This collection invites readers into the irreverent, boundary-pushing world of R. Crumb, one of the most influential cartoonists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bringing together iconic characters, subversive narratives, and his unmistakably intricate linework, these books trace how Crumb revolutionized underground comics, energized graphic arts, and challenged conventions around politics and popular culture. Taken together, they offer a vivid, uncompromising portrait of an artist whose work continues to disrupt, provoke, and inspire.

brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb’s most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics, exemplifying the artist’s creative output over the twenty-five years following his early experimentation.

chronicles R. Crumb’s obsessions—from sex to the Bible, music, politics, and the vicissitudes and obscenities of daily life. 

R. Crumb Collection

A scuplture by Yayoi Kusama called Dancing Pumpkin dated 2020

Yayoi Kusama, 2021.  Photo by Yusuke Miyazaki

Spanning four beautifully designed books, the Yayoi Kusama collection offers an immersive journey into the artist’s singular world. Bringing together paintings, sculptures, large-scale installations, and poetry, these titles capture the radical imagination and boundless visual language that have made Kusama one of the most influential artists of our time.

Featuring the vibrant and dynamic work of Yayoi Kusama, 

is the perfect canvas for imagination. The paintings on the cover and endpapers of Kusama’s first Artist Journal provide the perfect motivation for any creative pursuit.

, Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic recollections, giving readers an intimate view into her creative process and the essential role language plays in her paintings, sculptures, and daily life.

Yayoi Kusama: I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers

 explores the monumental 2023 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York through the specific lens of the visitor—illustrating thirty-five paintings, a gigantic sculptural installation of pumpkins, a trio of towering, colorful flower sculptures, and a fan-favorite 

 at David Zwirner, New York—an all-white, domestic interior that viewers were invited to cover with dot stickers of various sizes and colors. This catalogue reveals the transformation of the space from a clean white interior to a stunningly saturated room, with ceilings, walls, and furniture covered in myriad multicolors.

Yayoi Kusama Collection

This set of six children’s books from David Zwirner Books embodies our mission to celebrate creativity in a fun, accessible way. Perfect for kids and adults alike, these beautifully illustrated, engaging titles make ideal gifts for families, teachers, and art lovers of all ages.

series of lift-the-flap books, geared toward children under the age of three, shares the different ways artists Yayoi Kusama and Ruth Asawa view the world.

 series highlights a diverse group of artists and art workers, inviting young readers to explore creative ideas and discover the boundless possibilities of self-expression both in the classroom and beyond.

illuminate different elements of the art industry, showcasing the richness of print culture to a young audience in gorgeous tricolor illustrations.

Children’s Books (6 Book Set)

These four children’s books introduce young readers to the creative life, telling stories in a colorful, engaging, and age-appropriate way. Blending vivid illustrations with clear, accessible language, the series invites children to discover how art is made and who makes it.

Children’s Books (4 Book Set)

The two titles in the William Eggleston Collection honor the artist’s trailblazing role in the field of color photography and his lasting impact on contemporary visual culture.

, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist’s lens.

 catalogues the last major group of William Eggleston’s photographs to ever be produced using the dye-transfer method, the format in which he originally presented his work.

William Eggleston Collection

A sculpture by Ruth Asawa, called Untitled (S.175, Hanging Single-Lobed, Four-Layer Continuous Form within a Form), dated c. 1992.

Ruth Asawa with hanging wire sculpture, 1951. Photo © Imogen Cunningham Trust

The Ruth Asawa Collection honors the work and legacy of the American artist, educator, and arts advocate. These three meticulously designed volumes trace her extensive body of work—from her iconic wire sculptures to her works on paper—while situating her within postwar American art and highlighting her lifelong commitment to bringing art into the everyday.

 brings together a broad selection of her sculptures, works on paper, and more, demonstrating the centrality of Asawa’s innovative practice to the art-historical legacy of the twentieth century.

Revealing rarely seen work alongside her iconic looped-wire sculptures, 

 celebrates Asawa’s unique vision and intimate subject matter. The catalogue is a document of the breathtaking and surprising eponymous exhibition organized by Helen Molesworth.

 is a welcome reminder to find inspiration in the everyday object. The delicate works featured in the artist’s first Artist Journal beckon the inner artist to carve out time to look and create.

Ruth Asawa Collection

A gelatin silver print by Diane Arbus, titled Triplets in their bedroom, N.J. 1963, dated 1963.

