All Art history

Art Without Frontiers

The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World

Annebella Pollen

January 2024

£29.99

A lively history of the collection and presentation of visual art by one of the most influential cultural bodies in the world.

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Josef Albers

Discovery and Invention – The Early Graphic Works

 

Foreword by David Cleaton-Roberts
Texts by Brenda Danilowitz and Jeannette Redensek

January 2022

£27.00

Offers a fresh and surprising view of a celebrated pioneer of modernism and one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

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Modern World

The Art of Richard Hamilton

 

Michael Bracewell

January 2021

£25.00

A brilliant new introduction to the art of one of the most influential and prescient artists of the 20th century, whose seminal work explored postwar consumer society and 'pop' culture.

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Victor Willing

Visions

 

Foreword by Sir Nicholas Serota
Texts by John McEwen, Elizabeth Gilmore and Victoria Howarth

October 2019

£22.50

The first monograph in two decades to explore the work of a ground-breaking but overlooked painter described by Nicholas Serota as the ‘brightest of a bright generation’.

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Paul Gauguin’s Intimate Journals

Paul Gauguin
Preface by Emile Gauguin

March 2019

£22.50

A beautiful facsimile of the first English translation of Gauguin’s frank and entertaining memoir, written just before he died, in which he reveals his innermost thoughts on art, life and love.

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The Art of Rodin

Introduction by Louis Weinberg

July 2018 (first publ. 1918)

£19.95

A beautiful clothbound centenary facsimile of a rare early book on the father of modern sculpture.

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The Art of Aubrey Beardsley

Preface and introduction by Arthur Symons

April 2018 (first publ. 1918)

£19.95

A beautiful clothbound centenary facsimile of the first definitive book on the work of one of the most controversial and influential artists of the Aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements.

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The Christian Year in Painting

John S. Dixon

April 2018

£29.99

The only book in print to present paintings of all the key feasts in the Christian calendar by Old Masters from the early Renaissance onwards.

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Becoming Henry Moore

Edited by Hannah Higham
Texts by Sebastiano Barassi, Tania Moore, Jon Wood

July 2017

£22.50 SOLD OUT

A gorgeous book exploring the formative years of the young Henry Moore and his emergence as an iconic modern sculptor of international repute.

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Fahrelnissa Zeid

Painter of Inner Worlds

Adila Laïdi-Hanieh

June 2017

£19.99

The extraordinary story of the life and work of the first female modern Turkish-Jordanian painter and a pioneer of twentieth-century abstraction.

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ReNew Marxist Art History

Edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran and Frederic J. Schwartz

September 2014

£25.00 (hardback £45.00), e-book £20.00 / £16.66

Progressive art historians are again recognizing the relevance of Marx’s ideas to their practice. This volume includes thirty academics who are reshaping art history on Marxist lines.

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Incredible Tretchikoff

Boris Gorelik

July 2013

PAPERBACK SOLD OUT
e-book £9.99 / £8.32

Published to coincide with the centenary of his birth, this book tells the enthralling story of this flamboyant and controversial artist from his humble beginnings to the highs and lows of later life.

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