{"id":2020873,"date":"2026-06-30T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020873"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:45:00","slug":"5-books-to-keep-your-brain-from-melting-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2020873","title":{"rendered":"5 Books to Keep Your Brain From Melting in July"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tDon\u2019t let the summer heat waves melt your brain entirely! We hope you can retreat to an air-conditioned library or a cool body of water somewhere. If you do, check out one of July\u2019s latest and greatest art books below.<\/p>\n
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Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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By Huey Copeland<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tTwenty years of essays and interviews by the art historian Huey Copeland make up this book. They tend to circle around one theme: Black mothers and masculinity. Considering how maternal figures and feminist thought influenced the work of artists like David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Arthur Jafa, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, and Sun Ra, and he interviews such venerable figures as Hilton Als, Thelma Golden, and Frank B. Wilderson, III.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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The Simp<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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By Roshan Sethi<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tIt\u2019s not every day that a job posting goes viral for being more emblematic of late capitalist hell than all the rest. But when artist Tom Sachs and former Gagosian director Sarah Hoover solicited someone to \u201cmake life easier for the couple in every way possible\u201d\u2014helping with everything from their \u201cdog systems\u201d to their \u201ccloset systems\u201d\u2014the satire all but wrote itself, betraying a tone-deafness stranger than fiction. With The Simp<\/em>, Roshan Sethi took the bait, and changed the details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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The Parisian Heist<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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By Jo Piazza<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tFew plot points are as irresistible as an art heist. The latest\u2014from the bestselling author of\u00a0The Sicilian Inheritance<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Everyone Is Lying<\/em>\u2014is set in Paris, perfect for those who, months ago, were glued to the daytime theft at Louvre. Piazza\u2019s tale stars the young widow Jo van Gogh, who inherited all the paintings by her brother-in-law, Vincent. Jo is the subject of another book out this autumn: The Widow Van Gogh <\/em>by Joan Martelli. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Ungrounding: the Architecture of Genocide<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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By Eyal Weizman<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tWeizman has authored no shortage of books espousing the philosophy\u2014and projects\u2014that make up Forensic Architecture. For this book\u2014his first with a trade press\u2014he returns to his roots: the Israeli architect\u2019s first major project involved studying how urban plans in Israel were designed to displace Palestinians, complicating access to water and roads. Since 2023, the group\u2019s efforts have focused on producing evidence for the International Court of Justice\u2019s case against Israel, research he details in this book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Yvonne Rainer: A Reader<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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By Yvonne Rainer et. al.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\tFew artists can claim clarity of thought like this avant-garde dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. This book collects a lifetime of her writings: artist statements and lectures, but also reviews, essays, and letters to the editor\u2014as well as key interviews with the likes of Lynne TIillman, Gregg Bordowitz, and Simone Forti.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/aia_books.jpg?w=1024″] Don\u2019t let the summer heat waves melt your brain entirely! We hope you can retreat to an air-conditioned library or a cool body of water somewhere. If you do, check out one of July\u2019s latest and greatest art books below. Touched by the Mother: Black Men, American Art, Feminist Horizons By Huey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2020873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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