Newly arrived books at the Barber Fine Art Library are listed below. We will update the list regularly when new books arrive and have been processed.
December 2025
Visual arts in general
- The aesthetics of reaction: tradition, faith, identity & the visual arts in France, 1900-1914 / Neil McWilliam.
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021
Classmark: NX549.A1 M39
Galleries and curating
- Inventing the modern : untold stories of the women who shaped The Museum of Modern Art / edited by Ann Temkin
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2024
Classmark: N620.M9 I58
Sculpture
- Louis XIV par le Bernin: le génie et la majesté / sous la direction de Lionel Arsac. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano:SilvanaEditoriale, 2025
Classmark: NB623.B5 A653
Painting
- Impressions nabies : Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Vallotton / sous la direction de Céline Chicha-Castex et Valérie Sueur-Hermel.
[Paris] : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2025
Classmark: N6847.5.N3 I47
- Max Pechstein: Vision und Werk = vision and work
München: Hirmer Verlag, 2025
Classmark: N6888.P38 A4
- Baroque & later paintings in the Ashmolean Museum / Catherine Whistler.
London: Modern Art Press, 2016
Classmark:ND456.W45
- Turner and the slave trade / Sam Smiles.
London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2025
Classmark: ND497.T8 S65
- Wright of Derby: from the shadows / Christine Riding and Jon King.
London: National Gallery Global, 2025
Classmark: ND497.W8 A4
- Delacroix s'invite chez Courbet / Claire Bessède et Benjamin Foudral.
Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana editoriale, 2023
Classmark: ND553.D33 A4
- Millet: life on the land / Sarah Herring with Simon Kelly.
London: National Gallery Global, 2025
Classmark: ND553.M6 A4
November & October 2025
Ikon Gallery exhibition catalogues
- Krištof Kintera: Process book
Birmingham: IKON Gallery, 2020
Classmark: N5056 B
- Boyd & Evans: Views
Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2012
Classmark: N5056 B
- Artists for Ikon
Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2015
Classmark: N5056 B
- Welcome to Iraq by Abdul Raheem Yassir
Baghdad: Birmingham : Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq ; 2013
Classmark: N5056 B
- My shadow's reflection / Edmund Clark ; edited by Jonathan Watkins ; texts by Edmund Clark and the men of HMP Grendon
Birmingham : London : Ikon Gallery ; 2017
Classmark: N5056 B
- Sheela Gowda / Sheela Gowda ; curated by Jonathan Watkins
Birmingham : Ikon Gallery, 2017
Classmark: N5056 B
- Why contribute to the spread of ugliness? / Stuart Whipps
Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2012
Classmark: q N5056 B
- The essential Kokolia
Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2018
Classmark: N5056 B
- 'It is what it is, and it ain't nothing else' / Dan Flavin
Birmingham IKON Gallery; 2016
Classmark: N5056 B
Collecting
- Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Extraordinary art collector / Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth.
London: Lund Humphries, 2025.
Classmark: N5247.G8 M33
Visual Arts
- Modern art and politics in Germany, 1910-1945 : masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Fort Worth, Texas; Kimbell Art Museum ; 2025.
Classmark: N6488.G3 M63
- The art isles: a 15,000-year story of art in Britain and Ireland / Charlotte Mullins.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
Classmark: N6761 .M85
- Blake / Elizabeth Wyckoff
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2025.
Classmark: N6797.B57 A4
- Melting ice, rising tides / Emma Stibbon.
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2024.
Classmark: N6797.S75 A4
- Art on the move in Renaissance Italy / David Landau.
London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2025.
Classmark : N6915 .L36
Sculpture
- European sculpture in the collection of His Majesty the King / Jonathan Marsden
London: Modern Art Press, in association with the Royal Collection Trust, 2025.
Classmark: q NB454 .M37
Painting
- Constable / Tim Barringer
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2025.
Classmark: ND497.C7 A4
- Caravaggio 2025 / edited by Francesca Cappelletti,
Venice: Marsilio Arte, 2025.
Classmark: ND623.C26 A4
- Vigée Le Brun: Self portrait in a straw hat / Lucy Davies.
London: National Gallery Global, 2025.
Classmark: ND1329.V53 D38
September 2025
- How images mean: Iconography and meta-iconography / Paul Taylor.
London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2025.
Classmark: N7565 .T39
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Good and bad government reconsidered / Jules Lubbock.
London: Ad Ilissvm, 2025.
Classmark: ND623.L75 A6
- Sussex modernism / Hope Wolf.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
Classmark: NX544.S9 W65
- Paule Vézelay: Living lines / edited by Simon Grant
London: Lund Humphries, 2025.
Classmark: N6797.V49 A4