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TITLE : Paintings from Mughal India
AUTHOR : Topsfield, Andrew
PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS
$55.00 – Cloth
2007 - 184 p
ISBN: 978-1-85124-331-0
One of the great kingdoms of human history, the Mughal empire is now lost to the relentless sweep of time.
But the wealth of art treasures the Mughals left behind is nonetheless a lasting testament to the
sumptuousness of their culture. Among the most notable vestiges of their art are the lush miniature
paintings of Mughal imperial life, and Andrew Topsfield explores a rich array of these painted works in
Paintings from Mughal India.
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Mughal emperors presided over a flourishing cultural
renaissance, and these miniature paintings vividly depict the splendor of this period. Topsfield examines
the paintings’ unique blend of Indian, Islamic, and Persian styles and analyzes their varied subjects—
ranging from hunting, royal banquets, and other scenes of imperial life to legendary tales, mythic deities,
and battles. Among the paintings featured in the book’s vibrant reproductions are works created between
the reign of Akbar and the fall of Shah Jehanan—an era considered to be the height of Mughal painting—
and illustrations from the celebrated Baharistan manuscript of 1595. A fascinating and gorgeously
illustrated study, Paintings from Mughal India will be an invaluable resource for all art scholars and anyone
interested in the legacy of the Mughal Empire
TITLE : Making Memory Matter: Strategies
of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR : Saltzman, Lisa
Paper $20.00sp
Fall 2006
ISBN: 978-0-226-73408-8
In an ancient account of painting’s origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in
an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand
years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance,
ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly
processions.
Exploring these artists’ work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and
traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the
groundbreaking art of Krzysztof Wodiczko, who is known for his projections of historical subjects; Kara
Walker, who creates powerful silhouetted images of racial violence in American history; and Rachel
Whiteread, whose work centers on making casts of empty interior spaces. Each of the artists Saltzman
discusses is struggling with the roles that history and memory have come to play in an age when any
historical statement is subject to question and doubt. In identifying this new and powerful movement, she
provides a framework for understanding the art of our time.
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TITLE : Painting Indiana II: The Changing
Face of Agriculture
AUTHOR :
$39.95 – cloth
Publication date: 9/26/2006
ISBN: 0-253-34819-6
Over the past hundred years, Indiana agriculture has evolved from family farming to a global industry using
biotechnology and satellite positioning. This magnificent collection of more than 100 works of art by ten
outstanding Indiana plein air painters tells the story of that transformation, the forces that brought it about,
and the impact it has had on the people, the culture, and the economy of the state. These gifted artists,
selected through a competition, painted subjects as diverse as livestock farms, lumber harvesting, meat
packing, farmers' markets, and huge automated dairy operations. An introduction by Rachel Berenson Perry
discusses the tradition of plein air painting in Indiana. Profiles of the artists and their work conclude this
visually stunning book.
TITLE : Impossible Histories : Historic
Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and
Post-Avant-Gardes in
Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
AUTHOR : Edited by Dubravka Djuric &
Misko Suvakovic
PUB : M I T PRESS
April 2006 $22.95/£14.95 (PAPER)
ISBN-10: 0-262-54189-0
Impossible Histories is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in
the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of
Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a
distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and Central European avant-gardes. Censorship and
suppression kept much of the work far from the eyes and ears of the Yugoslav people, while language
barriers and the inaccessibility of archives caused it to remain largely unknown to Western scholars. Even
at this late stage in the scholarly investigation of the avant-garde, few Westerners have heard of the
movements Belgrade surrealism, signalism, Yugo-Dada, and zenitism; the groups Alfa, Exat 51, Gorgona,
OHO, and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater; or the magazines Danas, Red Pilot, Tank, Vecnost, and Zvrk.
The pieces in this collection offer comparative and interpretive accounts of the avant-gardes in the former
Yugoslavian countries of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The book is divided into four sections: Art and
Politics; Literature; Visual Art and Architecture; and Art in Motion (covering theater, dance, music, film,
and video). All of the contributors live in the region and many of them participated in the movements
discussed. The book also reprints a selection of the most important manifestos generated by all phases of
Yugoslav avant-garde activity.
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TITLE : The Pivot of the World :
Photography and Its Nation
AUTHOR : Blake Stimson
PUB : M I T PRESS
February 2006
$19.95/£12.95 (PAPER)
ISBN-10:0-262-69333-X
The Pivot of the World looks at an exceptional effort to work out that geopolitical tension by cultural
means as developed in three hugely ambitious photographic projects: The Family of Man exhibition that
opened in 1955 and traveled the world for the next decade; Robert Frank's influential book The Americans,
photographed in 1955-1956 and first published in 1958; and Bernd and Hilla Becher's typological record of
ndustrial architecture, begun in 1957 and continuing today. Each of these projects worked to release the
dream of nation--of belonging and sovereignty--from its old civic trappings through the medium of
photography's serial form, in the experience of one photograph followed by another and another and
another, so that all seem at once intimately connected and at the same time autonomous and distinct.
Innovations in the serial composition of photographic form could open new possibilities for social form
while the modern desire for political belonging could be made cosmopolitan, could be globalized--but in
the most human of ways. This epic sense of purpose lasted only for a moment--it had already passed by the
beginning of the 1960s--but it bears particular interest for any historical understanding of the contest over
globalization that continues to hold such great consequence for us now.
TITLE : Writings on Art
AUTHOR : Mark Rothko
Mar 13, 2006
PUB : YALE U PRESS
ISBN-10: 0300114400
Cloth: $25.00
While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert
Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko’s writings have only recently come to
light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko’s other
written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant
void; it includes some 90 documents—including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures—written by
Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist’s life and
work is also included
TITLE : Olmec Art and Archaeology in
Mesoamerica
AUTHOR : Edited by John E. Clark &
Mary E. Pye
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Mar 20, 2006 ISBN-10: 030011446X
PB-with Flaps: $40.00
This handsome volume presents the creations of Mesoamerica’s most ancient societies in their
archaeological contexts. The Olmec—best known for a unique style of monumental stone head and jade
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were-jaguar—were based along the Gulf of Mexico but have also been linked to other Mesoamerican
civilizations such as the Maya and Aztec. This book discusses recent spectacular finds and provides a
framework for understanding the history, art, and archaeology of the Olmec
TITLE : Mexico and Modern
Printmaking : A Revolution in the
Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950
AUTHOR : Edited by John Ittmann
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Nov 06, 2006
Cloth: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300120044
Mexico witnessed an exciting revival of printmaking alongside its better-known public mural program in
the decades after the 1910–20 revolution. Major artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David
lfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo produced numbers of prints that furthered the social and political
reforms of the revolution and helped develop a uniquely Mexican cultural identity. This groundbreaking
book is the first to undertake an in-depth examination of these prints, the vital contributions Mexico’s
printmakers made to modern art, and their influence on coming generations of foreign artists.
Along with a thorough discussion of the printmaking practices of Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Tamayo, and
others, the book features some 300 handsomely illustrated prints––many previously unpublished. Essays by
distinguished scholars investigate the dynamic cultural exchange between Mexico and other countries at
this time. They analyze the work of such Mexican artists as Emilio Amero and Jesús Escobedo, who
traveled abroad, and such international artists as Elizabeth Catlett and Jean Charlot, who came to Mexico.
They also discuss the important roles of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a flourishing print workshop
founded in Mexico City in 1937, and the Weyhe Gallery in New York, which published and distributed
prints by many of these artists during the 1920s and 1930s. Together, the prints and essays tell the
fascinating history of Mexico’s graphic-arts movement in the first half of the 20th century
TITLE : The Sight of Death : An
Experiment in Art Writing
AUTHOR : T. J. Clark
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Jul 31, 2006
Cloth: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117264
Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? How
does our understanding of an image change over time? In his latest book T. J. Clark addresses these
questions—and many more—in ways that steer art writing into new territory.
In early 2000 two extraordinary paintings by Poussin hung in the Getty Museum in a single room,
Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, London) and the Getty's own Landscape with a
Calm. Clark found himself returning to the gallery to look at these paintings morning after morning, and
almost involuntarily he began to record his shifting responses in a notebook. The result is a riveting
analysis of the two landscapes and their different views of life and death, but more, a chronicle of an
investigation into the very nature of visual complexity. Clark’s meditations—sometimes directly personal,
sometimes speaking to the wider politics of our present image-world—track the experience of viewing art
through all its real-life twists and turns
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TITLE : The Arts in Latin America, 14921820
AUTHOR : Joseph J. Rishel
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Nov 13, 2006
Cloth: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300120036
Selected for Honorary Mention in the competition for the Association for Latin American Art Book for
2005-2006
Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke,
Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martín, M. Concepción García Sáiz, Ilona
Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos,
Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie Trusted.
By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a
vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these
continents and a proliferation of diverse art forms in Latin America. This monumental book transcends
geographic boundaries and explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques
among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial era––a period marked by the
independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art.
TITLE : Art and Revolution in Latin
America, 1910-1990
AUTHOR : David Craven
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Sep 25, 2006
Paper: $35.00
ISBN-10: 030012046X
In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin
American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. He discusses the upheavals in Mexico
(1910-1940), in Cuba (1959-1989), and in Nicaragua (1979-1990) and assesses their legacies,
demonstrating how the revolutions' consequences reverberated in arts and cultures far beyond their own
borders.
TITLE : Francis Bacon in the 1950s
AUTHOR : Michael Peppiatt
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Dec 18, 2006
Cloth: $50.00
ISBN-10: 030012192X
From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in
tortured isolation some ten years later, during one crucial decade British artist Francis Bacon created many
of the most central and memorable images of his entire career. The artist enters the decade of the 1950s in
search of himself and his true subject; he finishes ten years later having completed some of his great
masterpieces and having acquired technical mastery over one of the most disturbing and revealing visions
of the 20th century.
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This book brings both Bacon the man and Bacon the painter vividly to life, focusing for the first time on
this key period in his development. Michael Peppiatt, the leading authority on Bacon and a close friend of
the artist for thirty years, reveals essential keys to understanding Bacon's mysterious and subversive art.
The book presents and assesses a wide range of paintings (many of them rarely seen before) representing
all of Bacon's major themes during the 1950s. Also included is an account of the artist's life in the 1950s.
TITLE : From a High Place : A Life of
Arshile Gorky
AUTHOR : Matthew Spender
PUB : CALIFORNIA U PRESS
$ 21.95, paperback
978-0-520-22548-0
An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his
way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately
idyllic and terrifying childhood--his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915--he changed his
name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the
surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was a very influential figure among the latter. His
work was an inspiration to Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, among others. Matthew Spender
illuminates this world as he tells the story of Gorky's life and career
TITLE : Modern Chinese Artists :
A Biographical Dictionary
AUTHOR : Michael Sullivan
$34.95, £19.95 hardcover
978-0-520-24449-8
Published April 2006
The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short,
information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. In recent years interest in modern Chinese art has spread across the globe. Public and private
collections are being formed; courses in modern Chinese art are offered in many universities and museums.
At the same time, the number of practicing artists in China and the amount of published material have
greatly increased. Michael Sullivan's pathbreaking book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China,
published in 1996, included a biographical index of some eight hundred artists. This volume includes more
than twice that number, with entries that have been revised, expanded, and brought up to date. Illustrated
with portraits and photographs of more than seventy leading artists, this comprehensive, convenient
reference will be an essential tool for anyone interested in the study or collection of modern Chinese art.
TITLE : Pieter Bruegel and the Art of
Laughter
AUTHOR : Walter S. Gibson
$49.95, £29.95 hardcover
Published February 2006
978-0-520-24521-1
Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century,
was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to
elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings
and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this
delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no
erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best
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appreciated in the context of humor. In his illuminating examination of the witty and amusing elements in
Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to the sixteenth century European culture of laughter,
Gibson reminds us exactly why Bruegel was one of the most original artists of his time.
In a series of engrossing chapters, Gibson explores the function and production of laughter in the sixteenth
century, examines the ways in which Bruegel exploited the comic potential of Hieronymus Bosch, and
traces how the artist developed his remarkable gift for physiognomy in his work, culminating in three
paintings of festive peasants he produced during the 1560s: the Wedding Dance, the Kermis, and the
Wedding Banquet. Gibson also takes a detailed look at the Dulle Griet, Bruegel's most complex evocation
of Bosch.
TITLE : The New Typography
AUTHOR : Jan Tschichold
$32.50, £19.95 paperback
Published September 2006
978-0-520-25012-3
Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized
as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995,
with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who
considers current thinking about Tschichold's life and work
TITLE : Francis Bacon : The Papal
Portraits of 1953
AUTHOR : Hugh M. Davies
PUB : LUND HUMPHRIES
£27.50 - Hardback
January 2002 - 80 pages
ISBN: 0 85331 846 8
British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992), one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, is known for
his expressive figurative paintings. Perhaps Bacon's most famous image - the so-called 'screaming pope' in
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) - became the touchstone for the longest series
of paintings in his career, the Papal Portraits of 1953.
In 1953 'haunted and obsessed by the image…by its perfection,' Bacon sought to reinvent Velázquez's
seventeenth-century Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) in the paintings that are the focus of this book.
Francis Bacon replaced the grand, official state portrait with an intimate, spontaneous 'candid camera'
glimpse behind the well-ordered exterior. While the Spanish master Velázquez portayed the pope ex
cathedra, Bacon captured him in camera, as if behind a closed door or through a one-way mirror.
This series of eight papal portraits, painted during a period of just a few weeks in the summer of 1953, was
brought together for the first time by noted Bacon scholar Hugh M. Davies for a 1999 exhibition at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, along with several other works from the same period, including
Sphinx I and two recently found Study after Velázquez paintings from 1950. This book includes a new
essay by Davies, discussing the artist's influences and sources of imagery for the series, and a previously
unpublished interview that Davies conducted with Bacon in 1973.
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TITLE : A Separate Sphere:
Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age,
1877-1922
AUTHOR : Cynthia Amneus
PUB : TEXAS TECH U PRESS
$32.50 paper
09/2003 - 216 pages
0896725154
One gets a rare glimpse into the business of fashion in this stunning publication. . . . Amneus uses
dressmaking as a central theme to merge key issues in the areas of social and labor history during a time of
cultural transformation in America. The result is a scholarly work that documents gender roles, equal
rights, artisanship, and entrepreneurship."--Michigan Historical Review
Dressmaking, considered a natural extension of women’s proper work in the home, was a common and
lucrative employment for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It afforded creative
expression, prestige in the community, and even the possibility of financial independence. Yet as
entrepreneurs, dressmakers faced unique business pressures, and with the advent of department stores and
widespread mass production of women’s clothing, most were forced out of business.
Coinciding with the exhibition Cynthia Amnéus organized for the Cincinnati Art Museum, this work
examines the nineteenth-century ideology of women’s separate sphere, the early feminist movement,
women in the workplace, and dressmakers as artisans and professionals. More than 140 stunning custommade garments, historical photographs, and dressmakers’ labels document the superb artistic and technical
skill of the women who produced fashionable dress in Cincinnati from 1877 to 1922.
Bracketing Amnéus’s incisive study are essays by Anne Bissonnette on the eccentric tea gown, Marla
Miller on the pitfalls of researching women’s cultural work, and Shirley Teresa Wajda on the dressmakers’
wealthy clientele. In all, A Separate Sphere offers a careful look into the lives of women struggling with
ideological boundaries. Chronicling choices made by and imposed on both working-class women and their
affluent counterparts, it reveals how these women managed to enhance their prescribed sphere for
themselves and for the community at large.
TITLE : ART : Histories, Theories and Exceptions
AUTHOR : Adam Geczy
£12.99 - Paperback
ISBN 9781845203207
Our understanding of art has undergone several major upheavals in the last thirty years: postmodernism and
mass media began the process of disruption in the 1980s; the explosion in the use and presence of digital
technologies since the 1990s has radically altered the way art is created, perceived and made available; the
recent reconceptualising of art as part of 'visual culture' has torn art theory from its roots in art history and
placed it in the context of anthropological, cultural and media theory.
Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions confronts these different ideas by examining a range of different
approaches to art - as ritual, as a form of diagrammatic writing, as a symptom of a
cultural moment, as a commodity, and as an agent of change.
Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions explores what art – in its broadest sense, from Aboriginal work to
the Western art market, from the role of museums to new media interactivity, from art as mainstream
production and consumption to radical work which challenges our beliefs - means today.
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TITLE : The Latin American Fashion Reader
AUTHOR : Regina A. Root
PUB : BERG
£17.99 - Paperback
March 2005 - 320pp
ISBN 9781859738931
Latin American fashion's recent gain in popularity can be seen most obviously in mass-market ranges
throughout the industrialized West. From the tango-inspired dress of Argentina and guerrilla chic in
downtown Buenos Aires to swimwear on Copacabana Beach and the rainbow that adorns Mayan women,
Latin America has long been a source of inspiration for designers throughout the world. Until now,
however, the pivotal role played by dress in this region has surprisingly been overlooked.
This book is a long overdue assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. The authors
examine the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from
fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the
guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals. This book also considers fashion icons such as Frida Kahlo and Eva
Peron, women who have been worshipped and transformed into marketable symbols of exoticism
and passion, as well as the key role that dress played in their rise to celebrity on the international stage.
