• Bowdoin College Museum of Art • Brooklyn Museum • Burrell Collection • Calouste Gulbenkian Museum • Canterbury Cathedral • Castle Howard • Cheekwood • Chester Beatty
• Cleveland Museum of Art • The Courtauld Gallery • Crocker Art Museum • Currier Museum of Art • Denver Art Museum • Eskenazi Museum of Art • Fashion + Textile Museum • The Frick Collection
• The Harris • Juilliard School Library • 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 • National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
• New Orleans Museum of Art • 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
American Art Museum
• Science Museum Group • Smithsonian
• St Paul’s Cathedral • Sydney Opera House Trust
• Wallace Collection
• Westminster Abbey
• Wolfsonian-FIU
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.
Photographic Memory
Fifty Years of Photography at the National Portrait Gallery
Encompassing more than one hundred works, from the Daguerreian era to today’s digital age, this stunning volume will explore the evolution of photographic portraiture through treasures from the National Portrait Gallery’s wideranging collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Published to help celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the photography collection in 2026, and coinciding with an exhibition at the Gallery, the book will highlight the medium’s role in democratizing portraiture. Works by leading photographers including Richard Avedon, Mathew Brady, Annie Leibovitz, and James Van Der Zee, to name a few, portray some of the USA’s most significant individuals including Abraham Lincoln, John Steinbeck, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, emphasizing the remarkable people on both sides of the camera.
Ann M. Shumard joined the National Portrait Gallery’s department of photographs in 1979 and has served as the museum’s senior curator of photographs since 2001. Throughout her tenure, she has played an integral role in the development and interpretation of the museum’s photography collection, which now numbers more than 11,000 objects – from daguerreotypes to born-digital images.
Fit for a King
Tudor and Stuart Armors Made in the Royal Workshop at Greenwich
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s all-gilt battle and tournament armor of King Henry VIII of England, with its exquisite etched decoration, is among the most spectacular ever produced. Made in the royal armor workshop at Greenwich, founded by Henry VIII in 1515, it forms the centerpiece of the Met’s renowned collection of Greenwich armors – the most important outside Britain. Focusing on the Met’s six complete armors and two significant elements made for the king and Tudor and Stuart nobles, this book offers an authoritative study of Greenwich armor, illustrated with detailed new photography that highlights its exceptional artistry, innovation, and engineering.
Ian Eaves was Keeper of Armour at the Royal Armouries, Tower of London (1978–96). He is a consultant to museums, auction houses, and collectors, and author of catalogues of European armor in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
Stuart W. Pyhrr is curator emeritus in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began his career at The Met in 1971 and was appointed Distinguished Research Curator in 2013. Stuart retired in 2020 but continues his research and writing on the subject of European arms and armor.
Colorwear
A Kaleidoscope of Fashion
Discover a chromatic celebration of more than 150 ensembles from the extraordinary fashion collection of Phoenix Art Museum. Arranged across 13 vivid chapters organized by color, this book reveals how designers through time and across continents create wearable art that continues to inspire. In addition to striking photography, fashion curator Helen Jean helps situate the PhxArt collection in a broader cultural and historical context. Celebrated fashion historians April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary, hosts of the podcast Dressed: The History of Fashion, also offer editorial contributions that bring fresh perspectives and insights. From couture to ready-to-wear, shoes to accessories, Colorwear immerses you in the power of color as storytelling, mood, and creative expression.
Helen Jean is the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion at Phoenix Art Museum.
With contributions by fashion historians April Callahan and Cassidy Zachary
Everyday Glamour
Horrockses Fashions From Royalty to Ready To Wear
A glorious celebration of Horrockses, the post-war British fashion brand that led the ready-to-wear market, empowered women designers and integrated avant-garde artistic ideas into its textile designs, transforming everyday clothing into wearable art.
Based in Lancashire, Horrockses Fashions made stylish garments accessible to women from all walks of life – from factory workers to royalty. Famously, in 1953–54 Queen Elizabeth II packed Horrockses cotton dresses for her Commonwealth tour. Their full-skirted dresses used colourful textile prints, with floral, geometric or avant-garde designs by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi or Graham Sutherland, and empowered women designers such as Joyce Badrock too. Everyday Glamour showcases the world’s largest Horrockses collection at The Harris museum, while six contributors discuss the brand and its appeal to vintage fashion followers today. It is published to mark the 80th anniversary of the first collection, coinciding with an exhibition at The Harris.
