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Paul Johnson
A Rare Luminousity
Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings
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Frances Spalding
Back in the Frame
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Alex Danchev
Band of Bohemians
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910
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Brian Dillon
Lost Soles
A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West
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James Delingpole
Rah-Rah for Reredos
A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover’s Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash
By Harry Mount
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William Cash
An Overheated Balloon
Seven Days in the Art World
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Jane Rye
The Wild Shores of Buggery
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
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Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait
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Frances Spalding
Artist of the Floating World
Chagall: Love and Exile
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A C Grayling
Simply Hideous
The Complement of Beauty On Ugliness
By Umberto Eco
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Charles Saumarez Smith
Private Riches
Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945
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Frances Spalding
Menace in the Mundane
Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye
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John McEwen
I am God, I am God
A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932
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Paul Johnson
Painter of All Nature
George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné
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John Gray
Split Religion
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins
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Paul Johnson
Fatal Perfectionism
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Rupert Christiansen
A Shameful Episode
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By Jonathan Miles
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Henrietta Garnett
A Palette of Painters
The Private Lives of the Impressionists
By Sue Roe
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John McEwen
Stormy Genius
John Constable: A Kingdom of His Own
By Anthony Bailey
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William Packer
Star-Struck
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Michael Prodger
Brushes at Twenty Paces
The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and an Artistic Revolution
By Ross King
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