Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell is the London Review’s resident designer and art critic.

In the LRB Archive:

• At the British Museum: Moctezuma · 5 November 2009

• At the Natural History Museum: The Darwin Centre · 8 October 2009

• In the Country: Trees · 24 September 2009

• In a Bookshop: In a Bookshop · 10 September 2009

• At the National Gallery: French Landscape Painting · 27 August 2009

• At 1 Chiltern Street: Suits · 6 August 2009

• At the British Library: the Codex Sinaiticus · 23 July 2009

• In an Empty Room: Paintings without People · 9 July 2009

• At Tate Modern: the Futurists · 25 June 2009

• At the National Portrait Gallery: 273 Fabiolas · 11 June 2009

• At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Sickert’s Venetian Pictures · 28 May 2009

• At the National Portrait Gallery: Gerhard Richter · 14 May 2009

• At the New Whitechapel: Isa Genzken · 30 April 2009

• At Tate Modern: Constructivism · 9 April 2009

• At the National Gallery: Picasso’s Borrowings · 26 March 2009

• At Tate Britain: Van Dyck’s Portraits · 12 March 2009

• In the Turner Gallery: Coleridge’s Note-Taking · 26 February 2009

• At the Royal Academy: Palladio · 12 February 2009

• At the Natural History Museum: Darwin as Deity · 29 January 2009

• At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Saul Steinberg’s Playful Modernism · 1 January 2009

• At the British Museum: Babylon · 18 December 2008

• In Bexhill: Ben Nicholson · 20 November 2008

• At the National Gallery: Renaissance Faces · 6 November 2008

• At Tate Modern: Rothko · 23 October 2008

• In the Street: Kerb your Enthusiasm · 9 October 2008

• At the Wallace Collection: Osbert Lancaster’s Promontory · 25 September 2008

• At the National Portrait Gallery: Wyndham Lewis · 11 September 2008

• In the Park: Frank Gehry’s Pavilion · 31 July 2008

• From the National Gallery to the Royal Academy: the Divisionists and Vilhelm Hammershoi · 17 July 2008

• At Tate Liverpool: Gustav Klimt · 3 July 2008

• At the Door: Open Sesame! · 19 June 2008

• In Bexhill: Unpopular Culture · 5 June 2008

• At the British Museum: American Prints · 8 May 2008

• At the Hayward: Alexander Rodchenko · 24 April 2008

• At the National Gallery: Pompeo Batoni · 10 April 2008

• Function v. Rhetoric: Engineers and Architects · 10 April 2008

  • Architect and Engineer by Andrew Saint

• At Tate Britain: Peter Doig · 6 March 2008

• At the Royal Academy: From Russia · 7 February 2008

• At the National Gallery: Good Enough to Eat · 24 January 2008

• At the National Gallery of Scotland: Joan Eardley · 13 December 2007

• Global Moods: Art, Past and Present · 29 November 2007

  • Mirror of the World: A New History of Art by Julian Bell

• At Tate Modern: Louise Bourgeois · 29 November 2007

• At Victoria Miro: Sarah Sze’s Art of Arrangement · 4 October 2007

• At the British Museum: Faith, Narrative and Desire · 20 September 2007

• At the Royal Collection: Retrieved at the Restoration · 6 September 2007

• At the Wellcome: The Heart · 16 August 2007

• At Tate Britain: Prunella Clough · 2 August 2007

• At the Courtauld: Cranach’s Nudes · 19 July 2007

• At Tate Britain: How We Are · 5 July 2007

• On the Skyline: Antony Gormley · 21 June 2007

• At the National Gallery: Hands and Feet · 7 June 2007

• At the National Gallery: Copying the Masters · 24 May 2007

• In Regent Street: A Mile of Style · 10 May 2007

• In the Garden: Rampant Weeds · 26 April 2007

• The Way of the Wobble: Ove Arup · 5 April 2007

  • Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the 20th Century by Peter Jones

• At the British Museum: John White’s New World · 5 April 2007

• At the Barbican: Alvar Aalto · 22 March 2007

• At Tate Britain: Turner's Rigi watercolours · 8 March 2007

• At the White Cube: Anselm Kiefer · 22 February 2007

• At Tate Britain: the art of protest · 8 February 2007

• At the British Library: Mapping London · 25 January 2007

• In Russell Square: exploring Bloomsbury · 30 November 2006

• At the National Gallery: Velázquez · 16 November 2006

• At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Adam Elsheimer · 2 November 2006

• At Tate Britain: Holbein · 19 October 2006

• At the Royal Academy: Rodin · 5 October 2006

• At Chantilly: horses · 21 September 2006

• At the National Gallery: Rembrandt · 17 August 2006

• At the National Portrait Gallery: the Portraits of Angus McBean · 3 August 2006

• At Tate Modern: Kandinsky · 20 July 2006

• At Tate Britain: Howard Hodgkin · 6 July 2006

• At Tate Modern: the fairground at Bankside · 22 June 2006

• At the Scuderie del Quirinale: Antonello da Messina · 8 June 2006

• At the National Gallery: Gentile Bellini · 25 May 2006

• At the Soane Museum: Joseph Gandy · 11 May 2006

• At the V&A and Tate Modern: Modernist Design · 20 April 2006

• At the British Museum: Michaelangelo’s Drawings · 6 April 2006

• At the Courtauld: Giambattista Tiepolo · 23 March 2006

• At the Hayward: Dan Flavin · 23 February 2006

• In Paris: ‘The Delirious Museum’ · 9 February 2006

• At the Wallace Collection: Anthony Powell’s artists · 26 January 2006

• At Tate Modern: Henri Rousseau · 5 January 2006

• Short Cuts: the Regent Street lights · 15 December 2005

• Get planting: Why Trees Matter · 1 December 2005

  • The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge

• At the British Museum: Samuel Palmer’s dream landscapes · 17 November 2005

• At the Royal Academy: Edvard Munch’s troubles · 20 October 2005

• Open House: looking through other people’s windows · 6 October 2005

• In Auvergne: on sketching out of doors · 1 September 2005

• In Cambridge: The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West · 18 August 2005

• At Tate Modern (and elsewhere): How architects think · 21 July 2005

• At Tate Britain: Reynolds’s theatrical portraits · 7 July 2005

• At the British Museum: Under African Eyes · 23 June 2005

• At the V&A: Penguin’s 70th birthday · 2 June 2005

• At the Royal Academy: Matisse’s revelations · 19 May 2005

• At Tate Modern: Like a badly iced cake · 5 May 2005

• At Kew: The ultimate in controlled habitat-imitation · 21 April 2005

• At the National Gallery: Caravaggio’s final years · 31 March 2005

• At Tate Modern and Modern Art Oxford: Joseph Beuys and Jannis Kounellis · 17 March 2005

• At the Saatchi Gallery: The Triumph of Painting · 17 February 2005

• At the Science Museum: The Rolls-Royce Merlin and other engines · 3 February 2005

• In Port Sunlight: the art collection of a soap magnate · 20 January 2005

• At the Whitechapel: ‘Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today’ · 6 January 2005

• At Somerset House: Zaha Hadid · 16 December 2004

• At Tate Britain: Paula Rego · 2 December 2004

• At the Royal Academy: the art of William Nicholson · 18 November 2004

• At Tate Modern: Bruce Nauman’s Raw Materials · 4 November 2004

• About to be at Tate Britain, or Meanwhile in Cork Street: Gwen and Augustus John · 7 October 2004

• At the National Portrait Gallery: fashion photography · 23 September 2004

• In the Park: John Nash stucco and Aussies with frisbees · 19 August 2004

• At the National Gallery: Russian landscapes · 5 August 2004

• At Tate Britain: gardens · 8 July 2004

• At Tate Modern: good plain painting and men in shirt-sleeves · 24 June 2004

• On the way to Maidenhead: Deep holes and narrow tracks at Paddington · 3 June 2004

