Art History

Michael Glover Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.81 x 24.77 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791383019 Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have turned to the pages of the The Independent newspaper to read Michael Glover's thoughts about...

Patrick de Rynck & Jon Thompson  Hardcover | 17.78 x 3.49 x 24.45 cm | 512 pp Ludion | 2018 | 9781419730887 Great paintings, filled with complex themes and symbols, can be intimidating. Here, Patrick De Rynck and Jon Thompson explore more than 300 famous works...

Neil Wells Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 208 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781914414343 The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater...

Anne D'Alleva Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 192 pp Laurence King | 2012 | 9781856698993 This book provides an accessible introduction to the range of critical theories used in analysing art. It covers a broad range of approaches, presenting individual arguments,...

Carolyn Trant  Hardcover 16.26 x 3.3 x 24.13 cm | 304 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021828 Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may struggle to land on a narrative that features very many women. On this...

Kate Bryan & Anna Higgie Hardcover | 14.73 x 2.79 x 22.35 cm | 224 pp Frances Lincoln | 2021 | 9780711251731 In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary...

Angela S. Jones & Vern G. Swanson  Hardcover | 24.97 x 2.72 x 29.26 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2020 | 9781788840842 Desperately Young introduces the masterpieces left behind by some of the greatest rising stars in fine art - all of whom died before...

Martin Gayford Hardcover | 16.51 x 4.06 x 24.13 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500239773  Modernists & Mavericks presents a masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs...

Hardcover | 25.78 x 3.18 x 28.19 cm | 14 pp Munch Museum | 2023 | 9788293560357  Published by Oslo's Munch Museum this book transforms some of Edvard Munch's most famous works into three-dimensional pop-ups!  The Women on the Bridge, Woman with Poppies, The...

Jane Alison Hardcover | 24.43 x 3.63 x 30.48 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791379357 Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern explores a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this...

Bernard Chambaz Hardcover | 24.56 x 2.64 x 29.29 cm | 240 pp ACC | 2018 | 9781851499120 Death takes everyone without discrimination. Sometimes it is accidental - like Signorelli, who fell from scaffolding. Sometimes it is expected, as with the diabetic Cezanne, who wrote...

William Kentridge & Amiee Ng Hardcover | 17.78 x 0.64 x 22.86 cm | 72 pp | 38 colour illustrations D Giles | 2021 | 9781911282709 The White Horse (1819) by John Constable (1776–1837) is the first of the series of the "six-footers," monumental landscapes of...

Mark Ledbury  Softcover | 17.78 x 1.78 x 24.13 cm | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300191929 Fictions of Art History addresses art history’s complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art historians’ viewing...

John Bidwell Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.52 x 27.94 cm | 264 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2015 | 9780271071114 The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colourist, a remarkable draftsman, and...

Softcover | 19.69 x 4.06 x 27.31 cm | 446 pp Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775748414 The Blue Rider: Group Dynamics explore how Kandinsky, Marc, Kubin and others combined the folk arts of Germany and Russia with a new painterly ethos. “The whole work,...

Nicholas Thomas Hardcover | 16.89 x 3.94 x 24.26 cm | 464 pp Apollo | 2024 | 9781801105231 Paul Gauguin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest modern artists. He is renowned for resplendent, mythic imagery from Oceania, for a life of restless...

Kirsty Stonell Walker Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 256 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781914414145 Fanny Cornforth (1835-1909) was a Victorian supermodel whose face epitomised the vision and life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In their twenty-five years...

Christopher White Hardcover | 15.6 x 2.29 x 23.4 cm | 256 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781838395322 Christopher White explains why he chose this title for his new book: ‘The often intimate, reflective and personal side to Rembrandt’s work in treating subjects...

Hardcover | 21.59 x 3.18 x 27.94 cm | 328 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300239942 A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentationThe Pattern and Decoration movement...

Francesca Bonazzoli & Michele Robecchi Hardcover | 20.47 x 2.59 x 26.67 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2020 | 9783791386201 Portraiture is one of the oldest and most studied genres of art. While most scholars will look at a painting's composition, style, and themes, often...