The Carlos Museum Bookshop: Great books for adults

We’re sharing some of our favorite books NEW THIS WEEK beautiful and useful and gifts that are available for mail order How to Be an Artist book will help artists while the Carlos Museum is closed to the of all kinds—painters, public. photographers, writers, performers—realize Please email your order with your address their dreams. $22.00, and phone number to Bookshop Manager hardcover. Mark Burell at [email protected], and you will receive a call to process your or- NEW THIS WEEK der. The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded Most orders for books in stock will be and Newly Translated shipped within five business days. If a by David Hinton book is temporarily sold out, it may take longer to fulfill orders due to current ship- ping delays, but orders will be processed as quickly as possible. Art has the power to Click HERE for great books for kids change our lives. For many, becoming an art- Click HERE for great books for coping ist is a lifelong dream. with quarantine But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist, art critic Remember, all purchases support the Jerry Saltz of New York Carlos Museum, so stock up today! magazine, one of the art world’s most cele- brated and passionate Tu Fu (712-770 C.E.) voices, offers an indis- has for a millennium Support the museum with the pensable handbook been widely consid- purchase of a Bookshop gift card for creative people of ered the greatest all kinds. Saltz offers poet in the Chinese Let your friends know you’re thinking invaluable insight into tradition. Most of Tu of them with a gift card to one of Atlanta’s what really matters Fu’s best poems were most inventively curated bookstores, to emerging artists: written in the last de- originality, persistence, cade of his life, as an or purchase one for yourself in support a balance between impoverished refugee of the Carlos Museum and in anticipa- knowledge and intu- fleeing the devastation ition, and that most of civil war. In the midst tion of leisurely browsing. precious of qualities, of these challenges, his self-belief. Teeming always personal poems Available in denominations of $25 with full-color artwork manage to combine a and $50. from visionaries an- remarkable range of cient and modern, this possibilities: elegant simplicity and great ualistic than the East? in their polar opposite. scenes portray how complexity, everyday What makes secularism Illuminating unreason contemporaries must life and grand historical a less powerful force at a moment when the have experienced and drama, private phil- in the Islamic world world appears to have thought about mo- osophical depth and than in Europe? And gone mad again, Irra- mentous events and social engagement how has China resisted tionality is fascinating, how they tried to make in a world consumed pressures for great- provocative, and time- sense of it all. $18.00, by war. Gary Snyder er political freedom? ly. $29.99, hardcover. paperback. wrote: “Tu Fu said ‘A $12.99, paperback. poet’s ideas are noble NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK and simple.’ But Tu Fu The Black Death: A So Much Longing in does not seem so sim- NEW THIS WEEK Personal History So Little Space: The ple to us. One of the Irrationality: A History Art of Edvard Munch world’s finest poets is of the Dark Side of made available here.” Reason $18.95, paperback.

NEW THIS WEEK How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Bestselling memoir- Hatcher, a world-re- ist/novelist Karl Ove From sex and music to nowned scholar of Knausgaard combines religion and war, irra- the Middle Ages, piercing artistic insight tionality makes up the recreates everyday life with freewheeling greater part of human in a mid-fourteenth historical, biographical, life and history. Chal- century rural English and autobiographical lenging conventional village. By focusing digressions, bringing to Julian Baggini sets out thinking about logic, on the experiences life Munch’s emotional- to expand our hori- natural reason, dreams, of ordinary villagers ly and psychologically zons, exploring the art and science, pseu- as they lived—and intense work with ex- philosophies of Japan, doscience, the Enlight- died—during the Black traordinary and fitting India, China, and the enment, the internet, Death (1345–50 AD), feeling and urgency. A Muslim world as well as jokes, lies, and death, Hatcher vividly plac- singular and exception- the lesser-known oral Irrationality shows how es the reader directly ally stylish work of art traditions of Africa and history reveals that any into those tumultuous criticism, and a perfect Australia’s first peoples. triumph of reason is years and describes in match of subject