• At Somerset House: Islamic art · 6 May 2004

• At the National Portrait Gallery: on being photographed · 15 April 2004

• In Lille: Rubens · 1 April 2004

• At the Hayward: Roy Lichtenstein · 18 March 2004

• At the Royal Academy: Vuillard · 19 February 2004

• At the Royal Academy: Philip Guston fouls the nest · 5 February 2004

• At the British Museum: Living, Dying and Enlightenment · 22 January 2004

• At The Whitechapel: Gerhard Richter · 8 January 2004

• At the Imperial War Museum: Eric Ravilious · 4 December 2003

• Restoring St. George’s: in Bloomsbury · 20 November 2003

• At the Atlantis Gallery: The Survey of India · 6 November 2003

• At the Royal Academy: How to Draw Horses · 9 October 2003

• At the British Museum: London 1753 · 25 September 2003

• On Video: The Art of the Digital File · 11 September 2003

• At the V&A: Ossie Clark · 21 August 2003

• At the British Museum: Medical Curiosities · 7 August 2003

• At the Baltic: Antony Gormley · 24 July 2003

• In the City: public sculpture · 22 May 2003

• At the Saatchi Gallery: London’s new art gallery · 8 May 2003

• At the V&A: Art Deco · 17 April 2003

• In the Marketplace: at the picture-dealer’s · 3 April 2003

• Spot the Gull: The Academy of the Lincei · 20 March 2003

  • The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends and the Beginnings of Modern Natural History by David Freedberg

• At the National Gallery: Titian · 6 March 2003

• At Tate Britain: British Art and the French Romantics · 20 February 2003

• At the Whitechapel: Mies van der Rohe · 23 January 2003

• At the British Museum: Dürer · 2 January 2003

• Reading the Signs: London Lettering · 12 December 2002

• At Tate Britain: Gainsborough · 28 November 2002

• On the Catwalk: Taste and exclusivity · 14 November 2002

• At Dulwich Picture Gallery: David Wilkie · 31 October 2002

• At Salford Quays: Daniel Libeskind · 17 October 2002

• At Tate Modern: Barnett Newman · 3 October 2002

• In the Physic Garden: in Chelsea · 19 September 2002

• On the Beach: Untucked · 5 September 2002

• At Tate Britain: Thomas Girtin · 22 August 2002

• Knobs, Dots and Grooves on Henry Moore · 8 August 2002

  • Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations edited by Alan Wilkinson
  • The Penguin Modern Painters: A History by Carol Peaker

• At Tate Britain: Lucian Freud · 25 July 2002

• At the National Gallery: Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting · 11 July 2002

• At the British Library: Great Nations of Europe Coming Through · 27 June 2002

  • Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia 1600-1834 by Anthony Farrington

• In Venice: Tourist Trouble · 6 June 2002

• In Brighton: free associating on stucco · 23 May 2002

• At Tate Britain: Hamish Fulton · 9 May 2002

• After the Deluge: How Rainbows Work · 25 April 2002

  • The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth and Science by Raymond Lee and Alistair Fraser

• At the Barbican: Martin Parr · 4 April 2002

  • Martin Parr by Val Williams

• At the Hayward: Paul Klee · 21 March 2002

• Why does it take so long to mend an escalator?: riding the escalators · 7 March 2002

