Books
Museum and National Trust approaches to textile conservation
A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium
Janet Myles, L.N. Cottingham, 1787-1874: architect of the Gothic Revival
Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position
Gilles Mora, Photospeak: a guide to the ideas, movements and techniques of photography, 1839 to the present (Abbeville Press, New York, 1998), 216 pp, 50 b/w ills, 13 col. ills, £20 (hb) ISBN 0789203707, £12.95 (pb) ISBN 0789200686
A Review of Mora's new book on photography
William St Clair makes a rebuttal to the British Museum's defence of its competence to curate Parthenon Marbles
St Clair demands greater candour in the fallout of Lord Elgin and the Marbles' third edition, in which it was asserted that over-cleaning had irreparably damaged the marbles
Europe’s top photography collection now has a permanent gallery. From the dawn of photography to now
At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world
Guerrilla Girls: Rewriting art history from the distaff side
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art
Furniture in the Palazzo Pitti, table tops take the palm
The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut
This book by a leading London dealer analyses the market from 1970 to the present
Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"
Books: Shame, shyness and self-obsession in new Dalí monograph
Ian Gibson on Surrealism as an escape and the façade of eccentricity
Interior architecture: a domestic model for intellectuals
Designers Carl and Karin Larsson were creators of Swedish style, at present much featured in the glossies
Jane Bassett and Peggy Fogelman, Looking at European sculpture: a guide to technical terms
A useful guide to European sculpture terminology
Ceramics: Blue and white, all right!
A round-up of some recent books on porcelain, pottery and delftware
Jane Bassett and Peggy Fogelman, Looking at European sculpture: a guide to technical terms
This handy book is a reliable and well presented dictionary of terms used in European sculpture.
"Workers: an archaeology of the industrial age"
Synopsis of Sebastião Salgado's reissued paperback.
Requiem for photojournalism: New publications and exhibitions
“Today the photo magazines have all folded or been turned into vehicles for lifestyles and personality portraits”
Books: Looking at women in Paola Tinagli's "Women in Italian Renaissance art"
No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures
New book demystifies nineteenth-century Pittsburgh collectors and how they rose out of the US's industrial centre
The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed
Speaking prose all their lives: The relationship between art Victorian social mores explored
A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors
Books: Dr Milner struggles with Malevich's relationship with geometry
This study of the Suprematist artist fails to recognise that his mathematical games were metaphorical, not computational
Book review: Dutch decorative arts
Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940
Books: The Muslims’ transformation of Christian Jerusalem
Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments
Books: The Rothko chapel and religious art without God
A study in obscurity for the twenty-fifth anniversary
Books: The “Spoils of War” 1995 conference papers
A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution
Books: Small revelations only on lives of Duchamp, Johns, and Bacon
The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives
Whitney Museum blamed for the demise of a beloved book store
Books versus Basquiats?
Books: Edward Lucie-Smith and the visual arts in the twentieth century
This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?
Books: The first ever study of Salvador Dalí’s creativity through his own voluminous writings
Dalí in his own write
The Eames’s optimism, faith in technology and belief in design are revealed in this book of essays
Charles and Ray Eames are the American dream team
Pilars, Doloreses, Imaculadas etc catalogued at the V&A
Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture