Art

Ragamala: Paintings from India

Ragamala: Paintings from India
Anna L. Dallapiccola, Catherine Glynn and Robert Skelton
ISBN 13: 
9780856676987
£12.99

Ragamala is a unique form of Indian miniature painting developed by combining a variety of sources including musical codes and accompanying poetry to indicate the time of day, or season, in which the

Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven

Ian Dejardin
With: Anna Hudson, Katerina Atanassova MA, Nils Ohlsen
ISBN 13: 
9780856677083
£45.00

In early twentieth-century Toronto, Canada, the first stirrings of a new movement of painting were being felt.

Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe

Sigismund's Watch: A Tiny Catastrophe
Barbara Loftus
Monica Bohm-Duchen and Esther Leslie
ISBN 13: 
9780856677090
£28

Barbara Loftus’s figurative paintings and works in other media are known for their exploration of the interface between personal memory and historical events.

Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer

Ford Madox Brown
Julian Treuherz (author)
Contributions by: Kenneth Bendiner, Angela Thirlwell
ISBN 13: 
9780856677007
£29.50

Ford Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848.

A.J. Munnings: An Appreciation of the Artist and a Selection of His Paintings

Stanley Booth
ISBN 13: 
9780856676956
£14.95

Sir Alfred Munnings was a major figure in the great tradition of British horse painters, which includes Ben Marshall and George Stubbs.

William Etty: Art and Controversy

William Etty: Art and Controversy
Sarah Burnage
Mark Hallett
Laura Turner
ISBN 13: 
9780856677014
£35

William Etty RA (1787-1849) was one of the most prolific and successful British artists working in the first half of the nineteenth century.

An Artist's Village: G.F. and Mary Watts at Compton

Mark Bills
with contributions by Perdita Hunt, Hilary Underwood, Veronica Franklin Gould, Desna Greenhow
ISBN 13: 
978-0-85667-696-3
£19.95

The book tells the story of the impact of George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and his wife Mary Seton Watts (nee Fraser-Tytler, 1849-1938) on Compton, a small village in Surrey.

Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art

Ann Sumner
with Kenneth McConkey, Robert Holland, Sue Elks
ISBN 13: 
9780856677069
£20

Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art celebrates the origins of the game in Birmingham and explores the ways in which tennis has inspired artists from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling and Calculation

Edward Wadsworth: Form, Feeling, Calculation cover image
Jonathan Black
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 603 1
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 603 9
£39.50

Edward Wadsworth was a major figure in British art of the first half of the twentieth century.

Vojo Stanic: Sailing on Dreams

Vojo Stanic: Sailing on Dreams cover image
Robert Boyers et al.
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 650 5
£55

For over half a century the Montenegrin painter Vojislav Stanic has been living and working in the Mediterranean coastal town of Herceg Novi, observing the lives of its inhabitants from the window of

Joaquín Sorolla

Joaquín Sorolla cover image
Blanca Pons-Sorolla
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 605 5
£49.50

Born in Valencia, Sorolla was active mainly in his native town and in Madrid.

John Rogers: American Stories

John Rogers: American Stories cover image
Kimberly Orcutt (Editor)
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 689 5
£30

John Rogers (1829–1904) is arguably the most popular American sculptor ever, selling over 80,000 small plasters, known as ‘Rogers Groups’ over the course of a career that spanned the late nineteenth c

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006 cover image
Linda Chase
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 634 5
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 634 9
£35

John Salt's exquisite and intriguing evocations of abandoned cars and dilapidated trailers, often depicted in a rural setting, expand our definition of landscape and place him among the foremost reali

Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913-17

Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913-17 cover image
Sylvia Navarrete et al.
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 664 2
£29.50

Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits 1913-17 focuses on the crucial stage of Rivera's career during the second decade of the 20th century, which he spent in Paris and travelling in Europe with other ava

William Trost Richards: True to Nature

William Trost Richards: True to Nature cover image
Carol M. Osborne
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 683 3
£39.50

William Trost Richards (1833–1905) began his career as an artist of the Hudson River School.

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