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“Books about artist Loïs Mailou Jones have been too few, making VanDiver’s meticulous study a milestone in art, women’s, and African American history.”

—Donna Seaman, Booklist Designing a New Tradition Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness Rebecca VanDiver

In Designing a New Tradition, Rebecca VanDiver fragmented nature of twentieth-century black presents a fresh perspective on the art and identity and diasporic experiences . Tracing career of Loïs Mailou Jones . Considering the Jones’s aesthetic transformations along a importance of Africa for Jones’s work and biographical arc, VanDiver offers a new frame- examining the broader roles played by class, work for thinking about the connection between gender, and politics in constructions of African America and Africa and the role of the African American art histories as a whole, VanDiver diaspora in the creation of African American makes a convincing case for Jones’s lasting place artistic identity . in American art history . Accessibly written and filled with fascinating VanDiver repositions Jones’s work within the anecdotes about Jones’s life and career, her canon of American art, situating the artist’s pro- many acquaintances, and the challenges she duction within the larger cultural and aesthetic faced as a black woman artist working in the debates of the twentieth century, including mod- twentieth century, this book makes a singular ernism, abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance, contribution to a new and expanded art-histori- feminism, Négritude, and Pan-Africanism . In cal canon . doing so, VanDiver reveals one of Jones’s most 256 pages | 51 color/37 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | October 2020 significant contributions to American art: the isbn 978-0-271-08604-0 | hardcover: $59 95. sh development of a composite black aesthetic that negotiates African, American, and European artistic traditions to reflect the increasingly 3 art 2021 art psupress.org Alexander Gardner is best known for his inno- Some of the most breathtaking art in America american vative photographic history of the Civil War . lies behind doors that few ever open . One such What is less known is the extent to which he masterpiece is The Prophetic Quest, a series was involved in the international workers’ rights of ten monumental stained glass windows in movement . Tying Gardner’s photographic story- the Keneseth Israel synagogue, just north of telling to his transatlantic reform activities, this Philadelphia . This informative and exquisitely book expands our understanding of Gardner’s illustrated volume pulls back the curtain on this career and the work of his studio in Washington, little-known work of art . DC, by situating his photographic production Designed by the renowned American artist within the era’s discourse on social and political Jacob Landau, The Prophetic Quest encompasses reform . ten masterful abstract pieces of stained glass PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN Drawing on previously unknown primary that depict the lives and words of the biblical sources and original close readings, Makeda Best prophets, each towering nearly twenty-five feet reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and high and spanning five feet across . Featuring photography in the United States shared an ideo- essays recounting Landau’s vision, the history logical foundation . She reads his Photographic The Prophetic Quest of his project, and detailed interpretive com- Elevate the Masses Sketch Book of the War as a politically moti- The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob mentary on each window, this book presents Alexander Gardner, Photography, and vated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist an immersive experience of Landau’s religious Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth Democracy in Nineteenth-Century and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its masterwork . Personal reflections written by art- Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania America treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with ists, art historians, poets, clergy, and congregants David S . Herrstrom and Andrew D . Makeda Best the harm that the institution posed to the United about their experience of The Prophetic Quest States’ reputation as a model democracy . Best Scrimgeour round out the volume with new ways to view and shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated appreciate Landau’s creation . “Alexander Gardner’s pathbreaking “An important contribution to our knowl- Northern labor communities and elevated white Gorgeously illustrated, this book sheds light photography developed from long-term edge and understanding of Jewish life immigrant workers, despite the industrialization on American synagogue art and the history commitments to democracy and social in Pennsylvania and religious life more reform, mixed with shrewd enterprise. that degraded them . She concludes with a dis- of stained glass in America, and it cements cussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American broadly. The Prophetic Quest brings Landau’s reputation as one of the leading Makeda Best’s transatlantic biographi- national infrastructure in which photographers attention to hitherto unknown items that American protest artists . cal frame shapes stimulating readings of and photography played an integral role . themselves carry artistic, historic, and reli- The volume features essays by the editors as enduring images.” Original and compelling, this reconsideration gious significance.” well as Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Rita Rosen Poley, —Thomas J. brown, author of Civil War of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of —Dianne Ashton, author of Hanukkah in and Lance J . Sussman, along with additional Monuments and the Militarization of America Civil War photography beyond the immediate America: A History reflections from fifteen other contributors and narrative of the war to comprehend its relation the photography of Tom Crane . Also of Interest to the vigorous international debates about 144 pages | 54 color/12 b&w illus . | 8 .25 x 11 .5 | April 2021 Photography and Other democracy, industrialization, and the rights of Media in the Nineteenth isbn 978-0-271-08781-8 | hardcover: $34 95. sh Also of Interest Century citizens . Scholars working at the intersection of Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Series Hebrew Melodies Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi photography, cultural history, and social reform Heinrich Heine, Translated by and Simone Natale in the nineteenth century on both sides of the Stephen Mitchell and ISBN 978-0-271-07916-5 Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by paper: $34 95. sh Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their Mark Podwal, Foreword by own research . Elisheva Carlebach ISBN 978-0-271-08480-0 200 pages | 84 b&w illus . | 7 x 10 | October 2020 hardcover: $20 .00 tr Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural isbn 978-0-271-08609-5 | hardcover: $64 95. sh Imagination Series

