Art Books
Art books occupy a curious place: part library, part gallery, part souvenir of somewhere you've never been. Monographs on the painters worth knowing — Hockney, Frida Kahlo, the Japanese masters — the movements that made them, and the museum and exhibition catalogues that outlast the show.
It runs from the Old Masters to contemporary artists, from drawing and technique to art history, theory and collecting — and sits beside our architecture and interiors and fashion and design shelves in the wider coffee table books collection.
Indian art and the miniature traditions sit alongside the Western canon, which is rarer than it sounds. And an art book makes a gift that flatters the giver as much as the person it's for — see gift books for more to give.
