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Constructed almost entirely of paraffin wax, "Julian" is one of Swiss artist Urs Fischer's most ambitious wax-candle sculptures to date. This large-format artist's book is composed entirely of photographs documenting Fischer's 2015 show in Amagansett, New York, where the life-size sculpture--made to resemble fellow artist Julian Schnabel--was exhibited and then set alight.

Andro Wekua's (born 1977) Gems Survey is a book of memories: pinned to the bare field of each page are small images of buildings, scraps of cities and shreds of skies, clippings of stars and far-off galaxies. These are the places that Wekua has traveled to, real and imaginary, environments that influence and constitute a large part of his oeuvre.

A stark, black-and-white publication, The Mess includes nearly 80 paintings by Norwegian-born artist Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976) that explore the relationship between authority and rebellion through visual signs and symbols taken from sources ranging from popular culture to political iconography and utopian ideologies.

Using El Lissitzky's artwork as a starting point, New York-based painter Sebastian Black (born 1985) abstracts space and graphic shapes in this slim artist's book.

Death Sequence documents a year in the life of Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls through a series of carefully selected photos taken by the artist and his friends, as well as installation shots of Falls' 2013 shows in Los Angeles, Geneva, Paris and Rome. Nearly 50 poems by Jamie Kanzler appear throughout, surrounded by the primary colors and natural silhouettes that are characteristic of Falls' work.

Los Angeles-based artist Sam Falls' (born 1984) newest publication, Plein Air, documents a year the artist spent outdoors making his large-scale pigment-on-canvas paintings in four separate locations around the world: Hartland, Vermont, Venice, California, Hudson, New York, and Sarvisalo, Finland. Nature has always been a principle theme in Falls' work and the splendor and unpredictability with which the seasons change is transferred directly ...

This portfolio-style monograph by New York-based painter Marina Adams draws from Bernini's sculpture "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" and Picasso's study of the Weeping Woman for "Guernica." The juxtaposing of these images--one of ecstasy, the other of agony--inspired Adams' diptych spreads of vibrating forms and vivid color.

This volume collects nearly a decade of sculptural work from the New York-based British artist Paul Lee (born 1974). Lee is known for using everyday objects such as soda cans, light bulbs, socks and tambourines to evoke the familiar and explore affiliations between materials and their coded cultural and sexual meanings.

From Here to Nowhere documents New York artist Marianne Vitale's (born 1973) major recent sculptural works to date: "Thought Field, " composed of 90 sections of 1930s-era railroad track, and "Caution Beams, " six towering stacks of white pine that have been painted, bashed and pummeled to evoke traffic barricades.

Thirty-Four Reverse Telescopes and Three Buttons catalogs the artist's recent body of colored Plexiglas works, made between 2013 and 2016, introduced obliquely with a poem by Ben Estes. Painter Matt Connors (born 1973) is known for combining a modernist visual vocabulary of grids and tense, minimal compositions with influences from design, poetry and music. Connors' recent series of works brings this sensibility into the play of media: paintin...

The first publication by American artist Walter Price, Crystal Black compiles 38 ink and colored pencil drawings that illuminate the figures and scale of Price's colorful, figure-in-landscape acrylic paintings and offer their own social critique through earnest, youthful imagery.

How to Ruin an Omelet is the third in a series of artist's books by Los Angeles-based painter Michael Williams (born 1978), following California Land for Sale!! and Yoga Online. Using a fashion sketchbook with figurative templates as its foundation, How to Ruin an Omelet is a lively amalgam of text and image.

In the early 1990s, Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) was living in San Francisco, and weary of the figurative painting he and his colleagues were doing. He found inspiration at Lloyds, a bar across the street from his studio, in their handmade signs advertising hot dogs and drink specials. Grotjahn started painting copies of the bar's signs. Sensing that the difference between his copies and the originals was the audience, Grotjahn "figured in order ...

From Irish painter Genieve Figgis (born 1972) comes a book-object that is both exquisite and utilitarian, nostalgic and new. Wrapped in plush suede of deep violet, Something for Lovers compiles 34 of Figgis' paintings into a compact coloring book. The works' dreamlike aspect and romantic yet, at times, banal subject matter--Victorian landscapes, tender portraits and passionate embraces--makes for images begging creative reinterpretation. Publi...

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First published in 1993, Sister is a story of love and violence bearing justice. In author and critic Jim Lewis' first novel, an orphaned, 17-year-old Wilson leaves his Nebraska home and heads south to Mississippi. There, he finds work as a gardener on the estate of the Miller clan--a nuclear family with two lovely daughters, Marian and Olivia, living in compliant happiness. Wilson's surreptitious presence soon casts a quiet path of destructio...