4 5 art 2021 art psupress.org Field Language presents the work of an extraor- The celebrated Ashcan School artist John Sloan american dinary couple who together left the rural produced a distinctive body of work depicting life lifeways of their Mennonite upbringing to go on the rooftops of early twentieth-century New “into the world” to create forms of modern art York City . Designed to accompany the major loan that reflected on the places and culture they exhibition of the same name organized by the came from . Published on the occasion of a Palmer Museum of Art, From the Rooftops: John retrospective exhibition devoted to the working Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space examines relationship between abstract painter Warren the allure of rooftop locales for Sloan as well as Rohrer and his wife, poet Jane Turner Rohrer, for more than a dozen of his contemporaries . this sumptuously illustrated book explores the From his early career as an illustrator in Rohrers’ painting and poetry in relation to their Philadelphia to the final years of his life, Sloan PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN biographies and to the nature of modernism and nurtured a fascination with what he called modernity . the “roof life of the metropolis ”. Devoted to the The artists, poets, and historians contributing importance of this setting in Sloan’s oeuvre, From to this volume present a variety of perspectives From the Rooftops the Rooftops features paintings, prints, and photo- on the Rohrers, situating their work within the graphs by Sloan, alongside examples from other Field Language John Sloan and the Art of a New context of modernism, the changing agricultural notable artists of the time, such as George Ault, The Painting and Poetry of Warren Urban Space landscapes of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, William Glackens, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edward and Jane Rohrer Adam Thomas and the aestheticization of local craft practices . Hopper, and Reginald Marsh—artists who were Edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Through the work of these two highly original likewise enthralled by “the city above the city ”. In “From the Rooftops is an intelligent, Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri and creative artists, Field Language invites read- this book, art historian Adam Thomas explores well-written and extensively researched Robinson ers to consider relationships between global art the pivotal role that New York City’s rooftops movements and local visual cultures, issues of catalogue, which happily closes with the played in Sloan’s thinking about urban space and land use, the sustainability of rural communities author’s sound advice: ‘Sometimes in order places Sloan’s work within its broader artistic and cultures, and our own relationships with to see differently we must ignore the sign and cultural context . In his analysis, Thomas agricultural landscapes, seasonal change, labor, that reads “No roof access.”’” considers the liminal status of the rooftop and its and human need and desire . —Judith Brodie, Print Quarterly complexities as both an extension of the domes- In addition to the editors, the contributors tic sphere and an escape from it during a period include Christopher Campbell, Steven Z . Levine, of profound social and architectural transforma- Nancy Locke, Sally McMurry, Janneken Smucker, tion in New York City . William R . Valerio, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and Featuring insightful analysis and more than Douglas Witmer . eighty full-color illustrations, this catalog will appeal to art historians and art enthusiasts alike . 248 pages | 128 color illus . | 8 .25 x 10 75. | August 2020 Also of Interest Also of Interest isbn 978-0-911209-74-7 | paper: $39 95. sh Shale Play A Small Radius of Light 96 pages | 86 color illus . | 8 .5 x 10 .5 | January 2020 Poems and Photographs from G . Daniel Massad, A isbn 978-0-911209-73-0 | paper: $24 95. sh the Fracking Fields Retrospective Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Joyce Henri Robinson and Steven Rubin G . Daniel Massad ISBN 978-0-271-08093-2 ISBN 978-0-911209-72-3 hardcover: $24 95. tr paper: $34 95. sh Keystone Books

6 7 “This impressive book is 2021 art a valuable contribution to

the scholarship on Monet 19th century and later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art and culture more broadly. By the end of it, readers will have a far richer understanding of the manifold ways that Monet’s late work intersects with major artistic, political, and philosophical currents of Why Monet Matters Meanings Among the Lily Pads the period.” James H . Rubin works were considered French cultural trea- sures . Monet was featured in a propaganda film —Michelle Foa, author of Georges Claude Monet’s Water Lilies are widely recog- in response to German militarism, and he was nized as a celebration of nature and a call to Seurat: The Art of Vision persuaded by Georges Clemenceau to donate visual experience . The skilled brushwork, vivid a number of his Water Lilies paintings to the color, and immersive quality of the paintings French nation following the Treaty of Versailles . suspend thoughts of the outside world and its Taking this into account, Rubin uncovers how the concerns . And yet, when one realizes that these theme of floating lily pads could serve political works were made during a period of social and ends, exposing relationships between Monet’s political turmoil—rapid changes of government, apparently subject-free art and its material the Dreyfus Affair, and the destruction and circumstances in the modern world . devastation of World War I—questions arise Engagingly written, masterfully argued, and about the personal, cultural, and historical featuring more than 150 illustrations, Why Monet contexts within which they were created . In this Matters is a major study of an artist who had book, James H . Rubin explores these conditions the will and the talent to remain relevant to his and shows how Monet’s work—said to be a time without conceding to its fashions . Scholars, harbinger of abstraction—appeals not only to students, and those who appreciate Monet and the eye but also to something deep in modern Impressionism will value and learn from this consciousness . book . The myth of Impressionism is that it was reviled and misunderstood, but by the 1890s 392 pages | 78 color/82 b&w illus . | 9 x 10 | March 2021 isbn 978-0-271-08620-0 | hardcover: $99 95. sh Monet was rich by anyone’s standards, and his