Scott Schiavone, the book’s editor, is a fashion historian and Decorative Art Curator at The Harris, Preston.
Christine Boydell is a design historian and the author of Horrockses Fashions: Off-the-Peg Style in the ’40s and ’50s
Atlanta in 100 Objects
A Century of Stories
The city of Atlanta, Georgia’s captivating story comes to life in this fascinating volume – from the railroad’s Zero Mile Post signifying the city’s birth as a transportation city, to the glittering disco ball from the dance club Backstreet. Atlanta is uniquely distinguished as both a symbol of the crisis of the American Civil War and the cradle of its Civil Rights Movement. Drawn from the Atlanta History’s Center’s 100 years of collecting, this book celebrates 100 artifacts that illustrate the compelling narrative of those who lived Atlanta’s past, create its present and build its future.
F. Sheffield Hale is the President and CEO of Atlanta History Center.
Amy Durrell and Lisa Flaherty are co-founders of History Afoot Atlanta, providing historical tours of Atlanta. Both are graduates of Georgia State University’s Masters of Heritage Preservation program with a focus on public history.
The team at Atlanta History Center includes Pola Changnon, Lucy Abell, Erica Hague, Claire Hailey, Jena Jones, Ammiel Lewis, John Schmidt, Sue VerHoef, Tim Frilingos, and Michael Rose
Photography by Mark Hill
Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral
£30 / $40 • HB • 224 PAGES • 280 × 240 mm / 9.5 × 11 in • 978 1 78551 634 4 PUBLICATION: JANUARY 2026
Today, the stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral is not only world famous; it is also, thanks to a sustained and meticulous conservation programme, a revelation. For the first time in centuries, visitors can appreciate the true vibrancy of its colours and the breathtaking artistry of its compositions. This lavishly illustrated book, now reissued in a strikingly redesigned hardback edition, features the finest of the medieval glass along with notable examples of later glass including Christopher Whall’s Arts and Crafts-style designs and the striking modern work of Ervin Bossanyi. Whole windows, narrative series of scenes and stunning details dating from the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries are featured in this celebration of the cathedral’s world-class collection of stained glass.
M. A. Michael is a Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, School of Culture and Creative Arts. He was previously Academic Director of Christie’s Education Department and has taught at the universities of London and St Andrews.
Dr Sebastian Strobl trained as a Master Glazier and later at the University of Cologne wrote his doctoral thesis on medieval stained-glass techniques. From 1990 to 2005 he directed stained-glass conservation at Canterbury Cathedral.
Josefina Auslender
Drawing Myself Free
This stunning book offers the first comprehensive exploration of Argentinian contemporary artist Josefina Auslender. Despite her prolific mastery of drawing and abstraction in graphite, colored pencil, and ink, Auslender has received disproportionately little attention by critics, scholars and art institutions – until now. This survey of Auslender’s artistic career, published in collaboration with Bowdoin College Museum of Art, spans decades and continents, conveying her lifelong passion for creating new worlds through art. By connecting the artist’s work with key moments in her professional career, intersecting with major global events, the text examines issues of gender, war, grief, trauma diaspora – and how we all, in our own ways, grapple with feelings of isolation and connection, otherness and belonging.
Cassandra Mesick Braun is Curator at Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine.
With contributions by Sarah Bouchard, Veronique Plesch, Daniel Quiles, and Pilar Saavedra-Weiss
Good Vibrations
Resonator Guitars and American Life
In 1927, a small Los Angeles company created a startlingly new kind of guitar. Featuring three aluminum cones inside a shiny metal body, the “tricone” made by the National String Instrument Company sounded and looked like no other guitar. For a short period, until amplified electric guitars became viable in the mid-1930s, resonator guitars were at the vital center of American popular music, a legacy that has fascinated musicians and fans ever since. Featuring essays by two musical instrument experts, color plates documenting these guitars as no other publication has, and additional illustrations that link these guitars to broader themes in American history and culture, this book, which accompanies an exhibition at the Wolfsonian–FIU museum in Miami, provides a rich account of an iconic American object.
