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The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness and diversity of the museum’s collections
Nudes with Phaidon and Tate, painted ladies with HarperCollins and the National Portrait Gallery going abroad with Thames & Hudson, Ashgate, Lawrence King, the British Museum and Cambridge University Press
Something for everyone: “animalcules”, Baltic art, the Cecils, CD-Roms, Cézanne, Chinese furniture, Clement Greenberg decadence, Holbein, Japanese design, Kahn, Leonardo, Millais, Modernism, Palladio, Tiffany silver, terracotta sculpture
From Dürer to digital beauties
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.
Who was the real Leonardo da Vinci?
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
New technology does not change anything except the context of art
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 192 pp, 25 b/w ills, 160 col. ills, £16.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372874
A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy
Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon
Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (eds), Sir John Vanburgh and landscape architecture: art and design in baroque England, 1690-1730
This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career
David Sylvester reevaluates violence
Adriaen de Vries takes the new award for the outstanding exhibition catalogue
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
It will comprise of six volumes, beginning with his production from 1961 to 1963
Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
Identifying the common circumstances behind the 18th-century ceramics industry
A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums
Raphael gets assessed according to the theories of Rudolph Steiner and Vasari’s judgement of Andrea del Sarto is reversed
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship