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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
Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
Collecting outside of the box
The National Portrait Gallery director had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the stolen paintings
The studio as stage, incubator and archive
Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life
A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account
The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go as Ford Madox Brown joins Rossetti and Holman Hunt as fully documented
Despite some factual inaccuracies, this is a refreshing and invigorating presentation that challenges assumptions
The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon
The polymath performer Steve Martin has written An Object of Beauty, a novel set in the art world. So should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown
The director of Turner Contemporary chooses her favourite works from the fair—and reveals a very British preoccupation with the weather
The summation of a lifetime’s work and a triumph of scholarship
The polymath performer has written a novel set in the art world -should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?