Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture
Reviewed by Wilfrid Wright
August 17, 2026
Jo Baring, Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture,
Canongate Books Ltd., Edinburgh, 2026
ISBN is 9781837265237. Hardback 352 pages, 60 black & white illustrations with e-book and audiobook formats all to be released 10 September 2026. Also to be available in paperback (release not yet scheduled).
The British Cemetery – Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture
Reviewed by Richard Barnes
August 4, 2026
Brent Elliott and Roger Bowdler, The British Cemetery – Architecture, Landscape, Sculpture
Heritage England / Liverpool University Press, 2026.
ISBN: 9781836245964. Hardback 544 pages, 350 illustrations, mostly in colour.
£50
Giovanni Battista Maini (1690-1752) and Roman Sculpture of His Time
Reviewed by Vittoria Brunetti
August 2, 2026
Jennifer Montagu, Giovanni Battista Maini (1690-1752) and Roman Sculpture of His Time, The Burlington Press, London, 2025.
ISBN 978-1-9162378-5-8, pp. 302, 250 colour + black & white illustrations.
£ 100.00
Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us
Reviewed by Mark Stocker, Deputy Chair PSSA
June 26, 2026
Marie Kawthar Daouda, Not Your Victim: How Our Obsession with Race Entraps and Divides Us. Polity Press Ltd, Cambridge, 2026
ISBN 13-978-1-5095-7169-7. 171pp., £20.
European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-Chair PSSA
January 15, 2026
Jonathan Marsden, European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King. 4 vols. Modern Art Press in association with Royal Collection Trust, London, 2025. Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
ISBN 978-1-7384878-1-3. Hardback, pp. 1602 with about 1600 colour illustrations.
The Modeller. Adriaen de Vries in Search of the viva figura
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-Chair PSSA
November 6, 2025
Frits Scholten, The Modeller. Adriaen de Vries in Search of the viva figura (tr. Pierre Bouvier). Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2025. Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Vol. 19. Xxvi.
ISBN 978-90-04-73732-7, pp. 400 with over 150 colour illustrations
Artus Quellinus. Sculptor of Amsterdam
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-Chair PSSA
November 2, 2025
Bieke van der Mark (ed.), Artus Quellinus. Sculptor of Amsterdam, (tr. Thomas Belyea and Stephen Tobins). Rijjksmuseum, and Koninklijk Palais (Royal Palace), Amsterdam, 2025.
ISBN 978-94-6208-912-9, pp. 216 with over 200 illustrations, mostly in colour.
London’s Statues of Women
Reviewed by Kathleen Bondar
October 19, 2025
Juliet Rix, London’s Statues of Women, Safe Haven Books Ltd, London, 2025.
ISBN 978-1-0685162-0-7, pp. 224, over 200 colour illustrations,
£16.99
Back to the Cave. The Full Spectrum
Reviewed by Holly (Marjorie) Trusted, Co-Chair PSSA
September 11, 2025
Rungwe Kingdon and Wilfrid Wright (eds.), Back to the Cave. The Full Spectrum (exh. cat.), Gallery Pangolin, Chalford; and Clearwell Caves, Coleford, 2025. ISBN 978-0-9570417-8-3, pp.174 with over 100 colour illustrations.
Alfred Stevens. Master of Design, 1817-1875
Reviewed by Philip Ward-Jackson
March 24, 2025
Teresa Sladen, Alfred Stevens. Master of Design, 1817-1875, The Burlington Press, London, 2025.
ISBN 978-1916237865, pp. 248, 240 colour illustrations, and 12 black & white illustrations.
£70.00