and Interviewing thinkers temporary and revers- fascinating detail the author, this book with from around the globe, ible, and that rational day-to-day existence its reproductions of Baggini asks questions schemes, notably in- of people struggling a number of Munch’s such as: why is the cluding many from Sili- with the tragic effects most significant paint- West is more individ- con Valley, often result of the plague. Dramatic ings is an essential and fascinating volume piecing together what NEW THIS WEEK seeking insight, ideas, for both Knausgaard’s really happened at the The Golden Age of and surprises. $18.95 legion of loyal readers crime scenes of the the Garden: A hardcover. and devotees of the vi- Earth’s biggest who- Miscellany sual arts alike. $17.00, dunits. $16.99, paper- NEW THIS WEEK paperback. back. Why Women Read NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Fiction: The Stories of The Ends of the The Madness of Our Lives World: Volcanic Knowledge: On Apocalypses, Lethal Wisdom, Ignorance, Oceans, and Our and Fantasies of Quest to Understand Knowing Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions

Imported from the UK! The relationship be- tween England and its gardens might be de- scribed as a love affair; Helen Taylor, an experi- gardening is a nation- enced teacher, scholar al passion, rooted in of women’s writing, Many human beings history. This survey and literature festival have considered the brings the voices of the director, describes powers and the limits past alive in newspaper how, where, and when Using the visible clues of human knowledge, reports, letters, diaries, women read fiction and five past devastations but few have wondered books, essays and trav- examines why stories have left behind in the about the power that elogues, offering con- and writers influence fossil record, The Ends the idea of knowledge temporary gardening the way female readers of the World takes us has over us. Here is the advice, principles of understand and shape inside “scenes of the first book to investigate design, reflections on their own life stories. crime” from South Afri- this emotional inner nature, landscape and Taylor explores why ca to the New York Pal- life of knowledge: the plants, and a unique women are the main isades to tell the story lusts, fantasies, dreams, perspective on the ori- buyers and readers of of each extinction. and fears that the idea gins of the English fas- fiction, members of Brannen examines the of knowing provokes; cination with gardens. book clubs, attendees fossil record—which in-depth discussions Exploring the different at literary festivals, and is rife with creatures of the imperious will to styles, techniques, and organizers of trips to like dragonflies the know; of Freud’s epis- innovations, and the fictional sites and writ- size of sea gulls and temophilia (or love of creation of many of the ers’ homes, and offers guillotine-mouthed knowledge); and the stunning spaces that a cornucopia of witty fish—and introduces curiously insistent links visitors still flock to see and wise women’s voic- us to the researchers between madness, today, this is an evoca- es to understand why, on the front lines who, magical thinking, and tive and rewarding col- in poet Jackie Kay’s using the forensic tools the desire for knowl- lection for all garden- words, “our lives are of modern science, are edge. $35.00, hardcover. ers and garden-lovers mapped by books.” $18.95, hardcover. NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Atlas Obscura: The Transcendence: How Sapiens: A Brief NEW THIS WEEK Second Edition Humans Evolved History of Humankind Music: A Subversive Through Fire, History Language, Beauty, and Time

Created by the founders of AtlasObscura.com, A runaway bestseller the vibrant online around the world! Dr. Musical obsessive Ted travel community, this Yuval Noah Harari Gioia tells a 4,000-year completely revised What enabled us to spans the whole of history of music as a and updated second go from simple stone human history, from global source of pow- edition includes 120 tools to smart phones? the very first humans er, change, and up- new entries that offer How did bands of hunt- to walk the earth to the heaval. He shows how readers even more er-gatherers evolve into radical—and some- social outcasts have of the most unusual, multinational empires? times devastating— repeatedly become curious, bizarre, and In Transcendence, breakthroughs of the trailblazers of musical mysterious places Gaia Vince argues Cognitive, Agricultural, expression: slaves and on earth as well as a that modern humans and Scientific Revo- their descendants, for full-color gatefold Atlas are the product of a lutions. He explores instance, have repeat- Obscura