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The Prince's passions cost him his fortune but gave Hungary a fine collection of art
Art-world luminaries, from Eli Broad and Marina Warner to Tim Marlow and Xu Bing, pick the best art books they read in 2013
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them
Angels and Icons is an important contribution to Pre-Raphaelite studies and a welcome addition to scholarship on post-Medieval stained glass in Britain
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique
This book, linked to a current exhibition, explores the V&A’s unrivalled holdings
A magnificent visual record of the work of the German artist, who was virtually unknown before the 1960s, is matched by its scholarly text
A new book considers the theological dimensions of the artist’s paintings
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century
Leon Black says art publisher to launch digital products
Three new monographs show the artist is still the equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo, if not so popular
This book is a welcome reinterpretation of Nash for contemporary audiences
Investigators sit neatly on the fence
This original and brilliant book describes how Western archaeology and archaeologists appeared to Turkish eyes.
Christian, Jewish and Muslim anxieties about images
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
In between the (contact) sheets
An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009
Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos' three-volume catalogue is painstakingly researched and beautifully presented
Illuminating scholarship
Records, celebrations, denunciations
An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader
Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, argues Gail Levin