books  

Here is a convenient index of reviews that have appeared on this website.

100 Dresses – The Costume Institute/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2010

200 Trips from the Counterculture: Graphics and Stories from the Underground Press Syndicate. Jean-Francois Bizot, Barry Miles

A pelican in the wilderness: hermits, solitaries and recluses.
Isabel Colegate

A Year in Architecture
Compiled by Claudia Stauble and Jonathan Lee Fox

Adventures in Art

Alvar Aalto. Nicholas Ray

An architecture of invitation: Colin St John Wilson. Sarah Menin, Stephen Kite

Andrei Tarkovsky: elements of cinema. Robert Bird.

Antony Gormley Drawing. Anna Moszynska

Archipelago: Essays on Architecture for Juhani Pallasmaa. Peter MacKeith (ed)

Architecture in Times of Need. Make it Right. Rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. Kristin Feireiss (ed) with contributions from BRAD PITT

Architects’ Sketchbooks
Edited by Will Jones, Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 2011

Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects. Caffyn Kelly with an introduction by Lucy R Lippard

Art and Text. Editor: Aimee Selby. Contributors: Dave Beech, Charles Harrison, Will Hill

Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s. Alastair Duncan

Art Since 1900. Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin HD Buchloh (eds)

Art & Today. Eleanor Heartney

Arthur Boyd and Saint Francis of Assisi. Margaret Pont

Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust. Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau (eds)

Artists' Studios, MJ Long

Australian Gothic: a life of Albert Tucker. Janine Burke

Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit

Babylon: Myth and Reality. By IL Finkel and MJ Seymour

Balenciaga and Spain. Hamish Bowles

Beckmann. Edited by Sean Rainbird

Ben Johnson. Foster in View. Edited by David Jenkins

Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier. Architecture, Space and the Construction of Subjectivity. By Lorens Holm

California Video: Artists and Histories. The Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2008. Edited by Glenn Phillips

Colin St John Wilson: Buildings and Projects, London: Black Dog Publishing Ltd, 2007

Culture made visible. The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, (eds)

Ceramics: A Selection of 20th Century Potters and Potteries in the Isle of Wight, A Century of. Lisa and Andrew Dowden, Robin Goodredge

Celia Scott. Alan Colquhoun

Ceri Richards. Mel Gooding

Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
Thames & Hudson in the UK/Yale University Press in the US and Canada, 2011

Cristóbal Balenciaga, Philippe Venet, Hubert de Givenchy: Grand Traditions of French Couture. Christiane De Nicolay-Mazery

Projects in China: Architects Von Gerkan Marg and Partners. Edited by Meinhard von Gerkan

Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations. Edited by Michel Conan

Campbell, The Woodblock Painting of Cressida. Edited by Peter Crayford

Dangerous Women: The Perils of Muses and Femmes Fatales
Laure Adler and Élisa Lécosse

DANNATT, Trevor: works and words. By Roger Stonehouse

Design: Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. Brian Webb and Peyton Skipwith

Design City Melbourne. Leon van Schaik

Doorway. Simon Unwin

Doorway. Simon Unwin

Drawing Fashion: A Century of Fashion Illustration. Edited by Joelle Chariau. Essays by Colin McDowell and Holly Brubach

Egon Schiele: Eros and Passion. Klaus Albrecht Schroder

Egon Schiele: Self-Portraits and Portraits. Agnes Husslein-Arco and Jane Kallir

Emin, One Thousand Drawings by Tracey

Ends, Middles, Beginnings: Edward Cullinan Architects. Jonathan Hale

Essential Art Deco. Ghislaine Wood

Ettore Sottsass: Architect & Designer. Ronald T Labaco

European Architecture, An Outline of. Nikolaus Pevsner

Figuring it out. Colin Renfrew

Finland. Roger Connah. Modern Architectures in History Series.

Fold out futures. Vol. 1, Chicago project. Irene Barberis and Karen Forbes.

Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House. Magdalena Holzhey

From Agit-Prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price. Stanley Mathews

George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco. Barbara Martorelli

Gerhard Richter: Paintings from private collections. National Galleries of Scotland with Hatje/Cantz, 2008. Edited by Gotz Adriani

In Giacometti's Studio. Michael Peppiatt. Yale University Press, 2011

John Wolseley: Landmarks II. Professor Sasha Grishin

Ken Kiff. Andrew Lambirth

Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion Michel Conan (ed)

Madeleine Vionnet. Edited by Pamela Golbin, with photographs by Patrick Gries. Published by Rizzoli, 2009

Marc Chagall: Ceramic Masterpieces. Edited by Roland Doschka

Modernist Malta: The Architectural Legacy. Ed Alberto, Mieli-Farrugia, Petra Bianchi

Morandi's Legacy: Influences on British Art. Paul Coldwell

Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners. Jane Amidon

Music while drowning: German Expressionist Poems. Edited by David Miller and Stephen Watts

New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal. Gary A. Van Zante

New Tent Architecture. Philip Drew

Norman Foster: Works 1. Edited by David Jenkins

Painting into Oblivion: New Dynamics of German Painting. Christoph Tannert (ed)

Passion City: STraum a. Landscape Architecture. Kristin Feireiss (ed)

Photo Art: The New World of Photography. Edited by Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig

Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage. By Elizabeth Siegel

PORTER, Peter (1929–2010). An appreciation through an examination of his collaborative projects with Arthur Boyd (1920–1999)

On My Painting. Max Beckmann. Foreword by Mayen Beckmann

Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modelling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory. David Grahame Shane

Richard England: Architect as Artist. Dennis Sharp (ed)

Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion by Dilys E. Blum

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists And The Imagination From Virginia Woolf To John Piper. Alexandra Harris

RUSSIA!. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications

Sidney Nolan. TG Rosenthal

Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone. Vaughan Hart

Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape. Mel Gooding and William Furlon

Tarkovsky. Edited by Nathan Dunne

The architecture of hope: Maggie’s cancer caring centres. Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote. Frances Lincoln Publishers, London, 2010

The Architecture of the British Library at St Pancras. Roger Stonehouse and Gerard Stromberg

The Art of Ken Done. Janet McKenzie

The Baroque Architecture of Sicily. Maria Giuffrè, Photographs by Melo Minnella

The birth of graffiti. London/New York/Munich: Prestel, 2007

The Boyds. Brenda Niall

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973–1991. Prestel, published in association with the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, 2011. Edited by Nancy Princenthal, with essays by Tom McDonough, Griselda Pollock, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal and Kristine Stiles

The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North America. Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore and Yasuko Suga (eds)

The Disruptive Betterment of Culture. L-13, Clerkenwell, London

The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design. Eidelberg M, Hine T, Kirkham P, Hanks DA, Ford Peatross C.

The Formalesque: A Guide to Modern Art and its History. Bernard Smith

The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art. Tamsin Pickeral

The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932. Albert Alhadeff

The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783). Jane Brown

The Raft of the Medusa: Géricault, Art, and Race. Richard Pare and Jean-Louis Cohen. Introduction by Phyllis Lambert

The revision of the modern: seeking the real narrative. Paul Overy

The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination. Jimmy Liao, Sarah L Thompson

The Sculpture of William Turnbull. Amanda A Davidson

The Thinking Hand: Essential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture. Juhani Pallasmaa

Toledo: Isabel, Fashion from the Inside Out. Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears

Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77: Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections. Sophie Richard, Lynda Morris (ed.) London: Ridinghouse, 2009

Valentina: American Couture and the Cult of Celebrity. An interview with independent curator and author Kohle Yohannan on 'the legend of Valentina'

Van Gogh: Master Draughtsman. Sjraar van Heugten

Visuality and Biblical Text: Interpreting Velasquez' 'Christ with Martha and Mary' as a Test Case. Jane Boyd, Philip F Esler

Voices of German Expressionism. Edited by Victor H. Miesel

Walk to the Moon: The Story of Albert Houthuesen Nathan Richardson. The Putney Press, London, 2008

Where's My Space Age? The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design.Sean Topham

William Scott. Norbert Lynton

Young Chinese Artists: The Next Generation. Editors: Christoph Noe, Xenia Piech, Cordelia Steiner