Darcy Kuronen is former Curator of Musical Instruments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is author of Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar (2000) and Musical Instruments: MFA Highlights (2004).
John Troutman is Curator of Music and Musical Instruments at the National Museum of American History. He is author of Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934 (2009) and Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music (2016).
The Orchid
Intimate Portraits of a Fascinating Flower
Stunning, intimate photographs bring orchids to life in this new gift-sized edition of the popular book ORCHID, showcasing the best scientifically documented collection of living orchids in the world at the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. A fascinating and accessible text explores the remarkable beauty and diversity of one of the largest and most admired families of flowering plants. Presented in a more portable size and at lower price point, this book will be the perfect gift for every orchid lover.
Galeandra
David Berry is Vice President for Visitor Engagement and Chief Curator of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida.
Rebels with La Causa
Royal Chicano Air Force Art and Activism, 1970–1990
Featuring vibrantly colored, politically charged imagery, this stunning volume is the first comprehensive survey of work by the Sacramento-based Royal Chicano Air Force, one of the Chicano Movement’s most prolific and impactful artist collectives. The group produced lively posters and murals for educational, cultural, and political activities, and their art and activism influenced many artists and historians, with images reflecting Latin American and Chicana/o history, symbols of protest and union support, and celebrations of cultural emblems and community events. With vivid illustrations and accessible text by scholars in the field, this striking book, published with the Crocker Art Museum, helps bring this influential group and movement to life and positions the collective as an integral piece in the larger history of graphic art in the United States.
Tere Romo is an independent curator, Affiliate Faculty, Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis.
Tatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Notre Dame.
Jesús Barraza is Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Dignidad Rebelde artist collective.
Ella Maria Diaz is Professor and Chair, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, San José State University.
Lorena Márquez is Associate Professor of History, Interim Chair of Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis.
The Wallace Collection A Short History
The Wallace Collection – bequeathed to the nation in 1897 – is one of the largest and greatest gifts of fine and decorative arts ever made in Britain. The collection was built up by several generations of the Seymour-Conway family, many of them larger-than-life characters, and this book tells their colourful story. Richly illustrated with iconic masterpieces from the Wallace Collection, as well as rare archival material, this new edition has been thoroughly revised, updated and redesigned.
The Wallace Collection is a national museum occupying Hertford House, London. Among its treasures are an outstanding array of 18th-century French art, many important 17th and 19th-century
paintings, medieval and Renaissance works of art and one of the finest collections of princely arms and armour in Britain.
Sunjammer 6
A Tale Blown by a Solar Breeze
Contemporary artist Toni Dove creates media machines that blur the boundaries between performance and installation and fuse film, game, experimental theater and artificial intelligencebased interaction. This extraordinary artist’s book is a love story, a conversation between two characters connecting across time, each pushing back against an encroaching dark age. Hypatia, a Hellenistic astronomer, mathematician and philosopher assassinated in 415 CE, returns 10 years in our future as a furious ghost. As she navigates her new environment, she absorbs what has happened over time and encounters a NASA engineer building a solar-array off-world power station. The book, part of a project that includes an installation and a performance, is a poetic and dreamlike experience about resistance and the consequences of the fear of knowledge. Augmented Reality adds a magical third dimension, bringing characters and scenes off the page with sound and image using a phone or tablet.
Toni Dove is a contemporary artist and instrument builder based in New York City. Her work has been presented in the US, Europe and Canada. Dove received the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from
M.I.T. and a lifetime achievement award from iDMAa. Sunjammer 6 opens to the public in January 2026 at The Schwarzman Center for the Arts at Yale. Dove is a fellow at CCAM, Yale University.
The Photographic Reflex
The Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr. Collection
Spanning from 1856 to 2017, this beautifully illustrated book includes iconic photographs by pioneers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Henri Cartier-Bresson, alongside contemporary innovators like Edward Burtynsky and Vik Muniz. Structured around five thematic chapters – ranging from motion and time to war, the body, industry and nature – the book offers an expansive and accessible narrative of photography’s evolution in both form and function. Drawn from the well-known and prestigious collection of Lee Marks and John C. DePrez Jr. recently donated to the Eskenazi Museum of Art, the catalogue is designed for a broad audience, with more than 100 beautifully reproduced plates, insightful essays and a candid interview with the collectors that reflects on how photography has changed, both as a medium and a market.
