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Museum Bookstore Find beautiful illustrated books on art, fashion and design to fire your imagination www.museumbookstore.com So we thought we would create one.

Museum Bookstore is an online bookstore specialising in exquisite illustrated books on art, fashion and photography - books that are a delight to own, hold and savour. We couldn't find an online shop that did justice to these fabulous books. Our aim is to create a store that combined the personal touch of a high street bookseller with the click-of-a-button convenience of the internet. Unlike most

online bookstores, we handpick our books and only feature the cream of the crop from a range of small independent art and museum publishers. We commission reviews from enthusiasts and experts, publish video reviews and write descriptions that give you a good sense of what to expect from a book. We like to give something back and do that by running Museum Freecycle - a network to encourage reuse in the museum sector.

'multi-faceted, handsome on the mantelpiece—and blood soaked' 'Definitely the best overview of the Russian avant-garde ...
26/06/2024

'multi-faceted, handsome on the mantelpiece—and blood soaked'

'Definitely the best overview of the Russian avant-garde ... based on thorough research, it reads like a detective story'

'throws new light on the Russian avant-gardists'

The critics are impressed by 'The Avant-Gardists : Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union 1917–1935' and so are we.

Find out more about this exciting new book

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Nothing beats seeing a painting in the flesh, but I am finding more and more that the A list exhibitions are mobbed and ...
19/06/2024

Nothing beats seeing a painting in the flesh, but I am finding more and more that the A list exhibitions are mobbed and you never have time to sit and examine, far less contemplate a painting.

This is the wonderful but busy Inventing Impressionism show at the D'Orsay.

If, like me, you can't make it over to the Art Institute of Chicago to visit their show on the clay ‘sketches’ made by N...
19/01/2024

If, like me, you can't make it over to the Art Institute of Chicago to visit their show on the clay ‘sketches’ made by Neoclassical master sculptor Antonio Canova, don't worry. The catalogue is superb and is a great way to explore the themes of the show from the comfort of your home. It was selected by The Art Newspaper as one of the best art books of 2023 and we agree.

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'With its many pages of hyper-zoomed close-ups, this dense and snoopy catalog gets you obscenely close to the real thing...
03/01/2024

'With its many pages of hyper-zoomed close-ups, this dense and snoopy catalog gets you obscenely close to the real thing...

A double-page spread of nothing but the nail holes in the wall of his “Milkmaid?” Yes, please. They’re so beveled with shadow you feel you could spackle them flat. That lemon peel in “Girl With a Wineglass?” Stippled like a Seurat...

This is armchair museum-going at its finest.' - New York Times Art Books of the Year

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I am delighted to have unearthed this out of print and hard to find catalogue about Edvard Munch work which accompanied ...
20/11/2023

I am delighted to have unearthed this out of print and hard to find catalogue about Edvard Munch work which accompanied a 1973 show at the Hayward Gallery, The Haus der Kunst in Munich and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.

The book features introductory texts by Kenneth Clark and Knut Berg, quotations from the writings by Munch, a chronology, a list of exhibitions during Munch's lifetime, a bibliography and reproductions of over 100 works in colour and black and white.

The book is in near fine condition and available online:

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Technically gifted and endlessly imaginative, Graham Sutherland is one of the 20th century’s most influential British ar...
19/11/2023

Technically gifted and endlessly imaginative, Graham Sutherland is one of the 20th century’s most influential British artists. His extensive career spanned a wide range of styles, from intricate etchings and painterly landscapes to society portraits and avant-garde abstraction.

This out of print catalogue records a comprehensive exhibition of his work in 1982 at the Tate from his early etchings to the haunting drawings and paintings he made as an official war artist to his portraits including a study for his painted portrait of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill which was famously was destroyed by Winston’s wife.

The book includes Sutherland's 1942 essay ‘Welsh Sketch Book’ as well as an introduction by Ronald Alley and biographical details.

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Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998) was one of the most dominant figures in the Scottish art world in the second half of the 20...
09/11/2023

Alberto Morrocco (1917-1998) was one of the most dominant figures in the Scottish art world in the second half of the 20th century.

A superb draughtsman and a very able and perceptive portrait painter, he is renowned for his still-lifes and his individual and intensely coloured figurative paintings. 

This out of print and rare book, which accompanied a show at the Scottish Gallery in 1996, is a collection of his late paintings.

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The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum holds one of the world's greatest collections of prints, con...
17/10/2023

The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum holds one of the world's greatest collections of prints, consisting of more than two million items. 

This generously illustrated second hand book published in 1996 studies the history of the British Museum's collection of prints and drawings. It is the first book to approach the study of prints from the perspective of the collector, rather than the engraver or publisher.

The survey moves from Sir Hans Sloane, who was less interested in the aesthetic qualities of his prints as works of art than in their subject content, to the tightly focused collections of later connoisseurs. These included C. M. Cracherode (d. 1799), with his outstanding Rembrandts and prints of the Italian School and Felix Slade (d. 1868), who pursued outstanding impressions of 'the best prints by the best engravers'.

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