‘Looking Out’ Selected reading from Yale University Press for the Association for Art History 2018 Annual Conference
Charlotte Salomon, Self Portrait, 1940. © Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
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Special offer: 25% off all featured titles* We have selected a range of titles – grouped into twelve topics – that relate to some of the sessions at the 2018 Association for Art History Annual Conference. Featuring both new and backlist titles, we hope that you will enjoy exploring these books about Asian and Russian art (pages 3 & 7), collecting (page 5), women artists (page 6) and textiles (page 11) – to name but a few. We look forward to welcoming you to our stand at the Book Fair, where you will be able to browse our most recent publications or pick up a complete catalogue. * See page 13 for offer details – or drop by our stand/visit our conference web page for selected Yale titles at discount: www.bit.ly/aah2018 CONTENTS Subject Page Theology & History of Art 1 Art & Science 2 Asian Art 3 Dada & Surrealism 4 Collecting 5 Women Artists 6 Russian Art 7 Interiors 8 Fashion History 9 Pop Art 10 Textiles, Embroidery & Tapestry 11 Sculpture 12 Order Form 13
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— Look out for Griselda Pollock’s closing keynote lecture — Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory Griselda Pollock
Charlotte Salomon is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre?, comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942. This major art-historical study sheds new light on the remarkable combination of image, text and music, revealing Salomon’s wealth of references to cinema, opera, Berlin cabaret and the painter’s self-consciously deployed modernist engagements with artists. 360 colour + b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-10072-3 £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
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The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence Megan Holmes In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these ‘miraculous images’ beginning in the late 13th century. Megan Holmes questions what distinguished these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images. 80 colour + 170 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-17660-5 RRP £60.00 OFFER PRICE £45.00
The Art of Libation in Classical Athens This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. Beautifully illustrated with a broad range of examples, including the Parthenon frieze, this important book demonstrates the power of Greek art to transcend the boundaries between visual representation and everyday experience. 127 colour + 5 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-19227-8 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
In the Courts of Religious Ladies Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents
Giancarla Periti Nuns from the patrician class in Renaissance Italy, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually appealing, richly made artefacts inspired by contemporary court culture. This book introduces a thriving female monastic visual culture that ecclesiastical authorities tried to suppress. 100 colour + 110 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-21423-9 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
THEOLOGY & HISTORY OF ART
Milette Gaifman
Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Edited by Adriana Proser A comprehensive study of the relationship between Buddhist pilgrimage and Asian visual culture. Through insightful essays by a team of scholars, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, illuminates artwork’s complex role in Buddhist culture, in which art serves as a form of memory and a bridge to the spiritual world as well as a functional tool with temporal purposes. Published in association with the Asia Society Museum
130 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-15566-2 RRP £60.00 OFFER PRICE £45.00
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Indecent Exposures Eadweard Muybridge’s ‘Animal Locomotion’ Nudes Sarah Gordon Photographer Eadweard Muybridge presented his Animal Locomotion series in 1887. This fascinating book reveals how Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs of nudes in motion were produced and received, and how they propelled crucial scientific and cultural advancements of the modern era. 80 colour + 17 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20948-8 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki John Onians
ART & SCIENCE
This provocative discussion of the exciting field of neuroarthistory examines how the neural basis of the mind contributes to an understanding of art. The number of art historians making use of the new neuroscience is growing and the insights they gain by doing so are compelling. Anyone wondering whether to making use of neuroscience themselves should read this book. 50 b/w illus. Paperback ISBN 978-0-300-22954-7 RRP £16.99 OFFER PRICE £12.74
Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi Ann C. Huppert A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. This book focuses on Peruzzi’s autograph drawings and reveals the artistic mastery of his work and its influence. 35 colour + 140 b/w illus. Hardback ISBN 978-0-300-20395-0 RRP £60.00 OFFER PRICE £45.00
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c.1300 Marcia Kupfer A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map) made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral survives intact from the Middle Ages. In this insightful reinterpretation the Hereford Map, one of the great monuments of medieval artistry and learning, is examined through the complex nexus of cartography, optics and art. Marcia Kupfer’s discoveries compel a revision of the map’s art-historical genealogy. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 50 colour + 50 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22033-9 RRP £60.00 OFFER PRICE £45.00
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Raghubir Singh Modernism on the Ganges Edited by Mia Fineman Vibrant images and insightful, interdisciplinary essays join to offer the most comprehensive volume to date on this internationally renowned photographer. Raghubir Singh was a pioneer of colour street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press 134 colour illus. Hardback ISBN 978-1-58839-635-8 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Zhang Peili Record. Repeat. Orianna Cacchione
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago 60 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22622-5 RRP £20.00 OFFER PRICE £15.00
Bentu Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation
ASIAN ART
This insightful book introduces audiences to the work of Zhang Peili, considered the first Chinese artist to work in video. He manipulates perspective, close-ups and framing to create astonishing recordings of banal repeated actions, such as breaking glass, reading, washing and shaving. This book is one of the few in-depth explorations in English of Zhang Peili’s work.
