Martin Gayford

Surreal visions: the best of this year’s art books reviewed

Subjects include Anna Atkins’s cyanotypes, Leonora Carrington’s paintings, Albrecht Dürer’s dreams and the photographs of Lee Miller

‘Conferva gracilis’, from British Algae: Volume III by Anna Atkins (1853). Reproduced in Anna Atkins: Cyanotypes, by Peter Walther, published by Taschen. [© Taschen/New York Public Library]
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