• At the National Gallery: Aelbert Cuyp · 7 March 2002

• In New Zealand: Timber-frame · 21 February 2002

• In Denbigh Road: David Sylvester · 7 February 2002

• At the National Gallery: Goya · 14 January 2002

• At the Imperial War Museum: Agitprop · 3 January 2002

• At the V&A: Among the Artefacts · 13 December 2001

• At the National Gallery: Pisanello · 29 November 2001

• At the Brunei Gallery: Indian photography · 1 November 2001

• On the Streets: The Plane Trees of London · 18 October 2001

• At the Royal Academy: Frank Auerbach · 4 October 2001

• At the British Library: the lie of the land · 20 September 2001

• At the Musée Galliera: Children’s clothes · 6 September 2001

• At Tate Britain: Michael Andrews · 9 August 2001

• At Condor Cycles: The Tour · 19 July 2001

• At the National Gallery: Vermeer and de Hooch · 5 July 2001

• At Tate Britain: James Gillray · 21 June 2001

• At the Museum of London: Artists’ studios · 7 June 2001

• In Soho: Richard Rogers Partnership · 24 May 2001

• Slipper Protocol on the seclusion of women · 10 May 2001

  • Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

• At Tate Britain: Stanley Spencer · 19 April 2001

• A Wonder and a Scandal on Titian · 5 April 2001

  • Titian: The Complete Paintings by Filippo Pedrocco and Maria Agnese Chiari Moreto Weil

• At the National Gallery: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie · 22 March 2001

  • Spirit of an Age: Paintings from the Berlin Nationalgalerie

• At the Hayward and the British Museum: With Goya and Rembrandt · 8 March 2001

  • Rembrandt the Printmaker by Erik Hinterding and Ger Luijten et al
  • Goya: Drawings from His Private Albums edited by Juliet Wilson-Bareau

• At Tate Modern: Century City · 22 February 2001

• At the Royal Academy: Caravaggio · 8 February 2001

• Behind King’s Cross: Gasometers · 25 January 2001

• At the Royal Academy: Turner’s watercolours · 4 January 2001

• How Jeans Got Their Fade on mauve and indigo · 14 December 2000

  • Indigo by Jenny Balfour-Paul
  • Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World by Simon Garfield

• At the Villa Medici: 17th-Century Religous Paintings · 30 November 2000

• At the National Portrait Gallery: Painting the Century · 16 November 2000

• At the National Gallery · 2 November 2000

• At the V&A: fashion photography · 19 October 2000

• At Dulwich Picture Gallery: Gerrit Dou · 5 October 2000

• The Misery of Not Painting like others · 13 April 2000

  • The Unknown Matisse: Man of the North, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling
  • Matisse: Father and Son by John Russell
  • Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse by John O’Brien
  • Matisse and Picasso by Yve-Alain Bois

• Eye Contact on Anthony van Dyck · 16 September 1999

  • Anthony van Dyck 1599-1641 by Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe
  • Anthony van Dyck: A Life, 1599-1641 by Robin Blake

• Jug and Bottle on Morandi · 29 July 1999

  • Morandi edited by Ernst-Gerhard Güse and Franz Armin Morat

• Fancy Dress on Millais, Burne-Jones and Leighton · 15 April 1999

  • Millais: Portraits by Peter Funnell and Malcolm Warner
  • John Everett Millais by G.H. Fleming
  • Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer by Stephen Wildman and John Christian
  • Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity edited by Tim Barringer and Elizabeth Prettejohn

• Under the Brush: Ingres-flesh · 4 March 1999

  • Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch edited by Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee
  • Velázquez: The Technique of Genius by Jonathan Brown and Carmen Garrido

• The Light at the Back of a Sequence of Rooms on reflections and Pieter de Hooch · 29 October 1998

  • Pieter De Hooch 1629-84 by Peter Sutton
  • On Reflection by Jonathan Miller

• Long Spells of Looking: Pretty Rothko · 17 September 1998

  • Mark Rothko edited by Jeffrey Weiss
  • Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas by David Anfam

• Figures in Rooms, Rooms with Figures on Bonnard · 19 March 1998

  • Bonnard by Timothy Hyman
  • Bonnard by Sarah Whitfield and John Elderfield

• Diary · 27 November 1997

• Royals in Oils · 13 November 1997

  • The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun by Angelica Goodden

• How to See inside a French Milkman · 31 July 1997

  • Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the 20th Century by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles

• Post-Photographic · 19 June 1997

  • Early Impressionism and the French State by Jane Mayo Roos
  • Adolph Menzel edited by Claude Keisch and Marie Ursula Riemann-Reyher

• My space or yours? · 17 October 1996

  • Life on the Screen by Sherry Turkle

• What It Feels Like · 4 July 1996

  • Degas beyond Impressionism
  • Degas beyond Impressionism by Richard Kendall
  • Degas as Collector

• Half a Million Feathers · 4 April 1996

  • Oceanic Art by Nicholas Thomas

• Snookered · 30 November 1995

  • Shadows and Enlightenment by Michael Baxandall

• Inconstancy · 20 July 1995

  • Brancusi
  • Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His work by Sanda Miller
  • Constantin Brancusi Photographe by Elizabeth Brown
  • Constantin Brancusi: 1876-1957 by Margit Rowell and Ann Temkin

• Urgency Is Not Enough · 6 April 1995

  • Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of Aids compiled by Ted Gott
  • The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of Aids by Simon Garfield

• Grope or Cuddle · 12 January 1995

  • Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence by Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall

• It’s a Crime! · 8 December 1994

  • Chaim Soutine: Catalogue Raisonné, Vols I-II by Maurice Tuchman, Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls

• Character Building · 9 June 1994

  • Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernity by Jerome McGann
  • Letters from the People by Lee Friedlander
  • Margins and Marginality by Evelyn Tribble

• Other People’s Rooms · 7 April 1994

  • Inside Culture by David Halle
  • Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Michigan by Kathryn Bishop Eckert
  • Buildings of the United States: The Buildings of Iowa by David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim

• School of Hard Knocks · 2 December 1993

  • The Materials of Sculpture by Nicholas Penny

• Consider the lions · 22 July 1993

  • The House of Gold by Richard Goy
  • The Palace of the Sun by Robert Berger

• To hell with the lyrics · 25 March 1993

  • The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell edited by Stephanie Terenzio

• Bachelor Life · 28 January 1993

  • Delacroix by Timothy Wilson-Smith

• Can I have my shilling back? · 19 November 1992

  • Epstein: Artist against the Establishment by Stephen Gardiner

• Total Knowledge · 10 September 1992

  • Hypertext by George Landow

• Better than literature · 23 April 1992

  • Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen

• The wearer as much as the frock · 9 April 1992

  • Building Capitalism by Linda Clarke
  • The City Shaped by Spiro Kostof
  • A New London by Richard Rogers and Mark Fisher

• Perfectly dressed · 7 November 1991

  • Moving Pictures by Anne Hollander

• Thinking big · 26 September 1991

  • Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis

• The Auto-Erotic Device and the Whisky Bottle · 27 June 1991

  • Dance till the stars come down by Frances Spalding
  • Keith Vaughan by Malcolm Yorke

• Among the quilters · 21 March 1991

  • Asya by Michael Ignatieff
  • Health and Happiness by Diane Johnson
  • Happenstance by Carol Shields

• Taken with Daisy · 13 September 1990

  • The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald

• Concini and the Squirrel · 24 May 1990

  • Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos
  • The Culture of Print edited by Roger Chartier
  • Symbols of Ideal Life by Maren Stange
  • The Lines of My Hand by Robert Frank

• Ineffectuals · 19 April 1990

  • The World of Nagaraj by R.K. Narayan
  • The Great World by David Malouf
  • The Shoe by Gordon Legge
  • Trying to grow by Firdaus Kanga

• Homage to the Provinces · 22 March 1990

  • Wright of Derby by Judy Egerton

• People who love people who love somebody else · 25 January 1990

  • An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
  • The Thirteen-Gun Salute by Patrick O’Brian
  • Family Sins, and Other Stories by William Trevor

