Rizzoli International Publications, November 1987. Oversized Hardcover. More

Pantheon Books, November 2021. Hardcover. The first major biography of the pathbreaking, perpetually influential surrealist artist and iconoclast whose inspiration can be seen in everyone from Jasper Johns to Beyoncé--by the celebrated biographer of Cézanne and Braque In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898?1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling..... More

Yale University Press, February 2002. Oversized Hardcover. Expressing the anxieties of the late nineteenth century and the uncertainties of the modern world, Edvard Munch (1862-1944) often depicted in his works dangerously seductive fin de siecle women, sickly figures, and isolated characters in barren landscapes. These powerful, haunting paintings are widely..... More

Thames & Hudson, October 1997. Oversize Softcover. It is both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the most powerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the last thirty years. Freud--once dubbed the Ingres of existentialism--has almost single-handedly redefined the figurative painting of our time. No other living artist..... More

Atlantic Monthly Press, June 2000. Hardcover. Pablo Picasso is the most brilliant and influential artist of this century, but attempting to get an intimate sense of the protean Picasso appears almost impossible. Who better than Norman Mailer to enter inside this enigmatic man's mind? Closely integrated throughout the text are..... More

Knopf, January 2022. Hardcover. From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts--musical, literary, and visual--and their unique and unparalleled power to excite, disturb, and inspire us. As people look to the arts to promote a particular..... More

Phaidon Inc Ltd, March 1993. Oversize Softcover. The paintings of the Belgian Surrealist Rene Margritte (1898-1967) have exerted an extraordinary fascination, particularly since the enormous increase in awareness and popularity of his work during the 1960s. Margritte shows us a world of silence and isolation in which familiar objects are..... More

Phaidon Press, August 1998. Oversize Softcover. Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) is acknowledged as one of the great masters of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors, but he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman who produced a wealth..... More

Faber & Faber, October 2021. Hardcover. From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious..... More

Knopf Publishing Group, November 2021. Hardcover. The beautifully illustrated fourth volume of Picasso's life--set in France and Spain during the Spanish Civil War and World War II--covers friendships with the surrealist painters; artistic inspiration around Guernica and the Minotaur; and his muses Marie-Thérèse, Dora Maar, and Françoise Gilot; and much..... More

Phaidon Press, October 2021. Hardcover. A groundbreaking A-Z survey of the work of over 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Africa Modern and Contemporary African art is at the forefront of the current curatorial and collector movement in today's art scene. This groundbreaking new book, created in..... More

Victionary, January 2020. Hardcover. A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, ingenuity, and expression. From scientific explorers like Sir Joseph Banks who travelled across the..... More