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History 1
A panoramic account of private lives in Georgian England, written with clarity and panache by a celebrated historian The Good House-wife, n.d., coloured mezzotint, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1958–357.
Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England Amanda Vickery The Georgian house is a byword for proportion and elegance, but what did it mean to its inhabitants? In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of English men and women, from the Oxfordshire mansion of the unhappy gentlewoman Anne Dormer in the 1680s to the dreary London lodgings of the bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in the 1830s. With wit and verve, she evokes the interiors of a wide range of homes, introducing us to genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms, professional couples setting up home in rented houses, widowers frantic to keep their households afloat without a mistress and servants with only a locking box to call their own. Delving into over fifty archives, Vickery makes ingenious use of unusual sources—from upholsterers’ ledgers to burglary trials—to tease out the hidden or taken-for-granted. She reveals the determining role of house and home in power and status, sentiments and strategies. In Amanda Vickery is Reader in History, traditional political theory, the household was a microcosm of the state. Royal Holloway University of London, The pecking order of master, mistress, servants, apprentices and author of The Gentleman’s Daughter: children crystallised the social hierarchy and resisted social and political Women's Lives in Georgian England change. Yet even modest homes were redefined as arenas of social and co-editor, with John Styles, of Gender, Taste and Material Culture in campaign and exhibition because of the spread of formal visiting, the Britain and North America, 1700–1830, proliferation of affordable, ornamental furnishings, the commercial both published by Yale. celebration of feminine artistry at home and the unisex language of taste. Vickery shows how domestic life came under everyday scrutiny and how the nimble hostess appreciated in value to men, who October 368 pp. 234x156mm. frequently yearned for the domesticity only a wife could provide. 80 b/w + 25 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15453-5 £18.99* Translation rights: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:43 Page 2
2 History
The trials, troubles and triumphs for men returning home after the end of World War Two—a gripping story that’s in danger of being lost to national memory RAF soldier being fitted with a demob suit. Imperial War Museum.
Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two Alan Allport Snapshots of gaiety and celebration—the street parties, the victory speeches—is often how we think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a ‘golden age’ of pride and self-confidence. The country was troubled though triumphant, subject to continued rationing and political change. Wracked by social disorder, austerity and disillusion, Britain was exhausted—and it was the return of those men who had fought for their country who seemed to be a root cause of the trouble. Demobbed is the real story of what happened when millions of ex-servicemen returned home. Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded with ambivalence, regrets and fears. Returning soldiers faced both practical and psychological problems, from reasserting their place in the family home to rejoining a much- altered labour force. Civilians worried that their homecoming heroes had been barbarised by their experiences and would bring crime and Alan Allport was born in Whiston, England, and grew up in East violence back from the battlefield. ‘Problem veterans’ preoccupied the Yorkshire. An expert on the Second entire country. Alan Allport draws on their personal letters and diaries, World War, he is currently a on newspapers, reports, novels and films to illuminate the darker side postdoctoral lecturer at Princeton. of the homecoming experience for ex-servicemen, their families and society at large. “Wonderfully researched, sensitively written and often very moving, Demobbed tells an important, underappreciated story that still resonates today.”—David Kynaston October 336 pp. 229x152mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14043-9 £20.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 3
Biography/Literature 3
A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and Ebenezer Scrooge Drawing published in the journal Fun, 25 June 1870.
Charles Dickens A Life Defined by Writing Michael Slater This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers the man Dickens was through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime’s study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens’ career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing—letters, journalism, shorter fiction, play and verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationship between them. Slater’s account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels, while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens’ boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination Michael Slater is Emeritus Professor of with disorder, his organisational genius, his deep concern for the poor and Victorian Literature at Birkbeck outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young College, University of London. He is women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales and his hatred of tyranny. past president of the International Dickens Fellowship and of the Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work Dickens Society of America and the on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable author of many books. guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language. “A magisterial exploration . . . The breadth and acuity of Slater’s knowledge of Dickens is staggering, and yet the material is presented September in an unpretentious, economical and compelling manner. This is a 640 pp. 234x156mm. study which will enlighten every student of Dickens, and fascinate the 40 b/w illus. + 60 line drawings general reader.”—Paul Schlicke, University of Aberdeen ISBN 978-0-300-11207-8 £25.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 4
4 Science
The remarkable story of how mimicry is used by some of the most extraordinary creatures in the world, told by the author of The Gecko’s Foot
Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage Peter Forbes Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world—including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes—have honed and practiced camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature’s fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage, and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious—but how does ‘blind’ nature do it? And how has humanity learned to profit from nature’s ploys? Dazzled and Deceived tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also Peter Forbes, a writer, journalist, and had a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes’s cultural editor with a longstanding interest in history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics the relationship between art and and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate science, is the author of The Gecko’s involvement with the perennial dispute between evolution and Foot. Since 2004 he has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary creationism. University of London. As Dazzled and Deceived unravels the concept of mimicry, Forbes introduces colourful stories and a dazzling cast of characters— Roosevelt, Picasso, Nabokov, Churchill and Darwin himself, to name a October few—whom its mystery influenced and enthralled. Illuminating and 300 pp. 234x156mm. 20 colour illus. + 6 diagrams lively, Dazzled and Deceived sheds new light on the greatest quest: to ISBN 978-0-300-12539-9 £18.99* understand the processes of life at its deepest level. Translation rights: The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 5
Art 5
A new approach to art by a major historian, thinker and practitioner uniquely qualified to introduce artworks and ways of thinking about art to a readership ranging from undergraduate and general reader to museum visitor and art historian
An Introduction to Art Charles Harrison This original and inspiring book offers a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the arts of painting and sculpture, to the principal artistic print media and to the visual arts of modernism and post- modernism. Covering the entire history of art, from Paleolithic cave painting to contemporary art, it provides foundational guidance to the basic character and techniques of the different art forms, to the various genres of painting in the western tradition, and to the techniques of sculpture as they have been practised over several millenia and across a wide range of cultures. Throughout the book, Harrison discusses the relative priorities of aesthetic appreciation and historical inquiry, and the importance of combining the two approaches. Written in a style that is at once graceful, engaging and personal, as well as analytical and exact, this illuminating book offers an impassioned and timely defence of the importance and value of the first-hand encounter with works of art, whether in museums or in their original locations.
Charles Harrison is Emeritus Professor Features 250 colour illustrations, each with a generous, informative of the History and Theory of Art, caption, and includes both well-known works and a host of less The Open University. He is the author familiar examples from different cultures and periods. of numerous books including English Art and Modernism 1900–1939, and, “This is an exceptionally ambitious and exciting book. It introduces most recently, Since 1950: Art and its sophisticated theoretical ideas . . . and makes them directly relevant Criticism , both published by Yale. to the spectator’s experience . . . It is hard to think of a book with such a broad range which succeeds as well in equipping beginning students and general readers to think intelligently and fruitfully about art.”—John Hyman, The Queen’s College, Oxford October 300 pp. 256x192mm. 250 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-10915-3 £16.99* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 6
6 Science
For readers of Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, a fascinating look at the hidden meaning in matter
Paradoxical Life Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice Andreas Wagner “Wagner presents a new way of What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one looking at the relationship between sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it’s an science and ourselves, and of information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every thinking about some very old moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, arguments. This is a book for swell, shrink, divide or die. Andreas Wagner’s ambitious new book readers of Douglas Hofstadter, explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every Karl Popper, and Richard living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes Dawkins.”—Jonathan Kaplan, underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he Oregon State University considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge. “The full-blooded, dynamical Though we tend to think of concepts in such mutually exclusive pairs thinking of a scientist at the height as mind-matter, self-other and nature-nurture, Wagner argues that these of his creative powers, this is a opposing ideas are not actually separate. Indeed, they are as inextricably breathtakingly original and connected as the two sides of a coin. Through a tour of modern intellectually exciting synthesis of all biological marvels, Wagner illustrates how this paradoxical tension has a that biology has taught us of how profound effect on the way we define the world around us. Paradoxical science relates to the world.” Life is thus not only a unique account of modern biology. It ultimately —Günter Wagner, Yale University serves a radical—and optimistic—outlook for humans and the world we help create.
Andreas Wagner is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Educated at Yale University and at the University of Vienna, Wagner focuses his research on the evolution and evolvability of October biological systems. 272 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14923-4 £20.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 7
Science/Psychology 7
A fascinating, deeply researched exploration of the differences between the brain’s left and right hemispheres, and their effect on society, history and culture
An fMRI scan of the brain, highlighting Broca’s area (which controls speech and language).
The Master and His Emissary The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Iain McGilchrist Why is the brain divided? The difference between right and left hemispheres has been puzzled over for centuries. In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist draws on a vast body of recent brain research, illustrated with case histories, to reveal that the difference is profound—not just this or that function, but two whole, coherent, but incompatible ways of experiencing the world. The left hemisphere is detail oriented, prefers mechanisms to living things and is inclined to self-interest, where the right hemisphere has greater breadth, flexibility and generosity. This division helps explain the origins of music and language, and casts new light on the history of philosophy, as well as on some mental illnesses. In the second part of the book, he takes the reader on a journey through the history of Western culture, illustrating the tension between “A work of grand ambition, brilliantly these two worlds as revealed in the thought and belief of thinkers and achieved; eloquent, moving, and artists, from Aeschylus to Magritte. He argues that, despite its inferior remarkable for the depth and scope of grasp of reality, the left hemisphere is increasingly taking precedence in its scholarship.”—Professor Louis Sass, the modern world, with potentially disastrous consequences. This is Rutgers University truly a tour de force that should excite interest in a wide readership.
Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he taught literature before training in medicine. He has an interest in brain research and now works privately in London, where he was a October consultant and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley 448 pp. 234x156mm. Hospital. 40 b/w + 15 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14878-7 £25.00* Translation rights: David Higham Associates Ltd, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 8
8 Music
A new exploration of the beginnings of Western musical art by a noted scholar and performer
The Christian West and its Singers The First Thousand Years Christopher Page The tradition of Western music has become the most influential in the world. In a vast number of different cultures, children study instruments such as the piano or violin to approach the performance of works by the ‘Great Composers’. The roots of that tradition lie in the first millennium A.D. There was still a Roman Empire when Christians began to develop an art of ritual singing with an African and Asian background. Once the Empire had fallen in the West, new kings in Western Europe presided over the making of Gregorian chant, a music for singers that has profoundly influenced the way Westerners hear. Soon after 1000 an Italian monk, pitying the labours of liturgical singers who took so long to learn their repertory, invented the musical staff. This was to become the fundamental technology of Western music. No stave, no symphony. This book is the first attempt to trace the rise and consolidation of Christopher Page is Reader in Medieval singers and their art in the Christian West from New-Testament times Music and Literature in the University to twelfth-century Europe. The unfolding story, with its lavish of Cambridge, Vice-Master of Sidney illustrations, will be of interest to historians, musicologists, performing Sussex College and founder of the musicians and the general reader keen to explore the beginnings of acclaimed ensemble Gothic Voices. Western musical art. “Dr Page attempts, and triumphantly succeeds in his attempt, to write not merely a technical or even liturgical, but also a social and cultural history of Western church music in the first millennium of its January existence. All aspects are integrated into a seamless narrative that has 400 pp. 241x171mm. no competitor, and that few other scholars can ever be qualified to 50 b/w + 40 colour illus. emulate.”—Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Oxford ISBN 978-0-300-11257-3 £30.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 9
History 9
This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story
A New History of Early Christianity Charles Freeman The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early Christianity shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to resolve them. Charles Freeman’s meticulous historical account of Christianity from its birth in Judaea in the first century A.D. to the emergence of Western and Eastern churches by A.D. 600 reveals that it was a distinctive, vibrant, and incredibly diverse movement brought into order at the cost of intellectual and spiritual vitality. Against the conventional narrative of the inevitable ‘triumph’ of a single distinct Christianity, Freeman shows that there was a host of competing Christianities, many of which had as much claim to authenticity as those that eventually dominated. Tracing the astonishing transformation that the early Christian church underwent—from sporadic niches of Christian communities surviving in the wake of a horrific crucifixion to sanctioned alliance with the state—Charles Freeman shows how freedom of thought was curtailed by the development of the concept of faith. The imposition of ‘correct Charles Freeman, a specialist on the belief’ and an institutional framework that enforced orthodoxy were ancient world and its legacy, is the both consolidating and stifling. Uncovering the church’s relationships author of numerous books including with Judaism, Gnosticism, Greek philosophy and Greco-Roman The Closing of the Western Mind and society, Freeman offers dramatic new accounts of Paul, the resurrection, Egypt, Greece and Rome. and the church fathers and emperors. “A masterful book, and a pleasure to read.”—Ward Blanton, University of Glasgow
September 400 pp. 234x156mm. 26 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12581-8 £25.00* Translation rights: A.M. Heath & Co, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 10
10 History
A fresh life of Joan of Arc, France’s remarkable saint and saviour
The Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc Larissa Juliet Taylor France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But her life has been so endlessly cast and recast that we have lost sight of the remarkable girl at the heart of it—a teenaged peasant girl who, after claiming to hear voices, convinced the French king to let her lead a disheartened army into battle. In the process she changed the course of European history. In The Virgin Warrior, Larissa Juliet Taylor paints a vivid portrait of Joan as a self-confident, charismatic and supremely determined figure, whose sheer force of will electrified those around her and struck terror into the hearts of the English soldiers and leaders. The drama of Joan’s life is set against a world where visions and witchcraft were real, where saints could appear to peasants, battles and sieges decided the fate of kingdoms and rigged trials could result in burning at the stake. Yet in her short life, Joan Larissa Juliet Taylor is Associate emboldened the French soldiers and villagers with her strength and Professor of History at Colby College. resolve. A difficult, inflexible leader, she defied her accusers and enemies She is the author of the award- to the end. From her early years to the myths and fantasies that have winning Soldiers of Christ: Preaching swelled since her death, Taylor teases out a nuanced and engaging story of in Late Medieval and Reformation France and Heresy and Orthodoxy in the truly irresistible ‘ordinary’ girl who rescued France. Sixteenth Century Paris. “Larissa Juliet Taylor seeks the Joan of Arc who actually lived. It is a stunning portrayal rarely encountered. Joan is intelligent, strong, articulate, and above all inspirational. If you have been looking for August one book that explains how this remarkable teenage girl could 320 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. accomplish all that she achieved, then this is it.” ISBN 978-0-300-11458-4 £20.00* —Mack P. Holt, author of The French Wars of Religion Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 11
History 11
The fascinating, forgotten story of when Europe and Islam first met
John Frederick Lewis, Frank Encampment.
Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World James Mather Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic and diverse. Ranging across two and a half centuries and through the great cities of Istanbul, Aleppo and Alexandria, James Mather tells the forgotten story of the men of the Levant Company who sought their fortunes in the Ottoman Empire. Their trade brought to the region not only merchants but also ambassadors and envoys, pilgrims and chaplains, families and servants, aristocratic tourists and roving antiquarians. Unlike the nabobs who gathered their fortunes in Bengal, they both respected and learned from the culture they encountered, and their lives provide a fascinating insight into the meeting of East and West before the age of European imperialism.
James Mather was educated at Intriguing, intimate and original, Pashas brings to life an extraordinary Cambridge University and at Harvard, tale of faraway visitors beguiled by a mysterious world of Islam. where he was a Kennedy scholar. He is now a commercial barrister in “An arresting and timely addition to the literature of Western-Islamic London. relationships. The Levant Company has found a worthy historian at last.”—Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road
October 320 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12639-6 £25.00* Translation rights: Robinson Literary Agency Ltd, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 12
12 Science/Nature
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, a renowned animal trauma specialist offers an unusual glimpse into the elephant mind Photo courtesy of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.
Elephants on the Edge What Animals Teach Us about Humanity G. A. Bradshaw Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatised elephants have become aggressive against people, other animals and even one another; their behaviour is comparable to that of humans who have experienced genocide, other types of violence and social collapse. By exploring the elephant mind and experience in the wild and in captivity, Bradshaw bears witness to the breakdown of ancient elephant cultures. All is not lost. People are working to save elephants by rescuing orphaned infants and rehabilitating adult zoo and circus elephants, using the same principles psychologists apply in treating humans who have survived trauma. Bradshaw urges us to support these and other models of elephant recovery and to solve pressing social and environmental crises affecting all animals, human or not.
G. A. Bradshaw is Director of the Kerulos Center and President and co-founder of the International Association for Animal Trauma and Recovery. She frequently discusses the psychology of elephants, wildlife and other animals in the national media, including 20/20 and National Geographic television and magazine. She was featured prominently in the November October 2006 New York Times Magazine article ‘An Elephant Crackup?’. 320 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12731-7 £25.00* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 13
Medicine 13
ER and House meet with Sherlock Holmes in these riveting and true stories of medical detective work
The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D. “Drama, intrigue, solid detective Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The Medical Detectives left off, work are the fabric on which Edlow The Deadly Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life weaves a bountiful collection of medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award- fascinating stories. It will inform winning author Jonathan Edlow, M.D., shows the doctor as detective and keep you spellbound. The pulse and the epidemiologist as elite sleuth in stories that are as gripping as is exciting, the thrill of discovery the best thrillers. palpable. Masterfully written.” In these stories a notorious stomach bug turns a suburban dinner party —Sanjiv Chopra, M.D., into a disaster that almost claims its host; a diminutive woman Harvard Medical School, author of routinely eats more than her football-playing boyfriend but continually Dr. Sanjiv Chopra’s Liver Book loses weight; a young executive is diagnosed with lung cancer, yet the tumors seem to wax and wane inexplicably. Written for the lay person who wishes to better grasp how doctors decipher the myriad clues and puzzling symptoms they often encounter, each story presents a very different case where doctors must work to find the accurate diagnosis before it is too late. Edlow uses his unique ability to relate complex medical concepts in a writing style that is clear, engaging and easily understandable. The resulting stories both entertain us and teach us much about medicine, its history and the subtle interactions among pathogens, humans and the environment.
Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D., F.A.C.P., is Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. His first book, the award-winning Bull’s Eye, was published by Yale. He is also the author of Stroke. October 256 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12558-0 £20.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 14
14 Philosophy Talking with Sartre Conversations and Debates Edited and Translated by John Gerassi What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the couple became for him like surrogate parents. Authorised by Sartre to write his biography, Gerassi conducted a long series of interviews between 1970 and 1974, which he has now edited to produce this revelatory and breathtaking portrait of one of the world’s most famous intellectuals. Through the interviews, with both their informalities and their tensions, Sartre’s greater complexities emerge. In particular, we see Sartre wrestling with the apparent contradiction between his views on freedom and the influence of social conditions on our choices and actions. We also gain insight into his perspectives on the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the disintegration of colonialism. These spirited conversations These conversations add an intimate dimension to Sartre’s more between the philosopher and his abstract ideas. With remarkable rigour and intensity, they also provide a godson provide one of the most clear lens through which to view the major conflagrations of the last intimate, illuminating and honest century. portraits of Sartre ever published John Gerassi, currently Professor of Political Science at Queens College, City University of New York, is the author of Jean-Paul Sartre: January 288 pp. 234x156mm. Hated Conscience of His Century. Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-15107-7 £30.00* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15901-1 £15.00*
Who Was Jacques Derrida? An Intellectual Biography David Mikics Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt to define his crucial importance as the ambassador of ‘theory’, the phenomenon that has had a profound influence on academic life in the humanities. Mikics lucidly and sensitively describes for the general reader Derrida’s deep connection to his Jewish roots. He succinctly defines his vision of philosophy as a discipline that resists psychology. While pointing out the flaws of that vision and Derrida’s betrayal of his most adamantly expounded beliefs, Mikics ultimately concludes that ‘Derrida was neither so brilliantly right nor so badly wrong as his enthusiasts and critics, respectively, claimed’.
David Mikics is Professor of English at the University of Houston. The first full-scale appraisal of the He published his last book, A New Handbook of Literary Terms, with life and work of Jacques Derrida, Yale. one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century
January 288 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-11542-0 £25.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 15
History 15 The Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran Homa Katouzian In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons— its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East—but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be gleaned from the news. This authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, written by Homa Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers the entire history of the area from the ancient Persian Empire to today’s Iranian state. Writing from an Iranian rather than a European perspective, Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Iran with its political and social history. Some of the greatest poets of human history wrote in Persian—among them Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Saadi— and Katouzian discusses and occasionally quotes their work. In his thoughtful analysis of Iranian society, Katouzian argues that the absolute and arbitrary power traditionally enjoyed by Persian/Iranian rulers has resulted in an unstable society where fear and short-term Written by an acclaimed expert, this thinking dominate. book covers the entire history of Iran A magisterial history, this book also serves as an excellent background from the foundation of the ancient to the role of Iran in the contemporary world. Persian empire to today’s Iranian state Homa Katouzian teaches Iranian history and Persian literature at St. Antony’s College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. October Iranian by birth, he is the editor of the journal Iranian Studies. 448 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12118-6 £30.00*
The Lure of China Writers from Marco Polo to J. G. Ballard Frances Wood China has intrigued the West for over two thousand years. From Roman tales of silent silk merchants to eyewitness accounts by twentieth century journalists, stories of China have stimulated writers and attracted readers. Medieval travellers like Marco Polo created a romantic picture of a distant and exotic land while subsequent Jesuit and diplomatic missions sought to correct the more lurid depictions with first-hand accounts. In the mid-nineteenth century China was opened to travellers, collectors and writers of all sorts. Explorers were drawn to the Silk Road and its buried treasures. Writers like André Malraux and Vicki Baum found fame with books set in Peking and Shanghai, and Somerset Maugham with his enchanting vignettes. More recently Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn reported from China, as did W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood and the American journalist Edgar Snow. Frances Wood tracks the visits of Harold Acton, Osbert Sitwell, Noel Coward, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, and The story of western writers the Chinese childhoods of Pearl Buck and J. G. Ballard. “It was as if beguiled by China China made writers of them all”, Wood observes, as she trawls a vast library of fiction, memoir and travelogue in this captivating and beautifully illustrated journey.
July Frances Wood is Curator of Chinese Collections at the British Library. 288 pp. 220x110mm. 150 colour illus. Among her recent publications are The Silk Road and The First Emperor. ISBN 978-0-300-15436-8 £19.99* Translation rights: Joint Publishing Co Ltd, Hong Kong Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 16
16 Art
Creative ingenuity, botanical scholarship and a gift for friendship combined in the life of a remarkable woman Mary Delany, Pancratium maritimum. British Museum (detail).
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle Edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), embarked upon a series of nearly a thousand botanical collages, or ‘paper mosaics’, which would prove to be the crowning achievement of her rich creative life. These delicate hand-cut floral designs, made by a method of Mrs. Delany’s own invention, vie with the finest botanical works of her time. More than two centuries later her extraordinary work continues to inspire. Although best known for these collages, Mrs. Delany was also an amateur artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland. Her prolific craft activities not only served to cement personal bonds of friendship, but also allowed her to negotiate the interconnecting artistic, aristocratic and scientific networks that surrounded her. This ambitious and groundbreaking book, the first to survey the full range of Mrs. Delany’s Exhibition schedule creative endeavours, reveals the complexity of her engagement with Yale Center for British Art, natural science, fashion and design. 24/9/09–3/1/10 Mark Laird is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Landscape Sir John Soane’s Museum, London Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Alicia Weisberg-Roberts 18/2/10–1/5/10 is assistant Curator of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.
September 416 pp. 290x244mm. 10 b/w + 300 colour illus. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art ISBN 978-0-300-14279-2 £40.00* Translation rights: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 17
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Ships and the sea through the eyes of one of the most remarkable painters of the early twentieth century John Singer Sargent, Atlantic Sunset, c. 1876–78. Private collection.
Sargent and the Sea Sarah Cash and Richard Ormond As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between the ages of 18 and 23 he started his career as a professional painter with a remarkable range of maritime works that form the subject of this exhibition and book. The key works are the two versions of the Oyster Gatherers of Cancale, painted in 1878 on the northern coast of Brittany in France, and the group of studies and sketches around them. The authors relate Sargent’s freely handled marine drawings, large and small, to his watercolours, oil sketches and finished oil paintings of marine subjects. The works demonstrate his transition from a plein-air painter to a tonalist exploring interiors and urban scenes. Also Sarah Cash is the Bechhoefer Curator presented is a unique scrapbook, held by the Metropolitan Museum of of American Art at the Corcoran Art, that includes more than 50 drawings and sketches, mostly of sea Gallery, where she has curated shows scenes, and postcards and commercial photography of works of art, including Encouraging American architecture and tourist views. This scrapbook provides an intimate Genius; Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms; and The Gilded Cage: glimpse at the thoughts and experiences of the young artist on his first Views of American Women. European voyage. Richard Ormond is director of the Sargent catalogue raisonné project and the artist’s great-nephew. He was Exhibition schedule formerly director of the National Corcoran Gallery, Washington 12/9/09 – 3/1/10 Maritime Museum, London. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 14/2/10 – 23/5/10 Royal Academy of Arts, London 10/7/10 – 23/9/10
October 192 pp. 280x230mm. 30 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14360-7 £30.00* Published in association with the Corcoran Gallery, Washington Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 18
18 History 1688 The First Modern Revolution Steve Pincus For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution— bloodless, consensual, aristocratic and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view. By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England’s revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies and throughout continental Europe. His rich historical narrative, based on masses of new archival research, traces the transformation of English foreign policy, religious culture and political economy that, he argues, was the intended consequence of the revolutionaries.
Steve Pincus is Professor of History at James II developed a modernisation programme that emphasised Yale University. He is the author of The centralised control, repression of dissidents and territorial empire. Politics of the Public Sphere in Early The revolutionaries, by contrast, took advantage of the new economic Modern England, Protestantism and possibilities to create a bureaucratic but participatory state. The post- Patriotism: Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668, revolutionary English state emphasised its ideological break with the and England’s Glorious Revolution: past and envisioned itself as continuing to evolve. All of this, argues A Brief History with Documents. Pincus, makes the Glorious Revolution—not the French Revolution— the first truly modern revolution. This wide-ranging book recasts the nature of the Glorious Revolution and of revolutions in general and October ultimately the origins and contours of modernity itself. 672 pp. 254x178mm. 72 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11547-5 £28.00* The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Boyle Between God and Science Michael Hunter Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world’s most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker—pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply on philosophical and theological issues related to science. But, as Michael Hunter shows, Boyle was also a complex and contradictory personality, fascinated by alchemy and magic and privately plagued with doubts about faith and conscience, which troubled the rational vision he heralded. This extraordinary work is the first biography of Boyle in a generation, and the culminating achievement of a world-renowned expert on the scientist. Deftly navigating Boyle’s voluminous published works as well as his personal letters and papers, Hunter’s complete and intimate account gives us the man rather than myth, the troubled introvert as well as the public campaigner. Lively, perceptive and full of original Michael Hunter is Professor of History, insights, this is the definitive account of a remarkable man and the Birkbeck College, University of London. changing world in which he lived. “In recent years nobody has done more than Michael Hunter to September enhance and extend our knowledge and understanding of Boyle’s life 400 pp. 234x156mm. 46 illus. and work.”—John Henry, author of The Scientific Revolution and the ISBN 978-0-300-12381-4 £25.00* Origins of Modern Science Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 19
Politics/Environment 19 The Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia James C. Scott For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organised state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labour, epidemics and warfare. This book, essentially an ‘anarchist history’, is the first examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. James Scott tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on A radically different approach to Asian politics, history, demographics and even our fundamental ideas history, telling the story of the about what constitutes civilisation, and challenges us with a radically deliberately stateless peoples who different approach to history that presents events from the perspective occupy a vast tract of land in Asia of stateless peoples and views state-making as a form of ‘internal called Zomia colonialism’. Scott’s work represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive communities.
