New Art Books: From Suzanne Lacy to Gilles Deleuze

A roundup of recent art publications covers Suzanne Lacy's socially engaged practice, Adrian Paci's personal art history, Visible's socially engaged art project, Giuseppe Pietroniro's monograph, Mike Watson on memes and digital media, and Gilles Deleuze's lectures on painting. Pietro Gaglianò's 'L'emancipazione del mondo. Suzanne Lacy e la forma della comunità' (Kappabit, 2024) examines Lacy's community-based, anti-hierarchical approach. Adrian Paci's 'Le (mie) storie dell’arte' (Quodlibet, 2024) offers an intimate dialogue between art history and autobiography. 'Visible: Art as Policies for Care – Socially Engaged Art (2010–ongoing)' (NERO Editions, 2024), curated by Martina Angelotti, Matteo Lucchetti, and Judith Wielander, features over fifty artists and collectives, tracing fifteen years of the Visible project. 'Giuseppe Pietroniro' (Silvana Editoriale, 2024), edited by Giuliana Benassi with contributions from Francesco Stocchi, Manuel Orazi, Jelena Todorović, and Davide Ferri, explores space through a non-chronological, thematic structure. Mike Watson's 'I meme e Mark Fisher' (Meltemi, 2024) analyzes digital media's role during the pandemic, drawing on Mark Fisher's work and Frankfurt School theories. Gilles Deleuze's 'Sulla pittura' (Einaudi, 2024) collects eight lectures from March–June 1981 on painting, discussing Cézanne, Van Gogh, Turner, Klee, Pollock, Bacon, and Caravaggio.