Edited by Suzanne Pagé The work of twelve contemporary Chinese artists offers a unique window onto the economic, political and cultural forces in China today. Their works use a wide variety of techniques and media and are drawn from local tradition and culture. The word bentu means ‘the native soil’ but the term has come to signify the concept of a reconciliation between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’. Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris 100 colour illus. Paperback ISBN 978-0-300-22238-8 RRP £30.00 OFFER PRICE £22.50
Diamond Mountains Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art Soyoung Lee This exquisite book explores the pictorial traditions that developed from the 18th century to the present day around Korea’s legendary Diamond Mountains. Since the partition of Korea in the 1940s, the Diamond Mountains are situated in the North and have remained largely inaccessible to visitors, shrouding the site in legend. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press 209 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-58839-653-2 RRP £35.00 OFFER PRICE £26.25
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Futures of Surrealism Myth, Science Fiction, and Fantastic Art in France, 1936–1969 Gavin Parkinson Although Surrealism is usually associated with the 1920s and 1930s, it remained a vital force in Paris throughout the postwar period. This book offers the first detailed account in English of the trajectory of the French Surrealists in the 1950s and 1960s, giving particular emphasis to the significance of myth for the group in its reception of science fiction and its engagement with fantastic art. 60 colour + 45 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20971-6 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
Generation Dada The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War Michael White
DADA & SURREALISM
For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective – Club Dada, to members – was an integral part of their artistic practice. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group’s beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era’s chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves, the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. 20 colour + 130 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-16903-4 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
Alias Man Ray Mason Klein; with contributions by George Baker, Merry L. Foresta and Lauren Schell Dickens Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career and produced important works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer and maker of objects. Alias Man Ray considers how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past. Beautifully illustrated, this is a definitive study of an incomparable figure in 20th-century art. Published in association with The Jewish Museum 192 colour + 54 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-14683-7 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Dada’s Boys Masculinity after Duchamp David Hopkins In this provocative and stimulating book, David Hopkins offers an exciting new contribution to the discussion about ‘a crisis in masculinity’, addressing the homosocial structures in Dada and Surrealist art with an eye to their relevance to current artistic and theoretical debate. Bestriding the book is the figure of the artist Marcel Duchamp, who was at the centre of various groups of artistic and literary figures – predominantly male – in Europe and America. 20 colour + 60 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-10895-8 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
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Monet the Collector Edited by Marianne Mathieu and Dominique Lobstein A unique and intimate look into Claude Monet’s outstanding personal collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures by fellow artists. Monet as Collector is a sumptuously illustrated volume that traces this history and in the process reconstitutes the artist’s private collection. The masterpieces he assembled throughout his life form an outstanding, unique ensemble, one that has never before been analysed in its entirety. The collection includes the works of Delacroix, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Rodin and others. Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris 150 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-23262-2 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector Susan Nalezyty
40 colour + 80 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-21919-7 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
The Flemish Merchant of Venice Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection
COLLECTING
One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for his incredible collection of art and antiquities. Drawing on anecdotes from Bembo’s letters and unpublished archival material, Susan Nalezyty analyses how Bembo’s collection functioned as a source of inspiration for artists like Titian.
