For a decidedly tumultuous month, our team gathered a short n’ sweet list of art books to light your path through November.
Happy Monday! For a decidedly tumultuous month, our team gathered a short n’ sweet list of art books to light your path through November. My inner Pittsburgher was enticed by a new biography of Julia Warhola, Andy Warhol’s mother and biggest supporter. It’s a refreshingly rounded narration and reminder of the crucial yet oft-erased roles that people of marginalized genders play in forging art history. These roles — multifaceted and complex as they are — took center stage in reviews this week, too. Artist Anya Liftig penned a thoughtful piece on Jennifer Savran Kelly’s compelling story of a Met Museum book conservator who stumbles upon a queer love letter, sparking a journey of self-discovery and artistic transformation. American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon carries this thread through her own life in A Woman I Once Knew, rife with aplomb portraits of her own aging body alongside written reflections on her nine decades, while a partially sewn graphic novel by Bea Lema navigates mental health and a fraught mother-daughter bond. Read on for more, including Staff Writer Maya Pontone’s dispatch from the Women’s Studio Workshop, which continues to tear up the rule book of what artists’ publications should look like. I found echoes of this week’s pieces in my personal reading, in which I succumbed to the All Fours frenzy. Miranda July’s sardonic tale of a 45-year-old artist and mother at a critical junction grows stranger by the page, comprising a fever dream that strikes at the heart of our waking lives. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | |
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| | | A biography of Andy Warhol’s mother, São Paulo’s Neo-Avant-Garde, resplendent Hokusai works, plus new monographs and catalogs to check out this month. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Hakim Bishara, and Valentina Di Liscia |
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SPONSORED | | | | Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to today. Learn more |
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| | Galician artist Bea Lema navigates themes of generational trauma and healing, tenderly illustrating the story of a daughter who desperately wants to protect her mother. | Lauren Moya Ford |
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| | One of the great joys of Endpapers is how author Jennifer Savran Kelly folds the search for artistic and gender identity into the elements of the book form. | Anya Liftig |
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| | Rosalind Fox Solomon forged her way as an artist at 53. With remarkable self-knowledge, A Woman I Once Knew lays out her nonagenarian life story. | Sarah Rose Sharp |
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SPONSORED | | | | This illustrated catalog brings together over 90 works by three pioneering Japanese-American artists from the pre-World War II era. Despite long careers and critical acclaim, they have largely been overlooked in traditional American art history. Learn more |
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ALSO ON HYPERALLERGIC | | | | What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under its own imprint. | Maya Pontone |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | | Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed. | Lydia Pyne |
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