Looking for a gift or someone who might judge a book by its cover 鈥� design? This gift list, sure to please the aesthete in your life, includes: vibrant histories of red, green, blue, black, and yellow; quotes, and notes, from Basquiat and Ai Weiwei; Anni Albers on weaving; Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations by Salvador Dal铆; Emmet Gowin鈥檚 evocative aerial photographs of the Nevada Test Site; a lively survey of political protest art; a stunningly illustrated cultural history of the connection between mathematics and visual art; and a foray into the life and work of the enigmatic American artist Bill Traylor, the subject of a recent Smithsonian retrospective.
Red: The History of a Color
Green: The History of a Color
Yellow: The History of a Color
Blue: The History of a Color
Black: The History of a Color
Humanity
Weiwei-isms
Basquiat-isms
The Notebooks
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition
Alice鈥檚 Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition
Nevada Test Site
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History
