New arrivals

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.​

November & October 

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