For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
John McEwen

From the January 1999 Issue

Art Writing as Gossip or Sociology?

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists

By James Fenton

The Penguin Book of Art Writing

By Martin Gayford and Karen Wright

From the December 2004 Issue

A Painter Writes

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

By Mark Rothko

From the May 2011 Issue

Colouring Pens

Painting: Mysteries & Confessions

By Tess Jaray

Almanac

By Jeffery Camp

From the February 2011 Issue

Portraits of Society

Derek Hill

By Bruce Arnold

From the June 2009 Issue

Dealer’s Choice

Sleuth: The Amazing Quest for Lost Art Treasures

By Philip Mould

From the December 2007 Issue

I am God, I am God

A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932

By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully)

From the October 2007 Issue

Figurative V Abstract

Vitebsk: The Life of Art

By Aleksandra Shatskikh (Translated by Katherine Foshko)

From the June 2007 Issue

More than Just Matchstick Men

L S Lowry: A Life

By Shelley Rohde

From the February 2007 Issue

Vigour and Pith

William Powell Frith: A Painter and His World

By Christopher Wood

From the July 2006 Issue

Stormy Genius

John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own

By Anthony Bailey

From the March 2006 Issue

Gilty Love

Sir Thomas Lawrence

By Michael Levey

From the September 2005 Issue

She Knew Not The Nude

Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman

By Angelica Gooden

From the July 2005 Issue

Life Itself Is Here

George Stubbs and the Wide Creation

By Robin Blake

From the May 2005 Issue

Bric-A-Brac Painter

Georges Braque: A Life

By Alex Danchev

From the March 2005 Issue

The Open Window

Matisse the Master

By Hilary Spurling