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Cover: From a letter written by Leonard Bernstein to his mother from Israel, 1948, and illustrated by his friend Yossi Stern. Reproduced by permission of the Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. General Interest
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Charity
The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition Gary A. Anderson A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theaters and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we explain this difference? In this significant reappraisal of charity in the biblical tradition, Gary Anderson argues that the poor constituted the privileged place where Jews and Christians met God. Though concerns for social justice were not unknown to early Jews and Christians, the poor achieved the importance they did primarily because they were thought to be “living altars,” a place to make a sacrifice, a loan to God that he, as the ultimate guarantor, could be trusted to repay in turn. Contrary to the assertions of Reformation and mod- Praise for Sin: ern critiques, belief in a heavenly treasury was not just “Astonishing . . . compelling. . . . This about self-interest. Sifting through biblical and post- book merits wide and sustained biblical texts, Anderson shows how charity affirms the attention. . . . There are few books goodness of the created order; the world was created available that offer as many generative insights as this one.”—Walter through charity and therefore rewards it. Brueggemann, Christian Century
Gary A. Anderson is Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology, University of Notre Dame. His most recent book, the critically acclaimed Sin: A History, won a Christianity Today Book Award. He lives in South Bend, IN.
Also by Gary A. Anderson: Sin A History Paper 978-0-300-16809-9 $22.00
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The Bet
Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future
Paul Sabin Are we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will innovation and markets yield greater prosperity? In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine—with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered that human welfare would flourish thanks to flexible markets, technological change, and our collective ingenuity. Simon and Ehrlich’s debate reflected a deepening national conflict over the future of the planet. The Bet weaves the two men’s lives and ideas together with the era’s partisan political clashes over the environment and the role of government. In a lively narrative lead- “Paul Sabin’s The Bet is wonderfully ing from the dawning environmentalism of the 1960s conceived, sharply focused and through the pivotal presidential contest between Jimmy entertainingly executed. In the story of Carter and Ronald Reagan and on into the 1990s, a famous bet between two men of large Paul Sabin shows how the fight between Ehrlich and egos, he manages to touch on the most Simon—between environmental fears and free-market basic problems we face in trying to come confidence—helped create the gulf separating envi- to terms with our current environmental crisis.”—Richard White, author of ronmentalists and their critics today. Drawing insights Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and from both sides, Sabin argues for using social values, the Making of Modern America rather than economic or biological absolutes, to guide society’s crucial choices relating to climate change, the planet’s health, and our own. Paul Sabin is associate professor, Department of History, Yale University. He was founding director of the Environmental Leadership Program, a national nonprofit organization, and is the author of Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900–1940. August Environment/Economics Cloth 978-0-300-17648-3 $28.50 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 24 b/w illus. World General Interest
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The Nostalgia Factory Memory, Time and Ageing
Douwe Draaisma With a storyteller’s gift and a scientist’s insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory You cannot call to mind the name of a man you have known for 30 years. You walk into a room and forget what you came for. What is the name of that famous film you’ve watched so many times? These are common experiences, and as we grow older we tend to worry about these lapses. Is our memory failing? Is it dementia? Douwe Draaisma, a renowned memory specialist, here focuses on memory in later life. Writing with eloquence and humor, he explains neurological phenomena without becoming lost in specialist terminology. His book is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks’s work, and not coincidentally this volume includes a long interview with Sacks, who speaks of his own memory changes as he entered his sixties. Draaisma moves smoothly from anecdote to research and back, weaving stories and science into a Praise for Douwe Draaisma: compelling description of the terrain of memory. He “Draaisma combines encyclopaedic brings to light the “reminiscence effect,” just one of the knowledge of science and a wonderful unexpected pleasures of an aging memory. sense of history with the most vivid and The author writes reassuringly about forgetfulness and engaging narrative style.”—Oliver Sacks satisfyingly dismantles the stubborn myth that mental gymnastics can improve memory. He presents a convincing case in favor of the aging mind and urges us to value the nostalgia that survives as recollection, appreciate the intangible nature of past events, and take pleasure in the consolation of razor-sharp reminiscing. Douwe Draaisma is Heymans Professor of history and theory of psychology, University of Groningen. He is the author of several internationally acclaimed books, including Disturbances of the Mind and Why Life Speeds Up as You Get Older. He lives in Groningen, The Netherlands. September Psychology/History of Medicine Cloth 978-0-300-18286-6 $25.00 Also available as an eBook. 192 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 World 4