9 art 2021 art psupress.org The United States possesses extraordinary hold- In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch chal- 19th century ings of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings . lenges the pervasive view that Impressionism In this pioneering and richly illustrated volume, was above all about visual experience . Focusing twelve scholars and museum curators reveal on the language of food and consumption as the origins of these collections by examining they were used by such prominent critics as the American approach to and interest in the Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories collecting of Flemish art over the course of the for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte, nineteenth and twentieth centuries . and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for Chronicling in lively detail the roles played by experiencing and interpreting them . individuals in forming private and public collec- Examining the culinary metaphors that the tions, the essays in this volume illuminate how most influential critics used to express their PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN and why collectors and museums in the United attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch States embraced the Flemish masters with such rethinks French modern-life painting in relation enthusiasm . They trace how the taste for specific to the visceral reactions that these works evoked America and the Art of genres and the appreciation of certain artists, in Consuming Painting in their earliest publics . Writers posed viewing Flanders particular Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Food and the Feminine in as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons Dyck, changed over the years, and they explore to food to describe the appearance of paint and Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Impressionist Paris the historical and cultural motivations behind the painter’s process . The food metaphors they Van Dyck, and Their Circles Allison Deutsch these trends . In doing so, they consider the effect chose were aligned with specific female types, Edited by Esmée Quodbach of the great bequests of Flemish paintings to such as red meat for sexualized female flesh, “Consuming Painting offers an impressive American museums and examine the private confections for fashionably made-up women, “ is yet new take on the history of late nine- America and the Art of Flanders collections of the main tastemakers for Flemish and hearty vegetables for agricultural labor- teenth-century French art, one that makes another excellent volume in an already painting, including the Baltimore merchant ers . These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch clear for the first time the sensorial range impressive series on the history of collect- Robert Gilmor; John Graver Johnson, the leading argues, provide important insights into both the ing in the United States. It investigates corporate lawyer of the Gilded Age; and the in the historical reception of modern paint- fabrication of the feminine and the construction the changing interest in Flemish art over California oil magnate J . Paul Getty . Gorgeously ing. In her reevaluation and retranslation of of masculinity in nineteenth-century France . time—and what happens when private love illustrated with almost one hundred represen- art criticism, combined with her highly per- Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at of art becomes institutional collecting. It tative pieces, this important contribution to the suasive descriptions of a range of paintings, stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense also deals with many different American scholarship on American collecting of Flemish Deutsch shows the sustained discourse of and sensation . museum collections as part of a greater art will interest art lovers and stimulate further desire and disgust built into the deeply gen- Original and convincing, Consuming Painting national collection. This is rarely done, and research in the fields of art history and museum dered metaphorics of painting as culinary upends traditional narratives of the sensory it is great food for thought.” history . consumption.” reception of modern painting . This trailblazing In addition to the editor, the contribu- book is essential reading for specialists in nine- —Peter Hecht, Professor Emeritus of Art —Marnin Young, author of Realism in the Age of tors include Ronni Baer, Adam Eaker, Lance teenth-century art and criticism, gender studies, History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time Humphries, George S . Keyes, Margaret R . Laster, and modernism . Alexandra Libby, Louisa Wood Ruby, Dennis P . 216 pages | 25 color/33 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | March 2021 Weller, Arthur K . Wheelock, Marjorie Wieseman, isbn 978-0-271-08723-8 | hardcover: $99 95. sh and Anne T . Woollett .

10 11 art 2021 art buildings , psupress.org Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic . In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project . Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN of the environmental movement in the early Air-Conditioning in Modern 1970s, Joseph M . Siry shows how the incorpo- ration of mechanical systems into modernism’s Freedom and the Cage Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg American Architecture, discourse of functionality profoundly shaped Modern Architecture and The Transformation of Public 1890–1970 the work of some of the movement’s leading Psychiatry in Central Europe, Architecture in Interwar Europe architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, 1890–1914 Nicholas Adams Joseph M . Siry Leslie Topp 288 pages | 152 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | 2014 Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 256 pages | 3 color/114 b&w illus./1 map isbn 978-0-271-05984-6 Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn . For them, the 9 x 10 | 2017 | isbn 978-0-271-07710-9 hardcover: $64.95 sh “Joseph Siry’s excellent new book makes a hardcover: $99.95 sh convincing case for the inclusion of tech- modernist ideal of functionality was incom- nology and the conditions of architectural pletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate production in our approach to architectural heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting . Bridging the history of technology and the history history. It provides a major new contribu- of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s tion to our understanding of the field.”

technical and social history and provides case buildings, landscapes, and societies

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12 13 buildi ngs, landscapes, and societies art 2021 art psupress.org This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts, early modern women artists were far more numerous, diverse, best known for his magnificent palace and royal and successful in early modern Bologna than mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of elsewhere in Italy . They worked as painters, El Escorial . However, neither the king’s mon- sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many astery nor his collections fully convey the rich obtained public commissions and expanded artistic landscape of early modern Iberia . In beyond the portrait subjects to which women this book, Laura Fernández-González examines were traditionally confined . Babette Bohn asks Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing why that was the case in this particular place and them within the wider context of Europe and the at this particular time . transoceanic Iberian dominions . Drawing on extensive archival research, Bohn Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN investigates an astonishing sixty-eight women investigates ideas of empire and globalization Women Artists, Their Patrons, artists, including Elisabetta Sirani and Lavinia Philip II of Spain and the in the art and architecture of the Iberian world Fontana . The book identifies and explores the during the sixteenth century, a time when the and Their Publics in Early factors that facilitated their success, including Architecture of Empire Spanish Empire was the largest in the world . Modern Bologna local biographers who celebrated women artists Laura Fernández-González Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of Babette Bohn in new ways, an unusually diverse system of building regulations to construct an imperial artistic patronage that included citizens from all “Laura Fernández-González’s attention to city in Madrid and highlights the importance “This book is a monumental contribution to classes, the impact of Bologna’s venerable uni- understudied buildings is admirable, as is of his transformation of the Simancas fortress a rapidly growing body of studies on pio- versity, an abundance of women writers, and the her characterization of the Spanish Empire into an archive . She analyzes the refashioning neering women artists. It will galvanize this frequency of self-portraits and signed paintings as one ‘under construction.’ Philip II of of his imperial image upon his ascension to the field with fresh topics of discussion and a by many women artists . In tracing the evolution Spain and the Architecture of Empire makes Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles rich harvest of new archival findings.” of Bologna’s female artists from nun-painters to an important contribution to the study of in El Escorial as a lens through which to under- working professionals, Bohn proposes new attri- stand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s —Sheila Barker, Founding Director, Jane domestic architecture and will certainly put butions and interpretations of their works, some kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral Fortune Research Program on Women Artists the Royal Archive at Simancas on the map of which are reproduced here for the first time . of important undertakings by Philip II.” commemorations mourning his death across Featuring original methodological models, the Iberian world . Positioning Philip’s art and —Jesús Escobar, author of The Plaza Mayor and innovative and historically grounded insights, architectural programs within the wider cultural the Shaping of Baroque Madrid and new documentation, this book will be a context of politics, legislation, religion, and the- crucial resource for art historians, historians, and oretical trends, Fernández-González shows how women’s studies scholars and students . design and images traveled across the Iberian world and provides a nuanced assessment of 332 pages | 81 color/60 b&w illus . | 9 x 10 | March 2021 isbn 978-0-271-08696-5 | hardcover: $74 95. sh Philip’s role in influencing them . Also of Interest Also of Interest Original and important, this panoramic work Medieval Art in Motion Baroque Seville will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic The Inventory and Gift Giving Sacred Art in a Century of of Queen Clémence de Hongrie Crisis legacy . Art historians and scholars of Iberia and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany Amanda Wunder sixteenth-century history will especially value ISBN 978-0-271-08112-0 ISBN 978-0-271-07664-5 Fernández-González’s research . hardcover: $89 95. sh hardcover: $84 95. sh 240 pages | 45 color/42 b&w illus . | 9 x 10 | May 2021 isbn 978-0-271-08724-5 | hardcover: $94 95. sh

14 15 art 2021 art psupress.org Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval phi- Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultu- medieval losophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum . ous historical events, and the ambiguities of Medieval art, according to modern scholars, Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were abhors the same . The notion of horror vacui—the the first large-scale figural monuments for the fear of empty space—is thus often construed departed in European art . In this book, Shirin Fozi as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture . explores these provocative markers of life and In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues death, establishing early tomb figures as a coher- that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with ent genre that hinged upon histories of failure the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively and frustrated ambition . engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and In sharp contrast to later recumbent funer- erasures . ary figures, none of the known European tomb PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN Exploring complex conversations among effigies made before circa 1180 were commis- The Absent Image medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, sioned by the people they represented, and all of Lacunae in Medieval Books piety, and image-making, Gertsman explains the identifiable examples of these tombs were how nothingness was understood in the medie- Romanesque Tomb Effigies dedicated to individuals whose legacies were Elina Gertsman val world and discusses the different forms that Death and Redemption in Medieval fraught rather than triumphant . Fozi draws on it takes: void, zero, and described by negation . this evidence to argue that Romanesque effigies “This is an intellectually ambitious, rig- Europe, 1000–1200 With a special focus on murals and manuscripts, were created to address social rather than orously argued, and erudite book that Shirin Fozi Gertsman studies these visually varied empty individual anxieties: they compensated for defeat explores visual strategies and their the- spaces . She considers the concept of nothing- by converting local losses into an expectation oretical underpinnings of ‘empty spaces’ “This deeply researched and insightful ness in concert with the imaginary, investigates book fills a significant lacuna in the study of eternal victory, comforting the embarrassed in medieval manuscripts. A must-read erasure and how it transforms an image, and heirs of those whose histories were marked by of medieval sculpture, portraiture, and for scholars of medieval and northern looks at manuscripts that harbor holes and how misfortune and offering compensation for the commemoration. It makes a vital contribu- Renaissance art and intellectual history.” they enact meaning for the viewer . Gertsman disappointments of the world . tion to the field’s ‘material turn,’ bringing —Nino Zchomelidse, author of Art, Ritual, and reveals profoundly inventive approaches to Featuring numerous examples and engaging Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from together monuments in stone, metal, and the visual, historical, and theological contexts ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo stucco to reveal both their distinctive prop- that inform them, this groundbreaking work adds to figurations of absence as a replacement for erties and their interconnections. At the a fresh dimension to the study of monumental the invisible forces of conception and death . same time, Fozi never lets us forget the real sculpture and the idea of the individual in the Innovative and challenging, this book will find human beings these tombs honored or the northern European Middle Ages . It will appeal to its primary audience with students and scholars communities that took pride in and com- scholars of art history and medieval studies . of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathe- fort from these depictions.” 264 pages | 16 color/80 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | April 2021 matics . It will be particularly welcomed by those —Jacqueline E. jung, author of Eloquent Bodies: isbn 978-0-271-08719-1 | hardcover: $89 95. sh interested in phenomenological and cross-dis- Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in Also of Interest ciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the Gothic Sculpture Apocalypse Illuminated later Middle Ages . The Visual Exegesis of Revelation in Medieval 264 pages | 58 color/62 b&w illus . | 9 x 10 | June 2021 Illustrated Manuscripts isbn 978-0-271-08784-9 | hardcover: $124 95. sh Richard K . Emmerson ISBN 978-0-271-07865-6 hardcover: $59 95. sh

16 17 art 2021 art psupress.org The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the Why does a society seek out images of violence? medieval modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified What can the consumption of violent imagery walls, towering churches, and winding streets . teach us about the history of violence and the In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M . ways in which it has been represented and Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these ques- and artistic programming worked together to tions within the context of what he calls galleries form dynamic environments, demonstrating the of violence, the torment imagery that flourished agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping in German-speaking regions during the four- the late medieval city . teenth and fifteenth centuries . Exploring these Using altarpieces by the famed medieval images and the visceral bodily responses that artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN for her argument, Boivin explores how artwork in that the new visual discourse on violence was a Germany’s preeminent medieval city, Rothenburg watershed in premodern conceptualizations of ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic selfhood . Riemenschneider in ideals . She argues that the numerous artistic Visual Aggression Images of martyrdom in late medieval Rothenburg pieces commissioned by the city’s elected Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of pas- council over the course of two centuries built Germany sion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs, Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the upon one another, creating a cohesive structural extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other Assaf Pinkus Late Medieval City network that attracted religious pilgrims and fur- torments . Stripped from their devotional context Katherine M . Boivin thered the theological ideals of the parish church . “A suggestive and richly illustrated study of and presented simply as brutal acts, these By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s most portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds violence imagery in late medieval German- “Riemenschneider in Rothenburg should significant architectural and artistic works, such so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus speaking lands. Pinkus meticulously be of great interest to art historians and as St . James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s describes as “visual aggressions ”. Addressing collates and catalogues the monumental others. It sheds light on a major figure of Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Boivin shows how contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty, the Northern ‘Renaissance’ and also on the city government employed these works to ‘galleries of violence’ that are his focus, con- the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of issues of civic contextualization that are of establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors, textualising sculptural cycles of martyrdom the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of current interest. The scholarship is thor- raising Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the in the Upper and Middle Rhine regions violence to larger cultural concerns about the ough and careful. It is, in short, an excellent pilgrimage map of Europe . with reference to local histories and cir- ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the con- book.” Carefully documented and convincingly cumstances. Attentive to issues of language, ceptualization of early modern personhood . argued, this book sheds important new light on he also shows how the concept of violence Innovative and convincing, this study heralds —Richard Kieckhefer, author of Theology in the history of one of Germany’s major tourist a fundamental shift in the scholarly conversa- Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to came to be located within an ethical system. destinations . It will be of considerable interest to tion about premodern violence, moving from Berkeley The result is a significant contribution to medieval art historians and scholars working in our understanding of medieval martyrdom a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of the fields of cultural and urban history . imagery and the responses it elicits.” punishment to the notion of violence as a moral problem in an ethical system . Scholars of medi- 248 pages | 77 color/20 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | May 2021 —Robert Mills, author of Suspended Animation: Also of Interest eval and early modern art, history, and literature Pygmalion’s Power isbn 978-0-271-08778-8 | hardcover: $99 95. sh Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture Romanesque Sculpture, will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research the Senses, and Religious Experience for years to come .

Thomas E . A . Dale 216 pages | 50 color/87 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | February 2021 ISBN 978-0-271-08345-2 isbn 978-0-271-08379-7 | hardcover: $109 95. sh hardcover: $99 95. sh

18 19 art 2021 art psupress.org What does the study of iconography entail for In a major departure from previous scholarship, medieval scholars active today? How does it intersect this volume argues that the illustrations in the with the broad array of methodological and famous and widely influential Utrecht Psalter theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art manuscript were inspired by a late antique historians? Should we still dare to use the term Hebrew version of Psalms, rather than a Latin, “iconography” to describe such work? Christian version of the text . The seven essays collected here argue that Produced during the early ninth century in we should . Their authors set out to evaluate the a workshop near Reims, France, the Utrecht continuing relevance of iconographic studies to Psalter is illustrated with pen-and-ink draw- current art-historical scholarship by exploring ings in a lively style reminiscent of Hellenistic the fluidity of iconography itself over broad spans art . The motifs are largely literal renditions PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN of time, place, and culture . These wide-ranging of words and phrases found in the book of case studies take a diverse set of approaches as Psalms . However, more than three dozen motifs they track the transformation of medieval images cannot be explained by either the Latin text that The Lives and Afterlives of and their meanings along their respective paths, Hebrew Psalms and accompanies the imagery or the commentaries exploring how medieval iconographies remained of the church fathers . Through a close reading Medieval Iconography stable or changed; how images were reconceived the Utrecht Psalter of the Hebrew Psalms, Pamela Berger demon- Edited by Pamela A . Patton and in response to new contexts, ideas, or viewer- Veiled Origins strates that these motifs can be explained only Henry D . Schilb ships; and how modern thinking about medieval Pamela Berger by the Hebrew text, the Jewish commentary, or images—including the application or rejection Jewish art . Drawing comparisons between the of traditional methodologies—has shaped our “Hellenistic” style of the Psalter images and the understanding of what they signify . These essays style of late antique Galilean mosaics and using demonstrate that iconographic work still holds a evidence from recent archaeological discoveries, critical place within the rapidly evolving disci- Berger argues that the model for those Psalter pline of art history as well as within the many illustrations dependent on the Hebrew text was other disciplines that increasingly prioritize the produced in the Galilee . study of images . Pioneering and highly persuasive, this book This inaugural volume in the series Signa: resolves outstanding issues surrounding the Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton origins of one of the most extensively studied University demonstrates the importance of keep- illuminated manuscripts . It will be mandatory ing matters of image and meaning—regardless reading for many historians of medieval art and of whether we use the word “iconography”—at literature and for those interested in the Hebrew the center of modern inquiry into medieval visual text of the book of Psalms . culture . 240 pages | 38 color/52 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | Janaury 2020 In addition to the editors, the contributors to Also of Interest isbn 978-0-271-08477-0 | hardcover: $135 .00 sh this volume are Kirk Ambrose, Charles Barber, Art of Estrangement Redefining Jews in Reconquest Catherine Fernandez, Elina Gertsman, Jacqueline Spain E . Jung, Dale Kinney, and D . Fairchild Ruggles . Pamela A . Patton ISBN 978-0-271-05383-7 216 pages | 32 color/49 b&w illus . | 8 x 10 | February 2021 hardcover: $82 95. sh Winner, 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book isbn 978-0-271-08621-7 | hardcover: $84 95. sh Award from American Society for Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton Hispanic Art Historical Studies University Series

20 21 art 2021 art psupress.org This important critical study of the history of During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s theory/criticism/historiography public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores art, piety, and personal character were held up as their place in the wider history of European models to inspire contemporary artists and—it museums and collecting, their role as public was hoped—to return Germany to international institutions, and their involvement in the com- artistic eminence . In this book, Jeffrey Chipps plex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire . Smith explores Dürer’s complex posthumous Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, reception during the great century of museum Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum building in Europe, with a particular focus on the Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution artist’s role as a creative and moral exemplar for of museum culture over the long nineteenth German artists and museum visitors . century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art In an era when museums were emerging as PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery symbols of civic, regional, and national identity, open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria- Albrecht Dürer and the dozens of new national, princely, and civic muse- Hungary after the First World War . Drawing on ums began to feature portraits of Dürer in their source materials from across the empire, the Embodiment of Genius elaborate decorative programs embellishing the authors reveal how the rise of museums and dis- Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth facades, grand staircases, galleries, and cere- play was connected to growing tensions between Century monial spaces . Most of these arose in Germany The Museum Age in the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a Jeffrey Chipps Smith and Austria, though examples can be seen as far Austria-Hungary cosmopolitan and multinational social, politi- away as St . Petersburg, Stockholm, London, and Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth cal, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and, “While Renaissance studies have taken New York City . Probing the cultural, political, and Century on the other, the rights of national groups and the international importance of Albrecht educational aspirations and rivalries of these cultures to self-expression . They demonstrate Dürer as a given for a long time, his role for museums and their patrons, Smith traces how Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych, and Nóra Veszprémi the ways in which museum collecting policies, the nineteenth-century imagination has Dürer was painted, sculpted, and prominently practices of display, and architecture engaged remained mostly a German affair. Smith’s placed to accommodate the era’s diverse needs “This is a highly original study. There is no with these political agendas and how museums wide-ranging study will change this. and aspirations . He investigates what these other comparative treatment of the devel- reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic Written in vivid, easily accessible prose, the portraits can tell us about the rise of a distinct identity, emerging forms of professional practice, canon of famous Renaissance and Baroque art- opment of art museums in the major cities book presents the reader with a rich picture the production of knowledge, and the changing ists—addressing the question of why Dürer was of the Habsburg monarchy, and only such of Dürer’s omnipresence in the museum composition of the public sphere . so often paired with Raphael, who was consid- a study can address effectively the analytic age across the globe.” Original in its approach and sweeping in ered to embody the greatness of Italian art—and questions about the development and scope, this fascinating study of the museum —Cordula Grewe, author of The Nazarenes: why, with the rise of German nationalism, Hans functions of the art museums in a changing age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept Holbein the Younger often replaced Raphael as public sphere that are raised here.” students and scholars interested in the cultural Dürer’s partner . —Gary B. cohen, author of Education and and art history of Central Europe . Accessibly written and comprehensive in Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918 scope, this book sheds new light on museum 304 pages | 47 b&w illus . | 7 x 10 | February 2021 isbn 978-0-271-08710-8 | hardcover: $99 95. sh building in the nineteenth century and the rise of art history as a discipline . It will appeal to specialists in nineteenth-century and early modern art, the history of museums and collecting, and art historiography .

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22 23 art 2021 art psupress.org Advances in technology allow us to see the Sound and statuary have had a complicated theory/criticism/historiography invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell relationship in Western aesthetic thought since mutations, virtual space . Yet in an age when antiquity . Taking as its focus the sounding experience is so intensely mediated by visual statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that records, the centuries-old realization that knowl- invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue edge gained through sight is inherently fallible might make—The Sculpted Ear rethinks this takes on troubling new dimensions . This book relationship in light of discourses on aurality considers the ways in which seeing, over time, emerging within the field of sound studies . Ryan has become the foundation for knowing (or at McCormack argues that the sounding statue is least for what we think we know) . best thought of not as an aesthetic object but A . Joan Saab examines the scientific and as an event heard by people and subsequently PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN socially constructed aspects of seeing in order conceptualized into being through acts of writing to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the and performance . Renaissance to the present, demonstrating Constructing a history in which hearing plays that what we see and how we see it are often an integral role in ideas about anthropocentric historically situated and culturally constructed . statuary, McCormack begins with the ancient Through a series of linked case studies that sculpture of Laocoön, before moving to a discus- Objects of Vision highlight moments of seeming disconnect sion of the early modern automaton known as Making Sense of What We See between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, The Sculpted Ear Tipu’s Tiger and the statue of the Commendatore A . Joan Saab spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and Aurality and Statuary in the West in Mozart’s Don Giovanni . Finally, he examines holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates Ryan McCormack statues of people from the present and the past, “Well researched, beautifully written, and the relationship between “visions” and visuality . including the singer Josephine Baker, the violinist fascinatingly presented, Objects of Vision This focus on the strange and the wonderful in “The Sculpted Ear evidences a long and rich Aleksandar Nikolov, and the actor Bob Newhart— offers the visual studies field a historical understanding changing notions of visions and history of sounding and hearing associated with each case touching on some of the issues reading of case studies with and around visual culture is a compelling entry point into with the apparently silent art of sculpture. that have historically plagued the aesthetic objects and artifacts from the Renaissance the increasingly urgent topic of technologically The book tackles important questions in viability of the sounding statue . McCormack con- to the present. Joan Saab expands the scope enhanced representations of reality . sound studies, musicology, philosophy, and vincingly demonstrates how sounding statues of visual studies to include material and Accessibly written and thoroughly enlighten- art history from a fresh perspective. The served as important precursors and continuing technological forms ranging from spirit ing, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the case studies to be found in each chapter contributors to modern ideas about the ontology connections between seeing and knowing that of sound, technologies of sound reproduction, photography to holograms, and she gives provide new, fascinating information to the will appeal to students and teachers of visual and performance practices blurring traditional timely insight into photographic truth and scholar of sound as well as intriguing new studies and sensory, social, and cultural history . divides between music, sculpture, and the other perspectives on the history of hearing.” the everyday proliferation of images.” arts . 166 pages | 31 color/13 b&w illus . | 7 x 10 | November 2020 , author of The Age of Noise —Lisa Cartwright, coauthor of Practices of —James G. mansell A compelling narrative that illuminates the isbn 978-0-271-08810-5 | hardcover: $69 95. sh in Britain: Hearing Modernity Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Perspectives on Sensory History Series stories of individual sculptural objects and the audiences that hear them, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the connections between aurality and statues in the Western world, in particular scholars and students of sound studies and sensory history .

