The most popular art & artists books of 2021

Books about art and artists take you into studios and galleries. Painters and sculptors struggle for recognition, forgers fool the experts and a single painting carries a story across centuries. Novels, biographies and art-world mysteries here are rich in color and passion. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.

Cover of Bourdain

Bourdain

Laurie Woolever

Published 2021

464 pages

Cover of Sellout The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

Sellout The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007)

Dan Ozzi

2021 · 2022 edition

464 pages

Cover of Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love

Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

Published 2021

178 pages

Cover of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows A Memoir

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows A Memoir

Ai Weiwei

2021 · 2022 edition

400 pages

Cover of A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

Rodrigo García

Published 2021

157 pages

Cover of Beeswing

Beeswing

Richard Thompson

2021 · 2022 edition

272 pages

Cover of Negative Space

Negative Space

Lilly Dancyger

Published 2021

280 pages

Cover of Color Collector

Color Collector

Nick Solis, Renia Metallinou

Published 2021

32 pages

Cover of Save it for Later Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

Save it for Later Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest

Nate Powell

Published 2021

152 pages

Cover of Da Vinci's Cat

Da Vinci's Cat

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

2021 · 2022 edition

304 pages

Cover of William Blake Vs the World

William Blake Vs the World

John Higgs

2021 · 2022 edition

400 pages

Cover of Two Steps Onward

Two Steps Onward

Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist

Published 2021

368 pages

Cover of Saga Boy

Saga Boy

Antonio Michael Downing

Published 2021

344 pages

Cover of Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Fierce Poise Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

Alexander Nemerov

Published 2021

288 pages

Cover of The Women who Changed Art Forever Feminist Art - the Graphic Novel

The Women who Changed Art Forever Feminist Art - the Graphic Novel

Valentina Grande

Published 2021

133 pages

Cover of Albert and the Whale

Albert and the Whale

Philip Hoare

Published 2021

289 pages

Cover of Burning Boy The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Burning Boy The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Paul Auster

Published 2021

783 pages

Cover of The Radical Potter The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

The Radical Potter The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

Tristram Hunt

Published 2021

323 pages

Cover of Do Something for Nothing Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, Through the Simple Act of a Haircut

Do Something for Nothing Seeing Beneath the Surface of Homelessness, Through the Simple Act of a Haircut

Joshua Coombes

Published 2021

224 pages

Cover of Dear Paris The Paris Letters Collection

Dear Paris The Paris Letters Collection

Janice MacLeod

Published 2021

304 pages

Cover of Growing Up Bank Street A Greenwich Village Memoir

Growing Up Bank Street A Greenwich Village Memoir

Donna Florio

Published 2021

256 pages

Cover of Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe

María Herreros

2021 · 2022 edition

128 pages

Cover of Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Emily Rapp Black

Published 2021

160 pages

Cover of Starman Bowie's Stardust Years

Starman Bowie's Stardust Years

Reinhard Kleist

2021 · 2023 edition

161 pages

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