Looking to introduce some new artwork into your home? Whether you’re looking to impress guests or just dive deeper, here’s a look at fall’s new art-focused coffee-table books .
“Sam Taylor-Johnson: The Self and The Portrait,” Rizzoli Electa, Sept. 29
“Sam Taylor-Johnson: The Self and the Portrait.”
Before moving into filmmaking, Sam Taylor-Johnson (née Taylor-Wood) was a fine art photographer, part of London’s Young British Artists group of the late ’80s and ’90s. “The Self and The Portrait” opens with a new series of self-portraits of Taylor-Johnson suspended in water, and revisits some of her earliest portraiture of herself and famous figures, including her intimate Crying Men series, which features teary Hollywood men.
“Tracey Emin: A Second Life,” Abrams, Oct. 6
“Tracey Emin: A Second Life.”
Another Young British Artist, Tracey Emin’s new monograph follows the release of her conversational narrative book “My Heart Is This: Tracey Emin on Painting” earlier this spring.…