Off the shelf

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

Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation

Jennifer Nelson

Reaktion, £17.95

ISBN 9781789148480

Cranach produced portraits of his friend Martin Luther throughout his life. Nelson’s book explores how Cranach’s paintings and prints helped foster a strong Lutheran community in th-century Saxony.

Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art

Helaine Posner et al.

Lund Humphries, £35

ISBN 9781848225404

This book looks at the work of artists including Cindy Sherman, Agnes Denes and Marina Abramovic, and argues that the pioneering women artists of the th century shaped not just modern feminism but the art world as a whole.

Arne Jacobsen: Designing Denmark Katrine Stenum Poulsen

Aarhus University Press, £50

ISBN 9788775972906

In the popular imagination, Jacobsen is the quintessential Scandinavian architect: obsessive, neurotic and functionalist.

This biography goes beyond some of these assumptions, exploring the art that informed his work and how he forged a specifically Danish architectural aesthetic.

The Revolution Takes Form:

Art and the Barricade in NineteenthCentury France

Jordan Marc Rose

Penn State University Press, $109.95 ISBN 9780271095493

Five works by Delacroix, Daumier, Préault and Meissonier are in focus in this study, which analyses how these pieces depicted the Revolutionary barricades and asks what this can tell us about French politics and class in the th century.

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

Brad Gooch

HarperCollins, £30

ISBN 9780062698261

Haring’s name is less famous than those of his friends – Warhol, Basquiat, Ono – but his graffiti is immediately recognisable. Gooch has been granted access to Haring’s archive and here paints the artist and his o eat practice in full colour.

Interwar: British Architecture, 1919–39 Gavin Stamp

Profile Books, £40

ISBN 9781800817395

The final book by the critic Gavin Stamp, who died in , is a rebuttal of the modernist-centric view of interwar British architecture. It was much more diverse than people think, he argues, and studying the lesser-known movements is key to understanding the period.