Recent Art Books

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

Masculinity Is A Mask by Alex Spear (4/26/2025) - Artist's statement about the new photography book by Alex Spear: 'Masculinity is A Mask', showing an androgynous US model Laura in the guise of her non-binary alter ego Trystan.
Book Project: A Curated Archive of Queer Art in the Middle East (2023) (4/18/2025) - Yasmine Rifaii tells us that her book will include the works of varying visual queer artists from the Middle East. It will discuss the themes that comes up in the queer communities in the region.
Joan Snyder “Dancing with the Dark” (2011) (4/11/2025) - Video (10:05): Joan Snyder the studio discussing a retrospective of her prints, "Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder's Prints 1963-2010" at The Zimmerli Art Museum (2010), USA. A documentary by State of the Arts (2011).
RENÉE JACOBS: IN ITALY (3/29/2025) - RENÉE JACOBS: IN ITALY (dumas salchli editions) is a limited edition magazine, 32 pages, silkscreen cover and 250 numbered copies.
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss (2022) (3/23/2025) - Video (56:40): Scholar Julia Voss presents her new biography of Hilma af Klint, published by University of Chicago Press (2022).
Paris Photo (2024) – Uncovering Queer Histories with Authors Charlotte Flint and Hélène Giannecchini (3/6/2025) - Video (59:01): Uncovering queer histories - authors Charlotte Flint and Hélène Giannecchini in conversation with Clara Bouveresse about their latest queer publications and the lesbian archives of photographers Tee A. Corinne and Donna Gottschalk.
Art Book – Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds (2023) (2/25/2025) - Video (6:41): Marianna from Spazio Projects reads from a book titled 'Hannah Höch: Assembled Worlds', edited by Stella Rollig, Martin Waldmeier and Nina Zimmer, published by Zentrum Paul Klee (Bern), Belvedere (Vienna) and Scheidegger & Spiess (2023).
Art Book: Anne Dangar (2024) (2/19/2025) - This new art book includes an essay by Anne O'Hehir which “brings a queer perspective to networks of Australian modernism in the twentieth century, contextualising and exploring the lesbian relationship between Dangar and Australian artist Grace Crowley (1890-1979) ...
Podcast – At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World (2/13/2025) - Video (34:11): Queer art historian and podcaster Helen Molesworth talks with curator and art critic Hilton Als about his exhibition At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World and the illustrated catalogue.
Berenice Abbott A Life in Photography by Julia Van Haaften (2018) (2/5/2025) - A comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor.
Photography Book: Germaine Krull (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015) (1/23/2025) - Video (6:36): A leaf through the photography book Germaine Krull (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015).
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).