FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2020 CONTENTS ABOUT JACA BOOK ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Founded in 1965, Jaca Book is today one of the leading indipendent italian publishers in the fields of art UPCOMING PROJECTS The resurrection of Christ 31 Art and artificial intelligence 6 The monasteries built Europe 32 and human sciences, featuring illustrated books, non-fiction The Sagrada Familia 2020 7 Italian villas and gardens 33 and religious books, innovative children’s books, academic works, Beyond aesthetics 8 Malevich. The last icon 34 foreign fiction and international poetry. Chagall. The human scene 9 Music in the world of travels 10 ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BACKLIST Based in Milan, Jaca Book publishes one hundred books a year The art of symbol 11 Saint Francis and Giotto’s revolution 36 and today its catalog consists of more than 5,000 titles. Christmas in art 12 Picasso. On peace and war 36 Was Jesus really a child? 13 Chagall. Stained glass windows 36 Stories of love and photography 14 Eternal Ravenna 37 Jaca Book has been participating in the Frankfurt Bookfair Between pop and minimal art 15 The mosaics of Ravenna 37 and London Bookfair every year for more than fifty years, Braque. Ateliers 16 The Baghdad caliphate 38 as international co-editions are a major focus of the company. The Olmecs 17 Iran. Islamic art 38 Our illustrated projects, co-edited with the major publishing Raphael’s Rooms 18 Art of the Christian Middle East 38 houses around the world, mainly concern the history of art, Raphael’s Loggias 18 Christian Arabia 39 The Bible. Writing and images 19 Byzantine architecture 39 architecture, archeology and music. Saint Peter’s Basilica 19 From Byzantium to Istanbul 39 The Sistine unveiled 19 Chinese art 40 Our name and our logo derive from and represent the leaves Italy from above 20 Russian art 40 and the fruit of the Breadfruit tree, in Brazilian language: Jaca. Rome from above 21 Modern art 40 Venice from above 21 The buddhist art 41 Milan and Lombardy from above 21 The journey of Indian art 41 Summer of the lion. Bob Marley 1980 22 Islamic art great season 41 Seasons. The province of Guccini 22 The Saints and their symbols 42 Hendrix 1968. The Italian experience 23 The origins of religions 42 This hard land. On Springsteen roads 23 Symbols in history of man 42 Historical atlas of liturgy 43 EARLY 2020 – 2019 Historical atlas of monasticism 43 Indian art 25 Historical atlas of the Bible 43 The great seasons of ancient The first Christian images 44 and medieval art 26 Icons. Meaning and history 44 Medieval art in Europe 27 The world of pilgrimages 44 The hidden splendor An industrial city. Tony Garnier 45 of the Middle Ages 28 Gaudí. Landscape as home 45 The romanesque heritage 29 Historical atlas of music Art in religions 30 in the Middle Ages 45 3 CONTENTS NON-FICTION BOOKS Thinking in Islam 60 They perceived the sky. The birth Anthology of Muqaddimah 60 of culture 47 Paths of Koranic exegesis 61 Trees do not respond 47 The Islamic theology of liberation 61 The mirror of Dyonisus 47 Authority and power in muslims Mircea Eliade. The dictionaries 48 – 51 countries 61 The history of the Popes 52 Dictionary of minor arts 62 The intolerance in the church 52 The pilgrim’s guide to Santiago 62 The annunciation in Western Sacred space and iconography 62 and Eastern art 53 Jorge Mario Bergoglio. An intellectual The nativity of Christ 53 biography 63 Escape to Egypt 53 Romano Guardini 63 The glass Tsar 54 Atheism and modernity 63 Ecological spring mon amour 54 The professor and the patriarch 64 The earth burns 54 Paul VI 64 Fascist camps 55 The unarmed power of peace 65 A moment, forty years 55 Suburbs 65 Theater in the time of plague 55 Manifesto to the world 65 The mistery of color 56 At the origin of politics 66 FORTHCOMING To touch 56 “When the skies above…” 66 With the eyes of the other. History of Russia 67 On translating 56 Carlo Sini – Works 68 – 69 END OF 2020 -2021 The identity in question 57 Raimon Pannikar – Works 70 – 71 The time of birth 57 Julien Ries – Works 72 Listening and the obstacle 57 This is not pop music 58 CHILDREN’S BOOKS Strauss 58 Pinocchio! 74 The phantom of the Opera 58 Atlas of the sky 75 The other America of Woody Guthrie 58 The travel of young Mozart 77 To narrate, inventory attempts 59 The life of Jesus 78 Images of the exile 59 Francis of Assisi 79 On writing 59 Teresa of Calcutta 79 Human territories 59 4 2020 2020 ART AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THE SAGRADA FAMILIA 2020 Edited by Alice Barale Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Jordi Faulí, photos by Pepe Navarro Contributions of ALICE BARALE, MARIO KLINGEMANN, MICHAEL CASTELLE, MARIAN MAZZONE, CATERINA MORUZZI, OBVIOUS, ANNA RIDLER, GEORGIA WARD-DYER Technical features Technical features HARDCOVER HARDCOVER DANIEL GIRALT-MIRACLE FORMAT cms. 18,5x23,5 FORMAT cms. 24x32 JORDI FAULÍ PAGES 256 colour pages PAGES 240 colour pages SIGNS ca. 450.000 LA SAGRADA FAMILIA 2020 OCTOBER 25, 2018 THE FIRST VOLUME THAT TESTIFIES TO Foto di Pepe Navarro FIRST WORK REALIZED BY ARTIFI- THE ADVANCED STATE OF THE CON- CIAL INTELLIGENCE SOLD AT CHRI- STRUCTION OF THE SAGRADA FAMILIA STIE’S: EDMOND DE BELAMY, FROM AFTER THE CELEBRATION OF POPE BE- LA FAMILLE DE BELAMY. 