Books Off the Shelf

Apollo’s selection of recently published books on art, architecture and the history of collecting

Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves Dora C.Y. Ching (ed.)

Princeton University Press, £1,200 ISBN 9780691208152

The photographs of the richly decorated Buddhist caves at Dunhuang that James and Lucy Lo took in the s – more than , of them – are presented in a nine-volume set that includes new essays by leading scholars.

Enlightened Eclecticism: The Grand Design of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland

Adriano Aymonino

Paul Mellon Centre, £50

ISBN 9781913107178

The Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright

Lisa D. Schrenk

University of Chicago Press, $35 ISBN 9780226318943

The Chicago home-cum-studio Frank Lloyd Wright designed for himself in the late s – now a sensitively restored National Historic Landmark – is an early distillation of all the elements that make his architecture so memorable.

Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

Laura Raicovich

Verso, £14.99

ISBN 9781839760501

By examining recent controversies in the United States, Raicovich (a former director of the Queens Museum in New York) tries to dismantle the myth that museums are neutral spaces and asks how they could conduct themselves in the future.

Georg Baselitz Richard Calvocoressi Thames & Hudson, £85 ISBN 9780500094150

Written with the co-operation of the artist himself, this chronological account of Baselitz’s -year career explores his interest in Expressionist and outsider art and relates developments in his paintings and sculptures to events in the wider world.

The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece David Ekserdjian

Yale University Press, £60

ISBN 9780300253641