From the publisher: Mad about Painting collects beautifulness translations of Hokusai’s painting tutorials and related essays by the artist and his peers - a selection made available in English for the first time.

Oh, to Be a Painter! This collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.

Letters to a Young Painter Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overlooked.

The Davin Zwirner ekphrasis series is dedicated to publishing rare, out-of-print, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. It is part of David Zwirner Books’s ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.

Dimensions: 4.25 by 7 in

These are pocket sized softcover books