Books - ARCHOT

Five new art books to look out for in the spring, from art under siege to illustrated manuscripts

Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures, Laura Smith (ed), Thames & Hudson, 272pp, 214 colour illustrations, £30 (hb), 15 May Billed as the first critical biography of…

New book views glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham through the eyes of poets and glaciologists

The glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) are some of her best-known works. When the Scottish artist visited the Grindelwald Glacier in Switzerland in May…

Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence

“I have taken a lot of solace in my characters,” the film-maker Tim Burton writes in Designing Worlds: “the feeling of everything being quite odd…