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The Sampans from Canton: F H af Chapman’s Chinese Gouaches ...

Kurt Almqvist

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The author's uncle is the subject here, a working-class man whose interior life was a mystery to those around him until he shared a vast cache of paintings with his family. Full of humanity ... read more

The Secret Painter

Joe Tucker

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Another in Thames & Hudson's charming quarter-bound series; others include Beardsley, Ravilious, Constable's skies, etc. Well illustrated.

Vanessa Bell: Modern Living

Rosalind McKever

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The author of the magnificent Leviathan: or The Whale, turns his attention to Blake and his legacies, via Paul Nash, Derek Jarman, and creatures from the natural and metaphysical world.

William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love: How one visionary inspired ...

Philip Hoare

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Argues for the importance of aesthetic pleasure in contemporary art, for a sensibility ‘that is literary, flees the stereotype and rejects sociopolitical verbiage.’ The pair behind the b... read more

Beauty: In Some Recent Art

Michael Bracewell

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Catalogue to the exhibition at the Mus?e d'Orsay and the Getty of Caillebotte's depictions of late c19th masculinity.

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men

Scott Allan

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Accompanies the Tate exhibition on this British surrealist painter, writer and occultist.

Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

Katy Norris

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A smart exhibition catalogue from the Met.

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

Alison Hokanson

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The first comprehensive catalogue of Freud's oil paintings covers over 500 works, almost all of which are reproduced in colour, with excellent notes. 4 vols in a slipcase.

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings ...

Catherine Lampert

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The sequel to Bacon in Moscow is not, regrettably, Sausages in St Petersburg, but something perhaps just as barmy... another jaunty tale from the art dealer's adventures beyond the Iron Curt... read more

Gilbert & George and the Communists

James Birch

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Gorky arrived in New York in 1924, fleeing the Armenian genocide. This is a nicely illustrated collection of essays from writers and artists, including the painter Allison Katz, on ideas of ... read more

Arshile Gorky: New York City

Ben Easton

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Figure studies, architectural drawings, landscapes... all charting, in various styles, his development towards geometric abstraction. There's also a new Penguin Classics edition of his wonde... read more

Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks

Wassily Kandinsky

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Attractive catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the NPG looks at eighty examples, highlighting the bohemian circles Munch moved in.

Edvard Munch Portraits

Alison Smith

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An extraordinary monograph: over 300 works, with contributions from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hilton Als, Edmund de Waal and others, including Paul herself. To accompany an exhibition at Victoria... read more

Celia Paul: Works 1975-2025

Celia Paul

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The catalogue to his show at the Wallace Collection, a source of inspiration throughout his career.

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur

Grayson Perry

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On the eve of WWII, HB fled Germany for California; later he became an art-dealer in Paris. His own collection is astounding, and the subject of an important international travelling exhibi... read more

Picasso, Klee, Matisse, Giacometti: The Eye of Collector-Dealer Heinz ...

Olivier Berggruen

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Late C19th and early C20th painters who painted the north: Munch, Hilma af Klint, Sohlberg, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and many others. Gorgeous.

Northern Lights

Ulf Kuster

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Material culture of the domestic: paintings, ceramics, embroidery, furniture, decorative arts. Many illustrations.

The Scandinavian Home: Art and Identity, 1880-1920

Patricia G. Berman

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Essays on how art should/does engage in politics, and how the changing forms of our visual culture respond to capitalism. .

Those Passions: On Art and Politics

T. J. Clark

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Shows how the six women most associated with Picasso were far from passive or submissive 'muses' but were highly independent and talented in their own right.

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women who Loved Picasso ...

Sue Roe

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A handsome illustrated volume that looks at the relations Frick and his daughter had with European dealers and also with their decorators (such as Elsie de Wolfe).

The Fricks Collect: An American Family and the Evolution of Taste Duri ...

Ian Wardropper

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To celebrate the centenary of Ogdred Weary's birth: fifty envelopes addressed to his friend Fitzharris and a selection of his correspondence.

From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey ...

Edward Gorey

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A collection of night exposures - cyanotypes created with moonlight - that record the moon's billion-year gaze: the artist has used pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky writte... read more

Ala Ebtekar: Thirty-Six Views of the Moon

Ala Ebtekar

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This book of photographs is Dean's homage to Twombly, whom she has admired for decades. A signed edition.

Why Cy?

Tacita Dean

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Here are artichokes, sea holly, pelargoniums, cyclamen, columbines, astrantia, auriculas and many others. Beautifully illustrated by one of our finest printmakers; a companion to their Book ... read more

The Book of Garden Flowers

Angie Lewin

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Mazhar Ali Khan recorded the sprawling city's former glory in a dazzling 5-metre panorama, published in its entirety now for the first time. Two vols.

Delhi 360 Degrees | Shahjahanabad: Mapping the Panoramic Views of a Mu ...

Jerry Losty

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You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more

Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones

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Exquisite Corpses is the name of a game invented by André Breton and a few other Surrealists in the '20s. You might know it already; each player takes turns drawing or writing on a sheet of... read more

Exquisite Corpses

David Plante

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Comprising a selection of over 40 new works on paper (2023-2024), Triple Threat is the artist’s first exhibition to focus solely on drawing. As a collaboration between Critchlow and Als, T... read more

Somaya Critchlow: Triple Threat

Hilton Als

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Artists Series: Gwen John

Emma Chambers

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A much anticipated biography.

Giacometti in Paris

Michael Peppiatt

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Engaging, perceptive encounters with Freud, Bacon, Hockney, Tapies and others.

Artists’ Lives

Michael Peppiatt

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A survey of the pair's textiles, wall paintings, dance, architecture, jewellery, painting, photography, sculpture, etc - from their very first encounter to the collages and poetry Hans produ... read more

Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Friends, Lovers, Partners ...

Walburga Krupp

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Catalogue of the exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery, which is the largest survey of her work so far.

Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour

Fay Blanchard

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From the Musée d'Orsay, a richly illustrated book - plenty of reproductions and previously unpublished photographs - written by one of Caillebotte's descendants.

Gustave Caillebotte: Painting is a Serious Game

Amaury Chardeau

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The Russian painter seems to have drifted back into the limelight after a few unfashionable decades in the shadows. This is a fine monograph with a lively narrative; his life and work are di... read more

Chagall

Gisela Kirpicsenko

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