October James C. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of 464 pp. 234x156mm. Anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale 2 b/w illus. + 7 maps University, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. ISBN 978-0-300-15228-9 £20.00*
Treasures of the Earth Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future Saleem H. Ali Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali’s pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific detail and humanistic nuance. It argues that simply disavowing consumption of materials is not likely to help in planning for a resource-scarce future, given global inequality, development imperatives and our goals for a democratic global society. Rather than suppress the creativity and desire to discover that is often embedded in the exploration and production of material goods—which he calls ‘the treasure impulse’—Ali proposes a new environmental paradigm, one that accepts our need to consume ‘treasure’ for cultural and developmental reasons, but warns of our concomitant need to conserve. In evaluating the impact of treasure consumption on A pioneering exploration of human resource-rich countries, he argues that there is a way to consume wants and needs and the natural responsibly and alleviate global poverty. resources we consume Saleem H. Ali is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont and serves on the adjunct faculty of the Watson November Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He was chosen in 320 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w illus. 2007 by Seed magazine as one of eight ‘Revolutionary Minds in the ISBN 978-0-300-14161-0 £22.50* World’ for his work on using the environment to help resolve conflicts. Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 20
20 Fashion Isabel Toledo Fashion from the Inside Out Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears One of the most exciting fashion designers in the United States, Cuban- born Isabel Toledo has been honored with a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum and a Couture Council Award for Artistry of Fashion, given by The Museum at FIT. Yet her name and work have been, until recently, recognised only by fashion insiders. This ravishing book brings Toledo’s creations to a wider audience, places them within the context of contemporary fashion and examines her creative process. Interviewing Toledo, her husband (fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo), and other colleagues, clients and critics, Valerie Steele gives an account of Toledo’s career and explains that while she has been heralded by fashion magazines, featured in stores in New York and Europe and is now favoured by new First Lady Michelle Obama, she has not had the long-term financial backing to break out of the niche market. Patricia Exhibition Mears investigates the artistic and cultural influences on Toledo’s work The Museum at the Fashion Institute and analyses her unusual methods of construction, noting that she of Technology 6/09 – 10/09 designs in three dimensions in her mind and then begins working directly with fabric. Displaying garments Toledo has created since her first show in 1985, this book is a revelatory exploration of a fashion innovator in a mass-market industry.
September Valerie Steele is Director and Patricia Mears is Deputy Director of 288 pp. 305x235mm. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. 20 b/w + 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14583-0 £30.00* Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
American Beauty Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion Patricia Mears This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from late 1910 to the present day. It reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American’s best fashion designers. Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng and Maria Comejo. James’s grand and structurally imposing gowns from the 1950s appear alongside Ralph Rucci, black silk jersey fluted top, contemporary Infantas by Ralph Rucci; the section on draping duchess satin skirt with bleached brushstrokes, juxtaposes 1930s gowns by Elizabeth Hawes and Valentina with more fall/winter 2003. Photo: William Palmer contemporary garments by Jean Yu and Isabel Toledo; clothing cut into pure geometric shapes like circles, triangles and rectangles is illustrated Exhibition by World War I-era teagowns by Jessie Franklin Turner, Claire The Museum at the Fashion Institute McCardell’s mid-century rompers garments and modern sportswear by of Technology 11/09 – 1/10 Yeohlee and Shamask. Mears demonstrates that artistry, innovation and flawless construction are the true marks of American fashion.
Patricia Mears is Deputy Director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of January Technology. She is the author of Madame Grès: Sphinx of Fashion and 192 pp. 300x235mm. 120 colour illus. coauthor of Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness, both published by Yale. ISBN 978-0-300-15535-8 £29.99* Published in association with The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 21
Art/Religion 21 Andy Warhol Arthur C. Danto In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol’s personal, artistic and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context and philosophical dimensions, key differences with predecessors such as Marcel Duchamp, and parallels with successors like Jeff Koons. Danto brings to bear encyclopedic knowledge of Warhol’s time and shows us Warhol as an endlessly multidimensional figure—artist, political activist, filmmaker, writer, philosopher—who retains permanent residence in the imagination. Danto suggests that ‘what makes him an American icon is that his subject matter is always something that the ordinary American understands: everything, or nearly everything he made art out of came An elegant, masterful portrait of straight out of the daily lives of very ordinary Americans . . . The tastes Andy Warhol’s life, character and and values of ordinary persons all at once were inseparable from lasting influence by the eminent art advanced art’. critic Arthur C. Danto Arthur C. Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University. Danto is the art critic for The Nation and the author of numerous books, including Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life, After the End of Art and Beyond the Brillo November Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective, among others. 192 pp. 210x140mm. 6 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13555-8 £18.00* Icons of America Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
Sin A History Gary A. Anderson What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spanning nearly two thousand years, the book brilliantly demonstrates how sin, once conceived of as a physical burden, becomes, over time, eclipsed by economic metaphors. Transformed from a weight that an individual carried, sin becomes a debt that must be repaid in order to be redeemed in God’s eyes. Anderson shows how this ancient Jewish revolution in thought shaped the way the Christian church understood the death and resurrection of Jesus and eventually led to the development of various penitential disciplines, deeds of charity and even papal indulgences. In so doing it reveals how these changing notions of sin provided a spur for the Protestant Reformation. Broad in scope while still exceptionally attentive to detail, this A ground-breaking history of sin in ambitious and profound book unveils one of the most seismic shifts the Jewish and Christian traditions, that occurred in religious belief and practice, deepening our by a preeminent biblical scholar understanding of one of the most fundamental aspects of human experience.
Gary A. Anderson is Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame. October 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14989-0 £20.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 22
22 History/Language Czechoslovakia The State That Failed Mary Heimann This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992—from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, invasion by the Soviet Union to, at last, democracy again. The common Western view of Czechoslovakia has been that of a small nation which was sacrificed at Munich in 1938, betrayed to the Soviets in 1948 and which rebelled heroically against the repression of the Soviet Union during the Prague Spring of 1968. Mary Heimann dispels these myths and shows how intolerant nationalism and an unhelpful sense of victimhood led Czech and Slovak authorities to discriminate against minorities, compete with the Nazis to persecute Jews and Gypsies and pave the way for the Communist police state. She also reveals Alexander Dubcek, held to be a national hero and The most thoroughly researched standard-bearer for democracy, as an unprincipled apparatchik. Well and accurate history of written, revisionist and accessible, this groundbreaking book should Czechoslovakia to appear in English become the standard history of Czechoslovakia for years to come.
Mary Heimann is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
October 400 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14147-4 £25.00*
On the Death and Life of Languages Claude Hagège Translated by Jody Gladding Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the next century. In this timely book, Claude Hagège seeks to make clear the magnitude of the cultural loss represented by the crisis of language death. By focusing on the relationship of language to culture and the world of ideas, Hagège shows how languages are themselves crucial repositories of culture; the traditions, proverbs and knowledge of our ancestors reside in the language we use. His wide-ranging examination covers all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalised—for example in the remarkable case of Hebrew. In a striking metaphor, Hagège likens languages to bonfires of social behaviour that leave behind sparks even after they die; from these sparks languages can be rekindled and made to live again. Renowned linguist Claude Hagège Claude Hagège is the Chair of Linguistic Theory at the Collège de France offers innovative perspectives on the in Paris. He is the author of more than fifteen books and the recipient of life and death of languages numerous awards and honours, including the Gold Medal from Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
October An Odile Jacob Book 368 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13733-0 £20.00* Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob, Paris Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 23
Paperbacks 23 A Portrait of the Brain Adam Zeman Adam Zeman tells the stories of patients with a variety of neurological disorders, some familiar (epilepsy, chronic fatigue, stroke, memory loss) and others relatively mysterious (narcolepsy, chronic déjà vu, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). Chapter by chapter he reveals the various levels of the brain, from the atom to the mind, and explores what happens when workings at each level go awry. Zeman requires of his readers no specialist knowledge, yet takes us to the very frontiers of current scientific knowledge and elucidates the workings of the brain in astonishing detail. “this is an excellent introduction to the subject . . . Professor Zeman comes across as the kind of man one would be glad to consult if anything went wrong inside one’s skull.” —Nigel Hawkes, The Times “Zeman weaves case studies of patients together with basic science, history, etymology, classical literature and art to produce an erudite discourse on brain components.” —Sandra Aamodt, Nature “This book is, in short, a remarkable achievement . . . Neurology has found a fine advocatet.” —The Lancet “A fascinating tale about what we do know about the brain, and what happens when it goes wrong . . . [Zeman] comes across as a lucid explainer of scientific complexity, but also as a humane medical practitioner.”—Clive Cookson, Financial Times
Adam Zeman is Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Peninsula Medical School, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. He is the author of Consciousness: A User’s Guide, published by Yale. July 256 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15831-1 £9.99* Translation rights: Conville and Walsh, London
The Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library Marcus Tanner This book is the first in English to tell the gripping story of the Matthias Corvinus of Hungary—known as the Raven King—and of the fate of his fabled 2000-volume library. “a fascinating book . . . Tanner has a shrewd sense of character and a vivid eye for detail, and he succeeds in bringing to life the politics of Matthias’s reign, with all its dynastic in-fighting and geopolitical jockeying for position.”—Noel Malcolm, The Daily Telegraph “A fascinating yet little-known true-life tale that has all the hallmarks of gripping fiction.” —The Independent on Sunday
Marcus Tanner is a journalist and writer, editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and a leader-writer for The Independent. His previous books include Croatia, Ireland’s Holy Wars and The Last of the Celts, all published by Yale. September 288 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15828-1 £12.99* Translation rights: A.P. Watt Ltd, London
The Invention of Scotland Myth and History Hugh Trevor-Roper This book, now in paperback, is a characteristically robust and controversial account of Scottish myth and history by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of Britain’s greatest historians. Written with characteristic elegance, lucidity and wit, and containing defiant and challenging opinions, it will absorb and provoke Scottish readers and intrigue many others. “This work, more or less completed almost 30 years ago and now published for the first time reminds us of (Hugh Trevor-Roper’s) talent . . . [A] vastly entertaining and highly intelligent book.”—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph “a stunning piece of detective work”—Colin Kidd, London Review Books
Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre of Glanton) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a prolific scholar. His last book, Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, was published by Yale in 2006. September 304 pp. 216x138mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15829-8 £9.99* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 24
24 Paperbacks India The Rise of an Asian Giant Dietmar Rothermund With growing economic might, new political influence, and changing social dynamics, India has emerged as a major world power in the twenty-first century. This book charts the important features of India’s development since its independence in 1947, assessing those forces that have contributed to the nation’s growth as well as those that have impeded it. Through the lens of India’s past, Dietmar Rothermund offers a new perspective on India today and a fascinating look into the nation’s future. “If anybody knows about modern India its Dietmar Rothermund . . . He is, as he puts it himself, “a witness who has watched India for nearly half a century” . . . [this is] a meticulous historian’s collection of facts, backed by a lifetime’s work.”—William Leith, The Spectator “India: The Rise of an Asian Giant is an excellent book for the patient reader intent on understanding the intricacies of India’s political An authoritative analysis of the economy.”—Piali Roy, Far Eastern Economic Review political, economic and social “looks in detail at all aspects of Indian life from its political and developments behind India’s religious structure, through the problems of poverty, to its dramatic rise in global stature burgeoning economy.”—Good Book Guide
Dietmar Rothermund is Professor Emeritus of South Asian history, October University of Heidelberg, Germany. 288 pp. 198x129mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15827-4 £9.99* No German rights. Rights sold: Arabic, Eng. Reprint (India)
Pakistan Eye of the Storm • Third Edition Owen Bennett Jones This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Bennett Jones’s market- leading account of this critical modern state includes fresh material on the Taliban insurgency, the Musharraf years, the return and subsequent assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the unlikely election as president of Asif Ali Zardari. “Bennett Jones’s intelligent book is an excellent source of information.”—Anatol Lieven, London Review of Books “I found it difficult to put down . . . Bennett Jones has that rare objectivity and realism that are the fruits of many years’ reporting and presenting on Pakistan for the various current affairs programmes of the World Service . . . For the general reader who expects Pakistan to give the world some hair-raising moments over the next few years, the cost of this book is justified by its introductory and concluding chapters alone.”—Hazhir Teimourian, The Literary Review A look at Pakistan’s past, an account “Owen Bennett Jones is well placed to tell the Pakistan story . . . of its recent history and an For anyone interested in the history of Pakistan and in putting into assessment of its future options context events in the region today, this book is very helpful.” —Miriam Donohoe, Irish Times
September Owen Bennett Jones was a BBC correspondent in Pakistan between 1998 368 pp. 198x129mm. 32 b/w illus. + 4 maps and 2001. He has written for The Guardian, Financial Times, Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15475-7 £12.99* The Independent, the London Review of Books and Prospect. Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 25
Paperbacks 25 The Serbs History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia • Third Edition Tim Judah Journalist Tim Judah’s classic account, now brought fully up to date to include the overthrow of Miloševic, the assassination of Zoran Djindic, the breakaway of Kosovo and the arrest of Radovan Karadžic. “Judah . . . offers a highly readable history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present, with judicious comments on the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Nato’s bombing campaign. It is one of the best attempts to explain a situation which has baffled the West throughout history.”—The Glasgow Herald “Readable and stimulating . . . Judah’s book is a polemical attempt to counter the ‘demonisation’ of the Serbs. But it is far from being a whitewash: with very few exceptions, he successfully walks the tightrope between ‘balance’ and relativisation.”—Brendan Simms, The Times Higher Education “Tim Judah’s book is an ambitious and valiant attempt to bring together Exploring the Serbian nation from the real history of the Serbs and the myths and theories in which that the great epics of distant history to history was handed down.”—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard the battlefields of Bosnia and the “A stunning new history.”—Robert Fisk, Irish Times backstreets of Kosovo “A very good book . . . Judah cleverly interprets Serbia’s sad present in the light of its past.”—The Sunday Times September 368 pp. 198x129mm. 40 b/w illus. Tim Judah was Balkans correspondent for The Times and The Economist, Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15826-7 £12.99* and has been a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
The Ukrainians Unexpected Nation • Third Edition Andrew Wilson This book is the most acute, informed and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people. Andrew Wilson brings his classic work up to the present, through the Orange Revolution and its aftermath, including the 2006 election, the ensuing crisis of 2007, the Ukrainian response to the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the economic crisis in Ukraine and the 2009 gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. It looks forward to the key election in 2010, which will revisit many of the issues that were thought settled in 2004. “A lively, detailed and eminently sensible exploration of who the Ukrainians are and why they are important, and it should become required reading for anyone with a serious interest in Eastern Europe.” —The Literary Review A comprehensive guide to modern “This important book is elegantly written and rich in information Ukraine and to the versions of its from various sources, in inspiring insights and interpretations . . . past propagated by both Russians It is fascinating reading.”—Slavic Review and Ukrainians Andrew Wilson is reader in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. October 384 pp. 198x129mm. 36 b/w + 16 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15476-4 £14.99* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 26
26 Paperbacks The Discovery of Mankind Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus David Abulafia Emphasising contact between peoples rather than the discovery of lands, and using archaeological findings as well as eyewitness accounts, David Abulafia explores the social lives of the New World inhabitants, the motivations and tensions of the first transactions with Europeans and the swift transmutation of wonder to vicious exploitation. Lucid, readable and scrupulously researched, this is a work of humane engagement with a period in which a tragically violent standard was set for European conquest across the world. “This is a fine book, a rare combination of careful scholarship and story-telling ability that breathes vivid life into the events of five centuries past. It is also a salutary reminder that the discovery of mankind is a process not yet complete.”—Kevin Rushby, The Guardian “This book is a wonderful work of scholarship. While it vividly conveys the European fascination, confusion and puzzlement with the peoples of the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and north east Brazil, soberly it records the violence and changing attitudes which followed, as the early years of cross-cultural contact were overtaken by the harsh reality of conquest and enslavement.”—John Appleby, BBC History Magazine
David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. September 408 pp. 234x156mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15821-2 £16.00* Translation rights: A.M. Heath & Co, London
Shopping in the Renaissance Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400–1600 Evelyn Welch This fascinating and original book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focusing on the marketplace and such related topics as middle-class to courtly consumption, the provision of foodstuffs and the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. “To reconstruct the activity of shopping in the Renaissance, Welch deploys an extraordinarily wide range of material . . . Her valuable book offers the reader an acute insight into the origins of our present-day consumer culture.”—RA Magazine “outstanding . . . written with such a pace that you’re hooked before you have a chance to feel scared by the scholarship.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “the real delight of this work lies in its attention to the details of everyday life . . . Like a thrifty housewife making over a dress with fragments of rich velvet, the reader can piece together from these anecdotes a vivid portrait of a society with an irrepressible eye for a bargain.”—Sally Korman, The Art Newspaper Winner of the Wolfson Foundation History Prize 2005 Evelyn Welch is Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and was formerly Reader in the History of Art, University of Sussex. She is the author of Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan, published by Yale.
October 256 pp. 230x171mm. 80 b/w + 40 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15985-1 £18.99* Rights sold: Korean, Spanish
The Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread Maria Balinska Now in paperback, a captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries. “[The bagel has] found a fresh and lively chronicler in Maria Balinska, who seems as much at home with the bagel’s Polish and Jewish past as with its all-American present . . . Light and piquant, and yet at the same time seriously satisfying, The Bagel is anything but stodgy fare.” —Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman “Balinska offers a kind of history of and love-letter to Jewish culture through a series of bread- based snapshots. She ranges stylishly from the lifting of the siege of Vienna . . . through . . . the Nazi ghettos . . . to the post-war New York bagel-baking unions and the gradual transformation of the bagel into an ‘all- American’ food.”—Steven Poole, The Guardian
Maria Balinska is currently the Editor of BBC Radio’s World Current Affairs Department. October 240 pp. 178x138mm. 30 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15820-5 £10.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 27
History 27 Edward II Seymour Phillips Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime, and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and of significance only through sporadic displays of ill-directed energy or a stubborn adherence to greedy and ambitious favourites, he has been presented as fit only to be deposed and replaced by someone more worthy of the throne. This definitive biography, the fruit of a lifetime’s study, does not present Edward II as a heroic or successful king: the mere fact of his deposition after a turbulent reign of nearly twenty years is proof enough that it went terribly wrong. But Seymour Phillips’ scrutiny of the multitude of available sources shows that a richer picture emerges, in line with the complexity of events and of the man himself. If Edward II was not a successful king, neither was he fundamentally different in many ways from most English monarchs. The biography strikes a deft balance, taking full account of the problems the king The latest definitive biography faced in England, Scotland and Ireland, and in his relations with in the acclaimed Yale English France. It also tackles the contentious issue of whether Edward II did Monarchs series not die in 1327, murdered in barbaric circumstances, but lived on as a captive in England and then a wanderer on the Continent. Eight hundred years on, a king’s life is properly examined.
Seymour Phillips is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University January College, Dublin, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 650 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15657-7 £25.00* The English Monarchs Series
The Enlightened Economy An Economic History of Britain 1700–1850 Joel Mokyr This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognising the importance of the intellectual sea changes of Britain’s Age of Enlightenment. In a vigorous discussion, Mokyr goes beyond the standard explanations that credit geographical factors, the role of markets, politics and society to show that the beginnings of modern economic growth in Britain depended a great deal on what key players knew and believed, and how those beliefs affected their economic behaviour. He argues that Britain led the rest of Europe into the Industrial Revolution because it was there that the optimal intersection of ideas, culture, institutions and technology existed to make rapid economic growth achievable. This incisive examination of the His wide-ranging evidence covers sectors of the British economy often origins of the modern economy neglected, such as the service industries. during the Industrial Revolution Joel Mokyr is Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and also explains why this phenomenon professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, and came to fruition in Britain Sackler Professor at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University.
September The New Economic History of Britain Series 352 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-12455-2 £30.00* Translation rights: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 28
28 History Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World Jeffrey Herf Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust. He draws extensively on previously unused and little-known archival resources, including the shocking transcriptions of the ‘Axis Broadcasts in Arabic’ radio programmes, which convey a strongly anti-Semitic message. Herf explores the intellectual, political and cultural context in which German and European radical anti-Semitism was found to resonate with similar views rooted in a selective appropriation of the traditions of Islam. Pro-Nazi Arab exiles in wartime Berlin, including Haj el-Husseini and Rashid el-Kilani, collaborated with the Nazis in constructing their Middle East propaganda campaign. By integrating the political and military history of the war in the Middle East with the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the propagandistic diffusion of Nazi ideology, Herf offers the most thorough examination to date of this important chapter in the history of World War II. Importantly, he also shows how the anti-Semitism promoted by the Nazi propaganda effort contributed to the anti-Semitism exhibited by adherents of radical forms of Islam in the Middle East today. Jeffrey Herf is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland in College Park. He is the author of several books, including Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust and Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. January 384 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14579-3 £20.00*
Genocide Before the Holocaust Cathie Carmichael There is an appalling symmetry to the many instances of genocide that the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world witnessed. In the wake of the breakup of the Hapsburg, Ottoman and Romanov empires, minority populations throughout those lands were persecuted, expelled and eliminated. The reason for the deplorable decimations of communities—Jews in Imperial Russia and Ukraine; Ottoman Assyrians, Armenians and Muslims from the Caucasus and Balkans—was, Cathie Carmichael contends, located in the very roots of the new nation-states arising from the imperial rubble. The question of who should be included in the nation—and which groups were now to be deemed ‘suspect’ or ‘alien’—was one that preoccupied and divided Europe long before the Holocaust. Examining all the major eliminations of communities in Europe up until 1941, Carmichael shows how hotbeds of nationalism, racism and developmentalism resulted in devastating manifestations of genocidal ideology. Dramatic, perceptive and poignant, this is the story of disappearing civilisations—precursors to one of humanity’s worst atrocities, and part of the legacy of genocide in the modern world. “breaks new ground in charting the genesis of exclusionary thinking and violence. The interdisciplinary approach is unmatched: any reader will gain new insights about how generations came to develop, understand and also resist mass killing.” —Ben Lieberman, Fitchburg State University, author of Terrible Fate: Ethnic Cleansing and the Making of Modern Europe
Cathie Carmichael is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans, Language and Nationalism in Europe and Slovenia and the Slovenes. August 256 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12117-9 £25.00
The Death of the Shtetl Yehuda Bauer In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, tells about the destruction of the small Jewish townships, the shtetls, in what was the eastern part of Poland by the Nazis in 1941–1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, testimonies and scholarship, including previously unpublished material from the Yad Vashem archives, pertaining to nine representative shtetls. In line with his belief that ‘history is the story of real people in real situations’, Bauer tells moving stories about what happened to individual Jews and their communities. Over a million people, approximately a quarter of all victims of the Holocaust, came from the shtetls. Bauer writes of the relations between Jews and non-Jews (including the actions of rescuers); he describes attempts to create underground resistance groups, some people’s escape to the forests and Jewish participation in the Soviet partisan movement. Bauer’s book is a definitive examination of the demise of the shtetls, a topic of vast importance to the history of the Holocaust. Yehuda Bauer is Academic Adviser at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, and Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University. He is the author of many books, including Rethinking the Holocaust, published by Yale.
January 256 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-15209-8 £25.00* Hebrew rights: held by the author Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 29
History 29 Children of the Gulag Cathy A. Frierson and Semyon S. Vilensky This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception to Joseph Stalin’s death. When parents were arrested, executed or sent to the Gulag, their children also suffered. Millions of children, labelled ‘socially dangerous’, lost parents, homes and siblings. Co-edited by Cathy A. Frierson, a senior American scholar, and Semyon S. Vilensky, Gulag survivor and compiler of the Russian documents, the book offers documentary and personal perspectives. The editors present top-secret documents in translation from the Russian state archives, memoirs and interviews with child survivors. The editors’ narrative reveals how such prolonged child victimisation could occur, who knew about it, and who tried to intervene on the children’s behalf. The editors show how the emotions from childhood trauma persist into the twenty-first century, passing from victims to their children and grandchildren. Interviews with child survivors also display their resilient ability to fashion productive lives despite family destruction and stigma.
Cathy A. Frierson has held the Class of 1941 and Arthur K. Whitcomb Research Professorships at the University of New Hampshire and is the author or editor of a number of books about Russia. Semyon Samuilovich Vilensky was a Gulag prisoner and journalist who serves as chair of the Moscow literary-historical society ‘The Return’ and on the Russian Federation’s Presidential Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of February Political Repression. He is also the editor of Till My Tale Is Told, a 448 pp. 234x156mm. 29 b/w illus. collection of memoirs by women prisoners in the Gulag. ISBN 978-0-300-12293-0 £40.00* Russian rights: held by the authors Annals of Communism Series
TRIPLEX Secrets from the Cambridge Spies Edited by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government’s official histories. TRIPLEX was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin’s intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail. “[The first] complete report [on the Cambridge Five that] gives the reader the opportunity to judge for himself the extent of the damage done to the British service concerned . . . [will be] greeted with enthusiasm by specialists in intelligence history.”—David Murphy, former CIA Berlin chief, former chief of Soviet operations at CIA headquarters in the United States and author of What Stalin Knew
Nigel West is a renowned British historian of military intelligence and October has written more than 25 related books. Oleg Tsarev is a retired KGB 384 pp. 234x156mm. officer who has co-written a number of books on wartime espionage ISBN 978-0-300-12347-0 £25.00* and intelligence. Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 30
30 History Oceans of Wine Civil Society and Empire Madeira and the Ireland and Scotland in the Organization of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Atlantic World, 1640–1815 James Livesey David Hancock “This book is a powerful, intellectually engaged and This innovative book examines how, sophisticated reading of the intertwining histories of Ireland, between 1640 and 1815, the Scotland and England in the eighteenth century.” Portuguese Madeira wine trade —Toby Barnard, Oxford University shaped the Atlantic world and James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of American society. David Hancock civil society—an ideal of collective life between the family and painstakingly reconstructs the lives of politics—not to England or France, as many of his predecessors producers, distributors and consumers, as well as the economic have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and and social structures created by globalising commerce, to reveal Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows how civil an intricate interplay between individuals and market forces. society was first invented as an idea of renewed community for Using voluminous archives pertaining to wine, many of them the provincial and defeated elites in the provinces of the British previously unexamined, Hancock offers a dramatic new Empire and how this innovation allowed them to enjoy liberty perspective on the economic and social development of the without directly participating in the empire’s governance, until Atlantic world by challenging traditional interpretations that the limits of the concept were revealed. have identified states and empires as the driving force behind The concept of civil society continues to have direct relevance for trade. He demonstrates convincingly just how decentralised the contemporary political theory and action. Livesey demonstrates early modern commercial system was, as well as how self- how western governments, for example, have appealed to the organised, a system that emerged from the actions of market values of civil society in their projections of power in Bosnia and participants working across imperial lines. The networks they Iraq. Civil society has become an object central to current formed began as commercial structures and expanded into social ideological debate, and this book offers a thought-provoking and political systems that were conduits not only for wine but discussion of its beginnings, objectives and current nature. also for ideas about reform, revolution and independence. James Livesey has taught at Trinity College Dublin and David Hancock is an Associate Professor of History, Harvard University and is Reader at the University of Sussex. University of Michigan. The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Studies October 304 pp. 234x156mm. October 648 pp. 234x156mm. 57 b/w + 16 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13902-0 £35.00* ISBN 978-0-300-13605-0 £40.00*
The Culture of Nature Dominion in Britain, 1680–1860 from Sea to Sea P. M. Harman Pacific Ascendancy This wide-ranging book investigates and American Power the emergence of modern ideas Bruce Cumings about the natural world in Britain from 1680–1860 through an America is the first world power to examination of the cultural values inhabit an immense land mass open common to the sciences, art, at both ends to the world’s two literature and natural theology. largest oceans—the Atlantic and the During this critical period, spanned Pacific. This gives America a great by Newtonian science and natural theology, Darwin’s Origin of competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose Species, and Ruskin’s Modern Painters, the fundamental focus remains overwhelmingly fixed on America’s relationship conception of nature and humanity’s place within it changed. with Europe. Bruce Cumings challenges the Atlanticist perspective in this innovative new history, arguing that P. M. Harman calls for a new understanding of the varied relations with Asia influenced American history greatly. ways in which the British comprehended natural beauty, from the perception of nature as a ‘design’ flowing from God’s Cumings chronicles how the movement westward, from the creative power to the Darwinian naturalistic aesthetic. Harman Middle West to the Pacific, has shaped America’s industrial, connects a variety of differing views of nature deriving from technological, military and global rise to power. He unites religion, science, visual art, philosophy and literature to domestic and international history, international relations and developments in agriculture, manufacture and the daily lives political economy to demonstrate how technological change and of individuals. This ambitious and accessible book represents sharp economic growth have created a truly bicoastal national intellectual history at its best. economy that has led the world for more than a century. Bruce Cumings is Chair of the History Department at the P. M. Harman is Professor Emeritus of the History of Science University of Chicago and author of the award-winning at Lancaster University. book The Origins of the Korean War. October 352 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. January 608 pp. 234x156mm. 21 b/w + 13 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15197-8 £45.00 ISBN 978-0-300-11188-0 £30.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 31
History 31 Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters Louis Begley In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court martialled for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a hell hole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards—committed to restoring freedom and honour to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another—against nationalists, anti-Semites and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army’s top brass in order to secure Dreyfus’s conviction. Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? In Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting An anatomy of the infamous account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest prosecution of a Jewish officer that each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of has profound implications for our our liberties and honour. own time Louis Begley is a bestselling novelist and a lawyer who retired after a 45-year career as partner in one of America’s great law firms. His fiction includes Wartime Lies, About Schmidt and Matters of Honor. October 272 pp. 197x134mm. 1 b/w illus. Why X Matters ISBN 978-0-300-12532-0 £18.00* Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah A Free Black Man’s Encounter with Liberty J. William Harris In 1775, Thomas Jeremiah was one of fewer than 500 ‘Free Negros’ in South Carolina and, with an estimated worth of £1000, possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. A slave owner himself, Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites—who resented his success as a Charleston harbor pilot—of sowing insurrection among slaves at the behest of the British. Chief among the accusers was Henry Laurens, Charleston’s leading patriot, a slave owner and former slave trader, who would later become the president of the Continental Congress. Lord William Campbell, royal governor of the colony, who passionately believed the accusation was unjust, tried to save Jeremiah’s life but failed. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. In August, 1775, he was hanged and his body burned. The tragic untold story of how a J. William Harris tells Jeremiah’s story in full for the first time, nation struggling for its freedom illuminating the contradiction between a nation that would be born in denied it to one of its own a struggle for freedom and yet deny it—often violently—to others.
