Books
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.
Books: Recent works on Leonardo take different but complementary approaches
Who was the real Leonardo da Vinci?
Books: Henri Vever's Bible of French jewellery studies
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
Books: Absence in art and the absent Kapoor artwork in analyses of nothing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
Snap to grid: a user’s guide to digital arts, media and cultures
New technology does not change anything except the context of art
Queen Victoria’s Centenary at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Conspicuous by her absence
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
What's on in London: The house that crashed on Japan and other urban dilemmas
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
From the archive | Caspar David Friedrich, the universal Romantic artist
The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Book Review: Jo Crook and Tom Learner, The impact of modern paints
(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 192 pp, 25 b/w ills, 160 col. ills, £16.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372874
Book review: Kirsh and Levenson's "Seeing through paintings: physical examination in art-historical studies"
A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy
Books: Documenting war, populism, protest and propaganda
Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon
Charting Vanbrugh's contribution to the development of the 18th-century garden.
Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (eds), Sir John Vanburgh and landscape architecture: art and design in baroque England, 1690-1730
Books: The photography of Bill Brandt
This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career
Books: Francis Bacon and the sudden experience of eye-opening words
David Sylvester reevaluates violence
Mitchell Prize names David Anfam winner for Rothko catalogue raisonné that “sets new standards”
Adriaen de Vries takes the new award for the outstanding exhibition catalogue
A charmed couple: the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement