Duchamp’s decades-long relationship with the Brazilian artist had a profound impact on both their lives and art

The transcribed recordings of the British photographer cover many aspects of her life and at times feel like eavesdropping

A Guardian journalist’s investigation into the ways in which artists are responding to the Russian invasion encompasses three years of trips to Ukraine

Celebrating the ACE's 80th anniversary, the publication tells only half the story

The Italian sculptor divided opinion during his lifetime, accused by critics of failing to fully embrace Neo-Classicism

A new book explores how Alan Dunn poked fun at 20th-century American architecture over this five-decade cartooning career

The School of London artist, equally at home in Soho society and rural Scotland, was also a noted painter of celebrities

A new reading of the life and work of Beuys is no hagiography, seeing Beuys as someone who was fiercely determined and created myths about himself

The 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth has seen a flurry of publications about the great painter and his work

The unashamedly partisan book by Daniel E. Sutherland also looks at the science behind Whistler’s nocturnes

From a ninth-century Chinese frontispiece to Marxist magazine covers, this rich tome explores the power of illustration and the ways in which we read such images

The book about the two Old Masters, who probably only met twice, considers what they had in common and how they differed

The book traces the Mexican artist’s extraordinary life and the commercial afterlife of her persona

John Byrne’s volume offers a critical introduction to a compelling subject—but useful art is still not art, writes Robert Hewison

Knife-Woman is the fullest account to date of the life of one of the most influential artists of the last century

Europe’s first foundling hospital, the Ospedale degli Innocenti, is examined afresh in a new book

A book celebrating the intimate street photography of Mark Cohen

A leading scholar of the movement argues that the aim of its key protagonists was a reinvention of reality

Art historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it

The American photographer’s incisive documentary work ranges from poverty-stricken rural First Nations people to the glitzy, sterile environments of wealthy Californians

The book provides a fresh perspective on famous works, cruising through the last few centuries of Western art

This study of the first decade of the Artists International Association, set up in the years before the Second World War, focusses the group’s impact as well as its lesser-known figures

An art historian’s book on the Lahore-born artist does justice to both her beautiful paintings and the history that informs them

A new book tells the story of The American Girls' Club in Montparnasse, which provided studios and solidarity—though not for all

The French portraitist has been repositioned for an entry-level audience

A former Christie’s president examines the meteoric rise of the “radiant child”, and his legacy following his untimely death

A new book explores Siena's heyday—the good, the bad and the sceptical

James King’s study places Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders at the centre of the movement

A new book delve's in to collection of the physician and chemist, who paid for medical school by winning boxing matches

The detailed survey seeks to rethink how people understood, and gave meaning to, the body and its portrayal in the period