Painting

Patricia Lee Softcover | 14.94 x 0.89 x 21.11 cm | 104 pp Afterall | 2016 | 9781846381638 The One Work series is a library of small books, each title focusing on a single artwork that has significantly shaped the way we understand art...

Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau Hardcover | 12.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm | 64 pp Editions Gallimard | 2019 | 9782072877094 Published in conjunction with the El Greco exhibition at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. For a pocket size book, this really punches above it's...

John Elderfield Hardcover | 15.5 x 1 x 21.7 cm | 64 pp Thames & Hudson | 1996 | 9780500550281 In 1913, outraged by Matisse's painterly violations of the female body, students of the Art Institute of Chicago found him guilty of "artistic murder"...

Softcover | 18.8 x 0.76 x 20.83 cm | 152 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300238495 Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His Sounds (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples...

  Helle Brøns, Paul Smith, Hans Ulrich Obrist, et al. Softcover | 24.4 x 1 x 34.3 cm | 96 pp   Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | 2017 | 9788792877680   This book documents the career of a pivotal figure of the Danish postwar avant-garde, Poul...

Doris Wintgens Softcover | 19.56 x 1.52 x 25.91 cm | 192 pp NAI Publishers | 2017 | 9789462084100 Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when...

Jorella Andrews & Patrick Vale  Hardcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780674780 Paul Cézanne challenged convention and pioneered new possibilities in painting. He was remarkable for his ability to perceive and paint aspects of everyday life...

George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of...

Carol Jacobi Softcover | 16.83 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 80 pp Tate Publishing | 2017 | 9781849765299  This refreshingly accessible introduction to the lives and work of some of the best-known and best-loved impressionists features artworks by Degas, Monet, Pissarro and Morisot among...

Hardcover | 25 x 3 x 31 cm | 264 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791368795 Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the centre of European culture in the...

Peter Gay Hardcover | 13.34 x 1.75 x 19.69 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300144291  Why the Romantics Matter is a renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them. With his...

Philip Hoare Softcover | 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm | 304 pp Fourth Estate | 2021 | 9780008323295  An illuminating exploration of the intersection between life, art and the sea from the award-winning author of Leviathan. Albrecht Dürer changed the way we saw nature...

Hardcover | 16.3 x 0.7 x 20.5 cm | 32 pp Coracle | 2015  Edition of 200  The Window Paintings series looks up from from the window of the artist's bedsit to treetops, rooflines and clouds, in almost colour-free compositions that re-examine the scarce variations...

Softcover | 23.88 x 1.52 x 28.45 cm | 160 pp JRP Ringier | 2008 | 9783905829877 Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. Over the years, he has...

Mark Linder Softcover | 20.32 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 282 pp MIT Press | 2005 | 9780262622080 In Nothing Less than Literal, Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960s was infiltrated by architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines...

Hardcover | 20.32 x 1.27 x 24.89 cm | 224 pp JRP Ringier | 2011 | 9783037642412 In the early 1980s, the artist Tim Rollins initiated a curriculum for high schoolers in the South Bronx to engage their creativity with art and literature activities,...

Lynne Cooke Hardcover | 22.86 x 2.54 x 28.58 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2010 |  9783791350486 Martin Ramirez (1895-1963) was a self-taught artist who created nearly 450 drawings of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power while confined in a California mental institution...

Hardcover | 24.28 x 2.46 x 28.09 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791359946 The early decades of the 20th century were marked by artistic, economic, and social transformation in Canada and around the world. Starting in Toronto, a group of young...

Hardcover | 23.83 x 1.57 x 28.22 cm | 144 pp Lannoo | 2010 | 9789020991055 Contains explicit sexual images Disorder in the House was the first presentation of the collection of contemporary art that Walter Vanhaerents has assembled across thirty years. The Vanhaerents...

Hardcover |  24 x 1.3 x 30 cm | 120 pp Prestel | 2009 | 9783791343914 With a unique style that blends drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and text, Larry Johnson (b. 1959) creates photographic works that are sardonic, frequently melancholic or nostalgic, but...