ART & ANTIQUES
Venice: City of Pictures Martin Gayford 6th July, hb, £30, 9780500022665 Author of Spring Cannot be Cancelled tells the story of Venice in terms of images made of and in it.
Surrealists in New York Charles Darwent 16th March, hb, £25, 9780500094266 Absorbing group biogra- phy revealing how exiles from wartorn France took Surrealism to America, helping to spark the movement that became Abstract Expressionism.
Artists’ Lives Michael Peppiatt 6th April, hb, £25, 9780500021965 Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art.
Drawing in the Present Tense Roger Malbert, Claire Gilman 30th March, pb, £35, 9780500294932 Richly illustrated, up-to- the-minute overview of new approaches in draw- ing, set in the context of recent developments of other forms of contempo- rary art.
Romantic Moderns Alexandra Harris 2nd March, pb, £14.99, 9780500296486 Award-winning study of England’s peculiarly insular variant of Modernism.
Immortal Thoughts Christopher Neve 9th March, hb, £14.99, 9780500025796 Remarkable and heartfelt, analysis of the late work of 19 major artists.
Wedgwood Catrin Jones, Tristram Hunt 2nd March, hb, £14.99, 9780500480755
Beautifully designed gift book devoted to the work of the renowned ceramics firm.
Contemporary Art Natalie Rudd 13th April, pb, £12.99, 9780500296707 Jargon-free account of contemporary art that identifies key themes and approaches.
SERIES
World of Art 2nd March, pb, £16.99, 9780500204 See the arts through expert eyes.
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Digital Art Christiane Paul vol 1 801 Velazquez Richard Verdi vol 2 740
The Art of the Bible Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle 23rd February, hb, £40, 9780500026168 Extensively illustrated compendium of 45 illumi- nated bibles.
The Boydell Press
The Stuart Image Roy Strong 7th March, hb, £30, 9781783277209 Based on a lifetime’s work, Strong offers an expert ook at portrait painting of the period, studying the sitters as much as the artists.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Romare Bearden: Patchwork Quilt Esther Adler 2nd February, Book, £14.95, 9781633451452 Latest book in MoMA’s One on One series.
Titan Books
HR Giger, Debbie Harry Metamorphosis Chris Stein 2nd February, hb, £50, 9781803362410 Graphic coffee table artbook chronicles the extraordinary collabora- tion for Harry’s 1981 solo album KooKoo.
Turner
Arnaldo Coen Arnaldo Coen 13th March, hb, £36, 9788417141165 Prominent Mexican artist’s restless, transgressive and irreverent creativity.
Tuttle
Blank Comic Book 7th March, pb, £9.99, 9780804855877 Tuttle Studio has produced a flexible manga sketchbook/ notebook/journal where the reader becomes the writer and artist.
Japanese Yokai and Other Supernatural Beings Andreas Marks 11th April, hb, £24.99, 9784805317150 Authentic Yokai images from the world’s leading museums and collections.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Non-fiction
Donatello Peta Motture (ed) 2nd February, hb, £45, 9781838510343 Explores Donatello’s extraordinary creativity and practical skills within the vibrant artistic
Anime & Manga Digital Coloring Guide Teruko Sakurai 7th March, pb, £15.99, 9784805317228 Colour science expert’s must-have guide for manga and anime artists. Japan’s leading colour- ist applies her expert knowledge to drawing effectively.
Drawing Manga Naoto Date, Kiyoshi Nitou 21st March, pb, £15.99, 9784805317266 Learn the essentials of manga drawing from professional Japanese illustrators.
A Guide to Drawing Manga Fantasy Furries Ryo Sumiyoshi 28th March, pb, £15.99, 9784805317341 Veteran illustrator stretches the boundaries of fantasy human-animal hybrids in his new book.
University of Delaware Press
The Celebrity Monarch Olivia Gruber Florek 17th February, pb, £36.50, 9781644532850 Reveals how portraits of Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, trans- formed monarchs from divinely appointed sover- eigns to public personali- ties whose daily lives were consumed by spectators.
