The author Amy Dempsey talks about her new book exploring the tension between overexposure and invisibility

‘The Last Resort’, which will be republished later this year, is the subject of a new show at the late photographer’s foundation

A sharp study of shifting attitudes to femininity in British culture after 1945, connected by a trend for "blondeness"

A leading scholar of the movement argues that the aim of its key protagonists was a reinvention of reality

A new book and a major exhibition are highlighting contemporary female artists from Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries

The publication draws on inventories, correspondence and rediscovered works to reveal new theories

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The curator Alice Christophe delves into the catalogue and picks out some key objects ahead of the exhibition in London

Our books editor picks out some of the highlights of the months ahead

Art historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it

The author Olivia Laing and the painter Chantal Joffe tell us about collaborating on a new book detailing their creative exchanges

The best recent publications about the subject, from a book following the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral to a Batman comic set in Barcelona—selected by the museum director and curator Annabelle Ténèze

The civilised lustre of the great collectors could camouflage a lust that had more to do with greed than beauty

The father of the underground comic book is still an active artist, satirising the “inner hell that is part of American culture”

The Armed Forces Edition novel is now rare, since it was "not to be made available for civilians"—we show you a copy

Writer Octave Mirbeau, an early owner of a Sunflowers painting, titled his fictional travelogue "628-E8"—after his car’s own licence plate

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The book provides a fresh perspective on famous works, cruising through the last few centuries of Western art

The publications that delighted our literary team this year, from important exhibition catalogues and overdue surveys to personal reflections and playful illustrations

The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn

In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson

The best publications about the Spanish artist's twilight years chosen by the curators of Late Picasso

This study of the first decade of the Artists International Association, set up in the years before the Second World War, focusses the group’s impact as well as its lesser-known figures

An art historian’s book on the Lahore-born artist does justice to both her beautiful paintings and the history that informs them

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The French portraitist has been repositioned for an entry-level audience

In Lydia Figes’s publication more than 50 successful artists share their wisdom on everything from defining success to dealing with galleries

Having lots of followers on Instagram does not guarantee a publishing deal but it helps

A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death

A new book delve's in to collection of the physician and chemist, who paid for medical school by winning boxing matches