Covering the full span of David Hockney's career, this book includes early studies and a selection of his acclaimed California sketched, as well as portraits of such figures as Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.

This is the first comprehensive monograph on acclaimed painter Amy Sherald, whose distinctive style of simplified realist portraiture features African American subjects rendered against colourful monochrome backdrops or in everyday settings.

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Beginning in 1970, Anni Albers filled her graph-paper notebook regularly until 1980. This rare and previously unpublished document of her working process contains intricate drawings for her large body of graphic work, as well as studies for her late knot drawings.

Anselm Kiefer is a highly influential German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, textured artworks that confront Germany's complex post-war history, the Holocaust, mythology, and mysticism, using materials like straw, lead, ash, and clay to explore memory, cultural identity, and the weight of the past. The High Priestess, begun in 1985, consists of two enormous steel bookcases, containing almost 200 gigantic lead books.

The publication presents selected works between 1998–2008 from Vodder’s oeuvre – spanning painting, drawing, collage, book-objects, and multiples. Her works explore tensions between abstract images and images that depict or carry meaning. Titles, distinct yet understated, are integral, opening a space between word and image. The result is a poetic, conceptual play between language, material, and visual perception.

This mesmerizing collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen, an Austrian avant-garde artist. Birgit Jürgenssen (1949 - 2003) was a strong feminist and fierce advocate for women in the arts. Her early vibrant illustrations and surrealist, dreamlike photographs explored gender and societal restraints, and blurred the lines between humans, plants, and animals.

Crucifixion on Caulaincourt is a series of black and white diaristic images by Kingsley Ifill.

A witty, candid, and revealing autobiographical account of the artist's early life, from his childhood in Bradford to his time at the Royal College of Art and sojourns in California and Paris. It contains a wealth of reproductions of his work, including 434 illustrations.

Red, green, and blue, these three colour-coded issues chart the artistic journey of Zineb Sedira, culminating in her presentation for the French Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2022. Replete with artistic, cinematic, musical, archival, and political references, the three issues shed light on Zineb Sedira’s artistic practice, the processes that underpin her work, and the inspirations that have nourished it.

African artist El Anatsui is best known for shimmering tapestries made from liquor bottle tops, which are part of the permanent collections of many of the world's great museums. This book offers a uniquely personal perspective on Anatsui and provides the first penetrating study of his artworks.

A mid-career retrospective of the work of María Magdalena Campos-Pons who has become one of the most important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artists. Her multimedia work explores themes of memory, the African diaspora, gender, and Afro-Cuban spirituality (Santería).

The photographs in Eye For A Sty, Tooth For The Roof served as the source material from which Danny Fox based his series of paintings included in his current solo show at Alexander Berggruen, Danny Fox: The Sweet and Burning Hills (January 12-February 26, 2021).

The art of Louise Bourgeois stages a dynamic encounter between modern art and psychoanalysis. From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the male dominated surrealist movement, to her galvanising role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the woman artist and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

This book an art project and book by British artist Suzanne Treister (2018–2019). It explores speculative narratives, mapping journeys from a survivor persona through a "black hole spacetime" (BHST) framework, often using diagrams, drawings, and, in this case, a book format that connects different conceptual, often fictional, personas and spaces.

This book is a collection of works by Australian artist Glenn Sorensen who creates watercolors and paintings of flowers that are remarkably personal and sensitive.

Over the course of eight days in December 2021, Danny Fox and Kingsley Ifill travelled across the length of the British Isles and back again. Composed of a series of fifty collaborative works on paper which bring together photography by Ifill and paintings by Fox, Holy Island is a visual travelogue of their time spent together: an exploration into the cross-section of rural and urban fabric that makes up Britain today.

Hassan Sharif (1951–2016) was a pioneering Emirati artist who revolutionised the regional art scene in the 1970s/80s through performance, installation, and assemblage, often using discarded consumer materials to critique rapid urbanization. This book presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.

Jan Kaplický (1937-2009) was a visionary architect with a passion for drawing. It was his way of discovering, describing and constructing; and through drawing he presented beguiling architectural imagery of the highest order. Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings and photomontages are brought together and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These drawings date from the early years of his independent practice, Future Systems, in the 1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the mid-1990s.

