The Fall 2025 season of art and architecture books from Yale University Press includes exceptional exhibition catalogues, including Man Ray: When Objects Dream (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100 (Philadelphia Art Museum), Lee Miller (Tate), Manet & Morisot (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), and Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985 (National Gallery of Art).
New releases this season also include Knife-Woman, a landmark biography of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac and translated into English by Lauren Elkin; Philip Ball’s illustrated history of alchemy and alchemists; and I Don’t Think About Being Great, a thought-provoking and entertaining collection of Robert Rauschenberg’s writings… among dozens of other books that will dazzle, delight, and edify.Â
Are you a Bridgerton buff? There is an illustrated guide to Regency dress by Hilary Davidson. Interested in the gods of ancient Egypt? Divine Egypt from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is for you. Want to take a cross-country road trip of Arts and Crafts architecture highlights from the comfort of your own home? Maureen Meister has made your travel arrangements. Curious about how Guyanese British artist Hew Locke’s works reveal and upend the visual codes of imperialism? The exhibition catalogue from the Hew Locke show at the Yale Center for British Art is a stunner.Â
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