road trip map nuanced coevolution how the currents of edly reinvented music, with a dream itinerary. of our genes, environ- history have shaped from ancient times all Oversized, beautifully ment, and culture that our human societies, the way to the jazz, packaged, compelling- goes back into deep the animals and plants reggae, and hip-hop ly written, scrupulously time. She explains how, around us, and even sounds of the current researched, and filled through four key ele- our personalities. Have day. He reclaims the with photographs, ments—fire, language, we become happier? story of music for the illustrations, maps, beauty, and time—our Can we ever free our riffraff, insurgents, and charts, and more, it is species diverged from behavior from the her- provocateurs from the book that inspires the evolutionary path itage of our ancestors? Sappho to the Sex Pis- equal parts won- of all other animals, un- And what, if anything, tols to Spotify. $35.00, der and wanderlust. leashing a compound- can we do to influence hardcover. $37.50, hardback. ing process that turned the course of the cen- itself into something Also available: The Atlas turies to come? $24.99, marvelous. $30.00, paperback. Obscura Explorer’s hardcover. Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid ($19.95). NEW THIS WEEK NEW THIS WEEK Ancient Egyptian Legendary Ladies: 50 Being Human: Bodies, The Aviary Magic: A Hands-On Goddesses to Minds, Persons (Paperscapes) Guide Empower and Inspire You

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By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examina- tion into the relation between capitalist destruction and col- This thrilling history Matsutake is the most laborative survival tracks three crucial valuable mushroom in within multispecies books as they were the world, and a weed landscapes, the pre- passed hand to hand that grows in hu- requisite for continuing through seven cities man-disturbed forests life on earth. $19.95, during a perilous thou- across the northern sand-year journey of hemisphere. Through Real princesses didn’t The Maze: A survival. After the great its ability to nurture always get happy end- Labyrinthine library at Alexandria trees, matsutake helps ings. Sure, plenty were Compendium was destroyed, Bagh- graceful and benevo- forests to grow in dad, Cordoba, Toledo, lent leaders, but just as daunting places. 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And damaged landscapes, part of civilization for at of Western thought, Princess Lakshmibai this book follows one least 4,000 years. The and how foundational waged war on the bat- of the strangest com- idea of the maze taps works on math, astron- tlefield with her toddler modity chains of our into so many subcon- omy, and medicine strapped to her back. times to explore the scious notions: the by Euclid, Ptolemy, $16.99, paperback. unexpected corners game, the quest, the spiritual journey. This quent history involves Source of Self Four Words for beautifully illustrated tomb raiding, intrigue, Regard: Selected Friend: Why Using book will delight lov- duplicity, litigation, Essays, Speeches, and More Than One ers of mazes, acting international outrage, Meditations Language Matters as a guide, directo- and possibly even ho- Now More Than Ever ry, and puzzle book micide. How this came combined. Specially about is told by Nigel commissioned illustra- Spivey in a concise, tions represent 60 real stylish book that braids and imagined mazes together the creation from around the world and adventures of this with a bird’s eye view extraordinary object of each maze so that with an exploration of readers can make their its abiding influence. own journey. Each Spivey takes the reader maze is also accompa- on a dramatic journey, nied by a fascinating beginning with the and witty short history. krater’s looting from an $29.99, hardback. Etruscan tomb in 1971 and its acquisition by Here is Toni Morrison The Sarpedon Krater: the Metropolitan Mu- in her own words—a In a world that has The Life and Afterlife seum of Art, New York, rich gathering of her English as its global of a Greek Vase followed by a high-pro- most important essays language and rapidly file lawsuit over its and speeches spanning advancing translation status and its eventu- four decades. These technology, it’s easy to al return to Italy. He pages give us her sear- assume that the need explains where, how, ing prayer for the dead to use more than one and why the vase was of 9/11, her Nobel language will dimin- produced, retrieving lecture on the power of ish—but Marek Kohn what we know about language, her search- argues that plural the life and legend ing meditation on language use is more of Sarpedon. Spivey Martin Luther King Jr., important