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No other book exists to rival the continuing importance attached to this group of essays, written by many of the foremost scholars in their respective areas, brought together to explore common ground in the history of collecting.

Jeff Koons is one the most famous, important, subversise and expensive artists in the world. Here he curates a range of works from his entire career, many having never been shown in the UK.

This beautifully designed survey book features a carefully curated selection of the visual works of art by Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke, made over the last 30 years to accompany LP and CD albums by Radiohead, Yorke and his recently founded band The Smile. It showcases the wide array of their collaborative work.

Accompanies a major exhibition in the Ashmolean Museum on the early work of acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer. It focuses on his paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books created between 1969 and 1982, in the private collections of the Hall Art Foundation.

This publication features new photographs by London-based artist Bettina von Zwehl (b.1971 in Munich). Accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Oxford at the Ashmolean Museum from 12 October 2024 to 11 May 2025, and is part of the successful Ashmolean Now book series.

Accompanies a major exhibition at the Ashmolean, Oxford, 10 Aug 2024 - 5 Jan 2025: Money Talks: Art, Society & Power. Brings together perspectives and collections from around the world - from Art Nouveau bank notes and global portrayals of prosperity to activist Money Art.

A visually stunning introduction to the world of European bronze sculptures, seen through the remarkable collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Through a selection of over 100 world-class drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book gives an insightful and comprehensive overview into how these drawn sheets were used as part of artistic practice, within or beyond the artist's studio.

An exploration of the changing status of colour in the Victorian period through painting, sculpture, decorative arts and fashion, published to accompany an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.

The catalog of the the first major UK exhibition to focus solely on Knossos, at The Ashmolean, Oxford, running from February to July, 2023It will provide an up-to-date guide to the archaeology, and history of discovery, of the Palace and wider areaThe 20+ contributors are all experts in their fieldCrete was famous in Greek myth as the location of the labyrinth in which the Minotaur was confined in a palace at somewhere called 'Knossos'. From the Middle Ages travelers searched unsuccessfully for the Labyrinth. A handful of clues that survived, such as a coin with a labyrinth design and numerous small bronze age items. The name Knossos had survived - but it was nothing but a sprinkling of houses and farmland so they looked elsewhere. Finally, in 1878, a Cretan archeologist, Minos Kalokairinos discovered evidence of a Bronze Age palace. British Archaeologist and then Keeper of the Ashmolean Arthur Evans came out to visit and was fascinated by the site. Between 1900 and 1931 Evans uncovered the remains of the huge palace which he felt must be the that of King Minos, and he adopted the name 'Minoans' for its occupants. He employed a team of archeologists, architects and artists, and together they built up a picture of the Bronze Age community that had occupied the elaborate building. They imagined a sophisticated, nature-loving people, whose civilization peaked, and then disintegrated. Evans's interpretations of his finds were accurate in some places, but deeply flawed in others. The Evans Archive, held by the Ashmolean, records his finds, theories and (often contentious) reconstructions.

Untold and unusual stories from the Ashmolean's successful podcast series Museum SecretsPreviously unpublished materialIntriguing and often moving short storiesOriginal podcasts were heard by hundreds of thousands of listenersBite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museumIn December 2020, spirits were low. The first tentative visitors had only just made it back through the doors of the Ashmolean after months of isolation, only for another lockdown to come crashing into view. The galleries went dark for a second time in a year. There's something uncanny about standing in the Museum when it's empty of visitors. You can sense a million human stories all around you, clamoring to be told to... no-one. So, we had to change tack. If we couldn't get people into the building, we could get the stories out. I started calling around curators, asking for their most uplifting tales in the collections. From bedrooms and garden sheds and kitchen tables, the Ashmolean team started recording themselves, sharing stories of joy and resilience to help keep us all going through the dark winter months of quarantine. The result was a podcast, Museum Secrets, which you can find on the Ashmolean's website. This book contains the highlights. These are stories you won't find on the labels. These are stories of the human experiences hidden in the Museum's cases and frames. They are stories that cheered us up when we needed it most, and I hope will continue to do so.

This book offers a short account of how the Indian collections at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford developed and a selection of some of its more outstanding or interesting works of art.

A discussion of artistic and philosophical reflections on the constructions of space and identity in the work of Ali Kazim.

An account of how Dante and the Divine Comedy, through visual representations, have shaped ideas of fame.

A celebration of the work of Professor Timothy Wilson and his unrivalled knowledge and enthusiasm for Italian Maiolica.

The well respected wood Engraver, Anne Desmet, selects 45 of her favourite wood engravings from the Ashmolean collection.

Highlights of the works of Samuel Palmer held in the collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Revised and expanded version of the Palmer title first published in 1999.

Highlights of the works of John Ruskin held in the collection at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. First book on the Ashmolean collection in over 30 years.

The distinguished woodcut artist Naoko Matsubara collaborates with award-winning poet Penny Boxall to celebrate the beauty and versatility of the human hand.

An exhibition catalogue focusing on the Ashmolean's rarely seen reserve collection of Pre-Raphaelite drawings and watercolours.

The story of one of the first and most important civilisations in history, and the first to invent writing.

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo.

This book presents Rembrandt as a storyteller through a selection of over 70 prints from the Ashmolean collection through a variety of subjects ranging from 1630 until the late 1650s.

The catalogue of the exhibition 'Young Rembrandt', which focuses on the first ten years of the artist's career.

An introduction to the art of surimono, illustrated with previously unpublished examples from the Ashmolean Museum's collections.

The only book in print on the subject of Alan Caiger-Smith and the Aldermaston Pottery.

New insights into early Christian archaeology and art. Previously unpublished material from the Vatican Library, covering Jewish, pagan and Christian history

A unique and fascinating collection of American Art from the 1920s and 1930s "Machine Age".

The first retrospective of a true master of Chinese Art, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Ashmolean which runs from 7 November 2017 to 15 April 2018.