The distinguished historian uses neglected sources to present CdeM as a much-traduced campaigner for the peaceful coexistence of Catholics and Protestants, and as a patroness of the arts.
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
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
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
A nifty little book on this fascinating artist. Queen of collage, doyenne of Dada, Höch's avant-garde approach to paper and photography cut to the heart of Germany's political and cultural ... read more
Accompanies a major retrospective at MoMA of her drawings, prints and sculptures. Few have portrayed human anguish so convincingly, with lines etched so hard they seem to ache.
A short biography of the woman who managed Leach Pottery in Cornwall for forty years and was a fine potter in her own right. She met her husband, Bernard, in New York in the wake of the Grea... read more
A glorious, large-format facsimile of Mabel Ashburton's album of watercolours of her five-month journey to the Far East. Her skill as a watercolourist is very considerable and her eye fresh;... read more
An enormous and beautifully made book on the work of this extraordinary artist and set designer. Includes interviews with some of her collaborators, including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Benedict Cu... read more
This influential figure in pre-WW1 Paris has become much better known in recent years - as is evident from this fine Yale publication and the exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphi... read more
'Please bring no clothes: we live in a state of utmost simplicity': so wrote Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot in 1920. Porter looks at the Bloomsbury group through their clothes - their creativi... 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
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.
Edie's older sister attempts to understand how her younger sibling progressed from an isolated, privileged Californian childhood to become Warhol's muse.
Delightful flower paintings: small bunches of flowers - often wild - in a gorgeous array of mugs, jugs and bowls. Mostly gesso on small panels, with a slightly folkloric feel. Published by a... read more
Watercolours by this amazing pioneer of abstraction, as seen in the recent David Zwirner exhibition. Incidentally, there is also a superb 7-vol catalogue raisonn? of her work available at ?... read more
This fine illustrated biography frames GJ amongst her contemporaries, in the studios of the Slade and in the Paris salons: Matisse, Maud Gonne, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rodin, Rilke... Many i... read more
The artist's works in charcoal, pencil, watercolour and pastel, on paper; many of these were produced sequentially and float between observation and abstraction. The catalogue of the exhibit... read more
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
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.
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.
Bridges was an American painter(1834-1923). Her oddly static pictures of birds and flowers were celebrated during her lifetime and display a startling intensity.
Catalogue from Dulwich Picture Gallery in collaboration with theMus?e Marmottan Monet: it seems unbelievable but this is the first exhibition of Morisot's work in Britain since 1950!
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 beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... 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
Large format retrospective of Leibovitz's work. This was previously published in 2014, as a so-called 'Sumo' edition. Weighing in at 26kg, that vast book required Sumo-strength to lift it, a... 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
A collection of essays about this most extraordinary C17th woman, artist, traveller and naturalist; looks at her methods and materials, her journey to Suriname, her entomological studies, he... read more
LCW's 1947 memoir of her life as a gallerist; at the Wertheim Gallery she showed a swathe of English Modernist artists - Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Cedri... read more
A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.