ART & ARCHITECTURE Spring 2020
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Art
A Fashionable Century
African Art Reframed
Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing Rachel Silberstein
Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture Bennetta Jules-Rosette & J.R. Osborn
July 2020 288pp 89 color illus., 3 maps, 8 tables 9780295747187 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
June 2020 392pp 9780252085192 £19.99/$24.95 PB 9780252043277 £103.00/$125.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Silberstein presents an array of visually compelling clothing and accessories neglected by traditional histories of Chinese dress, examining these products’ potential to illuminate issues of gender and identity.
Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.
AFRICOBRA
Arrested Welcome
Experimental Art toward a School of Thought Wadsworth A. Jarrell
Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova
Art History Publication Initiative May 2020 312pp 89 color illus. 9781478000563 £24.99/$29.95 PB 9781478000426 £95.00/$109.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 248pp 46 b&w photos, 11 color plates 9781517908973 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517908966 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.
Interprets the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment. Calls for new forms of hospitality in author’s engagement with the works of eight international artists. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Art and Cosmotechnics
Art Effects
Yuk Hui
Image, Agency, and Ritual in Amazonia Carlos Faust Translated by David Rodgers
e-flux May 2020 240pp 15 b&w photos 9781517909543 £22.99/$28.00 PB 9781517909536 £96.00/$112.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Addresses the challenge of technology to the existence of art and traditional thought in light of current discourses on AI and robotics. An attempt to look into the varieties of experiences of art and to ask what these experiences might contribute to the rethinking of technology today. Excludes Japan & ANZ
August 2020 450pp 45 photos, 11 illus., 5 maps, 7 tables 9781496220448 £69.00/$80.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and indigenous presences.
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Citizens of Beauty
Daniel Johnston
April 2020 224pp 123 b&w illus. 9780295747019 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780295747026 £79.00/$95.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
March 2020 300pp 9780253048431 £24.99/$30.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China Louise Edwards
A Portrait of the Artist as a Potter in North Carolina Henry Glassie
This book, which is based on a steady stream of intimate interviews, is a portrait of Daniel Johnston, a young artist who makes great pots in the eastern Piedmont of North Carolina.
Citizens of Beauty is the first book to explore the One Hundred Illustrated Beauties in order to compare social ideals during China’s shift from imperial to Republican times.
Disordering the Establishment
Documents of Doubt
The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack
Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 Lily Woodruff
May 2020 296pp 87 b&w photos, 25 color plates 9781517907570 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517907563 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
Art History Publication Initiative June 2020 368pp 98 illus., incl. 17 in color 9781478008446 £23.99/$28.95 PB 9781478007920 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers original ideas on truth’s connection to photography in the United States during the late 1960s and how conceptual art from that period Examines the development of artistic strategies of anticipated our current era of “alternative facts” political resistance in post-WWII France. in contemporary politics and culture. Excludes Japan & ANZ
(En)gendering
Great Qing
Chinese Women’s Art in the Making Edited by Shuqin Cui
Painting in China, 1644-1911 Claudia Brown
February 2020 352pp 245 color illus., 1 map 9780295747231 £33.00/$40.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
January 2020 250pp 78 illus. 9781478008750 £11.99/$14.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
With more than 200 color illustrations, Great Qing highlights fine examples of Qing painting in American museums, works from all regions of China, and paintings by women.
Contributors—including artists, art historians, critics, and curators—consider how the work of contemporary women artists has generated new approaches to and perspectives on the Chinese art canon.
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Healing from Genocide in Rwanda
Iran and the Deccan
Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, 14001700 Edited by Keelan Overton
The 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi Susan Viguers & Lily Yeh
June 2020 368pp 9780253048912 £29.99/$36.00 PB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
May 2020 144pp full color pictures 9781613321348 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9781613321355 £77.00/$89.00 HB NEW VILLAGE PRESS
Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three hundred year period.
This work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. Excludes SE Asia & ANZ
Making Kantha, Making Home
More Art in the Public Eye
Edited by Micaela Martegani, Jeff Kasper & Emma Drew
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal Pika Ghosh
Global South Asia July 2020 296pp 103 color illus. 9780295746999 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
January 2020 284pp 101 color illus. 9781733099301 £28.99/$35.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
More Art in the Public Eye offers critical insight into the ever-growing field of socially engaged public art by demonstrating how the committed collaboration of artists, community members, and cultural producers can meaningfully impact our collective futures.
Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Museums Inside Out
Muthanna / Mirror Writing in Islamic Calligraphy
Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus
History, Theory, and Aesthetics Esra Akin-Kivanç
January 2020 320pp 40 b&w photos 9781517908249 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517908232 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
May 2020 328pp 9780253049216 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9780253049209 £73.00/$85.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Museums Inside Out, Mark W. Rectanus investigates how museums are blurring the boundaries between their gallery walls and public spaces. Excludes Japan & ANZ
This work provides a comprehensive study of Muthanna and its forms, beginning with an explanation of the visual principles and techniques used in its creation.
