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POMPEII: IN THE
SHADOW OF THE
VOLCANO
By Paul Denis & Kate Cooper
Nearly 2000 years ago—in Year
79—Mount Vesuvius, a long
dormant volcano in southern
Italy, erupted with tremendous
force. Within 24 hours, Pompeii
vanished in a rain of ash, falling
debris, mud, and poisonous
gaseous blasts, remaining
hidden for nearly 1700 years
until archaeological excavations
uncovered it nearly intact.
With its eruption, the volcano
transformed a relatively minor
Roman city into one of the most
famous sites in the world.
Pompeii: In the Shadow of the
Volcano is an exhibition guide
that focuses on the people living
in the city, revealing the fragility
of life in the face of natural
disaster. Pompeii and its fate are
explored through six distinct
sections that examine the
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chronology of the disaster, from
bustling city life to the eruption
of Mount Vesuvius, as well as its
devastating toll and aftermath.
The Pompeii: In the Shadow
of the Volcano exhibition is
organized in partnership by the
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
and the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts, in collaboration
with The Superintendence for
Archaeological Heritage of
Naples and The Archaeological
Depositories of Pompeii,
Herculaneum, and Stabiae.
Paul Denis is Assistant Curator
of the Greek, Etruscan, Roman,
and Byzantine collections at the
Royal Ontario Museum.
ANCIENT ROME, HISTORY, ART
80 pp., 500 colour illus.,
8 x 5.5 in.
$5 softcover /
ISBN 978-0-88854-509-1
June 2015
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THE LIENZO OF
TLAPILTEPEC:
A PAINTED HISTORY
FROM THE NORTHERN
MIXTECA
and reach that few scholars
possess the tools to understand
its message and context. The
contributors to this volume are
among that select few.
Edited by Arni Brownstone
With contributions by
Nicholas Johnson and
Bas van Doesburg
Foreword by
Elizabeth Hill Boone
Arni Brownstone is Assistant
Curator at the Royal Ontario
Museum and author of War
Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee
Painted Robes in the Royal
Ontario Museum. Nicholas
Johnson is Research Associate
at the Royal Ontario Museum
and former associate editor of
artscanada, a national magazine
of the visual arts in Toronto.
Bas van Doesburg is author
of several books and articles
on pictographic texts from the
Oaxaca area, including Codices
Cuicatecos: Porfirio Diaz y
Fernandez Leal. Elizabeth Hill
Boone is author of numerous
Mesoamerican studies,
including Stories in Red and
Black: Pictorial Histories of the
Aztecs and Mixtecs.
The first book to explore fully
the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec.
For centuries, indigenous
rulers of Mesoamerica
commissioned elaborate
pictorial histories to maintain
their claims to power, land,
and privilege—a practice they
continued under Spanish
authority after the conquest.
The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is
one such history. An intricate
pictographic document on
cotton cloth measuring 156
by 66.5 inches, the lienzo
was produced by an Indian
painter-scribe of great skill
in the sixteenth century in
the northern Mixteca, in the
Mexican state of Oaxaca, and
depicts events dating from
the eleventh century to the
early years of the Spanish
colony. Housed since 1919 in
the Royal Ontario Museum of
Canada, the lienzo is a work of
such complexity
LATIN AMERICA, ART
216 pp., 98 colour illus.,
8.5 x 11 in.
$50.00 hardcover /
ISBN 978-0-88854-503-9
$34.95 softcover /
ISBN 978-0-88854-504-6
February 2015
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AFRICA IN THE MARKET
Edited by Silvia Forni
and Christopher Steiner
While many publications focus
on the aesthetics and symbolism
of African art, few explore
the historical dynamics and
exchanges that have informed
the way people in Africa have
created, preserved, collected,
and sold their artworks to local
and foreign patrons. The book
addresses key issues of market
trends, the transformation
in taste and aesthetics in
relation to changing historical
conditions, and the role of
artisans, traders, and collectors
in mediating knowledge and
value in the international art
market.
WANDERINGS
OF AN ARTIST
March 2015
The book is richly illustrated
and introduces to the public
the artwork in the Amrad
African Art collection at the
Royal Ontario Museum. The
collection contains a wide
range of mostly 20th-century
pieces that illustrate the
creative achievements and
cultural meanings of art objects
produced and/or collected at
a time of great international
expansion of the market for
African art.