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The Huguenots Geoffrey Treasure An unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all Huguenot rights, and more than 200,000 of the radical Calvinists were forced to flee across Europe, some even farther. In this capstone work, Geoffrey Treasure tells the full story of the Huguenots’ rise, survival, and fall in France over the course of a century and a half. He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a “state within a state,” weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen, feudal magnates, leaders of the Catholic revival, Henry of Navarre, Catherine de’ Medici, Louis XIV, and many others. Treasure describes the Huguenots’ disciplined community, their faith and courage, their rich achievements, and their unique place within Protestantism and European history. The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history, Treasure contends, and he addresses the significance of the Huguenot story—the story of a minority group with the power to resist and endure in one of early modern Europe’s strongest nations. Geoffrey Treasure was senior master at Harrow School before his retirement. He has published many acclaimed books, including The Making of Modern Europe, Mazarin, and Louis XIV. He lives in Herefordshire, UK.
August History/History of Religion Cloth 978-0-300-19388-6 $35.00 Also available as an eBook. 480 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 16 b/w illus. World General Interest
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Q: What motivated you to write Raising Henry?
A conversation with Rachel Adams
A: I’m a literary critic by training, and when my son Henry was born, I immediately turned to literature to try to understand my circumstances. I was dismayed by the lack of reliable, informative reading material about raising a child with Down syndrome, as well as the quantity of misinformation I found in mainstream pregnancy guides and child-rearing books. I saw the need for a story told from a mother’s perspective.
Q: Can you tell us some positive things you have discovered or experienced as the mother of a disabled child? A: The best lesson I’ve learned from Henry is that the world is full of people who have devoted their lives and careers to helping others. I’ve seen my share of predictable ignorance and prejudice, but I was gratified by the more unexpected discovery of people with a genuine commitment to the rights and well-being of individuals with intellectual disabilities. My list includes doctors and other health care professionals, social workers, teachers, therapists, service coordinators, caregivers, and many, many others who have given their time and energy to helping Henry develop to his full potential and securing the happiness and health of our family.
Q: What changes do you hope to see in the medical establishment and educational system with regard to treatment and services offered for people with disabilities? A: I would like to see doctors receive better training to help prospective parents make decisions about what it might mean to have a person with a disability in the family. And I look forward to educators learning more about how to enable students with Down syndrome to develop to their full potential.
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Raising Henry
A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery Rachel Adams A mother’s deeply moving account of raising a son with Down syndrome in a world crowded with contradictory attitudes toward disabilities Rachel Adams’s life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same. In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry’s life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family’s encounter with disability, Raising Henry is also an insightful exploration of today’s knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and “This is a terrific book—gorgeously written, inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradic- beautifully realized.”—Michael Bérubé, tions of living in a society that is more enlightened and author of Life as We Know It: A Father, supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, a Family, and an Exceptional Child yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family’s story is impossible to forget. Rachel Adams is professor of English and American studies at Columbia University, where she is also director of the Future of Disability Studies Project. She is the author of Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Adams lives with her husband and two sons in New York City.
September Memoir Cloth 978-0-300-18000-8 $26.00 Also available as an eBook. 272 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World General Interest
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Talent Wants to Be Free
Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding Orly Lobel A compelling argument for a new set of attitudes toward human capital to sharpen our competitive edge and to fuel the creative sparks in any environment This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies. Lobel asks how innovators, entrepreneurs, research teams, and every one of us who experiences the occasional spark of creativity can triumph in today’s innovation ecosystems. In every industry and every market, battles to recruit, retain, train, energize, and motivate the best people are fierce. From Facebook to Google, Coca-Cola to Intel, JetBlue to Mattel, Lobel uncovers specific factors that produce winners or losers in the talent wars. Combining original behavioral experiments with sharp “Lobel does an expert job at guiding us observations of contemporary battles over ideas, secrets, through the complex world of restrictive and skill, Lobel identifies motivation, relationships, and strategies and proves why new approaches mobility as the most important ingredients for success- to information exchange and protection are ful innovation. Yet many companies embrace a control imperative if we want to live in a world that mentality—relying more on patents, copyright, brand- fosters innovation and progress.”—Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational ing, espionage, and aggressive restrictions of their own and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty talent and secrets than on creative energies that are waiting to be unleashed. Lobel presents a set of positive changes in corporate strategies, industry norms, regional policies, and national laws that will incentivize talent flow, creativity, and growth. This vital and exciting reading reveals why everyone wins when talent is set free. Orly Lobel is Herzog Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, where she is founding member and professor of the Center for Intellectual Property and Markets. A world traveler, she lives in La Jolla, CA.
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Earthly Mission
The Catholic Church and World Development Robert Calderisi A lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic Church is the world’s largest organization and perhaps its most controversial. The Church’s obstinacy on matters like clerical celibacy, the role of women, birth control, and the child abuse scandal has alienated many Catholics, especially in the West. Yet in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the Church is highly esteemed for its support of education, health, and social justice. In this deeply informed book, Robert Calderisi unravels the paradoxes of the Catholic Church’s role in the developing world over the past 60 years. Has the Catholic Church on balance been a force for good? Calderisi weighs the Church’s various missteps and poor decisions against its positive contributions, looking back as far as the Spanish Conquest in Latin America and the arrival of missionaries in Africa and Praise for The Trouble with Africa: Asia. He also looks forward, highlighting difficult issues “A fluent, deeply personal account of how that threaten to disrupt the Church’s future social aid has failed Africa, and how Africa, so role. The author’s answer to the question he poses will often, has managed to fail itself.”—The fascinate Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike, pro- Economist (Books of the Year, 2006) viding a wealth of insights into international affairs, development economics, humanitarian concerns, history, and theology. Robert Calderisi, a former World Bank director concerned with issues of international development, lectures widely on Africa, development, and foreign aid. His book The Trouble with Africa was named one of the best books of 2006 by The Economist. A committed but by no means uncritical Catholic, the author has often differed with Church policies and married a former monk. He lives in Montreal, Canada.
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Praise for David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions “[A] major work by one of the most learned, forceful, and witty Christian theologians currently writing.”—Paul J. Griffiths, First Things “Anyone interested in taking the debate about God to the next level should read and reflect on Hart’s spirited brief on behalf of Christian truth.” —Amon Linker, New Republic “With impressive erudition and polemical panache, David Hart smites hip and thigh the peddlers of a ‘new atheism’ that recycles hoary arguments from the past. His grim assessment of our cultural moment challenges the hope that ‘the Christian revolution’ could happen again.”—Richard John Neuhaus “Hart has the gifts of a good advocate. He writes with clarity and force, and he drives his points home again and again. He exposes his opponents’ errors of fact or logic with ruthless precision.”—Anthony Kenny, Times Literary Supplement “[This book] takes no prisoners in its response to fashionable criticisms of Christianity.”—Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, Church Times “Atheist Delusions will be remembered as Hart’s breakout book. His contributions to such journals as First Things have long marked him as a rising public intellectual. . . . Hart’s work is now likely to come to the attention of a wider audience. And not a moment too soon.”—William L. Portier, Commonweal “Absolutely brilliant. . . . A cultural tour-de-force.” —John Linsenmeyer, Greenwich Time “Few things are so delightful as watching someone who has taken the time to acquire a lot of learning casually, even effortlessly, dismantle the claims of lazy grandstanders. . . . Hart isn’t making a bid for wealth, fame, or cocktail-party acceptance: He knows whereof he speaks.”—Stefan Beck, New Criterion
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The Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss
David Bentley Hart From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word “God” functions in the world’s great faiths Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion—God—frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word “God” functions in the world’s great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity’s knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical “moments”—being, consciousness, and bliss—the author demonstrates an essential “This is David Bentley Hart’s continuity between our fundamental experience of best book.”—Francesca Murphy, reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience University of Notre Dame inevitably points. Also by David Bentley Hart: Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists’ concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity’s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine.
