The Art BookWinter 2001 Bestseller Lists
London
Fine ArtTopTen
1 Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters,
Hockney, Thames & Hudson, £35.00
2 Dick Jewell: Hysterical Glamour, Jewell, Hysterical Glamour, £50.00
3 The Beast is Near, Shrigley, Redstone Press, £4.95
4 SURREALISM desire unbound, exhibition catalogue, Tate
Modern, £29.99
5 Surrealist Games, Brotchie, Redstone Press, £14.95
6 Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings, 1954±2001, exhibition
catalogue, Royal Academy, £24.95
7 British Abstract Painting 2001, exhibition catalogue, Flowers
East, £14.95
8 Vermeer and the Delft School, exhibition catalogue, National
Gallery, £55.00
9 Aelbert Cuyp, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery, £48.00
10 Winifred Nicholson, exhibition catalogue, Kettles Yard, £14.95
ArchitectureTopTen
1 Decorative Arts of the 60s, Fiell & Fiell, Taschen, £20.00
2 Mies in Berlin, exhibition catalogue, MoMA, NY, £45.00
3 Piranesi: Complete Etchings, Ficarri, Taschen, £20.00
4 New Vernacular Architecture, Richardson, Lawrence King, £39.99
5 Harvard Guide to Shopping, Koolaas, Taschen, £30.00
6 The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam,
King, Butterworth, £85.00
7 Richard Rogers: The Complete Works. Volume 2. 1987±1992, Powell,
Phaidon, £59.95
8 Architecture Today, Steele, Phaidon, £29.95
9 Frank Gehry: The Art of Architecture, exhibition catalogue,
Guggenheim, NY, £55.00
10 Alvaro Siza: The Complete Works, Frampton, Phaidon, £60.00
PhotographyTopTen
1 Life in Art. Photographs by Steve Pyke, exhibition catalogue, SAGA
Trust, £12.00
2 Melanie Manchot: Love is a Stranger, Honneff, Prestel, £24.95
3 Vietnam Inc. Photographs by Philip Jones Griffiths, Phaidon, £24.95
4 Coincidences: Photographs by Sarah Moon, Thames & Hudson,
£39.95
5 Still Life. Irving Penn Photographs. 1938±2000, Szarkowski,
Thames & Hudson, £42.00
6 Nan Goldin, 55 series, Phaidon, £4.99
7 Don McCullin, Evans, Cape, £50.00
8 Nigel Henderson: Parallel of Life and Art, exhibition catalogue,
Gainsborough's House, £22.50
9 Roadside America, Weber, teNeues, £12.50
10 World Press Photo Yearbook 2001, Thames & Hudson, £12.95
DesignTopTen
1 Decorated Skin, Groning, Thames & Hudson, £19.95
2 Front Cover, Powers, Beazley, £20.00
3 Radical Fashion, Wilcox, V&A, £30.00
4 Anthony Froshaug, Kinross, Hyphen Press, £40.00
5 Arabic Typography, AbiFares, Saqi Books, £22.50
6 Portfolio 2. The Work of Carroll, Dempsey & Thirkell, CDT, £19.50
7 Collapsibles: A Design Album of Space Saving Objects, Mollerup,
Thames & Hudson, £16.95
8 The Art of Looking Sideways, Fletcher, Phaidon, £24.95
9 Restart: New Systems in Graphic Design, Kusters & King, Thames
& Hudson, £16.95
10 True to Type. A Typographical Autobiography, McLean, Werner
Shaw, £25.00
• London list provided by Shipley Specialist Art Booksellers,
70 Charing Cross Road, London WC2 0BB
NewYork
Fine ArtTopTen
1 Secret Knowledge, Hockney, Viking, $60.00
2 Viva Mexico, Haas, Train, $25.00
3 Bosch, Fraenger, Cajo, $49.95
4 Balthus, Clair, Rizzoli, $75.00
5 Caravaggio, Spike, Abbeville, $95.00
6 Leafing Through Flowers, Ost, Callaway, $47.50
7 Time, Goldsworthy, Abrams, $49.50
8 Splendor of Iran, Booth Clibborn, $495.00
9 Frida Kahlo, Lozano, Bulfinch, $85.00
10 Richard Diebenkorn, Norland, Rizzoli, $75.00
ArchitectureTopTen
1 Hip Hotel France, Ypma, Thames & Hudson, $29.95
2 Gio Ponti, La Pietra, Rizzoli, $75.00
3 Modernism Reborn, Webb, Universe, $39.95
4 The House Book, Phaidon, $39.95
5 House American Houses for the New Century, Ho/Barreneche,
Universe, $39.95
6 Churches, Dupre, Harper Collins, $35.00
7 New American Town House, Gorlin, Rizzoli, $60.00
8 Hotel Gems of Italy, Quisenaerts, D Publications, $49.95
9 XS Big Ideas Small Buildings, Richardson, Universe, $29.95
10 Cool Hotels, Cuito, teNeues, $24.95
PhotographyTopTen
1 New York September 11 2001, Magnum Photographers,
Powerhouse Books, $29.95
2 One Nation America Remembers, Life Magazine, Little Brown,
$29.95
3 Starlet, Ellison, Universe, $35.00
4 Greg Gorman, Gorman, Rizzoli, $30.00
5 Earth from Above, Arthus-Bertrand, Abrams, $29.95
6 Torero, Afanador, Stemmle, $75.00
7 Male Nude Now, Leddick, Universe, $35.95
8 Beautiful, Baptiste, Universe, $45.00
9 September 11 2001, Poynter Institute, Andrews & McMeel,
$14.95
10 Timothy White Photographs, White, Rizzoli, $75.00
DesignTopTen
1 Private House, Tarlow, Clarkson Potter, $37.50
2 Santa Barbara Style, Masson, Rizzoli, $50.00
3 Designers Houses, Bradbury, Vendomes, $60.00
4 American Home, Larkin, Universe, $60.00
5 Design Diary, Jeffrey, Rizzoli, $50.00
6 Heart of Christmas, Radko, Clarkson Potter, $35.00
7 New York Apartment: Houses of Rosario Candela & James Carpenter,
Alpern/Candela/Carpenter, Acanthus Press, $65.00
8 Restoring a Home in Italy, McBride, Workman Publishing,
$50.00
9 Van Day Truex, Lewis, Viking, $39.95
10 Los Angeles House, Street-Porter, Crown, $60.00
• New York list provided by Rizzoli Bookstores, Inc., 300 Park
Avenue South, New York, NY 10010