Silvia Forni is Curator of
Anthropology at the Royal
Ontario Museum. Among
her recent publications are
chapters in the edited volumes
Rethinking the workshop:
Work and Agency in African art
(Indiana 2013) and African art,
AFRICA IN THE
MARKET
Interview, Narrative (Indiana
2013), and essays in the
journals African Arts and Critical
Interventions.
Christopher Steiner is Lucy C.
McDannel ’22 Professor of Art
History and Anthropology and
Director of Museum Studies at
Connecticut College. He is the
author of the award-winning
book African art in Transit
(Cambridge, 1994) and coeditor with Ruth B. Phillips of the
volume Unpacking Culture: Art
and Commodity in Colonial and
Postcolonial Worlds (University
of California Press, 1999).
AFRICAN ART, ART HISTORY
416 pp., 220 colour illus.,
9 x 12 in.
$49.99 softcover /
ISBN 978-0-88854-506-0
May 2015
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May 2015
WANDERINGS OF AN
ARTIST AMONG THE
INDIANS OF NORTH
AMERICA
By Paul Kane
Introduction by Kenneth R. Lister
Canadian artist, Paul Kane
(1810–1871), journeyed between
Toronto and the Pacific coast
in the late 1840s to illustrate
the “manners and customs”
of indigenous peoples and “to
represent the scenery of an
almost unknown country.”
The narrative of the artist’s
years of travel was published in
1859 and it enjoyed immediate
recognition by audiences hungry
for information about North
America’s Aboriginal peoples.
To Kane’s disappointment
though, the book was limited
to twenty-one images and fell
short of his desire for a fullyillustrated account. Although
undoubtedly pleased with
the book’s positive reception,
for Kane it represented an
unfulfilled dream and lead to his
longing for a future edition with
“a much more extensive series of
illustrations.”
The Royal Ontario Museum
edition of Wanderings of an
Artist will bring together for the
first time Kane’s narrative with
the complete complement of
images he painted to illustrate
his story and experiences. A
Canadian travel-literature
classic, Kane captured a country
that was on the cusp of change.
156 years on, this edition will
realize the artist’s ambition and
provide readers with the full and
complete illustrated account of
Kane’s travels during the final
years of the fur-trade period.
Kenneth R. Lister is Assistant
Curator of Ethnology at the
Royal Ontario Museum and
author of Paul Kane /the Artist/:
Wilderness to Studio. He is
also the general editor of the
recently published The First
Brush: Paul Kane and Infrared
Reflectography.
CANADIAN ART, HISTORY
512 pp., 99 colour illus.,
5.5 x 8.6 in.
$39.99 hardcover /
ISBN 978-0-88854-507-7
June 2015
MEXICO: CULTURE AND
CLOTHING
By Chloë Sayer
Foreword by Alexandra Palmer
Visually spectacular rebozos
(rectangular shawls worn
by women) and sarapes
(richly patterned wool
overgarments worn by men),
rose to prominence during
the nineteenth century and
were indicators of status.
Costly rebozos, often woven
from imported silk on the
backstrap loom, displayed
areas of fine embroidery
and/or patterning achieved
with tie-dyed warp threads.
Sarape-weavers in town such
as Saltillo used wool and the
European-style treadle-loom to
create tapestry-patterned cloth
with an opening for the head:
interlocking geometric motifs,
which incorporated concentric
diamonds and medallions,
played games with the retina.
Today the rebozo and the
sarape are seen as symbols of
mexicanidad (Mexican identity).
Clothing in many regions of
Mexico results from a fusion
over time of pre-Conquest
and European-inspired textile
MEXICO:
CULTURE AND
CLOTHING
May 2015
technology (fibres, dyestuffs,
spinning and weaving methods).
Garment-styles and designmotifs also reflect the fusion
that has taken place over the last
500 years. This catalogue covers
the evolution of male and female
clothing within the cultural
context of various Mexican
communities.
Chloë Sayer is a world authority
on Mexican material culture;
she brings to the study her
40 years of field research in
Mexico, unique contextual
photographs, and extensive
publication record. Alexandra
Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan
Fashion Costume Senior Curator
and Chair of the Veronika
Gervers Research Fellowship
in Textiles & Costume at the
Royal Ontario Museum. She is
the author of award-winning
books, Couture & Commerce:
The Transatlantic Fashion Trade
in the 1950s (2001) and Dior:
A New Look, A New Enterprise
1947-1957 (2009). LATIN AMERICA, TEXTILES &
COSTUME, ART, HISTORY
$39.99 Softcover/
ISBN 978-0-88854-508-4
208 pp., 110 colour illus.,
9 x 12 in.
May 2015