J. William Harris is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The Making of the American South: A Short History, 1500–1877, Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in history) and Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and January Black Slavery in Augusta’s Hinterlands. 240 pp. 234x156mm. 22 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15214-2 £20.00* Translation rights: Elaine Markson Literary Agency, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 32
32 History/Politics The Italian The Cartoons That Inquisition Shook the World Christopher F. Black Jytte Klausen The Italian Inquisition, or Holy On September 30, 2005, the Danish Office, was established in 1542, newspaper Jyllands-Posten published stimulated partly by the earlier twelve cartoons of the Prophet Spanish operation. Certainly Muhammad. Five months later, Spain’s ‘black legend’ affected thousands of Muslims inundated the opinions of the Inquisition in Italy, newspaper with outpourings of anger but as this pioneering book shows, and grief by phone, email and fax; from there were significant differences Asia to Europe Muslims took to the between their operations, targets and casualties. streets in protest. This book is the first comprehensive investigation In this history of the Italian Inquisition, Christopher F. Black of the conflict that aroused debates around the world on freedom charts how it developed and changed over time. He maps its of expression, blasphemy and the nature of modern Islam. cumbersome means of command, supervision and action, as Klausen interviewed politicians in the Middle East, Muslim well as its role as a surprisingly approachable regulatory body leaders in Europe, the Danish editors and cartoonists and the working within communities. Ranging right across the Italian Danish imam who started the controversy. Following the panorama, and rooting his enquiry in striking individual cases, winding trail of protests across the world, she deconstructs the Black uncovers Inquisitional procedure from denunciation to arguments and motives that drove the escalation of the punishment. This scrupulous and richly rewarding book shows increasingly globalised conflict. She concludes that the Muslim how the Inquisition shaped Italy’s religious and social worlds. reaction to the cartoons was not—as was commonly assumed—a “Christopher Black has delivered the book that historians of spontaneous emotional reaction arising out of the clash of early modern Europe have all been waiting for . . . a pleasure to Western and Islamic civilisations. Rather it was orchestrated, first read and will certainly live on as a significant contribution to a by those with vested interests in elections in Denmark and range of fields for many years to come.”—David Gentilcore, Egypt, and later by Islamic extremists seeking to destabilise University of Leicester governments in Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya and Nigeria. Klausen shows how the cartoon crisis was, therefore, ultimately a political Christopher Black is Professor of History at the University of conflict rather than a colossal cultural misunderstanding. Glasgow. His previous books include Early Modern Italy: Jytte Klausen is Professor of Comparative Politics at Brandeis A Social History and Church, Religion and Society in Early University. Modern Italy. August 336 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w illus. January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 8 b/w + 4 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11706-6 £35.00 ISBN 978-0-300-12472-9 £20.00* Not available for sale in India and Pakistan
Ideology and Inquisition Policing Stalin’s Land Reform in Russia The World of the Censors Socialism Institutional Design in Early Mexico Repression and Social Order and Behavioral Responses Martin Austin Nesvig in the Soviet Union, 1924–1953 Stephen K. Wegren This book is the first comprehensive David R. Shearer This ambitious work is the definitive treatment in English of the ideology account of Russia’s land reform Policing Stalin’s Socialism is one of the and practice of the Inquisitional initiatives from the late 1980s to today. first books to emphasise the importance censors, focusing on the case of Mexico In Russia, a country controlling more of social order repression by Stalin’s from the 1520s to the 1630s. Others land than any other nation, land Soviet regime in contrast to the have examined the effects of censorship, ownership is central to structures of traditional emphasis of historians on but Martin Nesvig employs a power, class division and agricultural political repression. Based on extensive nontraditional approach that focuses on production. examination of new archival materials, the inner logic of censorship in order to David Shearer finds that most Wegren’s study is important and timely, examine the collective mentality, repression during the Stalinist as Russian land reform will have a ideological formation and practical dictatorship of the 1930s was against profound effect on Russia’s ability to application of ideology of the censors marginal social groups such as petty compete in an era of globalisation. themselves. criminals, deviant youth, sectarians and Stephen Wegren is Professor of Martin Nesvig is Assistant Professor of the unemployed and unproductive. Political Science and Director of History at the University of Miami. He International and Area Studies at David Shearer is Associate Professor of is the editor of Local Religion in Southern Methodist University. Colonial Mexico and Religious Culture History at the University of Delaware. Yale Agrarian Studies Series in Modern Mexico. The Yale-Hoover Series on Stalin, October 384 pp. 234x156mm. Stalinism, and the Cold War January 352 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15097-1 £40.00* 10 b/w illus. October 544 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14040-8 £40.00 17 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14925-8 £40.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 33
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A unique study that integrates architectural history, musicology and acoustics to throw new light on the sacred architecture and music of Renaissance Venice
Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice Architecture, Music, Acoustics Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti During the sixteenth-century, Venice was the setting for some of the most admired churches in the whole western canon, while major advances in the sophistication, richness and religious expression of choral polyphony led to pioneering developments in the evolution of stereophonic sound. The focus of this fascinating study is the direct relationship between architectural design and sacred music in Renaissance Venice. The designs of two of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance, Sansovino and Palladio, are seen against the background of the innovative polyphonic choral music in split-choir formation (coro spezzato) pioneered in St Mark’s and disseminated as a result of the rapid Deborah Howard is Professor of Architectural History, University of development of music printing in Venice. Refined and elaborated, these Cambridge, and Fellow of St John’s innovations culminated in the sacred music of Monteverdi. The needs College, Cambridge. Her books of elaborate state ceremonial stimulated the demand for musical include Venice and the East: virtuosity and imposing architectural settings, but the innovations The Impact of the Islamic World on filtered down to affect music in the simplest parish churches. Venetian Architecture 1100–1500 and The Architectural History of Venice. The book combines historical research into the architectural and Laura Moretti is Scott Opler Research liturgical traditions of a dozen Venetian churches with the results of a Fellow in Architectural History, parallel series of scientific surveys of the acoustic properties of the Worcester College, Oxford. chosen buildings. The research culminated in a programme of in situ choral experiments and acoustic measurements, carried out in Venice October using the celebrated choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, in 2007, 256 pp. 241x171mm. revealing the strong awareness of acoustic effects on the part of 80 b/w + 40 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14874-9 £30.00* architects, musicians, patrons and churchmen of the Renaissance period. Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 34
34 Art Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery Marcia Pointon Diamonds are not for ever—nor necessarily are they a girl’s best friend. Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance. Marcia Pointon offers an in-depth study that, drawing on unpublished evidence, reveals the importance of artefacts produced by jewellers and horologists, and their significance in shaping people’s understanding of the world they live in. Pointon explores the capacity of jewels—whether crimson coral or translucent pearls—not only to fascinate but also to create disorder and Sumptuously illustrated, this novel controversy throughout history: what is materially precious is invariably book challenges the reader to reassess contentious, whether in religious or in secular society; when what is the importance of material things as precious is not gold bars or bonds but finely crafted artefacts made powerful agents in human relations from hard-won imported materials, the stakes are particularly high. and in visual and verbal representation The struggle for control of both material and meaning is paramount, —no one reading it will ever see whether in scientific discourse (as with John Ruskin’s crystallography) jewellery in the same way again or in pictorial imagery, such as Poussin’s interpretation of the origin of coral. The presence of jewels can never be ignored and this remains so today whether in the bling favoured by international sports stars or the September ‘rocks’ borrowed for the Oscars. 368 pp. 290x245mm. 100 b/w + 150 colour illus. Marcia Pointon is Professor Emeritus in History of Art, Manchester University, ISBN 978-0-300-14278-5 £45.00* and Honorary Research Fellow, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Ruskin on Venice ‘The Paradise of Cities’ Robert Hewison For John Ruskin, one of the leading cultural critics of the nineteenth century, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and faith were in creative harmony—‘The Paradise of Cities’. This was not the fallen city of the Renaissance, the Paradise Lost that it became in his lifetime, but the Gothic Eden that he imagined had existed before the sixteenth century. In this elegant and compelling book, Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city is traced: from 1835 he watched Venice change from post-Napoleonic ruin to a province of the Austrian Empire, and then experience new ruin in the revolution of 1848. Venice was witness to the failure of his marriage, and, later, the collapse of his hopes for a new one. By the time of Ruskin’s final visit in 1888 the march of modernity had made Venice a dead replica of its former glory. Drawing on the rich resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks and manuscripts (including previously unpublished daguerreotypes from Ruskin’s own collection), Hewison offers fresh insights into both Ruskin and Venice and reveals how Ruskin’s work and his connection with the city from youth to old age have helped to shape the image of the Venice we know today. January 500 pp. 256x192mm. Robert Hewison is Professor of Cultural Policy and Leadership Studies at the City 105 b/w + 25 colour illus. University, London, Honorary Professor at Lancaster University and Associate, ISBN 978-0-300-12178-0 £45.00* Demos. He writes for The Sunday Times and is author of many books.
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The originality and variety of Walpole’s designing, building, collecting and publishing at Strawberry Hill can hardly be overstated The North Entrance of Strawberry Hill, coloured etching from A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole, 1783 (detail). The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill Edited by Michael Snodin Horace Walpole (1717–1797), as the youngest son of the powerful Whig minister Robert Walpole, grew up at the centre of Georgian society and politics and circulated amongst the elite literary, aesthetic and intellectual circles of his day. His brilliant letters and writings have made him the best-known commentator on the rich cultural life of eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his extraordinary collections of rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armour, and curiosities, all displayed at his pioneering Gothic Revival house at Strawberry Hill, on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham. This timely and groundbreaking study of the history and reception of Walpole’s collection as it was formed and arranged at Strawberry Hill coincides with a planned restoration of this endangered house. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill assembles an international team of distinguished scholars to explore the ways in which Strawberry Hill and its collections engaged with the creation of various and interconnected political, national, dynastic, cultural and imagined histories. Exhibition schedule Yale Center for British Art, 15/10/09 – 31/1/10 Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 6/3/10 – 4/7/10 Michael Snodin is Senior Research Fellow in the Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum. October 356 pp. 305x250mm. 300 colour illus. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art ISBN 978-0-300-12574-0 £40.00* and the Lewis Walpole Library Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 36
36 Art The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment Celina Fox This book is about the people who did the work. The arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms—not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the mechanical arts or skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalise their work: drawing, model- making, societies and publications. These four channels—the central themes of this engrossing book—provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, validation and authorisation, promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment. The book also examines the status of the mechanical arts from the medieval period to the seventeenth century and explains how and why entrepreneurs, Celina Fox is an independent scholar mechanics and artisans presented themselves to the world in portraits, and and museums advisor. She was the how industry was depicted in landscape and genre painting. The book editor of London World City. concludes in the early nineteenth century when, despite the drive towards specialisation and exclusivity and the rise of the profession of engineer, the broad sweep of the mechanical arts retained a distinct identity for far longer than has generally been recognised. The debates their presence provoked October concerning the relationship of theory to practice and the problematic 352 pp. 280x200mm. nature of art and technical education are still with us today. 200 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-16042-0 £40.00* Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Apostles of Beauty Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago Edited by Judith A. Barter • With essays by Judith A. Barter, Sarah E. Kelly, Ellen E. Roberts, Brandon K. Ruud and Monica Obniski The Arts and Crafts movement in architecture, interior design and decorative arts reached its peak between 1880 and 1910 in Britain and North America. Apostles of Beauty presents outstanding examples by the movement’s British originators, such as William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee, as well as its greatest American practitioners, such as Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright. The volume highlights a wide range of objects, including ceramics, furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs and textiles. It focuses on Chicago’s absorption and interpretation of the movement, featuring works from the Art Institute, the University of Chicago, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Crab Tree Farm and private collections. Contributors to the book explore the complex influences of the Arts Exhibition and Crafts style and provide a thematic history of the movement, The Art Institute of Chicago, including a section on design and collecting in Chicago. 7/11/09 – 31/1/10 Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sarah E. Kelly is the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Associate Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Ellen E. Roberts is Assistant Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Brandon K. Ruud is Assistant Research Curator of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Monica Obniski is a January Research and Exhibition Assistant in the Department of American Art at 208 pp. 305x228mm. the Art Institute of Chicago. 220 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14113-9 £35.00* Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 37
Art 37 Richard Norman Shaw Revised edition Andrew Saint Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) was the most fertile, representative and immediately influential domestic architect of the late Victorian period in England. His training and early career coincided with the heyday of the Gothic Revival, in which style he designed a handful of original churches. His most prolific period of practice saw the triumph of the ‘Old English’ and ‘Queen Anne’ domestic styles which are largely associated with his name. A series of powerful urban buildings designed towards the end of Shaw’s career reveals him as one of the foremost proponents of a revived classicism. In each of these styles the piquant originality of Shaw’s designs and the brilliance of his planning captivated his contemporaries in the architectural and social world alike. He became the undisputed leading Andrew Saint is the General Editor of architect of his day and the precursor of such different talents as The Survey of London and the author Lutyens and Voysey. In the United States, Shaw’s distinctive of The Image of the Architect, contribution to English domestic architecture played a formative part Towards A Social Architecture: The Role of School-Building in Post- in the evolution of the Shingle Style. War England and Architect and This new edition of a major work offers a completely revised text and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry. new introduction and is now illustrated generously in colour, with many specially commissioned photographs.
October 488 pp. 280x220mm. 200 b/w + 60 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15526-6 £40.00* Published for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Architecture in the Balkans From Diocletian^ to Süleyman the Magnificent, 300–1550 Slobodan Curcic´ ´ This book is the first of its kind to discuss the history of the Balkan Peninsula from late antiquity to the height of the Ottoman era by focusing on architecture as its principal gauge. In doing so, it transcends
various established conventions in scholarship to present the architectural heritage in the Balkans in a manner^ that is accessible and comprehensible. Slobodan Curcic´ ´ challenges notions derived from ‘modern’ national historiographies that view architectural heritage within the confines of modern political boundaries as ‘national’ heritage with privileged ‘national’ status and relevance, that frame historical ‘periods’ by relying on western art-historical conventions and that perceive historical
events and developments as direct determinants of cultural history. ^ Throughout the book architecture is viewed as a function of distinctive Slobodan Curcic´ ´ is Professor in the needs (social, political, religious), distinctive means (economic, Department of Art and Archaeology, technical know-how, material availability) and distinctive goals Princeton University, and Director of (aesthetic, propagandistic, protective). As a result, the book covers the the Program in Hellenic Studies, full range of architectural enterprises, from simple residential buildings, Princeton University. to public monumental structures; from fortifications, to utilitarian buildings (cisterns, bridges, etc). The urban context of architecture is emphasised, while its role in rural settings is used as a gauge of other distinctive phenomena. January 608 pp. 290x248mm. Illustrated with several hundreds of photographs and drawings, most of 600 b/w + 100 colour illus. them specially commissioned, the book presents a generally unknown ISBN 978-0-300-11570-3 £50.00* body of material in a distinctive, unprecedented manner. Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 38
38 Art Interaction of Color New Complete Edition Josef Albers • Foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber One of the most influential books on colour ever published, Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened colour plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers and collectors to Albers’s unique approach to complex principles. Interaction of Color. , Interaction IV-3 Plate Lavishly produced as a two-volume slipcased set, this beautiful new edition replicates Albers’s revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as colour relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of colour, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of colour. Also included for the first time are new studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist’s students in the early 1960s. Josef Albers was one of the most influential artist-educators of the 20th century. Nicholas Fox Weber is Executive Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Published in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation November Vol. 1: 144 pp.; Vol. 2: 156 pp. 343x279mm. 150 colour illus. Slipcased set ISBN 978-0-300-14693-6 £150.00*
Luis Meléndez Master of the Spanish Still Life Gretchen Hirschauer, Catherine Metzger, Peter Cherry and Natacha Sesena An exquisite look at the life and work of Luis Meléndez, one of eighteenth-century Europe’s greatest still-life painters. Exhibition schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, 17/5/09 – 23/8/09 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 23/9/09 – 3/1/10 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 31/1//10 – 9/5/10 Gretchen Hirschauer is Associate Curator of Italian and Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Catherine Metzger is Senior Conservator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Peter Cherry is Professor and Head of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College in Dublin. Natacha Sesena is an independent historian. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington June 200 pp. 292x238mm. 40 b/w + 143 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15880-9 £40.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Playing with Pictures The Art of Victorian Photocollage Elizabeth Siegel • With essays by Patrizia Di Bello and Marta Weiss Contributions by Miranda Hofelt Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvellous book. With sharp wit and dramatic shifts of scale, these images flouted the serious conventions of photography in the 1860s and 1870s. Often made by women for albums, they reveal the educated minds and accomplished hands of their makers, taking on the new theory of evolution, addressing the changing role of photography and challenging the strict conventions of aristocratic society. Although these photocollages may seem wonderfully odd to us now, the authors argue that they are actually perfectly in keeping with the Victorian sensibility that embraced juxtaposition and variety. This book, the first to examine fully the phenomenon of Victorian photocollage, presents imagery that has rarely been reproduced. Illuminating text provides a history of Victorian photocollage albums, identifies the common motifs found in them and demonstrates the distinctly modern character of the medium, which paved the way for the avant-garde potential of both photography and collage. Exhibition schedule Art Institute of Chicago, 10/10/09 – 3/1/10; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2/2/10 – 9/5/10 Elizabeth Siegel is Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago. Patrizia Di Bello is a Lecturer in the History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck College, University of London. Marta Weiss is the Curator of Photographs in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago November 200 pp. 248x279mm. 40 b/w + 140 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14114-6 £35.00* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 39
Art 39 Ingres Painting Reimagined Susan L. Siegfried Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. The odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics and artists today. For the most part scholars have sought to make sense of that strangeness either by examining the vicissitudes of the artist’s critical reputation or by appealing to his supposed intellectual and psychic limitations. Siegfried argues that this strangeness needs to be located in the complex and richly invested nature of the work itself as well as in Ingres’s very powerful, if often perverse, sense of artistic project. She shows that his major re-thinking of pictorial narrative—in his classical literary, historical and religious subjects—was as central to his achievement as his distinctive rendering of the female figure in classical nudes and portraits. He was engaged in a complex process of Susan L. Siegfried is Professor of Art giving visual form to narrative, which he did in new and unusual ways History and Women’s Studies at the that involved him in a close reading of the texts on which he drew, University of Michigan. She is the including authors such as Homer, Virgil, Ariosto and Dante, as well as author of The Art of Louis-Léopold religious narratives and stories about medieval and early modern French Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, co-author of Staging Empire: history. Napoleon, Ingres, and David and This handsomely illustrated and elegantly written book takes full co-editor of Fingering Ingres. account of the different and seemingly divergent aspects of Ingres’s work and encompasses a wide range of his activities as an artist and of October 320 pp. 256x192mm. the different registers in which he operated, including his obsessive 100 b/w + 40 colour illus. research into source material, his proliferating drawing practice and his ISBN 978-0-300-14883-1 £40.00* intensive working and reworking of his finished paintings.
Muralnomad The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927–1957 Romy Golan Frequently political and part of a concerted effort by artists and patrons during the early decades of the twentieth century to address a broad public, murals and large mural-like works often had a greater visibility and larger audience than paintings that are acknowledged today as masterpieces. Large and monumental, and made in many different media, they were also often ephemeral: their lifespan typically ended with the closing of an exhibition. In this fascinating book, Romy Golan explores murals and mural-like works in Europe from the end of the First World War to the late 1950s, beginning with Monet’s work on the Nymphéas installation in the Musée de l’Orangerie and ending dramatically with Le Corbusier’s Romy Golan is Associate Professor of huge tapestries in Chandigarh, India. Along the way, she charts the Art History at CUNY Graduate Center. work of Léger, Le Corbusier, Sironi, Pagano, Picasso and others, and She is the author of Modernity and makes a convincing and elegant case for the important position mural Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France art, and critical debates on monumental public painting, occupied in between the Wars. this period.
October 256 pp. 280x230mm. 120 b/w + 40 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14153-5 £40.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 40
40 Art Kienholz ‘The Hoerengracht’ Colin Wiggins and Annemarie de Wildt The Hoerengracht (1983–8) is an installation artwork by Ed Kienholz (American, 1927–1994) and his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz. This tableau––a surprising sight in the National Gallery–– is a walk-through evocation of Amsterdam’s red-light district, with glowing windows and claustrophobic streets. With its statements on morality, vanitas and composition of secret spaces and receding views, The Hoerengracht resonates powerfully with painting by Dutch masters of the 17th century. The work was the last major piece made Edward Kienholz and Nancy Redin, by the Kienholzes before Ed died and remains a major reference point The Hoerengracht (installation detail), 1984–8. for contemporary artists such as Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy and Private collection © Kienholz Estate, courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice CA. Damien Hirst. The generously illustrated catalogue positions The Hoerengracht and Kienholz in a new perspective. Exhibition schedule National Gallery, London, 18/11/09 – 21/2/2010 Amsterdam Historisch Museum, dates tbc
Colin Wiggins is Acting Head of Education at the National Gallery, London. He is the author of numerous books, including Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting, Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories, October Ron Mueck, John Virtue: London Paintings and Alison Watt: Phantom. 56 pp. 265x245mm. Annemarie de Wildt is conservator/curator at the Amsterdam Historisch 40 colour illus. Museum (Museum Willet-Holthuysen), which will be the second Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-453-4 £9.99* location for the exhibition.
A Closer Look A Closer Look Faces Saints Alexander Sturgis Erika Langmuir Faces are everywhere in the Drawing on the National National Gallery’s Gallery’s comprehensive collection and it is often collection of religious the faces shown that images, A Closer Look: communicate most directly Saints explains the in a picture; their importance of saints and expressions may reveal the their role in the history of drama of a story, or the European painting. character of a sitter in a Erika Langmuir underlines portrait. the fundamental A Closer Look: Faces examines a wide array of fascinating faces importance of saints in the National Gallery collection and, found in paintings at the National Gallery. It explains why using examples of works by artists such as Raphael, Dürer artists in the past created faces to look as they do, what and Crivelli, explains the sometimes puzzling conventions for painters through the ages have considered the ‘ideal’ face, identifying saints by their attributes. She describes how saints how faces are painted, and the reasons for the development of became a crucial part of the Christian church and the portrait painting. Illustrated with seventy pictures and increasing importance of saintly relics in the Middle Ages. beautiful details, this book provides an insider’s view of the She provides an introduction to a wide variety of many faces in Western European art. personalities, from the ambiguous penitent Mary Magdalen Alexander Sturgis is director of the Holburne Museum of to the revered Saint Jerome and Saint Francis of Assisi. Art in Bath and was formerly Exhibitions Curator at the Erika Langmuir, OBE, was Head of Education at the National
The National Gallery • London National Gallery, London. His publications include Telling Gallery, London, and is the author of many books, among Time and Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the them Masterpieces and The National Gallery Companion Nineteenth Century. Guide, both distributed by Yale. September 96 pp. 210x140mm. 100 colour illus. September 96 pp. 210x140mm. 100 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-464-0 £7.99* Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-465-7 £7.99* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 41
Art 41 The Sacred Made Real Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700 Xavier Bray, Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos, Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone With contributions by Eleonora Luciano, Maria Fernanda Morón de Castro, Maria del Valme Muñoz Rubio, Rocio Izquierdo Moreno, Ignacio Hermoso Romero and Marjorie Trusted This book is the first serious study in English to reappraise an art form crucial to the development of Spanish art. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, sculptors such as Juan de Mesa, Juan Martínez Montañés, Alonso Cano and Pedro de Mena worked in a unique relationship with painters, combining their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of the saints, the Immaculate Conception and the Passion of Christ were painstakingly carved, gessoed and intricately painted, even embellished with glass eyes and tears and ivory teeth. Sometimes shockingly graphic in their depiction of Christ’s sufferings, or beautifully clothed, as if brought to life, these were objects of divine inspiration to the faithful, whether on altars, or processed through the streets on holy days. Exhibition schedule Velázquez’s teacher and father-in-law, Francisco Pacheco, often painted The National Gallery, London, the flesh and drapery of wood carvings by the celebrated sculptor 10/09 – 1/10 Juan Martínez Montañés, and taught a generation of students. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The skill of painting these hyperrealistic sculptures was an integral 2/10 – 5/10 part of an artist’s training, enhancing his sensitivity to visual impact and physical presence—evident in paintings of the period by Francisco Ribalta, Jusepe di Ribera, Velázquez and Zurbarán.
