In the first book to present a detailed visual narrative of contemporary artist Rob Pruitt’s works and installations, friends and critics are invited in for a kind of... Read More

Faces from the Land. The year after Ben and Linda Marra married, they went to a powwow. The purpose of the trip was to shoot photos for a Seattle printer that would show off... Read More

There are certainly reasons to approach this book cautiously. Despite producer Irving Thalberg’s celebrated influence on American film, the trite phrase “Hollywood Dreams”... Read More

Comic art has entered an unprecedented global upswing. If comics now signify art, then the wordless graphic novel has a claim on the highest art yet achieved. Perhaps the... Read More

America’s relationship with drugs has been marked by ambivalent attitudes, ranging from conceptualizing addiction as an illness to be treated with compassion, hard work,... Read More

There is a woman dressed like a librarian cliché seated on a small bed. Her expression is crushed. Look at her left hand, palm up—it appears almost paralyzed, like it’s... Read More

A photograph of the vivid octagonal ceiling of the Cathedral of Ely graces the cover of this imposing book. One notices first the colors, exploding outward from a central point... Read More