Some art books from the shelves...

[@bouquinsbooks]

It’s a treat to get a glimpse of these beautiful books! Exhibition catalogues make great souvenirs.

[@bouquinsbooks]

The one about illuminated manuscripts looks absolutely gorgeous! I would love to see an exhibition of such manuscripts.

[@GenreBooks23]

Indeed, very helpful in remembering where and when you did something!

[@GenreBooks23]

It was a treat!

[@art.and.lit.matters]

I love Man Ray's work so much. His series of Woolf photos is stunning. Nice on the fly censoring (I had to make some of my Man Ray and Lee Miller videos over 18). I am so jealous you got to see Renaissance Faces. That must have been an extraordinary experience. Fun and fascinating video.

[@GenreBooks23]

I will have to check those vids out, Man Ray one of my faves!

[@royreadsanything]

Nice books there.

[@GenreBooks23]

Why, thank you. If only we had a coffee table of sufficient load-bearing capacity.

[@heathergregg9975]

An utter treat of an exhibition on video. Great photographer books - I'm hoping to see the Lee Miller biopic, so that'll definitely have Man Ray in it. Well done to "we" on buying books accompanying Tate exhibitions - there will be a world of research and knowledge in those. I wish I'd seen the Futurist exhibition, so it was great to see your pictures. Natalia Goncharova is one of my favourite pictures ever - the shaky feeling of riding over cobblestones so well shown. Those Renaissance faces seem alive. Oh my goodness: the Guggenheim and the Metropolitan!! that's enough art for a lifetime's looking. And your last book shown is the perfect last one. This was brilliant, thank you for sharing.

[@GenreBooks23]

Thank you. The Futurism was fun, some of the manifestos are pretty out there too (before they went political). Would not recommend the recipes though…

[@heathergregg9975]

@@GenreBooks23 I just properly heard about them last year in some studies I did. Futurism seemed only made possible by Marinetti's patronage and sense of drama. Shortlived movement but very influential on photography, early Soviet film, concrete poetry and the idea of a movement being across all the arts, rather than just, say, music or painting. A kind of jump shock alerting the twentieth century to a whole new way of thinking. You showed one of my favourite works, Boccioni's "The street enters the House" where you can see/feel the noise/bustle. I wonder if it's as exciting/more exciting than it looks in books.

[@RaynorReadsStuff]

Absolutely love Man Ray, Bill Brandt and Julia Margaret Cameron. Huge photography fan. Also an enormous fan of Soviet propaganda art. You really can’t beat a good trip to a gallery or museum. What a lovely collection you have 😊. Fabulous video

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks Debs. Kicking myself for not getting a Henri Cartier-Bresson...

[@StormReads]

I like drawing, but never got into art so much that I collect art books or pieces of art. Cool books!

[@GenreBooks23]

Thanks!

[@StormReads]

Oh well, I take that back I do like the art of vintage books. 😀

[@GenreBooks23]

:)

[@KatJack-vl8xj]

I have a small trove of art books: Photographs by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson /Lewis Carroll Natural history and foreign landscape drawings by Edward Lear Reproduction of "King Rene's Book of Love"" Reproduction of "The Belle Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry" "The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet" "The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur's Painted Lands and India's Eighteenth Century" (I was in India in October/November of 2019 and had bought two illustrated manuscript pictures painted in the antique style and wanted some background on them.)

[@GenreBooks23]

Nice. I only know Lear through his poetry. Will have to have a butchers..

[@DianeSLoftis]

I really like _Circus Boyhood_ and all of Bill Brandt’s work. ‘Rayographs’ also quite interesting- I’ve got to research those! Wonderful collection and share, Gavin! And a h/t to Dutch painters, for sure. 🫶🏻

[@GenreBooks23]

Yep, the Dutch painters my favourite section of the National Gallery too!