Xavier Bray is Assistant Curator of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century October Painting at the National Gallery, London. Alfonso Rodriguez G. de Ceballos 224 pp. 297x230mm. was formerly Professor at the Universidad Autonoma, Madrid. 185 colour illus. Daphne Barbour and Judy Ozone are Senior Objects Conservators at the ISBN 978-1-85709-422-0 £35.00* National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The Sacred Made Real • Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600–1700 Leah Kharibian DVD October • plays worldwide • running time approx 40 minutes DVD ISBN 978-1-85709-466-4 £15.00i*
The National Gallery: An Illustrated History
Alan Crookham • London The National Gallery The National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures from the estate of banker John Julius Angerstein. Originally the pictures were displayed in Angerstein’s former home in Pall Mall. It was only in 1838 that the collection moved to its current site in Trafalgar Square. The building and collection have continued to expand ever since; today, the National Gallery houses one of the world’s greatest collections of western European paintings. This book brings together the stories behind the founding and growth of the National Gallery: the generous benefactors, the architectural controversies, the acquisitions, the dedicated staff and the visiting public. Richly illustrated, with archive photography, it provides insights into the history of the people and events that have helped shape this much-loved national institution.
Alan Crookham is the archivist at the National Gallery, London, and a board member of the Museum and Galleries History Group. October 128 pp. 255x205mm. 180 illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-463-3 £12.99* Translation rights for all National Gallery, London titles: The National Gallery Company Limited, London Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 42
42 Art El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting Dawson W. Carr This book presents highlights of the National Gallery’s outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th centuries—considered one of the finest outside of Spain. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th century. Canvases by Velázquez span his career, from royal portraits and religious works to the Rokeby Venus, his only surviving depiction of a female nude. Bartolomé Murillo is represented by exceptional religious and genre paintings, together with his imposing Self Portrait. Other works by Baroque painters, including Ribera and Zurbarán, reveal shifting uses of naturalism to express everything from the mysteries of faith to the grandeur of royalty and the beauty of the mundane. The collection also includes Luis Meléndez’s Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts and portraits by Goya.
Dawson W. Carr is Curator of Spanish and Italian Painting 1600–1800 at the National Gallery, London. He has written extensively on Spanish painting and is co-author of Velázquez. July 72 pp. 270x230mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-460-2 £9.99*
Duccio to Leonardo Renaissance Painting 1250–1500 Simona Di Nepi This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery’s display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250 and 1500, including highlights such as Duccio’s Annunciation, Botticelli’s Venus and Mars and Leonardo’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist. It begins with a short introduction on the formation of the collection, before discussing each of the chosen works.
Simona Di Nepi was formerly Assistant Curator of Renaissance Paintings at the National Gallery, London. She has contributed to the National Gallery publications Velázquez, Renaissance Siena: Art for a City and Renaissance Faces. September 72 pp. 270x230mm. 80 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-1-85709-421-3 £9.99*
National Gallery Technical Bulletin Volume 30 Ashok Roy, series editor With contributions by Rachel Billinge, Dawson W. Carr, Jill Dunkerton, Larry Keith, Sarah Herring, Helen Howard and Marika Spring The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is a unique record of research carried out at the National Gallery, London. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials, practices and techniques. Contents of Volume 30 Some Panels from Sassetta’s Sansepolcro Altarpiece revisited; Sebastiano del Piombo’s Raising of Lazarus: A History of Change; Velázquez’s Christ after the Flagellation contemplated by the Christian Soul; Albert Cuyp’s Distant View of Dordrecht; The National Gallery • London Six Paintings by Corot in the National Gallery: Methods, Materials and Sources. Ashok Roy is Director of Scientific Research at the National Gallery, London. September 112 pp. 297x210mm. 200 colour illus. Paper 978-1-85709-420-6 £25.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 43
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Yorkshire: West Riding Bradford, Leeds and the North The Buildings of England Peter Leach and Nikolaus Pevsner The West Riding of Yorkshire was the largest of England’s historic counties. This volume, the first of two for the area, covers the northern half of the territory from the outskirts of York to the edge of the Lake District. It is full of contrasts, from the urbanised landscape of the cities of Leeds, with its proud civic buildings by Cuthbert Brodrick, and Bradford, possessor of one of the finest collections of commercial warehouses in the country, to their hinterland of tight-knit mill-towns and villages pushing into the Pennines. There can be found the highly distinctive houses of the seventeenth-century minor gentry, and the substantial yeoman farmers and clothiers. To the north-west are the still sparsely populated Yorkshire Dales – Ruskin’s ‘truly wonderful country’, its beauties and curiosities admired by tourists since the eighteenth century. On the gentler eastern edge of the Pennines are the major survivals of the Cistercian Order: Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, the nearby cathedral town of Ripon and spa town of Harrogate, and the opulently agricultural ‘broad acres’ beyond, forming part of the Vale of York, counting among its monuments the magnificent designed landscape of Bramham Park. October 800 pp. 218x118mm. 120 colour illus. Peter Leach is a Yorkshire-based architectural historian. He is the author ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5 £29.99* of the definitive book on James Paine.
Newcastle and Gateshead Pevsner City Guide Grace McCombie A lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river’s south bank. Both urban centres are explored in a series of walks, including the magnificent 1830s replanning of Newcastle, comparable in quality and ambition to anything in Georgian Edinburgh or Bath. The famous Tyne bridges also receive detailed treatment, with other historic engineering structures from this consistently rewarding and surprising area. A selection of suburban walks is included, together with excursions to Anglo-Saxon Jarrow, medieval Tynemouth and the celebrated Angel of the North. The book is illustrated throughout with specially commissioned photographs, maps and historic views.
Grace McCombie is an independent architectural historian and co- author of the Pevsner Architectural Guides’ Northumberland volume. She has worked for English Heritage and the University of Newcastle, and has researched the buildings of the area for many years. October 800 pp. 216x121mm. 120 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12664-8 £9.99* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 44
44 Art Alias Man Ray Mason Klein With contributions by George Baker, Merry L. Foresta and Lauren Schell Dickens Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890–1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career—New York Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portraitist and fashion photographer––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. As an exploration of the artist’s deliberate cultural ambiguity, which allowed him to become the first American artist to be accepted by the Paris avant-garde, this book examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray’s working-class origins, his assimilation, the evolution of his art, and his wilful construction of his own artistic persona, as evidenced in a series of subtle, encrypted self-references throughout the artist’s career. Beautifully illustrated, Alias Man Ray will stand as a definitive study of an incomparable figure in 20th-century art. Exhibition The Jewish Museum, New York, 15/11/09 – 14/3/10 Mason Klein is Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum. George Baker is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Merry L. Foresta is the founding director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative. Lauren Schell Dickens is the Neubauer Family Foundation Curatorial Assistant at The Jewish Museum. Published in association with The Jewish Museum November 288 pp. 279x241mm. 54 b/w + 192 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14683-7 £40.00*
Sol Lewitt 100 Views Edited by Susan M. Cross and Denise Markonish Published to accompany MASS MoCA’s landmark installation of LeWitt’s innovative wall drawings, this book celebrates the artist and his illustrious 50-year career. Exhibition Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, opens 16/11/08 Denise Markonish is Curator at MASS MoCA. She is editor of Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape and coauthor of Chris Doyle: 50,000 Beds. Susan M. Cross is Curator at MASS MoCA. Published in association with Mass MoCA July 272 pp. 254x222mm. 88 b/w + 93 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15282-1 £30.00* Translation rights: held by the authors
Sigmar Polke The Dream of Menelaus Charles Wylie With a contribution by Anne Bromberg Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) has experimented with a wide range of styles and subject matter, bringing together imagery from contradictory and unexpected sources, merging the historical and contemporary, and using a variety of different materials and techniques. This catalogue features Polke’s major four-painting cycle, The Dream of Menelaus, one of the artist’s most beautiful and challenging. Citing the story of Menelaus, the mythical Greek hero whose wife Helen’s abduction started the Trojan War, Polke’s cycle alludes to eternal themes of love and war with a typically elusive yet analytic beauty. Here Polke has merged classical and contemporary images to reveal unexpected parallels between mythical histories and present-day realities, all the while creating four paintings of an unsurpassed mastery of the painting medium itself. Exhibition Dallas Museum of Art, autumn 2009 Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author of Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything. Anne Bromberg is The Cecil and Ida Green Curator of Ancient and South Asian Art, Dallas Museum of Art. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art September 64 pp. 305x228mm. 6 b/w + 40 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15900-4 £15.00* Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 45
Art 45 Arshile Gorky A Retrospective Edited by Michael R. Taylor With essays by Michael R. Taylor, Kim S. Theriault, Jody Patterson, Harry Cooper and Robert Storr • Chronology by Melissa Kerr Arshile Gorky was one of the central figures in American art’s shift towards abstraction during the first half of the 20th century. Accompanying the first major retrospective of his work in almost thirty years, this stunning book traces the evolution of Gorky’s arresting visual style. Nearly 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints from all phases of his career, a number of which are published here for the first time, are beautifully reproduced, including a large figurative painting from 1927 known previously only through its preparatory studies. Throughout the volume, some of Gorky’s best-known and most powerful works are paired with related pieces or with meticulous preliminary studies, shedding new light on his artistic process. Illustrated essays incorporating recently discovered biographical information and photographs examine his experience of the Armenian Michael R. Taylor is the Muriel and Philip genocide (during which he witnessed the death of his mother), his collaboration Berman Curator of Modern Art at the with the Works Progress Administration, and his early explorations of abstraction Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is the and Surrealism, providing important reassessments of his life and career. author of Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés (see below left). Exhibition schedule Philadelphia Museum of Art, 15/10/09 – 10/1/10 Tate Modern, London, 2/10 – 5/10 October 400 pp. 298x228mm. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 6/10 – 9/10 40 b/w + 270 colour illus. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art ISBN 978-0-300-15441-2 £45.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Willie Doherty: Requisite Distance Marcel Duchamp Ghost Story Étant donnés and Landscape Michael R. Taylor Charles Wylie Contributions by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, With a contribution Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka and Elena Torok by Erin K. Murphy In his thirties, Duchamp convinced everyone that he had The art of Willie abandoned making art in favour of playing chess. But from 1946 Doherty (b. 1959), one to 1966, he was secretly at work in his studio. There he produced of Northern Ireland’s his final masterpiece: Étant donnés: 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz most important artists, d’éclairage. Unveiled at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1969, joins history, memory it startled the art world with its eroticism and voyeurism. Since and language into an enveloping experience. This catalogue its debut, Étant donnés has been recognised as one of the most features two bodies of Doherty’s work: Ghost Story, a tensely important works of the 20th century. This book is published on beautiful 15-minute media work based on landscape and the fortieth anniversary of the original installation of Étant donnés memory, and a selection of photographs of the borderlands and to accompany the first major exhibition on the artwork. between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 15/8/09 – 29/11/09 Arising from the region’s Troubles, Doherty’s art is nonetheless September 460 pp. 228x298mm. 238 b/w + 360 colour illus. universal in effect and can be seen independent of any specific ISBN 978-0-300-14979-1 £45.00* context. Charles Wylie’s essay deals with how Ghost Story evokes a mind at work trying to recall unsettling things, and the impact Manual of Instructions Étant donnés: of memory on the present. Critically acclaimed at the 2007 1º la chute d’eau, 2º le gaz d’éclairage… Revised edition Venice Biennale, Ghost Story is paired with eleven large-scale colour photographs from the 1990s that powerfully depict the Marcel Duchamp Irish landscape as a site of unease amidst lyrical beauty. Preface by Anne d’Harnoncourt • Essay by Michael R. Taylor Exhibition schedule Dallas Museum of Art, 23/5 – 16/8/09 Out of print for a number of years, this facsimile of Marcel Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Duchamp’s Manual of Instructions includes a new essay by Michael autumn 2010 R. Taylor as well as the first English translation of the artist’s text. Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Anne d’Harnoncourt was formerly the Director, both at the Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, and author of Philadelphia Museum of Art. Michael R. Taylor, details above. Robert Ryman and Sigmar Polke: History of Everything. September 66 pp. 305x273mm. 119 b/w + 18 colour illus. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art ISBN 978-0-300-14980-7 £30.00* August 96 pp. 216x254mm. 65 colour illus. Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art ISBN 978-0-300-15255-5 £18.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 46
46 Art Unpacking Why Architecture My Library Matters Architects and Paul Goldberger their Books Why Architecture Matters is not a Jo Steffens work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an What does a library say architectural dictionary, though it about the mind of its owner? contains elements of all three. The How do books map the purpose of Why Architecture intellectual interests, Matters is to ‘come to grips with curiosities, tastes and how things feel to us when we personalities of their readers? stand before them, with how What does the collecting of architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually’— books have in common with the practice of architecture? with its impact on our lives. ‘Architecture begins to matter’, Unpacking My Library provides an intimate look at the writes Paul Goldberger, ‘when it brings delight and sadness Peter Eisenman at home in New York with his library, 2008. with his library, York at home in New Eisenman Peter personal libraries of fourteen of the world’s leading architects, and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads’. alongside conversations about the significance of books to their careers and lives. Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our Architects and Their Books features the libraries of: awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, Stan Allen, Henry Cobb, Liz Diller & Ric Scofidio, texture, materials, shapes, light and memory. Upon Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Steven Holl, Toshiko Mori, completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will Richard Meier, Michael Sorkin, Robert A. M. Stern, enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and Bernard Tschumi, Todd Williams and Billie Tsien experiencing every aspect of the built world. Jo Steffens is director of Urban Center Books and editor of Paul Goldberger is the architecture critic for The New Yorker. Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York City. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Published with Urban Center Books, The Architecture Architecture at The New School in Manhattan. Bookstore of the Municipal Art Society of New York Why X Matters November 208 pp. 140x203mm. November 288 pp. 197x134mm. 55 b/w illus. 24 b/w + 284 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14430-7 £18.99* ISBN 978-0-300-15893-9 £20.00* Translation rights: International Creative Management, Inc, New York
Architecture on Modern the Edge of Architecture Postmodernism Representation Collected Essays, and Reality 1964–1988 Neil Levine Robert A. M. Stern In this handsome book, Edited by esteemed architectural Cynthia Davidson historian Neil Levine investigates for the first time Robert A. M. Stern is one of the complex history of contemporary architecture’s representation—the use and most influential figures, with meaning of architectural signifiers—from the 18th through the a career encompassing every facet of the profession. As a 20th century. Using the lens of a continuous theoretical preeminent force in the discourse of the field, Stern was one of argument, Levine provides a detailed survey and critical analysis the first critics to use and analyse the term ‘postmodern’ in N. H., 1965–72. Exeter, Academy, Exeter Phillips Library, of major works by a host of modern architects, including architecture. This collection of essays—Stern’s first—brackets Étienne-Louis Boullée, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Louis Kahn, the years defined by the changes in architectural thinking Henri Labrouste, Augustus Welby Pugin, Karl Friedrich introduced by Robert Venturi in 1966 and the exhibition Schinkel, John Soane, Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Deconstructivist Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Frank Lloyd Wright. 1988. Throughout, Stern provides close readings of architectural events and offers firsthand accounts of The book features previously unpublished images, many transformations in architectural thinking during a critical created for this publication, and it addresses a variety of period. specific cases while offering an original and panoramic view of the history of architecture. Beautifully written and accessible, Robert A. M. Stern is J. M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture Modern Architecture is destined to become a classic. and the Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University. Cynthia Davidson is the editor of the architecture Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of journal Log. History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. November 208 pp. 254x190mm. 90 b/w illus. January 432 pp. 279x228mm. 311 b/w + 30 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15397-2 £30.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14567-0 £45.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 47
Art 47 A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851 Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy and M. G. Sullivan This remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851. It is a substantially expanded edition of Gunnis’s Dictionary of British Sculptors, the primary source for information on church monuments, portrait busts, carved fireplaces and more since publication in 1951. The editorial team, and invited experts in the field, have drawn on a mass of archival and scholarly material, including Gunnis’s own extensive unpublished archive, to rewrite all the major lives of the sculptors, and to add over 1,000 new ones. Each entry provides a brief biography of the sculptor, where possible, followed by a list of his or her known works. Each work is identified by date and location, past or present, and provenance, materials, exhibitions, known preparatory sketches and models, and bibliographical references are also recorded. Ingrid Roscoe is an independent scholar, M. G. Sullivan is curator of sculpture at the Ashmolean Museum and Emma Hardy is collections manager at the Geffrye Museum. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Henry Moore Foundation September 1616 pp. 232x154mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14965-4 £80.00*
The Society of Dilettanti Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment Jason M. Kelly In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. Originally formed as a convivial dining society, by the middle of the eighteenth century the Dilettanti took on an influential role in cultural matters. It was the first European organisation fully to subsidise an archaeological expedition to the lands of classical Greece, and, its members were important sponsors of new institutions such as the Royal Academy and the British Museum. The Society of Dilettanti became one of the most prominent and influential societies of the British Enlightenment. This lively and illuminating account, based on extensive archival research, is the most detailed analysis of the early Society of Dilettanti to date. Not simply an institutional biography, three themes dominate this history of the Dilettanti: eighteenth-century debates over social identity; the relationships between aesthetics and archaeology; and the meanings of natural philosophy. Connecting the world of the grand tour to the sociable masculinity of London’s taverns, this book reveals that the trajectory of British classical archaeology was as much a consequence of shifting notions of politeness as it was a product of antiquarian discoveries and elite tastes. The book places the Society of Dilettanti at the complex intersection of international and national discourses that shaped the British Enlightenment, and, thus, it sheds new light on eighteenth-century grand tourism, elite masculinity, sociability, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology. Jason M. Kelly is Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis January 320 pp. 256x192mm. 100 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15219-7 £40.00*
Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-century Rome Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby This important and long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Based on work carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the book traces sculptures and other works of art that are currently in public collections around the world from their original find sites via the dealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain. In the first of two volumes, approximately fifty sites, each located by maps, are analysed in historical and topographical detail, supported by fifty newly written and researched biographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini and Hornsby introduce the field of study and elucidate the complex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of the Papal courts. The second volume of the book is a collection of hundreds of letters from the dealers and excavators abroad to collectors in England, offering a rich source of information about all aspects of the art market at the time. Ilaria Bignamini was an historian of art and archeology. Clare Hornsby is Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. January 270x217 mm. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus. Vol. 1: 288 pp. Vol. 2: 176 pp. Slipcased ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00* All of the above Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 48
48 Art Art of the Samurai Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868 Edited by Morihiro Ogawa Samurai arms and equipment are widely recognised as masterpieces in steel, silk and lacquer. This extensively illustrated volume is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. It includes the finest examples of swords—the spirit of the samurai—as well as sword mountings and fittings, armour and helmets, saddles, banners and paintings. The objects in the catalogue, drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan, feature more than 100 officially designated national treasures and important cultural properties. Dating from the 5th to the 19th century, these majestic works offer a complete picture of samurai culture and its unique blend of the martial and the refined. Many of the greatest Japanese blade makers are represented in this volume, from the earliest kotõ (‘old sword’) masters such as Yasuie (12th century) and Tomomitsu (14th century) to the Edo-period smiths Nagasone Kotetsu and Kiyomaro. These blades, cherished as much for their beauty as for their cutting effectiveness, were equipped with elaborate hilts and scabbards prized for their exquisite craftsmanship and materials, including silk, rayskin, gold, lacquer and alloys unique to Japan, such as shakudõ and shibuichi. Japanese armour is also fully surveyed, from the rarest iron armour of the Kofun period (5th century) to the inventive ceremonial helmets made towards the end of the age of the samurai. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20/10/09 – 10/1/10 Morihiro Ogawa is Special Consultant for Japanese Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. November 304 pp. 279x228mm. 75 b/w + 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14205-1 £45.00*
American Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Carrie Rebora Barratt and Lori Zabar This volume catalogues the world’s most comprehensive collection of American portrait miniatures, ranging in date from the early 18th to the 20th century and representing 155 artists. Jewel-like and intimate, the pieces portray spouses, children and other loved ones and were usually created for personal use. The Museum’s collection is also significant for its self- portraits by artists and for portraits of notable public figures. Each of the nearly six hundred works is illustrated and described in detail, and a biography and bibliography are provided for each artist. An introductory essay conveys the history of the collection. Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator, American Paintings and Sculpture, and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, and Lori Zabar is Research Associate, American Paintings and Sculpture, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 256 pp. 279x216mm. 25 b/w + 400 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14895-4 £45.00*
The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Sabine Rewald and Magdalena Dabrowski In a career spanning over six decades, the New York art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) contributed substantially to the advancement of modern art. At his eponymous gallery on East Fifty-seventh Street, he showed several now legendary artists for the first time outside Europe. The collection—paintings, sculpture and drawings by Balthus, Bonnard, Chagall, Derain, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Magritte, Miró and the dealer’s own father, Henri Matisse, among others—was donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 by the foundation established by his widow. These extraordinary artworks are presented with informative entries addressing the circumstances of each work’s creation and the dealer’s relationship to the artist. In the introduction, the story of Pierre Matisse’s early struggles in New York is told for the first time and illustrated with previously unpublished archival photographs. Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator and Magdalena Dabrowski is Special Consultant, both in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 192 pp. 279x216mm. 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15510-5 £45.00* The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 49
Art 49 The Drawings of Bronzino Carmen C. Bambach, Janet Cox-Rearick, and George R. Goldner With contributions by Philippe Costamagna, Marzia Faietti and Elizabeth Pilliod Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in colour, discussed in detail and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino’s technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman). Carmen C. Bambach is Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Janet Cox-Rearick is Distinguished Professor Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY. George R. Goldner is Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Philippe Costamagna is Curator of the Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica. Marzia Faietti is Director of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence. Elizabeth Pilliod is Professor, The State University of New Jersey-Camden. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 20/1/10 – 18/4/10 January 256 pp. 279x228mm. 85 b/w + 100 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15512-9 £45.00*
Watteau, Music, and Theater Edited by Katharine Baetjer With contributions by Pierre Rosenberg, Katharine Baetjer, Perrin Stein, Jeffrey Munger, Jayson Dobney and Georgia J. Cowart Accompanying an exhibition in honour of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theatre on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored. In addition, drawings and prints by other 18th-century artists featuring musical or theatrical subjects and objects and musical instruments are included. Exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22/9/09 – 29/11/09 Katharine Baetjer is a Curator in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Paintings. Pierre Rosenberg is Honorary President-Director of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Perrin Stein is a Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, Jeffrey Munger is Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and Jayson Dobney is an Associate Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments. Georgia J. Cowart is Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. October 176 pp. 254x228mm. 10 b/w + 75 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15507-5 £35.00*
British Paintings • New The Metropolitan Museum of Art York in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575–1875 Katharine Baetjer This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of the 19th century, the 140 works included are by such major artists as Peake, Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence, Turner, Constable and Burne-Jones. While the collection is particularly rich in portraiture, it also contains genre paintings and landscapes. Each painting is reproduced in colour and carries full cataloguing data as well as a generous selection of comparative illustrations, among them pendants, related paintings and prints. Katharine Baetjer is a Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. January 512 pp. 279x228mm. 215 b/w + 140 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15509-9 £55.00*
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50 Art American Stories Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 Edited by H. Barbara Weinberg and Carrie Rebora Barratt • Essays by Carrie Rebora Barratt, Margaret C. Conrads, Bruce Robertson and H. Barbara Weinberg This beautiful volume explores American paintings of people engaged in the tasks and pleasures of everyday life between the colonial era and World War I. These works reflect key historical and cultural developments, including the growth of industrialisation, urbanisation and immigration; changing gender roles; and the shifting location and meaning of the frontier. Focusing on leading artists, from John Singleton Copley to John Sloan, the authors address narrative content in colonial and early national portraits; genre scenes of the Jacksonian period; images from the Civil War era; and works by American Impressionists and realists in the decades before and after 1900. Like the exhibition it accompanies, the book reflects transformations in artists’ aspirations and viewers’ expectations as America evolved from isolated British outpost to leading independent participant in international affairs. Exhibition schedule The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6/10/09 – 24/1/10; Los Angeles County Museum of Art 28/2/10 – 23/5/10 H. Barbara Weinberg is Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Carrie Rebora Barratt is Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture and Manager of The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, both at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Margaret C. Conrads is Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Bruce Robertson is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Consulting Curator, Department of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. October 256 pp. 305x228mm. 70 b/w + 135 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15508-2 £45.00*
American Quilts and Coverlets in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Amelia Peck • With the assistance of Cynthia V. A. Schaffner Technical appendix by Elena Phipps This handsome book, newly available from Yale, showcases the Metropolitan Museum’s superb collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets. First published in 1990 and revised in 2007 to feature 32 new acquisitions and updated scholarship, this volume chronicles the development of quilt and coverlet production in the United States from the 18th through the 20th centuries, provides a glimpse into the lives of the makers and recipients of these pieces and discusses their emergence as works of art. Notable pieces include the Phebe Warner and the Baltimore Presentation coverlets, Amish, Crazy and Honeycomb quilts that exemplify achievement in abstract and geometric patterns, along with the Adeline Harris Sears Autograph Quilt, a memorial to the greatest politicians, composers, authors and thinkers of the mid-19th century. Each work is catalogued with a description and essential information on materials, condition, publications and references. Also included is an illustrated survey of materials and techniques used in the creation of these works. Amelia Peck is Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Decorative Arts and Cynthia V. A. Schaffner is Research Associate, Department of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elena Phipps is Senior Museum Conservator in the Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. August 320 pp. 279x254mm. 50 b/w + 300 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15903-5 £22.50*
Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008 James R. Houghton and Members of the Staff In this unusual glimpse into the Metropolitan Museum, members of curatorial and other key departments describe Philippe de Montebello’s impact on their activities during the thirty-one years of his directorship. The transformations that took place during his tenure are astonishing: countless numbers of the museum’s finest works familiar to visitors today were acquired, galleries were redesigned, additions were constructed and new approaches for bringing the arts to the public were developed. De Montebello’s unwavering pursuit of excellence, support for scholarship and curatorial initiative, organisational grasp and flashes of humour inform this fascinating collection of stories that illustrate the challenges and triumphs of one of the world’s greatest art museums. James R. Houghton is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art • New October 208 pp. 305x228mm. 150 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15424-5 £45.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 51
Art 51 Spaces of Experience Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000 Charlotte Klonk This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colours of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called ‘the period eye’, a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience. Charlotte Klonk is Departmental Chair, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is the author of Science and the Perception of Nature and co-author of Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods. October 244 pp. 256x192mm. 110 b/w + 20 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15196-1 £45.00*
The Modern Eye Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934 Kristina Wilson The Modern Eye explores the origins and development of early 20th-century modernism in America through the lens of the major exhibitions that introduced this art to the general public. Author Kristina Wilson shows how modern artists and curators sought to relate high art to mass culture in order to make it accessible to more people, and successfully popularised modern painting and design during the interwar years. A major contribution to our understanding of the origins of modernism, this book captures the vibrant diversity that the term ‘modern art’ meant at this time. The chapters examine exhibitions held in New York in the 1920s and 1930s, including those organised by Alfred Stieglitz, the Little Review, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. In examining the marketing of modernism, Wilson reveals how these exhibitions attempted to stage an intersection between art and everyday life, and how they taught viewers to look at, and care about, modern art. “A fascinating and fresh study that explores a rich panorama of themes important to the modernist art of the period.” —Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
Kristina Wilson is Assistant Professor of Art History at Clark University. She is author of Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design During the Great Depression. October 256 pp. 254x203mm. 98 b/w + 15 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14916-6 £35.00*
Alice Guy Blaché Cinema Pioneer Edited by Joan Simon • With contributions by Jane Gaines, Alison McMahan, Charles Musser, Joan Simon, Kim Tomadjoglou and Alan Williams This book celebrates the achievements of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968), the first woman motion picture director and producer. From 1896 to 1907, Guy Blaché created films for Gaumont in Paris. In 1907, she moved to the United States and established her own film company, Solax. From 1914 to 1920, Guy Blaché was an independent director for a number of film companies. Despite her immensely productive and creative career, Guy Blaché’s indispensable contribution to film history has been overlooked. Written by cinema history experts and curators, this handsome volume brings to light a critical new mass of Guy Blaché’s film oeuvre in an effort to restore her to her rightful place in film history. Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 6/11/09 – 24/1/10 Joan Simon is Curator-At-Large for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art November 168 pp. 228x152mm. 60 b/w + 8 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15250-0 £30.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 52
52 Art Steve Wolfe on Paper Carter E. Foster and Franklin Sirmans Working in the tradition of trompe l’oeil, Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) creates careful replicas of classic books, worn album covers and vinyl records, crafted from modelling paste, screenprints, drawings and many other media. Wolfe’s reproductions embrace the tattered jackets, aged paper and worn corners that come with the consumption of the culture within. These marks become records of time and memory representing the intersection of abstract thought and physical substance. With painstakingly composed illusion, these objects fall within the tradition of trompe l’oeil and blur the line between everyday object and art. This book focuses on Wolfe’s works on paper, including drawings and pieces that combine drawing with painting, collage and printmaking. Although his work is included in numerous museum collections and has appeared in several group shows, this is the first major publication on this important emerging artist. Exhibition schedule Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 9/09 – 11/09; The Menil Collection, Houston, 12/4/10 – 15/8/10 Carter E. Foster is Curator and Curator of Drawings at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Franklin Sirmans is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Menil Collection October 96 pp. 285x190mm. 45 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15898-4 £16.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope John Wilmerding and Michael K. Komanecky Perhaps best known for his iconic paintings and sculptures of LOVE, also featured on a U.S. postage stamp, and HOPE, created in support of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Robert Indiana (b. 1928) has been living and working in Maine since 1978. The Star of Hope, his year-round home and studio on the island of Vinalhaven, is a former late 19th-century Odd Fellows lodge listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope is both a retrospective of the artist’s work based on his own holdings, and an unprecedented study of his living and working space. His studio is a home, museum, archive and gallery, all set within the historic interiors of the former Odd Fellows lodge. This book offers a unique examination of how Indiana’s work has unfolded since his move to Vinalhaven and includes works from his student days to storied sculptures such as EAT. Exhibition Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, 20/6/09 – 25/10/09 John Wilmerding is Christopher B. Sarofim ‘86 Professor of American Art, Emeritus, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University. Michael K. Komanecky is the Interim Director & Chief Curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Distributed for the Farnsworth Art Museum September 128 pp. 254x241mm. 1 b/w + 99 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15470-2 £35.00* Translation rights: Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland
Georgia O’Keeffe Abstraction Edited by Barbara Haskell Essays by Barbara Haskell, Barbara Buhler Lynes, Bruce Robertson and Elizabeth Hutton Turner Although Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th- century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained critically and popularly overlooked in favour of her representational subjects. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe pure emotion in her work. While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America’s first abstractionists. Exhibition schedule Whitney Museum of American Art, 17/9/09 – 17/1/10 The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 6/2/10 – 9/5/10; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 28/5/10 – 12/9/10 Barbara Haskell is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Phillips Collection and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum September 256 pp. 279x241mm. 26 duotone + 202 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14817-6 £45.00* Translation rights: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 53
Art 53 The Photographs of Homer Page The Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949–50 Keith F. Davis This book—the first on this brilliant but little-known documentary photographer— focuses on Homer Page’s New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late ‘40s. Exhibition The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14/2 – 7/6/09 Keith F. Davis is Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is the author of An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection along with The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage and The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839–1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, both published by Yale. Distributed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art July 144 pp. 279x279mm. 98 tritone illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15443-6 £38.00* Translation rights: Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas City
Konstantin Grcic Decisive Design Zoë Ryan The hip, functional and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic—widely recognised as one of the most important designers working today—are transforming the landscape of contemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition in North America of Grcic’s work, highlighting the innovative archetypes of form and concept that have marked his remarkable output since 2004. Grcic delights in creating fresh takes on familiar industrial objects, whether desks, chairs, benches, stools, a range of kitchen equipment, lamps, a set of salad servers, or Krups coffee makers. In his recent work, he has blended his characteristic simplicity and distinctiveness with the use of new technologies and materials—for example, a cantilevered stacking chair, Myto (2008), is made from a strong, fluid plastic typically used by the automotive industry. Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 17/10/09 – 10/1/10 Zoë Ryan is the Neville Bryan Curator of Design in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago. A+D Series • Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
MURA barstool, 2005, produced by PLANK. Photo: Florian Böhm. PLANK. by Florian MURA barstool, 2005, produced Photo: November 96 pp. 215x234mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15104-6 £12.99* Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Chaotic Harmony Contemporary Korean Photography Anne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer • With Bohnchang Koo Recently contemporary Korean art has garnered significant international recognition, in part for the work of photographers Atta Kim and Bae Bien-U. Now, this richly illustrated book brings their work together with that of forty other up-and-coming Korean artists, each working to stretch the bounds of the photographic medium. One of the first books on the subject, Chaotic Harmony features essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer exploring the notions of urbanisation, politics, identity, community, globalisation, tradition and fantasy in today’s Korean photography. A chronology of recent developments, prepared by noted photographer Bohnchang Koo, also accompanies brief biographies of the artists, as well as a complete checklist of the exhibition. This catalogue sheds a new light on Korean photographers’ little-known contributions to the world arena of contemporary art. Exhibition schedule The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 18/10/09 – 3/1/10; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 16/5/10 – 21/8/10 Anne Wilkes Tucker is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is the author of The Great Wall of China: Photographs by Chen Changfen and coauthor of The History of Japanese Photography, both published by Yale. Karen Sinsheimer is the curator of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art October 128 pp. 266x222mm. 65 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15753-6 £25.00* Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 54
54 Art Heroes Kantha Mortals and Myths The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Sheldon in Ancient Greece and Jill Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Edited by Sabine Albersmeier Darielle Mason • With essays by Pika Ghosh, Essays by Michael J. Anderson, Katherine Hacker, Anne Peranteau and Niaz Zaman Jorge J. Bravo III, Gunnel Ekroth, This study on kanthas focuses on two premier collections, one Ralf von den Hoff, Jennifer Larson, assembled by the historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, Jenifer Neils, John H. Oakley, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of Corinne Ondine Pache self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively and H. A. Shapiro embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a This volume explores the role of heroes in ancient Greek art rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as and culture. More than a hundred stunning statues, reliefs, gifts for births, weddings and other family occasions. vases, bronzes, coins and gems highlight how heroes were Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 12/09 – 5/10 represented, why they were important and what encouraged Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and individuals to seek them out. Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Featuring essays by leading authorities in the field, this book Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art draws on recent archaeological, literary and art historical research to explore such issues as gender, cult and iconography, January 260 pp. 298x254mm. 30 b/w + 230 colour illus. as well as overlooked aspects of familiar and unfamiliar heroes. ISBN 978-0-300-15442-9 £40.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Sabine Albersmeier is Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Arts of Africa Exhibition schedule Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 11/10/09 – 3/1/10 at the Dallas Museum of Art The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 29/1/10 – 25/4/10 Roslyn Adele Walker San Diego Museum of Art, 22/5/10 – 25/8/10 Onassis Cultural Center, New York, 4/10/10 – 3/1/11 This beautifully illustrated book showcases 110 objects from the Dallas Museum of Art’s world-renowned African collection. Distributed for the Walters Art Museum Chosen both for their visual appeal and their compelling October 320 pp. 305x266mm. 80 b/w + 130 colour illus. histories and cultural significance, the works of art are presented ISBN 978-0-300-15472-6 £40.00* under the themes of leadership and status; the cycle of life; Translation rights: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore decorative arts; and influences (imported and exported). Roslyn Adele Walker is Senior Curator of the Arts of Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas and the Margaret McDermott Hanging Fire Curator of African Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. Contemporary Art Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art from Pakistan January 304 pp. 305x228mm. 130 colour illus. Salima Hashmi ISBN 978-0-300-13895-5 £55.00* With contributions from Iftikhar Translation rights: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Dadi, Carla Petievich, Ayesha Jalal, Quddus Mirza, Naazish Ata-Ullah and Mohsin Hamid Gifts from the Ancestors Accompanying the first U.S. Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait museum exhibition devoted to Edited by William W. Fitzhugh, Aron L. Crowell contemporary art from Pakistan, and Julie Hollowell this dynamic catalogue provides a groundbreaking look at recent and current trends in Pakistani art. Hanging Fire covers Gifts from the Ancestors examines ancient ivories from the coast a fascinating range of subjects and media, from installation and of Bering Strait, western Alaska and the islands in between— video art to sculpture, drawing and paintings in the illuminating their sophisticated formal aesthetic, cultural ‘contemporary miniature’ tradition. Essays by distinguished complexity and individual histories. Many of the pieces contributors from a variety of fields, including Salima Hashmi, discussed are from recent Russian excavations and are Pakistani-American sociologist and historian Ayesha Jalal and presented here for the first time in English; others are from the celebrated novelist Mohsin Hamid, place contemporary private collections not usually open to the public. Pakistani art in a cultural, historical and artistic perspective. Exhibition Salima Hashmi is currently Dean of the School of Visual Arts Princeton University Art Museum, 3/10/09 – 10/1/10 at Beaconhouse National University in Lehore, Pakistan. William W. Fitzhugh is Curator of North American Archaeology and Director, Arctic Studies Center, Exhibition Asia Society and Museum, 10/9/09 – 3/1/10 Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Distributed for the Asia Society Museum Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum September 160 pp. 305x228mm. 90 colour illus. October 320 pp. 266x203mm. 51 b/w + 452 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15418-4 £40.00* ISBN 978-0-300-12206-0 £50.00* Translation rights: The Asia Society Museum Translation rights: Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 55
Art 55 Rivers of Paradise Water in Islamic Art and Culture Edited by Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom For millennia the collection, distribution and symbolism of water have played pivotal roles in the lands where Islam has flourished. This book is the first to address this important subject. A diverse spectrum of scholars covers a wide range of topics: from the revelation of Islam in the seventh century to today’s conservation and development issues, from watering oases in the Moroccan desert to the flooded plains of Bengal. Copiously illustrated with beautiful colour photographs and newly drawn plans and maps, this book will provoke readers to appreciate and acknowledge the essential, if often invisible and transitory, roles that water played in the arts of the Islamic lands and beyond. Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom have shared the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College since 2000 and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University since 2006. Their publications include Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power, The Art and Architecture of Islam and The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture. Published in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar September 384 pp. 290x230mm. 30 b/w + 205 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15899-1 £45.00*
Decoded Messages The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting Hou-Mei Sung During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As a result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals’ symbolic associations and homonymic puns. Hou- mei Sung’s exciting rediscovery of some of these lost meanings has led to a full-scale investigation of the evolving history of Chinese animal painting. Distinct symbolic meanings were associated with individual motifs, but all animals were assigned a place in the universe according to the Chinese concept of nature. From the very early yin/yang cosmology to later developments of Daoist and Confucian philosophies and ethics, Chinese animals gained new meanings related to their historical contexts. This book explores these new findings, using the colourful animal images and their rich and evolving symbolic meanings to gain insight into unique aspects of Chinese art, as well as Chinese culture and history. Exhibition Cincinnati Museum of Art, 10/09 – 2/10 Hou-mei Sung is Curator of Asian Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Published in association with the Cincinnati Museum of Art September 256 pp. 290x244mm. 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14152-8 £45.00*
Serizawa Master of Japanese Textile Design Edited by Joe Earle • With contributions by Kim Brandt, Matthew Fraleigh, Shukuko Hamada, Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, Hiroshi Mizuo and Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Designated a Living National Treasure in 1956, Serizawa Keisuke (1895–1984) was one of the greatest artists of 20th-century Japan. This is the first book in English to trace Serizawa’s artistic biography in detail using the finest examples of his work from leading Japanese collections. A major exponent of the mingei (people’s crafts) movement, Serizawa achieved fame as a textile designer using traditional stencil-dyeing techniques and often working in large-scale formats such as folding screens or kimonos. The stunning works in this catalogue are important not only for the originality of their conception, but also for the variety of their materials: cotton, silk, hemp and a range of other fibres, and paper decorated with the brilliant yet warm hues of vegetable dyes. Dramatic in design, Serizawa’s textiles have an expressive power that far transcends expectations of a ‘craft’ medium. Exhibition Japan Society Gallery, New York, 2/10/09 – 10/1/10 Joe Earle is Vice President and Director of the gallery at Japan Society in New York City. He is the author of New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters and Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile. Published in association with the Japan Society October 144 pp. 241x254mm. 145 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15047-6 £25.00* Translation rights: The Japan Society, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 56
56 Art Dutch New York, between East and West The World of Margrieta van Varick Edited by Deborah Krohn and Peter N. Miller, with Marybeth De Filippis Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but lived at the extremes of the Dutch colonial world, in Malacca on the Malay Peninsula and in Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she came to New York in 1686 with her husband and set up a shop, she brought an astonishing array of Eastern goods, many of which were documented in an inventory made after her death in 1695. Archival research has enabled the authors to reconstruct her story. This is a ground-breaking contribution to the histories of New York City, the Dutch overseas empire, women and material culture. Exhibition Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, New York, 19/9/09 – 3/1/10 Deborah Krohn is coordinator for History and Theory of Museums at the Bard Graduate Center where Peter N. Miller is Dean and Chair of Academic Programs; Marybeth De Filippis is Assistant Curator for American Art at the New-York Historical Society. Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, and the New-York Historical Society October 352 pp. 292x228mm. 100 b/w + 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15467-2 £45.00*
The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe Edited by Peter Parshall More than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg’s celebrated press, the new technology of image printing emerged. In this book, a group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations of printing in all aspects: technical experimentation, the complex relation of printed books to printed images, individual and institutional patronage, new iconographies, religious propaganda and the wide variety of private and public ways in which printed images were first employed. The essays examine the technological, social, political, religious, personal and institutional contexts of 15th-century woodcuts and challenge many assumptions about the phenomenon of early printing, including the beginnings of printing on cloth, the significance of monastic production, the development of book printing and book illustration and the extent to which printing can or should be termed a ‘revolution’. Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Studies in the History of Art Series Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University Press October 352 pp. 279x228mm. 124 duotone + 124 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12163-6 £55.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sacred Spain Art and Belief in the Spanish World Ronda Kasl, Luisa Elena Alcalá, William A. Christian, Jr., María Cruz de Carlos Varona, Jaime Cuadriello, Javier Portús and Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos The art of Spain and Spanish America during the 17th century is overwhelmingly religious— it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion and identification. Its forms and meanings are inextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of the people for whom it was made. In this groundbreaking book, scholars of art and religion look at new ways to understand the reception of and use of these images in the practice of belief. As a result, the book argues for a fundamental reappraisal of the cultural role of the Church based on an analysis of the specific devotional and ritual contexts of Spanish art. Handsomely illustrated essays discuss paintings, polychrome sculptures, metalwork and books. They call attention to the paradoxical nature of the most characteristic visual forms of Spanish Catholicism: material richness and external display as expressions of internal spirituality, strict doctrinal orthodoxy accompanied by artistic expression of surprising unconventionality, the calculated social projection of new devotional themes and the divergence of popular religious practices from officially prescribed ones. Exhibition Indianapolis Museum of Art, 11/10/09 – 3/1/10 Ronda Kasl is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Distributed for the Indianapolis Museum of Art November 400 pp. 305x254mm. 25 b/w + 125 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15471-9 £45.00* Translation rights: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 57
Art 57 Leonardo da Tullio Lombardo Vinci and the and Venetian Art of Sculpture High Renaissance Gary M. Radke Sculpture With contributions by Alison Luchs Andrea Bernardoni, With contributions by Martin J. Kemp, Adriana Augusti, Pietro C. Marani, Matteo Ceriana, Sarah Blake Tommaso Mozzati, McHam, Debra Pincus Philippe Sènèchal and Alessandra Sarchi and Darin Stine The great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance, led by Leonardo da Vinci is renowned as a painter, designer, Tullio Lombardo, explored a poetic and nostalgic approach to draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist and theorist. His work classical antiquity in their work. Featuring a range of Tullio’s as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have work, including his sensuous and dramatic double-portrait argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior reliefs, this book introduces the romantic qualities and art form (‘of lesser genius than painting’). Challenging and beautiful craftsmanship of the sculptor and his closest overturning these assumptions, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone of Sculpture looks at the sculptural projects that the artist Bianco, Antonio Minello and Giammaria Mosca. Essays undertook, as well as the late Renaissance sculptures that were examine Tullio’s innovations and their Venetian cultural setting. indebted to him. Exhibition Exhibition schedule National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 4/7/09 – 31/10/09 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 3/10/09 – 21/2/10 J. Paul Getty Museum 23/3/10 – 20/6/10 Alison Luchs is Curator of Early European Sculpture at the National Gallery of Art. Gary M. Radke is Professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. Published in association with the National Gallery, Washington Published in association with the High Museum of Art August 160 pp. 298x247mm. 23 b/w + 62 colour illus. October 224 pp. 305x254mm. 154 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15667-6 £45.00* ISBN 978-0-300-15473-3 £35.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Accademia A Sketchbook Seminars of Pietro The Accademia Santi Bartoli di San Luca in Rome, Draftsman Among c. 1590–1635 Roman Antiquarians Edited by Irène Aghion Peter M. Lukehart Among the books collected by This volume of essays re- Horace Walpole (1717–1797) examines the establishment and was a small volume of early history of the Accademia sketches of antiquities. Irène di San Luca in Rome, one of Aghion has pursued elusive clues to establish Pietro Santi the most important centres of governance, education and Bartoli (1635–1700) as the artist and places his sketchbook in theory in the arts for the early modern period and the model its proper context, the lively world of seventeenth-century for all subsequent academies of art worldwide. Rome. In following Bartoli’s sketchbook from Rome to It is the most comprehensive history of the Accademia to be London to Farmington, Connecticut, Aghion uncovers the published in more than forty years, and the first in nearly two stories of these antiquities, found in Rome, acquired by hundred years to be based almost entirely on new primary and collectors and now held in collections throughout Europe. documentary material. In reconstructing the early history of the institution, the volume also provides a new basis for tracking Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis revived Horace Walpole’s short-lived the careers of painters, sculptors and architects working in series, Miscellaneous Antiquities; or, A Collection of Curious Rome in the early 16th century, and for understanding the Papers. The Lewis Walpole Library launched a second revival artistic and professional issues that engaged them. of Miscellaneous Antiquities in 2004 and this publication is the latest in the series. Peter M. Lukehart is Associate Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. Irène Aghion is curator of the Museum of the Cabinet des Médailles et Antiques in Paris. Seminar Papers • Published by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/ Published by the Lewis Walpole Library Distributed by Yale University Press Distributed by Yale University Press November 376 pp. 254x178mm. 74 duotone illus. October 352 pp. 228x205mm. 280 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13591-6 £25.00* ISBN 978-0-300-15400-9 £60.00* Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, Washington Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 58
58 Art Cézanne Adventures and American in Modern Art Modernism The Charles K. Gail Stavitsky and Williams II Collection Katherine Rothkopf Innis Howe Shoemaker With essays by Gail Stavitsky, With contributions by Jill Anderson Kyle, Jayne S. Jennifer T. Criss, Kathleen Warman, Katherine Rothkopf, A. Foster, John Ittmann Ellen Handy, Jerry N. Smith and Michael R. Taylor and Mary Tompkins Lewis Charles K. Williams II Examining Cézanne’s influence on more than a generation of amassed an art collection that American artists, this handsomely illustrated book features includes examples by major American artists and movements of paintings and photography by Paul Strand, Marsden Hartley, the early 20th century. This catalogue features more than one Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Arshile Gorky, hundred significant works in the collection by artists including Charles Sheeler, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Maurice Stieglitz Circle painters Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Marsden Prendergast, Morgan Russell, Max Weber and many others. Hartley and Arthur Dove; Precisionists Charles Demuth, Ralston Exhibition schedule Crawford, George Ault and Charles Sheeler; and Philadelphia Montclair Art Museum, 13/9/09 – 3/1/10 modernists Arthur B. Carles, Hugh Henry Breckenridge and The Baltimore Museum of Art, 14/2/10 – 23/5/10 Earl Horter. Sculptures by Elie Nadelman, John Storrs, Phoenix Art Museum, 26/6/10 – 26/9/10 Alberto Giacometti and Louise Nevelson are included. Gail Stavitsky is Chief Curator of the Montclair Art Museum Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art, 12/7/09 – 13/9/09 in Montclair, New Jersey. Katherine Rothkopf is Senior Innis Howe Shoemaker is The Audrey and William H. Helfand Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at The Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Published in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art Published in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art September 376 pp. 254x279mm. 190 colour illus. August 336 pp. 285x228mm. 2 b/w + 153 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14715-5 £45.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14978-4 £40.00* Translation rights: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Giovanni Boldini in From the Private Impressionist Paris Collections Sarah Lees, Richard Kendall of Texas and Barbara Guidi European Art, Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931) Ancient to Modern was one of the most prominent Italian artists of the late 19th Richard R. Brettell century. Still, he has remained and C. D. Dickerson III little known beyond his native The Lone Star State is home to country. This beautiful book is a dazzling array of world-class the first published on Boldini in artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. English in a generation and accompanies the first major Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum’s own collecting strengths, exhibition of his works outside Europe. this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Born in Ferrara, Boldini moved to Paris in 1871. This book Mediterranean from about 700 B.C. to around 1950. Over 40 focuses on his work from 1871 to 1886, which reflects the prominent collections are featured along with works that have influence of his contemporaries—Degas, Manet, Caillebotte, been given to museums in Texas or have left the state through Meissonier and Fortuny, among others. It features Boldini’s gift or sale. Among the artists included are Thomas paintings for the art market, depictions of the city around Gainsborough, Paul Gauguin, Guercino, Henri Matisse, Piet him, paintings of friends and models and a selection of later Mondrian, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste portraits. Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. The distinguished scholar Richard R. Brettell contributes a comprehensive essay on the Exhibition schedule Ferrara Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, importance of private collecting in Texas. 20/9/09 – 10/1/10; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 14/2/10 – 25/4/10 Exhibition Kimbell Art Museum, 22/11//09 – 21/3/10 Sarah Lees is Associate Curator of European Art at the Richard R. Brettell is the Margaret McDermott Distinguished Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Richard Kendall is Chair of Art and Aesthetics at the University of Texas, Dallas. Curator-at-Large at the Clark. Barbara Guidi is Curator of C. D. Dickerson III is Associate Curator of European Art at Modern and Contemporary Art at Ferrara Arte. the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
, 1875. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. Williamstown, Art Clark Institute, and Francine , 1875. Sterling the Street Boldini, Crossing Giovanni Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum November 256 pp. 266x241mm. 160 colour illus. January 344 pp. 254x305mm. 25 b/w + 200 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13411-7 £45.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14494-9 £50.00* Translation rights: The Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, MA Translation rights: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 59
