Modern Muses: A Reading List

A collage made up of the covers to book from the list below

Ai Weiwei

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir

Trans. Allan H. Barr

Crown Publishing Group

 

Barbara Bloemink

Florine Stettheimer: A Biography

Hirmer Verlag GmbH

 

Diane Burko

Diane Burko: Seeing Climate Change

American University Museum

 

Sophie Calle & Jean-Paul Demoule

The Elevator Resides in 501

Ill. Philippe Millot

Actes Sud

 

Alex Danchev (with Sarah Whitfield)

Magritte: A Life

Pantheon Books

 

Anaïs Duplan

I Need Music

Action Books

 

Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir

Skira

 

Ernest Farrés

Edward Hopper: Poems

Trans. Lawrence Venuti

Graywolf Press

 

María Gainza

Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Trans. Thomas Bunstead

Catapult

 

María Gainza

Optic Nerve

Trans. Thomas Bunstead

Catapult

 

Ferren Gipson

The Ultimate Art Museum

Phaidon Press

 

Carla Guelfenbein

One in Me I Never Loved

Trans. Neil Davidson

Other Press

 

Ed. Andrea Karnes

Women Painting Women

DelMonico Books

 

Ed. Chelsea Weathers

Agnes Martin: Independence of Mind

Radius Books

 

Stephanie McKenzie

Saviours in This Little Space for Now: Poems for Emily Carr and Vincent van Gogh

Salmon Poetry

 

Ahmed Morsi

Ed. Hoor Al Qasimi & Salah M. Hassan

Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination

Skira

 

Ed. Ed Schad

Takeshi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow

DelMonico Books

 

André Leon Talley

The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir

Penguin Random House

 

Adam Zagajewski

“Vermeer’s Little Girl” and “Degas: The Milliner’s Shop” 

Trans. Clare Cavanagh

Without End: New and Selected Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

 

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Michelle Johnson is WLT's managing and culture editor.