Providing a first and definitive overview of Latin American fashion, this book is essential reading for
anyone interested in Latin American cultural studies or fashion history.
Winner of the 2006 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American
Studies
TITLE : Monet
AUTHOR : Matthias Arnold
PUB : HAUS PUB
£10.99 – PB
Feburary 2006
1-904950-35-3
Claude Monet (1840-1926) gave the title of Impressionism to the school of art he created together with
Manet, Renoir, Pissaro, Caillebotte and Sisley. Despite the fact that he left numerous autobiographical
notes about himself, which together with other contemporary sources, paint the picture of a strong yet
contradictory character, Monet the man has remained hidden behind the work of the artist. .
TITLE : The French Collection : French
Nineteenth-Century Paintings in Dutch
Public Collections
AUTHOR : Aukje Vergeest
PUB : AMSTERDAM U PRESS
€ 24,50 – paperback
2000 - 384 pages
978 90 5356 452 3
'What's happening right now in Paris?' This must have been the question that preoccupied many a 19thcentury art dealer and artist. For the modern artist who wanted to make it in that period, Paris was no doubt
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the place to be. And it's from here that considerable amounts of French art managed to find its way, via art
dealers and other means, into the private homes of Dutch collectors. Some of them assembled renowned
collections. And, eventually, a part of these art treasures ended up in national museums, by gift or bequest.
The museums, for their part, supplemented these collections with their own acquisitions.
Now for the first time, the total sum of 19th-century French paintings held in Dutch public collections is
brought into coherent focus. The French Collection opens with an essay which vividly sketches the art
world in Holland during this period. In the catalogue section of The French Collection we find all of the
over 1000 paintings listed alphabetically by the artist's name. Clear and comprehensive entries of every
work include the technical data, the provenance of the work, the literature and the exhibitions. Furthermore,
each painting is represented with a black and white photo.
This reference book will certainly help open up the Dutch collections nationwide and worldwide; therefore
it earns a permanent place in the libraries of art institutions, museum, art historians, collectors and art
lovers.
TITLE : Building the New World:
Studies in the Modern Architecture of
Latin America, 1930-1960
AUTHOR : Valerie Fraser
PUB : VERSO
£17.00 - Paper
Feb – 2001 - 256 pages
1 85984 307 7
Brasília, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro … cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and
progressive architecture of the past century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a
dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public
their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasília was inaugurated, economic
growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had
previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century
architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important
examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism,
when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build
their societies out of underdevelopment
TITLE : Fashion Foundations : Early Writings on Fashion and Dress
AUTHOR : Kim K. P. Johnson & Susan J. Torntore & Joanne B. Eicher
PUB : BERG
£15.99 - Paperback
June 2003 - 176pp
ISBN 9781859736197
Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept
it is hardly new. Costume historians trace the birth of fashion back to the thirteenth century and writings on
fashion date back as early as the sixteenth century when Michel de Montaigne pondered its origins, thereby
setting in motion a chain of inquiry that has continued to intrigue writers for centuries. This key text
reprints classic fashion writings, all of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpeted impact on our
understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective
fashion trends. Why do we wear clothes? What do they say about our self-awareness and body image? How
can we 'fashion' new identities through what we wear? Seminal fashion statements by Montaigne, William
Hazlitt, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein B. Veblen, Adam Smith, Herbert Blumer, and Georg Simmel answer
these questions and many more. Full of vital fashion treasures that have often been ignored, this book fills a
major gap in the history of the discipline and will serve as an essential teaching text for years to come
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TITLE : Cloth, Dress and Art Patronage
in Africa
AUTHOR : Judith Perani & Norma
H. Wolff
PUB : BERG
£16.99 - Paperback
March 1999 - 224pp
ISBN 9781859732953
Drawing examples from a wide range of African cultures, this ground-breaking book expands the
continuing discourse on the aesthetic and cultural significance of cloth, body and dress in Africa and moves
beyond contextual analysis to consider the broader application of cloth and dress to art forms in other
media. In blending the concerns of Art History and Anthropology, the authors focus on the art patronage
systems that stimulate production, consumption, commodification and cultural meaning, and emphasize the
overriding importance of cloth to aesthetic and cultural expression in African societies. Through this
approach they reveal complex processes that involve a series of actors, including textile artists,
commissioning-patrons and consumer-patrons, all of whom shape cloth and dress traditions. These
individuals not only influence production, but are a key to understanding the cultural meaning of cloth and
dress and, by extension, the body in Africa
TITLE : Trench Art : Materialities and
Memories of War
AUTHOR : Nicholas J. Saunders
PUB : BERG
£16.99 - Paperback
August 2003 - 288pp
ISBN 9781859736081
Trench art is the evocative name given to a dazzling array of objects made from the waste of industrialized
war. Each object, whether an engraved shell case, cigarette lighter or a pen made from shrapnel, tells a
unique and moving story about its maker. For the first time, this book explores in-depth the history and
cultural importance behind these ambiguous art forms. Not only do they symbolize human responses to the
atrocities of war, but they also act as mediators between soldiers and civilians, individuals and industrial
society, and, most importantly, between the living and the dead. Trench art resonates most obviously with
the terror of endless bombardment, night raids, gas attacks and the bestial nature of trench life. It grew in
popularity between 1919 and 1939 when the bereaved embarked on battlefield pilgrimages and returned
with objects intended to keep alive the memory of loved ones. The term trench art is, however, misleading,
as it does not simply refer to materials found in the trenches. It describes a diverse range of objects that
have in some way emerged from the experience of war all over the world. Many distinctive objects, for
example, were made during conflicts in Bosnia, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and Korea. Surprisingly, trench
art predates World War I and it can be made in a number of earlier wars such as the Crimean War, the
American Civil War, and the Boer War. Saunders looks at the broader issues of what is meant by trench art,
what it was before the trenches and how it fits in with other art movements, as well as the specific materials
used in making it. He suggests that it can be seen as a bridge between the nineteenth century certainties and
the fragmented industrialized values and ideals of the modern world. This long overdue study offers an
original and informative look at one of the most arresting forms of art. Spanning from 1800 to the present
day, its analysis of art, human experience, and warfare will pave the way for new research and will be of
great interest to cultural and military historians, anthropologists, art historians and collectors.
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TITLE : The Fashion of Architecture
AUTHOR : Bradley Quinn
PUB : BERG
£19.99 - Paperback
Dec - 2003 - 288pp
ISBN 9781859737576
Architecture is making its presence felt in cutting-edge fashion. The pliable metals, membrane structures,
lightweight glasses and plastics used in building construction are creeping onto the catwalk. As they do so,
their impact on recent textile developments has produced fabrics that enable clothing to act as individual
climate-controlled environments that can exchange information with embedded sensors, resulting in
wearable dwellings that act as both shelter and clothing. At the same time, architects are borrowing the
techniques of pleating, stapling, cutting and draping from traditional tailoring to design buildings that are
flexible, interactive, inflatable and even portable. Although the relationship between architecture and
fashion was recognized more than a century ago, the connection between them has rarely been explored by
historians, designers or practicing architects. The Fashion of Architecture is the first attempt to investigate
the contemporary relationship between architecture and fashion in considerable depth, by examining the
ideas, imagery, techniques and materials used by visionaries such as Martin Margiela, Issey Miyake,
Alexander McQueen, Tadao Ando and Daniel Libeskind. As mavericks ranging from Hussein Chalayan
and Rei Kawakubo to Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid describe architectures role in the formation of
fashion identities, new readings of both areas emerge. Probing and far-reaching in its content, The Fashion
of Architecture is the most comprehensive study of this exciting area to date.
TITLE : Making Art History: A
Changing Discipline and its Institutions
AUTHOR : Editor(s) –
Elizabeth Mansfield
Publisher: Routledge
£ 22.99 - Paperback
05/16/2007 - Pages: 288
ISBN-10: 0415372356
Making Art History is a collection of essays by contemporary scholars on the practice and theory of art
history as it responds to institutions as diverse as art galleries and museums, publishing houses and
universities, school boards and professional organizations, political parties and multinational corporations.
The text is split into four thematic sections, each of which begins with a short introduction from the editor,
the sections include:
Border Patrols, addresses the artistic canon and its relationship to the ongoing 'war on terror', globalization,
and the rise of the Belgian nationalist party.
The Subjects of Art History, questions whether 'art' and 'history' are really what the discipline seeks to
understand.
Instituting Art History, concerns art history and its relation to the university and raises questions about the
mission, habits, ethics and limits of university today.
Old Master, New Institutions, shows how art history and the museum respond to nationalism, corporate
management models and the 'culture wars'.
