Fine Art

John Roberts Softcover | 15.32 x 2.41 x 23.44 cm | 320 pp Verso | 2015 | 9781781689134 Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicised. Yet, few sustained defences of the avant-garde have been put forward....

Joanne Morra Softcover | 21.54 x 2.51 x 21.31 cm | 320 pp I B Tauris | 2017 | 9781780762074 Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The...

Jacques Rancière Hardcover | 13.61 x 1.37 x 20.5 cm | 144 pp Verso | 2022 | 9781839763199 In this book philosopher Jacques Rancière (b.1940) radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of...

Chris Orr & Richard Davey Hardcover | 27 x 3 x 26 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2025 | 9781916846647 Chris Orr, the well known British painter and printmaker, takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world...

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,...

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...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353 Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with...

Amy Brandt Hardcover | 21.29 x 2.03 x 23.65 cm | 240 pp MIT Press | 2014 | 9780262027533 The first in-depth study of a group of artists known for their irony, their theoretical impulses, and their market success in the 1980s. Emerging from New...

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...

Dan Cameron & Susan Green  Hardcover | 24.92 x 2.54 x 29.21 cm | 240 pp Prestel | 2017 | 9783791356730 Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969 examines the influential and visually stunning work of South American kinetic artists. While Southern California was becoming the North American epicentre...

Debra N. Mancoff Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Frances Lincoln | 2023 | 9780711285095 How Art Is Made looks at renowned works of art from across the centuries and around the globe and asks the intriguingly simple question – how...

Hardcover | 20.96 x 1.52 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775753043 Rare & Collectible Accompanying the first exhibition of British artist Mark Wallinger's paintings in Switzerland (Museum Langmatt ) this catalogue focuses on his large-scale Action Paintings, complemented...

Eckhard Hollmann Softcover | 16.81 x 0.91 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387390 From his earliest pointillist-influenced paintings to this mature and playful paper cut-outs; from enormous, ebullient murals to reverent stained glass, Henri Matisse was renowned for his dramatic...

Richard Cork & Cornelia Parker Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.3 x 24.38 cm | 280 pp Thames & Hudson | 2023 | 9780500025109 Leading art critic and writer Richard Cork tells the stories of his personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential...

Michael Lailach & Andzeas Schalhorn Hardcover | 24.77 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm | 184 pp Konig | 2007 | 9783865602275 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...

Ian Berry & Harry Cooper Hardcover | 24.61 x 3.02 x 30 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2017 | 9783791356181 Nicholas Krushenick (b.1929) is a key figure in the history of late 20th-century American art. Juxtaposing broad black lines with bold, flat colours, Krushenick created hard-edged abstractions...

Douglas Dreishpoon Hardcover | 25.4 x 2.5 x 30.5 cm | 256 pp D Giles | 2015 | 9781907804786 Paul Feeley (1910-1966) is a towering figure in postwar American modernism. His legendary tenure as head of the art department at Bennington College and resulting associations with...

Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp Yale University Press | 2021 | 9780300246049 This is a revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century. A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual...

Hardcover | 24.13 x 4.06 x 29.85 cm | 480 pp Hatje Cantz | 2023 | 9783775753944 Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s― influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising....

Hardcover | 19.3 x 1.5 x 27.5 cm | 128 pp Hall Art Foundation | 2023 | 9798985145151 Georg Baselitz is possibly best known for his paintings of inverted figures, animals, landscapes and still-lives that emerged in 1969. Engaging these classic figurative motifs, Baselitz...