Art:21 Art in the 21st Century

Companion book to Art for the Twenty-First Century, the first broadcast series for national television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States today. Introduced by curator and executive producer, Susan Sollins, Art: 21 features edited transcripts of interviews, full-color reproductions of artwork, and biographical information on featured artists.

dimensions: 11.6 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches Hardcover 216 pages

$45

Art:21.2 Art in the 21st Century

An excellent survey of contemporary art, this abundantly illustrated volume introduces readers to some of the most important practitioners in the field. Susan Sollins, who interviewed the book's 16 subjects for her PBS television series' second season of "ART:21," lets the artists speak for themselves here. The result is a refreshingly direct volume in which photographs of the artists' works are juxtaposed against their own observations about their obsessions, their work habits and their field. Artists include Trenton Doyle Hancock, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker and Kiki Smith, Gabriel Orozco, Martin Puryear, Collier Schorr, and Janine Antoni, Elizabeth Murray, Raymond Pettibon, Eleanor Antin, and Walton Ford, and Vija Clemins and Paul Pfeiffer.

dimensions: 11.6 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches Hardcover 216 pages

$45

Art Invention House

Art Invention House is an authoritative and handsomely illustrated presentation of forty new houses exploring the creativity of top architects around the world. Each of these cutting-edge projects represents a world apart from its surroundings. The book includes projects by world renowned firms of Archi-Tectonics/Winka Dubbeldam, Will Bruder, Wallace Cunningham, Gwathmey Siegel, TEN Arquitectos, Marcos Acayaba and Marcio Kogan, Seth Stein, Herzog & de Meuron, Jyrki Tasa, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe, and Kengo Kuma.

dimensions: 12.3 x 12.3 x 1.3 inches Hardcover 320 pages

$75

Chip Kidd: Book One 1986-2006

Chip Kidd is universally recognized as an American master of contemporary book design. Stylishly designed and richly produced, this witty volume works both as a retrospective of Kidd's renowned book covers and as a memoir of his career in publishing. Featured are projects for DC Comics, including Batman and Superman, as well as Kidd's award-winning exploration of the art of Charles M. Schulz. Chip Kidd: Book One is sure to enthrall design aficionados, book lovers, pop-culture fanatics, comics fans, and design students.

dimensions: 11.9 x 9.1 x 1.2 inches Hardcover 304 pages

$65

Graffiti World

This beautifully designed volume is respectful and knowledgeable about its oft-misunderstood subject matter. With more than 2,000 illustrations by over 150 artists from all over the world and interviews with many of them, this visually arresting book is the most comprehensive survey of graffiti art ever published. Today's young graffiti artists incorporate a variety of mediums, including stickers, stencils, oils, acrylics, and oil-based chalk, as well as an ever-expanding range of social commentary. This evolution in style and subject matter has earned graffiti the respect of the art world and guaranteed its long-lasting influence on art, graphic design, and style around the world. Great fun for graffiti and pop-culture buffs, the book is also an essential reference work for anyone involved in the visual arts today.

dimensions: 9.5 x 9.1 x 1.5 inches Hardcover 376 pages

$35

Installation Art

Installation Art provides the first clear account of the rise of installation as a form while revisiting and reassessing many well-known names of post-1960 art. The lavishly produced volume also introduces the reader to a wider spectrum of younger artists yet to receive serious critical attention. Artists featured include Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Judy Chicago, Olafur Eliasson, Group Material, Isaac Julien, Ilya Kabakov, Yayoi Kusama, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, and many others.

dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches Softcover 144 Pages

$40