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Princeton Art & Architecture Princeton Art & Architecture 2021 A magisterial study of celebrated photographer Walker Evans Walker Evans Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photo- graphing people and places in the United States in unforget- table ways. He is known for his work for the Farm Security Administration, addressing the Great Depression, but what he actually saw was the diversity of people and the damage of the long Civil War. In Walker Evans, renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers explores how Evans made his distinctive photographs. Delving into a lavish selection of Evans’s work, Alpers uncovers rich parallels between his creative approach and those of numerous literary and cultural figures, locating Evans within the wide context of a truly international circle. Svetlana Alpers is professor emerita of history of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting scholar in art history at New York University. 2020. 416 pages. 15 color + 170 b/w illus. 6 × 9. Hardback 9780691195872 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691210896 The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern era Goya The life of Francisco Goya (1746–1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought up- heavals in the country’s politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and an ensuing period of political instability. In this revelatory biography, Janis Tomlinson draws on a wide range of documents— including letters, court papers, and a sketchbook used by Goya in the early years of his career—to provide a nuanced portrait of a complex and multifaceted painter and print- maker, whose art is synonymous with compelling images of the people, events, and social revolution that defined his life and era. Janis A. Tomlinson has written and lectured extensively on the art of Goya. 2020. 448 pages. 35 color + 46 b/w illus. 6 × 9. Hardback 9780691192048 $35.00 | £30.00 ebook 9780691209845 How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb Brutal Aesthetics In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new founda- tion of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a “brutal aesthetics” adequate to the destruction around them. Hal Foster is the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, Bollingen Series 2020. 296 pages. 141 color + 41 b/w illus. 7 1/2 × 10. Hardback 9780691202600 $39.95 | £34.00 A groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints ¡Printing the Revolution! The 1960s witnessed the rise of the Chicano civil rights movement, or El Movimiento, and marked a new way of being a person of Mexican descent in the United States. ¡Printing the Revolution! explores the remarkable legacy of Chicano graphic arts relative to major social movements, the way these artists and their cross-cultural collaborators ad- vanced printmaking methods, and the medium’s unique role in shaping critical debates about U.S. identity and history. E. Carmen Ramos is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s acting chief curator and curator of Latinx art. Tatiana Reinoza is assistant professor of art history at the Exhibition Schedule University of Notre Dame. Terezita Romo is an art historian, Smithsonian American Art Museum, curator, and writer. Claudia E. Zapata is the Latinx art cura- Washington, DC Reopening 2021, Dates TBD torial assistant at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC 2020. 344 pages. 297 color + 7 b/w illus. 9 × 12. Flexibound 9780691210803 $49.95 | £42.00 1 The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model “Aryan” society in Norway Hitler’s Northern Utopia Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone. This remarkable build- ing campaign was designed to extend the Greater German Reich beyond the Arctic Circle and turn the Scandinavian country into a racial utopia. From ideal new cities to a scenic superhighway stretching from Berlin to northern Norway, plans to remake the country into a model “Aryan” society fired the imaginations of Hitler, his architect Albert Speer, and other Nazi leaders. In Hitler’s Northern Utopia, Despina Stratigakos provides the first major history of Nazi efforts to build a Nordic empire. Despina Stratigakos is a vice provost and professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. 2020. 352 pages. 13 color + 90 b/w illus. 6 × 9. Hardback 9780691198217 $29.95 | £25.00 ebook 9780691210902 From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things Fall Together Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today’s researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to re- think the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Skylar Tibbits is founder and codirector of the Self- Assembly Lab and associate professor of design research in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. June 2021. 224 pages. 29 color + 13 b/w illus. 5 × 8. Hardback 9780691170336 $24.95 | £20.00 ebook 9780691189710 2 The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body In the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishings. Yet despite our continued fascination, we rarely consider how this iconic design sensibility was marketed to the diverse au- diences of its era. Examining advice manuals, advertisements in Life and Ebony, furniture, art, and more, Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body offers a powerful new look at how codes of race, gender, and identity influenced—and were influenced by—Modern design and shaped its presenta- tion to consumers. Kristina Wilson is professor of art history at Clark University. April 2021. 264 pages. 74 color + 80 b/w illus. 7 × 10. Hardback 9780691208190 $39.95 | £34.00 ebook 9780691213491 The first major work to examine Joseph Cornell’s relationship to American modernism Enchantments Joseph Cornell (1903–72) is best known for his exquisite and alluring box constructions, in which he transformed found objects—such as celestial charts, glass ice cubes, and feathers—into enchanted worlds that blur the boundaries between fantasy and the commonplace. Situating Cornell within the broader artistic, cultural, and political debates of midcentury America, this innovative and interdisciplinary account reveals enchantment’s relevance to the history of American modernism. Marci Kwon is assistant professor of art and art history at Stanford University. March 2021. 272 pages. 121 color + 82 b/w illus. 7 × 10. Hardback 9780691181400 $60.00 | £50.00 ebook 9780691215020 3 Why Piranesi’s greatest works weren’t his famous prints but rather the books for which he made them Piranesi Unbound A draftsman, printmaker, architect, and archaeologist, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) is best known today as the virtuoso etcher of the immersive and captivating Views of Rome and the darkly inventive Imaginary Prisons. Yet Carolyn Yerkes and Heather Hyde Minor argue that his single greatest art form—one that combined his obsessions most powerfully and that he pursued throughout his career—was the book. Piranesi Unbound provides a fundamental reinter- pretation of Piranesi by recognizing him, first and foremost, as a writer, illustrator, printer, and publisher of books. Carolyn Yerkes is associate professor of early modern architecture at Princeton University. Heather Hyde Minor is professor of art history at the University of Notre Dame. 2020. 240 pages. 193 color illus. 9 × 11 1/2. Hardback 9780691206103 $65.00 | £54.00 Leonardo’s enduring fascination with water—from its artistic representation to aquatic inventions and hydraulic engineering Watermarks Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, water represented a force that could be harnessed for human industry but was equally possessed of formidable destructive power. For Leonardo da Vinci, water was an enduring fascination, appearing in myriad forms throughout his work. In Watermarks, Leslie Geddes explores the extraordinary range of Leonardo’s interest in water and shows how artworks by him and his peers contrib- uted to hydraulic engineering and the construction of large river and canal systems. Leslie A. Geddes is assistant professor of art history at Tulane University. 2020. 256 pages. 124 color + 14 b/w illus. 7 1/2 × 10. Hardback 9780691192697 $60.00 | £50.00 4 A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world Byzantine Intersectionality While the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millen- nia.
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