Christina M. Anderson During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues and paintings by Titian, Raphael and Rubens. This book examines this fascinating art sale from the perspective of the man who orchestrated it – Daniel Nijs, a Flemish merchant and dealer living in Venice. 40 colour + 15 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20968-6 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
Owning the Past Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640–1840 Ruth Guilding A lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues. Analysing the motives that drove ‘Marble Mania’ from the 17th to the 19th century, Ruth Guilding examines how this collecting trend entrenches the ideals of connoisseurship and exacerbates socio-economic inequities. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 100 colour + 200 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20819-1 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
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Gluck
Art and Identity Edited by Amy de la Haye and Martin Pel Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck) was a distinctive, original voice in early modern British art. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of her life and work, examining her numerous personal relationships and contemporary notions of gender and social history. Gluck cut her hair short, dressed as a man and is known for self-portraits that played with conventions of gender. Published in association with the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery and London College of Fashion 236 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-23048-2 RRP £25.00 OFFER PRICE £18.75
Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900
Laurence Madeline; With essays by Bridget Alsdorf, Jane R. Becker, Joëlle Bolloch, Vibeke Waallan Hansen and Richard Kendall
WOMEN ARTISTS
In the second half of the 19th century, Paris attracted an international gathering of women artists, drawn to the French capital by its academies, museums and salons. Featuring thirty-six artists from eleven countries, this beautifully illustrated book explores these women’s creative achievements, through paintings by acclaimed Impressionists such as Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. Published in association with the American Federation of Arts 150 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22393-4 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
Women of Abstract Expressionism Edited by Joan Marter; With an introduction by Gwen F. Chanzit; essays by Robert Hobbs, Ellen G. Landau, Susan Landauer and Joan Marter; and an interview with Irving Sandler A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work. Lavishly illustrated with full-colour plates emphasising the expressive freedom of direct gesture and process at the core of the movement, this book features biographies of more than forty artists. Published in association with the Denver Art Museum 138 colour + 50 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20842-9 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
Dada’s Women Ruth Hemus The European Dada movement of the early 20th century has long been regarded as a male preserve, one in which women have been relegated to footnotes or mentioned only as the wives, girlfriends or sisters of Dada men. This fascinating book challenges that assumption, focusing on the creative contributions made to Dada by five pivotal European women. Ruth Hemus analyses the impact of gender on each woman’s work and shows convincingly that they were innovators and not imitators. This book challenges accepted understandings of this revolutionary avant-garde movement. 20 colour + 60 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-14148-1 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
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Moscow Vanguard Art 1922–1992 Margarita Tupitsyn A comprehensive survey of art in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union that champions the unquenchable spirit of artistic experimentation in the face of political repression. Drawing on art history, criticism and political theory, Margarita Tupitsyn unites these three epochs, mapping their differences and commonalities, ultimately reconnecting the postwar vanguard with the historical avant-garde. With a focus on Moscow artists, the book chronicles how this milieu achieved institutional and financial independence and demonstrates that artistic experiment never ceased to exist there. 148 colour + 129 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-17975-0 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test
This landmark book presents findings from current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it and how the images conveyed Soviet values. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago 392 colour + 78 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22571-6 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
RUSSIAN ART
Edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore; With contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Devin Fore, Maria Gough, Christina Kiaer, Kristin Romberg, Kathleen Tahk and Barbara Wurm
Erika Wolf The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed striking photomontages as a political weapon. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirising American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago 300 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-21918-0 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
The Russian Canvas Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757–1881 Rosalind P. Blakesley The Russian Canvas charts the remarkable rise of Russian painting in the 18th and 19th centuries and the nature of its relationship with other European schools. Starting with the foundation of the Imperial Academy of the Arts in 1757 and culminating with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, it details the professionalisation and wide ranging activities of painters against a backdrop of dramatic social and political change. 135 colour + 155 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-18437-2 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