new in paperback Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Jules Michelet

Debates Writing Art and History in Nineteenth- 2021 art Art Through a Modern American Mind Century France

psupress.org C . Oliver O’Donnell Michèle Hannoosh new in paperback Winner of the Zentralinstitut für Jules Michelet, one of France’s most influential Kunstgeschichte’s 2019 Willibald Sauerländer historians and a founder of modern historical Award for distinguished research in the history practice, was a passionate viewer and relent- and practice of art-historical writing less interpreter of the visual arts . In this book, Michèle Hannoosh examines the crucial role that Described in the New York Times as the greatest art writing played in Michelet’s work and shows art historian America ever produced, Meyer how it decisively influenced his theory of history Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the and his view of the practice of the historian . famous artists of his generation and a scholar The visual arts were at the very center of who engaged in public debate with some of Michelet’s conception of historiography . He filled

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN the major intellectuals of his time . This volume his private notes, public lectures, and printed synthesizes his prolific career for the first time, books with discussions of artworks, which, for demonstrating how Schapiro worked from the him, embodied the character of particular histori- nexus of artistic and intellectual practice to cal moments . Michelet believed that painting, confront some of the twentieth century’s most sculpture, architecture, and engraving bore abiding questions . witness to histories that frequently went untold; Schapiro was renowned for pioneering inter- that they expressed key ideas standing behind 272 pages | 36 b&w illus . | 6 x 9 | November 2020 disciplinary approaches to interpreting visual 248 pages | 31 b&w illus . | 6 x 9 | November 2020 isbn 978-0-271-08465-7 | paper: $29 95. sh isbn 978-0-271-08357-5 | paper: $39 95. sh events; and that they articulated concepts that art . His lengthy formal analyses in the 1920s, would come to fruition only later . Marxist interpretations in the 1930s, psycho- This groundbreaking reevaluation of “An important resource on one of art analytic critiques in the 1950s and 1960s, and “In this book Hannoosh reveals a brilliant Michelet’s approach to history elucidates how history’s most brilliant practitioners.” semiotic explorations in the 1970s all helped mind using art to invent a way of writing writing about art provided a model for the histo- —D. Pincus, Choice open new avenues for inquiry . Based on archival history, inspiring the discipline of art his- rian’s relation to, and interpretation of, the past, research, C . Oliver O’Donnell’s study is struc- tory itself, inspiring us to continue to build and thus for a new type of historiography—one tured chronologically around eight defining the ‘cathedral of knowledge’ as both metic- that acknowledges and enacts the historian’s debates in which Schapiro participated, including ulous scholarship and profound love of art.” own implication in the history he or she tells . his dispute with Isaiah Berlin over the life and —Beth S. wright, Nineteenth-Century Art writing of Bernard Berenson, Schapiro’s critique Worldwide of Martin Heidegger’s ekphrastic commentary on Van Gogh, and his confrontation with Claude Lévi-Strauss over the applicability of mathematics to the interpretation of visual Also of Interest art . O’Donnell’s thoughtful analysis of these Also of Interest The Seductions of Darwin intellectual exchanges not only traces Schapiro’s Art and Form Art, Evolution, Neuroscience From Roger Fry to Global philosophical evolution but also relates them to Modernism Matthew Rampley ISBN 978-0-271-07742-0 the development of art history as a discipline, to Sam Rose cloth: $34 95. sh central tensions of artistic modernism, and to ISBN 978-0-271-08239-4 paper: $34 95. sh | Refiguring modern intellectual history as a whole . Modernism Series