Benjamin Levy is the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, Eskenazi Museum of Art. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, he studied printmaking and photography and
trained to be a collaborative printmaker. Levy is a PhD candidate in the Joint Art History Program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Christ Church, Oxford
A Souvenir Guide
Christ Church is home to more than 600 students who study at the University of Oxford, a leading centre for research and education, and also serves as the Cathedral for one of the country’s largest Anglican dioceses. It is one of the nation’s most recognisable architectural and historical treasures, welcoming hundreds of thousands of visitors each year from all over the world, of all faiths and none. An Augustinian priory transformed into a college by Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, Christ Church has been home to kings, Nobel Prize winners and world leaders, including thirteen British prime ministers. It is a story 1,300 years in the making. This official Souvenir Guide takes you on a photographic journey through Christ Church, from its atmospheric Meadow to its world-famous Dining Hall, iconic Tom Tower and its Cathedral, home to architectural and stainedglass treasures.
The East India Company at St Paul’s Cathedral
In Collaboration with Stepney Community Trust
St Paul’s Cathedral has long served as a visual record of Britain’s imperial activities. Initially, a small set of monuments were erected to commemorate leading figures in the worlds of social reform, art and literature. But, over the course of the eighteenth century, the naval battles which secured Britain’s rising global power produced several national heroes, prompting the proliferation of monuments to individuals whose military exploits enabled Britain’s imperial pursuits. This book, created in collaboration with Stepney Community Trust, explores the intertwined histories of the cathedral’s monuments and the British Empire in India. By tracing the story of the East India Company through the monuments and memorials found on the Cathedral Floor and in the Crypt, it invites readers to reflect on shared pasts in order to better understand and help shape our shared future.
Stepney Community Trust, established in 1982, initially under the name of St Mary’s Centre, is a grassroots charity with a long history of community action, providing welfare advice, housing support and advocacy services especially to the
Bangladeshi community in East London. The texts in the book were created in collaboration with a group of community authors and researchers based on rigorous scholarly research and in the context of their own experiences.
Spray
Jules Olitski in the 1960s
In the 1960s, American artist Jules Olitski exhibited his abstract spray paintings and sculptures to critical acclaim. Olitski created his sumptuously coloured canvases using an innovative technique involving industrial spray guns to apply mists of acrylic paint to canvas, creating the effect of ethereal fields of colour. Inspired by Olitski’s masterpiece Shoot (1965) from the Currier Museum of Art’s collection, and accompanying a new exhibition at the museum, this beautiful book features paintings, a sculpture, works on paper, and rare archival materials from the Jules Olitski Foundation. Olitski’s historic sprays are complemented by a selection of contemporary paintings by Heather Hutchison, Joseph Marioni, Jane Swavely, and John Zurier, who also explore color, light and space in paintings that foreground perception and sensation.
Bruce McColl is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Alex Grimley is an art historian and researcher at the Jules Olitski Foundation.
Pepe Mar Dream
House
£25 / $35 • HB
Inspired by his passions for clubbing, music, and fashion, Miami-based contemporary artist Pepe Mar creates vibrant, playful, and explosive mixed-media collages and sculptures that explore the excesses of contemporary consumer culture. As his first monograph showcase, this vividly illustrated volume, which accompanies an exhibition at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, situates Mar’s practice within the history of artists who engaged with ephemera and found objects, from European Surrealists like Hannah Höch and Max Ernst to Post-War personal archivists like Jess, Betye Saar, and Joseph Cornell. By exploring Mar’s satirical take on display traditions, the book examines the ways his material strategies parody museum practices through a theatrical synthesis of science fiction, queer culture, and fashion aesthetics.
Anastasia Kinigopoulo is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Imagination, Faith, and Desire
Art and Agency in European Prints, 1475–1800
This richly illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives on iconic Renaissance and Baroque prints and their enduring impact on viewers. Featuring outstanding examples of over 100 prints by celebrated artists such as Dürer, Rembrandt and Goya, this book reveals how printmaking sparked imagination, deepened faith and elicited desire across four centuries. This sumptuous volume traces the technical evolution of print media and explores how prints became powerful tools of mass communication, fundamentally altering how ideas and knowledge spread. The book’s thematic focus reveals the striking ways prints shaped devotional practices, political critique, artistic self-promotion and class- and gender-based identities in the pre-photographic world.
