Full-colour throughout, this fabulous volume -as close as commercial publishing gets to an artist's book-explores the importance of travel for the African American sculptor Betye Saar. Interweaving the explanatory text and images of Saar's assemblages (found material combined with the artist's own drawings and paintings) are full-page facsimiles of her fascinating travel journals.
This beautiful catalogue combines up-to-date scholarship and scientific analysis, stunning photography by Luigi Spina (close-ups reveal Canova's fingerprints) with an elegantly understated design that cleverly mimics the raw material in discussion: from the plain cover and matte paper, to the reduced palette of black-white-terracotta.
Lund Humphries's Illuminating Women Artists series, co-published with Getty Publications, is doing great work in bringing cutting-edge scholarship to a broader audience while restoring women artists and their incredible, often forgotten, careers to the canon. Here the extraordinary life of the 17th-century painter Elisabetta Sirani-once considered "the best brush in Bologna"-is the focus of Adelina Modesti's brilliant, fully illustrated biography.
Phaidon is known for its accessible art surveys that provide readers with digestible information about an art history genre or geographical centre. This extensive, authoritative overview includes more than 300 Modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America, highlighting established artists su
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