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Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm: The Eye of the Earth
William L. Coleman

The most private of artists was beguiled by a hardscrabble farm and its residents down the road from his studio, revealing some of his most personal friendships, and yielding some of his most iconic paintings.

158 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism
Nicholas Fox Weber

In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.

521 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde
Lynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, Anne Grace, Stéphane Aquin, Claire Bernardi, Robert Parker, Charles Dellheim, Sophie Eloy, Kirsten Pai Buick, Ambre Gauthier

This book offers a rich introduction to the life and work of art dealer Berthe Weill—the risk-taking, rule-breaking facilitator of the modernist art movement in Paris.

205 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900–1939
Robyn Asleson

A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris

277 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations
Simon Jenkins

Historian Simon Jenkins has traveled the length and breadth of Britain to select this joyous celebration of social history. With his usual insight and authority, he describes the history, geography, design, and significance of each of these glories; explores their role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects, and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the development, triumphs, and follies of these very British creations.

326 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Building Ghosts: Past Lives and Lost Places in a Changing City
Molly Lester

Building Ghosts features more than 100 striking contemporary color photographs and a deeply researched narrative about Philadelphia’s buildings, neighborhoods, and the ghosts that reveal new truths and provocations about the changing city. Photographs by Michael Bixler

270 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
Rabih Alameddine

In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition.

82 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France
Vanessa Grossman

The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France.

276 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick
Sarah Archer, Colin Fanning, Ann Glasscock, Holly Gore, Emily Zilber

Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of innovative woodwork and sculpture, embodying his influence on American art and design. Principal photography by Joshua McHugh.

221 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

David Rowland: 40/4 Chair
Erwin Rowland, Laura Schenone

David Rowland was a pioneering Mid-Century designer. Born in 1924 in Hollywood, California, he studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. His elegant, perfectly engineered 40/4 chair is one of the most significant and masterful designs of the 20th century.

239 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Design through Time: Evolving Landscapes, from Alcatraz to Prospect Park
Mark H. Hough

A dynamic look at landscape design that reflects its status as an art form that is ever changing, never static.

370 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Don't Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Aaron Betsky

In a time of climate crisis and housing shortages, a bold, visionary call to replace current wasteful construction practices with an architecture of reuse.

222 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car
Witold Rybczynski

The renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

The Ends of Collage
Yuval Etgar (Editor)

The Ends of Collage anthologizes texts on collage ranging from the early 20th century to the present. The theoretical motivations that precipitated the emergence of collage are placed in conversation with those that expanded the medium beyond its traditional limits in the late 1970s, with the rise of digital culture.

235 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
César Aira

Preface by Roberto Bolaño

An astounding novel from Argentina that is a meditation on the beautiful and the grotesque in nature, the art of landscape painting, and one experience in a man's life that became a lightning rod for inspiration.

87 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage
Freya Gowrley

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today.

399 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Hidden Libraries: The World’s Most Unusual Book Depositories
DC Helmuth, Nancy Pearl

Discover 50 of the world's most magnificent hidden libraries - each with a unique and uplifting story to tell - featuring a foreword by librarian, bestselling author, and literary critic Nancy Pearl.

207 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

J. L. Petit: Britain's Lost Pre-Impressionist
Philip Modiano

J. L. Petit: Britain's lost pre-impressionist

119 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Jewish Country Houses
Juliet Carey (Editor), Abigail Green (Editor)

An exploration of the world of Jewish country houses, their architecture and collections, and the lives of the extraordinary men and women who created, transformed, and shaped them. Photographed by Hélène Binet.

351 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Kalaya's Southern Thai Kitchen
Nok Suntaranon, Natalie Jesionka

Bring the bold, spicy, beautiful world of Southern Thai cooking to your kitchen through recipes and stories from the James Beard Award–winning chef of Kalaya, as featured on Netflix’s Chef’s Table.

287 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Lille
Laurence Phillips

New from Bradt is the thoroughly updated fifth edition of Lille, the award-winning and critically acclaimed guidebook to this exciting, ever-changing and easily accessible city in Hauts-de-France – the ultimate destination for a European city break.

268 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Louis Sullivan: An American Architect
Patrick F. Cannon

A gorgeous color depiction of every remaining structure designed by Louis Sullivan. Photographs by James Caulfield

288 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time
Dietrich Neumann

A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern architect.

438 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
Nicholas Fox Weber

The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more—from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber

639 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Prose Architectures
Renee Gladman

A book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the moment whereby architecture emerges out of prose, the sentence becomes a drawing, and the act of writing narrative can be examined from bodily movements.

121 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Red Regatta: A Public Art Project for Venice
Melissa McGill

An artist’s restaging of a Venetian nautical tradition calls attention to the threats of climate change.

206 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Rosario Candela & The New York Apartment: 1927-1937 The Architecture of the Age
David Netto, Paul Goldberger, Peter Pennoyer

Masterworks of the Jazz Age architect whose residential buildings are as significant in their impact on the character of New York as the skyscrapers of Wall Street.

303 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
Simon Jenkins

Jenkins shows that everyone is a consumer of architecture and makes the case for the importance of everyone learning to speak its language. A Short History of British Architecture is a celebration of British national treasures, a lament of their failures – and a call to arms.

311 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia's Black Women Leaders
Allener M. Baker-Rogers, Fasaha M. Traylor

Meet some of Philadelphia’s fiercest black women leaders. They range from the first black woman known to be born in Philadelphia (1694)—who ran a ferry business during colonial times—to the woman whose childhood experiences led her to become a surgeon and medical advisor to celebrities.

620 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture
David Serlin

A particular history of how encounters between architects and people with disabilities transformed modern culture.

237 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: The Explosion Reforming Space
Philip Jodidio

Individual architects & architectural firms. Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the New York Times called "the most important new building in America since the Cold War"), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House, her first completed project in China, and the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics.

96 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

Zaha Hadid: Complete Works 1979-today
Philip Jodidio

Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an accessible edition covering Hadid’s complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid’s own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe.

491 pp. Hardcover - Art, Architecture & Design

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