800 years of cave paintings, from the C2nd BC to the C6th CE: a revised edition with digitally restored images, and a new introduction by Dalrymple who has been researching the history of Bu... read more
The celebrated writer and artist looks at a rather forgotten friend of Rubens whose mysterious paintings - with their particular interest in the relationship between nature and people - grea... read more
By extraordinary chance, the author discovered an address book in the inner pocket of a vintage diary dating back to 1951. It disclosed an amazing list of luminaries from the European avant-... read more
Three decades of the Slovak artist's work, from the 1960s to the 1980s: abstract sculptures in cast plaster, aluminium, wood and stone that use organic forms to explore contrasts - fragile a... read more
A riotous memoir of attempting to mount a Bacon exhibition in the last days of the USSR; apparatchiks, honey-traps, the KGB - has the author's liver ever recovered?
"The story of C20th Britain, viewed through the lens of the artists' lives": this is less art history and more an artists' history. A wide-ranging, detailed, sympathetic account, with some p... read more
Illustrated with 300 paintings from the State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow and the Albertinum of the State Art Collections Dresden, this is a fine book on the C19th artists who dreamed of freedo... read more