The Season's Outstanding Art Books By turns awkward and graceful, these images dodge nostalgia but not the aching pleasure found in, among other things, the clotted light of a bunch of buttercups. -ArtForum The comprehensive book is special because it includes many color reproductions of paintings otherwise seen only in black-and-white (and small) in the artist's catalogue raisonné from 2001. -HyperAllergic.com The spare elegance of the realist Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) never gets old. A monograph on the artist and his work, recently published by Rizzoli, provides an intense exploration of the intriguing and complex life of this important painter. - Art of the Times Skryť popis