Individual Artists, Art Monographs

Keith Vaughan's Journals merits a place among the greatest confessional writing of the twentieth century. Vaughan belonged to the Neo-Romantic grou...

'[Beardsley's] vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed watching his mother dress for a dinner-party... He is allured, yet afraid to touc...

'In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pi...

There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popu...

This book celebrates the life and works of Lee Qoede (1913–1965), who focused on art’s social purpose and representation of civilians. He believed ...

The work celebrates the artist s regard for the delights of the quintessentially American summer experience, from its sweet ice creams and chilled ...

The first ever authoritative guide to Turner and all aspects of his art J. M. W. Turner is generally acknowledged not only as Britain's greatest p...

What Andy Warhol didn't know--or pretended not to know--changed history.  He habitually adopted the guise of a fool in public, which made it all th...

The iconic Dome of the Cathedral of Florence, the largest masonry vault in the world, was built by Filippo Brunelleschi between 1420 and 1436. More...

'The Tomb of an Unknown Craftsman is of a treasure hoard from a distinct civilisation. The difference is that it is a civilisation of one. The terr...

This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles  B. J. O. Nordfe...

It has been more than fifty years since John Waters filmed his first short on the roof of his parents’ Baltimore home. Over the following decades, ...

This monograph is the first to collect the photographs of internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Barry McGee. Though best known for the invent...

At the centre of René Myrha’s (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectives which are transformed into stag...

Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as ‘an artist of non-violence,’ crafting as he did a set of practices of the self and politics that earned hi...