The most popular visual art books of 2020

Visual art books are about painting, drawing and sculpture. Explore the great artists and movements, from cave walls to contemporary galleries, in histories, monographs and exhibition catalogues. Many of these books are objects of beauty themselves, made to be looked at slowly. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Kraftwerk
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Kraftwerk

Uwe Schütte

Published 2020

336 pages

Black Futures
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Black Futures

Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham

Published 2020

544 pages

Golem Girl
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Golem Girl

Riva Lehrer

Published 2020

448 pages

Avatar
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Avatar

Joshua Pruett, Sora Medina

Published 2020

64 pages

The Art of Drag
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The Art of Drag

Jake Hall, Sofie Birkin, Helen Li, Jasjyot Singh Hans

2020 · 2025 edition

136 pages

Mozart
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Mozart

Jan Swafford

2020 · 2021 edition

744 pages

Warhol
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Warhol

Blake Gopnik

Published 2020

960 pages

Ocean Anatomy
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Ocean Anatomy

Julia Rothman, John Niekrasz

Published 2020

208 pages

American Utopia
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American Utopia

Maira Kalman, David Byrne

Published 2020

160 pages