“Today the photo magazines have all folded or been turned into vehicles for lifestyles and personality portraits”

No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures

The birth of American collecting: Frick, Mellon and Carnegie analysed

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

This study of the Suprematist artist fails to recognise that his mathematical games were metaphorical, not computational

Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot and Frans Leidelmeijer, Dutch Decorative Arts, 1880-1940

Computer-generated reconstructions relate Islamic architecture to other key monuments

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