Feature Archive

Award-winning and distinguished books on art:

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

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The Art Thief, Noah Charney
October Book Sense Pick

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The Story of Art, Ernst Gombrich (Pocket edition by Phaidon)
Selected for AIGA's 50 books/50 covers competition

 

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Broken Colors, Michele Zackheim
December Book Sense Notable Book

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
One of the The Christian Science Monitor's 2007 "Books We Liked Best"

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The God of Spring, Arabella Edge • Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick, Jenny Uglow • The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
Three of The Wahington Post's Best Books of 2007

 

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Too Beautiful to Picture, Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Winner

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Werner Hofmann
Aby M. Warburg
Prize Winner

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, John Richardson

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists [past art finalists/winners]

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I Am a Beautiful Monster, Francis Picabia
One of Art+Auction Editors' Picks for 2007

 

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
One of the San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2007

 

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Life Class, Pat Barker • The Dissident, Nell Freudenberger •A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, John Richardson
Three of The Financial Times Best Books of 2007

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Chris Kraus
Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism

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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, John Richardson
Time Magazine Top 10 Non-fiction Book

 


Long Life, Cool White
, Moyra Davey • A Short Life of Trouble, Marcia Tucker

Two of Artforum's Best Books of 2008

 

Chagall, Jackie Wullschlager
An Economist Best Book of 2008

 


Seven Days in the Art World, Sarah Thornton

January 2009 Indie Notable

 

Chagall, Jackie Wullschlager
Costa Biography Award Shortlist

 

Life Class, Pat Barker
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Blindspot: A Novel, Jane Kremensky and Jill Lepore
December 2008 Indie Next List

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The Great Man, Kate Christensen
An Amazon.com Editors' Best Book of 2007

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Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him,
Danielle Ganek

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick for fall 2007

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
Life Class
, Pat Barker • Muybridge's Horses, Rob Winger • A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, John Richardson • Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy, Jacques Poitras

Five of the Globe and Mail's Top 100 for 2007

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Rembrandt's Nose, Michael Taylor, and
The Vexations of Art, Svetlana Alpers
Two of The Independent's 2007 Year's Best Reads

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Robert L Herbert
College Art Association's 2008 Distinguished Scholar

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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, John Richardson
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

 

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Contemporary Art and the Museum, Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg, editors • Rembrandt's Nose, Michael Taylor • I Am a Beautiful Monster, Francis Picabia
The New York Times Critics Picks, Best of 2007

 

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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, John Richardson
A New York Magazine Best Biography Pick

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
One of the The Los Angeles Times' Favorite Books of 2007

 

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The Painter of Battles, Arturo Pérez-Reverte
January Book Sense Pick

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Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland •The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
Book Sense Summer Reading Group Picks

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The Forgery of Venus, Michael Gruber
May Book Sense Notable Book

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The Last Summer of the World
, Emily Mitchell
Finalist for the New York Public Library, Young Lions Fiction Award

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The Great Man,
Kate Christensen

Winner of the 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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The Shadow Catcher, Marianne Wiggins
Finalist for the 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

 

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The Kept Man, Jami Attenberg
March Book Sense Notable Book

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Life Class, Pat Barker
February Book Sense Pick

Mona Lisa in Camelot, Margaret Leslie Davis
November 2008 Indie Notable

Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, Cynthia Saltzman
September Indie Next List Notable Book

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Generation Loss, Elizabeth Hand
2007 Believer Book Awards Short List

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Peter Schjeldahl
2008 Clark Prize For Excellence In Arts Writing