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The Art Book Autumn 2002 Bestseller Lists
The Art Book Autumn 2002 Bestseller Lists
The Art Book Autumn 2002 Bestseller Lists
London NewYork
Fine ArtTopTen Fine ArtTopTen
1 Vivid: British & American Abstract Painting, Richard Salmon 1 Picasso: the Sixties II, Chipp, Wofsy, $150.00
Gallery, £3.00 2 Agnes Martin, Haskell, Abrams, $26.25
2 Space Cooks: Artists Recipes, Space Studios £20.00 3 Deep Blues: Bill Traylor 1854±1949, Helfenstein, Yale, $9.95
3 Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art, Stiles & Selz, 4 Art Diary International, Politi, Giancarlo Politi Editions, $15.00
California, £22.00 5 Ed Ruscha Paintings: May 10±June 15 2002, Gagosian Gallery,
4 Story of Art, Gombrich, Phaidon, £19.95 $45.00
5 Barnett Newman, exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, £40.00 6 Egon Schiele: Nudes, Comini, Rizzoli, $6.95
6 History of the Surrealist Movement, Durozoi, Chicago, £66.00 7 Joan Miro: Catalogue Raisonne Paintings vol. IV. 1959±1968,
7 The Sculpture of Michael Sandle, McEwen, Lund Humphries, Dupin, Lelong, $160.00
£60.00 8 American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820±
8 Denton Welch: Artist and Writer, Methuen-Campbell, Tartarus 1880, Wilton, Princeton, $37.46
Press, £30.00 9 Hans Hofmann, Yohe, Rizzoli, $93.75
9 Transition: The London Art Scene in the 1950s, exhibition 10 Milton Avery: the Late Paintings, Hobbs, Abrams, $25.95
catalogue, Barbican Art Gallery, £29.95
10 Here, There, Everywhere, Blamey, privately printed, £14.99
ArchitectureTopTen ArchitectureTopTen
1 John Pawson: Themes & Projects, Phaidon, £19.95 1 Venice Art and Architecture, Romanelli, Konemann, $37.95
2 S, M, L, XL, Koolhaas & Mau, Monacelli, £50.00 2 Moorish Architecture in Andalusia, Barrucand, Taschen, $18.75
3 Piranesi. Complete Etchings, Ficacci, Taschen, £20.00 3 La Sainte Chapelle, Leniaud, Editions Nathan, $99.95
4 A Quincy Jones, Buckner, Phaidon, £39.95 4 Modern Architecture: a Critical History, Frampton, Norton, $5.95
5 Creating Spaces of Freedom, Halasa, Saqui Books, £14.95 5 Green Architecture, Wines, Taschen, $11.95
6 Pierre Koenig, Steele & Jenkins, Phaidon, £19.95 6 The Architecture of Michelangelo, Ackerman, Chicago, $18.00
7 Masters of Structure. Engineering Today's Innovative Buildings, Lyall, 7 Adam Style, Parissien, Preservation Press, $45.00
Laurence King, £45.00 8 A New Paradigm in Architecture: the Language of Post-modernism,
8 ArchiLabs's Future House, Brayer & Simonot, Thames & Hudson, Jencks, Yale, $45.00
£24.95 9 The Architecture of Silence: Cistercian Abbeys of France, Heald,
9 The Modern House Today, Powell, Black Dog Publishing, £24.95 Abrams, $45.00
10 The Stones of Venice, Puppi, Thames & Hudson, £24.95 10 Italian Parks and Gardens, Listri, Rizzoli, $19.95
PhotographyTopTen PhotographyTopTen
1 Grave Matters, Taylor & Lammerts, Reaktion, £17.95 1 Looking at Photographs: a Guide, Baldwin, Getty Museum, $9.72
2 Twice, Sear, Cheatle, £14.95 2 Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Reynolds, Yale, $33.75
3 Sarah Moon, Photopoche series, Nathan, £6.96 3 Imogen Cunningham: On the Body, Lorenz, Bullfinch, $19.95
4 On the Road Again, Sykes, privately printed, £20.00 4 William Eggleston, Chandres, Fondation Cartier/Thames and
5 The Phone Book, Parr, privately printed, £30.00 Hudson, $29.95
6 Life in Art. Photographs by Steve Pyke, exhibition catalogue, 5 W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934±1975, Mora, Abrams,
SAGA Trust, £12.00 $29.95
7 Vietnam Inc. Photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths, Phaidon, £24.95 6 Harry Callahan, Greenough, Bullfinch, $14.95
8 Nigel Henderson. Parallel of Life and Art, exhibition catalogue, 7 On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam, Sternfeld, Chronicle, $8.95
Gainsborough's House, £22.50 8 Weegee's World, Barth, Bullfinch, $14.95
9 Blink: 100 Photographers. 10 Curators, 10 Writers, Phaidon, £39.95 9 Alfred Stieglitz: the Key Set, Greenough, Abrams, $99.95
10 Carlo Mollino. Polaroid, Arena Publications, £36.50 10 Here Is New York: a Democracy of Photographs, Scalo Publishers,
$37.46
DesignTopTen DesignTopTen
1 The Russian Avant Garde Book, exhibition catalogue, MoMA, 1 Reinventing the Wheel, Helfand, Chronicle, $18.71
New York, £45.00 2 Spectacles, Mazza, Chronicle, $5.95
2 Howdah: A Year in the Life of Atelier Works, Atelier Works, £9.99 3 Typography, Friedl, Black Dog & Leventhal, $17.95
3 In Search of the Lost Record: British Album Art of the 50s±80s, 4 Messengers of Modernism, Greenbaum, Abbeville, $17.95
Gingko Press, £28.00 5 Twentieth-Century Ornament, Woodham, Rizzoli, $24.95
4 Karel Martens: Printed Matter, Hyphen Press, £27.50 6 Twentieth-Century Pattern Design, Jackson, Princeton
5 Allure, Vreeland, Little Brown, £50.00 Architectural Press, $37.50
6 The Eco-Design Handbook, Fuad-Luke, Thames & Hudson, 7 Handbook of Graphic Reproduction Techniques, Brunner, Hastings
£16.95 House, $12.95
7 You Can Find Inspiration in Everything, Smith, Violette Editions, 8 The Fabric of Moroccan Life, Indianapolis Museum of Art, $33.75
£35.00 9 French Textiles From 1760 to the Present, Schoeser, Laurence King,
8 Solid Air: New Work in Glass, exhibition catalogue, Crafts $45.00
Council, £15.00 10 Pierre Chareau, Taylor, Taschen, $14.95
9 Type & Typography, Baines & Halsman, Laurence King, £19.95
10 The Art of Looking Sideways, Fletcher, Phaidon, £24.95
• London list provided by Shipley Specialist Art Booksellers, • New York list provided by Hacker-Strand Art Books, 45
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