Sandra F. Racek (Editor) is a Lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a specialist in early modern European art and visual culture. She also provides collections management and curatorial expertise for galleries, private collectors, and museum exhibition projects.
Maureen Warren (Curator) is Curator of European and American Art at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and specialises in early modern European works on paper. Other contributors include Yajie Hui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Geraldine A. Johnson (University of Oxford) and Nancy Karrels (National Museum of Asian Art).
Saint Nicholas National Shrine at the World Trade Center
A Guide
This informative guide explores the history, destruction and rebirth of Saint Nicholas Church at Ground Zero. Written by the Friends of Saint Nicholas, it tells the story of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed on 9/11 and rebuilt as a National Shrine. Designed by famed architect Santiago Calatrava and adorned with stunning icons, the church is a space for remembrance, worship, and reconciliation for all. With this book, visitors and readers will understand the history, purpose and continued mission of this space.
The Friends of Saint Nicholas was established in December 2019 in order to raise, invest and disburse funds for the construction and further improvement of the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center.
Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish/ Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter. He has offices in New York City, Dubai and Zürich.
Saint Nicholas National Shrine at the World Trade Center
The Iconographic Program
Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine, which today once again welcomes the faithful, serves as a memorial to those lost on 9/11 and a place of reflection open to all. Founded in 1892, the original church stood at the foot of the World Trade Center and was destroyed in 2001. Rebuilt nearby, the new church was designed by Santiago Calatrava, inspired by Byzantine precedents such as Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and built with marble from the same quarries as the Parthenon. Its iconographic program, created by Bishop Joachim of Amissos and executed by Fr. Loukas of Mount Athos, makes it the only US church with complete iconography painted by an Athonite monk. This luxurious volume, rich with stunning photography, explores the Shrine’s history, construction, and iconography.
Bishop Joachim of Amissos (John A. Cotsonis) is Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center at Hellenic College Holy Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, and a well-known Byzantine art historian.
Santiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish/ Swiss architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter. He has offices in New York City, Dubai and Zürich.
New Orleans Museum of Art Director’s Choice
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and its Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden stewards a collection of nearly 50,000 works, with exceptional holdings in African art, photography, decorative arts, and Japanese art, as well as strengths in American and French art, and an expanding collection highlighting contemporary artists. Joining Scala’s popular Director’s Choice series, this collection guide provides NOMA Director Susan M. Taylor’s personal selection of some of her favorite works in the museum collection, balancing significant historical works of art history with the art of our time, allowing NOMA to be as accessible to as broad an audience as possible.
Susan M. Taylor is The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since she began her tenure in 2010, she has led an ambitious expansion of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden and created powerful art experiences through acquisitions, exhibitions, and expanded spaces.
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.
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, which accompanies an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum, includes early artworks focused on middle-class American suburbs with their taboos and secrets.
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.
Outlaws
Fashion Renegades of Leigh Bowery’s 1980s London
Martin Green, N.J. Stevenson
£35 / $55 • HB • 276 × 216 mm / 8.5 × 10.9 in
208 PAGES • 978 1 78551 601 6
Outlaws, published in collaboration with London’s Fashion and Textile Museum, 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.
The Photography of Herman Leonard
David Houston, Jenny Bagert, Quincy Jones
£50 / $60 • HB • 305 × 230 mm / 9 × 12 in
240 PAGES • 978 1 78551 604 7
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. This exquisite book is, according to The Guardian, ‘The most complete survey of his lifetime of photography’.
Versailles
Science & Splendour
Anna Ferrari
£30 / $40 • HB • 250 × 210 mm • 8.3 × 9.8 in
128 PAGES • 978 1 78551 582 8
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, published to accompany an exhibition at London’s Science Museum, reveals how the French monarchy harnessed science to enhance its prestige and extend its global influence.
This beautifully illustrated volume, published for the artist’s major solo exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, 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.
