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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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