432,000 NEDICT XVI IN 2010 POUNDS, 45 TIMES BEYOND THE ESTIMATE! Pepe Navarro is an extraordinary photographer who has performed spectacular reportages in very MARZO 2019, SOTHEBY’S ALSO AU- different places on the planet, but architecture CTIONED AN AI-ART WORK BY PIO- remains his constant love. Like no other, Navar- NIEER MARIO KLINGEMANN ro has climbed the pinnacles with his camera and examined the vaults of Antoni Gaudí’s church-mountain, and with him we experience the verti- IS A NEW KIND OF ART BORN? go of this place that seems to defy the laws of gravity. The work of the brilliant Catalan architect At the end of 2018 an artwork created by the Artificial Intelligence of the Obvious Group was seemed abandoned to oblivion for decades after the end of the Second World War, showing only sold at Christie’s auction. The resulting surprise, dismay and misinformation in the press have two partially advanced sections. The question was: to leave the project in the state in which the revealed how complex the idea of artificial​​ intelligence is for the public and the art world. The author had left it, or to intervene without Gaudí but using his directives and his calculations? work that makes use of artificial intelligence raises a multifaceted debate of enormous interest The decision to continue according to the detailed drawings and studies left by Gaudí was the on the validity of the machine’s creativity, on the identity of the true artist and on the quality of subject of a dramatic debate in Catalonia, until the worldwide appeal that the Sagrada Familia the aesthetic results. has exercised in the most recent decades convinced the government and the Church of Catalo- Philosophers, computer scientists, art historians, scholars and artists confronted with basic que- nia to continue the works. Jaca Book has published several volumes on the cathedral, following stions: what is creativity? And the art? Who is the craftsman and who is the spectator? Can the events involving the Sagrada Familia over the past forty years. machines be creative or is creativity just a human characteristic? Can the generative process of an artificial intelligence system be qualified as creative and origi- nal? How do we judge the works of art created with the mediation of the AI? Can we call algo- DANIEL GIRALT-MIRACLE, art critic, historian and member of the commission of the International rithms that discriminate among millions of “works” aesthetic? Year of Gaudì 2002. He is the author of numerous publications and contributor to the contents of the Casa Batlló, for Jaca Book he has published the volumes Gaudì. The search of form (2003) and Gaudì. The Sa- grada Familia (2010). ALICE BARALE is a research fellow in Aesthetics at the University of Florence. She has dealt extensively JORDI FAULÍ, architect and construction manager of the Sagrada Familia, in charge of completing the with Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, to whom she has dedicated a monograph (The melancholy of the grandiose project by Antoni Gaudì, at least in its architectural part, by 2026, the year of celebration of the image, Pisa 2009) and several essays. He edited a new Italian edition and translation of the Origin of the 100th anniversary of the death of the Spanish master. German Baroque drama by Walter Benjamin (2018) and, for Jaca Book, a monograph on AI art (Art and artificial intelligence. Be my GAN, 2020). 6 7 2020 2019 2020 BEYOND AESTHETICS CHAGALL MATISSE USE, ABUSE AND DISSONANCES IN AFRICAN ARTISTIC TRADITIONS THELA HUMAN VIE (LIFE) SCENE MISE EN SCENE D’UNE ŒUVRE Wole Soyinka Sylvie Forestier M.T. Pulvenis de Seligny TechnicalTechnical features features Technical features HARDCOVERINSIDE FORMAT cms. 24x32,5 FORMATPAGES 240 colour cms 24x32,5pages HARDCOVER PAPER matt art paper gms. 170 sqm FORMAT cms. 18,5x23,5 PAGESJACKET 4240 colours colour on monoenamel pages paper, PAGES 204 colour pages SIGNSgms. 170, ca.210.000laminated SIGNS ca.262.000 BINDING hardbound, thread-sewn, board cove- red with Imitlin, square spine, headbands one-co- lour lettering on the spine, white endpapers “Chagall came from the marvellous world of the East that had always refused the use of ima- EXHIBIT AFRICAN ART TODAY.