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JUNE’S FIVE BEST ART SHOW BOOKS
Gerhard Richter:
Painting After All
Sheena Wagstaff and
Benjamin Buchloh (ed.)
With New York’s Met
Breuer closed until
further notice, so too is the museum’s
landmark display of one of the world’s
greatest living painters. While the exhibition
has collected together some 100 works,
the 270-page catalogue expands upon that,
placing the German painter’s art into the
context of the Second World War’s aftermath
and also his embrace of different media.
Individual essays tackle in turn Richter’s
interests in photography, landscape, memory,
chance and more.
Yale UP, £35. http://www.yalebooks.co.ukPiranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity
Sarah Vowles
October marks the 300th anniversary
of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, a
fantastical Italian artist famed for his
grand drawings of Rome and Pompeii.
With the British Museum closed for
now, access to a new display of his drawings is on hold.
Thankfully, this catalogue is filled with revealing examples
of his developing draughtsmanship, contrasting them with
his more dramatically-realised prints of grand architecture.
Thames & Hudson, £20. http://www.thamesandhudson.comArtemisia
Letizia Treves (ed.)
The first UK exhibition of
work by Renaissance artist
Artemisia Gentileschi was
set to open at London’s
National Gallery on 4 April. While this was
postponed at the time of writing, the
accompanying catalogue is also the first
dedicated to this ground-breaking painter.
As the first female artist accepted to the
academies of Florence, Gentileschi offered an
alternative to the male gaze, depicting biblical
heroines and strident self-portraits that truly
broke new ground.
National Gallery, £35.
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