UNICORN PUBLISHING GROUP AUTUMN 2019 Welcome to Unicorn Publishing Group’s Autumn 2019 catalogue Welcome to our Autumn ’19 catalogue, even fuller than ever of exciting new titles UK Office Contents and company developments. Since our Spring 2019 catalogue we have settled into new corporate offices in Newburgh Street, Soho. The design studio remains in the 5 Newburgh Street Forthcoming Titles London W1F 7RG rolling Downs near Lewes. An exciting new addition there is Joshua Gong, a Chinese 2 Unicorn Art History PhD from Sussex University. Joshua joins us to work on Unicorn’s ever- US Office 44 Uniform increasing Chinese art publishing projects. 1110 North Lake Shore Drive 52 Universe Suite 16 South In no particular order our cultural history and visual arts imprint Unicorn leads Chicago, IL 60611 USA Client Publisher Titles with an appreciation of the life and work of Emmanuel Cooper, Making Emmanuel Tel: +1 203 206 1454 53 Imperial War Museum Cooper; Jim Bartos’s study of geometric abstract art, The Geometry of Beauty; and our 57 Royal Armouries UK Design Office new collaboration with Blenheim Palace, A Passion for Fashion. From our Chicago 60 Unicorn Press Charleston Studio, office comes Fran Forman’sThe Rest Between Two Notes, while from Serbia we 64 Meadow Business Centre Farleys House and Gallery 68 The Wilderness Conspiracy feature the terrific art of Slavko Krunić and words of Faith No More’s Bill Gould in Lewes BN8 5RW The Mausoleum of Imperfection and from Australia, Austin Lovegrove’s Images of the Tel: +44 (0)1273 812 066 70 The Historic New Orleans Collection 71 Orde Levinson Australian Enlightenment. Rights Our military history imprint Uniform maintains its close ties with the Gurkhas, Print Company Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. 72 Recent Highlights Gumpendorfer Str. 41/6 publishing two titles: 25 Years of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and Journeys Hazardous: A-1060 Wien Backlist Gurkha Clandestine Operations Borneo 1965. Also from Uniform is Vanguard, with Tel: +43-1-544 23 33 75 Unicorn untold stories about the intelligence behind D-Day. Our historical fiction imprint Email: [email protected] 80 Uniform Universe features The Name Beneath the Stone, the story behind the Tomb of the 82 Firestep Unknown Warrior. Chairman 83 War Office Publications Lord Strathcarron 84 Universe Marketing has always been a key part of UPG’s success, with our own Unicorn Sales [email protected] 84 Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917 & Distribution marketing our own books as well as those of our client publishers. We Project Director, Unicorn 84 Dare Gale are delighted to announce our new partnerships with Farleys House and Gallery, home Lucy Duckworth 84 London Collectors Club of Lee Miller and Roland Penrose; and also The Wilderness Conspiracy, who have [email protected] 85 Imperial War Museum published The Travel Writers Field Guide. The Imperial War Museum leads this season Publishing Director, Uniform 86 Unicorn Press with Guests of the Third Reich and commemorates the 75th anniversary of D-Day with 87 Ryan Gearing London Transport Museum D-Day and Normandy; The Royal Armouries publishes The Art of Fencing and Torture [email protected] 87 Royal Armouries and Punishment. Unicorn Press has two new titles by the art critic Andrew Lambirth: 88 The Historic New Orleans Collection Sales and Marketing Director John Nash, Artist and Countryman and The Life of Bryan, about Bryan Robertson. Simon Perks 89 [email protected] International Sales As ever, we hope you enjoy our books as much as we have enjoyed publishing and and Distribution Contacts Director, North America marketing them. Don Linn [email protected] Front cover image: Emmanuel Cooper pot, by Michael Harvey, Lord Strathcarron, Publicity from Making Emmanuel Cooper Chairman Louise Campbell Back cover image: Misplaced by Robert John, from LDN Reimagined [email protected] Catalogue design by Felicity Price-Smith and Vivian Head Hardback 384 pp 234 x 156 mm Thema Codes: DNC, D, AFP c.150 images 978-1-912690-4-11 October 2019 £25.00 Making Emmanuel Cooper Life and Work from his Memoirs, Lett ers, Diaries and Interviews E����� �� D���� H������ Potter, writer, teacher, editor, curator and gay rights activist, Emmanuel Cooper was a unique fi gure in the cultural landscape of this country for almost half a century. When he died in 2012 he left behind not only an extraordinary body of work, but also an archive that illuminated both his own life and career and that of the many other makers, artists and activists who had been his friends, colleagues or the subject of his writing. Th is book is based almost exclusively on that archive. Using his unpublished memoirs, diaries, and correspondence, Making Emmanuel Cooper illuminates the journey of an intelligent, if unconfi dent, working class boy growing up in a small north Derbyshire mining village whose life was transformed, fi rstly at school, by the magic of clay, and then in adult life by the liberation politics of the late 1960s. Richly illustrated, Making Emmanuel Cooper is both a personal and a social history that celebrates the life and times of an important artist and remarkable man. David Horbury was born in Yorkshire in 1959. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London and subsequently worked as a producer and scriptwriter for the BBC and other media companies. He met Emmanuel Cooper in 1982 and they lived together until Emmanuel’s death in 2012. Th ey celebrated their Civil Partnership in 2006. 2 Hardback 288 pp 325 x 233 mm Thema Codes: A, AJ, AJCP 250 colour illustrations 978-1-912690-39-8 September 2019 £50.00 €60.00 Artf ully Dressed Women in the Art World Portraits by Carla van de Putt elaar C���� ��� �� P�������� In the spring of 2017, Carla van de Puttelaar developed a new and timely series devoted to prominent and promising women in the art world, Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World. While working on this ongoing project, Van de Puttelaar became even more impressed by the personalities and achievements of these women. United in their brilliance and strength, they represent a wide range of backgrounds, nationalities, careers, age and expertise. Th e women are dressed in amazing quality clothes by top designers, in period costumes or vintage clothes, or wrapped in stunning and luxurious fabrics. To date, over 250 women worldwide have participated in Van de Puttelaar’s project, and the series continues to grow and has become an important document of the present time of women in the art world. Dr Carla van de Puttelaar is an artist and art historian. She has been awarded several art prizes including the Prix de Rome Basic Prize. Her photographic work has gained worldwide recognition and she has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries around the world. In 2017 she started her acclaimed portrait series: Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World. Five of her monographs have been published. She also works for well-known magazines such as Th e New York Times Magazine and Th e New Yorker. Her work is present in many public and private collections around the world. Van de Puttelaar has taught Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in Th e Hague. She published several articles on Dutch portraiture from the seventeenth century. In 2017, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis on Scottish portraiture between 1644 and 1714 at Utrecht University. 5 Hardback 320 pp 260 x 190 mm Thema Codes: A, AB, 6AA 95 colour illustrations 978-1-912690-34-3 July 2019 £30.00 The Geometry of Beauty The Not Very Briti sh Art of Six Briti sh Arti sts J���� B����� In this deeply personal study, James Bartos situates British geometric abstraction within the context of a broader international movement which spanned the course of the twentieth century, and which continues into our own time. Th e author’s thoughtful consideration of Alan Reynolds, Peter Joseph, Marc Vaux, John Carter, Callum Innes, and Luke Frost – six artists whose beautiful and deeply intelligent work Bartos reveres and collects – examines why geometric abstraction developed as a side-stream to fi guration in British art, appreciated more enthusiastically abroad than at home. – Amy Meyers, Director, Yale Center for British Art James Bartos off ers a compelling account of the rich history and enduring aesthetic power of geometric abstract art. Writing with the passion of a committed collector and the sensibility of an art historian, Bartos doesn’t just chart his subject, he defends its place within the contemporary art world and provokes larger questions about what makes art meaningful. All this is only the backdrop to the real subject of his book, the six ‘not very British’ artists who are presented through a series of insightful new interviews with the artists and their gallerists. – Barnaby Wright, Deputy Head of Th e Courtauld Gallery and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art James Bartos had a legal career that took him from his native New York to London in 1987. He has looked at, been a patron of, and occasionally collected art for most of his life. He has a particular passion for abstract and geometric art. 6 7 Paperback with fl aps 176 pp 260 x 210 mm Thema Codes: A, AJ, AJCD, 1DDU-GB-ESLC 80 colour illustrations 978-1-911604-90-7 August 2019 £25.00 LDN Reimagined A Surreal Visual Journey that will Change your Percepti on of London R����� J���, ���� � �������� �� C����� G����� Remember the fi rst time you saw a glowing yellow street light through the raindrops scattered across your window? Or snow falling onto the palm of your hand and watched it morph into a variety of shapes before disappearing? Or as you become older, how the tower that use to be a giant in the sky, is now just clumps of metal and concrete? One day walking home from work, I saw a face in the tower; I had never seen this face before.