 | Jenny Saville by Simon Schama
Buy new: £17.97 / Used from: £17.99 Everyone a masterpiece.
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 | Peter Blake (Modern Artists series) by Natalie Rudd
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £7.49 The Master. See also the catalogue to his Liverpool Tate show.
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 | The Devil's Playground by Nan Goldin
Buy new: £40.11 / Used from: £35.45 Must have photography book.
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 | On Photography by Susan Sontag
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £4.00 Another must have.
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 | The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art) by Charlotte Cotton
Buy used from: £5.99 Interesting overview of recent developments.
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 | Kippenberger
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £8.68 Crazy brilliant painter. "Bad Painting" at its best.
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 | Cy Twombly: A Monograph by Richard Leeman
Buy used from: £481.28 Beautiful reproductions. And a lot of his books aren't.
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 | What Painting is by James Elkins
Buy new: £16.12 / Used from: £13.50 Stunning. All painters must own.
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 | The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £5.00 Dense but beautiful.
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 | Vitamin P
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £21.50 Painting is back! Hurrah. A great overview of what's relatively current.
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 | Looking back at Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Buy new: £19.47 / Used from: £16.08 This guy knew him best. See also his interviews with Bacon.
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 | Lucian Freud by William & FREUD, Lucian FEAVER
Buy used from: £130.06 Fantastic colour plates.
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 | The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten, Based on His Book "The Art of Color" by Johannes Itten
Buy new: £20.26 / Used from: £17.55 If you can't afford The Art of Colour.
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 | The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten
Buy new: £50.43 / Used from: £48.22 If you can!
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 | Jean-Michel Basquiat by Richard Marshall
Buy used from: £35.47 Genius!
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 | Tai-Shan Schierenberg by William Packer
Lucian Freud's natural successor.
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 | Dear Painter, Paint ME...: Painting the Figure since Picabia
Buy used from: £49.50 If you can get hold of it, its well worth it.
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 | Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Buy new: £18.74 / Used from: £16.50 Most of the theory you'll need.
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 | Eric Fischl: 1970-2000 by Arthur Coleman Danto
Buy used from: £60.77 Now updated to 1970-2007, and IN PRINT. Get it.
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