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Here, the artist and the art historian offer a fascinating conversation, which defines sculpture as widely as possible (a prehistoric hand axe and Silbury Hill, for example) and illustrates a varied and inspiring analysis with a generous, seductive selection of plates. They consider fluid forms such as ritual and dance, and the whole journey from past to present leads you to look at the familiar anew. Brilliant.
PICASSO AND MAYA
by Diana Widmaier-Picasso and Carmen Gimenez (Rizzoli £155)
This handsome book celebrating an unusual, lavish Paris exhibition devoted to Picasso’s relationship with his elder daughter Maya is a work of art in itself. The artist fell in love with Maya’s mother, Marie-Therese Walter (1909 to 1977), when she was only 17 and he was a 45-year-old married man.