs’s
fantastical processions, tracing the history of
walking as an aesthetic action from the
Dadaists to contemporary ramblers.
OTHER PRESS
Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art
Scene of the Sixties by William Hackman
(Apr. 14, hardcover, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-
59051-411-5) chronicles the unlikely story
of how Los Angeles became an international center of artistic culture and pays
tribute to the city that gave birth to an
often overlooked moment in modern art.
10,000-copy announced first printing.
OXFORD UNIV.
Local Glories: Opera Houses on Main
Street, Where Art and Community
Meet by Ann Satterthwaite (July 1, hardcover, $34.95, ISBN 978-0-19-939254-4)
explores the creative, social, and communal
roles of thousands of “opera houses” that
flourished across America.
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the
Art World by Anthony M. Amore (July
14, hardcover, $26, ISBN 978-1-137-
27987-3). Head of security and chief investigator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston, Amore reveals the
untold stories of some of history’s most
notorious art cons.
PENGUIN PRESS
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be
Understood by Grayson Perry (May 5,
hardcover, $25, ISBN 978-0-14-312735-2).
English artist Perry offers a funny, personal
journey through the art world and answers
the basic questions that might occur to us
in an art gallery, but seem too embarrassing
