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ART HISTORY
By Nicholas Herman, Anne-Marie Eze and with contributions by Nathaniel Silver and Jessica Chloros
Explores the crown jewel of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's collection of rare books and manuscripts. As court artist to King François I of France, Bourdichon produced paintings, books and even parade floats for the sovereign and his entourage. This publication accompanies the museum’s first ever exhibition dedicated to this spectacular illuminated manuscript. This book is the latest in the Gardner's Close Up series, each installment focusing on an individual, outstanding work of art in the collection. This publication is the first dedicated to this rare treasure, and precedes an exhibition opening in summer 2022.
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PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781913645014 • September 2021 • £17.95 64 pages • 60 illus.
Copley and West in England 1775–1815
By Allen Staley
This beautifully and thoroughly illustrated book will be of considerable interest to both British and American art historians. The book begins with a brief prologue discussing the earliest of West's depictions of recent historical events and of subjects set in America, painted prior to Copley's arrival in England. It then follows the year-byyear evolution of Copley's painting from 1775 to his death in 1815, with an underlying focus upon his ongoing give-and-take with West, and it ends with examination of hitherto little-known and unstudied major late paintings, from after 1800, by both artists.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781916237803 • May 2021 • £35.00 176 pages • 93 illus.
Persevere and Resist
The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett By Heather Nickels
This welcome catalogue presents exciting new scholarship on the work of Mexican and American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012). Catlett was one of the most important visual chroniclers of the African American experience in the 20th century. In addition to her print and drawing practice, Catlett was also an accomplished sculptor working in stone, wood, and clay. Accompanying an exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, this book reconsiders her works through the lens of contemporary psychology and sociology.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781913645106 • June 2021 • £20.00 96 pages • 45 illus.
Paolo Veneziano: The Art of Painting in 14th-Century Venice
By John Witty and Laura Llewellyn
Reunites the dispersed components of two rare surviving altarpieces and presents them alongside contemporaneous objects. The foremost Venetian painter of the fourteenth century, Paolo Veneziano (act. 1333–58) is regarded as the founder of the Venetian school of painting. This publication demonstrates how the innovative and visually rich work of Paolo Veneziano engaged with fourteenth-century advances in manuscript illumination, ivory carving, textile production, and metalwork.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781911300953 • July 2021 • £50.00 168 pages • 60 illus.
Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art, 1500–1860
By Charles Avery, Samuel Shaw, Robert Wenley, Helen Cowie and Edited by Robert Wenley
The fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. The Rhinoceros ‘Miss Clara' arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741, brought by a retired Dutch East India Company captain who then toured her round Europe to huge acclaim and excitement. This book accompanies the first ever major loan exhibition devoted to Clara and celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will offer a significant contribution to scholarship on the subject.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781913645021 • November 2021 • £16.50 96 pages • 65 illus.
Titian, the Della Rovere Dynasty, and His Portrait of Guidobaldo II
By Anne-Marie Eze, Matthew Hayes, Ian Kennedy and Ian Verstegen
Gives the first comprehensive examination of the painting's provenance, and reception throughout history. This rare, full-length double portrait has only recently been attributed to Titian. This book re-examines received wisdom about its past ownership and presents new documentary evidence to expand on and fill gaps in our knowledge of its whereabouts. They also reflect on the technique, date, recent conservation, and authorship of the painting, proving it to be a masterpiece that only the great Titian could have created.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781913645090 • March 2021 • £20.00 80 pages • 30 illus.
World Pictures by British Artist-Travelers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century By Kenneth McConkey
Explores key sites visited by artist-travellers and investigates the artists. While there have been monographs on British artist-travellers in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, there has been no equivalent survey of ‘artistic travel' a hundred years later. By 1900, the ‘Grand Tourist' became a ‘globe-trotter' equipped with a camera, but visual recording by oil and watercolour on-the-spot sketching remained ever-popular. This book explores the complex reasons, revealing many artist-travellers whose lives and works are scarcely remembered today.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781913645083 • June 2021 • £65.00 240 pages • 250 illus.
Henry Moore: Friendships and Legacies
By Tania Moore
An exploration of the friendships that shaped artist Henry Moore and his ground-breaking work. Henry Moore's humanist sculpture changed the course of art in the twentieth-century and raised the status of British sculpture internationally. This book centres on his friendships with collectors Robert and Lisa Sainsbury and photographer John Hedgecoe to illuminate the networks in which he was working and how they impacted the legacy of the public presentation of the artist and his work. The book is richly illustrated with archive images and new photography.
SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS Paperback • 9781916133624 • January 2021 • £25.00 176 pages
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives
The Royal Clock Salt Edited by Timothy Schroder and Dora Thornton
Beautifully illustrated publication, showcasing spectacular contextual objects from the collection of the British Museum and other museums. At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the Clock Salt is somewhere between a jewel and a table ornament, one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the renowned Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled and fascinated for centuries.
BRITISH MUSEUM RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS | BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS Paperback • 9780861592272 • October 2021 • £40.00 196 pages • 130 illus.
Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century Edited by Patricia Ferguson
Examines how European and Asian ceramics in the domestic sphere challenged convention and tackled socio-political issues. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images to express political and social issues including propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional identities. Using the British Museum’s world-renowned ceramics and prints collections as a base, this book challenges and interrogates the sociopolitical underlying of domestic ceramic objects across Europe and Asia – from teapots to chamber pots – to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as when they were first conceived.
BRITISH MUSEUM RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS | BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS Paperback • 9780861592296 • April 2021 • £40.00 196 pages • 205 illus.