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The Country House Library Mark Purcell Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete with engaging anecdotes about owners and librarians, the book features fascinating information on acquisition bordering on obsession and the process of designing library architecture, and the care (and neglect) of collections. Published in association with the National Trust 150 colour + 50 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22740-6 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
Cottages ornés The Charms of the Simple Life Roger White
INTERIORS
Tracing the history of cottages ornés (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an oftenoverlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate a more informal way of living and were built in different guises that range from royal and imperial cottages to the working-class lodges that still dot the English countryside. 193 colour + 50 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22677-5 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Making Magnificence Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior Christine Casey This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture with their rich and fluent décor. Their names are not widely known but their interiors adorn magnificent buildings in Italy, Germany, Britain and Ireland. 175 colour + 50 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22577-8 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
Orchestrating Elegance Alma-Tadema and the Marquand Music Room Edited by Kathleen M. Morris and Alexis Goodin; With contributions by Kathleen M. Morris, Alexis Goodin, Melody Barnett Deusner and Hugh Glover In the 19th century, the grand mansions of New York boasted sumptuous rooms decorated in different historic styles. Financier Henry Gurdon Marquand commissioned British painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema to create the Greco-Pompeian music room for him. Distributed for the Clark Art Institute 57 colour + b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22667-6 RRP £30.00 OFFER PRICE £22.50
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Clothing Art The Visual Culture of Fashion, 1600–1914 Aileen Ribeiro An entirely new way of looking at the history of fashion through the eyes of artists. There have always been important links between art and clothing. Artists have documented the ever-evolving trends in fashion and popularised certain styles of dress. This is the first book to explore in depth the fascinating points of contact between art and clothing and in doing so it constructs a new and innovative history of dress in which the artist plays a central role. 170 colour + 80 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-11907-7 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
Fashion Victims Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette This engrossing book chronicles one of the most exciting and controversial periods in the history of fashion: the extravagant reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell offers a carefully researched glimpse into the turbulent era’s sophisticated and largely female-dominated fashion industry, which produced courtly finery as well as promoting a thriving secondhand clothing market outside the royal circle. 230 colour + 20 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-15438-2 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Paris Refashioned, 1957–1968 Colleen Hill A captivating look at Parisian fashions of the 1960s and how the ready-to-wear revolution influenced haute couture. The 1960s was one of the most exciting periods in fashion history, as shifting cultural paradigms were embraced by a generation of designers that challenged conventions and reinvented the fashion industry. This compelling volume focuses on the important but too often dismissed fashions that were created in Paris during this time.
FASHION HISTORY
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Published in association with The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York 110 colour + 15 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22607-2 RRP £35.00 OFFER PRICE £26.25
Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style April Calahan; Edited by Karen Trivette Cannell, and with a foreword by Anna Sui A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopaedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century. Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colourful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These ‘fashion plates’, conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite and proved inspirational to the upwardly mobile. 225 colour illus. Paperback
ISBN 978-0-300-19770-9 RRP £20.00 OFFER PRICE £15.00
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Pop Art Contemporary Perspectives Preface by John Wilmerding; Introduction by Hal Foster; Essays by Johanna Burton, Kevin Hatch, Suzanne Hudson, Alex Kitnick, Julia E. Robinson and Diana K. Tuite Pop Art offers fresh insights on the ways in which artists radically transformed the mediums of painting and sculpture, and pointed revisions of the movement’s relationship to art history. Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum 96 colour + 45 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 979-0-300-12212-1 RRP £16.99 OFFER PRICE £12.74
The Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930–1995 Thomas Crow Thomas Crow’s paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor’s insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of aesthetic consideration, Crow demonstrates that this inclusive attitude also had strong American roots. Folk becomes Crow’s starting point in the advance of Pop.
