Books
UK's National Trust to catalogue its books collection with US funding
Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses
Phaidon to publish Warhol catalogue raisonné
It will comprise of six volumes, beginning with his production from 1961 to 1963
How women and the Sound of Sleat were the inspirations for Jon Schueler's life and work
Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides
Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
Books: Hilary Young, English porcelain, 1745-95
Identifying the common circumstances behind the 18th-century ceramics industry
William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors
A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Recent publications from Thames & Hudson and more
Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums
Books: Unusual angles and changing perspectives of Renaissance Masters
Raphael gets assessed according to the theories of Rudolph Steiner and Vasari’s judgement of Andrea del Sarto is reversed
Current exhibitions and publications on Turner: No stone left unturned
As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship
Two books look at women in the art world and conclude from entirely different approaches that, even after thirty years, the struggle remains the same
"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"
Christie's remove volumes from October sale to investigate links to Jagiellonian Library theft
Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered
Book review: Gautier Deblonde with Mel Gooding on prominent British artists
Artists (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999)
Books: Robert Zwijnenberg on order and chaos in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci
A new book explores the notebooks of the Renaissance Master
Book Review: Pewter at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Anthony North uses the collection to illustrate the history of pewter design and decoration
Books: Hubert von Herkomer as an egotist with a warm heart
Admired by Van Gogh and an enormously successful artist in his lifetime, Herkomer was a polymath and man of action
Book Review: How we almost lost the Mona Lisa
The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book
The use of American art in the Cold War
This book reveals how the CIA’s promoted US artists as a way of stopping the spread of Communism in the years after World War II
The Victoria and Albert Museum. The great Kensington Kunstkammer
The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books
Books: All the marvels of Mughal painting
The latest volume in the catalogues of the Khalili Collection describes the art of the Muslim courts of India
Books: Expanding on Hallmark's photographic collection
This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America
Books: Modernism behind the Iron Curtain and in wartime Paris
The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books
Books: Essays on sex, gender and identity in Dada
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada
The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany
Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach
Books: Recognising the writer, Dalí
A new collection draws attention towards a neglected part of the Surrealist's output
Two new books examine ceramics from different points of view
One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read
Books: Capa's photographs of the Spanish Civil War
Tales of stoicism in the face of extreme adversity
The lives of the collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan. Everything but the art
This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting
Man Ray photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
Books: Salvador Dalí’s art and writing receives refreshing review
A new study of the Surrealist painter's life and work