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Technique anglaise: Current trends in British art

A useful, market-serving guide to thirty young British artists

Enigma by Clifford Irving delves into the fakes and forgeries of Elmyr de Hory

Over 20 years after it was originally written, Irving's book finally sees the sun

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Perfunctory eulogising: Tony Cragg

A book on the artist, who shows at the Lisson until 3 August

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The National Trust’s 6000 paintings on microfiche

Large, unpublished collections now available

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How Saddam Hussein's ideology was enshrined in his art commissions

New book "The Monument" explains why greater attention to the Iraqi director’s iconography might have illuminated Western politicians as to his ambitions

Jennifer Mundy argues conservative art can also be good art: On Jane Lee's new Derain monograph

The Tate curator discusses moving on from Fauvism and the relationship between originality and quality

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Books: Modigliani and Hébuternein in bohemia

Semi-scandalous biographies of artists are all the rage

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High tech whizz kids beat Rizzoli to purchase Phaidon

Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.

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From the archive | Immediacy of experience: Robert Hughes's 1990 monograph of Frank Auerbach

The author of "The Shock of the New" is both literary and discursive in the first book-length study of the German-born, London-based, artist