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A fresh perspective on Eardley's depictions of the children and the fishing village of Catterline through an examination of her working process.

Robert Storr's Watson Gordon Lecture of 2015.

Colouring and drawing book based on the National Galleries of Scotland.

The first monograph on the artist Arthur Melville with commentaries on the individual works featured, including lesser known works from private collections. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery 2015-2016.

Focuses on a series of drawings and paintings by Victoria Crowe, depicting the shepherd Jenny Armstrong.

The Generation Reader provides the first collection of key documents from the the last twenty-five years in Scotland including essays, interviews, critical writing and artists' own texts.

This book provides the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guide to the the last twenty-five years of contemporary art in Scotland.

The only book of its kind, giving an overview of British realist art from the 1920s and 1930s, and accompanying an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, 1 July-29 October 2017.

A selection from the work of the photographic partnership of Hill and Adamson. Accompanies an exhibition starting at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh (27 May - 1 October 2017) before touring internationally.

Aims to capture the vibrant community of people working in the North Sea oil industry sector. This work presents portraits representing a cross section of the people working in the oil industry, from employees of international corporations to the self-employed. It also includes portraits of geologists, rig-builders, economists, and many others.

Through the ideas and associations inspired by MacPherson's Ossian, this is a discourse on national identity, "authenticity" and the human psyche. Colvin explores these difficult themes while simultaneously creating accessible, provocative photographs.

A fascinating examination of Gauguin's iconic painting, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, one of the most intriguing and famous images in the history of Western art.

This book tells the story of the picture, both in terms of its history and the conservation process.

Attempts to capture the diversity of Scotland's Police forces by highlighting the differences in geography and community across the country and the challenges that these bring. This title features photographs showing the extent of the Scottish Police's work and also includes two essays discussing the development of policing in Scotland.

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.

Features thirty colour illustrations of key works in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland alongside new creative writing, amusing and engaging poetry and prose by young, aspiring and established writers.

A wide-ranging, gripping lecture on Roy Lichtenstein.

Cubism as Surrealism: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2008.

J. D. Fergusson (1874-1961) is one of the four artists collectively known as the Scottish Colourists. The book explores his Scottish and French connections and reassert his place at the forefront of British modernism.

Presents twenty full-colour miniatures from Scottish private collections. This work accompanies an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in July 2006.

This lavishly illustrated book contains over two hundred of the National Galleries of Scotland's greatest and best-loved treasures, each accompanied by an informative text written by the Galleries' curators.

This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon's work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in 1993.

Since taking the helm of the National Galleries of Scotland in 1984, Sir Timothy Clifford has oversee n the acquisition of some of the finest, and best- loved works in the national collection. This book chronicles the development of the collection unde r his directorship and casts light upon the wide range of acquisitions, including the fascinating

Portrait Miniatures from the Merchistion Collec tion is the fifth in a series of titles which examines the portrait miniature. This collection, which has never been on public display, was assembled on the London art market during the 1970s and 1980s. Scottish miniaturists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are