than ever. also pursues the fig- and her heart-wrench- In a divided world, it ural motif of the slain ing eulogy for James helps us to understand Sarpedon portrayed Baldwin. She looks ourselves and others on the vase and traces deeply into the fault better, to live together how this motif became better, and to make Perhaps the most lines of culture and a standard way of freedom: the foreigner, the most of our various spectacular of all Greek representing the dead cultures. vases, the Sarpedon female empowerment, and dying in Western the press, money, Kohn, whom the krater depicts the body art, especially during of Sarpedon, a hero of “black matter(s),” hu- Guardian has called the Renaissance. Fas- man rights, the artist in “one of the best the Trojan War, being cinating and informa- carried away to his society, and the Af- science writers we tive, The Sarpedon ro-American presence have,” brings togeth- homeland for burial. It Krater is a multifaceted was decorated some in American literature. er perspectives from introduction to the $16.95, paperback. psychology, evolution- 2,500 years ago by enduring influence of Athenian artist Euph- ary thought, politics, Greek art on the world. literature, and every- ronios, and its subse- $25.00 hardcover. day experience. He In seven brief chapters, and the written record Bookworm: A Memoir explores how people Watts captures the to build a picture of acquire languages; essence of Zen Bud- what really went on in how they lose them; dhism as a religion and the bedrooms of the how they can regain a way of life. He ex- pharaohs and their In them; how different plains fundamental Zen In this fascinating and languages may affect concepts, introduces intimate insight into people’s perceptions, revered Zen thinkers, ancient Egyptian sex their senses of self, and places Zen within the and sexuality, author their relationships with broader context of Charlotte Booth de- each other; and how Eastern religion, and mystifies an ancient to resolve the funda traces the influence of way of life, drawing on mental contradiction Zen in the arts. Illustrat- archaeological evi- of languages, that they ed with calligraphy and dence and the written exist as much to pre- drawings by the author, record to build a pic- vent communication this reprint of an old ture of what really went as to make it happen. classic will delight fans on in the bedrooms of Imported from En- $27.50, hardcover. of Alan Watts, while in- the pharaohs and their gland! When Lucy troducing new readers subjects. Mangan was little, sto- Zen: A Short to a legendary author Sex was a promInent ries were everything. Introduction who infused ground- part of ancient Egyp- They opened up dif- breaking scholarship tian society. It featured ferent worlds and cast with literary brilliance. heavily in religion, new light on this one. $16.00, hardcover. mythology and art- She was whisked away work, and was not to Narnia—and Kirrin In Bed with the considered the taboo it Island—and Wonder- Ancient Egyptians is sometimes treated as land. She ventured in modern cultures. down rabbit holes and womble burrows This book examines into midnight gardens all aspects of ancient and chocolate facto- Egyptian sex lives, from ries. No wonder she idealized beauty and only left the house for attitudes towards sexu- her weekly trip to the ality, to representations library. In Bookworm, of fertility in art and the According to Alan Lucy brings the favorite relationship between Watts, “Zen taste de- characters of our col- sex and religion. Many plores the cluttering of lective childhoods back of the trials and tribu- a picture or of a room to life and disinters a lations that were faced with many objects.” In few forgotten treasures are as relevant today that sense, this mini- poignantly, wittily using as they were in the malist book embodies them to tell her own past: marriage, divorce the aesthetic of Zen In this fascinating and story, that of a born and adultery are all itself. As with brush- intimate insight into and unrepentant book- discussed as well as strokes in a Japanese ancient Egyptian sex worm. $17.95, paper- prostitution, homosex- ink painting, the words and sexuality, author back. have been used spar- Charlotte Booth demy- uality, sexual health ingly and arranged pre- stifies an ancient way and fertility. $16.95, cisely, with no unneces- of life, drawing on ar- paperback. sary detail. chaeological evidence Witcraft: The Inven- The Man in the Red others), place, and drinking with pleasure tion of Philosophy in Coat time, we have a fresh and discrimination. English portrait of the Belle Newly published, the Époque; an illuminat- latest in Princeton’s se- ing look at the long- ries of classical manuals standing exchange of for living and dealing ideas between Britain with living. $16.95, and France; and a life hardcover. of a man who lived passionately in the mo- Cultural Amnesia: ment but whose ideas Necessary Memories and achievements were from History and the far ahead of his time. Arts $26.95, hardcover. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen ar- How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Ludwig Wittgenstein rived in London for a Art of Imbibing once wrote that “phi- few days’ intellectual losophy should be writ- shopping: a prince, a ten like poetry.” What count, and a common- if, author Jonathan Rée er with an Italian name. asks, we instead saw In time, each of these the history of philos- men would achieve a ophy as a haphazard certain level of renown, series of unmapped but who were they forest paths, a mass then and what was the of individual stories significance of their sojourn to England? showing endurance, This international best- inventiveness, be- Answering these ques- seller is an encyclope- wilderment, anxiety, tions, Julian Barnes dic A-Z masterpiece, impatience, and good unfurls the stories the perfect introduc- humor? Breaking away of their lives which tion to the very core Is there an art to from high-altitude play out against the of Western humanism. drinking alcohol? narratives, and survey- backdrop of the Belle Author Clive James The Renaissance ing figures both within Époque in Paris. Our rescues, or occasionally humanist Vincent and outside the disci- guide through this destroys, the careers Obsopoeus (ca. 1498- pline of philosophy, he world is Samuel Pozzi, of many of the great- 1539) thought so. In shows how philosophy the society doctor, est thinkers, human- the winelands of six- finds its way into or- free-thinker and man ists, musicians, artists, teenth-century Germa- dinary lives, enriching of science with a fa- and philosophers of ny, he witnessed the and transforming them mously complicated the twentieth centu- birth of a poisonous in unexpected ways. private life who was ry. Soaring to Mon- new culture of binge- $37.50 hardcover. the subject of one of taigne-like heights, ing, hazing, peer pres- John Singer Sargent’s Cultural Amnesia is sure, and competitive greatest portraits. In precisely the book to drinking. Alarmed, this vivid tapestry of burnish these memo- and inspired by the people (Henry James, ries of a Western civili- Roman poet Ovid’s Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar zation that James fears Art of Love, he wrote Wilde, Proust, James is nearly lost. $19.95, this how-to manual for Whistler, among many paperback. Devotions: The A Garden Eden: Gene Smith’s Sink: A see Williams, to whom Selected Poems of Masterpieces of Wide-Angle View Smith likened himself; Mary Oliver Botanical Illustration the avant-garde film- maker Stan Brakhage, with whom he once shared a Swiss chalet; the artist Mary Frank, who was married to his friend Robert Frank; the jazz pianists Thelo- nious Monk and Sonny Clark, whose music was taped by Smith in his loft; and a series of obscure caregivers who helped keep Smith on his feet. $15.00, paper- From Byzantine man- As a photo essayist at back. Carefully curated, uscripts right through Life magazine in the these 200 plus poems to nineteenth-century 1940s and ‘50s, W. Eu- Uncommon Grounds feature Oliver’s work masterpieces, through gene Smith established from her very first book peonies, callas, and himself as an intimate of poetry, No Voyage chrysanthemums, these chronicler of human and Other Poems, exquisite reproductions culture. When Smith published in 1963 at dazzle in their accuracy died at age 59 in 1978, the age of 28, through and their aesthetics. he left behind eighteen her most recent collec- Whether in gently dollars in the bank tion, Felicity, published furled leaves, precise- and 44,000 pounds of in 2015. This timeless ly textured fruits, or archives. His death cer- volume, arranged by the sheer beauty and tificate read “stroke,” Oliver herself, show- variety of colors, we but, as was said of the cases the beloved poet celebrate an art form as immortal jazzman Char- at her edifying best. tender as it is precise, lie Parker, Smith died of “everything,” from Within these pages, and ever more reso- A comprehensive story drug and alcohol bend- she provides us with nant amid our growing of coffee from its dis- ers to weeklong work an extraordinary and awareness of our eco- covery on a hill in an- sessions with no sleep. invaluable collection of logical surroundings cient Abyssinia to the In Gene Smith’s Sink, her passionate, percep- and the preciousness of advent of Starbucks. Stephenson merges tive, and much-trea- natural flora. 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