Fine Art Surveys

Look At This If You Love Great Art is a must read for anyone with a passion for exceptional art. Featuring 100 of the best artworks ever produced, inside is a collection of insightful summaries on just what it is that makes each one so...

This compelling book chronicles 75 of the most influential artists from the dawn of the 20th century to the present, and from around the world. Each entry provides a fascinating insight into the artist and his or her vision of what they were trying...

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 a particular piece of art. Pithy, astute, erudite, often humorous, and always engaging, these enormously popular...

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 claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century. Oliver Simon, its editor,...

The Centre for International Light Art is based in the former Linden beer brewery in Unna, Germany. It is the first and only museum that focuses exclusively on the presentation of light art. The encounter between avant-garde light art and historic building substance creates a...

Elemental Form features the work of twenty-two artists artists that were reconsidering the basic questions of painting and sculpture in the 19060s an 1970s. In starting anew, they gave value to the primary forms and processes of art making. When the Elemental Forms assembled...

Seven hundred years of sculptural practice—from fourteenth-century Europe to the global present—are examined anew in this catalogue of the groundbreaking 2018 exhibition presented at The Met, New York. The book explores narratives of sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the literal, living presence...

“Wild Art” refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognised as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond. Picking up from their breakthrough book on the subject, Wild...

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 time. The book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and...

This remarkable book brings you face-to-face with an incredible selection of pioneering women who have reshaped the creative industries. From legendary visual artists Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin, to groundbreaking musicians like Annie Lennox and Debbie Harry, to fashion giants such as Miuccia Prada...

For well over a hundred years certain artists have blurred the distinction between 'art' and 'design', creating works for which Alex Coles has coined the term 'DesignArt'. In a pioneering study of this dynamic area of art-making, he traces its course from the early...

A complement to the landmark The Art Book, The 21st-Century Art Book is an accessible guide to best contemporary art made since 2000. Showcasing over 280 artists in alphabetical order, it place established figures like Jeff Wall, Marlene Dumas and Maurizio Cattelan alongside the rising stars...

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 that has always made it especially appealing to artists. With the aid of outstanding works by...

Egidio Marzona's intensive experience with contemporary art forms the basis for his encyclopaedic collecting activity, which started in the mid-1960s and continues to the present day. The book illustrates how drawings, collages, artists' publications, invitation cards and posters in both American and European art,...

Laughing in a Foreign Language explores the role of laughter and humour in contemporary art through the work of over 30 international artists working in a range of media, including video, photography and interactive installation. In an era of globalisation, this book asks whether...

Minimalism & Beyond explores Minimalism and its legacy in contemporary art from the second half of the twentieth century through the present day. This beautifully produced catalogue features images of works by all 28 participating artists along with an essay A Minimal Legacy by...

Tristan Manco, perhaps the world’s most influential commentator on street art, showcases the work of 38 truly innovative and inspirational artists who use low-cost, low-tech media and often totally original techniques to produce work that defies categorisation and pushes the boundaries of art itself....

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 towns conceived. Artists reacted to this changing world - their own sense of place, space and history informing their work...

The exhibition Carl Andre In His Time featured a group of Andre’s seminal early sculptures accompanied by contemporaneous masterworks by leading figures of the period, including John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, and Frank...

The Mechanical Hand surveys artists involvement with print, through the work of Paupers Press fine art print studio. Specialising in etching, lithography and relief printing, Paupers Press works with many leading contemporary artists producing limited edition and unique prints, books and portfolio collections. The...