Art 59 Nexus New York Joaquín Latin/American Artists in Torres-García the Modern Metropolis Constructing Deborah Cullen Abstraction with Wood With essays by Elvis Fuentes, Michele Greet, Katherine Mari Carmen Ramírez, Manthorne, Katy Rogers, Margit Rowell and Antonio Saborit, Cecilia de Cecilia de Torres Torres and James Wechsler Joaquín Torres-García Between 1900 and 1942, (1874–1949) is one of the New York City was the site of most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America extraordinary creative exchange where artists could share ideas in in the early 20th century. This handsome catalogue focuses on a global context. The swiftly-changing urban landscape before Torres-García’s wood constructions and accompanies the first and between the World Wars inspired the erosion of artistic exhibition held in North America of these works and the first boundaries and fostered a new climate of modernist solo exhibition of the artist in the United States in over , 1920. Courtesy CDS Gallery, New York. New , 1920. Courtesy CDS Gallery, Street Fourteenth experimentation. Nexus New York focuses on key artists from the forty years. Caribbean and Latin America who entered into dynamic cultural Exhibition schedule and social dialogues with the American-based avant-garde and The Menil Collection, 24/9/09 – 3/1/10 participated in the development of a new modern discourse. San Diego Museum of Art, 21/2/10 – 15/5/10 Exhibition Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin El Museo del Barrio, New York, 17/10/09 – 28/2/10 American Art and director of the International Center for Joaquín Torres-García, Torres-García, Joaquín Deborah Cullen is Director of Curatorial Programs at the Arts of the Americas at The Museum of Fine Arts, El Museo del Barrio, New York. Houston. Margit Rowell is an independent curator living in Paris. Cecilia de Torres is internationally recognised as the Book is bilingual English/Spanish leading authority of the work of Joaquín Torres-García. Published in association with El Museo del Barrio, New York Distributed for The Menil Collection October 272 pp. 254x203mm. 30 b/w + 60 colour illus. October 256 pp. 292x228mm. 200 b/w + colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15896-0 £35.00* ISBN 978-0-300-15401-6 £45.00* Translation rights: El Museo del Barrio, New York Translation rights: The Menil Foundation Inc, Houston
American Reinventing Ritual Modernism at Contemporary Art and the Art Institute Design for Jewish Life Daniel Belasco of Chicago Contributions by Arnold M. Eisen, World War I to 1955 Julie Lasky, Danya Ruttenberg and Tamar Rubin Judith A. Barter With Sarah E. Kelly, Denise A guidebook to current trends in Mahoney, Ellen E. Roberts contemporary Jewish art and and Brandon K. Ruud design, Reinventing Ritual provides an unprecedented look at the work and thought of The first publication to focus on the Art Institute’s contemporary artists as they respond to the needs and outstanding collection of American modernism, this volume practices of traditional culture. Illustrated with new art from includes over 175 important paintings, sculptures, decorative- Israel, Europe and the Americas, this publication features both art objects and works on paper made in North America traditional and avant-garde sculpture, textiles, architecture, between World War I and 1955. Together they fully reflect the metalwork and ceramics by leading artists. history of American art in these decades, including examples of early modernism, Social Realism, Surrealism and Abstract Daniel Belasco surveys trends in Jewish ritual art; Julie Lasky Expressionism. Among the paintings are such iconic works as provides a discussion of recycling and social consciousness in Hopper’s Nighthawks and Wood’s American Gothic, along with Jewish design; Danya Ruttenberg offers a perspective on the notable pieces by Davis, De Kooning, Hartley, Lawrence, impulse ‘to concretise the encounter with the Divine’; Marin, O’Keeffe, Pollock and Sheeler. Among the sculptors Arnold M. Eisen writes a commentary on ritual in Jewish life; represented are Calder, Cornell and Noguchi. Spectacular and Tamar Rubin contributes an illustrated timeline. decorative artwork by the Eameses, Grotell, Neutra, Saarinen, Daniel Belasco is the Henry J. Leir Assistant Curator at F. L. Wright and Zeisel are also featured. The Jewish Museum. Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator of Exhibition schedule American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the editor of Apostles of Beauty (see page 36). The Jewish Museum, New York, 13/9/09 – 7/2/10 Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 22/4/10 – 28/9/10 Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago Published in association with The Jewish Museum January 376 pp. 305x241mm. 140 b/w + 250 colour illus. October 176 pp. 254x178mm. 10 b/w + 93 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11738-7 £55.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14682-0 £28.00 Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 60
60 Art/Music/Drama Futurism An Anthology Edited by Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi and Laura Wittman In 1909, F. T. Marinetti published his incendiary Futurist Manifesto, proclaiming, “We stand on the last promontory of the centuries!!” and “There, on the earth, the earliest dawn!”. Intent on delivering Italy from “its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians”, the Futurists imagined that art, architecture, literature and music would function like a machine, transforming the world rather than merely reflecting it. But within a decade, Futurism’s utopian ambitions were being wedded to Fascist politics, an alliance that would tragically mar its reputation in the century to follow. Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of Futurism, this is the most complete anthology of Futurist manifestos, poems, plays and images ever to be published in English, spanning from 1909 to 1944. Now, amidst another era of unprecedented technological change and cultural crisis, is a pivotal moment to reevaluate Futurism and its haunting legacy for Western civilisation. Lawrence Rainey is Professor of English, University of York. Christine Poggi is Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. Laura Wittman is Assistant Professor of Italian and French Literature, Stanford University. October 640 pp. 254x178mm. 124 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-08875-5 £40.00*
Unaccompanied Bach Performing the Solo Works David Ledbetter This pioneering book by an acclaimed expert is the first to discuss all of Bach’s unaccompanied pieces in one volume, including an examination of crucial issues of style and composition type and the options open to interpretation and performance. David Ledbetter, a leading expert on Bach, provides the historical background to Bach’s instrumental works, as well as detailed commentaries on each work. Ledbetter argues that Bach’s unaccompanied works—the six suites for solo cello, six sonatas and partitas for solo violin, seven works for lute and the suite for solo flute—should be considered together to enable one piece to elucidate another. This illuminating and significant book is essential for professionals, performers, students or anybody who wishes to learn more about Bach’s music. David Ledbetter is Associate Research Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. He is the author of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier: The 48 Preludes and Fugues. November 288 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14151-1 £25.00*
WINNER OF THE SECOND ANNUAL YALE DRAMA SERIES COMPETITION Grenadine Neil Wechsler • Foreword by Edward Albee Neil Wechsler’s Grenadine has been chosen as the second winner of the Yale Drama Series. The play was selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and contest judge Edward Albee. Grenadine is the fantastical story of a man’s quest for love in the company of three devoted friends. Albee writes, ‘I found it highly original . . . The questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play stretched my mind’. About the Yale Drama Series: Yale University Press and the Yale Repertory Theatre are proud co-sponsors of this major competition to support emerging playwrights. Each year’s winner receives the David C. Horn Prize of $10,000, publication of the manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading at Yale Repertory Theatre. For more information and complete rules for the Yale Drama Series, visit www.yalebooks.com Neil Wechsler graduated from Yale University in 1996 with distinction in Philosophy and Psychology. He has been writing novels, novellas and plays ever since. Yale Drama Series November 144 pp. 228x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14992-0 £12.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 61
Literature/Poetry 61 “Matter of Glorious Trial” The Maine Woods Spiritual and Material Substance in ‘Paradise Lost’ A Fully Annotated N. K. Sugimura Edition This groundbreaking book, the first to examine Milton’s Henry D. Thoreau thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view that “On the 31st of August, 1846, Milton was a monist-materialist—one who believes that all I left Concord in things are composed of material and all phenomena (including Massachusetts for Bangor and consciousness) are the result of material interactions. the backwoods of Maine”— Based on her close study of the philosophical movements of thus begins The Maine Woods, Milton’s mind, Sugimura discovers the ‘fluid intermediaries’ in the evocative story of his poetry that are neither strictly material nor immaterial. In Thoreau’s journeys through a doing so, Sugimura uses Paradise Lost as a fascinating window familiar yet untouched land. into the intersection of literature and philosophy, and of literary As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning studies and intellectual history. Sugimura finds that Milton ‘highest land’), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River and the displays a tense and ambiguous relationship with the idealistic East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own dualism of Plato and the materialism of Aristotle and she argues vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in for a more nuanced interpretation of Milton’s metaphysics. the wilderness. Throughout, Thoreau invokes the forest of “engages with Milton’s work on a formidably wide range of Maine—the mountains, waterways, fauna, flora and the fronts—theological, pneumatological, metaphysical, people—in his singular style. Echoing Walden, Thoreau’s linguistic—and in doing so establishes its case convincingly, passionate outcry against the degradation of the environment displaying a remarkable range of learning and industry.” in The Maine Woods will resonate strongly today. This fully —Colin Burrow, All Souls College, University of Oxford annotated gift edition of The Maine Woods makes the perfect companion volume to Walden. N. K. Sugimura is Research Fellow in English, Gonville and Jeffrey Cramer is curator of collections, the Thoreau Institute Caius College, University of Cambridge. at Walden Woods. January 352 pp. 234x156mm. January 384 pp. 234x190mm. 11 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13559-6 £40.00 ISBN 978-10-300-12283-1 £25.00*
Lyric Poetry and Czeslaw Milosz Modern Politics and Russia, Poland, and the West Joseph Brodsky Clare Cavanagh Fellowship of Poets Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics explores the intersection of Irena Grudzinska Gross poetry, national life and national identity in Poland and The intimate portrayal of the Russia, from 1917 to the present. As a corrective to recent friendship between two icons trends in criticism, acclaimed translator and critic Clare of twentieth-century poetry, Cavanagh demonstrates how the practice of the personal lyric Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph in totalitarian states such as Russia and Poland did not Brodsky, highlights the parallel represent an escapist tendency; rather it reverberated as a bold lives of the poets as exiles political statement and at times a dangerous act. living in America and Nobel Cavanagh also provides a comparative study of modern poetry Prize laureates in literature. To create this truly original work, from the perspective of the eastern and western sides of the Irena Grudzinska Gross draws from poems, essays, letters, Iron Curtain. Among the poets discussed are Blok, interviews, speeches, lectures and her own personal memories Mayakovsky, Akhmatova, Yeats, Whitman, Frost, Szymborska, as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky. Zagajewski and Milosz; close readings of individual poems are The dual portrait of these poets and the elucidation of their included, some translated for the first time. Cavanagh attitudes towards religion, history, memory and language examines these poets and their work as a challenge to Western throw a new light on the upheavals of the twentieth-century. postmodernist theories, thus offering new perspectives on Gross also incorporates notes on both poets’ relationships to twentieth-century lyric poetry. other key literary figures, such as W. H. Auden, Susan Sontag, Clare Cavanagh is Associate Professor and Herman and Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, Robert Haas and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature in the Derek Walcott. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Irena Grudzinska Gross teaches in the Slavic Languages and Northwestern University. Literatures Department at Princeton University. January 320 pp. 234x156mm. January 288 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15296-8 £30.00 ISBN 978-0-300-14937-1 £30.00* Polish rights: held by the author Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 62
62 Literature The End of Celestina Everything Fernando de Rojas Translated by David Bergelson • Translated Margaret Sayers Peden and Edited by Joseph Sherman Edited and with an Introduction Originally published in 1913, by Roberto González Echevarría The End of Everything is one of A timeless story of love, morality the great novels of the twentieth and tragedy, Fernando de Rojas’s century. Considered David Celestina is a classic of Spanish Bergelson’s masterpiece, it was literature. Second only to written in Yiddish and until now Don Quixote in its cultural has been unavailable in a importance, Rojas’s dramatic complete and accurate English dialogue presents the elaborate translation. This version by tale of a star-crossed courtship between the young nobleman acclaimed translator Joseph Sherman finally brings the novel to Calisto and the beautiful maiden Melibea in fifteenth-century a wide English-speaking audience. Spain. Their unforgettable saga plays out in vibrant exchanges, Bergelson depicts the lives of upwardly mobile, self-aware presented here in a brilliant new translation by award-winning nouveaux riche Jews in the waning years of the Russian Empire. translator Margaret Sayers Peden. At times a comic character and In a unique prose style of unsurpassable range and beauty, at others a promoter of women’s sexual license, Celestina is an Bergelson reduces language to its bare essentials, punctuated by inimitable personality with a surprisingly modern consciousness, silences that heighten the sense of alienation in the story. certain to be relished by a new generation of readers. A Russian Yiddish novelist, David Bergelson was one of the Margaret Sayers Peden is Professor Emerita of Spanish at the thirteen defendants at the infamous trial of the Jewish Anti- University of Missouri and the translator of major works by Fascist Committee held in Moscow in 1952. Translator, Joseph Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende and others. Sherman, is currently Corob Fellow in Yiddish Studies at Oxford Roberto González Echevarría is Sterling Professor of Hispanic Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. and Comparative Literature, Yale University. New Yiddish Library Series The Margellos World Republic of Letters February 256 pp. 210x140mm. October 288 pp. 107x127mm. 21 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11067-8 £15.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14198-6 £16.99*
Joseph in Egypt Mozart’s Third Brain A Cultural Icon from Göran Sonnevi Grotius to Goethe Translation, Preface and Notes Bernhard Lang by Rika Lesser Foreword Rosanna Warren The biblical story of Joseph ranks in the history of world literature Winner of the 2006 Nordic alongside The Odyssey and other Council’s Literature Prize, ancient legends as a canonical text Swedish writer Göran Sonnevi is and has provided rich material for undoubtedly one of the most writers to imitate and elaborate. important poets working today. This book, by Bernard Lang, an In Mozart’s Third Brain, his acclaimed biblical scholar, thirteenth book of verse, he examines the many and varied ways that the story of Joseph has attempts ‘a commentary on everything’—politics, current been interpreted in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. events, mathematics, love, ethics, music, philosophy, nature. During that time, Joseph was heralded as an icon by many Through the impeccable skill of award-winning translator writers and thinkers, among them Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Rika Lesser, Sonnevi’s long-form poem comes to life in English Chateaubriand and Goethe, who found his story relevant. with the full force of its loose, fractured and radiating intensity. Educators commended Joseph as a model of piety, moralists A poetic tour de force that darts about dynamically and extolled him in defense of chastity, political philosophers regarded imaginatively, Mozart’s Third Brain weaves an elaborate web him as an exemplary leader, while historians debated variously of associations as the poet integrates his private consciousness whether he was a benefactor, tyrant or merely a character in an with the world around him. Through Lesser’s translation and ancient tale. Lang examines a range of texts—novels, stage plays, preface, and an enlightening foreword by Rosanna Warren, poems, children’s books and critical treatises—to illuminate the English readers will finally gain access to this masterpiece. debt each owes to earlier versions of the Joseph story. Born in 1939 in Lund, Sweden, Göran Sonnevi is the author Bernhard Lang is Professor of Religion at the University of of fifteen books of poems and a volume of poetry in Paderborn, Germany. He is the author of Sacred Games: translation. Rika Lesser is the author of four books of poems A History of Christian Worship and The Hebrew God: and six books of poetry in translation. Portrait of an Ancient Deity, and co-author of Heaven: The Margellos World Republic of Letters A History, all published by Yale. November 240 pp. 197x152mm. September 400 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-14580-9 £20.00* ISBN 978-0-300-15156-5 £30.00 Translation rights: held by the author German rights: held by the author Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 63
Psychology/Medicine 63 Boyhoods Rethinking Masculinities Ken Corbett Familiar and expected gender patterns help us to understand boys but often constrict our understanding of any given boy. Writing in a wonderfully robust and engaging voice, Ken Corbett argues for a new psychology of masculinity, one that is not strictly dependent on normative expectation. As he writes in his introduction, ‘no two boys, no two boyhoods are the same’. In Boyhoods Corbett seeks to release boys from the grip of expectation as Mary Pipher did for girls in Reviving Ophelia. Corbett grounds his understanding of masculinity in his clinical practice and in a dynamic reading of feminist and queer theories. New social ideals are being articulated. New possibilities for recognition are in play. How is a boy made between the body, the family and the culture? Does a boy grow by identifying with his father, or by separating from his mother? Can we continue to presume that masculinity is made at home? Corbett uses case studies to defy A groundbreaking understanding stereotypes, depicting masculinity as various and complex. He examines of male development that truly the roles that parental and cultural anxiety play in development, and re-defines masculinity argues for a more nuanced approach to cross-gendered fantasy and experience, one that does not mistake social consensus for well-being. Corbett challenges us at last to a fresh consideration of gender, with profound implications for understanding all boys. October 288 pp. 234x156mm. Ken Corbett is Clinical Assistant Professor at the New York University ISBN 978-0-300-14984-5 £18.99* Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.
Comparative Studies and the Suicidal Behavior in Politics of Modern Medical Care Children and Adolescents Edited by Theodore R. Marmor, Richard Freeman Barry M. Wagner and Kieke G. H. Okma In this remarkably clear and readable evaluation of the This book offers a timely account of health reform struggles in research on this topic, Barry Wagner presents the current state developed democracies. The editors, leading experts in the of knowledge about suicidal behaviours in children and field, have brought together a group of distinguished scholars adolescents, addressing the trends of the past ten years and to explore the ambitions and realities of health care regulation, evaluating available treatment approaches. financing and delivery across countries. These wide-ranging Wagner provides an in-depth examination of the problem of essays cover policy debates and reforms in Canada, Germany, suicidal behaviour within the context of child and adolescent Holland, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well behaviour. Among the developmental issues covered are the as separate treatments of some of the most prominent issues evolving capacity for emotional self-regulation, change and confronting policy makers. These include primary care, stresses in family, peer and romantic relationships, and hospital care, long-term care, pharmaceutical policy and developing conceptions of time and death. He also provides an private health insurance. The authors are attentive throughout up-to-date review of the controversy surrounding the possible to the ways in which cross-national, comparative research may influence of antidepressant medications on suicidal behaviour. inform national policy debates not only under the Obama Within the context of an integrative model of the suicide administration but across the world. crisis, Wagner discusses issues pertaining to assessment, Theodore R. Marmor is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy treatment and prevention. and Political Science at Yale and is the author, among other Barry Wagner is Professor of Psychology and Director of works, of Understanding Health Care Reform. Clinical Training at the Catholic University of America. Richard Freeman teaches in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh and is the author of Current Perspectives in Psychology The Politics of Health in Europe. Kieke G. H. Okma teaches September 328 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus. health care policy and politics at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11250-4 £40.00 November 368 pp. 234x156mm. 5 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14983-8 £40.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 64
64 Philosophy/Politics Heidegger The Genteel Tradition in American The Introduction of Philosophy and Character and Nazism into Philosophy Opinion in the United States Emmanuel Faye George Santayana Translated by Michael B. Smith Edited and with an Introduction by James Seaton Foreword by Tom Rockmore With Essays by Wilfred M. McClay, John Lachs, In this provocative book, Faye James Seaton and Roger Kimball uses excerpts from unpublished This book brings together two seminal works by George seminars to show that Heidegger’s Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the philosophical writings are fatally twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, compromised by an adherence to which stands with Tocqueville’s Democracy in America as one National Socialist ideas. the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever In other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and written, and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, a exterminatory anti-Semitism. landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a naïve, temporarily criticism. disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the self-appointed ‘spiritual guide’ for Nazism whose intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four intentionality was clear. Contrary to what some have written, additional essays include John Lachs on the ways Santayana’s Heidegger’s Nazism became even more radical after 1935, as understanding of ‘the soul of America’ help explain the relative Faye demonstrates. He revisits Heidegger’s masterwork, Being peace among nationalities and ethnic groups in the United and Time, and concludes that in it Heidegger does not present States; Wilfred M. McClay on Santayana’s life of the mind as it a philosophy of individual existence but rather a doctrine of relates to dominant trends in American culture; Roger Kimball radical self-sacrifice, where individualisation is allowed only on Santayana’s ‘most uncommon benefice, common sense’; and for the purpose of heroism in warfare. Now available in James Seaton on Santayana’s distinction between ‘English Michael B. Smith’s fluid English translation, it is bound to liberty’ and ‘fierce liberty’. All the essays serve to highlight the awaken controversy in the English-speaking world. relevance of Santayana’s ideas to current issues in American Emmanuel Faye is Associate Professor at the University Paris culture, including education, immigration and civil rights. Ouest–Nanterre La Défense. Michael B. Smith is Professor James Seaton is Professor of English at Michigan State University. Emeritus of French and Philosophy at Berry College. Rethinking the Western Tradition January 448 pp. 234x156mm. 5 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12086-8 £30.00* November 256 pp. 210x140mm. Translation rights: Editions Albin Michel, Paris Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11665-6 £12.00*
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition Montesquieu and Zeev Sternhell • Translated by David Maisel the Logic of Liberty In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of presents a controversial new view of the origins of fascism, Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. Modern Republic The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment represent a Paul A. Rahe perspective that is anti-rational and anti-intellectual and rejects This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to the principles of natural law. Sternhell asserts that the Anti- understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state Enlightenment is a development separate from the in light of this great political thinker’s insightful critique of Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel commercial republicanism. to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder, The western democracies’ muted response to victory in the Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to Cold War signalled the presence of a pervasive discontent, a the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that sense that despite this victory liberal democracy itself was tradition undermines the very foundations of liberalism, deeply flawed. Paul A. Rahe argues that to understand this contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in phenomenon we must re-examine—starting with the European catastrophes of the twentieth century. Montesquieu—the nature of liberal democracy, its character “Everything Sternhell writes is powerful and challenging, and this and its propensities. In a brilliant exposition of the works of book is no exception. At a time when Enlightenment values are Montesquieu, Rahe identifies the profound sense of uneasiness again under attack, this history of anti-Enlightenment thought is fostered by the modern republic as a source of weakness and as important and timely.”—Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge the principle cause of the present discontents. Zeev Sternhell is Leon Blum Professor of Political Science, Paul A. Rahe holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Hebrew University. Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College. January 512 pp. 234x156mm. October 384 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-13554-1 £25.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14125-2 £35.00 Translation rights: Librairie Artheme Fayard, Paris Translation rights: Writers’ Representatives, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 65
Religion 65 The Religion and THE ANCHOR YALE BIBLE Science Debate Among the Gentiles Why Does It Continue? Greco-Roman Religion Edited by Harold W. Attridge and Christianity Eighty-one years after America Luke Timothy Johnson witnessed the Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution in schools, The question of Christianity’s the debate between science and relation to the other religions of religion continues. In this book six the world is more pertinent and scholars from a variety of difficult today than ever before. disciplines—sociology, history, While Christianity’s historical science and theology—provide failure to appreciate or actively new insights into the contemporary dialogue as well as some engage Judaism is notorious, perspective suggestions for delineating the responsibilities of Christianity’s even more shoddy both the scientific and religious spheres. record with respect to ‘pagan’ religions is less understood. Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous theological Why does the tension between science and religion continue? tradition that thinks of paganism in terms of demonic How have those tensions changed during the past one possession, and of Christian missions as a rescue operation hundred years? How have those tensions impacted the public that saves pagans from inherently evil practices. debate about so-called ‘intelligent design’ as a scientific alternative to evolution? With wit and wisdom, authors In undertaking this fresh inquiry into early Christianity and Keith Thomson, Ronald L. Numbers, Kenneth R. Miller, Greco-Roman paganism, Luke Timothy Johnson begins with Lawrence M. Krauss, Alvin Plantinga and Robert Wuthnow a broad definition of religion as a way of life organised around address the conflict from its philosophical roots to its convictions and experiences concerning ultimate power. In the manifestations within American culture. tradition of William James’s Variety of Religious Experience, he identifies four distinct ways of being religious: religion as Harold W. Attridge is the Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at the Yale Divinity School. participation in benefits, as moral transformation, as transcending the world and as stabilising the world. Using The Terry Lectures Series these criteria as the basis for his exploration of Christianity October 224 pp. 210x140mm. 4 b/w illus. and paganism, Johnson finds multiple points of similarity in Cloth ISBN 978-0-300-15298-2 £35.00 religious sensibility. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15299-9 £10.99* Christianity’s failure to adequately come to grips with its first pagan neighbours, Johnson asserts, inhibits any effort to engage positively with adherents of various world religions. Natural Reflections This thoughtful and passionate study should help break down the walls between Christianity and other religious traditions. Human Cognition at the Nexus Luke Timothy Johnson is the R. W. Woodruff Professor of of Science and Religion New Testament and Christian Origins at Candler School of Barbara Herrnstein Smith Theology and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. This book describes, assesses and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion and The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library human cognition. One of these initiatives, which the author calls January 416 pp. 234x156mm. ‘the New Naturalism’, is the effort, by anthropologists and ISBN 978-0-300-14208-2 £25.00* psychologists, to explain religion on the basis of cognitive science and evolutionary biology. Another, refered to as ‘the New Natural Theology’, is the recent attempt by a number of scientifically Nahum knowledgeable theologians to reconcile the accounts of the world given in the natural sciences and traditional religious belief. A New Translation with Introduction These two projects, one a naturalising of religion, the other a and Commentary theologising of natural science, can be seen as mirror images, Duane L. Christensen or ‘natural reflections’, of each other. Smith offers a sophisticated approach, recognising science and religion as This volume demonstrates the intricate literary structure and complex and distinct domains of human practice that also high poetic quality of the book of Nahum and represents a possess significant historical connections and psychological- significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with cognitive resemblances and continuities. important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Barbara Herrnstein Smith is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Duane Christensen is Professor of Old Testament Languages Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at and Literature (retired), Graduate Theological Union, Duke University and Distinguished Professor of English at Berkeley, CA. He is President of BIBAL Corporation. Brown University. The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries • The Old Testament The Terry Lectures Series October 464 pp. 234x156mm. February 192 pp. 210x140mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14479-6 £45.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14034-7 £25.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 66
66 Religion/Jewish Studies Judaism The Chosen Will A Way of Being Become Herds David Gelernter Studies in Twentieth- Written for observant and non- Century Kabbalah observant Jews and anyone Jonathan Garb interested in religion, this remarkable book by the Translated by distinguished scholar Yaffah Berkovits-Murciano David Gelernter seeks to answer The popularity of Kabbalah, a the deceptively simple question: Jewish mystical movement at least What is Judaism really about? 900 years old, has grown Gelernter views Judaism as one of astonishingly within the context of humanity’s most profound and sublimely beautiful the vast and ever-expanding social movement commonly achievements. But because Judaism is a way of life rather than referred to as the New Age. This book is the first to provide a a formal system of thought, it has been difficult for anyone broad overview of the major trends in contemporary Kabbalah but a practising Jew to understand its unique intellectual and together with in-depth discussions of major figures and schools. spiritual structure. A noted expert on Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb places the Gelernter explores compelling questions and seeks to lay out ‘kabbalistic Renaissance’ within the global context of the rise Jewish beliefs on four basic topics—the sanctity of everyday life; of other forms of spirituality, including Sufism and Tibetan man and God; the meaning of sexuality and family; good, evil Buddhism. He shows how Kabbalah has been transformed by and the nature of God’s justice in a cruel world—and to convey the events of the Holocaust and, following the establishment a profound and stirring sense of what it means to be Jewish. of Israel, by aliyah. The Chosen Will Become Herds is an David Gelernter is Professor of Computer Science at Yale original piece of scholarship and, in its own right, a new University and contributing editor at the Weekly Standard. chapter in the history of Kabbalah. He is the author of several books, including Mirror Worlds, Jonathan Garb, a leading authority on modern Kabbalah, The Muse in the Machine and the novel 1939. His writings is a senior lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. on Judaism have appeared in Commentary and elsewhere. September 240 pp. 234x156mm. January 256 pp. 210x140mm. 4 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12394-4 £40.00 ISBN 978-0-300-15192-3 £20.00* Hebrew rights: held by the author