• Royal Pain · 28 September 1989

  • A Vision of Britain: A Personal View of Architecture by HRH The Prince of Wales
  • The Prince of Wales: Right or Wrong? An architect replies by Maxwell Hutchinson

• Anglicana · 31 August 1989

  • A Particular Place by Mary Hocking
  • The House of Fear, Notes from Down Below by Leonora Carrington
  • Painted Lives by Max Egremont
  • The Ultimate Good Luck by Richard Ford

• Suiting yourself · 27 July 1989

  • I Modi. The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of Renaissance Italy by Lynne Lawner
  • The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525 by Stella Mary Newton
  • Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: René Bouët-Willamez and Fashion Drawings in ‘Vogue’: Carl Erickson by William Parker
  • Women and Fashion by Caroline Evans and Minna Thornton

• Fictbites · 18 May 1989

  • Any Old Iron by Anthony Burgess
  • The Ragged End by John Spurling
  • Higher Ground by Caryl Phillips
  • The Flint Bed by Christopher Burns
  • Stark by Ben Elton

• Four Walls · 20 April 1989

  • Living Space: In Fact and Fiction by Philippa Tristram
  • Building Domestic Liberty by Polly Wynn Allen
  • Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 by John Stilgoe

• Crow · 5 January 1989

  • The Letter of Marque by Patrick O’Brian
  • Klara by Hugh Thomas
  • From Rockaway by Jill Eisenstadt
  • The High Road by Edna O’Brien
  • Loving and Giving by Molly Keane
  • Tracks by Louise Erdrich

• So, puss, I shall know you another time · 8 December 1988

  • The World through Blunted Sight by Patrick Trevor-Roper
  • Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction by Carl Goldstein
  • Hockney on Photography: Conversations with Paul Joyce
  • Portrait of David Hockney by Peter Webb

• Wright and Wrong · 10 November 1988

  • Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill

• Thinking · 4 August 1988

  • Who got Einstein’s office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study by Ed Regis
  • Chaos by James Gleick
  • The School of Genius by Anthony Storr

• New Looks, New Newspapers · 2 June 1988

  • The Graphic Language of Neville Brody by Jon Wozencroft
  • The Making of the ‘Independent’ by Michael Crozier

• Pleasing himself · 31 March 1988

  • Rodin: A Biography by Frederic Grunfeld

• Foxy · 21 January 1988

  • Running with the fox by David Macdonald

• Sea Creatures · 23 July 1987

  • Sidney Nolan: Such is life by Brian Adams
  • Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures by John Wilmerding
  • Faces 1966-1984 by David Hockney and Marco Livingstone

• Solus lodges at the Tate · 4 June 1987

  • J.M.W. Turner: ‘A Wonderful Range of Mind’ by John Gage
  • Turner in his Time by Andrew Wilton
  • Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence by Cecilia Powell
  • The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner by Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll
  • The Turner Collection in the Clore Gallery
  • Turner Watercolours by Andrew Wilton

• Toad-Kisser · 7 May 1987

  • Joseph Banks: A Life by Patrick O’Brian

• Agreeing with Berger · 19 March 1987

  • Ways of Telling: The Work of John Berger by Geoff Dyer

• Eye-Catchers · 4 December 1986

  • Survey of London: Vol. XLII. Southern Kensington: Kensington to Earls Court
  • Follies: A National Trust Guide by Gwyn Headley and Wim Meulenkamp
  • The Botanists by David Elliston Allen
  • British Art since 1900 by Frances Spalding
  • Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760-1900 by Richard Altick
  • History of the British Pig by John Wiseman

• The New Lloyd’s · 24 July 1986

  • Richard Rogers by Bryan Appleyard
  • A Concrete Atlantis by Reyner Banham
  • William Richard Lethaby by Godfrey Rubens

• Someone Else · 17 April 1986

  • In the American West by Richard Avedon
  • Photoportraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