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TITLE : New Museums and the Making of
Culture
AUTHOR : Kylie Message
PUB : BERG
£19.99 - Paperback
Dec 2006 - 256pp
ISBN 9781845204549
In the last decade, museums all around the world have been reinventing themselves. They are now much
more than scholarly, cultural archives. A remit to reach out to a broader public, the increasing politicization
of the ownership and curation of objects, the architectural expectations of new buildings, the requirements
of the "event exhibit"…all have changed the way any new museum is built, operates and serves its public
purpose. Museums now reflect global economics and local politics. New museums now shape our public
culture.
Illustrated with a very wide range of museums and museum spaces - from MOMA in New York to the
reconstruction of Ground Zero, from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC to
the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, from the planned renewal of the Crystal Palace site in London to the
Sendai Mediatheque in Japan - the book reveals how the new museum is evolving as a cross-disciplinary,
self-consciously political, and often avowedly self-reflexive institution
TITLE : The Fashion Reader
AUTHOR : Linda Welters & Abby Lillethun
PUB : BERG
£19.99 - Paperback
February 2007 - 480pp
ISBN 9781845204860
Fashion today is produced and consumed globally. It is dependent on a rapidly changing infrastructure
influenced by art, popular culture, technological innovation, politics, and trade regulations. Moreover,
fashion constantly references ideas and cultures from around the world, both past and present.
The Fashion Reader is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in contemporary fashion. The
book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion.
The extracts are drawn from a wide range of sources - books, professional and academic journals,
magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues. Each section is specially introduced and concludes with
guides to further reading.
A Brief History of Modern Fashion - Fashion Theory - Fashion & Identity - The Geography of Dress -.
Politics of Fashion - Fashion & the Body - Fashion & Art - Fashion in the Media - High/Low: From
Haute Couture to the Street - The Fashion Business - Future of Fashion
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TITLE : A Cultural History of Fashion in the
20th Century : From the Catwalk to the
Sidewalk
AUTHOR : Bonnie English
PUB : BERG
£14.99 - Paperback July 2007 - 224pp
ISBN 9781845203429
The twentieth century saw the effective end of haute couture, the rise of prêt a porter and, finally, the
triumph of street fashion. A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th Century unravels the complexities and
contradictions behind these changes to chart the history of modern fashion.
What caused the demise of haute couture in the twentieth century? What does the 'democratization' of
fashion actually mean? Which key designers bridged the gap between 'couture', with its associations of elite
class and taste, and 'street style', a product of tribalism and of popular culture and protest? If fashion
imitates art and art imitates life, does life imitate fashion - do we wear the clothes or do the clothes wear
us?
Setting fashion within its social, cultural and artistic context, A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th
Century presents an engaging history of the interplay between commerce and culture, technology and
aesthetics, popular culture and pastiche, and fashion and anti-fashion
TITLE : Fashioning the Body Politic : Dress,
Gender, Citizenship
AUTHOR : Wendy Parkins
PUB : BERG
£16.99 - Paperback
May 2002 -224pp
ISBN 9781859735879
Fashion is often thought of as a matter of personal taste, completely unconnected with the public domain of
political life and citizenship. Overturning this perspective, this absorbing book reveals that, from the French
Revolution to post-revolutionary China, fashion has played a significant role in political participation and
protest. Fashioning the Body Politic challenges the perception of helpless fashion victims, subject to
manipulation by consumerism and the fashion industry, and shows how, in a range of historical and
national contexts, certain styles of dress and display were significant for both men and women's political
participation and the formation of their identities as citizens.
How did 'dressing up' in a variety of ways allow suffragette women to perform unconventional forms of
political protest? In what ways did the uniforms of scouts and guides function to erect gender, racial and
religious boundaries? Following the ban on traditional clothing in Imperial Russia, how did Russians
appropriate European fashions and ethnic costumes to fashion new identities for themselves? Using these
and a wealth of other case studies, Fashioning the Body Politic offers a fresh perspective on the relationship
between men, women and fashion and shows that the political domain has always been permeated with the
cultural practices of dress, display and bodily performance
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TITLE : Fashioning the Frame : Boundaries,
Dress and the Body
AUTHOR : Alexandra Warwick & Dani
Cavallaro
PUB : BERG
£16.99 - Paperback
October 1998 - 256pp
ISBN 9781859739860
The body has been the focus of much recent critical attention, but the clothed body less so. In answering the
need to theorize dress, this book provides an overview of recent scholarship and presents an original theory
of what dress means in relation to the body.
Identity relies on boundaries to individuate the self. Dress challenges boundaries: it frames the body and
serves both to distinguish and connect self and ‘Other’. The authors argue that clothing is, then, both a
boundary and not a boundary, that it is ambiguous and produces a complex relation between self and ‘not
self’. In examining the role of dress in social structures, the authors argue that clothing can be seen as both
restricting and liberating individual and collective identity.
In proposing that dress represents ‘a deep surface,’ a manifestation of the unconscious at work through
apparently superficial phenomena, the book also questions the relationship between surface and depth and
counters the notion of dress as disguise or concealment. The concept of the gaze and the role of gender are
approached through a discussion of masks and veils. The authors argue that masks and veils paradoxically
combine concealment and revelation, ‘truth’ and ‘deception’. Here the body and dress are both seen as
forms of absence, with dress concealing not the body, but the absence of the physical body.
This provocative book is certain to become a landmark text for anyone interested in the intersection of
dress, the body and critical theory.
TITLE : ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF THE
HIMALAYA
AUTHOR : David Zurick & Julsun Pacheco
PUB : KENTUCKY U PRESS
$50.00 – cloth
2006 - Pages: 228
ISBN: 978-0-8131-2388-2
A sweeping overview of the geography, economics, politics, and culture of this spectacular region, the
Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is the first full-color, comprehensive atlas of contemporary land and life in
the Earth's highest mountains. Drawing from the authors' twenty-five years of scholarship and personal
experience in the region, the volume contains a stunning and unique collection of informative maps based
on state-of-the-art cartography, exquisite photography, and compelling text to give accurate coverage of the
Himalaya. The entire 2,700-kilometer length of the range is covered, from the Indus Valley in northern
Pakistan and India, across Nepal and Bhutan, to the hidden realms of northeast India.
With over 300 artfully produced four-color maps and photographs, the Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is
an indispensable reference and a superb collector's volume for anyone interested in the vast mountain
panorama that is the Himalaya.
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TITLE : Postmodernism and the Postsocialist
Condition : Politicized Art under Late
Socialism
AUTHOR : Edited - Ales Erjavec
$49.95 – hardcover
2003 - 316 pages
978-0-520-23334-8
This crucial study presents an epic narrative of how postmodernism gave the artists of Eastern and Central
Europe the expressive means to work their way out from the ruins of state socialism into the global art
world in which their compatriots in the West are themselves struggling to find their identity. The authors
bring to consciousness the art history of the present from important and unsuspected perspectives. This is
not just a book for specialists-it is for everyone who lives the life of art in unprecedented times."--Arthur C.
Danto, author of After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
"A fascinating document in the understanding of one of the decisive cultural moments in the postmodern
world. The book's diversity of approaches illuminates both postmodern art and politics from a distinctive
angle. Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition is likely to become a significant primary source for
future cultural historians."--Paul Crowther, author of The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and Its
History
TITLE : Art in Crisis : W. E. B. Du Bois and
the Struggle for African American Identity
and Memory
AUTHOR : Amy Helene Kirschke
PUB : INDIANA U PRESS
$24.95 – Paperback 2007 - 296 pages
ISBN: 0-253-21813-6
The Crisis was an integral element of the struggle to combat racism in America. As editor of the magazine
(1910–1934), W. E. B. Du Bois addressed the important issues facing African Americans. He used the
journal as a means of racial uplift, celebrating the joys and hopes of African American culture and life, and
as a tool to address the injustices black Americans experienced—the sorrows of persistent discrimination
and racial terror, and especially the crime of lynching. The written word was not sufficient. Visual imagery
was central to bringing his message to the homes of readers and emphasizing the importance of the cause.
Art was integral to his political program. Art in Crisis: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African
American Identity and Memory reveals how W. E. B. Du Bois created a "visual vocabulary" to define a
new collective memory and historical identity for African Americans
TITLE : Art of the Court of Bijapur
AUTHOR : Deborah Hutton
PUB : INDIANA U PRESS
$65.00 – cloth 2006 - 216 pages
ISBN: 0-253-34784-X
The patrons and artists of Bijapur, an Islamic kingdom that flourished in the Deccan region of India in the
16th and 17th centuries, produced lush paintings and elaborately carved architecture, evidence of a highly
cosmopolitan Indo-Islamic culture. Bijapur's most celebrated monument, the Ibrahim Rauza tomb complex,
is carved with elegant calligraphy and lotus flowers and was once dubbed "the Taj Mahal of the South."
This stunningly illustrated study traces the development of Bijapuri art and courtly identity through detailed
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examination of selected paintings and architecture, many of which have never before been published. They
deserve our attention for their aesthetic qualities as well as for the ways they expand our understanding of
the rich synthesis of cultures and religions in South Asian and Islamic art.
TITLE : Indian Ink: Script and Print in the
Making of the English East India Company
AUTHOR : Ogborn, Miles
$40.00 – Cloth
2007 - 288 p
ISBN: 978-0-226-62041-1
A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the
East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and
knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how
writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century
to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the
scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palaces to investigate the forms of writing needed
to exert power and extract profit in the mercantile and imperial worlds. Interpreting the making and use of a
variety of forms of writing in script and print, Ogborn argues that material and political circumstances
always undermined attempts at domination through the power of the written word.
TITLE : The Abu Ghraib Effect
AUTHOR : Eisenman, Stephen F
$19.95 – Cloth
2007 - 142 p
ISBN: 978-1-86189-309-3
The line between punishment and torture can be razor-thin—yet the entire world agreed that it was
definitively crossed at Abu Ghraib. Or perhaps not. George W. Bush won a second term in office only
months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was uncovered, and only the lowest-ranking U.S. soldiers involved in
the scandal have been prosecuted. Where was the public outcry? Stephen Eisenman offers here an
unsettling explanation that exposes our darkest inclinations in the face of all-too-human brutality.
Eisenman characterizes Americans’ willful dismissal of the images as “the Abu Ghraib effect,” rooted in
the ways that the images of tortured Abu Ghraib prisoners tapped into a reactionary sentiment of imperialist
self-justification and power. The complex elements in the images fit the “pathos formula,” he argues, an
enduring artistic motif in which victims are depicted as taking pleasure in their own extreme pain.
Meanwhile, the explicitly sexual nature of the Abu Ghraib tortures allowed Americans to rationalize the
deeds away as voluntary pleasure acts by the prisoners—a delusional reaction, but, The Abu Ghraib Effect
reveals, one with historical precedence. From Greek sculptures to Goya paintings, Eisenman deftly
connects such works and their disturbing pathos motif to the Abu Ghraib images
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TITLE : The Triumph of Modernism: India's
Artists and the Avant-garde
AUTHOR : Mitter, Partha
$45.00 – Paper
2007 - 256 p
ISBN: 978-1-86189-318-5
The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of
Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of
modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance. Distinguished
art historian Partha Mitter now explores in this brilliantly illustrated study a lesser known facet of Indian art
and history.
The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of
Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of
modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance. Distinguished
art historian Partha Mitter now explores in this brilliantly illustrated study this lesser known facet of Indian
art and history.
Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The
Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the
evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the
emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art, the decline of “oriental art,” and the rise of naturalism and
modernism in the 1920s. Nationalist politics also played a large role, from the struggle of artists in
reconciling Indian nationalism with imperial patronage of the arts to the relationship between primitivism
and modernism in Indian art. An engagingly written study anchored by 150 lush reproductions, The
Triumph of Modernism will be essential reading for scholars of art, British studies, and Indian history
TITLE : Medieval Dress and Fashion
AUTHOR : Scott, Margaret
$55.00 – Cloth
2007 - 208 p
ISBN: 978-0-7123-0675-1
From Renaissance fairs to countless retellings of the legend of Robin Hood to the popular restaurant
Medieval Times, people remain fascinated by the medieval era—and in particular the clothing of the time.
The richly varied dress of medieval days meant more than just fashion and style, and Margaret Scott offers
here an insightful chronicle of the layered meanings of the garb worn by queens, kings, courtiers, and
peasants.
Scott draws upon the vibrant illuminated manuscripts of the era to analyze the beautiful design and
functionality of medieval clothing. Fascinating changes mark the development of medieval fashion, such as
the transition in men’s grooming from wearing beards and long hair to being clean-shaven with short hair;
the rise in women’s fashion in the fourteenth century as a method of securing a husband; and the various
types of jewelry, fabric, and subtle garment fittings that managed to convey the important distinctions
between the upper class and the peasantry. Such distinctions, Scott reveals, were enforced by intricate and
strict laws passed in countries throughout Europe that governed the color, styles, and number of a citizen’s
garments according to their career, social class, and even the times of year. Political and religious history
were also critical factors, Medieval Dress and Fashion shows, as the book draws from first-hand accounts
to analyze how pivotal historical moments such as the Crusades and the fall of the Roman Empire resulted
in an unexpected blending of cultures and clothing styles.
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TITLE : The Prints of Roger Shimomura : A
Catalogue Raisonné, 1968-2005
AUTHOR : Emily Stamey
PUB : WASHINGTON U PRESS
$28.95 – Paper 2007 - 152 pp
9780295986722
I have consistently turned to printmaking when I needed a fresh direction or a recharge of my creative
batteries." - Roger Shimomura
Best known as a painter and theater artist, Roger Shimomura explores his Japanese American identity
through a vibrant and provocative stylistic combination of twentieth-century American pop art and
traditional eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints. In his printed works, one
discovers a number of firsts, among them the artist's first examination of place; his first attempt to combat
stereotypes by appropriating racist caricatures; and his first use of explicitly sexual imagery.
This catalogue raisonné is also a first. Featuring color reproductions of all the artist's 122 extant prints to
date, along with notes by Shimomura about the creative and personal history behind particular images, this
is the first publication to systematically examine a specific body of work within Shimomura's larger oeuvre.
It is also the first to begin critically examining the importance of the Midwest to his work.
TITLE : Samuel Beckett: A Passion for Painting
AUTHOR : CROKE
$ 50.00 – PB
2007 - 128 pages
1904288162
The National Gallery of Ireland was one of Samuel Beckett's favorite Dublin haunts. He whiled away many
hours there and was particularly drawn to works by Perugino, Poussin, Rembrandt, and Rubeens.
Encouraged by his friend Thomas MacGreevy, who later became director of the Gallery, Beckett developed
a life-long passion for art. Essays trace Beckett's interest in art from its origins in the National Gallery,
through his admiration for the work of Jack B. Yeats, to his art criticism and associations with
contemporary artists including Bram van Velde, Alberto Giacometti, and Avigdor Arikha. The book
concludes with the proceedings of the round table discussion "Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts."
Contributors include Nicholas Allen, John Banville, Riann Coulter, Dellas Henke, Charles Klabunde,
James Knowlson, Rémi Labrusse, David Lloyd, Breon Mitchell, Lois Oppenheim, Peggy Phelan, and
Susan Schreibman
TITLE : Rembrandt Face to Face
AUTHOR : Stephanie S. Dickey
$ - 20.00 – PB 2007 – 76 pages 0936260831
TITLE : The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the
Cleveland Museum of Art
AUTHOR : Lowery Stokes Sims
$ 22.50 – PB 2007 - 128 pages 0940717867
Geometry can be found all around us. The Persistence of Geometry is an exploration of the visualization of
geometry and geometrical forms through history with a special emphasis on modern and contemporary art.
It is a highly personal visual journey that records not only the commonalities of human perception
throughout the ages and in different cultures, but also the continuing dialogue of vanguard art from the
19th, 20th, and 21st centuries with traditional and historical art. The Persistence of Geometry provides an
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opportunity to understand forms and shapes as carriers of meaning that are both specific to a particular
cultural context and universal in their immediate appeal. It presents works of art that date from the
Neolithic and Predynastic periods in China and Egypt to the contemporary period in New York City
TITLE : Fresh!: Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory
AUTHOR : Juli Cho Bailer
$ 24.95 – PB
2007 - 64 pages
0972664920
The need to describe the world around us is an impulse as old as the earliest cave-wall depictions of
running horses and wounded bison. In this descriptive enterprise we have consistently found nature to be a
valuable and inspiring companion, and over the centuries, as we moved beyond simple narrative to the
complex, exhortative inventions of allegory, nature has reciprocally grown with us, giving us a crucial and
familiar framework to help us to know our place in the universe. As a consequence of this evolution, the
human imagination can claim innumerable--often epic--accounts built on the marriage of nature and
allegory. Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory features the works of fifteen artists from the
United States, Europe, and Asia, encompassing pieces that vary tremendously in medium, technique, and
scale--not to mention subject matter. It does not pretend to cover all of the allegorical tendencies in
contemporary art, but nevertheless does represent several significant strains in the use of this mode in
examining our relationship to nature
TITLE : COMMUNITIES WITHOUT
BORDERS : Images and Voices from the
World of Migration
AUTHOR : David Bacon; Carlos Muñoz Jr.
