Art and Photography
Here you will find books in the genre of of art and photography. Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Symbols in Art
For many people, the terrain of art is emotion and feeling. Much has been written that says that the whole and only point of art is to stimulate emotion…
The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
"When combined, the conscious mind and its symbolic technologies generate a powerful chemistry. The brain-symbol interface is the birthplace of art…
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Canvas
Canvas is a graphic novel about a fourteen-year-old girl called Canvas who goes on a summer camping trip with her parents and has her first sexual…
Self-Taught and Outsider Art
Self-Taught and Outsider Art contains work from the collection of Anthony Petullo, art-lover and businessman. With 224 pages in large format most…
The Bristol Board Jungle
This little graphic art book is about the teaching of a course in graphic art, and is mainly aimed for use as a teaching tool in such courses. The artwo…
The Art of Adolf Wolfli
Like Henry Darger, Adolf Wolfli was an artist outside the mainstream of twentieth century art with a prodigious output. From his early work, 1905-1907,…
In the Floyd Archives
In the Floyd Archives is a clever and humorous collection of cartoons that will appeal to hip psychoanalysts and students of Freudian theory. Sar…
The Wolves in the Walls
The Wolves in the Walls is a short illustrated horror story for young children. This might seem inappropriate at first glance in these times when…
A Storybook Life
Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s A Storybook Life is a subtle and disorienting collection of photographs. On first viewing, it is hard to know what unifie…
Persepolis
This memoir in black and white comic form tells the story of what it was like to grow up in an educated family as a girl during the "Islamic Revolut…
Ripple
Dave Cooper’s previous graphic novels have already established that he is one sick puppy, and Ripple shows his sickness can take various forms. H…
Boneyard
This second graphic novel book in the Boneyard series is a great deal of fun — it continues the supernatural story of Michael Paris and his spook…
Notes from a Defeatist
Joe Sacco is a talented graphic artist best known for his works Palestine…
Looking For Maya
Looking for Maya is an odd little collection of photographs by J.D. Fleishman accompanied by prose and poetry by other authors — a chapter from…
Sleepwalk
Sleepwalk collects the stories in the first four Optic Nerve comics by Adrian Tomine. The first issue was released in 1995, and the comic…
No More Shaves
David Greenberger transcribed the words of elderly men living in the Duplex Nursing Home in Boston and published them in The Duplex Planet. After…
Summer Blonde
Summer Blonde is a collection of Adrian Tomine’s Optic Nerve comic issues #5-8, following on from Sleepwalk, which collected the fir…
Robert Doisneau 1912-1994
Robert Doisneau was a popular and gifted French photographer who worked mainly in Paris from the 1930s up until the 1990s. The image on the front of thi…
Room to Play
Maybe it is best to get the obvious points made first — not that they are unimportant, but focus on them gets in the way of more searching discussion. …
Tits, Ass, and Real Estate
Tits, Ass & Real Estate is a crudely drawn black and white series of stories from the life of Eve Gilbert. Most of them involve her getting drun…
High Art Lite
This book supplies something missing: substantial discussion of "new British art." This is the art that came to prominence with and around the…
Bill Henson
Lux et Nox is an astonishing collection of photographs of a the nightlife of a group of Australian teenagers and children. Some of the pictures i…
Blab! 13
Perhaps it is a stretch, but I’mirresistibly drawn to compare the artwork in Blab! with a great deal of outsider art.…
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams is a strange work inspiring a mixture of feelings. On the one hand, it is an impressive work in that it is a sustai…
Small Favors
Small Favors is a black and white graphic novel of lesbian erotica. Young Annie has a little guardian, Nibbil. Nibbil is meant to be Annie&#…