Art History

Michel Pastoureau Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 240 pp Princeton University Press | 2023 | 9780691243498 As a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of colour, but it is without doubt an important colour in its own right,...

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,...

Ossian Ward Softcover | 15.49 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500239674  The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary...

Hardcover | 23.8 x 2.8 x 28.5 cm | 288 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791379869 Is it painting or sculpture, surface or space? Hardly any other artistic medium challenges our sense of sight as much as the relief. It is precisely this indeterminacy...

Softcover | 24.46 x 0.76 x 27.94 cm | 40 pp Getty Publications | 2006 | 9780892367443 El Lissitzky, best known as an avant-garde artist, created this enchanting illustratedversion of the Passover song "Had Gadya" early in his career, while immersed in theJewish cultural...

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...

Margaret Garlake Hardcover | 21.59 x 3.81 x 27.31 cm | 320 pp Modern Art Press | 2021 | 9781916347403 In 1945, Britain's landscape was on the cusp of transformation: in the post-war period, countryside reverted to civilian use, cities were reconstructed and new...

Michael Bird Hardcover | 16.76 x 3.56 x 24.38 cm | 352 pp Thames & Hudson | 2022 | 9780500024430 In This is Tomorrow Michael Bird takes a fresh look at the ‘long twentieth century’, from the closing years of Queen Victoria’s reign to the turn of...

Mark Getlein & Annabel Howard Softcover | 20.3 x 2.5 x 29.2 cm | 312 pp | Laurence King | 2016 | 9781780675770 This compelling book chronicles 75 of the most influential artists from the dawn of the 20th century to the present, and from around the...

Simon Morley Hardcover | 14.99 x 2.29 x 21.84 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500021620 A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches (or keys), focusing on 20 major artworks from around...

Hardcover | 23.88 x 2.54 x 28.45 cm | 264 pp Hatje Cantz | 2017 | 9783775743686 This catalogue accompanied the 2017 retrospective on Austrian composer, pianist, performer, concrete poet and visual artist Gerhard Rühm (b. 1930) at Kunstforum Wien. Containing extensive images, three...

Till-Holger Borchert Hardcover | 24.77 x 3.18 x 31.75 cm | 288 pp Ludion | 2020 | 9789493039414 Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) is one of the most important and influential artists of the Northern Renaissance. He was a painter, printmaker and theorist and knew the...

Hardcover | 25.4 x 4.06 x 30.23 cm | 360 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239520  Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art highlights the three major movements in American art and print history in nearly 200 masterful prints...

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...

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...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 3.05 x 30.78 cm | 248 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791379401 This lavishly illustrated volume looks at the myriad ways in which the burgeoning art of photography dialogued with Impressionist painting. In the 19th century, numerous photographers chose the...

Arshile Gorky & Matthew Spender Softcover | 21.8 x 3 x 15 cm | 512 pp Ridinghouse | 2022 | 9781905464258 This publication provides an intimate portrait of the Armenian-American painter Arshile Gorky (c.1904–1948) whose paintings proved transformative to twentieth-century art in the US and beyond....

Hardcover | 17.53 x 3.4 x 24.89 cm | 356 pp Museum of Fine Arts Budapest | 2023 | 9786156595089 This catalogue of Renoir's first monographic exhibition in Hungary (2023-2024) presenting almost seventy works, this book explores an oeuvre spanning six decades, from the...

Stephen Coppel & Catherine Daunt  Softcover | 25 x 28 cm | 332 pp Thames and Hudson | 2017 | 9780500292822 The American Dream: From Pop to Present presents an overview of the development of American printmaking since 1960, paying particular attention to key figures such as Jasper...