WOW
Women Only Works on Paper Edited by Sacha Llewellyn and Paul Liss
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of works on paper by thirtyeight 20th-century British women artists. This book brings together a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels, complemented by etchings and screenprints, executed in a variety of media and are made up of preliminary studies, cartoons for mural projects and finished works. The artists Vanessa Bell, Winifred Knights, Ithell Colquhoun, Annie French, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Thérèse Lessore, Hilda Carline and Paule Vézelay are all represented, as well as other accomplished but lesser-known female artists working in the first part of the 20th century.
LISS LLEWELLYN FINE ART Paperback • 9781999314576 • March 2021 • £10.00 96 pages • 120 illus.
Diana Armfield
A Lyrical Eye By Andrew Lambirth
Charts Diana Armfield's personal and artistic journey with over 200 beautiful reproductions of her work. Diana Armfield has a highly personal attachment to subject and a subtly distinctive affinity with the rhythms of form and tone. These qualities make her an important, influential figure in modern British art – and a very popular one. Including an inspiring number of more recent works, this book brings her fascinating artistic and life story up to date.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781913645076 • April 2021 • £35.00 180 pages • 200 illus.
By Paul Holberton
An iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter. This volume is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in a variety of languages, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. It analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on this earth in the requited wooing of girl and boy, to whose feelings early modern pastoral gives voice.
AD ILISSUM Hardback • 9781912168255 • October 2021 • £100.00 1,000 pages • 300 illus.
A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature Vol 2
By Paul Holberton
An iconographic study of Renaissance and Baroque pastoral and related subject matter. This volume is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in a variety of languages, and of a wide range of visual imagery, ending just before 1800. It analyses the development of pastoral as a means of representing human happiness on this earth in the requited wooing of girl and boy, to whose feelings early modern pastoral gives voice.
AD ILISSUM Hardback • 9781912168262 • October 2021 • £100.00 1,000 pages • 300 illus.
Titian: Sources and Documents
By Charles Hope
A comprehensive survey of the surviving historical evidence about Titian and his career. Hugely ambitious, this volume includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribed in full, preceded by a short summary in English, with extensive annotation and, where necessary, a commentary.
AD ILISSUM Hardback • 9781912168231 • October 2021 • £500.00 6 volumes, approx. • 3,000 pages • 5 illus.
A Focus on Seven Roman Baroque Paintings By Giovan Battista Fidanza and Guendalina Serafinelli
A fresh perspective on the understanding of sacred imagery and its use through selected studies related to 17th century Roman visual culture. The publication offers new approaches to the study of the complex processes involved in the making of a work of art. By reconstructing the religious and social dynamics of artistic patronage and the context of worship and devotion in which these paintings – fully documented by primary sources – were executed, the volume explores the visual impact of these works on the viewers. This beautifully illustrated book will feature remarkable new photographs and details of diagnostic analysis of Pietro da Cortona's and Carlo Maratti's altarpieces.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781913645144 • November 2021 • £25.00 35 illus.
Modern Drawings
The Karshan Gift By Coralie Malissard and Barnaby Wright
Presents an outstanding group of modern drawings by European and American masters, assembled by the late Howard Karshan and his wife, Linda. Accompanying their exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue features drawings by renowned artists including Paul Cézanne, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Sam Francis, Cy Twombly, Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz. The works demonstrate the Karshan's sensibility for the expressive power and rich variety of drawing as an art form. The drawings are characterised by innovative mark-making and distinctive use of line. This catalogue will include an interview with Linda Karshan, two essays, and is fully illustrated with detailed entries on each work.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781913645113 • November 2021 • £25.00 120 pages • 50 illus.
Gustave Moreau
The Fables By Juliet Carey
Accompanies an exhibition of some of the most extraordinary works Gustave Moreau ever made. Gustave Moreau (1826–1898) is one of the most brilliant artists associated with the French Symbolist movement. This book accompanies an exhibition of some of his most extraordinary works, unseen in public for over a century. It provides in-depth accounts of each piece, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it and places, and examines his work in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781911300861 • May 2021 • £35.00 160 pages
Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo and the Allegory of Patience
By Carlo Falciani
Recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari’s painting Allegory of Patience, painted in 1551–52 for the Bishop of Arezzo. This book recounts the exciting rediscovery of Giorgio Vasari’s painting Allegory of Patience. The painting was conceived in Rome with the aid of Michelangelo, as many surviving letters reveal. The work will be on view to the public at the National Gallery, London, through 2023. The book carries full documentation of the work and its known copies, some of which can be traced to leading patrons in Renaissance Italy. It also examines Vasari’s own autograph technique and artistic aims.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781911300823 • July 2020 • £18.99 56 pages • 30 illus.
Elijah Pierce's America
Edited by Nancy Ireson and Zoé Whitley
Seeks to revisit the art of Elijah Pierce and see it in its own right, not simply as ‘naive’. Elijah Pierce (1892–1984) was born the youngest son of a former slave on a Mississippi farm. He became known for his wood carvings nationally and then internationally for the first time in the 1970s. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, this publication seeks to revisit the art of Elijah Pierce and see it in its own right, not simply as ‘naive’.
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781911300878 • September 2020 • £40.00 208 pages • 120 illus.
those who knew him.
The Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard
By Harlan Hubbard, Bill Caddell, Flo Caddell, Peter Morrin and introduction by Jessica Whitehead
Argues Hubbard's place in the art historical canon while highlighting and analysing the artist's own voice. Harlan Hubbard (1900–1988), Kentucky writer, environmentalist and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolour paintings. In this unique collection, more than 200 watercolours are interspersed with anecdotes to present a personal meditation on the influence that Hubbard's work has had on the lives of
