Philip Wilson Publishers 2010/2011 3
For over forty years Philip Wilson Publishers (PWP) has specialized inproducing authoritative, finely designed art and illustrated books of the highestquality. Starting life as Sotheby’s Publications, the publishing arm of thedistinguished auction house, we became independent as PWP in 1977 and nowhave over 700 important titles to our credit, including catalogue raisonnés, artmonographs, exhibition and private collection catalogues, and specialist workson aspects of architecture and design.The catalogue raisonnés cover such artists as Gainsborough, Kandinsky, Nolde,Franz Marc and Edvard Munch; the monographs range from
Andrea Riccio:Renaissance Master of Bronze
to the standard work on Joaquin Sorolla, the subjectof a recent major exhibition at the Prado, to
Angus Fairhurst
, one of PWP’sexpanding series of titles on contemporary artists; the collection cataloguesinclude those of The Royal Collection and of Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza(chronicled in eighteen volumes), Sir Arthur Gilbert and Charles Saatchi; andthe museums for which PWP has published exhibition catalogues include theBrooklyn Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Imperial War Museum, MeadowsMuseum, New-York Historical Society, The Phillips Collection, the V&A andthe Walters Art Museum, among many others. PWP’s exhibition cataloguesare particularly successful in the museum world because they are produced notonly as record of the exhibitions they accompany, but also as highly desirablereference books in their own right.PWP is always looking for books on subjects that have been overlooked or havenot been properly documented, and welcomes proposals from museums andprivate collectors alike. This year our new titles include monographs on FordMadox Brown and William Etty, major artists whose work has been neglectedin recent years. Other titles include
The Stylemakers
, the first extensive study of one of the most important design movements of the twentieth century. We arealso reissuing important titles from our backlist, including
Watchmaking
, and
Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works
.
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