Forthcoming Books

A master of Belgian Symbolism rediscovered! Félicien Rops’s (1833–1898) erotic works remain provocative today – and in the nineteenth century, they transgressed every boundary of art. With a keen eye and a sharp pen, Rops exposed the hypocrisies of the respectable middle class. “I am Rops, and I wish to be no other!” he declared, and adhered to this maxim throughout his life.

Combining historical and contemporary treatments of weather and climate in art, this catalog features masterworks from 1500 through the present day that engage with weather, meteorology, and climate.

Celebrating a century of art: Creativity and Connection features one hundred works from the colle Celebrating a century of art: Creativity and Connection features one hundred works from the collection of Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) in Bethlehem, PA. With reflective essays accompanying each selection, the book weaves together history with fresh community perspectives on the museum’s collection, now spanning over 20,000 objects.  

A pyrotechnic display of illusionistic painting – with 95 masterworks by more than thirty artists to celebrate sixty years of international photorealism. Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleemann, Karin Kneffel, Gerhard Richter and others transform trivial everyday motifs into brilliant hyper-realistic pictorial worlds using specialised painting techniques.  

Alexander Girard’s Imagined Worlds examines a modern design luminary whose collection of  global folk art and vernacular forms informed his expansive design practice. The book focuses on the Museum of International Folk Art, its displays and archival collections, and Girard’s Santa Fe years, as a locus for the designer-collector’s wide-ranging practices.  

A book as artistic creation: The artist Ulla von Brandenburg (b. 1974) creates multimedia works in a unique mixture of theatrical settings, object art, and performance. Boundaries between reality and illusion, interior and exterior are blurred in her art as they are in this colour-saturated volume, which springs entirely from her own artistic vision.

A richly illustrated exploration of the impact of W.E.B. Du Bois on Black artists working today, documenting the landmark 2025 printmaking project “Printing Black America.”  

Marianna Simnett’s (b. 1986) dreamlike, surreal worlds take us into a labyrinth of fragmented realities and uncanny encounters. Using video, artificial intelligence, sculpture, painting, and music, the artist creates immersive installations that simultaneously seduce and unsettle. Simnett’s close connection to the ideas of Surrealism is highlighted as a central theme.

Happy Birthday, Paula Modersohn-Becker! This volume celebrates 150 years since the birth of the fascinating artist, who remains of the most important figures of the German avant-garde. Examining her artistic development in depth and presenting works from all phases of her career, this book places particular focus on her early work, which has hitherto received little attention or recognition.

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his "Ideal Heads". They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of his affection and gratitude. Starting from the famous bust "La Riconoscenza", this magnificent large-format volume offers an impressive survey of these unique expressions of friendship.