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2019/2020 Complete List — 1 Foreword Chaos and Awe – are these the words that best sum up our teenage 21st century? They also happen to be the title of the Chrysler Museum’s latest exhibition on painting in the 21st century, whose artworks invoke the 18th-century philosophical notion of the sublime. In the 18th century this specifically related to the sense of being overwhelmed by the immeasurable nature of God and the physical world. To a 21st-century, largely atheist audience, such a concept might likely conjure up the powerful, exciting and destabilizing effects of globalization, mass migration, radical ideologies and the rapid growth of technology in our lives; that sense of our being overwhelmed by competing forces in our daily world. Or perhaps, it might just evoke a sense of “zoning-out”; that in the face of so much depressing news, misinformation, and hyper-sensitising technology, simply ignoring the world around us is the easiest way to maintain some semblance of normality – the path of non-resistance so to speak. So how do we engage meaningfully in today’s world in ways that do not engender anxiety, fear, conflict, or an overriding sense of impotent fury? Well here’s a thought; the next time you find yourself in a town or city which has a museum, or an art gallery, or just a library, simply step inside and go and look at a work of art – any work of art – for ten minutes. It could be a painting, an installation, a wonderful object, or a beautifully designed and printed book. And just disconnect, zone-out if you will, and Head Office and General Enquiries enjoy that moment of looking at the artwork and marvelling at the human D Giles Limited 66 High Street race’s infinite ability to create and express its most cherished feelings Lewes through the process of creativity. BN7 1XG gilesltd.com And so, this year, I leave you with this illustration of a small woven bag, T: +44 (0)1273 480711 known as a chuspa, taken from our forthcoming volume, Collecting for the Managing Director New World. This chuspa was used to store and transport the leaves of the Dan Giles coca plant. It was made around 500-1,200 CE by the peoples of the Andes [email protected] who held the coca plant sacred, and who developed around it a complex Production Director aesthetic and symbolically imbued artisanal craft, expressed in its colours Louise Ramsay [email protected] and patterns. 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As John Hessler, author of Collecting for the New World, so [email protected] elegantly puts it: “When we encounter the precious relics of our deep past we sense that we are entering a quiet room and that we can hear in the Sales, Marketing and PR Enquiries Liz Japes voices of writers, artists, potters, and everyday people, just a bit of the truth Sales and Marketing Manager [email protected] and a bit of the poetry that makes up all human experience.” US Publicist Meg Parsont Dan Giles [email protected] Managing Director Registered Office 20–21 Jockey’s Fields London WC1R 4BW Registered in England 4885042 D Giles Limited reserves the right to change information without notice This catalogue is also available to view at: gilesltd.com 1 : Contents New Titles Disrupting Craft 5 It’s Alive! 7 Gouthière’s Candelabras 9 Duveen Brothers 11 The Blue Garden 13 Eternal Light 15 Bertoldo di Giovanni 17 Marjorie Merriweather Post 19 Artist in Exile 21 John Singer Sargent 23 Beyond Zen 25 History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame 27 Rembrandt’s Polish Rider 29 Collecting for a New World 31 Eugène Louis Charvot 33 Classic Black 35 Recently Reprinted Holbein’s Sir Thomas More 36 Love & Wisdom 37 Complete List 39 Sales and Distribution 64 Disrupting Craft Renwick Invitational 2018 Abraham Thomas Contributions by Sarah Archer and Annie Carlano Foreword by Stephanie Stebich Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 features four remarkable artists who challenge the conventional definitions of craft, imbuing it with a renewed sense of emotional purpose, inclusiveness and activism. Tanya Aguiñiga transforms natural materials into textiles, furniture and more, revealing raw personal narratives and universal vulnerability, connecting communities and provoking dialogue. Sharif Bey interweaves his roles as educator, father and ceramicist, and explores complex cultural identities with works ranging from the utilitarian to the sculptural and purely abstract. Dustin Farnsworth manipulates wood into storylines that inhabit intricately detailed portraits of today’s youth, shedding light on those inheriting societal and economic decay. Stephanie Syjuco uses social practice and the tropes of craft to challenge our perceptions of “types” in contemporary America, uncovering complicated and contradictory ways we understand our identity and nationhood. Begun in 2000, the Renwick Invitational is a biennial series designed to celebrate artists deserving of wider recognition. Other titles in the series include Visions and Revisions (2016). Abraham Thomas is the Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-In-Charge for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Sarah Archer is an independent curator, writer and contributing editor for the American Craft Council journal Annie Carlano is Senior Curator of Craft, Design & Fashion at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina UK£24.95 / US$34.95 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911282-42-6 112 pages 305 × 229 mm (9 × 12 in) 92 colour illustrations In association with the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC November 2018 Stephanie Syjuco Chromakey Aftermath 2, (Flags, Sticks, and Barriers), (detail), 2017 Archival pigment print. Courtesy Ryan Lee Gallery New Titles — 5 It’s Alive! A Visual History of Frankenstein Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, this book traces the origins and impact of her novel – a classic of world literature, a masterpiece of horror, and a forerunner of science fiction. Shelley conceived the archetype of the mad scientist who dares to flout the laws of nature. She devised a conflicted creature, eloquent and repulsive, torn between good and evil, an object of compassion who remains a favourite on stage and screen. Theatrical adaptations made the fame of Frankenstein. While Shelley’s was a novel of ideas with a philosophizing creature, in the theatre the monster is mute. This terrifying transformation was accomplished by actor Thomas P. Cooke, who played the part in 1823, and took London and Paris by storm. Subsequent dramatisations caught the popular imagination and inspired the movie versions, which spawned spin-offs, sequels, mash-ups, tributes and parodies. Replicants of Frankenstein are so prevalent in today’s culture that the name has become a meme signifying forbidden science, unintended consequences and ghastly amalgamations. This engaging visual record begins with a biography of the author and continues through current reinterpretations of the story. Many of the contextual images have never been published before in print. “Hugely enjoyable, witty, thoughtful commentary, underpinned by extensive scholarship” —Nora Crook, Professor Emerita, Anglia Ruskin University “The best, indeed the only, visual history of Frankenstein” —Stephen Hebron, Head of Weston Library Reader Services, Bodleian Libraries Elizabeth Campbell Denlinger, PhD is the curator of the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle at The New York Public Library UK£39.95 / US$54.95 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911282-41-9 336 pages 279 × 203 mm (8 × 11 in) Portrait 189 colour illustrations In association with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York October 2018 Barry Moser (born 1940) No Father Had Watched My Infant Days (detail) Wood engraving in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1983 The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Jeffrey P. Dwyer New Titles — 7 Gouthière’s Candelabras Frick Diptych Series Charlotte Vignon and Edmund de Waal This third volume in the Frick’s Diptych series offers fresh insight into a pair of candelabra that represent the pinnacle of luxury and taste in the years prior to the French Revolution. Charlotte Vignon tells the fascinating story of these objects that are made of two small white vases with extraordinary gilt-bronze mounts by Pierre Gouthière, the celebrated eighteenth-century French chaser and gilder. Her essay is paired with a text by Edmund de Waal in which he examines what it is to make, own and desire such complex objects. Designed to foster critical engagement and to interest the specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick’s rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer. Edmund de Waal is a British artist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) and The White Road (2015) Charlotte Vignon is curator of decorative arts at The Frick Collection UK£14.95 / US$19.95 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911282-47-1 64 pages 235 × 190 mm (7 ½ × 9 ¼ in) Portrait 30 colour illustrations In association with The Frick Collection, New York May 2019 Pierre Gouthière, Pair of Candelabras with Mounts, 1782.