2024 marks the 20th anniversary of Four Corners Books! From Sister Corita Kent to UFO sightings, we have endeavoured to champion a wide range of creativity from our recent past to share it with new audiences. We'll be marking our anniversary with competitions, book give-aways and limited edition goodies - follow us on social media and sign up to our newsletter (at the bottom of this page) to find out more.
Living in a picture-perfect English village, two panda bears, Mr and Mrs Bearanda, bring up their plastic children, Candy and Andy. Devised by Gerry Anderson’s Century 21 Productions for the 1960s comic book market, the resulting photographs are a surreal, unique look at domesticity, the family and childhood. Available now.
Candy, Andy & The BearandasBringing together paintings and sculptures from over 40 years of work, the first major publication to provide an extensive survey of the work of artist Tam Joseph, whose wide-ranging career defies being pinned down to any one style or approach. With over 120 artworks, this handsome new volume features an introduction by Eddie Chambers. Available now.
Tam Joseph: I Know What I SeeWritten by See Red members, detailing the group’s history, the book features their brilliant screenprints from the 1970s and 1980s.
See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974-1990A visual history of photo wallets, by Annebella Pollen. Bringing together a century of photo processing envelopes in a revealing history of popular photography in the 20th century.
More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo WalletsLight shows became the hip accompaniment to gigs and clubs in the 1970s and Wheels of Light, by Kevin Foakes, brings together some of the best artwork and designs in a beautiful new book.
Wheels of Light: Designs for British Light Shows 1970-1990For the second book in the Irregulars series, David Clarke has selected material from the Ministry of Defence’s UFO Desk, now held at The National Archives, to present the remarkable stories behind these images, including alien craft on the A1, flying saucers over Hampstead, and a spaceship landing at a primary school.
UFO Drawings From The National ArchivesA new book surveying the manuals, pamphlets, posters and ephemera from the Cold War about Britain’s readiness — or not — for nuclear attack.
Nuclear War In The UKThe latest volume in our Familiars series: Shiraz Bayjoo has produced artwork for a new edition of Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Available now.
Treasure IslandSome of the most striking – and joyful – American art of the 60s, made while the artist was living as a Catholic nun in California.
Come Alive! The Spirited Art Of Sister CoritaAt Four Corners Books we seek to bring art history to life. Our aim is to explore unfamiliar corners of visual history, share the stories we find, and publish them as well as we can.
Run by Richard Embray and Elinor Jansz, we’ve been making books since 2003. Our aim is to create a space to reflect on artists and creative outputs from our recent past that have often been overlooked. It’s our mission to champion this creativity, in an accessible way.
We’re interested in those hidden pockets of art that can spark a bit of joy. Books that can amuse or educate, challenge or intrigue, delight or provoke. They are more than books about art. They are a way to experience it.
Publishing enquiries
Our main focus is art historical, with a particular interest in British art and design from c. 1945 to c. 2000; art or design that appeared outside of the art world, or work that wasn’t made for a gallery context; ephemera, protest, overlooked work, or collections that give an insight into social history.
Our books are primarily visual, although alongside that, we love to commission historians and art historians with new and interesting stories to tell.
For the most part we do not publish art theory or artists’ books. However we also occasionally commission artists to produce new illustrations for classic novels in our Familiars series. We are only able to commission titles in that series sporadically as these books are often slow to make.
Please contact us by email in the first instance. If you are a retailer wishing to make a trade order, please refer to our distributors listed below.
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