Vanderbilt University Press
Goya and the Mystery of Reading Luis Martin-Estudillo 15th February, pb, £45.50, 9780826505323 Studies the way Francisco Goya’s work heralded the emergence of a new kind of viewer—one whom he assumed can and did read.
V&A
and cultural context of 15th-century Italy.
Full introduction to drawing—from choosing the right pencils to sketching from basic shapes and developing subjects step by step to creating realistic, three- dimensional drawings.
Dolls’ Houses Rachel Whiteread, Halina Pasierbska 8th June, hb, £20, 9781838510404 Dolls’ houses have fasci- nated children and adults for centuries. This delight- ful book, with a new foreword by Whiteread, explores the skill required to create these objects.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Marcel Duchamp Susanne Pfeffer (ed), Jacques Caumont (ed), Francoise Le Penven (ed), Huey Copeland et al 27th April, hb, £80, 9783753303284 Multilingual edition accompanies the first exhibition in two decades to feature works spanning all phases of the artist’s oeuvre from 1902 to 1968.
Verso Books
Viewing Velocities Marcus Verhagen 13th June, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781839768514 Contemporary art and the culture of speed.
Victionary
New Folk Art 2nd February, hb, £35, 9789887566601 Colourful collection draws from the magic of ancient folklore and traditional craft.
Fungal Inspiration 2nd February, hb, £30, 9789887566618 Often-hidden gems that highlight the wilder side of nature.
Viking
See What You’re Missing Will Gompertz 9th March, hb, eb, £20, 9780241315460 Internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its exhilarating beauty.
Walter Foster
Big School of Drawing 16th May, pb, £16.99, 9780760382004
Big School of Drawing Workbook 16th May, pb, £12.99, 9780760382028 Interactive introduction allows beginning artists to practise directly inside the book.
Palette Knife Painting Lisa Elley 13th June, pb, £16.99, 9780760382165 Take a modern approach to oil painting with a book that highlights impasto techniques created with a palette knife.
Color in Reverse Heinke Nied 16th May, pb, £10.99, 9780760383278 Encourages creativity, relaxation and mindful- ness through pages of watercolour artwork that are meant to be doodled and drawn over.
Walther & Franz König
Resist! Nanette Snoep, Ricardo Márquez García 2nd February, pb, £24, 9783753302706 Illuminates 500 years of anti-colonial resistance in the global south and tells about colonial violence and oppression and its continuities.
Snowman Cara Manes, Peter Fischli, David Weiss 2nd February, hb, £18, 9783753302508 The story of Fischli and Weiss’s Snowman, from 1987 to today.
The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections Florian Steininger, Myrah Brown Green 2nd February, hb, £25, 9783753303062 Catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of figurative artists based on the African continent and across the diaspora.
The Animal Within Manuela Ammer, Ulrike Müller 2nd February, hb, £25, 9783753303239
Uses the popular appeal of animals to negotiate structures of violence and domination.
Watkins
On Alchemy Brian Cotnoir 13th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786787705 Accessible book contains everything needed to start practising alchemy, the art of material and spiritual transmutation.
Wayne State University Press
Mad Men Gary R Edgerton 4th April, pb, £21.95, 9780814345467 Succinct analysis of one of the most skilfully produced, artistically innovative and culturally resonant scripted series in modern television.
Parks and Recreation Holly Willson Holladay 28th March, pb, £21.95, 9780814347881 Homage to sitcom and an exploration of how it evolved in a post-network era.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
The Other Side Jennifer Higgie 2nd February, hb, £22, 9781474623322 The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world.
Welbeck
Around the World in 80 Pots 13th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781802792393 A journey through history and cultures with the Ashmolean Museum’s unrivalled ceramics collec- tion. Contains works from the Middle East, Asia, Europe, the UK and Africa that span over 5,000 years.
Whitechapel Gallery
Oceans Pandora Syperek (ed), Sarah Wade (ed) 2nd March, pb, £18.95, 9780854883042 Collection of writings attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the oceans within contemporary art and visual culture.
Action/Gesture/Paint Laura Smith (ed) 2nd March, pb, £20, 9780854883134 The first survey of its kind, this catalogue will celebrate a generation of
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