2020 ART AND ARCHITECTURE The Obama Portraits Taína Caragol, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell & Kim Sajet From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the most beloved artworks of our time. Kehinde Wiley’s por- trait of President Obama and Amy Sherald’s portrait of the former first lady have inspired unprecedented responses from the public, and attendance at the museum has more than doubled as visitors travel from near and far to view these larger-than-life paintings. The Obama Portraits is the first book about the making, meaning, and significance of these remarkable artworks. Richly illustrated with images of the portraits, exclu- sive pictures of the Obamas with the artists during their sittings, and photos of the historic unveiling ceremony by former White House photographer Pete Souza, this book offers insight into what these paintings can tell us about the history of portraiture and American culture. The volume also features a transcript of the unveiling ceremony, which includes moving remarks by the Obamas and the artists. A reversible dust jacket allows readers to choose which sitter to display on the front cover. An inspiring history of the creation and impact of the Obama portraits, this fascinating book speaks to the power of art—especially portraiture—to bring people together and promote cultural change. TAÍNA CARAGOL is curator of painting and sculpture and Latino art and history at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. DOROTHY MOSS is curator of painting and sculpture at the National Portrait Gallery, where she also directs the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition and serves as coordinating curator of the Smithsonian American Women’s A richly illustrated celebration of the History Initiative. RICHARD J. POWELL is the John paintings of President Barack Obama and Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at First Lady Michelle Obama Duke University. KIM SAJET is director of the National Portrait Gallery. February 2020. 152 pages. 76 color illus. 7 x 9. Hardback 9780691203287 $24.95 | £20.00 E-book 9780691203294 Published in association with the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (front cover): Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (detail), 2018. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Protest! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics Liz McQuiston Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics. Beginning in the Reformation, when printed visual matter was first produced in multiples, Liz McQuiston follows the iconic images that have accompanied movements and events around the world. She “Showing the conceptual breadth and visual examines fine art and propaganda, including diversity of protest graphics through the William Hogarth’s Gin Lane, Thomas Nast’s political centuries, Protest! offers a degree of compre- caricatures, French and British comics, postcards hensiveness and scholarly depth not available from the women’s suffrage movement, clothing of the elsewhere.” 1960s counterculture, the anti-apartheid illustrated — Stephen J. Eskilson, author of Graphic book How to Commit Suicide in South Africa, the Design: A New History “Silence=Death” emblem from the AIDS crisis, murals created during the Arab Spring, electronic graphics from Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution, and the front cover of the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Providing a visual exploration both joyful and brutal, McQuiston discusses how graphics have been used to protest wars, call for the end to racial discrimination, demand freedom from tyranny, and satirize authority figures and regimes. From the French, Mexican, and Sandinista revolutions to the American civil rights movement, nuclear disarmament, and the Women’s March of 2017, Protest! documents the integral role of the visual arts in passionate efforts for change. LIZ MCQUISTON is a graphic designer and independent scholar. She has served as the head of the Department of Graphic Art and Design at the Royal College of Art, and her many books include Visual Impact: Creative Dissent in the 21st Century, Graphic Agitation 2: Social and Political Graphics in the Digital Age, and Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women’s Liberation and Beyond. 2019. 288 pages. 400 color illus. 9 x 11 1/2. Hardback 9780691198330 $39.95 | £34.00 E-book 9780691197319 For sale only in the United States, US Dependencies, and Canada 1 Michelangelo’s Design Principles Particularly in Relation to Those of Raphael Erwin Panofsky Edited from the author’s literary remains and with an introduction by Gerda Panofsky In 2012, a manuscript by renowned art historian Erwin Panofsky was rediscovered in a safe in Munich, in the basement of what is now the Central Institute for Art History. Hidden for decades among folders and administrative files was Panofsky’s thesis on Michelangelo—submitted to Hamburg University in 1920 and abandoned when Panofsky fled Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Michelangelo’s Design Principles makes this remarkable work available for the first time in English. Featuring an introduction by Gerda Panofsky that discusses the history of the original manuscript and the significance of its rediscovery, Michelangelo’s Design Principles is a crucial link between Panofsky’s formalist training as a young art historian and his later work in iconology. June 2020. 336 pages. 29 b/w illus. 6 x 9. ERWIN PANOFSKY (1892–1968) was one of the most Hardback 9780691165264 $39.95 | £34.00 eminent art historians of the twentieth century. GERDA PANOFSKY is professor emerita of art history at Temple University. Verrocchio Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence Edited by Andrew Butterfield With contributions by John K. Delaney, Charles Dempsey, Gretchen A. Hirschauer, Alison Luchs, Lorenza Melli, Dylan Smith & Elizabeth Walmsley Andrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his spectacular sculptures and paintings to his work in goldsmithing, architecture, and engineering. His expressive, confident drawings provide a key point of contact between sculpture and painting. He led a vibrant workshop where he taught young artists who later became some of the greatest painters of the pe- riod, including Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Lorenzo di Credi, and Domenico Ghirlandaio. This 2019. 384 pages. 279 color illus. 9 x 12. beautifully illustrated book presents a comprehensive Hardback 9780691183367 $75.00 | £62.00 survey of Verrocchio’s art, spanning his entire career Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, and featuring some fifty sculptures, paintings, and Washington, DC drawings. ANDREW BUTTERFIELD is an independent scholar. His books include Donatello in Motion and Body and Soul. 2 A History of Art History Christopher S. Wood In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and personalities, this original account of the development of art-historical thinking will appeal to readers both inside and outside the discipline. The book shows that the pioneering chroniclers of the Italian Renaissance—Lorenzo Ghiberti and Giorgio Vasari—measured every epoch against fixed standards of quality. Only in the Romantic era did art historians discover the virtues of medieval art, anticipating the relativism of the later nineteenth century, when art history learned to admire the art of all societies and to value every work as an index of its times. The major art historians of the modern era, however—Jacob “A tour de force. I can’t think of another Burckhardt, Aby Warburg, Heinrich Wölfflin, Erwin book that even comes close to this one in Panofsky, Meyer Schapiro, and Ernst Gombrich— the way it encourages art historians to struggled to adapt their work to the rupture of artistic understand their own disciplinary history.” modernism, leading to the current predicaments of — Michael Ann Holly, author of the discipline. The Melancholy Art Combining erudition with clarity, this book makes “Destined to become the standard work a landmark contribution to the understanding of art for many years to come.” history. —Sam Rose, Apollo Magazine CHRISTOPHER S. WOOD is a professor at New York “In this exemplary and engaging book, University. He is the author of Forgery, Replica, Christopher Wood offers a bird’s-eye Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art and perspective on the history of art history Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, the that few scholars could match.” coauthor of Anachronic Renaissance, and the editor of — Whitney Davis, author of Visuality The Vienna School Reader: Politics and Art Historical and Virtuality Method in the 1930s. 2019. 472 pages. 24 b/w illus. 6 1/2 x 9. “Eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.” Hardback 9780691156521 $35.00 | £30.00 E-book 9780691194318 —Barry