Encompassing everything created by Jim Houser since the release of his last monograph (Babel, 2004), Search Party expands the evocative vocabulary of this prolific artist. Hundreds of images depicting paintings, sculptures, Houser's well-loved gallery installations and documentary photographs of works-in-progress fill this book with color, texture and language. Ambitious exhibitions from New York, Paris, Milan and Los Angeles staged from 2004 - 2012 are featured. Houser writes that his work over the past decade "is just a continuing examination of myself, and of my fears and flaws and the struggle to catalog them. I've been through a lot since the last book came out. I lost a wife, I fell in love, I had a son. The journey is all in the work." Words and languages, visual and otherwise, bring his moving work into a realm at once inviting, poetic and universal.