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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”
As the recession begins to abate in Germany, the market for art books blossoms
How publishers are coping with changes in academic approaches to art and the buying habits of the public
The future for art, books and education, as seen through the eyes of computer wizard Bill Gates, who last month bought the Leonardo Codex
Abrams’s winning bid for 170-page illustrated diary
Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued
Charissa Bremer-David et al Decorative Arts: an illustrated summary catalogue of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Illustrations partially compensate for jargon
Illustrating the factory’s output from 1894 to the late 1930s
“Myth making: Abstract Expressionist painting from the United States”
Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors
The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.
The text includes illustrative examples alongside practical advice
A poet married to a painter reviews a survey of creative partnerships including Ernst and Carrington, Pollock and Krasner, Rodin and Claudel, and more
Farson's biography of the tortured artist is a pub crawl around Fifties Soho
New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection
The works were collected day by day, from 1907 to 1914, by Paul Alexandre during the artist’s stay in Paris
Books on non-Western art, women artists, and from the new art history