This two-volume collection offers an unparalleled view of Diane Arbus, one of the most original and significant artists of the twentieth century. Together, the books examine her groundbreaking portraits across the breadth of humanity, underscoring the depth, rigor, and complexity of her vision alongside the rich archive of critical conversations it sparked.

 brings together forty-four photographs made in private places across New York, New Jersey, California, and London between 1961 and 1971, demonstrating the artist’s singular ability to enter private worlds.

 offers an assemblage of articles, criticism, and essays from 1967 to the present, charting the reception of the photographer’s work and providing comprehensive insight into the critical conversations, as well as misconceptions, around this highly influential artist.

Diane Arbus Collection

ekphrasis

The ekphrasis Collection (31 books), David Zwirner Books

 series, updated to included the recently published 

, is available now as a bundle of our 31 in-print titles. The 

 series is dedicated to publishing rare, out-of-print, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. It is part of David Zwirner Books’s ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.

The ekphrasis Collection (31 books)

Discover the incandescent work of American abstract artist Joan Mitchell with this book bundle, featuring in-depth explorations of her bold paintings and lyrical compositions.

 focuses on the years 1979 to 1985—a significant and deeply generative period within Mitchell’s decades-long career.



Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me

 spotlights Mitchell’s large-scale multipanel works from the 1960s through the 1990s.

Joan Mitchell Collection

A portrait of Gerhard Richter by Werner Bartsch.

Photograph of Gerhard Richter collection books, published by David Zwirner Books

The Gerhard Richter Collection offers an in-depth look at recent work by one of the world’s most influential artists. Spanning painting, abstraction, and image-based experimentation, these titles celebrate Richter’s ongoing innovation and his mastery of complex, often highly technical processes. Together they provide a compelling portrait of an artist whose practice remains as rigorous, exploratory, and boundary-defying today as ever.

presents a suite of works on paper from 2023 that encapsulates and refines the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter’s artistic journey. Reproduced at actual size, the drawings encourage in-depth observation and inspire a compelling reimagining of abstraction.

 explores abstraction and chance in art and writing. An artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.

presents Richter’s last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sculpture.

Gerhard Richter Collection, David Zwirner Books

Gerhard Richter Collection

Portraits. Luc Tuymans

Elaine Scarry

Acclaimed theorist and scholar Elaine Scarry uncovers profound connections between color and our intuitions about mind, spirit, and the immortal through readings of works by Proust, Woolf, and Murasaki, offering fresh insights into the interplay between language and the mysterious image-making power of the mind.

How do writers summon color into being—not only in the worlds they depict, but in the minds of their readers? Unlike the visual arts, literature has no physical medium; its images instead emerge on the reader’s mental retina. In this new commission from David Zwirner Books, Elaine Scarry blends literary analysis with contemporary neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and philosophy to investigate this phenomenon of imagining color.

Through close readings of texts by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Lady Murasaki, and the medieval Pearl poet, Scarry explores how the brain conjures hues and sensations without the eye encountering actual pigment or light. Drawing from classic experiments on imagination, Scarry reveals the surprising ways literature triggers quasi-physical responses, as words transform into vivid, sensorial experiences.

 series’ exploration of how language gives form to visual experience, showing that literary description can summon colors and images in the mind’s eye.

Imagining Color: Elaine Scarry, front cover

Imagining Color

A painting by Joe Bradley, titled Van Dongen, 2020 to 2022.

Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

Amy Sillman

Text by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith. Conversation between Joe Bradley and Amy Sillman.

Joe Bradley’s colorful and dynamic paintings invite viewers to consider the interplay between the deliberate and spontaneous, and the abstract and figurative



American artist Joe Bradley is widely recognized for his expansive visual practice that encompasses painting as well as sculpture and drawing. Over the past twenty years, Bradley has continually reinvented his approach to art, creating a distinctive body of work that has ranged from modular, minimalist-style paintings and sculptures to rough-hewn, heavily worked surfaces featuring pictographic and abstract elements, to refined and layered compositions that, as critic Roberta Smith notes, “balance gracefully between representation and abstraction.”



 presents work from two celebrated exhibitions at David Zwirner, in New York and London in 2024 and 2025. Bradley worked on the paintings in these two groups simultaneously, and their mutual influence is perceptible in the presence of shared or repeated colors, forms, and shapes. These paintings suggest a new turn in the artist’s practice, as figurative elements emerge as central compositional structures. Accompanying works on paper further illuminate Bradley’s multidimensional practice. An essay by art critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith situates this series within the artist’s larger oeuvre, discussing Bradley’s evolution in art-historical and formal terms. In a conversation, Bradley and fellow artist Amy Sillman explore the role of humor in art––and the influence of comics in Bradley’s work––and discuss their relationships to art history, the embodied act of painting, and the catalysts that spur their production.

