Conversations: To Describe a Life by Darby English
A quotation from the French philosopher and political activist Simone Weil is the first thing the reader encounters…
Modern Artists
The Making of Modern Art – An Introduction
How do you pack an illustrious writing career of over half a century into a single book? With…
The Making of Modern Art – A Q&A with Michael Peppiatt
Chaotic, inventive, transgressive: Modernism is one of the most challenging yet exciting artistic movements in the history of…
The Avant-garde and the New Typography
How did Jan Tschichold help to form the New Typography in the early twentieth century? Why were he…
Lee Lozano: Not Working – an interview with Jo Applin
To mark the upcoming publication of her new book Lee Lozano: Not Working, we asked Jo Applin to…
Lee Lozano: Not Working by Jo Applin – An Extract
Lee Lozano: Not Working An extract about Lee Lozano’s life Lee Lozano (1930–1999) was a major artist in the…
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock – Extract
Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) was a German-Jewish artist who grew up during the Weimar Republic and whose interest in…
Gluck: Art and Identity by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel – An Extract
Gluck: Art and Identity An extract about Gluck’s life Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895–1976) is one…
Picture a Revolution: Russian and Soviet Art Books from Yale
2017 marks a century since the revolutionary year that brought about the fall of the Russian Empire and…
On His Way to The Met • Max Beckmann in New York, with Curator Sabine Rewald
New York energised the German Expressionist Max Beckmann and stimulated his imagination when he lived there from September…
Dada’s Women, 100 years on – by Ruth Hemus
‘No one can escape from DADA.’ Ruth Hemus, an expert on the early 20th century Avant-Garde and author…
Expressive Women – David Ebony & Gwen F. Chanzit on Women of Abstract Expressionism
‘One of the things I say to people is that you can teach someone how to make a…
Eva Hesse Diaries: An Extract
‘I open my new book. What will you tell for the next year. To bring forth a new…
Art in the World: AAH2016
Look out for special #AAH2016 discounts on Yale art books via @YaleBooks twitter We’re excited by the focus…
Bookshop of the Month: The ICA
This month we visit the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London for our regular bookshop of the month feature. The ICA…