Art History

Jay Bernard Softcover | 11 x 0.9 x 17.6 cm | 48 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849768269 Punctuated by works in Britain's national collection of art, Look Again: Complicity is an insightful meditation on how art can help us reckon with a...

Shahidha Bari Softcover | 11 x 0.9 x 17.6 cm | 48 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849767170 In Look Again: Fashion, esteemed academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari guides us through the surprising insights that come of these questions - and reveals that thinking...

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...

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...

Richard Dorment Hardcover | 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm | 288 pp Pegasus | 2023 | 9781639364978  Part detective story, part art history, part memoir, and part courtroom drama, Warhol After Warhol is a spellbinding account of the dark connection between money, power, and...

Nancy Perloff Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm | 248 pp J Paul Getty Museum | 2016 | 9781606065082 At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity)....

Matthew Wilson Hardcover | 23.37 x 2.54 x 27.43 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2023 | 9780500025673 For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of...

John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler & Evgenia Petrova  Hardcover | 25.5 x 2.8 x 29.5 cm | 319 pp Skira Editore | 2014 | 9788857219165 This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East—be it the Russian East or the Far...

David Carrier & Joachim Pissarro Hardcover | 15.24 x 2 x 20.32 cm | 240 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2018 | 9780271081137 “Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses...

Henk van Nierop Hardcover | 17.27 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 448 pp Routledge | 2018 | 9789462981386 Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age. The producer of wide-ranging book illustrations, newsprints, allegories, and satire,...

Hans Belting Hardcover | 17.15 x 2.54 x 24.77 cm | 288 pp Princeton University Press | 2017 | 9780691162355  presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the...

Paul Klee & Herbert Read Softcover | 19 x 0.6 x 19 cm | 56 pp Faber & Faber | 9780571066827 Paul Klee on Modern Art, with an introduction by Herbert Read, represents the essential collection of thinking about art from one of the...