Art History Book Gift Guide 2016

Taschen's Art for All: The Colour Woodcut in Vienna Around 1900 examines one of the most fertile scenes of mass-produced turn-of-the-century artistry this side of Japanese woodblock prints, and its wealth of material from the Vienna Secession will be welcomed by anyone who has run out of Klimt and Schiele books to buy. Comprehensive new single-artist tomes include the oversized Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Works (Taschen); Vermeer: The Complete Works (Silvana); Stuart Davis In Full Swing (Prestel); William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master (Yale); and Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia (Prestel). MoMA opens eyes with the scholarship-driven Picasso & Rivera: Conversations Across Time; and while the museum's big Robert Rauschenberg retrospective is still several months away, the catalog has arrived just in time for gift-giving. That's also the idea with a new, slipcased edition of E.H. Gombrich's The Story of Art, an evergreen introduction that has made art history accessible to generations of readers.