Book Beat presents: Art, Photography & Gift Book treasures for 2018
A small sampling of some of our favorite visual gift books of the year. Stop by soon for an eye-popping selection! Thank you for shopping local!
- Lost Words, by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (Anansi International) The Lost Words Website
- Jean-Michel Basquiat XXL, edited by Hans Werner Holzwarth (Taschen) The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever.
- Home After Dark, by David Small (Liveright) Comic Journal Review
- Vivian Maier: Color Work, edited by Colin Westerbeck (Harper Design) Vivian Maier’s Rare Color Works Show the Mysterious Photographer in a New Light
- The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint, by Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro (Getty Publications) The Art of Reading
- Lawrence Schwartzwald: The Art of Reading (Steidel) Review in Museè Art of Vanguard of Photography Culture
- Prince: Before the Rain, by Photographer Allen Beaulieu (Minnesota Historical Society Press) Before the Rain “Worth the Wait”
- I Too Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance at 100, edited by Wil Haygood (Rizzoli) A Landmark Exhibition Catalog
- Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year, selected by Fiona Waters & illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon (Nosy Crow) Sing a Song of Seasons is a Delight
- Edge of Order, by Daniel Libeskin (Clarkson Potter) Master Architect Daniel Lebiskind Unveils Creative Secrets
- Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print ’55 -’88, by Peter Golding & Barry Miles (Thames & Hudson) Will enrich the MInd and entice the Eyes
- Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future, edited by Tracey Bashkoff (Guggenheim Museum Publications) A Flabbergasting Retrospective
- Hairy Who? 1966–1969, edited by Thea Liberty Nichols, Mark Pascale, and Ann Goldstein (Yale University Press) The Wild World of the Hairy Who?
- Ver Sacrum: The Vienna Secession Art Magazine 1898-1903, edited by Valerio Terraroli (Rizzoli) Vienna Secession Magic
- Sister Pie: The Recipes and Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit, by Lisa Ludwinski (Lorena Jones Books) Sister Pie: Detroit Free Press Review Signed copies available!
- Michigan Modern: An Architectural Legacy by Author Brian Conway and Photographer James Haefner (hardcover, Visual Profile Books) One breathtaking view after another
- Minoru Yamasaki Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World by Dale Allen Gyure (Hardcover, Yale University Press) Architecture for a Modernist World Signed copies available!
- A Detroit Nocturne by Dave Jordano, text by Karen Irvine (Hardcover, Powerhouse) The Masterful Dave Jordano has a new book
- Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery One of the most influential artists of the last century –npr
- ARETHA: The Queen of Soul—A Life in Photographs By Meredith Ochs (Hardcover, Sterling)
- Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit by Michael Hodges (Hardcover, WSU press) New York Times on Albert Kahn Signed copies available!
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Thanks for the heads-up, Kim! Links should be working now.