Spotlight: Heritage
The Houses of Guinness
The Lives, Homes and Fortunes of the Great Brewing Dynasty
Adrian Tinniswood
£30 / $40 • HB • 250 × 196 MM / 7.7 × 9.8 IN
240 PAGES • 978 1 78551 607 8
Adrian Tinniswood explores the histories of the legendary Guinness family – brewers, philanthropists, socialites – through their mansions and townhouses. He opens the door to Irish palaces like Farmleigh, Ashford Castle and Luggala, and British ones such as Elveden Hall, Biddesden and Robert Adam’s Kenwood on Hampstead Heath.
Castle Howard
Christopher Ridgway
£18.95 / $29.95 • HB • 230 × 193 mm / 7.6 × 9.1 in
136 PAGES • 978 1 78551 617 7
Castle Howard is Britain’s finest country house, designed by Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor, and recognised worldwide as the location for Brideshead Revisited and the first series of Bridgerton. Its setting in Yorkshire is amongst the most spectacular of any building in the UK. In this official guide, 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.
Treasures of Westminster Abbey
Tony Trowles
£16.95 / $24.95 • PB • 280 × 240 mm / 9.4 × 11 in
176 PAGES • 978 185759 649 6
Lavish, large-format catalogue of highlights from the stained glass, sculpture, textiles, wall paintings and other stunning artefacts that Westminster Abbey has housed in its thousand-year history.
Buckingham Palace
Official Souvenir
Pamela Hartshorne
£5.95 / $7.95 • PB • 245 × 190 mm / 7.5 × 9.6 in
64 PAGES • 978 178551 134 9
The official souvenir guide to Buckingham Palace, including beautiful photographs of the State Rooms, plus historic documents and drawings and many works of art from the Picture Gallery’s world-class collection of paintings. It highlights the multiple roles the Palace plays – as a symbol, a royal residence, a working palace and an exceptional art collection.
The Newport Experience
Jeannine Falino
£45 / $60 • HB • 278 × 254 mm / 10 × 11 in
162 PAGES • 978 1 78551 202 5
Cheekwood
Leslie B. Jones and Shanna T. Jones
In this book, The Preservation Society of Newport County shares its 75 years of experience in conserving three centuries of the finest achievements in American architecture, decorative arts and landscape design. £25 / $29.95 •
128 PAGES • 978 1 78551 291 9
/ 8.7 × 10 in
Cheekwood is a botanical garden, arboretum and art museum on the western edge of Nashville, Tennessee. This richly illustrated book explores Cheekwood’s historic origins as a private estate and traces its evolution as a public institution and the beloved destination that it is today.
Spotlight: Museum Collections
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 and its collection is now part of the National Gallery of Art. 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.
Counterpoint
20th-Century Art from the John M. Parker Jr. Collection
Ren. Paul Barilleaux, Lyle Williams, Matthew Levy, Julie Johnson, Liz Paris, Lauren Thompson
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. Parker gifted his collections to the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. This catalogue highlights the work of artists including John Baldessari, Alice Aycock and Sol Lewitt.
The Courtauld
Highlights from the Gallery Professor Mark Hallett
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.
Toward Joy
New Frameworks for American Art
Stephanie Sparling Williams
French Moderns
Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950
Richard Aste and Lisa Small
Canaletto and Guardi
Views of Venice at the Wallace Collection
Lelia Packer and Charles Beddington
£40 / $55 • HB • 280 × 240 mm / 9.5 × 11 in
256 PAGES • 978 1 78551 584 2
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.
£40 / $55 • HB • 280 × 255 mm / 10 × 11 in
144 PAGES • 978 1 78551 599 6
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 artists including Bonnard, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Chagall, Degas, Matisse, Monet, Redon, Renoir, and Rodin.
£25 / $29.95 • PB • 280 × 240 mm / 9.4 × 11 in
192 PAGES • 978 1 78551 320 6
At the Wallace Collection in London hangs an important group of 27 eighteenthcentury views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi. 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.
Backlist: Exhibition Books
Abstraction and Calligraphy: Towards a Universal Language
232 PAGES; HB
279 × 220 mm
978 1 78551 352 7
£44 / $60
Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art
120 PAGES; PB
250 × 210 mm
978 1 85759 697 7 £14.95 / $19.95
African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century
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Inside back cover: Phaius sp. Photographed by Wade Collier. From The Orchid (see p. 17).
Back cover: Pages from Horrockses Fashions’ design books, 1950s. Photograph courtesy The Harris Museum & Art Gallery. From Everyday Glamour (see p. 8).
