Our round-up of the latest art publications

Author James Cahill's account of the burgeoning 1960s LA art scene explores links between collector Betty Freeman and the late Yorkshire artist

Analysis documents how artists and filmmakers have reacted to colonialism and pillage in Africa

With a new show at London’s Hayward Gallery, an expert chooses books that delve into the established sculptor’s life and work over five decades

Foxed Editions co-founded by Rudi Thoemmes focuses on overlooked parts of photographic history

After 20 years of writing non-fiction books, the art historian Bendor Grosvenor is working on a Stuart-era sleuthing novel

The publication features a collection of essays about how two technological revolutions have transformed our relationship to images

The photobook captures two decades of often hilarious, sometimes tragic moments

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The best publications about the subject, from a collection of Surrealist writing to a survey of pioneering architects—selected by Elvira Dyangani Ose and Adom Getachew

Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors

The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field

A new book details the obsessive quest to find the sunken ship and, following its discovery, the various claims to the ship's billion dollar cargo

A fictionalised account of an essayist’s exploration of the writer tells us more about contemporary women than the star quality of its protagonist

An exploration of scientific studies on art and health, short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction

Our round-up of the latest art publications

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

Topics covered in the publications range from a Renaissance sculptress and Baroque Rome to 1930s Manchester and Frida Kahlo

Several books out this summer use art as a springboard—we speak to some of their authors

The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries

The best Courbet publications, from a comprehensive monograph to a look at how he was “a skilful media strategist”—selected by the curators Sonja Pizonka and Anna Brohm

The book, estimated at up to £600,000, is the first original edition to appear at auction in more than a century

Our round-up of the latest art publications

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

We speak to the writer Isaac Butler about his book revisiting the battles over censorship and public funding in the US during the 1980s and 1990s

Three key takeaways from a new book that looks at the artist's designs for shop awnings, advertising illustrations, screen-printed clothes and more

The best Abramović publications, from an intimate memoir to a collection of the artist’s aphorisms—selected by the curator Shai Baitel

The little understood art form is explored in the collected essays of 12 leading scholars