The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail
The life and legacy of brilliant but elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through interviews, letters and the analysis of her elegant, modernist vessels
An exceptionally thoughtful and well-written biography of one of the most influential studio potters in Britain
A deft interweaving of architectural and social history
An exploration of Turner’s final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintings
A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment
A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene
A reconstruction of the ‘Strand palaces’, where England’s early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals.
The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages
A highly original study of eccentric English garden-makers and their extraordinary gardens
The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era
The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art