Stunning monograph covering all 6 decades of Richter's career. AZ is a German art historian with books on Barnett Newman, Anselm Kiefer, Jackson Pollock et al.
This posthumous publication is based on the revisionist work Stamp did at the end of his life, arguing that interwar Britain was not just an era of intensifying modernism but saw an emergenc... read more
An unusual presentation of Monet's paintings alongside works painted at the same time, on adjacent easels, by friends such as Manet, Bazille and Renoir.
From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more
His repeated portrayal of adolescent male nudes have tended to marginalise this painter, but this fine new book demonstrates that his artistic merit warrants a much broader appeal.
Accompanies an exhibition at the RA about competing representations of empire, featuring fifty artists from Turner and Reynolds to Frank Bowling, Lubaina Himid and Kara Walker.
Charts the influence of the Bauhaus in England and America in the 1930s, expanding on the school's influence on modernist art and architecture. Pairs well with Gavin Stamp's Interwar.
Painter, explorer, writer, archaeologist and theosophist, Roerich was a key figure for Diaghilev and Stravinsky for whom he designed sets and costumes (including The Rite of Spring). He was ... read more
A portrait of the group composed of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Herbert Read, Gropius, Mondrian and others: how their lives crossed and influenced one another... read more
Seeing the writing on the wall, some Nazi profiteers set about removing their loot from Germany in the early months of 1945: to Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Portugal and South America. Locher... read more
A fine illustrated survey from the prehistoric to the present that looks at the interplay between different parts of Asia and also with the rest of the world.
Aztec art in Brussels, West African ivories in Antwerp... the great artists (D?rer, Bosch etc) were drawing on more than rediscovered classical texts. JJ considers the Renaissance as "a conv... read more