ART

Anniversary Taschen! Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for - Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground. In this book, Michael Ochs, owner of one of the largest private collections of record covers in the world, presents a personal selection of the thousand items that mean most to him. Learn More

Rare, important volume in which famed Surrealist expounds (in his inimitably eccentric fashion) on what painting should be, the history of painting, what is good and bad painting, the merits of specific artists, and more. Learn More

Rob Ryan's papercut prose is so exquisitely intricate, it begs closer examination—and always captures a lingering eye. Learn More

An illustrated narrative set in a Film Noir style cleverly incorporates an alphabet book for adults. Blexbolex's protagonists, Leon and Bernard Blanchett, two French gangsters, are hiding from an international arrest warrant in a mysterious jungle in central Africa after a bank heist goes horribly wrong. Learn More

More than 450 American ad characters, industry icons, and product personalities hailing from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s pack the pages of this vibrant, vintage collection. Learn More

Lobo worked as a graphic designer for the Washington DC go-go music scene. Learn More

Author Michael De Feo is a teacher and artist who achieved a certain amount of fame when his work was featured in The Art of Rebellion, the world's best-selling international survey of street art. But it was in his role as educator that De Feo came to the conclusion that the market was lacking in good art books for children and that's what inspired him to create one himself. Learn More

Madness and genius collide in American Gothic. Learn More

For more than a half century, David Levine has taken on the most powerful men of the free world with only his pen and a bottle of India ink. Learn More