Autumn books preview: a selection of forthcoming books on art and architecture

To give level a brief survey of the highlights of art work publishing this autumn it is necessary to introduce a certain number of limitations, so no exhibition catalogues, or 'book of exhibitions', which are rapidly evolving as separate genre and no volumes on museum collections.

If single had to choose just individual highlight, it would not be an art volume at all, but a concern work that historians of British art will deliberate for decades to come: the fresh Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, September, sixty convolutions 7,500 [pounds sterling]--or 6,500 [pound sterling] if you order before 30 September; for details of on-line subscribing, confer www.oxforddnb.com).

Books upon ancient art include The statuary of the Parthenon (Cambridge, September, c 45 [pound sterling]), edited by dint of Michael Cosmopoulos, which promises 'a fresh interpretation', and Patrick Bowe's Gardens of the Roman World (Frances Lincoln, September, 35 [pound sterling]). From the other side of the world tend hitherwards Kenneth Nebenzahl's Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond: 2000 years of exploring the East (Phaidon, September, 2995 [pound sterling]), upon antique maps of Asia and the Middle Fast, from 334 BC to the nineteenth century

There are sum of two units important books by medieval scholars who stir across the boundaries between art and architectural history, Paul Binski's Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England, 1170-1300 (Yale, October, 40 [pound sterling]) and Stephen Murray's A Gothic Sermon: Making a Contract with the Mother of lord Saint Mary of Amiens (University of California Pres November, 2695 [pound sterling]). Jean Givens's Observation and Image-making in Gothic Art (Cambridge, November, c 45 [pound sterling]) examines the working practices of medieval artists.

sum of two units exciting books on renaissance artists are Martin Kemp's Leonardo (Oxford, October, 1499 [pound sterling]) and Susan Foister's Holbein and England (Yale, November, 45 [pound sterling]). Baroque studies present the appearance absent this autumn and thus the clock jumps to sum of two units titles from Cambridge (which despite persistent rumours that it is abandoning art volumes fields a strong list this autumn): Emma Barker's Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment (December, c 70 [pound sterling]) and Ray Lambert's John Constable and the Theory of Landscape Painting (September, c 50 [pound sterling]).

Eighteenth-century British architecture makes a able-bodied showing, with the late John Cornforth's Early Georgian Interiors (Yale, October, 60 [pound sterling]) and David Watkin's The Architect King: George III and the tillage of the Enlightenment (Royal Collection Publications, September, [pound sterling] 30) The British Stable: An Architectural and Social History (Yale, October, 45 [pound sterling]) is a major research by Giles Worsley of a omited subject.

The pace picks up with nineteenth-century art. Michael Freeman is publishing The Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a not to be found World (Yale, August, 25 [pound sterling]), which is more about art than it unhurts and Marcia Werner's Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Nineteenth hundred Realism, published by Cambridge, appears in December (c 50 [pound sterling]). In October the J Paul Getty Museum publishes Neoclassical Architecture in Greece by the agency of Maro Kardamitsi-Adamai and Manos Biris (c 53 [pound sterling]). Notably original and attractive are Sandra Berresford's Italian Memorial statuary 1820-1940 (Frances Lincoln, October, 40 [pound sterling]) and Gauvin Alexander Bailey's Art of Colonial Latin America (Phaidon, October, 1495 [pound sterling]).

Clare A.P. Willsdon's In the Gardens of Impressionism (Thames and Hudson November, 2995 [pound sterling]) is a scholarly account of a popular bring under rule From the same publisher approachs Oleg Neverov's glamorous Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia (September, 36 [pound sterling]). This is the year of Watts, who died a hundr years ago, hence Veronica Franklin Gould's GF Watts: The Last Great Victorian (Yale, September, 40 [pound sterling]).

For the twentieth hundred the choice is rich. Highlights include Susan Alberth, Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Lund Humphries, October, 35 [pound sterling]); Olivier Widmaier Picasso's Picasso: The Real Family Story (Prestel October, 1999 [pound sterling]); Dawn Ades, Dali: A Centenary Retrospective (Thames and Hudson October, 45 [pound sterling]); Julius Bryant, Anthony Caro: A Life in statuary (Merrell, August, 14.95 [pounds sterling]); David Hockney Hockney's Pictures (Thames and Hudson November, 1995 [pound sterling])--a out and out retrospective; and Chris Townsend's The Art of Rachel Whiteread (Thames and Hudson November, 1295 [pound sterling]).

The always stimulating Reaktion Books' list includes sum of two units intriguing studies in cultural history, The Afterlife of Gardens by the agency of John Dixon Hunt (October, 25 [pound sterling]) and nutriment in Painting: From the Renaissance to the not absent by Kenneth Bendiner (October, 1995 [pound sterling]). Ruins by means of Michel Makarius (Flammarion, October, 40 [pound sterling]) discusses artists' depiction of ruins. The photography work of the autumn is probably Katherine Hoffman's Stieglitz: A Beginning Light (Yale, September, 25 [pound sterling]).