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Partisan Aesthetics
Piotr Szyhalski
Modern Art and India’s Long Decolonization Sanjukta Sunderason
We Are Working All the Time! Edited by Diane Mullin June 2020 176pp 150 color plates 9781517909567 £34.00/$39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
South Asia in Motion July 2020 336pp 9781503612990 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781503611948 £77.00/$90.00 HB STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The artistic practice of Piotr Szyhalski encompasses an impressive array of media and genres: from poster design to experimental music, from interactive web-based art to large-scale conceptual installations, from public performance to innovative pedagogy. This is the first comprehensive study of this artist. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Partisan Aesthetics explores art’s entanglements with conjunctural and climactic histories of latecolonial and postcolonial India, to foreground political, social, and intellectual formations of modern art during India’s long decolonization.
Practicing the Good
Rethinking Cosmopolitanism
Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukrov
Africa in Europe / Europe in Africa Edited by Salah M. Hassan & Chika Okeke-Agulu
e-flux April 2020 304pp 10 b&w photos 9781517909550 £24.99/$30.00 PB 9781517909604 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
April 2020 150pp 150 illus. 9781478008743 £21.99/$27.00 PB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory. Excludes Japan & ANZ
Examining cosmopolitanism through theoretical perspectives as well as visual art practices, contributors fill in the gaps in contemporary understandings of cultural and political dynamics between Africa and Europe.
Songs of Nature
Striking Iron
On Paintings by Jun Cao John Sallis Illustrated by Cao Jun
The Art of African Blacksmiths Edited by Allen F. Roberts, Tom Joyce & Marla C. Berns
The Collected Writings of John Sallis April 2020 128pp 9780253046611 £20.99/$25.00 PB 9780253046604 £69.00/$80.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
December 2019 512pp 456 color illus., 67 b&w illus., 2 maps, 20 charts 9780990762669 £62.00/$75.00 HB FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA
Striking Iron combines interdisciplinary scholarship with vivid illustrations to offer the most comprehensive treatment to date of the blacksmith’s art in sub-Saharan Africa.
This latest philosophical text by John Sallis is inspired by the work of contemporary Chinese painter Cao Jun. It carries out a series of philosophical reflections on nature, art, and music by taking up Cao Jun’s art and thought, with a focus on questions of the elemental.
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Technocrats of the Imagination
The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist Pichai Nirand
Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde John Beck & Ryan Bishop
Philip Constable
February 2020 116pp 37 color illus. 9786162151552 £21.99/$27.95 PB SILKWORM BOOKS
Cultural Politics April 2020 240pp 5 illus. 9781478006602 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478005957 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book showcases Pichai Nirand, a celebrated Thai artist who has spent a lifetime providing a Thai Buddhist perspective on the dilemmas and contradictions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
The authors explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s.
Troubling Borders
Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast
An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam & Kathy L. Nguyen
Edited by Kathryn BunnMarcuse & Aldona Jonaitis
Native Art of the Pacific Northwest: A Bill Holm Center Series July 2020 352pp 121 color illus. 9780295747132 £33.00/$39.95 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
January 2020 296pp 62 color illus. 9780295747279 £27.99/$35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Troubling Borders showcases the creative work of The volume exemplifies respectful and relational engagement with Indigenous art and advocates women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, for more accountable scholarship and practices. and Filipino ancestry.
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940
Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan Nozomi Naoi
Thomas C. Hubka
April 2020 300pp 76 b&w illus., 36 color illus. 9780295746838 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture July 2020 320pp 148 b&w photos 9780816693016 £34.00/$40.00 PB 9780816693009 £103.00/$120.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The hugely popular Japanese artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934) is an emblematic figure of Japan’s rapidly changing cultural milieu in the early twentieth century. In the first full-length English-language study of Yumeji’s work, Nozomi Naoi examines the artist’s role in shaping modern Japanese identity.
Hubka analyzes a period when millions of average Americans saw accelerated improvement in their housing and domestic conditions. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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Architecture
Yumeji Modern
Improbable Metropolis
Landed Internationals
Houston’s Architectural and Urban History Barrie Scardino Bradley
Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Burak Erdim
June 2020 536pp 9781477320198 £39.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
July 2020 360pp 9781477321218 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Improbable Metropolis uses the built environment as a guide to explore the remarkable evolution Houston has undergone from 1836 to the present. Houston’s architecture, an indicator of its culture and prosperity, has been inconsistent, often predictable, sometimes bizarre, and occasionally extraordinary.
Landed Internationals examines the international culture of postwar urban planning via the case of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey.
Making Houston Modern
Modern Housing Catherine Bauer
February 2020 400pp 22 b&w photos, 170 b&w plates 9781517909062 £28.99/$35.00 PB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone Edited by Barrie Scardino Bradley, Stephen Fox & Michelangelo Sabatino
Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. Excludes Japan & ANZ
July 2020 360pp 9781477320556 £43.00/$50.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. This book explores the life and work of this provocative architect.
The Metabolist Imagination
What the Emperor Built
Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming Aurelia Campbell
Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner
June 2020 240pp 58 color illus., 48 b&w illus., 3 maps 9780295746883 £54.00/$65.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
April 2020 224pp 4 b&w photos, 16 color plates 9781517906245 £21.99/$27.00 PB 9781517906238 £93.00/$108.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
What the Emperor Built is the first book-length study devoted to the architectural projects of the Yongle emporer (r. 1402-24), one of the most famous rulers in Chinese history.
Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism movement and sci-fi authors. Excludes Japan & ANZ
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