Truitt lays bare the challenges she faced after her divorce in 1971: raising three children, putting dinner on the table and ...

From Surrealist manifestos to a New York It Girl's visual diary, here are our picks of the best art books to read now.

In our latest roundup of book recommendations from Books & Books owner Mitchell Kaplan, Florida-centered stories dominate.

Carrington, a significant figure of the 1930s surrealist-art movement in Mexico, explored dreamlike landscapes, uncanny creatures, and bizarre encounters in her paintings, pushing against the ...

New Surrealism, Robert Zeller. Monacelli Studio. Robert Zeller’s beautiful new book is a joyful celebration of superb 21 st-century painting. Rising from the conjoined undergrounds of Greg Escalante’s ...

Art History How Women Surrealists Shaped the Movement’s Past—And Its Present Over the past century, Surrealism has continually evolved—see how these women artists made it their own.

Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington, Joanna Moorhead’s latest book on the pioneering surrealist painter and writer who lived from 1917 to 2011, captures a wave of fascination ...

Karpidas’ remarkable trove of Surrealist and postwar art is going up for sale in September. Her rarely seen London home has hosted the heart of her life’s collection.