Kojeve's essay on the creation of beauty in his uncle's paintings: through abstraction rather than representation. This slim volume includes some letters between Kandinsky and his philosophe... read more
Angelica Kauffman , Marie-Anne Collot, Elisabeth Vig?e Le Brun, Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna and others. Blakesley's The Russian Canvas was excellent.
Ten women: Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez (Picasso's mother), Maria Dolores Ruiz Picasso (his sister), Gertrude Stein, Fernande Olivier, Eva Gouel (Marcelle Humbert), Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thé... read more
A splendid illustrated book on the dramatic figures in wood and stone that started appearing in the palaces and churches of the German-speaking lands in the C17th.
Painter, explorer, writer, archaeologist and theosophist, Roerich was a key figure for Diaghilev and Stravinsky for whom he designed sets and costumes (including The Rite of Spring). He was ... read more
What exactly is it that we preserve - and pay for - so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation - the 1880s and... read more
Turner, Ravilious, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Ivon Hitchens, Edward Burra, Eileen Agar, et alia . To accompany this winter's exhibition at Pallant House, Chichester.
Modigliani's changing style, looking at the collection of his work in the Barnes Foundation as well as paintings from private collections and institutions around the world.
A beguiling approach to the relationship of artists to the sea, looking in detail at single works by ten artists: from Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach and Paul Nash's Winter Sea, via Alfred Wa... read more
Moore's second commission as a war artist was to draw the miners of Wheldale colliery - as the son of a coal miner himself, this commision must have had particular resonance for him.
This early C19th disabled artist excelled as a miniaturist, having taught herself how to paint by holding a brush in her teeth. Contracted to a travelling showman at the age of thirteen as a... read more
The first was made in 1894, as a thirteen-year-old; the last in 1972. 170 drawings, paintings and photographs, some previously unpublished. Bonafoux has been working on this project for seve... read more
Portraits, tapestries, sculpture, armour, manuscripts and objects from this artistically cosmopolitan court: Flemish weavers, German painters, Florentine sculptors... all in the service of d... read more
The Japanese sculptor is the fourth generation of a family of bamboo masters: this is a gorgeous book on his work - some of which is huge. Delightfully, his family name means "master of the... read more