Looking for a gift or someone who might judge a book by its cover … design? This gift list, sure to please the aesthete in your life, includes: vibrant histories of red, green, blue, black, and yellow; quotes, and notes, from Basquiat and Ai Weiwei; Anni Albers on weaving; Alice in Wonderland, with illustrations by Salvador Dalí; Emmet Gowin’s evocative aerial photographs of the Nevada Test Site; a lively survey of political protest art; a stunningly illustrated cultural history of the connection between mathematics and visual art; and a foray into the life and work of the enigmatic American artist Bill Traylor, the subject of a recent Smithsonian retrospective.
![Red](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Red.jpg?itok=HaQS8yE9)
Red: The History of a Color
![Green](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Green.jpg?itok=nwSmmbbf)
Green: The History of a Color
![Yellow](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Yellow.jpg?itok=SkgzC4j3)
Yellow: The History of a Color
![Blue](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Blue.jpg?itok=CF_KgIsx)
Blue: The History of a Color
![Black](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Black.jpg?itok=HGc-kh2k)
Black: The History of a Color
![Humanity](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Humanity.jpg?itok=mlHjcKvS)
Humanity
![Weiwei-isms](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Weiwei-isms.jpg?itok=gWkb7MKQ)
Weiwei-isms
![Basquiat-isms](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Basquiat-isms.jpg?itok=YBifMnmW)
Basquiat-isms
![The Notebooks](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/The%20Notebooks.jpg?itok=nxlQhiJX)
The Notebooks
![On Weaving](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/On%20Weaving.jpg?itok=D0KAdIlB)
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition
![Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Alice%27s%20Adventures%20in%20Wonderland.jpg?itok=-XbAJrkS)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition
![Nevada Test Site](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Nevada%20Test%20Site.jpg?itok=gnB3Otsn)
Nevada Test Site
![Protest!](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Protest%21.jpg?itok=BOPFV3qG)
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
![Mathematics and Art](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Mathematics%20and%20Art_0.jpg?itok=pL6GvcLe)
Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History
![Between Worlds](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/image/2019-12/Between%20Worlds.jpg?itok=AXExWF2Q)