Art Books at the 2025 Book Fair

Art Books at the 2025 Book Fair: Prices, Featured Titles, and Rarities

Not everything is literature at La Rural; the exhibition brings together art books for all tastes.
From photography and design to poetry by visual artists.
With map in hand, you'll find unique titles with prices ranging from $30,000 to $300,000.
At the Book Fair, there are books of all kinds. You can find a variety of titles on poetry, literature, short stories, novels, essays, fiction, non-fiction, manga, and comics. There are also books on journalism, psychology, history, education, and self-help, among other genres. But what about art books? Where are they and what are their prices?
Clarín toured the Fair and found a wide variety of publications addressing artistic expressions of all kinds: visual arts, sculptures, paintings, design, photography books, and poetry books written by artists, painters, sculptors, and other art figures. There are national and imported books.

Upon entering the Fair through the main entrance (on Plaza Italia), we can find several interesting national works at the Pride and Prejudice stand (Stand 3116, Ochre Pavilion). There's A Body Inside Me, by Federica Baeza, former director of the Palais de Glace, published by Editorial Mansalva. A book that's “queer, political, transvestite, powerful, naughty, gay, identity-based, sensitive, bold, and necessary,” according to the definition of Visual Arts graduate, teacher, and writer Merie Gouiric.
“Federica Baeza improves everything she touches, and this book, and its stories, are proof of that. She improves the night and the dawn, she improves a first time, she improves an encounter, she improves a voice, and she improves fear. She improves a childhood memory, a light coming through the window, the glitter on a lover's face, and the gesture of brushing a wig in the air,” she summarizes on the back cover. The price? $23,800.

At the same booth, you can also purchase Feminism and Latin American Art: Stories of Artists Who Emancipated Their Bodies, by the prestigious art historian, researcher, and curator Andrea Giunta, published by Siglo XXI Editores.

Her work presents a theoretical and quantitative overview of the female scene in the visual arts and focuses on the work of artists who contributed to building an emancipatory imagination in Latin America. It explores the careers of Colombian Clemencia Lucena, Argentine María Luisa Bemberg, the photography of Narcisa Hirsch, the formation of artistic feminism in Mexico, and the work of Nelbia Romero and Paz Errázuriz in the dictatorial contexts of Uruguay and Chile as milestones in this history.

Giunta also explores new themes such as motherhood, harassment, prostitution, divergent bodies, and new forms of representation that challenge not only the differences between feminist and feminine art, but also the power relations embedded in ways of seeing and showing. It also addresses invisibility and the various forms of violence perpetrated against women, among other topics. Feminism and Latin American Art costs $29,990.
Control or No Control (Mansalva) is another of the texts highlighted in Pride and Prejudice. These poems are written by the Argentine artist, visual artist, writer, and curator Fernanda Laguna, dedicated to the world of feminism and art. Highlights include "The Housewife's Poem" and "To My Feminine Pad." The book costs $23,800.
Imported art books

Without a doubt, La Paragráfica is the best place. Booth 310 (Blue Pavilion) features more than 2,500 titles of all kinds: visual arts, sculpture, editorial design, textile design, graphic design, retail design, fashion, and photography, among others. There are educational books and more technical ones based on these disciplines.

With more than 45 years at the Fair, La Paragráfica is a beacon of art books, selling and exhibiting imported art books across the board.

Regarding photography, there are books by exceptional photographers such as Sebastiao Salgado, Helmut Newton, Josef Kudelka, Paul Strand, and Walker Evans. According to experts, they are classified as "gems" of the seventh art. These copies are difficult to find in Argentina.
Of course, in the visual arts, there are copies chronicling the works of Mark Rothko, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and others dedicated to the artistic career of Belgian painter Pieter Brueghel or Italian Amedeo Modigliani. There's also no shortage of books on Expressionism and world-famous artists like Goya, Picasso, Albrecht Dürer, Anselm Kiefer, and Van Gogh.

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