PUB : CORNELL U PRESS
$29.95 – paper 2006, 248 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7307-4
When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States, I thought about how far I was from
home in Mexico. I looked back, saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might be
doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how am I going to return?' Before I left my father asked me
why I wanted to leave. He said he thought we would never see each other again. My brother told him not to
worry and that he would return me in a year. . . . He was right, because we never did.”-Irma Luna recalls
her experience of migration, from Communities without Borders
In his stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, David Bacon documents the new reality of
migrant experience: the creation of transnational communities. Today's indigenous migrants don't simply
move from one point to another but create new communities all along the northern road from Guatemala
through Mexico into the United States, connected by common culture and history. Drawing on his
experience as a photographer and a journalist and also as a former labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives
of the people who migrate between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us inside these
communities and illuminates the ties that bind them together, the influence of their working conditions on
their families and health, and their struggle for better lives
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TITLE : Silk
AUTHOR : Mary Schoeser
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$50.00 - Cloth:
2007 - 256 p.
ISBN-10: 0300117418
This gorgeously illustrated volume not only offers a tour through the fascinating history of silk but also a
glimpse into the future, when imaginative designers and textile producers will be changing the boundaries
of what is possible with this extraordinary material. Textile expert Mary Schoeser presents an authoritative
account of the development of silk, its properties and practical uses, and its role in some of the greatest
achievements in the history of fashion design.
Silk is magical. Made by worms, it is able to absorb up to thirty times its weight in water, it is warmer than
wool, and it is unsurpassed for beauty and touch. Schoeser focuses keen attention on silk’s evolution as a
symbol of status and substance, then traces its central function in 19th- and 20th-century glamour,
expressed through the work of designers from Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga to
Emmanuel Ungaro. Schoeser also examines the innovative use of silk by today’s cutting-edge designers,
among them Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, and John Galliano of Dior. She concludes with a detailed
investigation of new silk technologies and how they continue to extend both the physical properties of silk
and the possibilities for creative design.
TITLE : Salvador Dalí : The Construction of
the Image, 1925-1930
AUTHRO : Fèlix Fanés
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$55.00 - Cloth:
2007 - 242 p.
ISBN-10: 0300091796
As a very young artist in training at the academy in Madrid, Salvador Dalí worked in two distinct modes—
a highly detailed naturalism (under the influence of the “return to order”) and a more avant-garde, cubistderived style that owed much to Picasso (whom Dalí visited in Paris in 1926). Then, in 1927, the twentythree-year-old artist, influenced by André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 and the paintings of such
artists as Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy, began to move towards Surrealism. In the spring of 1929, to
coincide with the shooting of Buñuel’s Un Chien andalou, Dalí organized his first Paris exhibition, thereby
gaining acclaim as a full member of the surrealist movement.
This book offers a wealth of new material about Dalí’s formative years as a young artist in Spain and first
years in Paris. Fèlix Fanés, one of the most knowledgeable Dalí scholars in the world, transforms
perceptions of the artist and shows how the stage was set for the emergence of Dalí’s mature artistic
personality. With a fresh and detailed assessment of Dalí’s truly revolutionary work, Fanés reveals the
central role of the artist not only in the development of the Surrealist movement but also the course of 20thcentury art
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TITLE : The Great Wall of China :
Photographs by Chen Changfen
AUTHOR : Anne Wilkes Tucker
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$45.00 - Cloth:
2007 - 168 p.
ISBN-10: 0300122470
Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government
officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his
decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen
has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique
blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen’s richly evocative photographs at once
celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the
thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction.
One of the most striking features of Chen’s photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and
moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By
excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy
sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall’s present reality from his
pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of
such omissions and guides the reader through Chen’s extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is
essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers
TITLE : Viewing Renaissance Art
AUTHOR : Edited by Kim W. Woods
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$35.00 – Paper
2007 - 352 p.
ISBN-10: 0300123434
This book focuses on the values, priorities, and motives of patrons and the purposes and functions of art
works produced north and south of the Alps and in post-Byzantine Crete. It begins by considering the
social range and character of Renaissance patronage and ends with a study of Hans Holbein the Younger
and the reform of religious images in Basle and England.
Viewing Renaissance Art considers a wide range of audiences and patrons from the rulers of France to the
poorest confraternities in Florence. The overriding premise is that art was not a neutral matter of stylistic
taste but an aspect of material production in which values were invested—whether religious, cultural,
social, or political
TITLE : Lola Montez : A Life
AUTHOR : Bruce Seymour
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$45.00 – Paper
1998 - 480 p.
ISBN-10: 0300074395
The exploits of Lola Montez—onstage as a dancer and an actress, in politics as a power behind thrones, and
in bedrooms around the world—made her one of the best-known women of the Victorian era. Born Eliza
Gilbert, daughter of British and Irish parents, she transformed herself into an aristocratic Spanish dancer,
carrying on an audacious masquerade that took her to Europe, America, and Australia and attracting
admirers and scandal wherever she went. When she died in 1861 at age forty, her obituary appeared in
papers around the world. Yet her true story has always been obscured by the web of lies she constructed
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about herself. This absorbing and entertaining biography of Lola Montez is the first to reveal the facts of
her incredible life.
Drawing on unpublished archives from four continents, Bruce Seymour describes Lola's disastrous early
marriage to her mother's admirer, her many romantic liaisons after she left her husband, her disappearance
to Spain when she was about to be sued for divorce, her reappearance as a Spanish noblewoman and
dancer, and her love affairs with, among others, Franz Liszt. Seymour has been able to use the recently
discovered intimate correspondence between Lola and King Ludwig I of Bavaria to recount how she won
the heart of the aging king, how she was driven from the kingdom by an enraged mob, and how Ludwig
ultimately abdicated because of her. Seymour presents an unretouched portrait of a woman of contradictory
parts--a woman who was beautiful, intelligent, and courageous but was also monstrously egocentric and
manipulative, and who was above all an independent woman ahead of her time.
TITLE : Warriors of the Himalayas :
Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet
AUTHOR : Donald J. LaRocca
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$75.00 – Cloth
2006 - 320 p.
ISBN-10: 0300111533
This is the first in-depth examination of the fascinating subject of the armor and weapons of Tibet, a
country that throughout the centuries was the scene of dramatic artistic, cultural, and political developments
involving Tibetan, Mongol, Chinese, Nepalese, and other Himalayan states. Many of these cultures left
behind helmets, armor for men and horses, saddles, swords, archery equipment, and other arms, some of
which are unique examples of previously unknown types. Dating from the 13th to the 19th century, they
include masterly examples of pierced ironwork embellished with gold and silver, skillfully crafted swords
and sword blades, and extremely rare examples of decorated leatherwork.
This richly illustrated book explores each type in turn and features essays by leading scholars. Also
included is the first glossary of Tibetan arms and armor terms as well as a selection of excerpts from some
of the few surviving Tibetan texts relating to this subject.
TITLE : Cézanne in Provence
AUTHOR : Philip Conisbee and Denis
Coutagne
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$60.00 - Cloth:
2006 - 350 p.
ISBN-10: 0300113382
Published on the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), this stunning book celebrates the
artist’s depictions of his native Provence. While Cézanne is recognized as one of the fathers of the modern
movement, this publication focuses on his own sense of achievement, especially as a painter exploring the
landscape in and around his hometown of Aix-en- Provence. Although he spent time elsewhere in France,
especially Paris, Cézanne repeatedly returned to Provence, where he lived nearly all of the last twenty years
of his life.
In studios at the Jas de Bouffan and at Les Lauves, and on painting expeditions into the surrounding
countryside, Cézanne created some of his most original and compelling works, not only landscapes but also
portraits of local characters, friends, and family; still lifes, and imaginative figure paintings, such as the
monumental bathers painted in the last decade of his life.
Beautifully illustrated with some 160 paintings and watercolors, Cézanne in Provence offers fascinating
insights into a true genius in the history of art and his beloved native countryside
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TITLE : Plutarch
AUTHOR : Robert Lamberton
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$22.00 - Paper:
2002 - 240 p.,
ISBN-10: 0300088116
Written around the year 100, Plutarch’s Lives have shaped perceptions of the accomplishments of the
ancient Greeks and Romans for nearly two thousand years. This engaging and stimulating book introduces
both general readers and students to Plutarch’s own life and work.