The Book of Mormon Jews in Ukrainian Literature The Earliest Text Representation and Identity Edited by Royal Skousen Myroslav Shkandrij First published in 1830, the Book of Mormon is the This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been authoritative scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij day Saints and its estimated 13 million members. Over the uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the past twenty-one years, editor Royal Skousen has pored over established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities Joseph Smith’s original manuscripts and identified more than were antagonistic towards one another and interacted only 2,000 textual errors in the 1830 edition. Although most of when compelled to do so by economic necessity. these discrepancies stem from inadvertent errors in copying Jews in Ukrainian Literature synthesises recent research in the and typesetting the text, the Yale edition contains about 600 West and in the Ukraine, where access to Soviet-era literature corrections that have never appeared in any standard edition has become possible only in the recent, post-independence of the Book of Mormon, and about 250 of them affect the text’s period. Many of the works discussed are either little-known or meaning. Skousen’s corrected text is a work of remarkable unknown in the West. By demonstrating how Ukrainians have dedication and will be a landmark in American religious imagined their historical encounters with Jews in different scholarship. ways over the decades, this account also shows how the Jewish Completely redesigned and typeset by nationally award-winning presence has contributed to the acceptance of cultural diversity typographer Jonathan Saltzman, this new edition has been within contemporary Ukraine. reformatted in sense-lines, making the text much more logical “This important literary history is encyclopedic in scope and and pleasurable to read. Featuring a lucid introduction by novel in its approach. Shkandrij questions platitudes about historian Grant Hardy, the Yale edition serves not only as the Ukrainian-Jewish animosity as he narrates two hundred years most accurate version of the Book of Mormon ever published but of changes in Ukraine’s national and cultural identity.”— also as an illuminating entryway into a vital religious tradition. Amelia Glaser, University of California San Diego
Royal Skousen is a Professor of Linguistics and English Myroslav Shkandrij is Professor of Slavic Studies at the Language at Brigham Young University and the leading University of Manitoba. expert on the textual history of the Book of Mormon. September 288 pp. 234x156mm. October 832 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12588-7 £40.00 ISBN 978-0-300-14218-1 £25.00* Russian and Ukrainian rights: held by the author Translation rights: held by the author Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 67
Science/Environment 67 The Best Technology Green Intelligence Writing 2009 Creating Environments Edited by Steven Johnson That Protect Human Health In his Introduction to this John Wargo beautifully curated collection of We live in a world awash with essays, Steven Johnson heralds the manmade chemicals, from the arrival of a new generation of pesticides in our gardens to the technology writing. Whether it is diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Nicholas Carr worrying that Although experts are beginning to Google is making us stupid, Dana understand the potential dangers of Goodyear chronicling the rise of these substances, there are still more the cellphone novel, Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been of blogging, Dalton Conley lamenting the sprawling nature of sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health. work in the information age or Clay Shirky marvelling at the In this book John Wargo explains the origins of society’s ‘cognitive surplus’ unleashed by the decline of the TV sitcom, profound misunderstanding of everyday chemical hazards and this new generation does not waste time speculating about the offers a practical path towards developing greater ‘green future. Its attitude seems to be: Who needs the future? intelligence’. The present is interesting enough on its own. Despite the rising trend in environmental awareness, Packed with sparkling essays from print and online information about synthetic substances is often unavailable, publications, The Best Technology Writing 2009 announces a distorted, kept secret or presented in a way that prevents fresh brand of technology journalism, deeply immersed in the citiens from acting to reduce threats to their health and the fascinating complexity of digital life. environment. Sobering yet eminently readable, Wargo’s book Steven Johnson’s books include The Invention of Air, The ultimately offers a clear vision for a safer future through Ghost Map and Everything Bad Is Good for You. He writes for prevention, transparency and awareness. the New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Guardian, John Wargo is Professor of Environmental Policy, Risk Discover and others, and has made numerous appearances Analysis, and Political Science at the Yale School of Forestry on Charlie Rose, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. and Environmental Studies and the Department of Political November 288 pp. 210x140mm. Science at Yale University. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15410-8 £14.00* October 400 pp. 234x156mm. 17 b/w illus. Translation rights: Paradigm Agency, New York ISBN 978-0-300-11037-1 £25.00
Notes from the Ground Conservation Biology of The Jaguar’s Shadow Science, Soil, and Society in Hawaiian Forest Birds Searching for a Mythic Cat the American Countryside Implications for Island Avifauna Richard Mahler Benjamin R. Cohen Edited by Thane K. Pratt, Carter T. When the nature writer Richard Mahler Notes from the Ground examines the Atkinson, Paul C. Banko, James D. discovers that wild jaguars are prowling cultural conditions that brought Jacobi and Bethany L. Woodworth a remote corner of his home state of agriculture and science together in New Mexico, he embarks on a This book describes the research and nineteenth-century America. Integrating determined quest to see in the flesh a conservation efforts over the past thirty the history of science, environmental big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of years to save Hawaii’s forest birds and history and science studies, the book legend—yet verifiably real. shows how and why agrarian offers the most comprehensive look at the Mahler’s passion sets in motion a years- Americans—yeoman farmers, reasons for recent extinctions and long adventure through trackless gentleman planters, politicians and attempts to overcome them in the future. deserts, steamy jungles and malarial policy makers alike—accepted, resisted Among the topics covered in this book are swamps, as well as a confounding and shaped scientific ways of knowing trends in bird populations, environmental immersion in centuries-old debates over the land. By detailing the changing and genetic factors limiting population how we should properly regard these perceptions of soil treatment, Benjamin size, avian diseases, predators and powerful predators: as vermin or as Cohen shows that the credibility of new competing alien bird species. icons, trophies or gods? Along the way, soil practices grew not from the arrival Thane K. Pratt is a wildlife biologist, he is forced to reconsider the true of professional chemists, but out of an Carter T. Atkinson is a microbiologist, meaning of his search—and the existing ideology of work, knowledge Paul C. Banko is a research wildlife enduring symbolism of the jaguar. and citizenship. biologist and James D. Jacobi is a biologist, all at the U.S. Geological Richard Mahler is an award-winning Benjamin R. Cohen is Assistant Survey, Pacific Island Ecosystem writer, editor and tour guide based in Professor of Science, Technology and Research Center. Bethany Woodworth Silver City, New Mexico. He is the Society at the University of Virginia. is an Instructor of Environmental author or co-author of ten books. Studies at University of New England. Yale Agrarian Studies Series October 376 pp. 234x156mm. January 288 pp. 234x156mm. January 640 pp. 254x178mm. 41 b/w illus. 29 b/w illus. 97 b/w + 32 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12225-1 £20.00* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13923-5 £30.00 ISBN 978-0-300-14108-5 £60.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 68
68 Law Bedouin Law from Sinai Ordering the City and the Negev Nicole Stelle Garnett Justice without Government This timely book highlights the multiple, often overlooked and frequently misunderstood connections between land use and Clinton Bailey development policies and policing practices. In order to do so, Bedouin Law from Sinai and the Negev is the first the book draws upon multiple literatures—especially law, comprehensive study of Bedouin law published in English, history, economics, sociology and psychology—as well as including oral, pre-modern law. The material for the book, concrete case studies to better explore how these policy arenas, collected over the course of forty years of field work by generally treated as completely unrelated, intersect and conflict. Clinton Bailey, one of the world’s leading scholars on Bedouin Nicole Stelle Garnett is a Professor at the University of culture, is of permanent scholarly value. Notre Dame Law School. Clinton Bailey is a Research Fellow on Bedouin culture at Trinity College, Hartford. He is the author of A Culture of January 256 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. Desert Survival: Bedouin Proverbs from Sinai and the Negev, Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12494-1 £40.00 published by Yale. January 384 pp. 234x156mm. 6 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15324-8 £50.00 The Unbounded Home Hebrew and Arabic rights: held by the author Property Values Beyond Property Lines Lee Anne Fennell Constitutional Courts In this innovative book, Lee Ann Fennell challenges us to radically re-conceive our ideas about residential property and and Democratic Values property law to help solve critical issues of neighbourhood A European Perspective control and community composition that have been simmering unresolved for decades. Víctor Ferreres Comella Lee Anne Fennell is Professor of Law at the University of This systematic exploration of the reasons for and against the Chicago Law School. creation of constitutional courts is rich in detail and offers an ambitious theory to justify the European preference for them October 312 pp. 234x156mm. 11 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12244-2 £40.00 instead of the decentralised model used in the United States. Víctor Ferreres Comella is Professor of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). He is currently teaching Constitutional Law and European Community Law At Home in the Law at the Spanish Escuela Judicial (Judicial School), where Jeannie Suk young judges are trained. In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to January 288 pp. 234x156mm. how the law conceives of crime, punishment and privacy, has Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14867-1 £40.00 changed. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic abuse has led to a new and unexpected set of legal practices. Reviving Self-Governance Suk examines case studies of major legal developments in in the Workplace contemporary American law pertaining to domestic violence, self-defense, privacy, sexual autonomy and property in order to Employee Rights and Representation illuminate the changing relation between home and the law. in an Era of Self-Regulation Jeannie Suk is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Cynthia Estlund November 224 pp. 234x156mm. This book seeks to shape current trends towards employer self- Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11398-3 £40.00 regulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. The decline of collective bargaining and the parallel rise of employment law have left workers with Property Outlaws an abundance of legal rights but no representation at work. Without representation, even workers’ legal rights are often Eduardo Moisés Peñalver and Sonia K. Katyal under-enforced. At the same time many legal and social forces Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive have pushed firms to self-regulate—to take on the task of proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual realising public norms through internal compliance structures. property law, disobedience can often lead to an improvement Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at in legal regulation. The authors argue that in property law the New York University School of Law. there is a tension between the competing demands of stability February 320 pp. 234x156mm. and dynamism, but its tendency is to become static and fall ISBN 978-0-300-12450-7 £35.00 out of step with the needs of society. Eduardo Moisés Peñalver is a Professor at the Cornell Law School. Sonia K. Katyal is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. February 288 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-12295-4 £40.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 69
U.S. Studies 69 A Question The Big House of Command Image and Reality of the American Prison Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq Stephen Cox Mark Moyar ‘The Big House’ is America’s idea of the prison—a huge, tough, According to the prevailing view of ostentatiously oppressive pile of counterinsurgency, the key to rock, bristling with rules and defeating insurgents is selecting punishments, overwhelming in size methods that will win the people’s and the intent to intimidate. hearts and minds. The hearts-and- Stephen Cox tells the story of the minds theory permeates not only most counterinsurgency books American prison—its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability of the twenty-first century but the U.S. Army/Marine Corps to control itself—and its idealisation in American popular Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the U.S. military’s foremost culture. The book investigates both the popular images of text on counterinsurgency. Mark Moyar assails this conventional prison and the realities behind them: problems of control and wisdom, asserting that the key to counterinsurgency is selecting discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality. It commanders who have superior leadership abilities. Whereas the conveys an awareness of the limits of human and institutional hearts-and-minds school recommends allocating much labour power, and of the symbolic and iconic qualities ‘The Big and treasure to economic, social and political reforms, Moyar House’ has attained in America’s understanding of itself. advocates concentrating resources on security, civil “A first-rate piece of writing . . . captures and renders novel and administration and leadership development. interesting a remarkable nineteenth century creation that lingers Mark Moyar is the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and on in the twenty-first.”—Andrew Scull, author of Madhouse Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University. He is the author of Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965, Stephen Cox is Professor of Literature and Director of the and Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: Counterinsurgency and Humanities Program at the University of California San Counterterrorism in Vietnam. Diego. He is the editor of Liberty magazine. Yale Library of Military History Icons of America November 320 pp. 234x156mm. 20 b/w illus. + 7 maps January 224 pp. 210x140mm. 25 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15276-0 £25.00* ISBN 978-0-300-12419-4 £20.00* Translation rights: Aler Hoyt Associates, New York
Furs and Frontiers in the Far North Superpower Illusions The Contest among Native and Foreign How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Nations for Control of the Intercontinental Astray—And How to Return to Reality Bering Strait Fur Trade Jack F. Matlock, Jr. John R. Bockstoce Jack F. Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries military and economic pressure—with wide-ranging is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of implications for U.S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Gorbachev, not Reagan, undermined Communist Party rule in Americans and members of fifty native nations competed and the Soviet Union and that the Cold War ended in a negotiated cooperated. The desire to dominate the fur trade fed the settlement that benefited both sides. He posits that the end of European expansion into the most remote regions of Asia and the Cold War diminished rather than enhanced American America and was an agent of massive change in these regions. power; with the removal of the Soviet threat, allies were less willing to accept American protection and leadership that Award-winning author John R. Bockstoce fills a major gap in seemed increasingly to ignore their interests. the historiography of the area in covering the scientific, commercial and foreign-relations implications of the northern Matlock shows how, during the Clinton and particularly the fur trade. In addition, the book provides rare insight into the Bush-Cheney administrations, the belief that the United States relationship between the Western powers and the Native had defeated the Soviet Union led to a conviction that it did Americans who provided them with fur, ivory and whalebone not need allies, international organisations or diplomacy, but in exchange for manufactured goods, tobacco, tea, alcohol and could dominate and change the world by using its military hundreds of other things. But this is also the story of the power unilaterally. The result is a weakened America that has enterprising individuals who energised the Alaskan fur trade compromised its ability to lead. Matlock makes a passionate and, in doing so, forever altered the region’s history. plea for the United States under Obama to reenvision its foreign policy and gives examples of how the new Arctic specialist John R. Bockstoce is an independent scholar and the author of many books, monographs and articles. administration can reorient the U.S. approach to critical issues. Jack F. Matlock, Jr. is Adjunct Professor of International The Lamar Series in Western History Relations, Columbia University. October 480 pp. 234x156mm. 42 b/w illus. + 10 maps February 320 pp. 234x156mm. ISBN 978-0-300-14921-0 £25.00* ISBN 978-0-300-13761-3 £25.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 70
70 U.S. Studies In the Name of The Prison and the God and Country American Imagination Reconsidering Terrorism Caleb Smith in American History How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the Michael Fellman scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the With insight and originality, midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the Michael Fellman argues that question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, terrorism, in various forms, has Caleb Smith argues that the dehumanisation inherent in been a constant and driving captivity has always been at the heart of American civil society. force in American history. In Exploring legal, political and literary texts—including the part, this is due to the nature of works of Dickinson, Melville and Emerson—Smith shows American republicanism and how alienation and self-reliance, social death and spiritual Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of rebirth, torture and penitence came together in the prison, a moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of scene for the portrayal of both gothic nightmares and terrorism use to justify their actions. Fellman also argues that romantic dreams. Demonstrating how the ‘cellular soul’ has there is an intrinsic relationship between terrorist acts by endured since the antebellum age, The Prison and the American non-state groups and responses on the part of the state; unlike Imagination offers a passionate and haunting critique of the many observers, he believes that both the action and the very idea of solitude in American life. reaction constitute terrorism. “Smith’s book is remarkably inventive and wide-ranging with Michael Fellman is Professor of History Emeritus at Simon its close interweaving of literature and history, its refusal to Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among other books, he is author of Inside War: The Guerrilla rely slavishly on Foucault, its close reading, and its Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War, Citizen refreshingly lucid style.”—Terry Eagleton Sherman: A Life of William T. Sherman and The Making of Caleb Smith is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. Robert E. Lee, and co-author of This Terrible War: The Civil War and Its Aftermath. Yale Studies in English February 320 pp. 234x156mm. 9 b/w illus. October 272 pp. 234x156mm. 4 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-11510-9 £20.00* ISBN 978-0-300-14166-5 £28.50*
The Bourgeois Frontier One Nation The Brittle Thread of Life French Towns, French Traders, Under Contract Backcountry People Make a Place for Themselves and American Expansion The Outsourcing of American in Early America Jay Gitlin Power and the Future of Mark Williams The Seven Years War brought an end to Foreign Policy the French colonial enterprise in North Allison Stanger The colonists who settled the America, but the French in towns such backcountry in eighteenth-century New as New Orleans, St. Louis and Detroit International relations scholar Allison England were recruited from the social survived the transition to American Stanger shows how contractors became fringe, people who were desperate for rule. French traders from Mid-America an integral part of American foreign land, autonomy and respectability, willing such as the Chouteaus and Robidouxs policy, often in scandalous ways—but to make a living in a hard environment. also maintains that contractors aren’t of St. Louis then became agents of Mark Williams’ microhistorical approach the problem; the absence of good change in the West, perfecting a strategy gives voice to the settlers, proprietors and government is. Outsourcing done right of ‘middle grounding’ by pursuing officials of the small colonial settlements is, in fact, indispensable to America’s alliances within Indian and Mexican that became Granby, Connecticut and interests in the information age. communities in advance of American Ashfield, Massachusetts. These people— settlement and re-investing fur trade “The book aims admirably for both often disrespectful, disorderly and profits in land, town sites, banks and breadth and depth, examining the defiant—were drawn to the ideology of transportation. The Bourgeois Frontier specifics of private activity in defense, the Revolution in the 1760s and 1770s provides the missing French connection diplomacy, development and security that stressed equality, independence and between the urban Midwest and under an intellectual rubric that cuts property rights. The backcountry settlers western expansion. across all four spheres. This is a pushed the emerging nation’s political Jay Gitlin is Lecturer, Department of fascinating treatment of an important culture in a more radical direction than History, Yale University, and Associate subject.”—Debora Spar, President, many of their leaders or the Founding Director of the Howard R. Lamar Barnard College Fathers preferred and helped put a Center for the Study of Frontiers and democratic imprint on the new nation. Borders. Allison Stanger is Russell Leng Professor of International Politics and Mark Williams teaches history at the The Lamar Series in Western History Economics at Middlebury College and Loomis Chaffee School in Connecticut. Director of its Rohatyn Center for January 320 pp. 234x156mm. International Affairs. September 288 pp. 234x156mm. 29 b/w illus. 15 b/w illus. Nov 288 pp. 234x156mm. 7 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-10118-8 £30.00 ISBN 978-0-300-13922-8 £35.00 ISBN 978-0-300-15265-4 £20.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 71
Language/Education 71 Learning Chinese An Introduction A Foundation Course in Mandarin to Contemporary Spoken Arabic Julian K. Wheatley A Conversational Course on DVD Learning Chinese teaches basic conversational and literary skills Shukri Abed in Mandarin. It is designed to build language ability while This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the stimulating learners’ curiosity about the linguistic structures of conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning the language, as well as the geography, history and culture of Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express China. Conversational lessons are separated from lessons on themselves in the Arabic language, guiding them through reading and writing characters, allowing instructors to adapt the language functions such as introductions, describing people book to their students and to their course goals. and places and discussing typical daily activities. Julian K. Wheatley is Visiting Associate Professor of Chinese Shukri Abed at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang is chairman of the Language and Regional Technological University, Singapore. Studies Department at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. January 416 pp. 254x203mm. 48 b/w illus. January 240 pp. 254x178mm. 40 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14117-7 £45.00 Part 1: Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-14480-2 £30.00 Part 2: Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-15904-2 £30.00
Transición Hacia un español avanzado a través de la Learning to Teach historia de España Through Discussion Josebe Bilbao-Henry The Art of Turning the Soul Transición is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco’s regime. The textbook helps students to This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon’s acclaimed build critical thinking skills and to analyse unfamiliar topics Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High through an engaging variety of authentic readings, guided School presents a case study of two people learning to teach. discussions and writing activities on Spain’s recent history. It shows them engaging two groups of fourth grade students Each chapter incorporates an episode of Cuéntame cómo pasó, a in discussion about the meaning of texts—what the author Spanish TV series, which is included on DVD. This book fits calls ‘interpretive discussion’. The two groups differ with the needs of students who are interested in Spanish as well as respect to race, geographical location and affluence. political science, international relations or history. As the novice teachers learn to clarify their own questions Josebe Bilbao-Henry is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Spanish about meaning, they become better listeners and leaders of the at the George Washington University. discussions. Eventually, they mix the students from the two classrooms, and the reader watches them converse about a text January 384 pp. 254x203mm. 19 b/w illus. as the barriers of race and class seem to break down. In Paper with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-14217-4 £55.00 addition to the detailed analysis of the case study, Learning to Teach Through Discussion: The Art of Turning the Soul presents philosophical, literary and psychological foundations of interpretive discussion and describes its three phases: preparation, leading and reflection. A tightly argued work, the Sonidos en contexto book will help readers learn to engage students of all ages in Una introducción a la fonética del español text interpretation. con especial referencia a la vida real Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon is Director, Master of Science in Education program, and Professor, Education and Social Terrell A. Morgan Policy, at Northwestern University. Sonidos en contexto is a comprehensive, theory-independent November 240 pp. 234x156mm. description of Spanish phonetics and phonology for ISBN 978-0-300-12000-4 £30.00 intermediate to advanced students. It provides articulatory descriptions of native pronunciations as well as practical advice on producing native-like sounds, with a logical progression of exercises leading to that end. Terrell A. Morgan is Associate Professor of Spanish at The Ohio State University. February 440 pp. 279x216mm. 24 b/w + 325 colour illus. Paper with CDROM ISBN 978-0-300-14959-3 £70.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 72
72 Series Yale French Studies The Works of Jonathan Edwards Number 116/117 Volume 1: Freedom of the Will Turn to the Right? Jonathan Edwards Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr, Edited by Paul Ramsey Special Editors The premier volume of the Works of Jonathan Edwards, now The essays in this double volume explore some recent cultural available for the first time in paperback, presents a critical phenomena that appear symptomatic of a malaise stemming edition of Edwards’ famous treatise on Freedom of the Will of from a loss of French ‘identity’ and French ‘exception’. 1754. This work, by which Edwards was known through the Table of Contents nineteenth century, shaped philosophical discourse in America • Michael A. Johnson and Lawrence R. Schehr: and Europe, and is on on the list of 500 most important “Turns to the Right?” books printed in America. • François Noudelmann: A Turn to the Right: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series “Genealogy” in France since the 1980s September 506 pp. 234x156mm. • Verena Conley: “Soigne ta droite” Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15840-3 £15.00 • Michel Gueldry: The Americanization of France • Adrian Johnston: The Right Left: Alain Badiou and the Disruption of Political Identities • Bénédicte Coste: Against the Grain: The Works of Jonathan Edwards Michéa’s Radical Philosophy and Its Discontents Volume 2: • Richard J. Golsan: Pascal Bruckner and the Politics of the Religious Affections Moraliste: Realism or Reaction? Jonathan Edwards • Nacira Guénif-Souilamas: Edited by John E. Smith The Inflated Ego and New Games of Belonging • Bruno Chaouat: Moroseness in Post–Cold War France Originally printed in 1746 at the culmination of the series of • Douglas Morrey: Sex and the Single Male: tumultuous revivals known as the Great Awakening, Edwards’ Houellebecq, Feminism, and Hegemonic Masculinity Treatise Concerning Religious Affections is regarded as one of the • Karl Pollin: Saint-Maurice of the Saber, Gnostic of Postmodern most sophisticated examinations of conversion psychology, Times delineating negative and positive signs of ‘true’ religion. Today • Armine K. Mortimer: The Third Closet: Sollers’ War as in the eighteenth century, this work is referred to by revivalists and religious practitioners as a guide in questions Yale French Studies Series concerning true and counterfeit religious behaviour. October 224 pp. 234x156mm. The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11823-0 £25.00 September 534 pp. 234x156mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15841-0 £16.00 The Frederick Douglass Papers Series 3: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842–1852 The Works of Jonathan Edwards Frederick Douglass • Edited by John R. McKivigan Volume 4: This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the The Great Awakening first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of Jonathan Edwards the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass’s Edited by C. C. Goen correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, This volume collects Edwards’ major revival tracts, including including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprizing Work of God, his Susan B. Anthony and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. description and analysis of the Connecticut River awakening of the 1730s; The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit The letters acquaint us with Douglass’s many roles— of God, in which he began to identify the essential signs of politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women’s grace; and Some Thoughts Concerning the Revival, a robust rights advocate and family man—and include many previously answer to critics of the awakenings in New England and unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his beyond who doubted the authenticity of the ‘work’ because of family. Douglass stood at the epicentre of the political, social, the enthusiasm of its participants. intellectual and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass’s early correspondence illuminates not The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world September 607 pp. 234x156mm. of the times and the abolition movement as well. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15842-7 £16.00 Rights sold: Korean John R. McKivigan is Mary O’Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. The Frederick Douglass Papers Series January 696 pp. 234x156mm. 10 b/w illus. ISBN 978-0-300-13560-2 £95.00 Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 73
Paperbacks 73 Household Gods The British and their Possessions Deborah Cohen A fascinating account of the British preoccupation with their homes, interior decoration and personal possessions since 1830. “In this riveting and revealing book, Deborah Cohen takes the reader on a journey through interiors cluttered with papier-mâché beds, fire screens set with stuffed birds, soup tureens shaped as boar’s heads and baths decorated with shells . . . If you want to understand the roots of Britain’s peculiar taste for home improvement and today’s obsession with DIY, IKEA shop openings, makeover and property TV programmes, Household Gods provides all the answers.” —Andrea Wulf, The Guardian “[Cohen’s] is a genuinely fresh approach, diverging from the mainstream furrow ploughed by most historians to concentrate in the main on real lives and real choices—of ‘life lived outside the tyranny of grand design’—and she does it subtly, confidently and with real pace.”—Kate Colquhoun, The Daily Telegraph “[An] excellent new history of the British and their possessions . . . So much of what Cohen identifies in her insightful survey of Victorian and Edwardian consumerism seems to reflect upon our own age.”—Ben Macintyre, The Times “Household Gods is engagingly written, well researched and beautifully illustrated. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of consumption.”—The Times Higher Education
Deborah Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Brown University. November 336 pp. 234x189mm. 100 b/w + 15 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13641-8 £18.99* Translation rights: Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd, London
Action/Abstraction Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 Edited by Norman L. Kleeblatt Drawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers a new focus on a pivotal art movement. It also presents an extensive commentary on the two most influential critics of postwar American art—Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg—whose powerful views shaped perceptions of Abstract Expressionism and other contemporary art movements. “Thorough and scholarly . . . Presents a balanced account of the art, the artists, the critics and the issues.”—Richard Kalina, Art in America
