Selecting Art Books
Featuring publishers, best books lists & audiovisual material
Note to faculty: When you find a title you would like to order, please fill out the University Library's electronic acquisition form.
Trade & Scholarly Publishers
- Abbeville Press
- Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- Aperture Foundation - Books
- Continuum Books
- Fantagraphics Books
- Focal Press (Elsevier)
- Gibbs-Smith
- Gingko Press
- Graphis Press
- Greenwood Publishing Group
- Harry N. Abrams
- Hudson Hills Press
- I.B. Tauris
- Merrell Publishers
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Perseus Group Books - Browse by Subject
- Phaidon Press
- Prestel
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Random House
- Rizzoli Publications
- Skira Editore
- Taschen Books
- Thames & Hudson
- Wiley - Architecture & Design
- W.W. Norton - Architecture & Design Books.
University Presses & Museums
- Art Institute of Chicago - Publications
- Univ. of California Press - Art
- Cary Graphic Arts Press (Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Univ. of Chicago Press
- Harvard Univ. Press
- Univ. of Illinois Press
- J. Paul Getty Trust - Bookstore
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - Books
- MIT Press
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Publications
- Museum of Modern Art - MoMAstore
- National Gallery of Art - Gallery Shop
- National Museum of Women in the Arts - Publications
- National Portrait Gallery - Publications
- Univ. of Minnesota Press - Subjects
- Univ. of New Mexico Press
- Oxford Univ. Press - Art History
- Univ. of Pennsylvania Press - Art, Architecture & Garden History
- Penn State Univ. Press - Art and Art History
- Philadelphia Museum of Art - Museum Store - Publications
- Princeton Univ. Press - Browse Subjects
- Rutgers Univ. Press - Bookstore - Subject List
- Stanford Univ. Press - Browse by Subjects
- Tate Gallery - Books
- Yale Univ. Press - Browse Subjects.
"How To" Publishers
- A & C Black
- American Ceramic Society - Books Catalog
- Ceramic Review - Books
- Flower Valley Press
- How Design Bookstore
- Krause Publications
- Lark Books
- New Riders (Peachpit)
- North Light Books
- Overlook Press
- Peachpit Press - Bookstore
- Rockport Publishers
- RotoVision
- Running Press
- Watson-Guptill Publications (Amphoto Books, Back Stage Books, Billboard Books, Whitney Library of Design)
Audiovisual Material
- Crystal Myths, Inc.
- Crystal Productions
- Films for the Humanities & Sciences
- Home Vision Entertainment
- PBS - Shop PBS - Arts
- Teacher's Media Company - Arts
- Victorian Video Productions.
Book Dealers
- Artbook.com
- Alibris (used books)
Bestsellers & Best Books List
- Amazon.com - Best of 2003 (Amazon.com) - browse customers' and editors' picks for Arts & Photography books
- Best Books of the Year (New York Times) - free registration is required
Recent Acquisitions at UW-W Library
- To find new books purchased by the Art Dept. for our Library, go to the Dept. Acquisitions page, select the fiscal year and type of request (received, ordered or both).
Recent Acquisitions at Other Libraries
- New Books at the Fine Arts Library (Univ. of Michigan)
- New Acquisitions - Art & Architecture Library (Univ. of Manitoba)
Mega Lists of Publishers
- AcqWeb's Art & Architecture Publishers (Vanderbilt Univ. Library)
- AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers & Vendors (Vanderbilt Univ. Library)
- Member Companies (Association of American Publishers)
Library Contact Information
- University Library's Collection Development Policy (UW-W Library)
- Reference Service
- Reference Desk (262) 472-1032 - Reference email
- Carol Elsen, Art Dept. liaison (262) 472-5751 - Carol's email
Last Revised: cje - 1/17/2008


