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melted and worked with great precision, polished to a mirror finish, endure extremes of temperature and it even has antibiotic properties. It has been used for coins, dowries, hoards and college plate and to advertise status. Here, in all its glory is silver as personal adornment, and used in accessories ranging from swords and baldrics to snuff boxes, walking sticks, fans and chatelaines. 128 pages with lovely, shimmering illustrations.


$22.95 NOW £6 74982 PACIFIC ART IN


DETAIL by Jenny Newell With more than 10,000 inhabited islands, the Pacific Ocean is probably the world’s most diverse region and this book, which showcases treasures both old and new from the


extraordinary Oceania collection at the British Museum,


encompassing as it does around 37,000 items, and ranging from 11,000-year-old archaeological finds to contemporary paintings and sculpture, provides an enlightening view of that incredible diversity. Past Pacific artists created objects that centred on managing the power of people and deities, land and sea, spirits and ancestors. Contemporary artists explore the changing world, engaging with local and global practices in art. The collection includes works in wood, stone, bone, textiles, ceramics, feathers, dog fur, sea shells, coconut shell, plastic, metal and more. Short texts place each individual object in its cultural context. Handsome photos of each complete work are displayed to allow for intriguing comparisons between seemingly unrelated objects and media. A strikingly designed and beautifully illustrated 144 pages in stunning colour, with British Museum registration numbers, publications, collections and website, lists of other Pacific collections, map, sources of quotations, and glossary. $22.95 NOW £7


74988 SHAKESPEARE AND


HIS CONTEMPORARIES: National Portrait Gallery Insights by Charles Nicholl Delving deep into the archives of the National Portrait Gallery, Charles Nicholl investigates the portraits and lives of over 20 subjects of the 16th century, from playwrights to pamphleteers, from their patrons to actors and lovers.


He demonstrates how Elizabethan society valued literary talent, how these writers saw themselves, what motivated these men and women to write, who paid them and who provided their inspiration. Shakespeare, it seems, was not the lone genius that we sometimes imagine. On the contrary, he belonged to a talented and influential group of writers, poets and dramatists, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh and Lady Mary Wroth. This is the compelling story of how Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political warfare they somehow managed to find expression for what it means to be human. 112 pages beautifully illustrated in b/w and colour with portraits, engravings and printed documents. ONLY £6


75010 LOST BATTLES: Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Artistic Duel that Defined the Renaissance by Jonathan Jones


Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti found it difficult to live in the same country, let alone work in the same room. So when, in 1504, they were both employed to create wall paintings of battle scenes in Florence’s Great Council Hall this collision of monstrous talents and


equally immense egos was certain to see all hell break loose. In 1503 Leonardo started the Mona Lisa. It so delighted his fellow citizens that he was given the Great Council Hall commission. But in the nearby cathedral workshop the younger Michelangelo was finishing his statue of David. Niccolo Machiavelli decided that there should be a formal competition between the two men, and thus began a defining moment of the Renaissance, the mirror of an entire age. Their lives would never be the same again, and neither would the story of art. The younger man was adjudged to have won the competition and went on to his greatest triumph, the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Leonardo, in contrast, saw that this new religious art was not something he could embrace, and emigrated to France, where he lived out his days as the king’s painter, resident genius and court philosopher. 360pp with eight pages of colour plates, notes and list of works by both artists. £25 NOW £7


73805 WORLD’S GREATEST WAR CARTOONISTS AND CARICATURISTS


1792-1945 by Mark Bryant 300 brief biographies in this book cover international war cartoonists from 30 countries, including German artists during both World Wars, together with details of the journals that published their work and 150


reproductions. In 1859 John Leech’s famous cartoon of Napoleon III as a bristling porcupine unconvincingly spouting words of peace appeared in the pages of Punch, while in 1870 the aristocratic French cartoonist “Cham” was still picturing the unpopular Napoleon in a favourable light, fighting the Prussians to the last. World War I cartoons include a Futurist Hitler by “E”, a French cartoonist who worked for London’s Evening Standard, and a frame from Alfred Leete’s “Schmidt the Spy” cartoon strip in which Schmidt is unconvincingly disguised in full Highland regalia. Anti-Nazi cartoons of World War II include works by E.H. Shepard. 192pp, 150 reproductions some in colour. £20 NOW £7.50