Norman L. Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum. Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York September 344 pp. 305x247mm. 81 b/w + 175 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13920-4 £18.00*
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson Constructing a Legend Edited by Brooke Kamin Rapaport Essays by Arthur C. Danto, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Harriet F. Senie and Michael Stanislawski Chronology by Gabriel de Guzman Louise Nevelson (1900–1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting great influence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found objects and celebrated public artworks. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson focuses on all phases of the artist’s remarkable ascent to the top of the art world, from her groundbreaking works of the 1940s to complex pieces completed in the late 1980s. The most extensive study of Nevelson to be published in over 20 years, this beautifully illustrated book also demonstrates how Nevelson’s flamboyant style and carefully cultivated persona enhanced her reputation as an artist of the first rank. “The brilliant reproductions give a fine flavour of Nevelson’s genius.”—Jewish Chronicle
Brooke Kamin Rapaport is a curator and writer. Arthur C. Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New York October 256 pp. 279x228mm. 37 b/w + 140 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16025-3 £28.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 74
74 Paperbacks Mortal Coil Baghdad at Sunrise A Short History of A Brigade Commander’s Living Longer War in Iraq David Boyd Haycock Peter R. Mansoor From Adam and Eve to human This book records what cloning and designer babies, happened after U.S. forces seized from seventeenth-century Baghdad in spring 2003. Army lifestyle guides to science Colonel Peter R. Mansoor, on- fiction, Haycock’s gripping the-ground commander of the story introduces an array of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored fascinating individuals—René Division—the ‘Ready First Descartes, Benjamin Franklin, Combat Team’—describes his Jonathan Swift, Charles Darwin brigade’s first year in Iraq, from and Sigmund Freud as well as a score of unknown figures. Full the chaotic summer after the Ba’athists’ defeat to the transfer of of extraordinary stories and valuable insights, this is a witty and sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government a year on. Uniquely captivating exploration into our unceasing desire to live forever. positioned to assess the events of that fateful year, Mansoor now “breezy and well-read . . . Mortal Coil is a poignant history explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military of fears and follies, of hubris and hope, of science and confronted an insurgency of unexpected strength and tenacity. common sense: necessary reading for anyone who thinks that “excellent in many ways—as a political analysis, a first rate hugely extended life has never been promised before.” history and a collection of Black Hawk Down style —Steven Shapin, London Review of Books intermissions.”—Nicholas Fearn, Independent on Sunday “A frolic and gallop through four centuries of engagement “This is an engaging and powerful account of war in the with ageing, death and fantasies of rejuvenation. There is 21st century which isn’t shy to suggest what should have something for everyone: optimists, pessimists, sceptics, and been done.”—Serena Tarling, Financial Times even the aspirational who think death a thing of the past.” Peter R. Mansoor, a recently retired U.S. Army colonel, is the —George Rousseau General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History, The Ohio David Haycock is Curator of 17th Century Maritime and State University. Imperial History at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Yale Library of Military History February 320 pp. 216x138mm. 24 b/w illus. October 416 pp. 234x156mm. 25 b/w illus. + 4 maps Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15825-0 £16.99* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15847-2 £12.99*
Rebels, Mavericks, The Theban Plays and Heretics in of Sophocles Biology Translated by David R. Slavitt Edited and with an Introduction by Oren In this needed and highly Harman and Michael R. anticipated new translation of Dietrich and with an the Theban plays of Sophocles, Epilogue by R. C. Lewontin David R. Slavitt presents a fluid, accessible and modern The stories of nineteen version for both longtime scientists—some famous, some admirers of the plays and those forgotten—who stubbornly encountering them for the first challenged assumptions and time. Unpretentious and icons in the life sciences. direct, Slavitt’s translation preserves the innate verve and “the narratives make compelling reading” energy of the dramas, engaging the reader—or audience —Walter Gratzer, Nature member—directly with Sophocles’ great texts. “a delightful book that would make a good Christmas present. “Clarity, directness, nobility without pretention, beauty The choices of subjects and authors are excellent, and the simply expressed—nearly any line in David R. Slavitt’s nuggets it reveals intriguing . . . for anyone interested in biology Theban Plays of Sophocles reveals a masterly sense of English or biologists.”—Terence Kealey, The Times Higher Education syntax and word-music. This is a translation meant to be heard in a theater as well as read on a page.” Oren Harman is Assistant Professor, Graduate Program for —Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and essayist Science, Technology and Society, Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel. David R. Slavitt is the distinguished translator of more than Michael R. Dietrich is Professor, Department of Biological eighty works of fiction, poetry, and drama. Sciences, Dartmouth College. The Yale New Classics Series September 416 pp. 234x156mm. 32 b/w illus. November 288 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15845-8 £16.00* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-11901-5 £10.00* Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 75
Paperbacks 75 Nobility of Spirit Fred Astaire A Forgotten Ideal Joseph Epstein Rob Riemen This portrait of Fred Astaire, Translated by Marjolijn de Jager widely acclaimed as America’s greatest male dancer, explores This book is an impassioned call his life, his unforgettable movie to restore the conditions of performances with Ginger freedom and human dignity— Rogers and other great dance ideals our civilisation seems to partners, and how he came to have lost. represent the very essence of “Agree or disagree with Rieman’s style, class and charm. profound, ambitious and high- “[A] witty, graceful . . . minded plea, you will be delightful book.”—Richard thinking about his words for a Edmonds, Birmingham Post long time. It’s been ages since a work of non-fiction moved us this way. Read it.”—The Elegant Variation (Blog) “Joseph Epstein’s book is rather like the Fred we know from the movies: charming, breezy, slim and elegant.” “[a] short but wide-ranging book . . . Riemen’s faith in the —Stephen Dixon, Irish Times art of conversation stands firmly in the tradition of the Renaissance humanists he admires.”—Jenny Bunker, “Epstein writes like an insider chatting over mai tais at the New Humanist Brown Derby.”—Patricia Volk, O, the Oprah Magazine “Mr. Riemen’s Nobility of Spirit is intended as a meditation “an account of Astaires place in the firmament of great on the forces that threaten civilization and, no less American popular artists.”—The Economist important, on the forces that are desperately needed to sustain it.”—Darrin M. McMahon, Wall Street Journal “an entertaining account of the ‘magical ingredients’ that defined Astaire’s career.”—Michael Taube, Financial Times Rob Riemen, an essayist and cultural philosopher, is founder of the Nexus Institute, an international centre devoted to Joseph Epstein is the author of, among other books, intellectual reflection and to inspiring Western cultural and Snobbery, Friendship and Fabulous Small Jews. philosophical debate. Icons of America October 160 pp. 190x120mm. October 224 pp. 210x140mm. 2 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15853-3 £7.99* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15844-1 £10.00* Translation rights: held by the author Translation rights: Georges Borchardt Inc, New York
The Pearl The Arts A True Tale of Forbidden of Intimacy Love in Catherine the Christians, Jews, and Great’s Russia Muslims in the Making Douglas Smith of Castilian Culture The unforgettable story of the Jerrilynn D. Dodds, serf who became one of Russia’s María Rosa Menocal and greatest opera singers and her Abigail Krasner Balbale noble master, a man who defied A dynamic vision of medieval all tradition to marry her. Castilian culture and the Arabic, “a gripping read, glittering with Hebrew and Latin strands that exotic wealth, imperial power, are woven into its fabric. family intrigue, priceless diamonds, glamorous theatre and, “This handsomely produced and generously illustrated book above all, forbidden, doomed love, but this is also a work of explores the praxis of medieval Castilian culture inherited by deeply researched scholarship on Russia: this is history writing Catholic kings . . . [An] impressive work of scholarship . . . at its best.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Telegraph An important addition to the scholarship of medieval “The Pearl is a sophisticated as well as a touching micro- Iberia.”—Library Journal history.”—Catriona Kelly, The Guardian Jerrilynn D. Dodds is Distinguished Professor and senior “The Pearl is a bright, sparkling jewel of a book; a masterpiece faculty advisor to the provost for undergraduate education, that deserves as wide an audience as possible. Russia’s greatest City College of New York. María Rosa Menocal is Director, love story has never been properly told, until now.” Whitney Humanities Center, and Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University. Abigail Krasner Balbale is a Ph.D. —Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire candidate in history and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard Douglas Smith is a scholar at the University of Washington. University. September 352 pp. 234x156mm. 16 b/w + 11 colour illus. January 256 pp. 254x178mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15858-8 £16.99* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-14214-3 £18.99* Rights sold: French, Korean Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 76
76 Paperbacks Humans, Nature, All Can Be Saved and Birds Religious Tolerance and Science Art from Cave Salvation in the Iberian Walls to Computer Atlantic World Screens Stuart B. Schwartz Darryl Wheye It would seem unlikely that one and Donald Kennedy could discover tolerant religious Foreword by Paul R. Ehrlich attitudes in Spain, Portugal and the New World colonies during This book invites readers to the era of the Inquisition, when enter a two-floor virtual enforcement of Catholic ‘gallery’ where 60-plus images orthodoxy was widespread and of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial brutal. Yet this groundbreaking book does exactly that. history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors Drawing on an enormous body of historical evidence— term Science Art—that is, art that says something about the including records of the Inquisition itself—the historian Stuart natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Schwartz investigates the idea of religious tolerance and its Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our evolution in the Hispanic world from 1500 to 1820. understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability and our responsibility to “In this superb and strikingly original book, Stuart Schwartz preserve its wealth. raises an audacious thesis that is sure to excite attention and controversy.”—Felipe Fernández-Armesto “novel and fascinating . . . much more than a history of ornithological illustration, it is an enthusiastic and “Not many academic histories make you laugh out loud. enlightening account of the diverse ways our understanding Schwartz shows ordinary people using vulgarity and humor to of bird biology has been enhanced by art . . . anyone with an convince inquisitors that sex between single people was no sin, interest in bird art and seeking aesthetic stimulation should and that all sincere believers (Muslim, Christians, Protestants) have this extraordinary book.”—Tim Birkhead, IBIS would be saved—even though they knew such defiance normally led to savage punishments. This is a book you must Darryl Wheye is a freelance artist and writer. Donald Kennedy read.”—Geoffrey Parker, author of The Grand Strategy of Philip II is editor in chief of the journal Science. He is President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science Stuart Schwartz is George Burton Adams Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University. and Master, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University. January 240 pp. 234x182mm. 75 colour illus. January 352 pp. 234x156mm. 12 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15862-5 £16.50* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15854-0 £18.00* Spanish and Portuguese rights: held by the author On Eloquence Sustainability Auto Mania Denis Donoghue by Design Cars, Consumers, An eloquent reminder of why we A Subversive Strategy and the Environment should care about—and revel in— for Transforming Our Tom McCarthy eloquence in literature and speech. Consumer Culture The twentieth-century American “Donoghue’s beautifully written book John R. Ehrenfeld experience with the automobile has much raises a clarion cry for an appreciation to tell us about the relationship between of style to be reinstated at the heart of Treating the symptoms of global consumer capitalism and the environment. literary studies.”—Cathy Shrank, ecological stress isn’t enough; we need to Tom McCarthy presents the first The Times Higher Education think about sustainability in an entirely environmental history of the automobile different light. In this deeply considered that shows how consumer desire (and “Donoghue is a formidably gifted critic book, Ehrenfeld challenges conventional whose range of reference is truly manufacturer decisions) created impacts understandings of ‘solving’ environmental across the product lifecycle—from raw impressive.”—Peter Brooks, problems and offers a radically new set of New York Times Book Review material extraction to manufacturing to strategies to attain sustainability. consumer use to disposal. “Denis Donoghue brings a lifetime’s “the most intellectually rigorous “What distinguishes Auto Mania . . . is devotion to linguistic eloquence to this treatment of sustainability that I have the scope of its indictment. McCarthy book, an eloquent plea for the ever come across . . . In short: quite doesn’t [just] blame Detroit for the ills appreciation of literary beauty.”— brilliant.”—Gareth Kane, Terra Infirma of Detroit; he blames all of us.” Denise Gigante, Stanford University John R. Ehrenfeld serves as Executive —Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker Denis Donoghue is University Professor Director of the International Society Tom McCarthy is Associate Professor, and Henry James Professor of English for Industrial Ecology and is Senior History Department, United States and American Letters, New York Research Scholar at the Yale School of Naval Academy. University. Forestry and Environmental Studies. October 368 pp. 234x156mm. February 208 pp. 210x140mm. September 272 pp. 234x156mm. 52 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15839-7 £12.00* 11 b/w illus. Paper 978-0-300-15848-9 £15.00* Translation rights: Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15843-4 £12.00* Georges Borchardt Inc, New York Autumn 2009 Catalogue:1 13/5/09 12:44 Page 77
Paperbacks 77 King’s Dream The Public Domain The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s Enclosing the Commons of the Mind ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech James Boyle Eric J. Sundquist In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls A new evaluation of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, renowned the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles speech, now hailed as the most powerful American address of over intellectual property. the twentieth century. “In this delightful volume, Professor Boyle gives the reader a “In highlighting the roots and ongoing struggle over the masterful tour of the intellectual property wars, the fight content and use of the [‘I Have a Dream’] speech, over who will control the information age, pointing the way Eric J. Sundquist has produced one of the best short books toward the promise—and peril—of the future. A must read we have on the ideas of racial equality from the early days of for both beginner and expert alike!” the American republic up to current Supreme Court —Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia decisions.”—George Bornstein, Times Literary Supplement “Reads like a cross between a supreme court judge and “The [‘I Have a Dream’] speech and all that surrounds it— Malcolm Gladwell . . . a rallying cry”—The Observer background and consequences—are brought magnificently to “effortlessly lucid and downright witty in places . . . perfect life in Eric Sundquist’s new book.”—Anthony Lewis, for those living and working outside the ivory tower” New York Times Book Review —Computerworld Eric J. Sundquist is UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature, James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, UCLA. He is author or editor of eight books on American Duke University School of Law. literature and culture. Icons of America • A Caravan Book February 336 pp. 234x156mm. 1 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15834-2 £12.99* September 320 pp. 210x140mm. 16 b/w illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15859-5 £9.99* Stall Points Life Explained Most Companies Stop Growing Michel Morange —Yours Doesn’t Have To Translated by Matthew Cobb and Malcolm DeBevoise Matthew S. Olson and Derek van Bever A biologist reflects on the question ‘What is life?’ and looks at Virtually all corporations stagnate at some point in their the answers provided by an array of recent scientific advances. lifetime, and only one in ten ever recaptures a sustainably high “I won’t give away Morange’s thoughtful and persuasive payoff, growth rate. Why? but his demand that children undergo compulsory education in “About 87% of businesses will hit what [the authors] call a philosophy of science is energising.”—The Guardian stall point . . . This book offers a useful checklist in how not Michel Morange is Professor of Biology at the Ecole Normale to do it, a cost-effective way to learn from other people’s Supérieure in Paris, where he directs the Centre Cavaillès for mistakes.”—Stefan Stern, Los Angeles Times the History and Philosophy of Science. Matthew Cobb is Senior Matthew S. Olson is an executive director and Derek van Lecturer in Animal Behaviour at the University of Manchester. Bever is the chief research officer of the Corporate Executive Malcolm DeBevoise has translated some thirty works. Board (NASDAQ:EXBD). An Odile Jacob Book September 256 pp. 234x156mm. 51 charts and graphs January 224 pp. 210x140mm. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15851-9 £15.00* Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15850-2 £12.00* Rights sold: Chinese (sc), Eng. Reprint (India), Japanese, Korean Translation rights: Editions Odile Jacob, Paris Whatever Happened to Thrift? The Illusions of Entrepreneurship Why Americans Don’t Save The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, and What to Do about It Investors, and Policy Makers Live By Ronald T. Wilcox Scott A. Shane This book is an attempt to reinvent thrift in the United States, A challenge to the myths we hold about entrepreneurs in to find practical ways to help people consume less and save America—who they are, what they do, and how they succeed. more now, so as to be a richer people in the future and a more prosperous nation. “For its myth-busting findings and analytical rigor, Shane’s book is a welcome addition to the literature on a crucial part “A conscientious reader could easily secure a comfortable of any modern economy.”—Nick Schulz, Wall Street Journal retirement by taking [Wilcox’s] advice to heart.” —Steven E. Landsburg, Wall Street Journal Scott A. Shane is A. Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Weatherhead School of Ronald Wilcox is Professor of Business Administration at the Management, Case Western Reserve University. Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
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Index 79 71 Abed: Introduction to Spoken Arabic (An) 42 Carr: El Greco to Goya 69 Furs and Frontiers: Bockstoce 26 Abulafia: Discovery of Mankind (The) 32 Cartoons That Shook the World: Klausen 60 Futurism: Rainey 57 Accademia Seminars (The): Lukehart 17 Cash: Sargent and the Sea 66 Garb: Chosen Will Become Herds (The) 73 Action/Abstraction: Kleeblatt 61 Cavanagh: Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics 68 Garnett: Ordering the City 58 Adventures in Modern Art: Shoemaker 62 Celestina: De Rojas 66 Gelernter: Judaism 57 Aghion: Sketchbook of Pietro Santi Bartoli 58 Cézanne and American Modernism: Stavitsky 28 Genocide Before the Holocaust: Carmichael 38 Albers: Interaction of Color 53 Chaotic Harmony: Tucker 64 Genteel Tradition in Philosophy: Santayana 54 Albersmeier: Heroes 3 Charles Dickens: Slater 52 Georgia O’Keeffe: Haskell 19 Ali: Treasures of the Earth 29 Children of the Gulag: Frierson 14 Gerassi: Talking with Sartre 44 Alias Man Ray: Klein 66 Chosen Will Become Herds: Garb 54 Gifts from the Ancestors: Fitzhugh 51 Alice Guy Blaché: Simon 65 Christensen: Nahum 58 Giovanni Boldini in Paris: Lees 76 All Can Be Saved: Schwartz 8 Christian West and Its Singers: Page 70 Gitlin: Bourgeois Frontier (The) 2 Allport: Demobbed 30 Civil Society and Empire: Livesey 72 Goen: Works of Jonathan Edwards (The) 20 American Beauty: Mears 40 Closer Look (A): Faces: Sturgis 39 Golan: Muralnomad 78 American Far West: Pomeroy 40 Closer Look (A): Saints: Langmuir 46 Goldberger: Why Architecture Matters 59 American Modernism at the AIC: Barter 67 Cohen: Notes from the Ground 78 Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism: Baumol 48 American Portrait Miniatures: Barratt 73 Cohen: Household Gods 78 Great Awakening (The): Kidd 50 American Quilts and Coverlets: Peck 68 Comella: Constitutional Courts 67 Green Intelligence: Wargo 50 American Stories: Weinberg 63 Comparative Studies: Marmor 60 Grenadine: Wechsler 65 Among the Gentiles: Johnson 67 Conservation Biology of Forest Birds: Pratt 61 Gross: Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky 21 Anderson: Sin 68 Constitutional Courts: Comella 22 Hagège: On Death and Life of Languages 21 Andy Warhol: Danto 63 Corbett: Boyhoods 30 Hancock: Oceans of Wine 64 Anti-Enlightenment Tradition: Sternhell 69 Cox: Big House (The) 54 Hanging Fire: Hashmi 36 Apostles of Beauty: Barter 41 Crookham: National Gallery, Illus. History 31 Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: Harris 37 Architecture in the Balkans: Curcic 44 Cross: Sol Lewitt 30 Harman: Culture of Nature in Britain 46 Architecture on the Edge: Stern 59 Cullen: Nexus New York 74 Harman: Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics 45 Arshile Gorky: Taylor 30 Culture of Nature in Britain: Harman 71 Haroutunian-Gordon: Learning to Teach 19 Art of Not Being Governed (The): Scott 30 Cumings: Dominion from Sea to Sea 31 Harris: Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah 48 Art of the Samurai: Ogawa 37 Curcic: Architecture in the Balkans 5 Harrison: An Introduction to Art 54 Arts of Africa at Dallas: Walker 22 Czechoslovakia: Heimann 54 Hashmi: Hanging Fire 36 Arts of Industry (The): Fox 61 Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Gross 52 Haskell: Georgia O’Keeffe 75 Arts of Intimacy (The): Dodds 21 Danto: Andy Warhol 74 Haycock: Mortal Coil 68 At Home in the Law: Suk 53 Davis: Photographs of Homer Page (The) 64 Heidegger: Faye 65 Attridge: Religion and Science Debate 4 Dazzled and Deceived: Forbes 22 Heimann: Czechoslovakia 76 Auto Mania: McCarthy 62 De Rojas: Celestina 28 Herf: Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World 49 Baetjer: British Paintings in The MMA 13 Deadly Dinner Party (The): Edlow 54 Heroes: Albersmeier 49 Baetjer: Watteau, Music, and Theater 28 Death of the Shtetl (The): Bauer 34 Hewison: Ruskin on Venice 26 Bagel (The): Balinska 55 Decoded Messages: Sung 38 Hirschauer: Luis Meléndez 74 Baghdad at Sunrise: Mansoor 78 DeLay: War of a Thousand Deserts 35 Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill: Snodin 68 Bailey: Bedouin Law from Sinai 2 Demobbed: Allport 50 Houghton: Philippe de Montebello 26 Balinska: Bagel (The) 42 Di Nepi: Duccio to Leonardo 73 Household Gods: Cohen 49 Bambach: Drawings of Bronzino (The) 47 Digging and Dealing: Bignamini 33 Howard: Sound and Space in Venice 48 Barratt: American Portrait Miniatures 26 Discovery of Mankind (The): Abulafia 76 Humans, Nature, and Birds: Wheye 59 Barter: American Modernism at the AIC 75 Dodds: Arts of Intimacy (The) 18 Hunter: Boyle 36 Barter: Apostles of Beauty 30 Dominion from Sea to Sea: Cumings 32 Ideology and Inquisition: Nesvig 28 Bauer: Death of the Shtetl (The) 76 Donoghue: On Eloquence 77 Illusions of Entrepreneurship (The): Shane 78 Baumol: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism 72 Douglass: Frederick Douglass Papers (The) 70 In the Name of God and Country: Fellman 68 Bedouin Law from Sinai: Bailey 49 Drawings of Bronzino (The): Bambach 24 India: Rothermund 78 Beehler: Lost Worlds 42 Duccio to Leonardo: Di Nepi 39 Ingres: Siegfried 31 Begley: Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters 45 Duchamp: Manual of Instructions 38 Interaction of Color: Albers 1 Behind Closed Doors: Vickery 56 Dutch New York: Krohn 5 Introduction to Art (An): Harrison 59 Belasco: Reinventing Ritual 55 Earle: Serizawa 71 Introduction to Spoken Arabic (An): Abed 24 Bennett-Jones: Pakistan, Third Edition 13 Edlow: Deadly Dinner Party (The) 23 Invention of Scotland (The): Trevor-Roper 62 Bergelson: End of Everything (The) 27 Edward II: Phillips 20 Isabel Toledo: Steele 67 Best Technology Writing 2009: Johnson 76 Ehrenfeld: Sustainability by Design 32 Italian Inquisition (The): Black 69 Big House (The): Cox 42 El Greco to Goya: Carr 67 Jaguar’s Shadow (The): Mahler 47 Bignamini: Digging and Dealing 12 Elephants on the Edge:Bradshaw 66 Jews in Ukrainian Literature: Shkandrij 71 Bilbao-Henry: Transición 62 End of Everything (The): Bergelson 59 Joaquín Torres-García: Ramírez 47 Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors: Roscoe 27 Enlightened Economy (The): Mokyr 65 Johnson: Among the Gentiles 32 Black: Italian Inquisition (The) 75 Epstein: Fred Astaire 67 Johnson: Best Technology Writing 2009 55 Blair: Rivers of Paradise 68 Estlund: Reviving Self-Governance 72 Johnson: Yale French Studies, No. 116/117 69 Bockstoce: Furs and Frontiers 64 Faye: Heidegger 62 Joseph in Egypt: Lang 66 Book of Mormon (The): Skousen 70 Fellman: In the Name of God and Country 25 Judah: Serbs (The), Third Edition 70 Bourgeois Frontier (The): Gitlin 68 Fennell: Unbounded Home (The) 66 Judaism: Gelernter 63 Boyhoods: Corbett 54 Fitzhugh: Gifts from the Ancestors 54 Kantha: Mason 18 Boyle: Hunter 4 Forbes: Dazzled and Deceived 56 Kasl: Sacred Spain 77 Boyle: Public Domain (The) 78 Forgive Us Our Debts: Yarrow 15 Katouzian: Persians (The) 12 Bradshaw: Elephants on the Edge 52 Foster: Steve Wolfe on Paper 47 Kelly: Society of Dilettanti, 1732–1816 41 Bray: Sacred Made Real (The) 36 Fox: Arts of Industry (The) 41 Kharibian: Sacred Made Real (The) 58 Brettell: From Private Collections of Texas 75 Fred Astaire: Epstein 78 Kidd: Great Awakening (The) 34 Brilliant Effects: Pointon 72 Frederick Douglass Papers (The): Douglass 40 Kienholz: Wiggins 49 British Paintings in The MMA: Baetjer 9 Freeman: New History of Christianity 77 King’s Dream: Sundquist 70 Brittle Thread of Life (The): Williams 29 Frierson: Children of the Gulag 32 Klausen: Cartoons That Shook the World 28 Carmichael: Genocide Before the Holocaust 58 From Private Collections of 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80 Index 44 Klein: Alias Man Ray 50 Peck: American Quilts and Coverlets 74 Sophocles: Theban Plays of Sophocles 51 Klonk: Spaces of Experience 68 Penalver: Property Outlaws 33 Sound and Space in Venice: Howard 53 Konstantin Grcic: Ryan 15 Persians (The): Katouzian 51 Spaces of Experience: Klonk 56 Krohn: Dutch New York 50 Philippe de Montebello: Houghton 77 Stall Points: Olson 16 Laird: Mrs. Delany and Her Circle 27 Phillips: Edward II 70 Stanger: One Nation under Contract 32 Land Reform in Russia: Wegren 53 Photographs of Homer Page (The): Davis 58 Stavitsky: Cézanne & American Modernism 62 Lang: Joseph in Egypt 48 Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse: Rewald 20 Steele: Isabel Toledo 40 Langmuir: Closer Look (A): Saints 18 Pincus: 1688 46 Steffens: Unpacking My Library 43 Leach: Yorkshire, West Riding 38 Playing with Pictures: Siegel 46 Stern: Architecture on the Edge 71 Learning Chinese: Wheatley 34 Pointon: Brilliant Effects 64 Sternhell: Anti-Enlightenment Tradition 71 Learning to Teach: Haroutunian-Gordon 32 Policing Stalin’s Socialism: Shearer 52 Steve Wolfe on Paper: Foster 60 Ledbetter: Unaccompanied Bach 78 Pomeroy: American Far West (The) 40 Sturgis: Closer Look (A): Faces 58 Lees: Giovanni Boldini 23 Portrait of the Brain (A): Zeman 61 Sugimura: ‘Matter of Glorious Trial’ 57 Leonardo da Vinci: Radke 67 Pratt: Conservation Biology of Forest Birds 63 Suicidal Behavior in Children: Wagner 46 Levine: Modern Architecture 78 Preserving Nature in National Parks: Sellars 68 Suk: At Home in the Law 77 Life Explained: Morange 70 Prison and American Imagination: Smith 77 Sundquist: King’s Dream 30 Livesey: Civil Society and Empire 68 Property Outlaws: Penalver 55 Sung: Decoded Messages 78 Lost Worlds: Beehler 77 Public Domain (The): Boyle 69 Superpower Illusions: Matlock 57 Luchs: Tullio Lombardo 69 Question of Command (A): Moyar 76 Sustainability by Design: Ehrenfeld 38 Luis Meléndez: Hirschauer 57 Radke: Leonardo da Vinci 14 Talking with Sartre: Gerassi 57 Lukehart: Accademia Seminars (The) 64 Rahe: Montesquieu and Logic of Liberty 23 Tanner: Raven King (The) 15 Lure of China (The): Wood 60 Rainey: Futurism 45 Taylor: Arshile Gorky 61 Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Cavanagh 59 Ramírez: Joaquín Torres-García 45 Taylor: Marcel Duchamp 67 Mahler: Jaguar’s Shadow (The) 72 Ramsey: Works of Jonathan Edwards 10 Taylor: Virgin Warrior (The) 61 Maine Woods (The): Thoreau 73 Rapaport: Sculputure of Louise Nevelson 74 Theban Plays of Sophocles: Sophocles 74 Mansoor: Baghdad at Sunrise 23 Raven King (The): Tanner 61 Thoreau: Maine Woods (The) 45 Manual of Instructions: Duchamp 74 Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics: Harman 71 Transición: Bilbao-Henry 45 Marcel Duchamp: Taylor 59 Reinventing Ritual: Belasco 19 Treasures of the Earth: Ali 63 Marmor: Comparative Studies 65 Religion and Science Debate: Attridge 23 Trevor-Roper: Invention of Scotland (The) 54 Mason: Kantha 68 Reviving Self-Governance: Estlund 29 TRIPLEX: West 7 Master and His Emissary: McGilchrist 48 Rewald: Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse 53 Tucker: Chaotic Harmony 11 Mather: Pashas 37 Richard Norman Shaw: Saint 57 Tullio Lombardo: Luchs 69 Matlock: Superpower Illusions 75 Riemen: Nobility of Spirit (The) 25 Ukrainians (The), New Edition: Wilson 61 ‘Matter of Glorious Trial’: Sugimura 55 Rivers of Paradise: Blair 60 Unaccompanied Bach: Ledbetter 76 McCarthy: Auto Mania 52 Robert Indiana: Wilmerding 68 Unbounded Home (The): Fennell 43 McCombie: Newcastle and Gateshead 47 Roscoe: Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors 46 Unpacking My Library: Steffens 7 McGilchrist: Master and His Emissary 24 Rothermund: India 1 Vickery: Behind Closed Doors 20 Mears: American Beauty 42 Roy: National Gallery Technical Bulletin 10 Virgin Warrior (The): Taylor 14 Mikics: Who Was Jacques Derrida? 34 Ruskin on Venice: Hewison 6 Wagner: Paradoxical Life 46 Modern Architecture: Levine 53 Ryan: Konstantin Grcic 63 Wagner: Suicidal Behavior in Children 51 Modern Eye (The): Wilson 41 Sacred Made Real (The): Bray 54 Walker: Arts of Africa at Dallas 27 Mokyr: Enlightened Economy (The) 56 Sacred Spain: Kasl 78 War of a Thousand Deserts: DeLay 64 Montesquieu and Logic of Liberty: Rahe 37 Saint: Richard Norman Shaw 67 Wargo: Green Intelligence 77 Morange: Life Explained 64 Santayana: Genteel Tradition in Philosophy 49 Watteau, Music, and Theater: Baetjer 71 Morgan: Sonidos en contexto 17 Sargent and the Sea: Cash 60 Wechsler: Grenadine 74 Mortal Coil: Haycock 76 Schwartz: All Can Be Saved 32 Wegren: Land Reform in Russia 69 Moyar: Question of Command (A) 19 Scott: Art of Not Being Governed (The) 50 Weinberg: American Stories 62 Mozart’s Third Brain: Sonnevi 73 Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Rapaport 26 Welch: Shopping in the Renaissance 16 Mrs. Delany and Her Circle: Laird 78 Sellars: Preserving Nature in National Parks 29 West: TRIPLEX 39 Muralnomad: Golan 25 Serbs (The), Third Edition: Judah 78 Wexler: Woman Who Walked into the Sea 65 Nahum: Christensen 55 Serizawa: Earle 77 Whatever Happened to Thrift?: Wilcox 42 National Gallery Technical Bulletin: Roy 77 Shane: Illusions of Entrepreneurship (The) 71 Wheatley: Learning Chinese 41 National Gallery, Illus. History: Crookham 32 Shearer: Policing Stalin’s Socialism 76 Wheye: Humans, Nature, and Birds 65 Natural Reflections: Smith 66 Shkandrij: Jews in Ukrainian Literature 14 Who Was Jacques Derrida?: Mikics 28 Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: Herf 58 Shoemaker: Adventures in Modern Art 46 Why Architecture Matters: Goldberger 32 Nesvig: Ideology and Inquisition 26 Shopping in the Renaissance: Welch 31 Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters: Begley 9 New History of Christianity: Freeman 38 Siegel: Playing with Pictures 40 Wiggins: Kienholz 43 Newcastle and Gateshead: McCombie 39 Siegfried: Ingres 77 Wilcox: Whatever Happened to Thrift? 59 Nexus New York: Cullen 44 Sigmar Polke: Wylie 70 Williams: Brittle Thread of Life (The) 75 Nobility of Spirit (The): Riemen 51 Simon: Alice Guy Blaché 45 Willie Doherty, Requisite Distance: Wylie 67 Notes from the Ground: Cohen 21 Sin: Anderson 52 Wilmerding: Robert Indiana 30 Oceans of Wine: Hancock 18 1688: Pincus 51 Wilson: Modern Eye (The) 48 Ogawa: Art of the Samurai 57 Sketchbook of Pietro Santi Bartoli: Aghion 25 Wilson: Ukrainians (The), New Edition 77 Olson: Stall Points 66 Skousen: Book of Mormon (The) 78 Woman Who Walked into the Sea: Wexler 76 On Eloquence: Donoghue 3 Slater: Charles Dickens 15 Wood: Lure of China (The) 22 On Death and Life of Languages: Hagège 65 Smith: Natural Reflections 56 Woodcut in 15th-Century Europe: Parshall 70 One Nation under Contract: Stanger 70 Smith: Prison and American Imagination 72 Works of Jonathan Edwards: Ramsey 68 Ordering the City: Garnett 75 Smith: Pearl (The) 45 Wylie: Willie Doherty, Requisite Distance 8 Page: Christian West and Its Singers (The) 72 Smith: Works of Jonathan Edwards (The) 44 Wylie: Sigmar Polke 24 Pakistan, Third Edition: Bennett-Jones 35 Snodin: Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill 72 Yale French Studies, No. 116/117: Johnson 6 Paradoxical Life: Wagner 47 Society of Dilettanti, 1732–1816: Kelly 78 Yarrow: Forgive Us Our Debts 56 Parshall: Woodcut in 15th-Century Europe 44 Sol Lewitt: Cross 43 Yorkshire, West Riding: Leach 11 Pashas: Mather 71 Sonidos en contexto: Morgan 23 Zeman: Portrait of the Brain (A) 75 Pearl (The): Smith 62 Sonnevi: Mozart’s Third Brain Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 23/4/09 11:19 Page 81
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