May 2025 Art Book Releases: From Maternity to Wojnarowicz

Artribune's May 2025 roundup features seven new publications spanning art history, criticism, and memoir. Santa Nastro's 'Mamme nell’arte' (Castelvecchi, €19.50) interviews women professionals on motherhood and creative work. 'Straniere in Italia' (Quodlibet, €25.00), edited by Alessandra Acocella, Luca Pietro Nicoletti, and Caterina Toschi, examines postwar Italian reception of African, Oceanic, and South American arts. 'L’arte addosso. Gioielli d’artista' (Emuse, €24.00), curated by Prashanth Cattaneo and Sabina Melesi, catalogs 208 artist jewelry pieces from Melesi's collection, shown at Genoa's Castello d’Albertis. 'Mina. La voce del silenzio' (Il Saggiatore, €29.00), edited by Giulia Muggeo, Gabriele Rigola, and Jacopo Tomatis, explores the pop icon's presence and absence with a preface by Ivano Fossati. Stefano Cagol's 'We Are the Flood' (Postmedia Books, €16.90) documents the MUSE – Museo delle Scienze di Trento's integration of contemporary art into environmental discourse. David Wojnarowicz's posthumous memoir 'Sul filo della lama' (Miraggi, €24.00), translated by Chiara Correndo with an afterword by Jonathan Bazzi, recounts his life as a gay HIV-positive artist in Reagan-era New York. 'Morandi e Fontana. Invisibile e Infinito' (Electa, €32.00), curated by Maria Cristina Bandera and Sergio Risaliti, pairs Giorgio Morandi and Lucio Fontana at CAMeC La Spezia, examining the invisible and infinite in their work.