A riotous memoir of attempting to mount a Bacon exhibition in the last days of the USSR; apparatchiks, honey-traps, the KGB - has the author's liver ever recovered?
"The story of C20th Britain, viewed through the lens of the artists' lives": this is less art history and more an artists' history. A wide-ranging, detailed, sympathetic account, with some p... read more
Illustrated with 300 paintings from the State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow and the Albertinum of the State Art Collections Dresden, this is a fine book on the C19th artists who dreamed of freedo... read more
A rich and original account of how the known (Vanessa Bell, Gwen John) and many lesser known artists expressed themselves through their gorgeous vases of flowers, bowls of fruit etc.
This delightful slim volume consists of Newcomb's watercolours of still lives around the house & garden, accompanied by a few lines from Blackburn, her indefatigable Suffolk neighbour.
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