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73559 LETTERED CREATURES


by Brad Leithauser and Mark Leithauser We will eat our copy of Bibliophile if readers do not find this extraordinary book the most unusual rendering of the alphabet they have ever seen. We defy anybody to deny that the choice of


a Striped-Face Unicornfish to illustrate the letter U is at the very least unusual - not to say unique. Produced in collaboration by two talented brothers, the verse might be said to be reminiscent of Stephen Sondheim and the sketches to raise echoes of Sir John Tenniel who drew the illustrations for the Alice books, but we believe comparisons are out of place. As the publisher says, this is a ‘non-pareil, an ark containing its own precious world of verbal and graphic invention’. Each weird creature is captured in an eight-line poem plus a unique depiction of what it looks like. Here is the only alphabet ever to have a Zedonk to illustrate its last letter. In case you are wondering, that is a cross between a zebra and a donkey. And we can be sure no-one before has used Exes to represent the letter before Y! They are species like the Dodo who will not be coming back! A delightful 64 pages 26cm x 21cm with delicate graphite drawings. £16.95 NOW £8


74344 PAINTER RAs: A Guide to the Painter


Members of the RA by Dennis Toff The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in 1768 under the patronage of George III with 40 Members and 20 Associates and first housed in Pall Mall, then Somerset House before moving to Birlington House in 1867. The first president, Sir Joshua Reynolds, established it as a school to train artists and represent their interests. Today there are 116 Royal Academicians, 39 of whom are Senior, 40 painters, 22 sculptors and 15 architects. Our book photographs in full page colour 63 of the painters including some seniors. Includes David Tindal, Joe Tilson, David Remfry, Fiona Rae, Chris Orr, Ken Howard, Tracey Emin, Jennifer Dickson and the lovely Elizabeth Blackadder with her black cat in her arms! 126pp in large softback. £12.99 NOW £5


72508 NICHOLAS HILLIARD by Karen Hearn


As the leading Elizabethan miniaturist, Hilliard painted many notable characters of the era, including the Queen’s favourites: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Christopher Hatton, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and the ill-fated and rebellious Earl of Essex. Above all, Hilliard created several powerful portraits of Queen Elizabeth herself. Other royal sitters include Elizabeth’s successor James VI and her rival Mary Queen of Scots, while a portrait of Henry VIII is copied from Holbein’s celebrated study. Costumes indicate status and wealth, but Hilliard’s images also convey personality. Hilliard’s importance rests partly on a treatise about his working methods, covering both theory and practice and including some personal biography. Small format, 93pp, 30 colour reproductions. £19.95 NOW £8


72566 DESIGNS AND ORNAMENTS FROM THE CHAPELS OF NOTRE DAME


by Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc and Maurice Ouradou


Architecture theorist Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814-79) was a prominent leader in the French Gothic Revival and active in the restoration of medieval buildings. In 1845 he undertook one of the greatest projects in the history of restoration - the cleansing and restoration of Notre Dame and for the next 23 years he laboured at the task. The volume is based on a faithful reproduction of the restored mural paintings of the chapels, notable for their colouring. 60 full page colour plates of floral patterns, animals, geometric designs, scrollwork, chequerboard and famed gargoyles. 64 page large softback. £15.99 NOW £3


75033 TWILIGHT OF THE GRAND TOUR: A Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill edited by Tony Cubberley and Luke Herrmann


