The National Galleries of Scotland’s award winning publishing house is committed to producing books on the visual arts which are engaging, accessible and affordable, combining high-quality writing and rigorous research with the best in design.
In a series of brand new paintings, renowned artist, Alison Watt, offers her response to 18th-century Scottish artist Allan Ramsay's wonderful painting of his wife.
Vanessa Harryhausen reflects on the life and work of her father, special effects superstar Ray Harryhausen, including on Jason and the Argonauts, One Million Years B.C and Mighty Joe Young.
John Bellany (born 1942) helped change the course of painting in Scotland. His intensely felt paintings of fisherfolk and their precarious life at sea were a direct challenge to the much diluted Scottish colourist tradition and its landscapes and still lifes.
A guide to the portraiture of John Byrne, selected by the artist himself, to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
John Houston is recognised as a major figure in Scottish painting. Houston's art is renowned for its bold, expressionistic treatment of his preferred subject matter, most often the Scottish landscape. This work discusses Houston's career, and his approach to his art in an illuminating interview.
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, featuring two of the artist's most important and compelling works, together with a recent sculpture "Tate Modern on Fire 2017".
A volume of masterpieces from nineteenth-century Edinburgh duo David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, one of the most famous photographic partnerships in history.
The story of Rembrandt's fame and influence in Britain, exploring his works in British collections and his influence on British artists from the 17th century to today.