Art

Art Reference, Theory & Criticism


From such fundamental works of art scholarship as Art Since 1900 to Herbert Read's classic primer, A Concise History of Modern Painting, our books are a mainstay of all students' and professionals' libraries.

Significant Others

Significant Others

Creativity and Intimate Partnership

  • Paperback
A wonderful collection of essays… – Tony Kushner, The New York Times

60.

60.

Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future

  • Hardback
Every now and again along comes a book that acts as a cultural bookmark … Thames & Hudson’s new doorstopper Sixty is just such a book – Grafik Magazine

Transgressions

Transgressions

The Offences of Art

  • Hardback
A welcome wake-up call, a bracing challenge to a self-styled avant-garde that is now the new orthodoxy – J. G. Ballard The Daily Telegraph

Understanding Italian Renaissance Painting

Understanding Italian Renaissance Painting

A Guide to the Artists, Ideas and Key Works

  • Flexibound PLC (no jacket)
Thoroughly dippable … the perfect bluffer’s guide to Renaissance art – V&A Magazine

Understanding Paintings

Understanding Paintings

Bible Stories and Classical Myths in Art

  • Flexibound PLC (no jacket)
A highly useful guide for those who have either forgotten their classical references or never knew them  – RA Magazine

Visions of the Modern

Visions of the Modern

  • Paperback
Golding is a brilliant writer: his work is full of art-historical insights and he additionally brings to his writing the eye and sensitivity of a practising artist. His 'Visions of the Modern' will be a very important book indeed – John Elderfield

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What's Next? 100 Years of the Contemporary Art Society

Inside Public Collections

  • Paperback
  • Distributed on behalf of C. T. Editions

What Makes a Masterpiece?

What Makes a Masterpiece?

Encounters with Great Works of Art

  • Hardback
Intelligent, lucid, intimate, the book is also beautifully illustrated – The Independent, Best Books for Christmas 2010

Women, Art, and Society

Women, Art, and Society

  • Paperback
Well written, accessible, a valuable tool for further research. – San Francisco Chronicle

The World of Ancient Art

The World of Ancient Art

  • Hardback
Circumnavigating the ancient world’s art with Sir John Boardman … is a rare privilege and source of both sensual and intellectual enlightenment – Sunday Telegraph