The most popular visual art books of 2025

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 2025.

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Jade Mosinski
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Jade Mosinski

Flame Tree Studio

Published 2025

128 pages

Kate Heiss
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Kate Heiss

Flame Tree Studio

Published 2025

128 pages

Angela Harding
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Angela Harding

Flame Tree Studio

Published 2025

128 pages

Claude Monet
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Claude Monet

Flame Tree Studio

Published 2025

128 pages

Slow Looking
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Slow Looking

Olivia Meehan

Published 2025

320 pages

Made (by Hand) in the Midwest The Contre Coup Press, 1979-2019
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Made (by Hand) in the Midwest The Contre Coup Press, 1979-2019

André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania. Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. Library. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Kamin Gallery

Published 2025

148 pages

Sam Gilliam
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Sam Gilliam

Sara Muthi

Published 2025

108 pages

Stan Douglas
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Stan Douglas

Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder, Lauren Cornell

Published 2025

216 pages

Sargent and Paris
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Sargent and Paris

Stephanie L. Herdrich, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline Elenowitz-Hess, Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Ormond

Published 2025

256 pages