Six New Art and Culture Books for Christmas 2021

A roundup of six recently published books covering art, architecture, photography, fiction, and AI. George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is reissued with illustrations by Quentin Gréban (Rizzoli, €25). Alberto Gennari's 'Innovation Rhapsody' (Libri Scheiwiller, €24.90) applies musical metaphors to business organization. Dino Fracchia's 'In piazza. Rabbia e passione' (Interno4, €19) collects a century of protest photographs from the 1970s to Fridays For Future, with texts by Vittorio Agnoletto, Sandrone Dazieri, and Erri De Luca. Giusi Ciotoli and Marco Falsetti's 'Kenzo Tange. Gli anni della rivoluzione formale 1940_1970' (Franco Angeli, €35) examines the Japanese architect's megastructural projects, including the Hiroshima Peace Center and Tokyo Bay Plan. Oek De Jong's thriller 'Il capanno nero' (Neri Pozza, €22) follows a painter whose retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum triggers memories of a childhood crime. Rebecca Pedrazzi's 'Futuri possibili. Scenari d’arte e Intelligenza Artificiale' (Jaca Book, €45) explores AI's role in art through interviews with artists Mario Klingemann and Mike Tyka, researcher Julia Betancour, and entrepreneur Andrea Concas.