Modern & Contemporary Art

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.

Angus Fairhurst

Angus Fairhurst Cover Image
Sacha Craddock
James Cahill
ISBN 13: 
9780856676598
ISBN 10: 
978 0 85667 659 8
£29.50

He emerged as an artist of great talent in 1988 whilst still a student at Goldsmiths, when he helped organise and contributed work to the seminal exhibition Freeze.

Nothing Wasted: The Paintings of Richard Harrison

Nothing Wasted: The Paintings of Richard Harrison
Brian Sewell
ISBN 13: 
978 0 85667 683 3
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 683 7
£35

At a time when figurative painting has long been out of fashion in British art schools and among the curators of the nation’s galleries of modern art, its acknowledgement limited to Freud, Hockney and

Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s

Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s
Sarah Kent
ISBN 13: 
9780856675843
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 584 9
£25

The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product.

Morandi’s Legacy

Morandi’s Legacy
Professor Paul Coldwell
ISBN 13: 
9780856676208
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 620 9
£25

Giorgio Morandi is often defined within the traditions of still life and landscape painting, and is known for the domestic source of his subject matter.

Newlyn Flowers: The Floral Art of Dod Procter

Newlyn Flowers: The Floral Art of Dod Procter
Averil King
ISBN 13: 
9780856676048
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 604 7
£22.50

Here her flower paintings are compared with those of her contemporaries the Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell and Dora Carrington.

Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art

Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art
Tumelo Mosaka
Annie Paul
Nicolette Ramirez
ISBN 13: 
9780856676413
ISBN 10: 
085667641 1
£35

Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art presents a diverse, exciting selection of recent work in painting, installation, photography, prints, drawings, video, and sculpture by forty-five emerging

Christo and Jeanne-Claude - The Würth Museum Collection

Dr Dieter Ronte
ISBN 13: 
9780856675973
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 597 0
£29.50

The catalogue, which accompanies a travelling exhibition, includes works from the Museum Würth in Künzelsau, Germany, which has one of the most comprehensive collections of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's

Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain 1910 - 1920

Blasting the Future: Vorticism in Britain 1910 - 1920
Edited by Dr Jonathan Black
ISBN 13: 
9780856675720
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 572 5
£22.50

The time is ripe for a fundamental reassessment of the impact that Futurism had on British culture and of Vorticism, the specifically British avant-garde movement inspired by the founder of the Italia

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006

John Salt: The Complete Works 1969-2006
Linda Chase
ISBN 13: 
9780856676345
ISBN 10: 
0 85667 634 9
£29.50

A British artist who spent two decades living and painting in the United States, he came to prominence in the early 1970s as a leading and innovative Photorealist.

Subtlety and Strength: The Drawings of Dora Gordine

Subtlety and Strength: The Drawings of Dora Gordine
Jonathan Black
Fran Lloyd
ISBN 13: 
9780856676758
ISBN 10: 
978 0 85667 675 8
£22.50

In November 1938 leading art critic and father of British literary Symbolism, Arthur Symons, declared that the drawings of Dora Gordine combined, to an unusual extent, 'an absolute sureness of outline

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