No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists
Hundreds of artists, including Edward Ruscha, Matthew Barney, and Pipilotti Rist, showcase frank, funny answers to the question "What was your first work of art?" (Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.)
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
An accompaniment to the 2008 MoMA exhibition of the same name, the tome addresses the critical impact of premixed off-the-shelf pigments on artwork over the past 60 years. Includes 230 illustrations, with works by Ellsworth Kelly, Gerhard Richter, and Sherrie Levine. (The Museum of Modern Art)
This collection of 200 of the most gripping works by paradoxical Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte is presented in a hardbound slipcase. (Assouline)
In this illustrated memoir, the son of Milanese artist Piero Fornasetti converses with Starck about the countless contributions to, and influences on, 20th-century art and furniture design made by the visionary painter-sculptor-decorator. (Assouline)
British landscape painter William Turner was admired for his masterful rendering of natural light. This paperback studies the artist’s entire body of work, from early Romantic watercolors to shimmering Impressionistic oils. (Taschen)
Damien Hirst: Requiem I
In addition to images of the Turner prize-winning Brit’s pieces from last year’s Pinchuk Art Centre exhibition in Kiev, Ukraine, the book includes photos of his early ’90s sculptures and recent never-before-seen skull paintings. (Other Criteria)
Georges Seurat: The Drawings
This survey of the French artist's career illustrates how his romantic early works on paper begat his creation of Pointillism―and the colossal canvases for which he is most revered, including A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and Bathers at Asnières. (The Museum of Modern Art) 
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