The Daily Beast’s Rachel Wolff picks the year’s most notable art and photography books, from Van Gogh’s letters to Jung’s paintings to the history of the art world’s greatest con man.
Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, by Leah Dickerman and Barry Bergdoll (The Museum of Modern Art, New York, $75)
Contemporary African Art Since 1980, by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu (Damiani, $60)
Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory, by Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Lauren Cornell (Phaidon, $49.95)
Painting Below Zero, by James Rosenquist & David Dalton (Knopf, $50)
National Geographic Image Collection, by Michelle Anne Delaney and Maura Mulvihill (Focal Point, $50)
Magritte: Attempting the Impossible, by Siegfried Gohr (Distributed Art Publishers, $85)
Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters, The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, Vol. 1-6, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen, and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson, $600)
Rome, by William Klein (Aperture, $85)
Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés, by Michael R. Taylor (Yale University Press, $65)
An American Leonardo, by John Brewer (Oxford University Press, $24.95)
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, edited by Patricia Allmer (Prestel, $49.95)
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter (Center Street, $26.99)
A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005, by Annie Leibovitz (Random House, $50)
The Red Book, by C.G. Jung, translations by Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, and John Peck (W.W. Norton, $195)
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion, and Jewelry, by Leanne Shapton (Macmillan, $18)
Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum, by Michael Gross (Broadway Books, $29.95)
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (Penguin, $26.95)
Irving Penn: Small Trades, by Virginia Heckert and Anne Lacoste (Getty Publications, $49.95)
Chris Ofili by David Adjaye, Thelma Golden, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Doig, and Kara Walker (Rizzoli, $85)
Courtesy Chris Ofili/Afroco and David Zwirner, New York
Andy Warhol, by Arthur C. Danto (Yale University Press, $24)
