Books
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
"Painting the Absolute": Four volumes on Kazimir Malevich, the pioneering painter-priest of abstraction
Andréi Nakov, a leading expert on Malevich, has produced a large-scale study of the Russian avant-garde's art and life
Books, Anna Jackson, Japanese country textiles
A visually rich if somewhat repetitive account
The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go
The Pre-Raphaelites: three down, two to go as Ford Madox Brown joins Rossetti and Holman Hunt as fully documented
Books in brief: British and Irish Art, 1945-51
Despite some factual inaccuracies, this is a refreshing and invigorating presentation that challenges assumptions
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge subject of new biography and exhibition catalogue
The “discoverer” of animal locomotion influenced artists including Francis Bacon
‘I’ve never met anyone who collects cynically’: an interview with Steve Martin
The polymath performer Steve Martin has written An Object of Beauty, a novel set in the art world. So should every dealer he’s ever met be afraid?
Books: A portrait of Ford Madox Brown through his four 'loves'
A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown