Romas Viesulas
Romas Viesulas is art and architecture editor at Five Books.
Interviews with Romas Viesulas
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Art Work: On the Creative Life
by Sally Mann -

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Knife Woman: the Life of Louise Bourgeois
by Marie-Laure Bernadac -

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Art in a State of Siege
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Sight Lines: Women and Art in Aotearoa
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Nigerian Modernism
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The Joinery Compendium: Learning from Traditional Woodworking
by Daniel Pauli & Sascha Bauer
Beautiful Books of 2025, recommended by Romas Viesulas
Beautiful Books of 2025, recommended by Romas Viesulas
The art of bookmaking is alive and well. Which art, architecture, design and photography books have we added to our library in 2025? Romas Viesulas, art & architecture editor at Five Books, takes us through his personal choice of beautiful reference books to add visual and conceptual interest to any well-appointed bookshelf.
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Great Women Painters
introduced by Alison M Gingeras -

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Point Break: Surfers and Waves
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Making Videogames: The Art of Creating Digital Worlds
by Alex Wiltshire & Duncan Harris -

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Building for Change: The Architecture of Creative Reuse
by Ruth Lang -

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Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978–2015
edited by Joshua Chuang
The Best Art & Design Books of 2022, recommended by Romas Viesulas
The Best Art & Design Books of 2022, recommended by Romas Viesulas
Art shows were back in full force this year after several years of discontinuous viewing. Publishing kept pace, with many a new beautiful volume and rafts of revisionist art history to delve into. Here, Five Books art editor Romas Viesulas offers an overview of the best art and design books of 2022.
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The Sleeve Should Be Illegal: & Other Reflections on Art at the Frick
by Adam Gopnik, Ian Wardropper & Michaelyn Mitchell -

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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits
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Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing Without Depletion
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What Artists Wear
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Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900–1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
by Sarah Hermanson Meister
The Best Art Books of 2021, recommended by Romas Viesulas
The Best Art Books of 2021, recommended by Romas Viesulas
Which art, architecture, design and photography books have we added to our library in 2021? Romas Viesulas, art & architecture editor at Five Books, takes us through his personal choice of beautiful reference books to add visual and conceptual interest to any well-appointed bookshelf.
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Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
by Aby Warburg, edited by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil -

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night
by Andrea Schlieker, Elizabeth Alexander, Isabella Maidment & Lynette Yiadom-Boakye -

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Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch
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Albers & Albers
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Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide
by Mohamed Elshahed
The Best Art Books of 2020, recommended by Romas Viesulas
The Best Art Books of 2020, recommended by Romas Viesulas
Which art, architecture and photography books have we added to our library in 2020? Romas Viesulas, art & architecture editor at Five Books, takes us through his personal choice of beautiful reference books and biographies to add visual and conceptual interest to any well-appointed bookshelf.




















