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Books: Stalin’s supermuseum

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

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With the rise of the super-store, what will happen to the art book industry?

“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”

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Novel approaches: Changes in the German art book market

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

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Exploiting the exhibition catalogue: An assessment of art publishing today

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

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Goodbye Gutenberg, hello Gatesburg

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

Six-figure sum for Frida Kahlo’s journal

Abrams’s winning bid for 170-page illustrated diary

Books: A catalogue raisonné for Mark Rothko

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

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Updated Getty Museum illustrated catalogue

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

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V&A strangles its watercolours with artspeak

Illustrations partially compensate for jargon

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Abstract Expressionism at the Tate

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

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Useful dealers' survey responds to market interest in 19th-century ceramics

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

At last we have a serious decorative arts show: John Channon at the V&A,

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.

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Guide to procuring arts sponsorship published

The text includes illustrative examples alongside practical advice

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Books: Dangerous (artistic) liaisons examined

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

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Books: Tracing Francis Bacon and his lost Bohemia

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

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Dealers, collectors and Christie’s to fund Chatsworth book

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

430 unknown drawings by Modigliani brought to light as the son of the artist's best friend releases a new book

The works were collected day by day, from 1907 to 1914, by Paul Alexandre during the artist’s stay in Paris

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A look at the best of new art books

Books on non-Western art, women artists, and from the new art history

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Agnew’s 175th anniversary: the memoirs of a senior partner, Dick Kingzett

A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire

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Books: Spiegelman's comics come to MoMA

Maus, the highly successful re-telling of the Holocaust, uses mice, cats and pigs as the protagonists

Books: New 'comprehensive biography' fails to go beyond the public face of Joseph Beuys

Heiner Stachelhaus' book on the German artist leaves a lot to be desired

Hebborn the fake: everything we learned from the forger's autobiography

By his own claim, his forged oeuvre numbers some 1,100 works ranging from “Mantegna” and “Giorgione” to “Van Dyck” and “Piranesi”

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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