Books
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
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich brought into focus in the first reliable catalogue raisonée of his drawings
The catalogue promises to be definitive and demonstrates why Friedrich was one of the most significant draughtsmen of his era
Books: The National Gallery’s latest Technical Bulletin makes some great discoveries
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009
Impressive publication on the anonymous 'RA' collection of Chinese porcelain
Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos' three-volume catalogue is painstakingly researched and beautifully presented
Books: A personal reflection on artistic responses to war
Records, celebrations, denunciations
The mysteries of Leonardo: A review of the National Gallery's new exhibition on the master
An exhibition catalogue that is erudite, sound and elegant—but for scholars, not the general reader
Books: Lee Krasner biography shows her at the centre of her own life, for once
Krasner was more than Pollock’s acolyte, argues Gail Levin
A first-rate history of photography, the V&A museum and its pioneering collecting
Collecting oneself—and a few others besides in the Victoria & Albert Museum Photographic Department
Books: Art not made by artists and trends in art production
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?
Books: The end of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The complete correspondence of the pre-Raphaelite painter and poet has reached the last of its nine volumes
Books: The amazing and flamboyant career of the US collector Norton Simon
Collecting outside of the box
Sandy Nairne and his life as an undercover negotiator: The ethics of retrieving Tate's Turners
The National Portrait Gallery director had a sensitive, secret role in recovering the stolen paintings
New book by Michael Peppiatt interprets Giacometti through the multi-functional nature of his workplace
The studio as stage, incubator and archive