Robert Lamberton sketches the cultural context in which Plutarch worked—Greece under Roman rule—
and discusses his family relationships, background, education, and political career. There are two sides to
Plutarch: the most widely read source on Greek and Roman history and the educator whose philosophical
and pedagogical concerns are preserved in the vast collection of essays and dialogues known as the
Moralia. Lamberton analyzes these neglected writings, arguing that we must look here for Plutarch’s
deepest commitment as a writer and for the heart of his accomplishment. Lamberton also explores the
connection between biography and historiography and shows how Plutarch’s parallel biographies served
the continuing process of cultural accommodation between Greeks and Romans in the Roman Empire. He
concludes by discussing Plutarch’s influence and reputation through the ages.
TITLE : The Production of a Female Pen":
Anna Larpent's Account of the Duchess of
Kingston's Bigamy Trial of 1776
AUTHOR : Anna Porter & Matthew J.
Kinservik
$ 25.00 – HB 2004 – 120 pages
0845731548
TITLE : Roman Eyes : Visuality and
Subjectivity in Art and Text
AUTHOR : Jas Elsner
PUB : PRINCETON U PRES
$49.50 - Cloth
2007 - 376 pp
ISBN13: 978-0-691-09677-3
In Roman Eyes, Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the
very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the
Roman Empire.
Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture and wall paintings to coins and terracotta statuettes. He examines the different contexts in which images were used, from the religious to the
voyeuristic, from the domestic to the subversive. He reads images alongside and against the rich literary
tradition of the Greco-Roman world, including travel writing, prose fiction, satire, poetry, mythology, and
pilgrimage accounts. The astonishing picture that emerges reveals the mindsets Romans had when they
viewed art--their preoccupations and theories, their cultural biases and loosely held beliefs.
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TITLE : German Modernism : Music and the
Arts
AUTHOR : Walter Frisch
$24.95 – paperback
2005 - 332 pages
978-0-520-25148-9
In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its
relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own
terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870s through World
War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of
examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner,
Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries
Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker.
Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the
attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the
first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the
day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger,
Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew
inspiration and techniques from music of the past--the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he
demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the
symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.
TITLE : Pontormo: Portrait of a Halberdier
AUTHOR : Elizabeth Cropper
PUB : J. Paul Getty Museum
$19.95 - paper,
1997 - 132 pages,
ISBN 978-0-89236-366-7
Much has been written about the identity of the sitter in this portrait by Pontormo. In 1568 the most famous
contemporary recorder of artists' lives, the painter Giorgio Vasari, noted that Pontormo painted a beautiful
work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi depicted as a soldier during the 1528 siege of Florence. However, in
1612 the name of Cosimo de'Medici was attached to a description of the portrait.
In this volume, Elizabeth Cropper argues that the subject of the painting—widely considered to be
Pontormo's masterpiece—is Francesco Guardi. The book discusses not only the specific determination of
the sitter, but the tools and methods used in general for establishing the people and places portrayed in
works of art.
Elizabeth Cropper is professor of the history of art at Johns Hopkins University. Among her publications
are The Idea of Painting: Pietro Testa's Düsseldorf Notebook, Pietro Testa: 1612-1650 (a catalogue), and
Nicolas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting (with Charles Dempsey
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TITLE : Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The
Laundress
AUTHOR : Colin B. Bailey
$19.95 - paper,
1999 - 90 pages
ISBN 978-0-89236-564-7
Denis Diderot said of The Laundress, "[She] . . . is charming; but she's a rascal I wouldn't trust an inch."
Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen
works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. Despite its small size, it commanded tremendous
attention from critics who responded to the painting's vivid color and handling, and especially to the
flirtatious attitude of the laundress, with her provocative glance and disheveled appearance.
This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to
other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of artist's model in the
eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his
work.
TITLE : Making a Prince's Museum :
Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century.
Redecoration of the Villa Borghese
AUTHOR : Carole Paul, with an essay by
Alberta Campitelli
AUTHOR : Getty Research Institute
$24.95 - paper, 2000 - 180 pages
ISBN 978-0-89236-539-5
exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the
Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and
outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the semiprivate princely
collection to the modern public museum. Rounding out this volume are a catalog of the Getty Research
Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion
of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the villa's other antiquities museum.
Making a Prince's Museum was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Getty Research Institute
in 2000.Carol Paul is a lecturer in the history of art and architecture at the University of California, Santa
BarbaraAlberta Campitelli is director of the Unitá Organizzativa di Ville e Parchi Storici, Sovraintendenza
Beni Culturali, Comune di Roma
TITLE : A Passion for Performance : Sarah
Siddons and Her Portraitists
AUTHOR : Edited by Robyn Asleson
$39.95 - hardcover, 1999 - 144 pages
ISBN 978-0-89236-556-2
A Passion for Performance features three lively essays—by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark
Leonard, and Shearer West—that explore Siddons's life and career, as well as her relationships with a
number of artists. Most notable among them was Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose masterpiece, Sarah Siddons
as the Tragic Muse—now in the Huntington Art Collections—became an indelible icon of this great actress
at the peak of her career. This lavish volume brings together fifty-five other portraits of Siddons including
works by Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, and Gilbert Stuart, along with a
chronology of the actress' life.
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Robyn Asleson is research associate at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Her most recent book is Albert Moore: The Analysis of Beauty. Shelley Bennett is curator of British and
European art at the Huntington, and the author of Thomas Stothard: The Mechanisms of Art Patronage in
England circa 1800. Mark Leonard is conservator of paintings at the Getty Museum, and coauthor of
Looking at Paintings. Shearer West is senior lecturer and head of the Department of History of Art at the
University of Birmingham. She is the author of Image of the Actor: Verbal and Visual Representation in
the Age of Garrick and Kemble
TITLE : The Show To End All Shows
AUTHOR : Edited by Peter Reed & William
Kaizen
PUB : MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
$25.00 - (PB)
2004 – 240pp
0870700553
In 1940, The Museum of Modern Art staged a retrospective of the work of the great American architect
Frank Lloyd Wright. Then in his 70s, Wright was a full collaborator in the organization of the project,
which he intended, he said, to be "the show to end all shows." To accompany the exhibition, the Museum
planned a publication including essays from many of the best-known architectural figures of the day--Alvar
Aalto, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Richard Neutra, Mies van der Rohe, and others. Wright, however, took
issue with certain parts of the book, and after an incendiary exchange of correspondence, including the
architect's threat to cancel the entire exhibition, the show went forward but the book did not. In the 64 years
since, the essays that MoMA commissioned have remained in its files. Now, for the first time in one
volume, MoMA has published the entire surviving group, along with a full selection of the letters and
telegrams between Wright, MoMA staff, and others. Includes 89 black & white illustrations
TITLE : Picasso : The Real Family Story
AUTHOR : Olivier Widmaier Picasso
PUB : PRESTEL
£ 19.99 – Hardcover
2004 - 344 pages
ISBN 978-3-7913-3149-2
Already published in France, Spain, and Germany to wide acclaim, this book presents an insider's portrait
of Pablo Picasso, the women in his life, and the Picasso family. The author, Picasso's grandson Olivier
Widmaier Picasso, spoke extensively with relatives, friends, and contemporaries of the artist, and
discovered unknown information about Picasso's life.
Correcting previous portrayals of the artist which have been highly critical of his personal relationships and
treatment of women, this book offers a balanced and sensitive account of his life. Olivier Widmaier
Picasso-whose grandmother was the artist's muse and lover Marie-Thérèse-answers allegations about
everything from the artist's sexuality and relation to money and politics, to the feuding over his estate, and
the author's own handling of the artist's legacy. This compassionate, penetrating biography, which includes
never before published family photographs, offers a unique perspective as it explores both sides of the coin
that is fame and talent
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TITLE : Critical Regionalism : Architecture
and Identity in a Globalised World
AUTHOR : Liane Lefaivre & Alexander
Tzonis
PUB : PRESTEL
2003 - 160 pages
ISBN 978-3-7913-2972-7
The latest book in the Architecture in Focus series, this richly illustrated and designed book reconsiders
critical regionalism and brilliantly demonstrates the global viability of one of the most visible trends in
contemporary architecture. As globalization increasingly enters every facet of our lives, its homogenizing
effects on architecture, urban spaces, and the landscape have compelled architects to embrace the principles
of critical regionalism, an alternative theory that respects local culture, geography and climate. In this
important reexamination of critical regionalism, two prominent architectural critics argue for a truce
between the seemingly antithetical philosophies of critical regionalism and globalization.