Subtitled ‘The Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill in the British School at Rome Library’, the collection is brought together with the collaboration of Valerie Scott. The English architecture James Hakewill left Dover in 1816 to begin a Grand Tour which was to last two years. He followed in the footsteps of many young English gentlemen and the high point of their journey was a visit to Rome and Naples. The drawings he made on that journey are published in this catalogue for the first time. They are very clever pencil drawings by an eminent artist which had remained intact in its original mahogany box for over 175 years. Remarkable editorial and printing skills have assured that the exceptionally high quality of this publication remains faithful and brings out the exactitude of the drawings themselves. There are for example the Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia, January 1817, the Coliseum Rome, the City of Bologna, the Apennines, Florence, Genoa with an extensive view across the bay with its lighthouses and rough coast, villas, lakes,


duomos, Lake Geneva, the Jura Mountains, beautiful village life, countryside and grand architecture at Frascati blending with more familiar bridges and monuments in Rome. Also includes a selection of beautiful engravings from James Hakewill’s book ‘A Picturesque Tour of Italy’. Hundreds of drawings in a 429 page very well bound large softback measuring 33.8 x 25 x 4.4cm. First edition.


ONLY £15


74976 MATISSE: Radical Invention 1913-1917


by Stephanie D’Alessandro and John Elderfield Between 1913, when he returned from his last trip to Morocco, and 1917 when he left Paris to live and work in the southern coastal city of Nice, Henri Matisse pursued a radically new and inventive approach to artistic production. Earlier, he had gained notoriety with canvases that combined his love of rich colour and arabesque line. Now, he relied upon geometric structures and a palette strong in blacks and greys, distilling his paintings to their essential elements and creating the most challenging, experimental and abstracted works of his career. This informative, original volume explores the evolution of the artist’s vision during this time, charting his innovative studio practices and his use of techniques across the media of painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. In so doing, it reveals deep connections between works, and demonstrates the importance of his development during this especially generative period. For example, Matisse himself acknowledged Bathers By A River and The Moroccans as among his most pivotal works. Each picture reveals the marks of its making, as the artist re-examined and revisited the canvas as if it were a sculpture, building, scraping and carving into the layers of paint. It was in this way that the artist explored the limits of his expression on the canvas itself rather than through separate preparatory studies, embracing the act of creation as a visible, vital subject. Divided into three parts, Defining A New Art, Changing Direction and Art As Experiment, this groundbreaking volume exemplifies a new kind of art history that fully integrates historical, technical and scientific information. 368 pages including never-before- published details, X-ray, infrared and archival images as well as over 650 illustrations. Yale University Press.


$50 NOW £20


73168 PRE-RAPHAELITES by Michael Robinson


In 1848, disillusioned with the prevailing academic style and teaching, a group of young students determined to reform art. So Sir John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt founded the Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. Inspired by medieval art and culture, the group used brilliant colours with meticulous detailing. Showcases a stunning collection of both famous and lesser-known paintings from one of the most interesting and important British art movements of the 19th century, this superb volume explores works by Millais, Rossetti, Hunt and their wider circle. 384 softback pages.


£9.99 NOW £5 72509 HEROES AND VILLAINS AT THE


NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: Over 50 Celebrities, Writers and Experts Debate Famous Britons by Gerald Scarfe et al


Refreshingly original, Scarfe’s caricatures reveal the vision of an exceptional draughtsman at work. As a writer who has anchored his career in making people laugh at politicians, he appreciates the humour of caricature but also exposes how merciless and unsettling it can be. Arguing their views for and against subjects as wide ranging as Henry VIII, Oswald Mosley, Tracey Emin and Virginia Woolf are famous public figures including Joanna Lumley, Ian Rankin, Simon Schama, Peter Hall and Mo Mowlam. 160 pages in colour and b/ w with short biographies of subjects. $40 NOW £10


