A well-written history of art in North America for students
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
Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship
The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books
Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity
The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives
