• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art • Denver Art Museum
• Eskenazi Museum of Art
• Fashion + Textile Museum
• The Frick Collection
• The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art • Juilliard School Library
• The Loeb Art Center
• Lord’s • Louvre Abu Dhabi •
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
• Mauritshuis • McNay Art Museum
• Meadows Museum
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• The Morgan Library & Museum
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
• National Gallery of Art, Washington
• National Gallery of Ireland
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• New Orleans Museum of Art • NewYork Historical Society
• Newport Mansions: The Preservation Society of Newport County
• Ogden Museum of Southern Art
• Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Roman Baths
• The Royal Collection Trust
• The Royal Opera and Ballet
• Science Museum Group
• Slovak National Gallery
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• St Paul’s Cathedral
• Wallace Collection
• Westminster Abbey
• Sydney Opera House
SCALA publishes beautiful, high-quality, illustrated and narrative books on a range of subjects from art and architecture to history and culture. Our prestigious titles include artist monographs, exhibition and collection books, illustrated histories, guidebooks and our renowned Director’s Choice series. We work with a network of global distributors to supply our books to bookshops, online retailers, museums and organisations worldwide.
With offices in London and New York, Scala has published with respected organisations around the world such as The Courtauld, the Royal Collection Trust, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington and Sydney Opera House, among many others.
Contemporary artist Eric Fischl has been dedicated to depicting the human figure throughout his long career. As the first major book on the artist in over a decade, this beautifully illustrated publication includes early artworks focused on middle-class American suburbs with their taboos and secrets. Also featured are a recent series of paintings, Late America, Presence of an Absence, and Complications of an Already Unfulfilled Life. Created in the contexts of the pandemic, political activism and division, these works are darkly hued and fluidly formed. Featuring new and unpublished work, this book is essential for Fischl’s loyal fans, and all those interested in contemporary figurative painting.
Accompanies the exhibition Eric Fischl: Stories Told at Phoenix Art Museum, 7 November, 2025–12 April, 2026.
Heather Sealy Lineberry is Curator Emeritus at the Arizona State University Art Museum and guest curator at Phoenix Art Museum.
Dr. Kathryn Brown is Reader at Loughborough University (UK).
Eleanor Heartney is a New York based art writer.
Eleanor Nairne is the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator and Head of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Arcmanoro Niles is a New York based contemporary artist.
Outlaws dives into the anarchic energy of London’s 1980s club scene, celebrating the avant-garde, experimental designs of Leigh Bowery and his fellow fashion renegades, including John Galliano, Stephen Linard, BodyMap, Pam Hogg, Rachel Auburn and Wayne Hemingway. It features new photography of original outfits crafted by 28 clothes designers. They are accompanied by first-hand accounts from musician Holly Johnson, DJ Mark Moore, artist Peter Doig and photographer Dave Swindells, as well as rare photos and flyers. Outlaws captures a subculture that defied norms, pushed the boundaries and blazed a trail to high fashion.
Martin Green was a regular on the 1980s club circuit and went on to run the legendary nightclub Smashing in the early 90s. He is co-curator, with N.J. Stevenson, of the exhibition Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London.
N.J. Stevenson is widely published and is a lecturer at the London College of Fashion. She first met Martin Green on the London club scene in the early 1990s.
Roaming Mexico
Capturing the unique culture, grit, joy and humanity of the towns of Mexico and the Texas border, this stunning book of photographs by Laura Wilson uncovers a rarely seen part of the world. Intimate portrayals of village life, popular festivals, quinceañeras, cowboys, firebreathers and captivating portraits illuminate a vibrant yet tenuous existence. An accessible text includes a conversation with the photographer that reveals her personal insights and experiences in the region. Featuring work drawn from 30 years of exploration in the area by Wilson, this fascinating volume is a valuable contribution to our awareness of an underappreciated way of life.
Published to accompany the major exhibition, Roaming Mexico: Laura Wilson at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, 14 September, 2025–11 January, 2026.
Laura Wilson is an American photographer known for her portraits of writers, actors and artists, as well as her depictions of the American West.
Amanda Dotseth is the Linda P. and William A. Custard Director of the Meadows Museum and Centennial Chair in the Meadows School of Arts, SMU, in Dallas, TX.
Laura Wilson
The Courtauld
Highlights from the Gallery £18.95 / $29.95
The Courtauld houses one of the UK’s great art collections, displayed in the magnificent setting of Somerset House in central London. This revised, quarter-bound hardback edition presents a selection of its highlights – paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and decorative arts – each beautifully reproduced and accompanied by insightful commentary. Notable among these treasures are Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère and Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. This book is also an engaging account of how The Courtauld became an internationally renowned centre for the teaching and research of art history, conservation and curating.
Highlights from the Gallery
Professor Mark Hallett is an English art historian specialising in the history of British art. He is the Märit Rausing Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Legacy
The Corcoran Collection and the National Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first dedicated art museum created in the United States. Founded in Washington, D.C. in 1869, the Corcoran was a vital cultural site for nearly 150 years. After the museum closed in 2014, the National Gallery of Art acquired the collection of over 9,000 objects. The vast range of artworks in the Corcoran’s collection – paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and photographs – has immeasurably enriched the National Gallery of Art’s holdings. This beautiful book is the first to examine the collection’s legacy and its impact on the study and appreciation of art in the United States.
Cash is Associate Curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art and former Bechhoefer Curator of American Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Sarah
Lynne Cooke is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art.
Versailles Science & Splendour
JANUARY 2025
Between the 1660s and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal palace of Versailles – commonly associated with its architecture, gardens and courtly splendour – was also a place of serious scientific enquiry. This engaging book reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence.
Versailles: Science and Splendour explores the relationship between science and power during the reigns of kings Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI, a period when the practice of what we now call ‘science’ changed significantly, and highlights how science and empire were connected at Versailles.
Between the 1660s and the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789, the royal palace of Versailles – commonly associated with its architecture, gardens and courtly splendour – was also a place of serious scientific enquiry. This engaging book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Science Museum in London, reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence. It features 16 chapters by experts from Britain, France and America. Each chapter is inspired by fascinating objects and stories, from a stuffed rhinoceros to an exquisite astronomical clock and the first hot-air balloon flight at the palace.
This book, which accompanies a temporary exhibition at the Science Museum in London, features 16 chapters by experts from Britain, France and America. Each chapter is inspired by fascinating objects, from a stuffed rhinoceros to an exquisite astronomical clock. The stories covered range from the early days of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and the engineering behind Versailles’s fountains, to the menagerie of rare animals that lived in the grounds and the first hot-air balloon flight at the palace.
anna ferrari is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum in London, where she is lead curator of the exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour.
Anna Ferrari is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum in London, where she is lead curator of the exhibition Versailles: Science and Splendour. She has previously curated and co-curated exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
The Photography of Herman Leonard
Foreword by Quincy Jones
PUBLICATION: SEPTEMBER 2025
With a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard photographed the giants of jazz, movie stars, the fashion world of Paris and his beloved New Orleans. His friendships with musicians allowed him to vividly capture scenes in the Harlem and Paris jazz clubs during the 1940s and 50s, characterised by his command of cinematic lighting. His colourful life and travels gave him access to cultural icons of his day, creating images such as Marilyn Monroe on an elephant and Albert Einstein at his desk. This exquisite book is the first full treatment of Leonard’s extraordinary life and distinctive body of work.
David Houston is the Executive Director of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the former Chief Curator, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
Jenny Bagert is the former Creative Director, Herman Leonard Photography, LLC, New Orleans.
Quincy Jones was a music and entertainment producer and one of the most beloved leaders in the industry.
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF HERMAN
LEONARD
EDITED BY DAVID HOUSTON JENNY BAGERT
‘Herman? The best!’ – Miles Davis
FOREWORD BY QUINCY JONES
Toward Joy
New Frameworks for American Art
How might American art be experienced at this moment?
Disrupting traditional presentations of art from the Americas and offering new approaches to display and interpretation, this groundbreaking book reframes 2,000 years of art drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Organised within a variety of innovative frameworks, such as ‘Trouble the Water’, ‘To Give Flowers’, ‘Several Seats’, and ‘Witness’, iconic artworks are grouped alongside never-beforeexhibited works, all beautifully illustrated and to dazzling effects. Prioritising dialogue and engagement, this bold publication creates an inclusive experience of American Art that spans time, culture, nation and medium.
Sparling
Additional contributors:
Caroline Gillaspie, Assistant Curator of American Art
Grace Billingslea, Curatorial Assistant of American Art
Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Arts of the Americas
Dare Turner, Curator of Indigenous Art
Catherine Futter, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Decorative Arts
Liz St. George, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts
TOWARD JOY
Frameworks for American Art
Stephanie
Williams is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
French Moderns
Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950
£40 / $55 • HB • 144 PAGES • 280 × 255 mm / 10 × 11 in • 978 1 78551 599 6 PUBLICATION: NOVEMBER 2024
The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were marked by sweeping social, intellectual and political change in France. French Moderns showcases the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European collection, celebrating France as the artistic centre of international modernism, with beautiful reproductions of era-defining masterpieces by the era’s leading artists, including Caillebotte, Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Renoir and Rodin. Revised and updated with extensive revisions, this stunning book accompanies a major travelling exhibition of one of the best collections of French Modern art in the United States.
Richard Aste is the former Director of the McNay Art Museum and former Curator of European Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Lisa Small is Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum.
Additional contributors :
Cora Michael is a former Associate Curator.
Jai Imbrey was a Researcher in the department of European Art.
Jessica Larson was a Curatorial Intern.
french moderns
Monet to Matisse 1850–1950
Monet to Matisse,
1850–1950
Edited by Richard Aste and Lisa Small
Saints & Santos
Picturing the Holy in New Spain
PUBLICATION: MARCH 2025
This beautiful book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was part of the Spanish Empire (1521–1821), covering modern-day Mexico, Central America and the US Southwest. In the late sixteenth century, images of saintly devotions were circulated and transformed by New Spain’s own communities. This book examines how images informed the construction of the holy – artworks used to propagate and venerate saintly figures and used in official beatification and canonisation proceedings. The relationship between sanctity and images is a long, revered tradition that continues in the work of New Mexico’s santero artists today.
Accompanied the exhibition Saints & Santos: Picturing the Holy in New Spain at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 20 July, 2024–12 January, 2025.
Cristina Cruz González is an art historian, curator and a specialist in the visual culture of Latin America. She is an Associate Professor of Art History at Oklahoma State University.
With contributions by Montserrat A. Báez
Hernández, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Arturo Balandrano Campos, James M. Córdova, Ray Hernández-Durán, Anna M. Nogar, Gabriela Sánchez Reyes and Mark Andrew White.
PICTURING THE HOLY IN NEW SPAIN
González
CANALETTO and GUARDI
Canaletto and Guardi
Views of Venice at the Wallace Collection
PUBLICATION: FEBRUARY 2025
At the Wallace Collection in London hangs an important group of 27 eighteenth-century views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi. Until recently the majority had not been cleaned since the nineteenth century. The paintings have now been restored and rephotographed, following a multi-year conservation and research project that also led to a reappraisal of them. This book, a gorgeous celebration of Venice’s beauty, presents these pictures in their renewed splendour, while the authors provide fresh insights into the artists’ creative processes, the dating of pictures and their authorship.
Lelia Packer was previously the Curator of Dutch, Italian, Spanish, German and pre1600 Paintings at the Wallace Collection.
Charles Beddington is an independent scholar and art dealer based in London who is a world authority on Venetian vedute
VIEWS OF VENICE AT THE WALLACE COLLECTION
Lelia Packer
Charles Beddington
Counterpoint
20th-Century Art from the John M. Parker Jr. Collection
£40 / $50 • HB • 144 PAGES • 280 × 240 mm / 9.5 × 11 in • 978 1 78551 598 9 PUBLICATION: NOVEMBER 2025
Counterpoint explores the vision of John M. Parker Jr., a prominent Texas art collector known for his patronage of minimalism, conceptualism and other avant-garde art produced over the last 50 years. This elegant book is comprised of prints, drawings, photographs, paintings and sculptures, including works by Josef Albers, Alice Aycock, John Baldessari, Katharina Fritsch, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin and Frank Stella. The text examines the formation of a personal collection, as well broader artistic discussions on the importance of printmaking to major artists and the impact of the political landscape on art of the twentieth century.
René Paul Barilleaux is Head of Curatorial Affairs at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Lyle Williams is the former Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Curator of Modern Art at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Matthew Levy, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State Behrend, Erie, Pennsylvania.
Julie Johnson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas San Antonio.
Liz Paris is the Curator of Collections/ Collections Manager at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
Lauren Thompson is the Curator of Exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas.
This beautifully illustrated volume presents the layered imagery of contemporary Indigenous North American artist Andrea Carlson. Using oral and archival research, as well as art historical and philosophical theory, Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe descent) creates multipanel landscapes on the themes of museum collection practices, consumption, possession and repatriation. Her work addresses the colonial construction of landscape genre painting and imperial concepts of land ownership and connection to place. Through the lens of Indigenous Futurism, an artistic movement emphasising the successful, sovereign presence of Indigenous people into the future, the works question humancentred biases and relationships to dominance and assimilation.
Accompanies the exhibition Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky at the Denver Art Museum, 5 October, 2025–18 January, 2026.
Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakhóta) is Associate Curator of Native Arts at the Denver Art Museum and curator of Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky.
Aruna D’Souza is a journalist of modern and contemporary art, curator and educator. She is the recipient of the 2021 Rabkin Prize for art journalism.
Heid Erdrich (Ojibwe) is a poet, curator, educator and a Poet Laureate of Minneapolis.
Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian writer and Associate Curator at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University in Kingston (ON), Canada.
Solace in Painting
Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century
This elegant volume features expressive paintings by three East Asian and Asian American painters whose lives were fundamentally shaped by major conflicts of the twentieth century. The artists, Chao Shao-an, a modernist ink painter who survived all twentieth century conflicts in China, Keisho Okayama, a Japanese painter who endured incarceration in a WWII internment camp, and Ann Phong, a Vietnamese artist who escaped from the fall of Saigon, all found solace from their own conflicts through artistic expression. Published to accompany a national travelling exhibition, this elegant book will be of interest to anyone exploring conflict, trauma and healing through art.
Named the ‘Outstanding Catalogue by a University or College Department’ by the Midwest Art History Society.
Accompanies the exhibition Solace in Painting: Reflecting on a Tumultuous Century at the University of Texas at Arlington (7 February–4 April, 2025), and at the University of Nebraska, Omaha (2 September–31 October, 2025).
Dr. Fletcher Coleman is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
Dr. Yukio Lippit is Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Discover the alphabet through a whimsical exploration of the scenic American Southwest! This magical book highlights canyons, monsoons, hats, animals, insects, boots, cacti, sweet treats and other desert imagery with playful rhyming couplets that kids will love. Southwest ABC features artworks from the collection of Phoenix Art Museum by well-known artists including Thomas Moran, Faith Ringgold, Charles Gaines, Elina Climent, Ed Mell, Tom Palmore, Mariana Yampolsky and many others. This eye-catching learning resource inspires children to learn their letters and practice imagination, critical thinking and observational skills at home.
Dawn Berg is Curatorial Specialist at Phoenix Art Museum, where she coordinates the institution’s publications. Berg previously managed the museum’s family programs.
The Burrell Collection
Art, Architecture and Regeneration
£9.95 / $12.95
PUBLICATION: SEPTEMBER 2025
Glasgow’s Burrell Collection is a purpose-built modern gem set in beautiful Pollok Country Park. This architectural history surveys the complex creation of a public art space. Sir William and Constance Burrell gifted their collection to the people of Glasgow, stipulating that it must be accessible and within a natural setting. In 1983 the new Burrell Collection opened – a harmonious integration of building, landscape and art. Following recent major refurbishments, the rejuvenated Burrell Collection was named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023. This illustrated architectural history is written with an architect’s eye for detail and features specially commissioned photography.
Robert Gartshore is an architect and an accredited Royal Institute of British Architects Client Advisor. He was a Special Projects Officer for the refurbishment of The Burrell Collection.
Iona Shepherd works throughout Scotland as a photographer specialising in the museums, heritage and architectural sectors.
The Houses of Guinness
The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Brewing Dynasty
NOVEMBER 2025
Bestselling author Adrian Tinniswood explores the histories of the legendary Guinness family – brewers, philanthropists, socialites – through their mansions and town houses. He opens the door to Irish palaces like Farmleigh, where the Edwardian ballroom is said to have a floor made from beer barrels, and British ones such as Robert Adam’s Kenwood on Hampstead Heath, which Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, saved from destruction. In this engaging and abundantly illustrated history, he reveals what life was like for a dynasty that rose from ordinary beginnings in Georgian Dublin to become one of the most powerful families in the British Isles.
Adrian Tinniswood is a chronicler of the country houses of the UK and Ireland, having published 19 books on social and architectural history, including The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England, which was shortlisted for the BBC/Samuel Johnson
Prize, and The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. He is Professor of British Cultural History at the University of Buckingham and lives in the west of Ireland.
adrian tinniswood the houses of GUINNESS
From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend
The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Brewing Dynasty
CASTLE HOWARD
Castle Howard
Castle Howard is Britain’s finest country house, designed by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, and recognised worldwide as the location for Brideshead Revisited and and the first series of Bridgerton. Its setting in Yorkshire is amongst the most spectacular of any building in the UK. Christopher Ridgway, curator at Castle Howard, explores its history and takes the reader on an illustrated tour of the house and its equally magnificent park and grounds. Sumptuous new photography by Nick Howard and Chris Horwood, following a restoration of the house, brings to life such treasures as the chapel decoration by Morris and Burne-Jones, paintings by Reynolds and Gainsborough, and the extraordinary family Mausoleum and Temple of the Four Winds.
Christopher Ridgway has been curator at Castle Howard since 1984. He is Chair of the Yorkshire Country House Partnership, and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University. He has lectured and published extensively on
Castle Howard’s collections, history and landscapes. His most recent publications, co-edited with Terence Dooley, include Country House Collections, Their Lives and Afterlives (2021) and The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and England (2024).
Christopher Ridgway
Pembroke College, Cambridge
The Buildings and Gardens
This magnificently illustrated book surveys the historic buildings and gardens of Pembroke College, Cambridge across the centuries. From the fourteenth century, through the building of the Chapel by the young Christopher Wren, through the dramatic changes wrought by Alfred Waterhouse, to the new Dolby Court, completed in 2024. This new development increases Pembroke’s footprint by one-third, and embraces innovative student facilities, gardens and public spaces – a transformation made possible by a bequest from Pembroke alumnus and philanthropist Ray Dolby (1933–2013). This book is a vivid portrait of a college that continues to evolve while honouring its rich heritage.
Chris Smith has been the Master of Pembroke since 2015. He is a former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Chairman of the Environment Agency.
Oriel College
An Illustrated History of 700 Years
Oriel College, Oxford, celebrates its 700-year anniversary in 2026. This lavish new book blends an engaging written history with archival illustrations, artwork and treasures, and new photography of Oriel’s impressive architecture. This handsome volume covers how Oriel received its royal charter in 1326, its flourishing intellectual reputation and the luminaries who attended Oriel in subsequent centuries – from Saints to scientists, Nobel Laureates to Olympians. This book wonderfully illustrates Oriel’s seven centuries of history with beautiful shots of one of Oxford’s iconic colleges.
Written by the team at Oriel College.
Guinness: A Family Succession
The True Story of the Battle to Control the World’s Largest Brewery
In this narrative non-fiction book, Arthur Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh and head of the Guinness family, draws on family letters, archives and photographs to tell, for the first time, the inside story of how the first four generations of Guinnesses, starting from humble origins in Ireland, created the world’s largest brewery and perhaps the most iconic beer ever. He explores the contrasting personalities of his forebears and the story of the family succession in the Victorian era, and explains how they made a difference in Ireland, Britain and far beyond. This is a generational saga encompassing family drama, business innovation, public works and charitable endeavours.
Arthur Edward Guinness , the 4th Earl of Iveagh, was born in Dublin, raised in Farmleigh and educated in Ireland and England. Ned is a farmer at Elveden, Suffolk and Co. Meath, Ireland. He is active in the promotion of Guinness beer, the interests of social housing and community amenities in central Dublin.
Antonia Hart is an Irish historian and writer. She has been a lecturer at Maynooth University and Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of Ghost Signs of Dublin and The Commercial Lives of Irish Women 1850–1922: Business as Usual
The perfect gift book for Guinness lovers. This is a revised, expanded and redesigned edition of Rory Guinness’s classic short introduction to the beer, the brewers and the brewery. A direct descendant of the brewery’s founder, he reveals how Guinness and its people became interwoven into the fabric of Dublin life and created a brewing legacy that stretches around the world. World of Guinness is published in hardback for the first time, and is illustrated with archival images, new photography of the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and a selection of Guinness’s witty advertisements, including its legendary toucans, ostriches and other animals.
Rory Guinness is a brewer by birth and an authority on the history of the Guinness family and brewing. His father was the last family chairman of Guinness. He is also chairman of The Iveagh Trust, Dublin's oldest active social housing provider.
Architecture of Canterbury Cathedral
As the seat of archbishops, Canterbury Cathedral has been one of Britain’s most important buildings for over 1,400 years. Architectural historian and broadcaster Jonathan Foyle explains how Canterbury's “turbulent past shaped the building, leaving us today with an extraordinary composite work of architecture as well as a unique repository of European arts and crafts.” He reveals the fascinating stories and iconography behind the design of this medieval masterpiece. Reissued in a stylish hardback, the book features specially commissioned images by the photographer Robert Greshoff, carefully selected archival illustrations and the author’s own drawings.
Jonathan Foyle worked as a surveyor on Canterbury Cathedral, before serving as Curator of Historic Buildings at Historic Royal Palaces and Chief Executive of World Monuments Fund Britain. Now a lecturer at the University of Bath, he specialises in conservation and the interpretation and public presentation of historic buildings, and is a frequent public speaker and accomplished broadcaster on historical themes.
Lambeth Palace Library
Director’s Choice
£9.95 / $12.95 • PB • 80 PAGES • 190 × 165 mm / 6.5 × 7.5 in • 978 1 78551 324 4 PUBLICATION: OCTOBER 2025
Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library of the Archbishops of Canterbury and houses the national archives of the Church of England. Dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing the Church’s cultural and religious heritage, the Library’s vast collection is accessible to all. In this engaging book, former Librarian and Archivist Giles Mandelbrote guides the reader through some of the Library’s greatest treasures, from the MacDurnan Gospels and the Lambeth Bible to the Lambeth copy of the Gutenberg Bible. He also reveals the dramatic story behind some 1,400 stolen books and manuscripts and introduces the Library’s stunning new purpose-built, eight-storey building.
Giles Mandelbrote is Warburg Librarian and Director of Collections. Prior to this, from 2010 until 2023, he was the Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, teaches for the University of London Rare Books School and has lectured and published widely on the history of libraries and the history of the book trade.
DIRECTOR’S
LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY
Giles Mandelbrote
Juilliard School Library Music Manuscripts
Jane Gottlieb, Richard Griscom
Fighters for Freedom
William H. Johnson Picturing Justice
Lonnie G. Bunch III, Virginia Mecklenburg
The Panorama of the City of New York
Lynn Maliszewski, Lauren Haynes, Marc H. Miller, Kenneth T. Jackson, Valerie Paley, Vyjayanthi V. Rao
The Juilliard School’s collection of the priceless scores and treasures includes annotated manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. This magnificent book features exquisite photography and is accompanied by fascinating essays that reveal their importance in music scholarship and the history of the performing arts.
£25.00 / $34.95 • PB • 305 × 254 mm / 10 × 12 in
176 PAGES • 978 1 78551 535 4
William H. Johnson’s Fighters for Freedom series, painted in the mid-1940s, honours the African American heroes who worked to achieve social justice. This book is the first major survey of these paintings.
£35.00 / $45.00 • HB • 260 × 235 mm / 9.5 × 10.5 in
160 PAGES • 978 1 78551 566 8
An awe-inspiring metropolis in miniature! This is first book to fully celebrate this remarkable scale model – a beloved cultural phenomenon in New York.
George Gershwin and Modern Art
A Rhapsody in Blue
Olivia Mattis, Courtney A. McNeil, Alexander Shelley
£50.00 / $65.00 • HB • 280 × 240 mm / 9.5 × 11 in
248 PAGES • 978 1 78551 539 2
The composer, songwriter and pianist George Gershwin was deeply connected to modern art. On the centenary of his masterpiece ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, this striking book appraises his legacy as an artist in his own right, as a collector and as an inspiration for other artists.
Orchid
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
David A. Berry
£55.00 / $65.00 • HB • 280 × 254 mm / 10 × 11 in
240 PAGES • 978 1 78551 443 2
Stunning, intimate photographs bring orchids to life in this showcase of the extraordinary collection of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
Contemporary artist Mr. Brainwash is renowned in the street art scene alongside Banksy and others. His joyful mantra is ‘Life is Beautiful!’ This paperback edition, in a reduced size and at a lower price, is an updated version of his popular 2018 book. An additional 16 pages feature the latest work by this enigmatic star of the art world.
Spotlight: Women Artist Monographs
Making a Life in Photography
Rollie McKenna
Jessica D. Brier, Mary-Kay Lombino
£50.00 / $60.00 • HB • 267 × 229 mm / 9 × 10.5 in
224 PAGES • 978 1 78551 454 8
Renowned American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna was a sought-after architectural and portrait photographer in the twentieth century. This illustrated book surveys her long, innovative career.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
The Awake Volcanoes
Raphael Fonseca, Cecilia Vicuña, Christoph Heinrich
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra reimagines the world through her playful drawings and sculptures, incorporating Latin American and European traditions into her unique artistic language.
Addie Herder
Machines for Living
Amy Galpin
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This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the art of the dynamic collage artist Addie Herder, offering a critical analysis of her intricate constructions.
Judy Chicago
New Views
Judy Chicago, Susan Fisher Sterling, Sarah Thornton, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chad Alligood, Manuela Ammer, Massimiliano Gioni, Philipp Kaiser, Jonathan D. Katz, Martha C. Nussbaum, William J. Simmons
Judy Chicago is one of the most important American artists working today. This fully illustrated volume provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars.
Alexis Smith
The American Way
Anthony Graham, Cecile Whiting, Elliott Hundley
Toni Dove
Embodied Machines
Matthew McLendon, Christiane Paul, Erkki Huhtamo, George E. Lewis, Debra Bricker Balken, Rene Steinke
Innovatively designed and comprehensively illustrated, this book presents the full range of Alexis Smith’s dynamic output, from her intimate artist books and collages to large wall paintings and installations.
This uniquely designed book presents the first survey of contemporary artist Toni Dove’s pioneering work at the crossroads of performance, cinema and virtual reality.
Spotlight: Director’s Choice
Director’s Choice is a highly successful series that presents the collections of global museums, galleries and heritage sites from the director’s distinct, insightful and personal perspective. More than 70 titles have been published to date.
Filipe Pimentel
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
António
Chester Beatty
Fionnuala Croke
The Frick Collection
Ian Wardropper
Backlist: Exhibition Books
Abstraction and Calligraphy: Towards a Universal Language
232 PAGES; HB
279 × 220 mm
978 1 78551 352 7
£44 / $60
Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road
208 PAGES; HB
280 × 216 mm
978 1 85759 497 3
£25 / $45
Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico
256 PAGES; HB
292 × 248 mm
978 1 85759 741 7
£45 / $65
African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century
112 PAGES; PB
250 × 210 mm
978 1 78551 263 6
£23 / $35
Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art
120 PAGES; PB
250 × 210 mm
978 1 85759 697 7 £14.95 / $19.95
The Age of Enchantment
160 PAGES; PB
280 × 240 mm
978 1 85759 523 9
£25 / $45
AIDS in New York: The First Five Years
80 PAGES; PB 228 × 152 mm 978 1 85759 935 0
£9.95 / $12.95
Mr. Brainwash: Franchise of the Mind
128 PAGES; HB
305 × 305 mm
978 1 78551 175 2 £45 / $65
Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion
80 PAGES; PB
978 1 85759 896 4 £6.95 / $9.95
The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy 112 PAGES; PB 250 × 210 mm
978 1 78551 231 5 £19.95 / $24.95
Basil Alkazzi: An Odyssey of Dreams
136 PAGES; HB
280 × 229 mm
978 1 85759 876 6
£27.95 / $39.95
Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilius Brown
240 PAGES; HB
305 × 240 mm
978 1 78551 446 3
£55 / $65
Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions: Creating the American Republic
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