From the March 2023 Issue Chiselled Features Words Made Stone: The Craft and Philosophy of Letter Cutting By Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley & Marcus Waithe LR
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From the April 2022 Issue Bull with a Paintbrush A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943 By John Richardson
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From the April 2021 Issue Aesthete of Gordon Square Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism By Mark Hussey LR
From the December 2019 Issue Widening the Frame Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties By Carolyn Trant LR
From the November 2019 Issue Man of Many Brushes The Art of an Art Historian By Alan Powers, with contributions from Peter Davidson & Michael Hall LR
From the December 2018 Issue Fine Lines Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art By Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans LR
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From the June 2003 Issue Weighty Matters The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity By J Mordaunt Crook LR
From the July 2003 Issue Art and Maternity Whistler and His Mother: An Unexpected Relationship By Sarah Walden LR
From the February 2004 Issue Gay At Heart Anny: A Life of Anne Isabella Thackery Ritchie By Henrietta Garnett LR
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