Article: Books: CHRISTMAS BOOKS SPECIAL In Part One of our gift guide, we recommend the glossiest coffee table and photography books, the funniest humour titles, the best presents for film buffs and foodies " and some to avoid. Plus a wintry new short story by Henry Sutton. Below, Tom Rosenthal picks the best art books. Next week: football, cricket, pop and jazz, military history and Books of the Year

This has been a vintage year for art books, not least because so many of the best designed, printed and written books are now the catalogues of the blockbuster international exhibitions whose economies of scale, relatively huge print runs and texts produced by salaried curators working, legitimately, on subsidised office time, lead to better value for the consumer. A classic case in point is Gauguin and Impressionism by Richard R Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmak (Yale pounds 40). This is the catalogue of the recent Copenhagen exhibition opening this month at Fort Worth, Texas. We all know that Gauguin was an astute collector of Impressionist paintings which he had to sell to feed his ...

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