ART & PHOTOGRAPHY
A Bookseller Recommends...
Vermeer
Andrew Graham Dixon
"My standout book from this year was Andrew Graham Dixon’s magisterial biography of the Dutch Golden Age painter Vermeer.
Blending meticulous historical research with a deep passion and appreciation for his subject, Andrew brings Vermeer out of the shadows, and offers a modern and radical re-evaluation of this most enigmatic and elusive of painters." ~ Rachel, Edinburgh
Vermeer
Andrew Graham Dixon
Ice Age art now
Jill Cook
William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
Philip Hoare
Ancient India
Sushma Jansari and Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
How To Art
Kate Bryan
Nordic Noir
Jennifer Ramkalawon
Radical Harmony
Julien Domercq, Christopher Riopelle and Chiara Di Stefano
How High: A Portrait of The Charlatans
Tim Burgess and Tom Sheehan
Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun
Franny Moyle
Paris in Ruins
Sebastian Smee
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
In the Hide
Gordon Buchanan
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries
Judith Mackrell
Edvard Munch Portraits
Alison Smith and Knut Ljøgodt
Holbein
Elizabeth Goldring
The Secret Painter
Joe Tucker
The Secret Painter
Joe Tucker
Stan and Gus
Henry Wiencek
Utterly Lazy and Inattentive
Martin Parr and Wendy Jones
Henri Rousseau
Christopher Green, Nancy Ireson, Barbara Buckley, Juliette Degennes, Martha Lucy, Mina Porell and Anya Shutova
So in the Spruce Forest
Ali Smith
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry
The Art Isles
Charlotte Mullins
David Gilmour — Luck and Strange — Studio/Live
Polly Samson
Making Matters
Clare Hunter
Anselm Kiefer
Lena Fritsch
Art Is
Makoto Fujimura
Banksy: Completed
Carol Diehl
A Bigger Message
Martin Gayford
Caspar David Friedrich
Alison Hokanson and Joanna Seidenstein
Helen Chadwick
Laura Smith
Holbein: The Ambassadors (One Painting, One Story)
Tracy Borman
Irascible
Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi
Jenny Saville
Sarah Howgate, John Elderfield, Andrea Karnes, Roxanne Gay, Emanuele Coccia, Sally Mann and Nicholas Cullinan
Leonardo: The Virgin of the Rocks (One Painting, One Story)
Leah Kharibian
Man Ray
Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson
Michaelina Wautier
Jean Bastiaensen, Lara de Merode, Anne Delvingt, Kirsten Derks, Gerlinde Gruber, Pierre-Yves Kairis, Alice Limb, Katlijne van der Stighelen and Sabine van Sprang
Millet
Sarah Herring and Simon Kelly
A Renaissance Treasury
Caterina Badan
Vasari. The Theater of Virtues
Cristina Acidini and Alessandra Baroni
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Banksy: The Prints
Roberto Campolucci-Bordi
Famm: Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France
Samantha Baskind, Jennifer R. Cohen, Ellen G. Landau, Debra N. Mancoff, Jennifer Samet, Yayoi Shionoiri and Christian Levett
Hiroshige
Alfred Haft
Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)
Sarah Grant, Manolo Blahnik, Sofia Coppola and Antonia Fraser
Tell Your Dog I Love Them
Harriet Lowther
The Upside-Down World
Benjamin Moser
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Caravaggio's Cupid
Helen Langdon
Clara Peeters
Alejandro Vergara-Sharp
Constable
Tim Barringer
Damien Hirst: The Civilisation Paintings
Damien Hirst
The Foreign Invention of British Art
Leslie Primo
How to Be Avant-Garde
Morgan Falconer
Josefa de Óbidos
Carmen Ripollés
Naked Portrait
Rose Boyt
Noah Davis
Wells Fray-Smith, Eleanor Nairne and Paola Malavassi
Painted Mysteries
Caroline Chapman
The Scottish Colourists
Christina Jansen
Seeing Silence
Dita Amory
Turner and Constable
Amy Concannon, Thomas Ardill, Frank Bowling, Nicole Cochrane, Sarah Gould, Richard Johns, Katharine Martin, Nicola Moorby, Bridget Riley, Nicholas Robbins, Emma Roodhouse, George Shaw, Emma Stibbon and Joyce Townsend
The Writer's Cats
Muriel Barbery
Alfred Stevens
Teresa Sladen
Andrew Wyeth at Kuerner Farm
William L. Coleman and Allison Slaby
Art and Revolution
John Berger
Damien Hirst
Ralph Gleis and Elsy Lahner
The Disenlightenment
David Mamet
Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris
Caitlin Haskell, Tamar Kharatishvili and Alive Piliado Santana
Goya
Jacqueline Cockburn
The Great Exhibition in Art
Julius Bryant
Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 45th Ed.
