Publications

Books, edited volumes and scholarly websites

Liliane Lijn: Light and Flow, Morgan Library and Museum, New York 2024, 72pp.

Man Ray: Writings on Art, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute and London: Tate Publishing 2016, 456pp

Edited Henry Moore: Sculptural Process and Public Identity, Tate Research Publication 2015

Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century, London: Tate Publishing 2013, 288pp

The Gallery of Lost Art, online exhibition, 2012–13

Edited with Ysanne Holt and Helena Bonett, The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication 2012

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 2008, 247pp

Cubism and its Legacies: The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 2004, 112pp

Surrealism: Desire Unbound, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 2001, 351pp

Brancusi to Beuys: Works from the Ted Power Collection, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 1996, 63pp

Edited with Leslie Parris, Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986–8, London: Tate Publishing 1996, 668pp.

Hans Hartung: Works on Paper 1922–56, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 1996, 127pp

George Braque: Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 1993, 80pp

Giorgio Morandi: Etchings, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1991, 92pp.

Edited with Elizabeth Cowling, On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910–1930, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 1990, 412pp

Selected essays and articles

'Gift' in Man Ray: Other Objects, Luxembourg + Co, New York 2023.

‘Severance: Jessa Fairbrother’s Conversations with My Mother 2016’, Tate Papers, no.33, 2020.

Hartung dans les années trentes’, in Hans Hartung: La Fabrique du geste, exhibition catalogue, Musée d’art moderne de Paris, Paris 2019, pp.49–54.

‘E.J. Power: A Pioneering Collector’, in Modern American Art 1945–80, Tate Research Publication, 2019 (revised and abridged version of ‘The Challenge of Post-War Art: The Collection of Ted Power’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Brancusi to Beuys: Works from the Ted Power Collection, Tate Gallery, London 1996, pp.10–23).

‘Lawrence Alloway and the Crisis of Criticism in the 1970s’, in Lucy Bradnock, Courtney Martin, Rebecca Peabody (eds.), Lawrence Alloway: Art, Criticism, and the Work of Culture, Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute 2015, pp.128–47.

‘Henry Moore: The Sculptor as Public Figure’, in Henry Moore: Sculptural Process and Public Identity, Tate Research Publication 2015.

‘The Naming of Biomorphism’, in Olivar Botar and Isabel Wünsche (eds.), Biocentrism and Modernism, Farnham: Ashgate 2011.

‘Comment on England’, in Chris Stephens (ed.), Henry Moore, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London: Tate Publishing 2010, pp.22–39.

‘An Unpublished Note by Duchamp: Hell in Philadelphia’, Tate Papers, Autumn 2008.

‘The Art of Friendship’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London: Tate Publishing 2008, pp.9–57.

‘Introduction’, in Claude Cahun, Disavowals, London: Tate Publishing 2007, pp.vii–xvii.

‘Nature Made Strange’, in Ghislaine Wood (ed.), Surreal Things, exhibition catalogue, V&A, London 2007, pp.59–79.

‘The Very Late Style of Hans Hartung’, in Anne Pontégnie (ed.), Hans Hartung: 10 Perspectives, Milan 2006, pp.191–211, republished in Tate Papers, Spring 2008.

‘Autumnal Cannibalism’ and ‘Soft Structures’, in Dawn Ades (ed.), Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Grassi, Venice 2004, pp.266–8, 460.

‘”Eccesso, intensita e poesia”: Il Planet Set di Joseph Cornell e Giuditta Pasta’, in Brera mai vista: Una virtuosa del bel canto ritratta da Giuseppe Moteni. Giuditta Pasta in ‘Nina o sia la pazza per amore’, exhibition catalogue, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan 2004, pp.40–5, developed as ‘An “overflowing, a richness & poetry”: Joseph Cornell’s Planet Set and Giuditta Pasta’, Tate Papers, Spring 2004.

‘A Gesture of Appreciation’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Cubism and its Legacies: The Gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, exhibition catalogue, Tate Modern, London 2004, pp.12–23, with entries on Braque, Gris, Laurens, Masson.

‘Quiet Mystery’ [Dorothea Tanning], Tate Etc, July 2003, pp.vi–viii.

‘Letters of Desire’, in Jennifer Mundy ed., Surrealism: Desire Unbound, exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Publishing 2001, pp.11–53.

‘Landscape, Matter, Environment’, in Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson (eds.), Tate Modern: The Handbook, London: Tate Publishing 2000, pp.42–52.

‘The Untamed Eye’, in Surrealism: The Untamed Eye, exhibition catalogue, Norwich Castle Museum 1999, pp.3–6.

Salvador Dalí: Autumnal Cannibalism, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery touring exhibition, pp.1–10. Abridged version reprinted in XXIV Bienal de São Paulo - Núcleo histórico: Antropofagia e Histórias de Cannibalismos, exhibition catalogue, Fundação Bienal, São Paulo, October–December 1998, pp.259–61.

‘Shades of Darkness: Mythology and Surrealism’, in Dawn Ades and Fiona Bradley (eds.), Salvador Dalí: A Mythology, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery Liverpool 1998, pp.118–42.

‘The Challenge of Post-War Art: The Collection of Ted Power’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Brancusi to Beuys: Works from the Ted Power Collection, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1996, pp.10–23; entries on Brancusi, Picabia, Dubuffet and De Staël.

‘Hans Hartung: A Gestural Draughtsman’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Hans Hartung: Works on Paper 1922–56, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1996, pp.9–50.

‘Carrà et Derain: Percorsi paralleli’, in Carlo Carrà 1891–1966, exhibition catalogue, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome 1994, pp.114–19.

‘Braque as Printmaker’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Georges Braque: Printmaker, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1993, pp.9–36.

‘The Etchings of Giorgio Morandi: A Renewal of Tradition’, in Jennifer Mundy (ed.), Giorgio Morandi: Etchings, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery 1991, pp.8–32.

Entries on Campigli, Carrà, Casorati, de Chirico, Donghi, Funi, Guidi, Marini, Martini, Morandi, Oppi, Savinio, Severini, Sironi and Socrate in Elizabeth Cowling and Jennifer Mundy (eds.), On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico and the New Classicism 1910–1930, Tate Gallery, London 1990.

‘Surrealism and Painting: Describing the Imaginary’, Art History, vol.10, no.4, December 1987, pp.492–508.

‘Form and Creation: The Impact of the Biological Sciences on Modern Art’, in Creation: Modern Art and Nature, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 1984, pp.16–23.

‘Tanguy, Titles and Mediums’, Art History, vol.6, no.7, June 1983, pp.199–213.

Reviews

‘The Colours of Nadja’, Burlington Magazine, October 2021, pp.941–4.

‘The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism’, Burlington Magazine, September 2021, pp.877–8.

‘Fantastic Women: Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo’, Burlington Magazine, May 2020, pp.4488–51.

Emma Kunz, ‘Visionary Drawings’, Burlington Magazine, August 2019, pp.681–5.