James Rosenquist
Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2003
Hardcover, 472 pages / color illustrations
ISBN: 0892072679

An internationally recognized artist since his emergence on the New York art scene in the early 1960s, James Rosenquist was a leading player in the American Pop movement. He began painting as a commercial billboard painter in the Midwest and later developed his own brand of the "new realist" style by fragmenting, combining, and juxtaposing images from advertising onto large-scale canvases. The results are complex, enigmatic paintings that comment on popular culture from a global perspective, addressing social, political, and economic concerns and the environmental fate of the planet. James Rosenquist served as the catalog for the Guggenheim Museum's critically-acclaimed retrospective.

Miami Art Museum is presenting an exhibition of Rosenquist's work March 3-July 2, 2006.

Non-Members:$65
Members: $58.50

Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
Published by Phaidon Press, 2004
Softcover 352 pages, color illustrations
ISBN: 0714844462

Illustrating the richness, eclecticism and dynamism of painting today, Vitamin P is an image-filled book that provides an international overview of the state of painting. It includes artists such as Fabian Marcaccio and Arturo Herrera represented in MAM's permanent collection.

Non-Members:$39.95
Members: $35.95

Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Published by Phaidon Press, 2005
Hardcover 352 pages, color illustrations
ISBN: 0714845450

Vitamin D, features drawings by more than 100 artists. Among them are artists featured in recent MAM New Works exhibitions: Russell Crotty, Wangechi Mutu and Shahzia Sikander. Drawing is being explored by an increasing number of contemporary artists. Extending beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, Vitamin D hopes to illustrate the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.

Non-Members:$69.95
Members: $62.95

Kara Walker: Pictures from Another Time
Published by D.A.P./University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2002
Hardcover, 96 pgs / 30 color
ISBN: 1891024507

Arguably the most controversial young African-American artist working today, Kara Walker creates vivid and shocking evocations, rooted in stereotypes, of an antebellum world that comments on the system of slavery and its continuing legacy in the American consciousness.. Pictures From Another Timet is the first major publication on the work of this extraordinary artist. It includes nearly 70 examples of her work, including her silhouettes, prints, drawings, projected installations, and watercolors. Texts include an interview with the artist by curator Thelma Golden, Deputy Director of Programs at The Studio Museum in Harlem; and essays by literary critic Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of English at the City University of New York and Annette Dixon, Curator of Western Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

Non-Members:$29.95
Members: $26.95

Architecture: Art
by Phillip Jodidio
Published by Presetel Publishing, 2005
Hardcover, 224 pgs
ISBN: 3791332791

The book highlights the most exciting examples of art in architecture. From Zaha Hadid's Guggenheim Museum in Taichung, Taiwan to Richard Meier's Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy, and from Hiroshi Sugimoto's Go'o Shrine to Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses. Profiles of the featured artists and architects are included, along with an introductory essay elucidating the historical foundations from which architecture and art have coevolved to the present day.

Non-Members:$58.50
Members: $65.00

Jim Lambie: Vodoid
Essay by Rob Tufnell

Scottish artist Jim Lambie’s involvement in the Glasgow music scene has considerable influence on his work. Like music, visual art can fill a space and change the way we perceive our surroundings as well as ourselves. It can produce altered states of mind. Using vibrantly colored tapes that follow the contours of a room, Lambie's installations transform and energize gallery spaces.

Non-Members:$37.80
Members: $42.00

South Beach, Art Deco to Contemporary Architectural Photographs by Paul Clemence
Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 111 pages ISBN: 0764320866

Non-Members: $ 24.95
Members: $ 22.45

Antony Gormley, Standing Matter
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 77 pages
ISBN 2910055167

Non-Members: $ 25.00
Members: $ 22.50

Joseph Cornell Shadowplay Eterniday
(contains an interactive CD-DVDRom)
Guggenheim Museum Publications, 444 pages
ISBN: 0892072679

Non-Members: $ 24.95
Members: $ 20.00