POP ART
200 colour + 150 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20397-4 RRP £30.00 OFFER PRICE £22.50
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop Edited by Susan Dackerman; With essays by Susan Dackerman, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Richard Meyer and Jennifer L. Roberts Known widely as a Catholic nun with an avant-garde flair, Corita Kent has a personal legacy that has tended to overshadow her extensive career as an artist. This handsomely illustrated catalogue places Kent in her rightful position among the foremost figures of pop art, such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums 270 colour + 15 b/w illus. Paperback ISBN 978-0-300-21471-0 RRP £35.00 OFFER PRICE £26.25
Pop Departures Catharina Manchanda; With contributions by Ken Allan, Anne Ellegood, Elodie Evers, Hal Foster, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Josephine Meckseper, Richard Meyer, Mickalene Thomas and James Voorhies Early Pop artists adopted alternately critical, embracing or ambivalent attitudes towards America’s proliferating consumer culture. Following Pop’s heyday in the 1960s, new generations of artists have returned to the questions surrounding consumerism and media culture. Published in association with the Seattle Art Museum 80 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20873-3 RRP £25.00 OFFER PRICE £18.75
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English Medieval Embroidery Opus Anglicanum Edited by Clare Browne, Glyn Davies and M. A. Michael In medieval Europe, embroidered textiles were symbols of wealth and power. Owing to their quality, English embroideries enjoyed international demand and were recorded in Continental sources as opus anglicanum. This book draws on new research and detailed photography to offer an introduction to their production and use. Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum 160 colour + 100 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22200-5 RRP £40.00 OFFER PRICE £30.00
Raphael’s Tapestries Lorraine Karafel Around 1515, Raphael designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in Raphael’s Tapestries and set among a series of unprecedented decorative projects that Pope Leo commissioned from the artist. 100 colour + 40 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-18199-9 RRP £45.00 OFFER PRICE £33.75
Phulkari The Embroidered Textiles of Punjab from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection Edited by Darielle Mason; With essays by Cristin McKnight Sethi and Darielle Mason Exquisite and labour-intensive, phulkari (‘floral-work’) embroideries were originally produced by women in towns and villages across the greater Punjab, a region that today straddles Pakistan and India, from at least the early 19th century into the first decades of the 20th. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art 95 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22590-7 RRP £25.00 OFFER PRICE £18.75
TEXTILES, EMBROIDERY & TAPESTRY
The Grotesques of Leo X
Grand Design Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry Elizabeth Cleland Renowned throughout Renaissance Europe, Pieter Coecke van Aelst produced works for the most important patrons of the time, including Henry VIII of England and the Habsburgs. While he is best known for his magnificent tapestries, the output from his workshop included altarpieces, as well as designs for stained glass. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press 350 illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20805-4 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
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Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open Penelope Curtis By taking simple ways of looking at sculpture, this book uncovers unexpected affinities between works of very different periods and types. A wide range of examples expands the definitions of sculpture and proposes that we understand it as something more fundamental to the way we experience and construct our rites of passage. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 290 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-22722-2 RRP £35.00 OFFER PRICE £26.25
Calder The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940 Jed Perl
SCULPTURE
In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with enduring appeal. One of the most beloved modern artists, Calder is celebrated above all as the inventor of the mobile. Only now is the full story of his life being told in a gloriously illustrated biography, which features unseen photographs and is based on scores of interviews and unprecedented access to Calder’s papers. 400 colour + b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-23331-5 RRP £35.00 OFFER PRICE £26.25
Kamakura Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan Edited by Ive Covaci; With contributions by Hank Glassman, D. Max Moerman, Samuel C. Morse and Nedachi Kensuke The Kamakura period (1185–1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period. Published in association with Asia Society 65 colour illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-21577-9 RRP £55.00 OFFER PRICE £41.25
The Marble Index Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain Malcolm Baker Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art. Malcolm Baker considers the sculpted portraits of Louis Francois Roubiliac. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 100 colour + 300 b/w illus. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-300-20434-6 RRP £50.00 OFFER PRICE £37.50
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