Art Books
Andrei Monastyrski’s Elementary Poetry
By Nolan KellyThis anthology assembles the poetic compositions of the poet and performer scarcely known in this country, but influential in Russia since the days of the Soviet Union. Monastyrski’s poems call for action, and by their very nature draw attention to the activity of reading.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s wild wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse
By Megan N. LibertyWhile these two attached books tell very different stories, the first about the death of the artist’s grandmother and the other a science fiction tale of a family living on a space station, both grapple with grief, love, and the haunting nature of bodies.
Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
By David RichardsonThe collection and publication of Davey’s essays in an affordable paperback marks a new period in the life of these works, available for a different kind of circulation and a different form of readerly engagement appropriate to Davey’s work, which is full of books.
Lisa Hanawalt’s
I Want You
By Wyatt Sarafin
An anthology of the author’s alternative comics years in the late 2000s and early 2010s, reprinted at the tail end of her popular animated show BoJack Horseman, is a gleeful but melancholy diary of a time in life best forgotten.
Hundertwasser For Future
By Lily MajtelesAn impressive sampling of painter, architect, ecological activist, and sometimes-philosopher. Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s manifestos, speeches, and writings, published in English for the very first time, alongside some of his paintings and designs from his long and varied career.
