James Hall

Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer, and broadcaster James Hall's lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh, and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues, and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully...

A Times Best Art Book of 2022 An exciting narrative and visual history of the artist's studio, examining the myth and reality of the creative space from early times to today. The artist's workplace has always been an imaginary as well as an actual location, an idealised utopia as well as the domain of dirty, back-breaking work. Written descriptions, paintings,...

Explores the theme of the artists' studio, featuring previously unpublished works and essays. Magic and Mess: The Artist's Studio Revealed explores the myth and reality of the artists' studio in Europe through the long nineteenth century. Featuring works from the unrivalled Katrin Bellinger Collection and Leighton House, this richly illustrated catalogue showcases both famous and little-known artists and includes essays...