Lost Gardens of London

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Lost Gardens of London on 8 October 2024.

Written by the award-winning historian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Lost Gardens of London celebrates the evanescence of London’s vast and varied garden legacy. From private gardens and humble allotments to extravagant palace grounds and pleasure gardens, the book explores the ephemeral gardens of the capital, dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

In this evocative book, Longstaffe-Gowan reminds us just how precious gardened green space is, revealing how gardens have contributed to the quality of life and well‑being of city-dwellers for hundreds of years.

The publication of this book accompanies an eponymous exhibition at the Garden Museum, London, curated by the author. The exhibition, the first in over twenty years to focus on the history of London’s gardens, will run from 23 October 2024 to 2 March 2025.

To pre-order Lost Gardens of London via Yale University Press, please click here

 

Modern Art Press has moved offices

As of 1 July 2024, Modern Art Press has moved to:

2nd Floor
23 Bedford Row
London
WC1R 4EB

Our telephone number remains 020 7930 4611

Change of leadership at Modern Art Press

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that Gillian Malpass, formerly art and architecture publisher at Yale University Press London, will succeed Toby Treves as CEO of Modern Art Press from 1 April 2023. Gillian Malpass will extend and develop MAP’s publication of catalogues raisonnés and other books and catalogues in the field of modern British art. Gillian has already been involved designing and editing several of MAP’s titles, working with Christopher Lloyd on Picasso and the Art of Drawing and Matisse and the Joy of Drawing; Christopher White on Van Dyck and the Art of Portraiture; Sue Sloman on Gainsborough in London, as well as designing Margaret Garlake’s Artist’s Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain and the late, great Jon Whiteley’s final catalogue, Nineteenth-century French Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. Toby Treves is leaving to set up his own imprint, Art Publishing Inc.

British Book Design and Production Awards 2022

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints has been shortlisted for in the ‘Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book’ category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2022.

Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the arrival of the first copies of Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints by Toby Treves. For a preview inside the book, please click ‘see spreads’ beneath the cover picture here. The catalogue will be published in May 2022 and distributed by Yale University Press; for pre-orders, please visit the Yale website.

Christmas delivery

Covid has created delays in the courier system: please place all orders for Christmas delivery before 6pm on 17 December! We cannot guarantee that orders placed after this will arrive before Christmas.

Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings

Modern Art Press is delighted to announce the publication of Leon Kossoff: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings by Andrea Rose. It is the only comprehensive book on the oeuvre of one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Kossoff’s friend and colleague Frank Auerbach has described it as ‘…a marvellous piece of book production, perfect in every way and – clearly – the result of extreme devotion. It will secure Leon’s place in the canon of English painting.’ Coinciding with a retrospective at Annely Juda Fine Art, the book has been well-received in many quarters. Now Modern Art Press is pleased to be hosting ‘The Art of Leon Kossoff’, an evening at Hatchards, Piccadilly, chaired by Sir John Tusa with a conversation between Andrea Rose and novelist Howard Jacobson. Tickets available here.

Ben Nicholson: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Reliefs

Modern Art Press is pleased to announce that it will be publishing the catalogue raisonné of the paintings and reliefs of Ben Nicholson. The catalogue will be written by Dr Rachel Smith with Dr Lee Beard. Nicholson is one of the leading British artists of the twentieth century so a complete catalogue of his work has been long anticipated; the book will be an important contribution to the study of modern British art.

 

Ben Nicholson, 1940 (painted relief – version 1) © Angela Verren Taunt. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.

Modern Art Press Update

The Modern Art Press office at 37 Bury Street has now reopened, safely, so business will be as usual as long as the situation continues to improve.

Modern Art Press Update

The office at Modern Art Press is closed for the time being due to the coronavirus outbreak, however we will still be fulfilling orders for Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-dimensional Works placed via our website.

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