Painting

Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 252 pp Princeton University Press | 2022 | 9780691220376  One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women’s bodies and their...

Hardcover | 21.89 x 2.31 x 27.79 cm | 240 pp Gestalten | 2010 | 9783899554007 Georg Baselitz (b.1938) continuously contravenes set categories and regularities in his work. The manifold meanings of his works, the allusions and pictorial references to art history, contemporary history...

Charles Wylie Hardcover | 21.95 x 2.18 x 28.68 cm | 192 pp Yale University Press | 2008 | 9780300137347 Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (1932-2014) objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents...

Carter Ratcliff Hardcover | 18.5 x 2 x 23 cm | 128 pp Pollock-Krasner Foundation | 2020 | 9780578726298 Critic and scholar Carter Ratcliff investigates Krasner's life and practice from her early days as Hans Hofmann's student to the production of her late masterworks....

Hardcover | 24.38 x 1.78 x 30.23 cm | 144 PP Kerber | 2014 | 9783735600257 This catalogue accompanying an exhibition in Museum Wiesbaden (2014) includes works from the 1980s to 2014. Albert Oehlen has for decades been one of Germany’s most creative and...

Hardcover | 21.16 x 1.75 x 29.64 cm | 136 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387314 Working at the nexus of painting and photography, William Klein conceived this original series when he was in the process of reviewing other photographers' contact sheets for a...

Graham Bader Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.06 x 22.86 cm | 296 pp MIT Press | 2010 | 9780262026475 In Hall of Mirrors, Graham Bader traces the development of Roy Lichtenstein's art into, through, and beyond his classic pop oeuvre of the 1960s. Bader charts the trajectory...

Hardcover | 33.8 x 1.7 x 24 cm | 64 pp Barnes Foundation | 2013 | 9780984857821 The catalogue of Kelly's exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA. This book examines the relationship of Kelly's work to architecture. Featuring paintings and sculptures from across...

Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575  The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...

Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...

Lowery Stokes Sims Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.05 x 28.7 cm | 224 pp MFA Publications | 2015 | 9780878468157 The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years.From...

Softcover | 19 x 1 x 25 cm | 80 pp Modern Art Oxford | 2015 | 9781901352641 Edition of 1,000 This catalogue was published to coincide with the first solo exhibition in the UK of acclaimed Austrian artist Kiki Kogelnik (1935-1997) at Modern Art...

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....

Edward Lucie-Smith Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2017 | 9781910787762 Alexander (1927-2023) was a British born artist living in California. After studying at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, he took to the road,...

Martin Gayford Softcover | 12.95 x 2.54 x 19.81 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500295182  Lucian Freud (1922–2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford....

Ossian Ward Softcover | 15.49 x 2.03 x 20.32 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500239674  The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary...

Clare Lilley,  Jon Wood,  Kirsten Claudia Voigt &  Peter Murray Hardcover | 24.89 x 3.3 x 32.26 cm | 388 pp Hatje Cantz | 2019 | 9783775746069 Sean Scully‘s abstract paintings are world-famous. In them he moves far beyond a purely formal confrontation with colour, form, plane,...

Rita Isaac Hardcover | 16.89 x 1.65 x 21.59 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2020 | 9781786275707  Acrylic is the second book in the popular 'Do More Art' series, which explores the myriad creative possibilities of working with acrylic. Discover everything from basic...

Tim Benton Hardcover | 22.23 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 136 pp Birkhäuser | 2023 | 9783035626537 In 1929, Eileen Gray designed Villa E 1027 for herself and her youthful partner Jean Badovici, but only lived there for three years. Today, the elegant house...

Wayne Frantis Softcover | 16.19 x 1.91 x 21.91 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2015 | 9780714868790 In this monograph, from Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, one of the most intellectually creative...