• English Art and English Rubbish · 20 March 1986

  • C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist by Alan Crawford
  • The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler by Laurence Whistler
  • The Originality of Thomas Jones by Lawrence Gowing
  • Art beyond the Gallery in Early 20th-century England by Richard Cork
  • Alfred Gilbert by Richard Dorment

• Adrian · 5 December 1985

• Homage to André Friedmann · 7 November 1985

  • Robert Capa by Richard Whelan
  • Robert Capa: Photographs edited by Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan

• Humph · 4 July 1985

  • Degas: His Life, Times and Work by Roy McMullen
  • Degas: The Dancers by George Shackelford
  • Degas Pastels, Oil Sketches, Drawings by Götz Adriani
  • Bricabracomania: The Bourgeois and the Bibelot by Rémy de Saisselin

• Illustrating America · 21 March 1985

  • Willem de Kooning: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture by Paul Cummings, Jorn Merkert and Claire Stoullig
  • Abstract Expressionist Painting in America by William Seitz
  • About Rothko by Dore Ashton
  • The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York by Peter Conrad

• Crotchet Castles · 6 December 1984

  • William Kent by Michael Wilson
  • James Gibbs by Terry Friedman
  • Sir John Soane, Architect by Dorothy Stroud
  • The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable by Graham Reynolds

• Star Turn · 2 August 1984

  • Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

• England’s End · 7 June 1984

  • English Journey by J.B. Priestley
  • English Journey, or The Road to Milton Keynes by Beryl Bainbridge
  • Crisis and Conservation: Conflict in the British Countryside by Charlie Pye-Smith and Chris Rose
  • Invisible Country: A Journey through Scotland by James Campbell
  • Literary Britain by Bill Brandt

• Francis and Vanessa · 15 March 1984

  • Francis Bacon by Michel Leiris, translated by John Weightman
  • Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding
  • The Omega Workshops by Judith Collins
  • The Omega Workshops 1913-1919: Decorative Arts of Bloomsbury
  • The Omega Workshops: Alliance and Enmity in English Art 1911-1920

• End of the Road · 17 March 1983

  • Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler
  • Scenes in America Deserta by Reyner Banham
  • Megastructure by Reyner Banham

• Editor’s Story · 18 November 1982

  • Of This Our Time by Tom Hopkinson

• Green Minna · 7 October 1982

  • The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No translated by Arnold Pomerans

• Scenes from the Movies · 5 August 1982

  • Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks

• Super-Real · 18 March 1982

  • The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood
  • The Diary of Ford Madox Brown edited by Virginia Surtees
  • Eric Gill: Man of Flesh and Spirit by Malcolm Yorke

• Problems · 1 October 1981

  • Early Disorder by Rebecca Josephs
  • A Star for the Latecomer by Bonnie Zindel
  • Catherine loves by Timothy Ireland
  • Jacob have I loved by Katherine Paterson

• A Better Life · 2 April 1981

  • Homes fit for Heroes by Mark Swenarton
  • The Shell Book of the Home in Britain by James Ayres

• The Loneliness Thing · 5 February 1981

  • Nature and Culture by Barbara Novak
  • Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints by Gail Levin
  • Edward Hopper as illustrator by Gail Levin

• Back to back · 4 December 1980

  • Edwin Lutyens by Mary Lutyens

• Taking pictures · 3 July 1980

  • In Radin’s Studio by Albert Elsen
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer
  • Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx by Christopher Killip

• Pretty Things · 21 February 1980

  • Masquerade by Kit Williams
  • Beauty and the Beast by Rosemary Harris and Errol Le Cain
  • Mazel and Shlimazel by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Margot Zemach
  • La Corona by Russell Hoban and Nicola Bayley
  • Cats’Eyes by Anthony Taber
  • Comic and Curious Cats by Angela Carter and Martin Leman
  • The Wild Washerwomen by John Yeoman and Quentin Blake

• Peter Campbell looks at the Hayward Gallery Thirties show · 6 December 1979

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