The authors trace the genesis of critical regionalism to its ancient historical and political roots, and focus on
its modern expression in the works of Alvar Aalto, Richard Neutra, Oscar Niemeyer and others. They point
to the increasing use of the theory in the recent works of a truly global selection of visionary architects –
including Santiago Calatrava in Spain, Renzo Piano in the South Pacific, and Berger & Parkkinen in
Germany. Discussions of Tropical Architecture and contemporary work in Asia round out this important
contribution to a topical debate about architecture's role in the world
TITLE : Impressionism Transformed : The
Paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell
AUTHOR : Susan Strickler
PUB : U P N E
$29.95 – Paper
2001 - 176 pp
0-929710-25-8
Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938) was renowned for his refined and distinctly New England interiors as well
as vibrant outdoor paintings of his family. His work and his mentorship of two generations of artists came
to define the Boston School. A member of Boston’s Tavern and St. Botolph’s clubs, he was also known to
join a game of scrub baseball with workers from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Although he led two of
the most prestigious art schools in the Northeast, he got himself expelled from high school to avoid college
so he could paint full-time. Growing up in Boston, and living for 30 years in New Castle, New Hampshire,
Tarbell was a quintessential cultured and unpretentious Yankee, and his art reflected his character. He
remained committed to time-honored techniques and craftsmanship while creating his own innovations in
depicting light and modern life on canvas.
Impressionism Transformed addresses the cultural context in which Tarbell developed as a leading painter
of his day. Written by noted historians of American art and based in part on newly-available family papers,
it features a select group of 42 paintings, including several recently-rediscovered works, which reflect the
breadth of Tarbell’s artistic achievements.
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TITLE : Victorian Figurative Painting :
Domestic Life and the Contemporary Social
Scene
AUTHOR : Mary Cowling
PUB : PAPADAKIS
£35.00 – HB
2000 - 208 pages
ISBN 9781901092325
TITLE : The Museum of the Mind : Art and Memory in World Cultures
AUTHRO : John Mack
PUB : BRITISH MUSEUM
£ 15.99 – PB
2003 - 160 pages
ISBN-10: 0714126373
This thought-provoking book accompanies an exhibition which will draw together some of the Museum's
most important objects in the context of its 250th anniversary. It addresses questions such as how, when
and why people or events are commemorated, at the same time examining how the British Museum itself is
celebrated and remembered.Institutions such as the BM, devoted to collections of cultural objects, provide
extensive insight into the ways in which memory operates in a wide variety of different social and historical
circumstances. Commemorative items of many sorts are their stock in trade, as illustrated widely here:
painted or sculpted portraits, medals, coins and banknotes, sepulchres, reliquaries, inscriptions, souvenirs
and memorabilia, photographs and archives, and diaries. Beyond its collection, the Museum itself has
necessarily become a place of memory, from its architecture to the naming of its parts.This catalogue
addresses fundamental questions concerning the linkage between the creation of objects and the creation of
memory as an aspect of human culture in general. Ultimately, memory is tied up with the complex question
of identity, personal identity and social or cultural identity. As the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel wrote:
'You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makesour
lives. Life without memory is no life at all'. 140 color illustrations.
TITLE : GLOBAL INTERESTS : Renaissance Art between East and West
AUTHOR : Lisa Jardine; Jerry Brotton
PUB : CORNELL U PRESS
$47.50 – cloth
2000 - 224 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8014-3808-0
Global Interests explores the trade in portrait medals, tapestries, and equestrian art, all items that Brotton
and Jardine demonstrate were markers of power and influence in both the West and the East. The authors
reveal that this trade represented a remarkably equal exchange between Renaissance Europe and the
Ottoman East. Their findings lead them to argue that the East, and in particular the Ottoman Empire of
Mehmet the Conqueror and Suleiman the Magnificent, was not the antithetical "other" to the emergence of
a Western European identity in the sixteenth century. Instead, Paris, Venice, and London were linked with
Istanbul and the East through networks of shared political and commercial interests. By showing that the
traditional view of Renaissance culture is misleading, the authors offer a more truly global understanding of
historical experience.
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TITLE : Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic
Lands
AUTHOR : PIOTRAVSKY, M. B & J.M.
ROGERS (EDS.)
PUB : PRESTEL
£ - 39.99 – HB
2004 - 192 pages
ISBN-10: 3791330551
From the exhibition rooms of The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Khalili Collection in
London comes this dazzling display of art from the Islamic world.
The exhibits, which are of great cultural, religious and aesthetic importance, include Qur’ans, textiles,
jewelled objects and hardstones, metalwork, ceramics and paintings, and offer a superb introduction to the
fine and decorative arts of the Islamic world. Ranging in date from the ninth to the nineteenth century and
covering an area from Spain and the Arab world to Persia and the Indian subcontinent, they are a vivid
demonstration of the well-know Muslim tradition: "Verily, God is beautiful and loves all beauty."
Authoritative essays by distinguished Islamic scholars, maps, and more than 150 colour photographs make
this exhibition catalogue an indispensable addition to the library of all who are interested in Islamic art and
culture
TITLE : Reiner Leist : American Portraits
1910-2001
AUTHOR : Reiner Leist
PUB : PRESTEL
2001 - 176 pages
ISBN 978-3-7913-2484-5
Reiner Leist’s most ambitious photographic project to date, New World provides a unique look at America
through portraits of its people. What makes this collection so unusual is its highly original biographical
dimension —for each of Leist’s portraits is juxtaposed with a childhood portrait of the same person. The
sense of poignancy created by the correspondences between childhood photograph and Leist’s portrait is
further enhanced by autobiographical essays which shed light on the individuals’ often colorful lives.
Over a period of seven years Leist traveled across America, photographing people from Rochester to Key
West and from New York City to Los Angeles. Before making a portrait the photographer asked each
person to provide him with a childhood photograph. This childhood image often supplied the initial visual
framework for Leist’s portrait. The essays which accompany each pair of portraits reveal the subjects’ own
views on their lives and what it means to be an American. Like America itself, the book presents a diverse
tableau of race and background, youth and experience, native born and immigrant, capturing the complex
mix of America’s contemporary society.
TITLE : Lost Architectures
AUTHOR : Neil Spiller
PUB : WILEY ACADEMY
$65.00 - Paperback
March 2001 - 128 pages
ISBN: 978-0-471-49535-2
This book stands in opposition to the popular notion that the best architecture is built on compromise.
Rather, Neil Spiller argues, the most original and brave products of the architectural mind are often to be
found in those projects which, for whatever reason, never came to fruition.
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Lost Architectures presents an array of such projects from the last decades of the twentieth century,
consituting the unrealised dreams of some of the most inspirational architects working in the period. Most
of the projects featured here have seldom, if ever, been published before, and some represent the last handdrawn work of their creators before the age of the computer finally came into full force. Whilst they do not
follow any specific style, these projects embody a spirit defined by Spiller as New Romanticism - a spirit
which combines elements of aesthetic decadence and a certain camp mannerism with a love of angularity
and mechanised ritual.
Some of the architects in question are still in practice, with a great deal of high-profile built work behind
them; others have never been recognised as they perhaps should have been. In both cases, this book is an
invaluable resource of information and inspiration for students of architecture, as well as for theorists,
historians and lay readers. It provides essential exposure for a range of work of great vitality which might
otherwise risk being lost in the course of time.
TITLE : The Genesis of a Painting : Picasso's
Guernica
AUTHOR : Rudolf Arnheim
$24.95 – paperback 2006 - 139 pages
978-0-520-25007-9
Rudolf Arnheim explores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural
Guernica. The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final
painting, represent the complete visual record of the creative stages of a major work of art
TITLE : Matisse : Painter as Sculptor
AUTHOR : Dorothy Kosinski
PUB : YALE U PRESS
$60.00 – Cloth
2007 - 312 p
ISBN-10: 0300115415
Widely known for his vibrant and innovative modernist paintings and works on paper, Henri Matisse
(1869–1954) also produced a large number of sculptures that were equally groundbreaking. This original
and lavishly illustrated book examines more than forty of Matisse’s sculptures and joins them with his
paintings, drawings, prints, and collages to investigate the relationship between his two-dimensional and
three-dimensional work.
Essays present an overview of Matisse’s creative invention in sculpture and address his sculptural process
from beginning to end. The volume presents the results of exciting new technical studies on Matisse’s
working and casting methods. A selection of works on paper, paintings, and photographs unveils the
evolution of his sculptural ideas––highlighting the importance of drawings to his process––and explores the
fascinating issue of why he often painted images of his sculptures into many of his major works. Archival
and installation photographs reveal how Matisse originally intended his works to be viewed.
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TITLE : Built upon Love : Architectural
Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
AUTHOR : Alberto Pérez-Gómez
PUB : M I T PRESS
$27.95 – CLOTH
2006 - 259 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-16238-8
The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social
interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in
architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built
upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the
materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that
defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes,
and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell--one that lovingly
provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In Built upon Love Pérez-Gómez uncovers the
relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics-between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better
place for society.
Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our
capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural
form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts
the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia--the love of friends that entails
mutual responsibility among equals--and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at
the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory.
Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of
architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.

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