Recent Art Books

This archive list features queer feminist art books, exhibition catalogues and book projects.

Clarity Haynes: Portals (2024) (12/13/2024) - New art book. Clarity Haynes: Portals (New Discretions, 2024). The artist explores of childbirth, queerness, gender, and ritual.
Book Event: Photography – A Queer History by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon (12/10/2024) - Video (1:12:07): co-authors Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon talk about Photography — A Queer History (2024).
Tamara de Lempicka (Yale Press, 2024) (11/19/2024) - Video (0:23): A quick look inside the art book Tamara de Lempicka, edited by Gioia Mori and Furio Rinaldi. Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) was a bisexual artist and modernist painter.
Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris (Yale Press, 2024) (11/19/2024) - Video (0:20): A quick look inside the artbook: Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris, edited by Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang.
8 Women by Collier Schorr (MACK, 2014) (11/13/2024) - Video (5:19): Look inside the book. Watch a leaf through the art book COLLIER SCHORR – 8 Women on Youtube. Publisher: MACK, 2014. 8 Women presents work which spans from the mid-nineties to the present. Schorr’s earliest works utilised appropriated adverts from fashion magazines to address issues of authorship and...
Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between – Book Event and Panel Discussion (10/25/2024) - Video (1:25:00): Author Gemma Rolls-Bentley in conversation with Fiontán Moran and Rene Matić at The Courtauld in London, UK.
August by Collier Schorr (MACK, 2022) (10/16/2024) - Video (2:55): Look inside the book. A leaf through August by Collier Schorr, MACK, 2022.
Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective Book Launch (10/16/2024) - Jess Dobkin’s Wetrospective Book Launch Saturday, November 9th, 2024 // Doors @ 7pm at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, Canada.
Tamara de Lempicka – New Art Book and the First Museum Retrospective in the US (10/14/2024) - Art Book: Tamara de Lempicka - 'Published on the occasion of exhibition 'Tamara de Lempicka' at the de Young in San Francisco which runs through February 9, 2025.
New Book: ET L’AMOUR AUSSI by Marie Docher (2023) (9/6/2024) - Video (2:18): Teaser in French (with French subtitles) about the photography book 'Et l'amour aussi' by Marie Docher (La Déferlante Éditions, 2023).
Self Publish, Be Happy Interview: Åsa Johannesson (2010) (9/6/2024) - Video (1:32:): Photographer Åsa Johannesson talks about her book 'The Boy and The Twins'. Video by Lorenzo Ricciarelli for SP,BH (2010)
Photography – A Queer History – How LGBTQ+ photographers shaped the art (8/27/2024) - From Robert Mapplethorpe to Deborah Bright, this is the essential guide to queer photography. Photography - A Queer History (Octopus/Ilex, February 2024). includes the work of international 84 artists.
Open Questions: Thirty Years of Writing About Art by Helen Molesworth (8/14/2024) - Video (51:23): Arts writer and curator Helen Molesworth at The New Orleans Book Festival (2024) about finding her own voice (as a lesbian) and her new book. Moderator: Susan Taylor.
Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter (7/15/2024) - Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter by Suzanne M. Scanlan is the first book to present and contextualize the vast oeuvre, including paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics of American artist and lesbian Esther Pressoir (1902-1986).
New Art Book – The Secret Art of Dorothy Hepworth AKA Patricia Preece (6/26/2024) - This fully illustrated monograph is published to coincide with the major exhibition, Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story, at Charleston Lewes and tells the extraordinary story of the artist duo and romantic couple in detail for the first time.
Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024) | PhotoBook Flip Through (5/23/2024) - Video (1:59): A PhotoBook Flip Through of Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis (Aperture, 2024)
Book Talk: Kelli Connell, “Pictures for Charis” (5/23/2024) - Video (59:03): Aperture PhotoBook Club presents a conversation with Kelli Connell about her new book “Pictures for Charis” (2024). "Pictures for Charis” will also be traveling as an exhibition this fall starting in Atlanta.
Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley (5/15/2024) - 'Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between' by Gemma Rolls-Bentley and Sir Isaac Julien. Publisher: ‎Frances Lincoln; 1st edition (9 May 2024)
Book Launch: Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen by Bonnie Yochelson (5/15/2024) - Book Launch: Too Good to Get Married: The Life and Photographs of Miss Alice Austen by Bonnie Yochelson June 6, 2024 | 6:30pm; Talks of the Town Lecture Series at Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island, USA.
Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz (2022) (4/26/2024) - Photography book - Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz (Taschen America Llc, 2022)
The US Book Launch of ‘Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between’ (4/26/2024) - Book Launch - Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between by Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Monday, May 6, 6-8PM at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York.
Mother, Wonder by Roni Horn (4/9/2024) - Art Book - 'Mother, Wonder' by Roni Horn, (Steidl; 1st edition, 25 May 2023). The art book features a series of photographs from one of the artist's favourite places in Iceland.
Art Book – Bonsoir: Ithell Colquhoun (3/12/2024) - The author writes: This beautiful and exciting book brings Ithell Colquhoun’s previously unseen story to life, with texts from leading experts on Colquhoun to contextualise the work: Colquhoun's fictive Surrealist film.
Book: Lingering at your window by Mary T Faria (1/15/2024) - Artist's Statement by Mary T Faria about her latest photography book: Lingering at your window by Mary T Faria (Datz Press, 2023)
Book Launch: Contemporary Queer Chinese Art by Dr Hongwei Bao (12/22/2023) - Video (1:20:58): Dr Hongwei Bao talks about his latest publication 'Contemporary Queer Chinese Art' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023). He is joined by Burong Zeng, artist contributor to discuss the publication.