Painting

John T. Spike Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.78 x 22.81 cm | 336 pp Gerald Duckworth & Co | 2011 | 9780715640661  This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T....

Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770  For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...

Edited by Branden W. Joseph Softcover | 15.4 x 1.27 x 23 cm | 163 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2003 | 9780262600491 From the moment art historian Leo Steinberg championed his work in opposition to Clement Greenberg's rigid formalism, Robert Rauschenberg has...

Hardcover | 22.86 x 1.27 x 31.12 cm | 64 pp Hatje Cantz | 2008 | 9783775719681 Fides Becker (b. 1962) lures us into a world of dreams in which princesses seem to stroll through pleasure palaces and spacious park meadows. Becker uses her...

James H. Rubin Hardcover | 13 x 19.5 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775749138 The incomparable play of light and colour in Paul Cezanne’s work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went...

Juliet Bingham Softcover | 20.96 x 2.22 x 26.99 cm | 224 pp Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849764650 Russian-born conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are among the most celebrated artists of their generation. Known for their pioneering large-scale environments and installations, their...

Robert Pincus-Witten Hardcover | 25.4 x 33 cm | 170 pp Twelvetrees Press | 1984 | 9780942642124 Jedd Garet (b. 1955) is an American sculptor, painter and printmaker. Influenced by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, Garet uses garish colours in jarring contrasts to explore relationships...

Hardcover | 29.5 x 6.5 x 35.1 cm | 598 pp Haunch of Venison | 2008 | 9781905620203 In the late 1990s, after years of working with machines and methods based on randomness, Keith Tyson began working on Studio Wall Drawings, which provided a more...

Toby Ferris Hardcover | 15.9 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 336 pp Fourth Estate | 2020 | 9780008340964 This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and...

Bruce Hainley, Laura Hoptman & Jan Werwoert Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.22 x 26.99 cm | 136 pp Phaidon | 2008 | 9780714848822 Born in Germany and based in London, Tomma Abts has received considerable acclaim for her paintings and drawings. In 2006 she was awarded...

David Trigg, Eliza Williams & Jonathan Griffin Hardcover | 18.73 x 2.86 x 27.94 cm | 304 pp Phaidon | 2014 | 9780714867397 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...

Peter J Bell & Kristi A Nelson Hardcover | 19.56 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 224 pp D Giles | 2020 | 9781911282631 The story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organisation, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December...

Softcover | 20.12 x 9.53 x 1.04 cm | 64 pp | 54 illustrations Yale University Press | 2013 | 9780300197754 This catalogue accompanied the artist's solo exhibition commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2013. It includes colour plates of art...

Hardcover | 30.48 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 180 pp Kerber | 2012 | 9783866786523 Since about 2000, Ilya Kabakov has been slowly turning away from the installation pieces for which he is best known to return to his first medium, painting, with which he...

Hardcover | 24 x 2.7 x 29.3 cm | 256 pp Yale University Press | 2008 | 9780300121650 The first comprehensive look at the innovative and diverse printmaking oeuvre of contemporary master Carroll Dunham. Widely known for his vibrant paintings that employ a variety of...

Rainer Beßling, Barbara Leicht & Christine Vogt Hardcover | 28.6 x 1.3 x 22.9 cm | 120 pp Kerber | 2014 | 9783866789562 Working within the chromatic and formal vocabulary of Concrete art, Martin Vosswinkel (b. 1963) is concerned with colour, material and space. The book is...

Heike Eipeldauer & Martin Germann Hardcover| 22.23 x 2.24 x 26.67 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2017 | 9783791356037 Emerging out of the Picture Generation-a group of artists focused on a critique of photographic media-James Welling has gone on to experiment successfully in nearly every photographic...

Edited by Graham Badert Softcover | 15.4 x 1.22 x 23 cm | 202 pp | b&w illustrations MIT Press | 2009 | 9780262512312 The most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-find and previously unpublished pieces. Roy...

William Vaughan Softcover | 14.99 x 1.78 x 21.08 cm | 224 pp Thames & Hudson | 2002 | 9780500203583 William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius...

Stefano Zuffi Hardcover | 26.16 x 2.51 x 32.69 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2019 | 9789491819995 Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is considered one of the greatest painters of all times. Often described as the archetype of the homo universalis, he was a...