Art History

How many times have you read the caption next to a work of art in a museum or gallery, or a review of an exhibition, and found yourself none the wi...

This large-format overview of the work of John Heartfield draws on the superlative collections of the Academie der Kunst, Berlin, and the David Kin...

A lavishly illustrated look at the sources behind the paintings of Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon famously found inspiration in photographs, film-...

A revelatory resituation of Van Goghs familiar works in the company of the surprising variety of nineteenth-century art and literature he most reve...

A revelatory look at an underexplored chapter of American art, which took place not on American soil but in France In the late nineteenth and earl...

Ashley Longshore now turns her eye toward badass women throughout history with Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women. Longshore s pop art paintings ar...

Delving into a hitherto unexplored aspect of Irish art history, Painting Dublin, 18861949 examines the depiction of Dublin by artists from the late...

Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990) since a brief monograph in 1985. It uses Spears career to unlo...

Black artists in Britain have long been making major contributions to art history. While some of these artists have been embraced at times by the a...

There's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall: the first in-depth investigation into the mysteries of the world's most famous living artist....

Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip i...

An introduction to the rich and diverse art of California, this book highlights its distinctive role in the history of American art, from early-20t...

The extraordinarily revealing interviews with Francis Bacon conducted over a period of 25 years by the distinguished art critic David Sylvester am...

Pablo Picasso''s artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome publication examines a particular aspect of his legendar...

The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 Must surely be the definitive life of Fra...

This book rediscovers an important contribution to a popular field of graphicdesign and suggests that Ismar David's calligraphicbookjacketspresent ...

This magnificent companion to ÊThe Art of HorrorÊ from the same creative team behind that award-winning illustrated volume looks at the entire hi...

The story of one of the world''s greatest cover artists told through his iconic 1960s and 1970s Agatha Christie paperback designs, which influenced...