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
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.
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
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.
Artemisia Gentileschi's father was a friend of Caravaggio, and she his greatest successor. This is the first catalogue dedicated entirely to Gentileschi's astonishing work.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
A retrospective of Maier's extraordinary body of work, arranged thematically - self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, etc.
Angelica Kauffman , Marie-Anne Collot, Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna and others. Blakesley's The Russian Canvas was excellent.
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
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
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
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.