New Titles in Visual Arts

Feast your eyes on several new books on photography, painting, drawing, graffit, and graphic design:

Graphic Design: Now In Production Andrew Blauvelt & Ellen Lupton. Walker Art Center. 2011.

In conjunction with an exhibition at Walker Art Center and other institutions, Oct. 22, 2011, and Jan. 2014

Graphic Design: A New History Stephen Eskilson. Yale U. Press. 2012.

Covers Bauhaus, American modern, Postmodernism and more

Graffiti and Street Art Anna Waclawek. Thames & Hudson. 2011.

Graffiti's genealogy; urban visual culture; tags, throwies

Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art Maria Elena Buszek, ed. 2011.

Explores craftivist history; queer theory; letterpress printing

The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art In a Global Context Grant H. Kester Duke U. Press. 2011.

Explores the work of artists and groups such as Superflux, Francis Alys, Santiago Sierra; looks at the parallels of the work of these artists with that of NGOs, urban planners, activists.

Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett: Recasting Pygmalion: a Collaborative Art Project Essay by Lynn Zelevansky. Rizzoli. 2002. From an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.