December 19: Art Books

Gift-giving season is upon us, and what’s better to give than a beautiful art book?

The Louvre: All the Paintings is just that. An accompanying CD contains the entire collection of the museum, and essays by leading critics contextualize the images.

In Pilgrimage, Annie Liebovitz breaks from commercial assignments and focuses her lens on iconic American places and things. From Niagara Falls to the home of Emily Dickinson to Lincoln’s gloves, these powerful images tell our story.

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde takes us into the living rooms of the dynamic family of Gertrude Stein and her siblings—as patrons, friends and subjects of the artists of their day.

The love affair and lives of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe come alive in My Faraway One: Selected Letters, Volume One. The dynamic and articulate pair exchanged over 5000 letters.

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism introduces students to modern and contemporary art in a way that enables them to comprehend the many “voices” of art in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Beautiful things come between the hard covers of a book. Share the gift of art.



Annie Liebovitz talks about Pilgrimage on NPR’s Talk of the Nation (Link)

Morning Edition on Gertrude Stein’s art collecting (Link)

NPR’s Susan Stamberg on O’Keeffe and Stieglitz (Link)