The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports writing about the contemporary visual arts. IG @artswriters

Something Close to Music: Late Art Writings, Poems, and Playlists
John Ashbery
ICYMI: @192books and @PaulaCooperNY hosted John Yau and Lucy Ives among others for a reading to John Ashbery's 'Something Close To Music,' a new collection of poems and late art writing, now out on @zwirnerbooks You can now watch the event here: https://t.co/iQmA1kuWk4
Paperback, 2022
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sliding Scales: A Pip & Flinx Adventure
Alan Dean Foster
Tucson writers! Raquel Gutiérrez (@raquefella), author of BROWN NEON @Coffee_House_ will teach an 8-week queer/trans memoir reading & writing workshop. In person, beginning Sept 6. Get in touch with them for more info. SLIDING SCALE available. https://t.co/tqZLLzdeWe
Paperback, Mass Market, 2005
$7.99Member price:$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments
Erin L. Thompson
"For Thompson, this scene is emblematic of colonists’ desire 'to abolish British rule by destroying its most prominent symbol on the island.' It is also instructive for our present moment." @ChristianCent reviews @artcrimeprof's SMASHING STATUES @wwnorton https://t.co/gapF10pyYi
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Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc Godard
"Do these two impatient edits signify the failure of the language of cinema to express Juliette’s experience? Yes. But perhaps it is the narrative form of the film that is the cause of the failure" Amy Taubin (@AmyOrNot) remembers Jean-Luc Godard @Artforum https://t.co/BeJ7abjvPz
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00Member price:$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
"Like all biographies, Smith’s is false. How can the infinite contours of any one life be contained in a book?" Chris Kraus reviews Catherine Lacey's new book "Biography of X" for @washingtonpost https://t.co/Ea3DyAMtwG
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hate: A Romance
Tristan Garcia
"Just as games bleed into life as life bleeds into games, novels exist as part of the world that they pretend to encapsulate and then hermetically travel within." Read @3LVVIA's "Hate: A Romance," an essay from DEATH BY LANDSCAPE @softskull @nplusonemag https://t.co/joYxyULepB
Paperback, 2010
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
Monica Amor
✨ Congratulations Monica Amor! GEGO: WEAVING THE SPACE IN BETWEEN, for which she won a 2013 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, is now available for order via @yalepress✨ @yalepress @warholfdn #MonicaAmor https://t.co/kH3fLlO1gZ
Hardcover, 2023
$65.00Member price:$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Claire Dederer
"'What do we do with the art of monstrous men?' This is the issue at the heart of Claire Dederer’s book, which tackles the dilemma of whether the artist’s biography can be separated from the work." @oritgat on Claire Dederer's Monsters @efluxcriticism https://t.co/eCW8b9fsCR
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Prudence Peiffer
Now available to preorder! Prudence Peiffer's 'THE SLIP: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever,' a multifaceted biographical portrait of the artists who lived and worked at Manhattan's Coenties Slip. Available 8/1, @HarperCollins: https://t.co/9T9Jt2M55e
Hardcover, 2023
$38.99Member price:$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps
Etienne Bock
"His monumentally self-congratulatory book is filled with such insulting observations about Tibetans that one hopes this disguise was as unpleasant as it sounds." Erin L. Thompson (@artcrimeprof) on Magali Jenny's Buddhist Art of Tibet @Ed_Flammarion https://t.co/7JTLWwwlaw
Hardcover, 2022
$50.00Member price:$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book