Jean Cocteau: Metamorphosis (2018) was a major exhibition and accompanying book, curated by Ioannis Kontaxopoulos, that highlighted the French artist’s perpetual self-transformation across various media, including film, drawing, and ceramics. It showcased over 250 works, often from the Musée Jean Cocteau in Menton, tracing his lifelong, multidisciplinary, and deeply personal creative evolution.

This monograph of the Jamaican self-taught artist John Dunkley offers a generously illustrated overview of his powerful work. Reproducing the intricate details and somber palette that characterise John Dunkley's paintings, this book situates the artist's oeuvre within its historical context.

Leonor Antunes is an artist making “sculptures created in space”. Her work addresses complex relationships between sculpture, architecture, design, light and the body. She dedicates special attention to the materials she uses, which are often natural or organic, and to the effects left on them by time and their use. This is the most comprehensive publication on the artist to date, spanning her entire career, and it accompanies exhibition.

Over the course of 202-2021, during the pandemic, Kara Walker produced series of drawings in the style of a medieval 'Book of Hours'. Enigmatic images appear to traverse a range of time periods, from scenes of biblical and mythological origins, to images of historical violence, to others that suggest more recent political strife. The highly personal nature of these images capture Walker's own response to the intersection of past and present as a way to understand our contemporary political moment.

Published by Ediciones Era, this volume presents the work of British-born surrealist Leonora Carrington, encompassing painting, drawing, and sculpture. Based in Mexico City after her early association with Max Ernst and the European surrealist circle, Carrington developed a singular visual mythology blending mysticism, dream imagery, and feminist symbolism across multiple media.

Life is Space 4 was a one day seminar held at Studio Olafur Eliasson where invited artists, scientists, scholars, dancers, theorists, spatial practitioners and movement experts gathered to share, discuss, present, and experiment with ideas loosely based around the theme of Life and Space.

This intimate book of drawings by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, which wed the cosmic patterning of traditional Islamic geometry with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction, is interwoven with an extended interview by Obrist with Farmanfarmaian, Etel Adnan, and Frank Stella that tells the story behind these crafted works on paper that play a central role in the artist’s principles of repetition and progression.

For nearly two decades, Lichtenstein has worked in varied subgenres within photography’s historical archetypes: marginalised contemporary landscapes, refracted still life, performance-based portraiture and process-oriented abstraction. In Recorder, Lichtenstein embarks on an ambitious three-part series of images that recycle and reorient themselves within the limits of technology and photographic vision.

Shame Space is an artist book that explores the possibilities of narrative and identity. The book collects a selection of journal writings by Syms from 2015-2017 in which she attempts to capture her shadow self alongside a selection of image stills from the recent video project Ugly Plymouths (2020). The diaristic commentary in Shame Space is gathered into fifteen chapters that stage narrative as a process of being in the making.

Stutter was Kingsley Ifill’s debut solo show, an exhibition of striking composite works curated by filmmaker and photographer Tom Beard. Excavating defunct technologies and commandeering outmoded techniques, Ifill’s distinctively analogue style generates a startling effect in a world characterised by the faultless and infinitely repeatable replica. Although the abandoned or out-dated processes he appropriates were themselves created to allow the production of multiple images, Ifill rejects the principle of mass-reproduction and insists on unique, one-off editions produced at large scale.

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This publication developed from the exhibition and research project The Place Is Here (2016–19), which traced the urgent and wide-ranging conversations taking place between black artists, writers, and thinkers in Britain during the 1980s.

Spanning five key years from 2016 to 2021, this monograph is dedicated to Tobias Spichtig’s work presents a high-definition snapshot of the Swiss artist’s aesthetic vision. Published by KALEIDOSCOPE, the pages present a variety of the artist's works – from oil, acrylic, graphite, diamond dust, and photographic prints on canvas – alongside essays.

Weaving the World is the first substantial monograph on the Swedish-born, Norwegian modernist textile artist Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970), presenting works from her entire oeuvre, emphasizing her politcal tapestries from the 1930s. Six of these were presented at Documenta 13 in 2012.