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,...

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,...

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...

Helen Burnham Hardcover | 22.1 x 1.52 x 25.91 cm | 128 pp MFA Publications | 2014 | 9780878468102  The craze for all things Japanese in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought a correspondingly radical shift in Western art, dubbed Japonisme. Leading artists,...

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...

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...

Carol Jacobi & James Finch Softcover | 23 x 2.3 x 27.6 cm | 240 pp Tate Publishing | 2023 | 9781849768429 The romance and radicalism of the Rossetti generation and their creative approach to art,love and life are explored here in this beautiful new...

Sue Roe Hardcover | 15.39 x 1.63 x 23.8 cm | 304 pp Faber & Faber | 2025 | 978057138598 Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Therese Walter, Dora Maar, Francoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women shared Pablo Picasso's life and were instrumental in...

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...

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...

Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....

Dr Natalia Murray & Dr Natalia Budanova Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.79 x 23.5 cm | 240 pp Unicorn Press | 2021 | 9781913491277 In early 1910s, two pioneering women entrepreneurs, Nadezhda Dobychina in St Petersburg and Klavdia Mikhailova in Moscow set up two of...

Jacqueline Riding Softcover | 14 x 3.8 x 20.2 cm | 554 pp Profile Books | 2022 | 9781788163484  On a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a 'peregrination' that...

Xavier Bray Softcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 48 pp Yale University Press | 2004 | 9781857093155 This introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) was published to coincide with the El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery, London (11th February - 23rd May, 2004)....

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...

Silvia Loreti Softcover | 16.83 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2018 | 9781849765848 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth-century, working in an unprecedented variety of styles. A Spanish painter, sculptor, etcher,...

Softcover | 15 x 1.5 x 15 cm  | 176 pp National Portrait Gallery | 2018 | 9781855147461 100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women, who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life...

David Trigg Hardcover | 14 x 1.5 x 17.3 cm | 96 pp Tate Publishing | 2020 | 9781849766968  This selection of works examines the most beautiful, transformative and amusing expressions of the spring season drawn from Tate's collection. Divided into key themes -...

Michael Findlay Hardcover | 18.11 x 2.69 x 24.77 cm | 240 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791389073 Internationally renowned dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a lively and authoritative look at the financial and emotional value of art throughout history. In this newly...

Hattie Spires Hardcover | 14 x 1.5 x 17.3 cm | 96 pp Tate Publishing | 2020 | 9781849767064 A glorious selection of works presenting some of the most beautiful and stirring moments of the summer season, drawn from Tate's collection. Divided into key...