SCALA 2019 1 EXHIBITION BOOKS THE FRICK COLLECTION Welcome to Scala’s 2019 catalogue! We continue our mission to Moroni: The Riches of showcase the world’s leading arts and heritage collections in order Renaissance Portraiture to widen cultural knowledge and appreciation. This year we welcome £50 / $65 Publication: February new partners in the UK, US, Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe, 244 pages; hb Ireland and Canada, while continuing to produce publications for 280 x 240 mm (9½ x 11 in.) 978 1 78551 184 4 (hb) our esteemed long-term partners. Aimee Ng is Associate Curator at The Frick Collection, New York. Among our highlights for 2019 are a luxurious companion to the Simone Facchinetti is Curator at Roman Art collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museo Adriano Bernareggi, Bergamo. Arturo Galansino is Director accompanying books for two new galleries at the Science Museum, of Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. London. More major institutions worldwide have joined our Director’s Accompanies a major exhibition at Choice series, including the Hermitage and the Fabergé Museum. The Frick Collection from 21 February We are very proud to present our latest children’s title in association to 2 June 2019 with Windsor Castle and we have two more major institutions joining our Schools and Colleges list. Our publications for the performing arts this year encompass the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Academy of Dance and St Cecilia’s Hall in Edinburgh. Our reputation continues to be one of the highest quality – both in terms of the beautiful books we produce and the expert service we provide – and we remain extremely proud of our association with some of the best cultural institutions in the world. Jenny McKinley, Managing Director THE FRICK COLLECTION SELECT BACKLIST CONTENTS Giovanni Battista Moroni is considered one of the great 1 Exhibition Books portraitists of 16th-century Italy. Published to accompany the 5 Front cover first major exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States, Museum Collections Fresco panel from the cubiculum 10 Director’s Choice (bedroom) of the Villa of P. Fannius this sumptuous volume celebrates the painter’s eye for exquisite 16 Walking Guides / Director’s Tour Synistor at Boscoreale. Roman, detail in depicting his sitters’ interior and material worlds. 17 Highlights Guides Late Republic, c.50–40 BC In-depth studies of Moroni’s most arresting portraits, together 18 Heritage (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a selection of complementary objects – jewellery, textiles, Rogers Fund, 1903) 24 Religious Sites armour and other luxury items – evoke the material world of the 25 Children and Families Back cover Renaissance society in which he moved. Thirty-seven entries The Frick Collection: 26 Schools and Colleges Renaissance Easter Egg Jewellery and two illuminating essays provide new insight into the artist Decorative Arts 28 Illustrated Histories Box, House of Fabergé, 1894 and his sitters and reveal Moroni’s creativity in translating their The Frick Collection: Handbook 30 (© Fabergé Museum) world into paint. Handbook of 160 pages; pb Backlist 228 x 178 mm 54 Paintings Index 172 pages; pb 978 1 85759 939 8 Contact Details Please note Format measurements 228 x 152 mm £16.95 / $24.95 in inches, where given in this catalogue, are presented using the standard 978 1 85759 328 0 US method (width by height). £9.95 / $14.95 2 1 EXHIBITION BOOKS EXHIBITION BOOKS BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS Fast Fashion / Slow Art Judy Chicago: New Views £19.95 / $24.95 £45 / $55 Publication: June Publication: September 72 pages; hb 240 pages; hb 216 x 165 mm (6½ x 8½ in.) 280 x 254 mm (10 x 11 in.) 978 1 78551 223 0 978 1 78551 182 0 Bibiana Obler is Associate Professor of Sarah Thornton is a writer and sociologist Art History at the Corcoran School of the of culture, best known for her book Seven Days Arts and Design, George Washington University. in the Art World (2008). Hans Ulrich Obrist is Phyllis Rosenzweig is Curator Emerita, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, London. With contributions by Chad Alligood, Smithsonian Institution. With essays by Kirsty Manuela Ammer, Massimiliano Gioni, Philipp Robertson and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Kaiser, Jonathan D. Katz, Martha C. Nussbaum, William J. Simmons and Susan Fisher Sterling. Accompanies an exhibition at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Accompanies an exhibition of new work at the Museum in Washington, DC in autumn 2019 National Museum of Women in the Arts from and at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 19 September 2019 to 20 January 2020 Brunswick, Maine, in spring 2020 BOWDOIN COLLEGE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN MUSEUM OF ART BACKLIST IN THE ARTS SELECT BACKLIST This provocative publication focuses on videos by The first major monograph on the feminist artist Judy