160 pages on the horse as a subject in Western art over the last 260 years: George Stubbs through Rosa Bonheur to Rose English's feminist performances. Curator Chiedza Mhondoro on what each artist saw in the same animal. Tate Publishing.

Lives on the bookshelf and gets pulled out for the color plates. The book is short enough to read in one sitting, dense enough to come back to.

A gift for the rider. The friend who keeps a horse upstate. The art history major who became a vet. A bridal shower for the bride whose mother taught her to ride.

Chiedza Mhondoro is a curator at Tate. The book is part of Tate's series of single-subject art surveys.