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Art Titles Fall 2016 {IPG} Death and Memory Soane and the Architecture of Legacy Helen Dorey, Tom Drysdale, Susan Palmer, Frances S... Summary This book of essays is published to coincide with an exhibition of the same title at Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London (October 23, 2015–March 26, 2016) commemorating the 200th anniversary of Soane's beloved wife Eliza's death on November 22, 1815. Its relevance to Soane studies, is, however, much broader, with essays shedding new light on the architecture of legacy in Sir John Soane's Museum; Soane's preoccupation with memorialization as revealed in the design process for the Soane family tomb; the legacy of his drawings collection; and Soane's Pimpernel Press attempt shortly before his death to sustain future interest in his collections by creating a series of 9780993204111 time capsules. The essays, written by the curatorial team at Sir John Soane's Museum, are Pub Date: 9/28/16 accompanied by 39 illustrations in full color, some of them published for the first time. Ship Date: 9/28/16 $16.95/$33.95 Can. Contributor Bio Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback Helen Dorey is Deputy Director and Inspectress of Sir John Soane’s Museum. Tom Drysdale was the Museum's Soane Drawings Cataloguer and now works for Historic Royal Palaces. Susan Palmer is 48 Pages Archivist and Head of Library Services at Sir John Soane's Museum. Dr. Frances Sands is Catalogue Carton Qty: 70 Editor of the Adam Drawings Project, Sir John Soane's Museum. Architecture / Historic Preservation ARC014000 11 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.2 in T | 0.6 lb Wt A Whakapapa of Tradition One Hundred Years of Ngato Porou Carving, 1830-1930 Ngarino Ellis, Natalie Robertson Summary From the emergence of the chapel and the wharenui in the nineteenth century to the rejuvenation of carving by Apirana Ngata in the 1920s, Maori carving went through a rapid evolution from 1830 to 1930. Focusing on thirty meeting houses, Ngarino Ellis tells the story of Ngati Porou carving and a profound transformation in Maori art. Beginning around 1830, three previously dominant art traditions – waka taua (war canoes), pataka (decorated storehouses) and whare rangatira (chief’s houses) – declined and were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (decorated Auckland University Press meeting houses) and wharekai (dining halls). Ellis examines how and why that fundamental 9781869407377 transformation took place by exploring the Iwirakau School of carving, based in the Waiapu Valley on Pub Date: 9/1/16 the East Coast of the North Island. What makes a tradition in Maori art? Ellis asks. How do traditions Ship Date: 9/1/16 begin? Who decides this? Conversely, how and why do traditions cease? And what forces are at play $69.99/$83.99 Can. Discount Code: LON which make some buildings acceptable and others not? Beautifully illustrated with new photography Hardcover by Natalie Robertson, and drawing o... 304 Pages Contributor Bio Carton Qty: 30 Ngarino Ellis (Ngapuhi, Ngati Porou) is a senior lecturer in Art History and co-ordinator of the Art / Australian & Oceanian ART042000 Museums and Cultural Heritage Programme at the University of Auckland. She is the co-editor with Deidre Brown of Te Puna: Maori Art from Northland (Reed, 2007) and with Witi Ihimaera of Te Ata: Maori 9.8 in H | 8 in W Art from the East Coast, New Zealand (Reed, 2002), as well as the author of a number of scholarly articles. Natalie Robertson (Ngati Porou, Clann Dhònnchaidh) is a photographic artist and senior lecturer at AUT University. Robertson has an MFA from the University of Auckland. She has exhibited extensively in public institutions throughout New Zealand and internationally, including a solo exhibition, Te Ahikaroa: Home Fires Burning (2014), at the C. N. Gorman Museum at the University of California, Davis, in 2014. F16 Art Titles - August 2016 Page 1 {IPG} Ai Weiwei Speaks Hans Ulrich Obrist Summary If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then? Ai Weiwei—artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist—extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, he discusses the many dimensions of his artistic life, ranging over subjects including ceramics, blogging, nature, philosophy and the myriad influences that have fed into his work. He also talks candidly about his father, his childhood spent in exile and his criticism of the Chinese state. Together, these extraordinary discussions are an essential reminder of the need for personal, political and artistic freedom. Penguin UK Contributor Bio 9780141983912 Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist, designer, architect, curator, blogger publisher, and activist who received Pub Date: 10/1/16 the Amnesty International's Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2015. Hans-Ulrich Obrist is a Ship Date: 10/1/16 curator, critic, and co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at $16.95/$12.99 Can./£8.99 UK the Serpentine Gallery, London. Discount Code: LON Trade Paperback 128 Pages Carton Qty: 0 Art / Individual Artists ART016000 7.1 in H | 4.4 in W | 0.6 in T | 0.4 lb Wt Art Crime and its Prevention A Handbook for Collectors and Art Professionals Arthur Tompkins Summary Art Crime and Its Prevention is the definitive handbook on art crime for art-world professionals of all kinds – from the museum, auction house or art-insurance employee to the contemporary gallerist, dealer, art-market student or collector. Written by a range of international experts, the book's territory is broad and includes advice on how to secure art in galleries and private collections; how and when to insure art; what to look for to be sure that an artwork you buy is legitimate; how to check provenance to be certain that it matches the work it accompanies; how to deal with forgery and best-practices in art acquisition. Contextual debate, such as discussion of the impact of looting in conflict zones and the relevant international law relating to art in war, enlivens the text and helps to Lund Humphries present a fully-rounded analysis of art crime and its many associations. An authoritative and 9781848221871 Pub Date: 10/1/16 readable handbook, Art Crime and Its Prevention will be an essential reference guide for all those Ship Date: 10/1/16 involved in the art world internationally, or in the protection and recovery of artworks. $69.99/$83.99 Can. Discount Code: LON Contributor Bio Hardcover Arthur Tompkins is a District Court Judge based in Wellington, New Zealand. He teaches the 'Art in 208 Pages War' component course at Association for Research into Crimes Against Art’s annual Graduate Carton Qty: 0 Certificate Program in Art Crime and Heritage Protection Studies, in Umbria, Italy. Art / Business Aspects ART043000 9.3 in H | 6 in W F16 Art Titles - August 2016 Page 2 {IPG} Art from the Holocaust 100 Artworks from the Yad Vashem Collection Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg Summary Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, is the global center for Holocaust education, remembrance, research and documentation. The book pays tribute to the fortitude of the human spirit. The shown 100 drawings and paintings, a representative core of Yad Vashem's art collection were created in the camps, the ghettos, in hiding and by partisans. These rare artworks by some 50 artists, half of whom were murdered, reflect the tension between the cruel reality the artists experienced and their desire to take flight. Presented thematically, and supported by substantial research on the annals of the Wienand Verlag artists, the artworks shed light on the artists' experience under the harshest of circumstances. 9783868323153 Pub Date: 9/1/16 Contributor Bio Ship Date: 9/1/16 Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg survived terror attacks in Jerusalem in July 2002. He has a M.A. in Art History $69.95/$83.95 Can./€48.00 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a researcher in the Centre for Jewish Art Jerusalem. He EU Discount Code: LON has been included in inteviews with New York Post , Fox News and meetings with high officials of the Hardcover USA and Europe about the topic of terrorism. 392 Pages Carton Qty: 5 Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions ART006000 11.5 in H | 9.8 in W | 1.5 in T | 4.9 lb Wt Blumenfeld Helaine Blumenfeld Summary Commanding presences meet us in the work of Helaine Blumenfeld. The body, nature, and emotional forces strike us immediately. The bloom of white marble and the more visceral forces revealed by bronze images need to be explored and even deciphered. We wonder how these tantalizing and ambiguous sculptures came into being. The human body is apparent, but often we cannot quite "find" it. Pleasure, pain, struggle, and release are here as well, and we can find poise, balance, and beauty. Much of the most powerful work returns to the basic female dilemma of being divided, conflicted in some way—in spirit, in attitude, and indeed many times in form. Blumenfeld is Bowman Sculpture 9780956120403 one of the rare sculptors who does not pass the work on to the convenient craftsman, but rather Pub Date: 10/1/08 plays a handson role from start to finish. Completing her models in one of the several studios she $35.00/$48.00 Can./£24.95 works in, she follows through, selecting the stone and watching over the pointing up production as UK well as carving with chisel and power compressor.