This gorgeous book was published to accompany an exhibition of art from the Danish Golden Age. The exhibition opened in 2019 in the Stockholm Nationalmuseum (who co-published the book) and m... 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.
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.
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
A fine book on the first woman artist of European standing, with special emphasis on her impact in England where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Vol 1 was shortlisted last year for the Baillie Gifford Prize. WF knew Freud extremely well; he chronicles the colourful private life and pictures with detachment.
She was B-J's muse for the last 25 years of his life, but, unlike most of the other Pre-Raphaelite women, she survived into a self-determining life and was friendly with Wilde, Einstein, Asq... read more
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
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.
A very clever debut from a distinguished hand in the art world: a Cambridge don rather stuck in his ways is repelled by an outbreak of modern art in his quad. Wafted on a cloud of academic d... read more
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
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 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.
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