This woman photographer experimented with several techniques - including solarisation - and pioneered the use of colour photography in the 1930s.To accompany the exhibition this summer and e... read more
Angelica Kauffman , Marie-Anne Collot, Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna and others. Blakesley's The Russian Canvas was excellent.
This early C19th disabled artist excelled as a miniaturist, having taught herself how to paint by holding a brush in her teeth. Contracted to a travelling showman at the age of thirteen as a... read more
A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.
So many of K-S's photographs have been misattributed to Cecil Beaton that she has been neglected. She was admired by Man Ray and Paul Nash; her circle included Cocteau, Connolly and Fonteyn.
Carves out a space in modern British art history for Helen Sutherland, Myfanwy Piper and a host of lesser known female collectors, gallerists and friends.
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work.
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work. (There is also a paperback edition of... read more
Nearly 600 letters from the pre-Raphaelite model who became the wife of William Morris and the lover of Dante Gabriel Rosetti. An impeccably researched, annotated and edited work, this first... read more
Cooper (1916-1992) studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and was beginning to make a name for herself when her career was interrupted by WW2. Other careers followed... Her work is ch... read more
Anne Clifford's diaries, Mary Sidney's translations, Aemilia Lanyer's poems, Elizabeth Cary's playwriting: out of these a fine scholar of Renaissance literature constructs an illuminating gr... read more
A memoir by the artist who had a decade-long relationship with Lucian Freud; full of insights, sometimes discomfortingly so. CP has a fine, clear voice - Freud's gestures and movements as ... read more
Catalogue of the recent exhibition of her ravishing pictures at the Redfern Gallery, where her work can be seen to shift from precise line drawing to abstraction and colour, culminating in l... read more
The thoughtful work of the well-known American photographer who is fascinated with cabinets of curiosity and the idea of the Wunderkammer: a retrospective presentation of her idiosyncratic a... read more
Her sitters don't actually sit; they choose plants instead, which KF photographs in the sitter's own space - studio, home, etc. They include Piet Oudolf, Isabella Tree, Tania Compton, Margot... read more
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
Interwar Cairo was raucous and cosmopolitan, its burgeoning counterculture pioneered by women - singers, dancers and actresses.
Publication of this book has been delayed under May 6th 202... read more