28 29 Disharmony of the Spheres Power and Posterity

The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876 2021 art Jennifer Nelson Centennial Exhibition

psupress.org Kimberly Orcutt 2021 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a single-authored book with a subject up to 1600 A milestone in American cultural history, the new in paperback 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was Anxious about the threat of Ottoman inva- one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, sion and a religious schism that threatened and thoroughly documented public experiences Christianity from within, sixteenth-century north- of the nineteenth century . Power and Posterity illu- ern Europeans increasingly saw their world as minates how the art featured in the celebration disharmonious and full of mutual contradictions . informed and reflected national debates over the Examining the work of four unusual but influen- country’s identity and its role in the world . tial northern Europeans as they faced Europe’s The Centennial’s fine arts display, which changing identity, Jennifer Nelson reveals the included both a government-sanctioned PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN ways in which these early modern thinkers and selection of American works and significant con- artists grappled with the problem of cultural, 296 pages | 43 color/41 b&w illus . | 9 x 10 | December 2020 tributions from sixteen other countries, spurred religious, and cosmological difference in relation isbn 978-0-271-07837-3 | paper: $39 95. sh a transformation in the American art world . to notions of universals and the divine . Drawing from official records, published criticism, Focusing on northern Europe during the first “A richly detailed, satisfying visual, cultural, guidebooks, poems, and satire, Kimberly Orcutt 216 pages | 19 color/24 b&w illus . half of the sixteenth century, this book proposes 7 x 10 | December 2020 and historical account of American art provides a nuanced, in-depth study of the a complementary account of a Renaissance and isbn 978-0-271-08341-4 | paper: $34 95. sh at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition exhibition . She considers the circumstances of Reformation for which epistemology is not so of 1876. . . . Power and Posterity makes a the artworks’ creation, the ideological positions much destabilized as pluralized . Addressing “Nelson brings a refreshing interdisciplinar- significant contribution to the understand- expressed through their installation, and the a wide range of media—including paintings, ity to Holbein’s that allows us ing of the American art on view at this responses of critics, collectors, and the general Ambassadors etchings and woodcuts, university curriculum to see it through a theological preoccupa- signal event of the 19th-century (art) world. public as they evolved from antebellum nation- regulations, clocks, sundials, anthologies of alism to a postwar cosmopolitanism in which tion with difference and discrepancy. The Highly recommended.” proverbs, and astrolabes—Nelson argues that artists and collectors took the international stage . happy result is a defamiliarizing of one of —J. Decker, Choice inconsistency, discrepancy, and contingency Orcutt reveals how the fair democratized the the most familiar paintings of Renaissance were viewed as fundamental features of worldly fine arts, gave art criticism newfound reach and Europe.” existence . Taking as its starting point Hans authority, and led art museums to proliferate —Michael Gaudio, caa.reviews Holbein’s famously complex double portrait across the country . The Ambassadors, and then examining Philipp Deeply researched, thoughtfully written, and Melanchthon’s measurement-minded theology featuring a mix of more than eighty full-color and of science, Georg Hartmann’s modular sundi- black-and-white illustrations, this thorough and als, and Desiderius Erasmus’s eclectic Adages, insightful book will appeal to those interested in Disharmony of the Spheres is a sophisticated and American culture and history, the art world, and challenging reconsideration of sixteenth-century world’s fairs and exhibitions in Philadelphia and Also of Interest northern European culture and its discomforts . Also of Interest Animating Empire “The Spanish Element in beyond . Automata, the Holy Roman Carefully researched and engagingly written, Our Nationality” Empire, and the Early Modern Disharmony of the Spheres will be of vital interest Spain and America at the World World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876–1915 Jessica Keating to historians of early modern European art, reli- ISBN 978-0-271-08002-4 gion, science, and culture . M . Elizabeth Boone hardcover: $69 95. sh ISBN 978-0-271-08331-5 hardcover: $99 95. sh

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psupress.org This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources . Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic manifests itself at a material level . Each chapter focuses on a different Solomonic object: a ring used to control demons; a mysterious set of bottles that constrain evil forces; an endless knot or seal with similar

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY STATE PENN properties; the shamir, known for its supernatural ability to cut through stone; and a flying carpet that can bring the sitter anywhere he desires . The Prado Hagia Sophia Color in the Age of Spanish Culture and Leisure, Sound, Space, and Spirit in Impressionism The Long Life of Magical Taken together, these chapters constitute a 1819–1939 Byzantium Commerce, Technology, and Art Objects study on the reception of the figure of Solomon, Eugenia Afinoguénova Bissera V . Pentcheva Laura Anne Kalba A Study in the Solomonic Tradition but they are also cultural biographies of these 2019 Eleanor Tufts Award 2018 AAR Award for Excellence 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Allegra Iafrate magical objects and their inherent aesthetic, from the American Society for in the Study of Religion Prize from the College Art morphological, and technical qualities . Hispanic Art Historical Studies (Historical Studies Association “Iafrate traces with exquisite care the Thought-provoking and engaging, Iafrate’s ‘biographies’ of these devices as they study shows how ancient magic artifacts live on move through time and between cultures. in our imagination, in items such as Sauron’s ring Beyond documenting the many sym- of power, Aladdin’s lamp, and the magic carpet . It will appeal to historians of art, religion, folklore, bolic and material permutations of these and literature . Solomonic objects across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, she also demon- 248 pages | 19 b&w illus . | 6 125. x 9 .25 | February 2021 isbn 978-0-271-08367-4 | paper: $39 95. sh | Magic in strates how integral—even essential—their History Series material, morphological, and aesthetic properties are to their ritual efficacy.” —Ra‘anan Boustan, author of From Martyr to Mystic: Rabbinic Martyrology and the Making of Merkavah Mysticism The Icon and the Square Gardens of Renaissance Europe Mediterranean Encounters Russian Modernism and the and the Islamic Empires Artists Between Europe and the Russo-Byzantine Revival Encounters and Confluences Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839 Maria Taroutina Edited by Mohammad Gharipour Elisabeth A . Fraser University of Southern California Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Book Prize in Literary and Cultural 2017 2017 Studies from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2019

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