An ingenious and stimulating global account of symbols, their history and continuing power in modern life. Divided into sections on power, faith, uncertainty and hope.
Why was Cezanne revered by Rilke and Beckett, Picasso and Matisse? And does that early modernity speak to us now? An illustrated, ravishing study of Cezanne's uneasy art by the great emeritu... read more
LCW's 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists - Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedri... read more
Looks at the ways in which artists have perceived, illustrated and used light since the C18th – Turner, Monet, James Turrell, Olafur Elliasson, Tacita Dean, etc.
Looks at Jane's contribution too in this extraordinary personal and creative partnership. SFC's earlier book To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters was excellent.
Rewarding as a study on Bacon - it gets closer to understanding his enigma than anything has since - this memoir is also a tribute to Sylvester's clarity and verve. A re-issue, this was firs... read more
To work with oil paint on copper was typical for Rembrandt and early Dutch flower painters, but not for a C20th painter. Freud produced just over a dozen such works in the 50s and this volum... read more
TG has several London exhibitions coming up: designing the Serpentine Pavilion in 2022; a community project with the V&A; and this is the catalogue for his autumn exhibition at the Whitechap... read more
The first monograph in English on Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), one of the great Spanish sculptors in polychromed wood in the C17th, which places her in the broader context of the Spanish Baroq... read more
The 'secret' refers to how obscure she was until very recently. Published alongside a new show at her eponymous foundation in Sweden, this rides in the wake of the Guggenheim's 2019 exhibiti... read more