Art History

Monica Bohm-Duchen Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 26.99 cm | 256 pp Lund Humphries | 2019 | 9781848223462 Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe...

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)....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sergio Rossi & Giovanni Scarduelli Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.6 x 24.4 cm | 128 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387918 This graphic biography traces Rothko's entire life, from his boyhood emigration from Russia to America, to his suicide in 1970. It touches on his schooling...

Simon Doonan Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.3 x 18.7 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2021 | 9781786277879 Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for the people, creating an instantly recognisable repertoire of symbols - barking dogs, space-ships, crawling babies, clambering faceless...

Robert Shore Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.3 x 18.7 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2020 | 9781786276100 Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he?Here Robert Shore...

Emma Chambers Hardcover | 27.31 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 240 pp Tate Publishing | 2022 | 9781849768214  Walter Sickert was one of the most influential artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An apprentice of Whistler and close associate of Degas,...

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...

Brian Clarke Hardcover | 28 x 2.5 x 31.5 cm | 264 pp Pace London | 2015 |9781909406162 This book celebrates the life and achievements of the renowned art dealer and gallerist Robert Fraser, and the various artists with which he worked. It pays tribute...