Books published by National Galleries of Scotland

Through the ideas and associations inspired by MacPherson's Ossian, this is a discourse on national identity, "authenticity" and the human psyche. Colvin explores these difficult themes while simultaneously creating accessible, provocative photographs.

A fascinating examination of Gauguin's iconic painting, Vision After the Sermon: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, one of the most intriguing and famous images in the history of Western art.

This book tells the story of the picture, both in terms of its history and the conservation process.

Attempts to capture the diversity of Scotland's Police forces by highlighting the differences in geography and community across the country and the challenges that these bring. This title features photographs showing the extent of the Scottish Police's work and also includes two essays discussing the development of policing in Scotland.

John Bellany (born 1942) helped change the course of painting in Scotland. His intensely felt paintings of fisherfolk and their precarious life at sea were a direct challenge to the much diluted Scottish colourist tradition and its landscapes and still lifes.

Features thirty colour illustrations of key works in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland alongside new creative writing, amusing and engaging poetry and prose by young, aspiring and established writers.

A wide-ranging, gripping lecture on Roy Lichtenstein.

Cubism as Surrealism: The Watson Gordon Lecture 2008.

Presents twenty full-colour miniatures from Scottish private collections. This work accompanies an exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in July 2006.

This lavishly illustrated book contains over two hundred of the National Galleries of Scotland's greatest and best-loved treasures, each accompanied by an informative text written by the Galleries' curators.

This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon's work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in 1993.

Since taking the helm of the National Galleries of Scotland in 1984, Sir Timothy Clifford has oversee n the acquisition of some of the finest, and best- loved works in the national collection. This book chronicles the development of the collection unde r his directorship and casts light upon the wide range of acquisitions, including the fascinating