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Baroques Giovanni Careri Princeton University Press Hardcover, 248pp $75.00 From Rome to St. Petersburg, Portugal to Brazil, the Baroque was the first art movement to span not only countries but distant continents. This stunningly illustrated book takes us on a breathtaking pilgrimage through its endless variations over some two hundred years, beginning in the early seventeenth century. Readers are treated to such wonders as Bernini's intensely powerful sculptures and his immense colonnade on St. Peter's Square, imposing palace facades, painted ceilings, crucifixes, angels, demons, piazzas, villas, gardens, and more. Though once viewed in Europe as decadent compared to Renaissance art, the Baroque is seen today as the ultimate manifestation of a style that expanded the bounds of reality and engendered a "culture of visualization," prefiguring the modern age.	New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century Jed Perl Knopf Softcover, 656pp $18.95 A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics. New Art City takes us from the solitude of the artist's studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to the Midtown streets where steel-and-glass skyscrapers were rising and art galleries were proliferating. We encounter a kaleidoscopic range of artists. There are legendary figures-Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, and Donald Judd-as well as still undervalued ones, such as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric expressionist Joan Mitchell, the adventuresome realist Fairfield Porter, and the eccentric thinker John Graham. We encounter, too, the writers, critics, patrons, and hangers-on who rounded out the artists' world.
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity Julia Cameron Penguin Softcover, 237pp $15.95 The Artist's Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist's life. Still as vital today-or perhaps even more so-than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work.	Destination Art Amy Dempsey University of California Press Hardcover, 272pp $39.95 This stunningly illustrated book is the first critical guide to the two hundred most important modern and contemporary art sites around the world. Encompassing massive land and environmental works, extensive sculpture parks, magnificent architectural follies, site-specific installations, even whole towns turned over to the display of art, this book chronicles a wealth of works that have achieved near-mythical status since they were created.
Le Corbusier's Hands Andre Wogenscky MIT Press Hardcover, 96pp $14.95 Le Corbusier's Hands offers a poetic and personal portrait of Le Corbusier--a nuanced portrayal that is in contrast to the popular image of Le Corbusier the aloof modernist. In this book, written in the mid-1980s, Wogenscky remembers his mentor in a series of revealing personal statements and evocative reflections unlike anything that exists in the vast literature on Le Corbusier.	The Judgment of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism Ross King Walker & Company Hardcover, 384pp $28.00 The Judgement of Paris revolves around the lives of two artists, described as "the two poles of art"—Ernest Meissonier, the most famous and successful painter of the 19th century, hailed for his precision and devotion to history; and Edouard Manet, reviled in his time, who nonetheless heralded the most radical change in the history of art since the Renaissance.
Story of Painting Sister Wendy Beckett DK Publishing Hardcover, 736pp $50.00 The Story of Painting features more than 450 masterpieces - all faithfully reproduced in rich, full color - chronicling the developments and movements in the history of painting over the past 800 years, from Gothic to Renaissance, Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism to Modernism.	Surreal Lives: The Surrealists, 1917-1945 Ruth Brandon Atlantic/Grove Softcover, 554pp $16.00 In the years following World War I, a small group of writers, painters, and filmmakers set out to change the way we perceive the world. They called themselves the Surrealists, and their aim was to revolutionize the arts, and through them everything else.
Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hardcover, 144pp $20.00 Susan Sontag's now classic book On Photography defined the terms of this debate twenty-five years ago. Her new book is a profound rethinking of the intersection of "news," art, and understanding in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster.	Leonardo Da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance Alessandro Vezzosi Harry Abrams Softcover, 160pp $12.95 Scientist, painter, philosopher, anatomist, astronomer, engineer, inventor, courtier: Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance. This book surveys the life and work of a unique genius, from his childhood in Italy to his death in France. More than a biography, it sets his life in the context of the great courts he visited.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo Hayden Herrera Harper Collins Softcover, 528pp $24.95 Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality, an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences.	Underground Film: A Critical History Parker Tyler Da Capo Press Softcover, 256pp $16.00 A masterpiece of cinema literature, Tyler has evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. 67 film stills and frame enlargements.
What They Don't Teach You at Film Schoo Camille Landau, Tiare White Hyperion Softcover, 243pp $14.00 You don't have to go to film school to make movies, and this book offers you 161 practical strategies to make your movies no matter what. A lot cheaper than a year's tuition, this book has solutions for surviving both the large and small crises of filmmaking.	Real Life Drama Wendy Smith Grove Atlantic Softcover, 482pp $14.95 In a prodigiously researched, definitive study that received a boxed review in hardcover and was among PW 's Best Books of 1990, Smith explores how Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg and other members of the Group Theatre revolutionized acting as they sought to make art a force for change.