contemporary artists and filmmakers that encourage scrutiny Chicago in nineteen years, this fully illustrated volume of contemporary textile production and distribution. Is it provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars and curators. possible to protect workers’ rights and ensure safe working Many people know her famed The Dinner Party, installed as conditions while keeping up with consumer demands? Can the centrepiece of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for design and technology offer sustainable solutions to the Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, but fewer know her environmental effects of fast fashion? What role do art and other prescient bodies of work – on sex, birth, death, popular culture have in raising consumer consciousness? violence, the natural world and more. Featuring her newest Second Sight: The These questions and more will spark conversations about work, The End, as well as major examples from throughout Picturing Mary: Paradox of Vision in Woman, Mother, Idea Role Models: issues such as the merits of the local and tailor-made versus Contemporary Art her career, this book offers a new examination of Chicago’s 160 pages; hb Feminine Identity the global mass production of fast fashion. 112 pages, hb wide-ranging artistic expression and powerful voice. 280 x 240 mm in Contemporary 250 x 210 mm 978 1 85759 895 7 American Photography 978 1 78551 165 3 £29.95 / $45 £29.95 / $45 176 pages; hb 304 x 228 mm 978 1 85759 538 3 £27.95 / $49.95 2 3 EXHIBITION BOOKS MUSEUMEXHIBITION COLLECTIONS BOOKS THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART The Colmar Treasure: Roman Art: A Guide through A Medieval Jewish Legacy The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Collection £19.95 / $24.95 Publication: July £39.95 / $55 112 pages; pb Publication: December 250 x 210 mm (8¼ x 10 in.) 456 pages; pb 978 1 78551 231 5 280 x 216 mm (8½ x 11 in.) 978 1 78551 183 7 Barbara Drake Boehm is the Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Paul Zanker is a renowned authority on Curator for The Met Cloisters. Roman art. Seán Hemingway is John A. and Carole O. Moran Curator in Charge, Accompanies an exhibition at Christopher S. Lightfoot is curator and The Met Cloisters from 22 July 2019 Joan R. Mertens is curator, all in the to 12 January 2020 Department of Greek and Roman Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. During a 19th century renovation of a confectioner’s shop in the town of Colmar, France, workers chanced upon a precious hoard of medieval jewelry and coins hidden in a wall. The THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BACKLIST cache – known as the Colmar Treasure – is thought to have been concealed by a Jewish family prior to the outbreak of the Plague in 1348, when Jews across the region were tragically scapegoated and put to violent death. This exquisite volume, published to accompany an exhibition at The Met Cloisters, The collection of Roman art at The Metropolitan Museum of examines their legacy through the lens of the Colmar treasure, ‘ Art is one of the finest in the world. It contains more than 5,000 shedding light on what it reveals about the work, homes, objects, including exquisite cameos, refined silver vessels and worship and values of its owners. utensils, spectacular Pompeiian frescoes, monumental sculptures in stone and bronze and elaborate sarcophagi. This The American European Islamic Art in The Wing at The Paintings in The The Metropolitan Metropolitan handsome guide features a selection of over 200 of the most Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum of Art: Museum of Art important works that exemplify this rich and diverse collection, Museum of Art: Museum of Art: A Walking Guide Director’s Tour: each presented in detail and illustrated with stunning colour A Walking Guide A Walking Guide 80 pages; pb A Walking Guide photography. Every work is accompanied by an engaging text 96 pages; pb 96 pages; pb 197 x 110 mm 96 pages; pb written by prominent scholars that establishes the object’s 197 x 110 mm 197 x 110 mm 978 1 85759 827 8 197 x 110 mm 978 1 85759 742 4 978 1 85759 819 3 £6.50 / $9.95 978 1 85759 828 5 significance in antiquity, and thus provides new insights for £6.50 / $9.95 £6.50 / $9.95 £6.50 / $9.95 a contemporary understanding of ancient Roman art. 4 5 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS MUSEUM COLLECTIONS SCIENCE MUSEUM SCIENCE MUSEUM Science City: Craft, Commerce and Medicine: An Imperfect Science Curiosity in London, 1550–1800 Edited by Natasha McEnroe Alexandra Rose and Jane Desborough £40 / $50 £25 / $35 Publication: December Publication: November 240 pages; hb 180 pages; hb 280 x 240 mm (9½ x 11 in.) 210 x 160 mm (6¼ x 8¼ in.) 978 1 78551 210 0 978 1 78551 204 9 Natasha McEnroe is the Keeper of Medicine Alexandra Rose is Curator of Earth Sciences at the Science Museum; she was previously at the Science Museum, and lead curator of Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum.