Recommended Reading, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Contemporary American and European Art

	JOAN WATTS, Work by Joan Watts; Foreword by Louis Grachos; Essay by Lily Wei: First Light, the Paintings of Joan Watts. 292 pages, 130 color illustrations; this first printing of JOAN WATTS is limited to 1000 copies. Radius Books, Santa Fe, 2008. Joan Watts has been painting since the 1960s and has had numerous solo exhibitions around the country since her first show in 1968. This substantial new volume presents a comprehensive overview of Watts’ spare but deeply resonant paintings, made over the course of the last 60 years.
	ACTION/ABSTRACTION: POLLOCK, DE KOONING, AND AMERICAN ART, 1940-1976 Edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt, Yale University Press in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title, organized by The Jewish Museum, 2008. 166 color and 89 black-and-white illustrations, 332 pages. Drawing on recent critical, historical, and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a sharp new focus on a pivotal art movement. It also presents an extensive commentary on the two most influential critics of postwar American art—Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg—whose powerful views shaped perceptions of Abstract Expressionism and other contemporary art movements.
	JEFF KOONS, Edited by Francesco Bonami; Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2008. 4 black-and-white and 111 color illustrations, 136 pages. This book takes a fresh look at the rise and career of Jeff Koons, who is now arguably one of the world’s most famous artists. Koons collaborated extensively on this book, which accompanies the first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. in 16 years and offers a survey of nearly thirty years of his work, beginning with iconic sculptures from 1979 to new paintings completed in 2007.
	LET’S SEE: WRITINGS ON ART FROM THE NEW YORKER, By Peter Schjeldahl, Thames & Hudson, 2008 Schjeldahl has served as art critic for The New Yorker since 1998; this remarkable volume brings together for the first time seventy-five of his pieces, covering subjects drawn from a broad canvas of the history of art.
	COLOR CHART: REINVENTING COLOR, 1950 TO TODAY, Texts by Ann Temkin, Melissa Ho, & Nora Lawrence; color manual by Briony Fer. The Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 248 pages, 280 color illustrations. Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Published in conjunction with the MOMA exhibition and featuring work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.