Spring Highlights: Art and Architecture

Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski (April)
When the art world has paid attention to makers from outside the cultural establishment, including so-called outsider and self-taught artists, it has generally been within limiting categories. Yet these artists have had a transformative influence on the history of modern art. Responding to growing interest in these artists, this book, global in scope, offers a nuanced history of their work and how it has been understood from the early twentieth century to the present day.

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount (April)
Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. Among these, The Gulf Stream (1899), often considered the most consequential painting of his career, reveals Homer's lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. Published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Guo Pei: Couture Fantasy by Jill D'Alessandro (May)
Journey into the imaginative realm of one of the world's most innovative fashion designers. Guo Pei, China's first couturier, is celebrated for dazzling designs that make the implausible possible. With more than 200 color illustrations highlighting 60 of her exquisite creations, this sumptuous volume showcases the garments' consummate craftsmanship, lavish embroidery, and unconventional dressmaking techniques. This stunning volume is complemented by a coloring book of some of Guo Pei's unpublished sketches that invites collaboration directly with the designer's process. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Cezanne edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gloria Groom, Caitlin Haskell, and Natalia Sidlina (May)
In this fresh look at beloved French artist Paul Cezanne, his work across media and genres is considered by art historians and conservators as well as by a dazzling roster of renowned contemporary painters, including Etel Adnan, Phyllida Barlow, Paul Chan, Julia Fish, Ellen Gallagher, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Laura Owens, and Luc Tuymans. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago.

Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure edited by Emilie Bouvard (June)
Showcasing more than 100 of his sculptures, drawings, and prints, this retrospective highlights the early and midcareer developments of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. The book's essays offer new perspectives on his era-defining sculptural masterpieces including the Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche edited by Victoria I. Lyall and Terezita Romo (March)
Explore the visual and cultural legacy of La Malinche, the enslaved Indigenous girl who became Hernán Cortés's interpreter, cultural translator, and the mother of his firstborn son. Five hundred years after her death, she is a figure of enduring significance in communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, at turns reviled as a traitor and hailed as the mother of modern Mexico. Traitor, Survivor, Icon documents her relevance to conversations around female empowerment, indigeneity, and national identity throughout the Americas. Published in association with the Denver Art Museum.

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