74345 RECOLLECTIONS: The Life and Travels of a Victorian Architect


by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson Bt, R.A. Travelling extensively throughout Europe, Sir Thomas Graham Jackson (1835-1924) recorded his experiences in notebooks, sketchbooks and diaries. He was one of the most distinguished architects of his generation and was created a baronet by King George V in 1913 in recognition of his restoration of Winchester Cathedral. He is best known for his work at Oxford where he designed buildings for no fewer than 12 of the colleges and many other universities and City institutions. His landmark buildings are the Examination Schools in the High and the ‘Bridge of Sighs’ over New College Lane which has become almost an Oxford ‘logo’. An all-round designer in the Arts and Crafts tradition, Jackson designed stained glass, table glass and even a grand piano while restoring and designing churches, private houses and schools. A talented draughtsman and watercolourist, his visits to Dalmatia resulted in his writing a three-volume history. Illus, some in colour. 334pp.


£35 NOW £6.50


72511 CARAVAGGIO BACON edited by Michael Peppiatt and Anna Coliva


Caravaggio was one of the most penetrating and remarkable of all Italian artists while, as a painter and intellectual, Francis Bacon left a profound mark on 20th century art history in the United Kingdom. In their search for similarities and differences, the contributors address such issues as: The Sacred and the Profane, and Space and Reality. Maurizio Calvese also explores the outstanding art of a slandered painter, i.e. Caravaggio who was, perhaps falsely, accused of murder, while Chris Stephens examines Darkness, Life and Death in the Art of Francis Bacon, and Anna Coliva sees Caravaggio beckoning to Bacon in the Beauty of Sorrow. Includes their famous pieces such as Three studies of Lucian Freud by Bacon and Caravaggio’s David with the Head of Goliath. 223 softback pages, 28.5cm x 25cm in life-like colour. £35 NOW £11


72512 DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY - BRITISH by John Ingamells


A bequest in 1811 of a treasure trove of paintings by, among others, Poussin, Rembrandt and Rubens, transformed the gallery into a major public collection, and it was given a purpose-built new building designed by Sir John Soane. The Linley bequest contributed several major canvases by Gainsborough, shifting the focus of the collection towards the previously neglected area of British art - a process further consolidated by many gifts and bequests, most notably that of Charles Fairfax Murray who, in 1911, donated over 50 spectacular paintings, mostly British. Here are a beautiful early Gainsborough An Unknown Couple in a Landscape, two Hogarths, Hudsons, Lucy Ebberton by George Knapton, a Kneller, a great Lely and many more. 287 pages 29cm x 22cm in colour and b/w. Previous owners and sales, numerical index and concordance. £40 NOW £13


72562 ART AND ILLUSTRATION OF WALTER CRANE by Jeff A. Menges


Few artists of Walter Crane’s generation achieved careers as varied and successful as his. This compilation reflects the diversity of his subjects: alphabet books, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, scenes from stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood and illustrations inspired by the classics of Shakespeare, Hawthorne and Spenser. He led the way towards the Golden Age of Illustration. This original collection features more than 100 of the artist’s brilliant images. It constitutes a survey of his paintings as well as a visual history of the development of the first colour illustrations. 109 paperback pages 28cm x 21cm in b/w and delicate colour. £18.99 NOW £6.50


71676 GOD’S ARCHITECT: Pugin and the


Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill


Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain’s greatest architects. The son of a French draftsman, he worked for King George IV at Windsor Castle at the age of 15. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. 19 years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture in works as revered as the House of Lords and the Clock Tower at Westminster, Big Ben. Our book is the first modern biography which draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and Gothic designer. It also tells the turbulent story of his three marriages. Colour plates, photos and woodcuts. 601pp. $45 NOW £9


72582 SPANISH TILE DESIGNS IN FULL


COLOR by Carol Belanger Grafton Tiles have long been a staple of Spanish design and décor, ubiquitous in all sorts of buildings large and small, private and public, architect-designed or strictly vernacular. Here the author has brought together nearly 100 classic tile designs from the turn of the 20th century displaying multiple colours, many revealing striking Moorish influence and incorporating stylised flowers and leaves as well as rich abstract patterns. 64 page softback.


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