Electrifying memoir by a former art dealer about his erstwhile friend Inigo Philbrick who, having cut his teeth at White Cube, went on to make millions but came a cropper. He was extradited ... read more
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.
A celebration of the work of this wonderfully inventive artist, famed for his joy in the domestic and the natural: collages, textile designs, linocuts, wallpapers, sculptures and much else ... read more
The first book on Hepworth's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. Smartly produced without a dustjacket, just clean-cut boards, for an exhibition at Piano Nobile.
The outstanding biography of the revered artist, film maker, gardener, diarist, gay rights campaigner and general scourge of bigotry was first published in 1991. This illustrated new edition... read more
A beautifully-produced 'artist's book', with many illustrations, tipped-in drawings and transparent interleaving. Developed from the artist's eponymous film first shown at the 2024 Vencie Bi... read more
Ravishing woodcuts of traditional Japanese falconry, first published in1863. The notes and poems that accompany each plate are translated into English for the first time.
A slightly more accessible format (in terms of both price and heft) of the immense Taschen volume of 2019. Still generously large format, with fabulous photographs.
The Swiss-French painter was also a prolific illustrator, reviving the art of the woodcut in the late C19th. Some 250 of his woodcuts for books and periodicals are included in this handsome ... read more
Vibrant, vital works by a hundred leading artists of African diasporic, Latin American and Native American identity explore the complex connectivity of race, the climate crisis and coloniali... read more
Wyndham Lewis, Henri Gaudier et al who burst onto the art scene in the early C20th - and what happened to them. Many illustrations. By the author of Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator.
A dual-biography that shows the similarities between the passionate siblings as well as their differing ways of being in the world. Mackrell, the well-known dance critic, is also the author ... read more
A fascinating study of art and national identity which considers the influence of foreign artists such as Holbein and Gentileschi, and foreign influences in the work of Hogarth, Kauffman and... read more
A particularly Japanese sense of the transient is celebrated in these C14th wood carvings, woodcut depictions of water and butterfly dances, tea ceramics, lacquerware and contemporary pieces... read more
The title sweeps together the disparate but connected groups of artists (writers, photographers, poets, composers and architects as well as painters) working in Sussex in the first half of t... read more
Lee Miller met Roland Penrose in Paris in 1937 on her return from a period of living in Cairo. This is a facsimile of their photograph album of that summer - spent with several friends inclu... read more
This glorious book contains reproductions of 95 gouaches that belonged to an C18th Swedish vice-admiral. The images are exquisite and romantic; the accompanying text is informative and light... read more
The catalogue for the spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery is in itself a gorgeous thing, with excellent reproductions of gilded and painted panels, many of them of a scale intende... read more
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