A study in obscurity for the twenty-fifth anniversary

A survey touching all the bases, including losses, recoveries, legal debates, and cultural restitution

The recent biographies of these art-world giants promise much but aside from anecdotes little is shown of the subjects’ inner lives

Books versus Basquiats?

This survey covers everything from Impressionism to Damien Hirst. Have we moved from uniformity to diversity or to post-modern incoherence?

Dalí in his own write

Charles and Ray Eames are the American dream team

Includes a selection of masterpieces of Spanish sculpture

Two books accompanying recent museum shows

Two catalogues on the work of Powell and Sons of Whitefriars

His great Persian manuscript paintings are now on loan to the Sackler

As interest in pre-colonial and colonial art grows, authors look to document Indonesian art

First ever complete edition of avant-garde artist’s writings appearing in five volumes

As the Red Army pushed back the Nazi invaders in 1944, a pair of Soviet art historians compiled a list of masterpieces from Europe’s museums to be brought back to Moscow

“The biggest change in the publishing business these days is the phenomenon of the super-store and the breakneck pace at which these stores are opening”

As the recession begins to abate in Germany, the market for art books blossoms

How publishers are coping with changes in academic approaches to art and the buying habits of the public

The future for art, books and education, as seen through the eyes of computer wizard Bill Gates, who last month bought the Leonardo Codex

Abrams’s winning bid for 170-page illustrated diary

Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued

Charissa Bremer-David et al Decorative Arts: an illustrated summary catalogue of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Illustrations partially compensate for jargon

Illustrating the factory’s output from 1894 to the late 1930s

“Myth making: Abstract Expressionist painting from the United States”

Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors

The Victoria and Albert Museum may be getting back into its stride as the world's top decorative art museum if the exhibition is anything to go by.

The text includes illustrative examples alongside practical advice

A poet married to a painter reviews a survey of creative partnerships including Ernst and Carrington, Pollock and Krasner, Rodin and Claudel, and more

Farson's biography of the tortured artist is a pub crawl around Fifties Soho

New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection