Eric Fischl is usually pigeonholed as a painter of gin-soaked suburbia, but a new monograph shows how reductive that view really is. Eric Fischl 1970-2007 contains more than 250 of his works, including bronze sculptures, canvases inspired by trips to India, and revealing portraits of friends like Mike Nichols and Steve Martin, who wrote the book's afterword. That alone might justify the $85 price tag—in discussing a 1982 Fischl entitled Barbecue (from his private collection, of course), Martin subtly sends up just the sort of obtuse essays one usually finds in a book like this. He also reveals his picks for "the three finest female fantasy asses in all of art"—all by Canova, unfortunately, not Fischl.

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