Books
Books: Liszt, the nineteenth-century celebrity's life in photographs
A new photo-documentary of the pianist and composer Franz Liszt
Super sculpture scholarship collections in quick succession
The Victoria and Albert Museum has published its catalogues of the British, German, and Netherlandish collections in quick succession
Books: Leonardo as larger-than-life, but also human
Two studies of the Renaissance artist’s works reveal divergent assumptions about interpretation
The Scottish garden hawk flies into New York, Louise’s new love, the youngest collector, and where to buy a book
Raising the flag in the West (Village)
Sir Paul Getty’s library to live on as part of a charitable foundation
The American-born benefactor bought rare books and manuscripts for over 20 years
A story of politics and class in a new biography of Henry Cole
An exhaustive treatment of the man behind the Great Exhibition, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Prince Albert and much, much more
What's on: Matisse Picasso: two giants of 20th-century bookmaking
Ursus Books Ltd Matisse Villon C.G. Boerner The sculptures of Picasso Gagosian Gallery
Spring books: US. Decorative arts to the fore
Photography, Asian art, the art of antiquity, Old Masters, and historiography are also among the topics covered
Recent publications by Richard T. Neer, Barbara Barletta and Mary Beard delve into Classical antiquity
The Art Newspaper reviews contemporary scholarship on vase-painting, architectural orders and The Parthenon
Tracey Emin follows up book buzz with a retrospective down under, but will the Aussies approve?
The Art Gallery of New South Wales plays host to her new show
A selection of books recently received
Ancient art/15th-21st century/Art history/Architectural and garden history/Asian art/Decorative arts, design/Museum catalogues, guide books/Photography/Fiction
This book argues that aristocratic collectors were the main cause of the emergence of a French School of painting
Shopping for France?
Places categorised as UNESCO's World Heritage Sites are subject to immense tourism: what is the effect?
As Unesco celebrates the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this book analyses the effects of its policies in developing countries
Books: American art from Norsemen to Culture Wars
A well-written history of art in North America for students
As major Egyptian exhibitions open in Venice and Washington, the complex case of the European exploitation of Egyptian archaeology is given a timely airing
Book Review: Whose Pharaohs?
John Richardson's "Sacred monsters, sacred masters", a vision of the idiosyncratic personalities that left their mark on the art world
John Richardson’s insights into the great artists and collectors of the last century
Oriental origins of Italian Renaissance art
How Islamic decorative arts influenced 15th- and 16th-century Western artists
Scholarly discussion on the Parthenon frieze, Athenian archaeology, and funerary sculpture
Attic attitudes
Peeling potatoes, painting pictures: women artists in post-Soviet Russia, Estonia and Latvia
Renée Baigell and Matthew Baigell's book reviewed
Books: Latest assessment of Anselm Kiefer proves to be a book without a spine
An uncritical, adoring treatment of the artist has not served him well
'For the King’s pleasure': a ground-breaking study of the interiors of Windsor Castle by a director of the Royal Collection under Elizabeth II
A landmark account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings at Windsor Castle, by Hugh Roberts, who was closely involved in the restoration of many of those interiors following the 1992 fire
When the Cold War was hot: 'The battle for Realism: figurative art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-60'
The socio-political aspects of the debates about figurative art that raged after World War II are explored in James Hyman's new book
The story of a style journey in the V&A's British galleries
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections
The story of a style journey at the Victoria & Albert
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness and diversity of the museum’s collections
New in Books: High culture and no clothing
Nudes with Phaidon and Tate, painted ladies with HarperCollins and the National Portrait Gallery going abroad with Thames & Hudson, Ashgate, Lawrence King, the British Museum and Cambridge University Press
Books: Adam classicism to Tinseltown Rococo
Something for everyone: “animalcules”, Baltic art, the Cecils, CD-Roms, Cézanne, Chinese furniture, Clement Greenberg decadence, Holbein, Japanese design, Kahn, Leonardo, Millais, Modernism, Palladio, Tiffany silver, terracotta sculpture
Art publishers cover everything from traditional art history and exhibition catalogues to the heroes of digital games
From Dürer to digital beauties
Perry Ogden, John Edwards, 7 Reece Mews
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.