The conversations of Burne-Jones, nineteenth-century painter of melancholy, abstract angels, with his assistant, revealing a loveable, witty man, articulate about his world, craft and contemporaries.
William Blake’s fine watercolours illustrating the most perfect of John Milton’s shorter poems, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, a revelation in English literature and art.
Jan Marsh examines Elizabeth Siddal’s story to coincide with The Rossetti’s exhibition at Tate Britain.
This is the first compilation of all of Ruskin’s published writings relating to the Pre-Raphaelites, beginning with the celebrated passage in the first volume of Modern Painters (1843).
The first book dedicated to the fascinating nineteenth-century art collector and philanthropist Richard Wallace, with 490 illustrations and new information on Wallace’s origins and life.
Witty, illuminating, coruscating essays on art and museums from the late twentieth century to now, by one of Britain's leading curators and agitators.
Sixty-nine of the finest portraits by Julia Margaret Cameron, great photographic pioneer, with appreciations by Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry.
Anthony Dawton and Jim McFarlane's photographs of Rohingya people living in the refugee camp at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, having fled genocide by Myanmarese government, military and militias.
Beautiful catalogue for the Holburne’s retrospective of Henry Moore’s small-scale sculptures in stone, wood, terracotta, plaster, lead, plasticine and bronze, including works previously unpublished and unexhibited.
John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever, and it transformed architecture forever. This abridged version still contains the original’s essence.
These reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich by fellow romantic painters and poets give a fascinating picture of the impact of his art on his contemporaries.