Lorenz Bichler and Melanie Trede
Immortal Thoughts
Christopher Neve
An Indian Sketchbook
Anthony Eyton
Leonardo da Vinci
Stephen J. Campbell
The Life of the Fields
Steve Marshall and Gill Clarke
Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar
Caroline Elam and Guido Rebecchini
Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945
George T. M. Shackelford, Irina Hiebert Grun and Joachim Jager
Rise Up
Victoria Avery and Wanja Kimani
Turner
Ian Warrell
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky
Wright of Derby
Christine Riding and Jon King
Art Work
Sally Mann
Gilbert & George and the Communists
James Birch
The Graces
Breeze Barrington
Looking to Sea
Lily Le Brun
Raucous Invention
Mark Hearld
Vanessa Bell
Wendy Hitchmough
Ways of Life
Laura Freeman
William Nicholson
Simon Martin, Melanie Vandenbrouck, Miriam O'Connor, Stephen Calloway, Jane Pritchard and Patricia Reed
Wound Man
Jack Hartnell
Andres Valencia
Andres Valencia and Alexander M. Rigby
Anselm Kiefer
Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Art on the Move in Renaissance Italy
David Landau
Beyond Ophelia
Glenda Youde
Blake
Elizabeth Wyckoff
Brutal Scotland
Simon Phipps
A Bookseller Recommends...
Mothering
Caroline Walker
"My favourite book this year is the catalogue from the latest exhibition of the fabulous Scottish artist Caroline Walker.
This is a wonderful celebration of the act of mothering, and all the different forms the experience can take.
No mundane aspect of caring is too insignificant to be recognised in gloriously large canvases that delve into the complex experiences of being a woman in contemporary society." ~ Alessia, Edinburgh
A Bookseller Recommends...
Art Work
Sally Mann
The much-anticipated new book by photographer Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process
Art Work offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons for artists and writers—or anyone interested in the creative path.
Written in the same frank, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.
A Bookseller Recommends...
Lessons for Young Artists
David Gentleman
We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going.
For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain’s best-known and most loved artists.
Here he shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art.
The Story of Art without Men
Katy Hessel
What Artists Wear
Charlie Porter
Lover's Eyes: Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection
Elle Shushan
Faith Ringgold
Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari
What is Black Art?
Alice Correia
Women's Work
Ferren Gipson
Sheila Hicks
Andrew Bonacina
Hokusai
Amelie Balcou
Consumed
Aja Barber
This Dark Country
Rebecca Birrell
The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn
Richard Saul Wurman and Eugene Feldman
Women in Abstraction
Christine Macel and Karolina Lewandowska
Photo No-Nos
Jason Fulford
Photography – A Feminist History
Emma Lewis
Covered in Time and History
Howard Oransky, Laura Wertheim Joseph, Lynn Lukkas, Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, John Perreault, Michael Rush and Rachel Weiss
Julie Manet
Marianne Mathieu, Dominique d’Arnoult and Claire Gooden
Flora Photographica
William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud
Working Girl
Sophia Giovannitti
Living in Japan. 45th Ed.
Alex Kerr and Kathy Arlyn Sokol
Earth & Fire
Kylie Johnson and Tiffany Johnson
Decolonizing Design
Elizabeth and Ene Agi
Bernd & Hilla Becher
Jeff L. Rosenheim
Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed
Ed Templeton, Brian Anderson, Erik Ellington, Justin Regan, Elissa Steamer, Deanna Templeton and Karina Eckmeier
Forms of Japan
Michael Kenna and Yvonne Meyer-Lohr
The Kinfolk Home
Nathan Williams
On Painting
Leon Alberti
Louise Bourgeois
Ralph Rugoff, Lynne Cooke, Rachel Cusk, Julienne Lorz and Joseph Logan
Thunderclap
Laura Cumming
Which as You Know Means Violence
Philippa Snow
Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature
Ella Ravilious
