ABC Art Books Canada ABC Art Books Canada Spring 2016 catalog Dana Schutz Zeppetelli, John / Klein, Benjamin / Enright, Robert 9782551256952 Hardcover / 33 color illustrations. (18 plates) 10 x 9 / 72 pages $24.95 Catalog Sequence: 6 ABC Art Books Canada/Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal ‘For all her formal brilliance, it is Schutz’s ethical probing, her lucid parsing of contemporary culture, that truly animates her art.’ Daniel Balasco, Art in America. Informed by early twentieth-century avantgardes, principally cubism and expressionism, Dana Schutz’s art is an extraordinary and joyful mash- up where a multitude of references and allusions collide. The exhilarating results can be understood as a productive conversation with the history of painting and as a compelling testament to painting’s complex and unending death throes. With its conflations of Géricault, horror films, Ensor, Picasso, Guston, porn, and pop culture, her work appears to counter and confront the imperious Internet information colossus, where everything is available at once. This fully bilingual publication accompanies an original exhibition of new and recent work and documents Schutz’s first exhibition in Canada. In English and French. Aude Moreau: The Political Nightfall Déry, Louise (with Kevin Muhlen and Fabrizio Gallanti) 9782920325517 Hardcover / color illustrations. 10.5 x 8.25 / 104 pages $40.00 Catalog Sequence: 9 ABC Art Books Canada/Galerie de l’UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) The photographic, film and sound works of Aude Moreau cast a hitherto unexplored light on the North American city, with its modernist grid, soaring towers, blinding corporate logos, and with its solids that box us in and voids that let us out. Embedding film in architecture, politics in economics, transparency in opacity, and the private in the public, Moreau deflects and refashions the iconography of stereotypical urban images to project the future as a gathering political darkness. Prominently featured is Moreau’s latest film, the powerfully apocalyptic THE END in the Background of Hollywood, shot by helicopter over Los Angeles. This is the first monograph devoted to her work. In English and French. Jennifer Hornyak: The Figure Revisited LeBlanc, Victoria 9781926492049 Paperback / color illustrations. 9.5 x 8.5 / 40 pages $26.95 Catalog Sequence: 14 ABC Art Books Canada/McClure Gallery While Jennifer Hornyak is most known for her lush still life paintings and their rich colour harmonies, this publication documents the artist’s recent return to the exploration of the human figure with characteristic rigour and expressive force. Over the last two decades Hornyak’s focus has been almost exclusively an expressive exploration of the still life genre. One immediately recognizes the signature mark making, rich colour harmonies, a raw and passionate painterliness that distills, in ever-recombinant forms, the lyrical and fleeting quality of her subject. Peter Krausz: Photographs 1969-2015 Paikowsky, Sandra and LeBlanc, Victoria 9781926492063 Paperback / 70 illustrations. 9.5 x 8.5 / 76 pages $26.95 Catalog Sequence: 14.1 ABC Art Books Canada/McClure Gallery The Romanian-born Canadian artist is well known for his richly-coloured, large-scale landscape paintings but less so for his photography. This publication fills that gap by featuring a selection of never before seen photographic work spanning four decades. Much like his paintings, autobiography is at the core of Krausz’s photographs in that they document the journeys of a relentless traveler. Both his photographs and paintings project entrancing worlds where the narrative of embattled and embittered histories are implied but never named. There are however marked differences in the artist’s approach to the two disciplines. While the paintings deny the presence of the people who work and live upon the land depicted, the photographs deny the landscape in favour of people in interiors and urban settings. An essay and an interview with the artist accompany 70 illustrations. Berghahn Books Since I picked up Berghahn near the end of my last selling season it seemed only fair to feature some of the best Berghahn titles from the Fall Winter 2015 season along with the Spring 2016 titles. Berghahn Books Fall Winter 2015 Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life Pytell, Timothy E. 9781782388302 Hardcover / Volume 23, Making Sense of History. bibliog., index / 236 pages $39.95 Catalog Sequence: 1 Berghahn Books ‘Pytell’s book fills an important gap in the literature on one of the most famous and, until now, least controversial psychotherapists of the twentieth century.’ - Geoffrey Cocks, Albion College. First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl’s memoir Man’s Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by its author’s philosophical journey in the wake of the Holocaust. In this long overdue appraisal, Timothy Edward Pytell gives a penetrating but fair-minded account of a man whose paradoxical embodiment of asceticism, celebrity, tradition, and self-reinvention drew together the complex strands of twentieth-century intellectual life. What We Now Know About Race and Ethnicity Banton, Michael 9781782387176 Paperback / bibliog., index / 204 pages $29.95 Catalog Sequence: 1.1 Berghahn Books Developing an international approach, this book reviews references to ‘race,’ ‘racism,’ and ‘ethnicity’ in the social sciences. It identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race that took hold in the USA after the Civil War. The Event of Charlie Hebdo: Imaginaries of Freedom and Control Zagato, Alessandro (editor) 9781785330759 Paperback / Volume 15, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis. Afterword by Bruce Kapferer. Pocket Size 4.25 x 7’ / 124 pages $12.99 Catalog Sequence: 1.3 Berghahn Books The January 2015 shooting at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris sparked an enormous discussion among citizens and intellectuals worldwide. This collection of essays by social scientists serves as a critical response to that discussion. The History of the Stasi: East Germany’s Secret Police, 1945–1990 Gieseke, Jens 9781785330247 Paperback / Translated from the German by David Burnett. bibliog., index / 268 pages $34.95 Catalog Sequence: 2 Berghahn Books ‘Gieseke treats . many issues with careful and lucid analysis, confining himself to the known facts. He rejects the hyperbolic in favor of more mundane explanations. The truth is bad enough. Essential.’ – Choice. ‘This is an excellent book, full of careful, balanced judgements and a wealth of concisely-communicated knowledge. It is also well written. Indeed, it is the best book yet published on the MfS. More than any other written on the MfS, his is a work of real scholarship which attempts a comprehensive history of the Ministry and its operations and assesses their development and significance.’ - German History. Jens Gieseke tells the story of the Stasi, a feared secret-police force and a highly professional intelligence service. He inquires into the mechanisms of dictatorship and the day-to-day effects of surveillance and suspicion. Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich - NEW & REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION Nicosia, Francis R. and Stokes, Lawrence D. (editors) 9781782388159 Paperback / 1 illus., bibliog., index / 464 pages $45.00 Catalog Sequence: 2.6 Berghahn Books ‘Twenty authors have successfully joined forces in this work, which is characterized by a remarkable breadth of subject matter, originality, and archival research.’ - Central European History. ‘Together, they are impressive evidence of the scope and vitality of the history of resistance and of its complexity. One paradox emerges: there is general agreement with Peter Hoffmann’s view that German resistance was limited to the exceptional few who operated in a hostile environment.’ - English Historical Review. Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. Peter Lorre Face Maker: Constructing Stardom and Performance in Hollywood and Europe Thomas, Sarah 9781785330438 Paperback / Volume 12, Film Europa. 20 ills, bibliog., index / 222 pages $29.95 Catalog Sequence: 3 Berghahn Books ‘[I]n her important new study of Lorre’s career . [the author pursues] a rewarding approach that combines careful archival research with clever film analysis to illuminate Lorre’s career from a new angle that not only impacts our understanding of this actor, but also presents an important new way to understand the complex exchanges between on- screen and off-screen performances more generally.’ - Senses of Cinema. ‘In general, the strength of Thomas’s work is that she is familiar with the previous scholarship but also feels free to critique the conclusions of those earlier authors. She focuses much less on biography and gives more attention to theories of drama, which allows her to explore new and interesting aspects of Lorre’s performances. This is an excellent text that adds tremendously to our understanding of the works of Peter Lorre and, by extension, émigré artists in general.’ - Journal of Austrian Studies. From Fidelity to History: Film Adaptations as Cultural Events in the Twentieth