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The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut
Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"
Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity
Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies
A useful guide to European sculpture terminology
A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware
This handy book is a reliable and well presented dictionary of terms used in European sculpture.
Synopsis of Sebastião Salgado's reissued paperback.
“Today the photo magazines have all folded or been turned into vehicles for lifestyles and personality portraits”
No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors
This study of the Suprematist artist fails to recognise that his mathematical games were metaphorical, not computational
Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments
A study in obscurity for the twenty-fifth anniversary
A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution
The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives
Books versus Basquiats?
This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?
Dalí in his own write
Charles and Ray Eames are the American dream team
Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture
His great Persian manuscript paintings are now on loan to the Sackler
As interest in pre-colonial and colonial art grows, authors look to document Indonesian art
First ever complete edition of avant-garde artist’s writings appearing in five volumes
As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow
“The biggest change in the publishing business these days is the phenomenon of the super-store and the breakneck pace at which these stores are opening”