Joe Bradley: Vom Abend/Animal Family

Sarah Roberts

Saul Nelson

John Ashbery

Pierre Schneider

Introduction by Sarah Roberts. Texts by Sarah Roberts, Saul Nelson, John Ashbery, and Pierre Schneider.

Dedicated to Joan Mitchell’s remarkable paintings from 1960 to 1965, this richly produced catalogue illuminates a pivotal chapter in the internationally acclaimed artist’s career.



After settling permanently in France in 1959, the American painter Joan Mitchell embarked on a period of radical experimentation that diverged dramatically from her earlier work, replacing structured compositional frameworks with more untamed, atmospheric forms. She began spending long stretches living on a sailboat along the Côte d’Azur, absorbing the effects of the shifting light, water, and rugged coastlines of the Mediterranean. Back in her Paris studio, these experiences gave rise to daring and moody canvases that engaged with landscape more directly and visibly than she ever had before.

Characterized by dense, central currents of deep greens and blues that veil luminous colors beneath, the paintings of this period pulse with turbulence and lyricism. The poet John Ashbery described them as “an unhurried meditation on bits of landscape and air,” capturing Mitchell’s ability to translate sensation and memory into paint. This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition 

To define a feeling: Joan Mitchell, 1960–1965

 at David Zwirner, New York, explores how these works advanced her approach to structure and color while engaging the enduring themes that define her oeuvre.

The volume features an introduction and an essay by the exhibition’s curator, Sarah Roberts, a text by Saul Nelson on the relationship of critic Clement Greenberg's criticism to Mitchell's work, and exhibition reviews from the 1960s by Ashbery and Pierre Schneider, offering rich historical context for this transformative moment in the artist’s career.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Anahid Nersessian

By R. Buckminster Fuller. Introduction by Anahid Nersessian.

by R. Buckminster Fuller is a profound and visionary exploration of how humanity can think, design, and act more intelligently in service of the whole planet.



In this concise yet powerful work, Buckminster Fuller—renowned inventor, futurist, and creator of the geodesic dome—contends that intuition is not the opposite of logic, but rather its highest expression. Drawing on decades of experience as a systems thinker, Fuller examines how intuitive insight allows humans to grasp complex, interconnected realities that linear thinking alone cannot fully explain.

Named for Fuller’s sailboat and written in 1968, 

 takes the form of a book-length poem—now brought back into print as part of David Zwirner Books’s beloved 

 series. The text is a uniquely metaphysical addition to Fuller’s oeuvre, presenting a new side to the prolific theorist. An introduction by literary scholar Anahid Nersessian explores the text from a poetics perspective, drawing out the effects of the verse.

This book is both a meditation and a call to action, inviting readers to trust deeper patterns of understanding while remaining rigorously engaged with evidence and reason; this deeply humanist vision is especially urgent in contemporary times. Essential reading for architects, designers, thinkers, and anyone interested in sustainability, systems theory, or visionary thought, Intuition offers timeless insight into how humans can do “more with less” and navigate an increasingly complex world.

As part of the 

 continues the exploration of how language and form can render complex, abstract ideas vividly in the mind, bridging thought and perception in the same spirit that the series brings visual and literary experience into dialogue.

Intuition: R. Buckminster Fuller, front cover

Intuition

A painting by Michael Armitage, titled Enasoit, dated 2019.

Portrait of Michael Armitage, 2021. Photo by Tom Jamieson

Marina Warner

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

Warsan Shire

Texts by Marina Warner and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Poetry by Warsan Shire.

Highlighting powerful new paintings and sculptures by Michael Armitage, this catalogue showcases the artist’s poignant, timely, and profoundly humanistic works.



Kenyan British artist Michael Armitage’s work weaves real and imagined histories into powerful reflections on contemporary social and political life. 

 presents a selection of recent works exploring journeys across borders and the broader experience of displacement. Many of the artist’s paintings on Lubugo bark cloth—a traditional Ugandan textile used in funerary rituals, which he has employed for more than a decade—depict scenes from a migration route stretching from the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea toward Europe. These works, both intimate and epic, consider migration not only as movement across geography but as a condition that shapes identity, memory, and belonging.

The volume also features a series of bronze-relief sculptures inspired by the Stations of the Cross, reimagined to center migrants and the displaced—figures often marginalized within contemporary society—within a shared cultural and spiritual narrative. Armitage’s direct, emotionally charged imagery invites viewers to reflect on how migrants are seen, represented, and understood today.

Published to accompany the exhibition at David Zwirner New York, the catalogue includes an essay by Marina Warner on the role of myth in Armitage’s depictions of arduous journeys, and a text by geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro examining global and local patterns of migration. Two poems by Warsan Shire, including a newly commissioned work, offer lyrical responses to the themes of the artist’s practice.

Michael Armitage: Crucible

Contributions by Frances Morris, Katharine Stout, and Jennifer Higgie 

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from February 28 to April 19, 2026, this book brings together leading authorities on Rose Wylie's work and many of her distinct images.

Rose Wylie OBE RA lives and works in Kent. She paints from memory, frequently taking her imagery from mass media. Her large works on unstretched, unprimed canvas appear simple at first glance, but close inspection reveals them to be subtle meditations on the nature of visual representation. She regularly brings together apparently disparate images, creating visual rhymes and resonances that coalesce into unified compositions.

This new book, the catalogue of a large-scale exhibition at the Royal Academy, brings together leading authorities on Wylie’s work and a host of her unmistakable imagery.

Rose Wylie

t presents the nonconformist and fascinating work of the British artist Rose Wylie. She has won global recognition with her unique artistic practice and wide range of themes. Wylie’s large-format paintings are a mixture of figurative representation, abstraction and stories in pictures. Expressive, direct and filled with subversive humour, they bear witness to the artist’s engagement with pop culture, literature, history, and personal experiences. Wylie’s artistic language is deliberately simple, and recalls the aesthetic of Bad Painting and Post-Pop.

With works from the last thirty years, the book provides an insight into the untamed oeuvre of an artist who overcomes conventional boundaries and occupies a unique place in the contemporary art scene. Individual works are also being painted specially for the exhibition in Bern, and shown to the public for the first time, just as Juergen Teller’s photographs, in their inimitable way, introduce us to the artists’ world in her different way.

Rose Wylie: Flick and Float

Yu Nishimura. Photo by Takashi Homma for MARFA

Contributions by Alexis Vaillant and Fabrice Hergott. Conversation between the artist and Jonas Wood

The eponymous monograph of Japanese artist Yu Nishimura is the first English-language publication to survey the artist’s works from 2016 to 2024, featuring his lucid figuration to scenic landscapes



The book includes Nishimura’s own photographs which inspired his paintings, two texts by the writers Alexis Vaillant and Fabrice Hergott and a conversation with the artist Jonas Wood.

Yu Nishimura

The first R. Crumb comic book in 23 years! 

The seminal cartoonist who single-handedly invented the alternative comics format of the one-person anthology in 1967 with 

 returns at age 81, still raging at the world and himself, still drawing like a master, and still funny... mostly. In his latest comics excursion, Crumb dives down internet and newspaper rabbit-holes, and comes up asking questions. Why don't we know the real background of deep state careerists? And is Crumb himself just as paranoid as everyone else tells him he is? Or is that just what THEY want you to think?

Mixing memoir, essay, polemic, neurosis, and conspiracy across 12 short comics—including the final "Dirty Laundry" story, drawn by Crumb with a script written with Aline Kominsky-Crumb before her death in 2022— 

 shows there's still plenty of life in both the artist and the classic underground comics format.

R. Crumb: Tales of Paranoia

Portrait of Chris Ofili, 2017. Photo by Carlos Arias

Each card in this 54-card deck designed by Chris Ofili features a different woman, man or flower from the artist’s Afro Muse series, a body of work exhibited by the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2005.

Although reminiscent of someone, somewhere at some moment in time, these intimate watercolour images are figurative expressions rather than portraits of individuals. Like the characters that populate Ofili’s larger paintings, they derive from impressions and references from everyday life, memory and the history of art.

Chris Ofili: Afro Muses Playing Cards

is an artist catalogue published with Christopher Williams on the occasion of his 2025 exhibition at The Perimeter.

The catalogue was designed by Petra Hollenbach and Christopher Williams, and features a selection of the artist's images and a critical essay, 'Model Models,' by art historian Stephanie Schwartz. 

Christopher Williams: Photographs

This six-panel cotton hat features a custom embroidered design by R. Crumb for the Los Angeles gallery location of David Zwirner. 

David Zwirner Los Angeles Hat

An installation view of the exhibition, Suzan Frecon: recent paintings, oil and water, at David Zwirner in London, dated 2022.

Marcella Durand

 pairs poems by Marcella Durand with reproductions of paintings on paper by Suzan Frecon. The book marks the first collaboration between Frecon and Durand, who are mother and daughter, and a continuing connection to France, as Durand is a dual citizen and translator. A selection of Frecon’s works on paper featured in the publication will be included as part of the 2025 exhibition 

 in the David Zwirner Gallery in Paris. These “brushwork” pieces include small-scale experiments by Frecon with brush strokes and haematite pigments. 

Suzan Frecon: The Light Factory

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