There's a pleasant and airy simplicity to Hughes's landscapes: patient, mindful, each view pared back to flattened shapes and even tones. They are gathered together here alongside a short te... read more
This influential figure in pre-WW1 Paris has become much better known in recent years - as is evident from this fine Yale publication and the exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphi... read more
A leading figure in the German avant-garde, Münter was also Kandinsky's wife. This is the catalogue of the excellent exhibition of her work at Vienna's Leopold Museum.
Besides looking at the artist's paintings and works on paper, this book includes many previously unpublished documents and photographs from the family archives.
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work. (There is also a paperback edition of... read more
This outstanding fine art photographer has worked without a camera for the last forty years - luminous abstract forms and atmospheric landscapes. With text by Edmund de Waal.
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
When Matisse was commissioned by the collector Albert C. Barnes (of what became the Barnes Foundation) to create a monumental mural - The Dance - he began to arrange his composition using ... read more
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.
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.
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
Essays on the emergence of landscape as a subject fit for depiction in its own right in the C16th and C17th, which coincided with the expansion of Dutch commercial and colonial interests aro... read more
The catalogue to accompany an exhibition at Museo delle Culture di Lugano in the Villa Malpensata, home to the Montgomery Collection. Textiles, paintings, objects of quotidian use, etc.
This is the catalogue (in English) of the exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, presenting an account of the life and work of the influential woman who was the daughter of Berthe ... read more
This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, brings together the extraordinary series of olive grove paintings that Van Gogh undertook from June-D... read more
Blackwell is a remarkable artist who creates astonishing tableaux made of cut-out paper; many of her subjects are taken from fairy tales and she often works with the pages of old books. This... read more