Books
Book Review: The arch of time
From its invention by the Romans, the monumental arch has been a feature of the built environment ever since
Book Review: A largely visual tour of Anselm Kiefer’s enormous studios and working methods
More than 300 illustrations explain how the German artist’s studio spaces have played a fundamental role in shaping his vision, work and philosophy
Parr and Badger's photobook trilogy completed with The Photobook: a History
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explore propaganda, conflict, sex, and death
Books: Have curators and collectors replaced critics? Paul Wood demystifies while Alistair Hicks disappoints
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
Hauser & Wirth makes a big birthday book
Another 20-year landmark, now in print
Books: A far from academic set-up at the Académie royale
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture promoted “diversity of manners” rather than stylistic unity
Books: Lambert Krahe as a collector for instruction, rather than pleasure
A biography of a perceptive 18th century collector
Portrait of Prince Nicholas II Esterházy as an avid collector, a bankrupt, and a womaniser
The Prince's passions cost him his fortune but gave Hungary a fine collection of art
If you read one book this year, make it one of these
Art-world luminaries, from Eli Broad and Marina Warner to Tim Marlow and Xu Bing, pick the best art books they read in 2013
The scholarly battle over Beuys
Let’s admit it: without the artist to explain and animate his work, much of it is incomprehensible
Books: The saviour of the Warburg Institute
Alongside Warburg, there was no room for Fritz Saxl to be anything other than his most faithful assistant
Books: William Morris and creating a social fabric
An indispensable book on Morris’s revolutionary cloth designs and techniques—and the political views that inspired them
Book Review: The first in-depth study of Pre-Raphaelite stained glass
Angels and Icons is an important contribution to Pre-Raphaelite studies and a welcome addition to scholarship on post-Medieval stained glass in Britain
Books: How Warburg helped to invent the exhibition—and the curator
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
Books: Portraits of a diverse selection of Scottish country houses
Perthshire’s answer to the Ritz revealed
Magnum Contact Sheets go under the microscope
A heavyweight volume exploring Magnum Photos goes in between the contact sheets to celebrate a dying technique
Maiolica explained through the world’s greatest collection of Renaissance decorative art
This book, linked to a current exhibition, explores the V&A’s unrivalled holdings
From the archive | Book review: How Caspar David Friedrich's star rose in the age of post-modernism
A magnificent visual record of the work of the German artist, who was virtually unknown before the 1960s, is matched by its scholarly text
Books: Francis Bacon, metaphysician
A new book considers the theological dimensions of the artist’s paintings
Books: The fake’s progress from a sign of genius to a nefarious act... and back again
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
Book Review: Ford Madox Brown’s moment
This catalogue is the first comprehensive examination of the pre-Raphaelite artist’s career for half a century
New owner plans digital future for Phaidon
Leon Black says art publisher to launch digital products
Books: Raphael—all things to all ages
Three new monographs show the artist is still the equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo, if not so popular
Books in brief: Paul Nash in Pictures
This book is a welcome reinterpretation of Nash for contemporary audiences
Ottoman perspectives
This original and brilliant book describes how Western archaeology and archaeologists appeared to Turkish eyes.
Books: The ecumenicity of iconophobia
Christian, Jewish and Muslim anxieties about images
Books: Rossetti’s fascination with women’s bodies and Dadd’s madness are investigated
Libido and lunacy — the obsessions of two artists
Books: A heavyweight volume trawls the archives of Magnum Photos to celebrate a once revolutionary, now dying technique
In between the (contact) sheets
Book Review: A decade of change between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic movement
An excellently wrought assessment of the cast of characters that defined the mid-19th century