Atheist Delusions The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies Paper 978-0-300-16429-9 $18.00
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He has taught at the University of Virginia, Duke Divinity School, and Providence College. September Religion/Philosophy Cloth 978-0-300-16684-2 $25.00 Also available as an eBook. 376 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World General Interest
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The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot Frank Prochaska The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly “Bagehot” column. His analyses of politics, economics, and public affairs were nothing short of brilliant. Sadly, he left no memoir. How, then, does this book bear the title The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot? Frank Prochaska explains, “Given my longstanding interest in Bagehot’s life and times, I decided to compose a memoir on his behalf.” And so, in this imaginative reconstruction of the memoir Bagehot might have written, Prochaska assumes his subject’s voice, draws on his extensive writings (Bagehot’s Collected Works fill 15 volumes), and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered that most unpardonable of faults—dullness. A faux autobiography allows for considerable license, but Prochaska remains true to Bagehot’s character and is accurate in his depiction of the times. The memoir immerses us in the spirit of the Victorian era and makes us wish to have known Walter Bagehot. He is, Prochaska observes, the Victorian with whom we would most want to have dinner.
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Frank Prochaska, the author of more than a dozen books, has taught, researched, and published British history throughout his career. He is Honorary Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He lives in Oxford, UK.
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Roof Life Svetlana Alpers A celebrated art historian who has spent a lifetime looking at art writes about looking as a way of being in the world This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father’s place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one’s attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all.
Also by Svetlana Alpers: Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence Paper 978-0-300-06817-7 $40.00 tx The Making of Rubens Paper 978-0-300-06744-6 $29.00 tx The Vexations of Art Velázquez and Others Paper 978-0-300-12613-6 $30.00
Svetlana Alpers is Professor Emerita, History of Art, at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting scholar at the Department of Fine Arts, New York University. She divides her time between New York City and France.
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Jay Gardner
Q: Have digital media shifted the way we form and maintain personal relationships? A: Social media have made it incredibly easy to keep in touch with friends and acquaintances. But there is considerable concern that the effort we put into maintaining our weaker social ties may crowd out the sustained attention needed to nurture deeper relationships. Even so, our research suggests that most of today’s young people seek traditional qualities in their online relationships: empathy, trust, reciprocity, and self-disclosure.
Tamell Simons
Q: How can we help young people to use apps positively?
A conversation with Howard Gardner and Katie Davis
A: Parents and teachers can encourage imaginative exploration, beyond the letter of the app. But part of the burden also falls on those who devise apps. Too many educational apps are just digital versions of “drilland-kill.” We need apps that open up new possibilities and then allow the user to explore, imagine, expand, and, on occasion, toss aside the digital device and “go it alone.”
Q: How does an older person, a nondigital native, recognize the harmful uses of digital technology? A: We would be concerned if any young person spent too much time in the digital world, at the cost of face-to-face contact or time to relax, reflect, rest. And of course, one has to be on the lookout for frankly damaging behavior—bullying, invasion of another’s privacy, sexting, and so on. But by the time a child is 12 or 16, adults have difficulty knowing, let alone controlling, what the young person does. That is why both co-exploration when the child is young and learning enough so that you are not completely a digital immigrant are very important for adults of any generation.
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The App Generation
How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
Howard Gardner and Katie Davis From the famed Harvard psychologist and an expert on the impact of digital media technologies, a riveting exploration of the power of apps to shape our young people, for better or for worse No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply—some would say totally—involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today’s young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be “app-dependent” versus “appenabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital era. Gardner and Davis are concerned with three vital areas of adolescent life: identity, intimacy, and imagination. Through innovative research, including interviews of young people, focus groups of those who work with them, and a unique comparison of youthful artistic productions before and after the digital revolution, the authors uncover the drawbacks of apps: they may foreclose a sense of identity, encourage superficial relations with others, and stunt creative imagination. On the other hand, the benefits of apps are equally striking: they can promote a strong sense of identity, allow deep relationships, and stimulate creativity. The challenge is to venture beyond the ways that apps are designed to be used, Gardner and Davis conclude, and they suggest how the power of apps can be a springboard to greater creativity and higher aspirations. Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and senior director of Harvard Project Zero, an educational research group. He is renowned as father of the theory of multiple intelligences. He lives in Cambridge, MA. Katie Davis is assistant professor, University of Washington Information School, where she studies the role of digital media technologies in adolescents’ lives. She is a former member of the Project Zero team. She lives in Seattle, WA.
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Selected Poems Seán Ó Ríordáin Edited by Frank Sewell
The first bilingual volume of poems by leading Irish twentieth-century poet Seán Ó Ríordáin In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Seán Ó Ríordáin, among others. Ó Ríordáin’s work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today’s Irish readers and writers. This well-rounded selection of poems brings most of Ó Ríordáin’s works to Englishlanguage readers for the first time. The poems appear in their original Irish alongside English translations by some of Ireland’s leading poets. Also included for the first time in English is Ó Ríordáin’s essay What Is Poetry?, considered an extraordinary touchstone of critical insight for poets and literary commentators. The volume reflects Ó Ríordáin’s seven main concerns: poetry and its place in the artist’s life; the plural self; the relationship between the individual and society; gender relations; the nature of animals; Ireland, its language and culture; and mortality. “A modern Gaelic poet who, more Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916–1977) was born in County Cork and lived his life entirely in Ireland. He completed four volumes of poetry, the last – Tar Éis Mo Bháis – published posthumously. He also wrote powerful opinion pieces for the Irish Times during his later years. Frank Sewell is a poet, translator, critic, and academic. He is course director of English at the University of Ulster (Coleraine), where he teaches Irish literature and creative writing. His translations include the poems of Cathal Ó Searcaigh and Gearóid Mac Lochlainn. He lives in County Derry, Ireland.
than any other, managed to combine the vision of European writers from Baudelaire to Beckett with the Irish language tradition—the result of which was poetry unequalled in the language for hundreds of years.”—Seán Ó Tuama
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The Hooligan’s Return A Memoir
Norman Manea Translated by Angela Jianu
Romanian exile Norman Manea’s internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea’s book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny. Manea speaks of the bloodiest time of the twentieth century and of the emergence afterward of a global, competitive, and sometimes cynical modern society. Both a harrowing memoir and an ambitious epic project, The Hooligan’s Return achieves a subtle internal harmony as anxiety evolves into a delicate irony and a burlesque fantasy. Beautifully written and brilliantly “I am profoundly grateful for this conceived, this is the work of a writer with an acute living, flesh-and-blood, yet unearthly understanding of the vast human potential for both evil memoir.”—Cynthia Ozick and kindness, obedience and integrity. Manea offers as ◆◆ The Margellos World Republic no author has before the life of an individual caught in of Letters turbulent times. Norman Manea is Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture and writer-in-residence at Bard College. Deported from his native Romania to a Ukrainian concentration camp during World War Two, he was again forced to leave Romania in 1986, no longer safe under an intolerant Communist dictatorship. Since arriving in the West he has received many important awards, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He lives in New York City. Angela Jianu is a translator and historian. She teaches at University of Warwick, UK.
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The Origin of the World Pierre Michon
ranslated and with a New Introduction by Wyatt Mason T With an Afterword by Roger Shattuck This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon’s luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a town resident, a woman of seductive beauty and singular charm. Yvonne. Yvonne. “Everything about her screamed desire…setting something in motion while settling a fingertip to the counter, turning her head slightly, gold earrings brushing her cheek while she watched you or watched nothing at all; this desire was open, like a wound; and she knew it, wore it with valor, with passion.” Michon probes the destructive powers of passion and the consuming need for love in this heartbreaking novel.
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Pierre Michon is an author of high acclaim in France and Europe. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. He lives in France. Wyatt Mason, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper’s, has translated writing by Pierre Michon, Eric Chevillard, Michel de Montaigne, and Arthur Rimbaud. He teaches at Bard College.
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Masters and Servants Pierre Michon
ranslated, Illustrated, and with a New Introduction by T Wyatt Mason One of Pierre Michon’s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoine Watteau, Claude Lorrain, and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple of Piero della Francesca. Michon focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide, whether that model is a person or a landscape, inner or outer. In the five separate tales he evokes the full passion of the artist’s struggle to capture the world in images even as the world resists capture. Each story is a small masterpiece that transcends national boundaries and earns its place among the essential works of world literature. Pierre Michon is an author of high acclaim in France and Europe. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. He lives in France. Wyatt Mason, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper’s, has translated writing by Pierre Michon, Eric Chevillard, Michel de Montaigne, and Arthur Rimbaud. He teaches at Bard College.
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Rimbaud the Son Pierre Michon Translated by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays
A radiant work of fiction that illuminates the life and art of Rimbaud in a way that no biography could Rimbaud the Son, widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud by means of a new literary genre: a meditation on the life of a legend as witnessed by his contemporaries, those who knew him before the legends took hold. Michon introduces us to Rimbaud the son, friend, schoolboy, renegade, drunk, sexual libertine, visionary, and ultimately poet. Michon focuses no less on the creative act: What presses a person to write? To pursue excellence? The author dramatizes the life of a genius whose sufferings are enormous while his ambitions are transcendent, whose life is lived with utter intensity and purpose but also disorder and dissolution—as if the very substance of life is its undoing. Rimbaud the Son is now masterfully translated into English, enabling a wide new audience to discover for themselves the author Publishers Weekly called “one of the best-kept secrets of modern French prose.”
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Pierre Michon is an author of high acclaim in France and Europe. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives, and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. He lives in France. Jody Gladding, a poet and translator, has translated over twenty books from the French. Elizabeth Deshays is a teacher, translator, and landscape artist. In 2009 Gladding and Deshays won the Florence Gould French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Pierre Michon’s Small Lives.
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The African Shore Rodrigo Rey Rosa Translated by Jeffrey Gray
A riveting and highly praised novel by Guatemala’s leading writer of fiction, now in English for the first time In the vein of the writings of Paul Bowles, Paul Theroux, and V. S. Naipaul, The African Shore marks a major new installment in the genre of dystopic travel fiction. Rodrigo Rey Rosa, prominent in today’s Guatemalan literary world and an author of growing international reputation, presents a tale of alienation, misrecognition, and intrigue set in and around Tangier. He weaves a double narrative involving a Colombian tourist pleasurably stranded in Morocco and a young shepherd who dreams of migrating to Spain and of “riches to come.” At the center of their tale is an owl both treasured and coveted. The author addresses the anxiety, distrust, and potential for violence that characterize the border of all borders: the strait that divides Africa and Europe, where the waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic meet. “Rodrigo Rey Rosa is the most rigorous His often-remarked prose style, at once rich and spare, writer of my generation, the most endows his work with remarkable elegance. Rey Rosa transparent, the one that knows best generates a powerful reality within his imagined world, how to weave his stories, and the most and he maintains a narrative tension to the haunting luminous of all.”—Roberto Bolaño conclusion, raising small and large questions that linger ◆◆ The Margellos World Republic of Letters in the reader’s mind long after the final page. Rodrigo Rey Rosa is a prominent member of the Guatemalan literary scene. Many of his works of fiction have been translated and internationally acclaimed, including Dust on Her Tongue, The Beggar’s Knife, and The Pelcari Project, all translated into English by the late Paul Bowles. He lives in Guatemala. Jeffrey Gray is professor of English, Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He is author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry and editor of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry.
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Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems
Ghassan Zaqtan Translated by Fady Joudah ◆◆
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Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991–2011
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This inspired translation introduces English-language readers to one of the most influential and original Palestinian poets at work today. “Fragmented, suggestive and vivid. . . . With each reading, I found myself struck by echoes I’d missed before, and I am unable to do this wonderful book justice. . . . It is rich, exciting, vital, human work that puts everything else I’ve read this year in the shade.”—Rob A. Mackenzie, Poetry Review “A beautiful and substantive collection.”—James Tolan, Ploughshares blog Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of ten collections of poetry. He is also a novelist, editor, playwright, and journalist. Fady Joudah is a practicing physician of internal medicine and an awardwinning poet and translator. He lives in Houston, TX.
This eagerly awaited anthology presents recent writings in poetry and prose by the celebrated French poet Yves Bonnefoy. “Yves Bonnefoy is one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime—now more than half a century of work, and still counting. These recent poems, superbly translated by Hoyt Rogers, attest to his enduring greatness.”—Paul Auster “Mr. Bonnefoy [is] often lauded, and rightly so, as France’s greatest living poet.”—Micah Mattix, Wall Street Journal Yves Bonnefoy, a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize, has received numerous international awards, including the Kafka Prize and the European Prize for Poetry. Hoyt Rogers translates literary works from the French, German, and Spanish.
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The Lair
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World-renowned novelist Norman Manea explores the layers of freedom in exile in his first novel set in America, now available in English and in paperback for the first time. “Great imaginative energy. . . . An elaborate, intricate, delicate narrative structure, balanced just so. . . . The Lair shows us life as a richly incomplete and unresolved experience.”—Reginald Gibbons, TriQuarterly “An intelligent, erudite, inexhaustible story-teller, in his essays as much as in his fiction, Norman Manea is above all a witness, someone who has lived to tell the tale.”—Costa Bradatan, Times Literary Supplement ■■
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Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan is the author of ten collections of poetry. He is also a novelist, editor, playwright, and journalist. Fady Joudah is a practicing physician of internal medicine and an awardwinning poet and translator. He lives in Houston, TX.
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From a letter written by Leonard Bernstein to his mother from Israel, 1948, and illustrated by his friend Yossi Stern.
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The Leonard Bernstein Letters Edited by Nigel Simeone An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life—musical and personal—and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities. Bernstein’s letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome “What terrifying letters you write: fit Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette for the flames is what they are. Just Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, imagine how much you would have to and family members including his wife Felicia and pay to retrieve such a letter forty years his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have from now when you are conductor never been published before. They have been carefully of the Philharmonic.”—Aaron Copland chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein’s musi- to Leonard Bernstein in 1940 cal interests, his constant struggle to find the time to Also by Nigel Simeone: Messiaen compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his polit- Cloth 978-0-300-10907-8 $65.00 tx ical activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Paris—A Musical Gazetteer Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the Paper 978-0-300-08054-4 $24.00 tx man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor. Nigel Simeone is well known as a writer and speaker on music and is the author of several books including Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story. He lives in Northamptonshire, UK.
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Civil Disobedience
An American Tradition Lewis Perry
A masterful exploration of the practice of civil disobedience in America from the nation’s earliest days to the present The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, the justifications used to defend it, disagreements among its practitioners, and the controversies it has aroused at every turn. Tracing the origins of the notion of civil disobedience to eighteenth-century evangelicalism and republicanism, Lewis Perry discusses how the tradition took shape in the actions of black and white abolitionists and antiwar protesters in the decades leading to the Civil War, then found new expression in post–Civil War campaigns for women’s equality, temperance, and labor reform. Gaining new strength and clarity from explorations of Thoreau’s essays and Gandhi’s teachings, the tradition “Lewis Perry deepens, clarifies, and persisted through World War II, grew stronger during illuminates the history of American the decades of civil rights protest and antiwar struggles, civil disobedience in ways that only and has been adopted more recently by anti-abortion he can. He writes with exceptional groups, advocates of same-sex marriage, opponents of grace and lucidity about the tradition’s nuclear power, and many others. Perry clarifies some of ambiguities and ongoing debates. This the central implications of civil disobedience that have book is a stunning success.”—Howard Brick, University of Michigan become blurred in recent times—nonviolence, respect for law, commitment to democratic processes—and throughout the book highlights the dilemmas faced by those who choose to violate laws in the name of a higher morality. Lewis Perry is John Francis Bannon, S.J., Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Saint Louis University. His previous books have dealt with anarchism, antislavery movements, American intellectual life, and moral problems in history. He lives in St. Louis, MO. October History/American Studies Cloth 978-0-300-12459-0 $35.00 sc 384 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World 24
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A Little History of Literature John Sutherland A much-loved author brings the world of literature alive for all ages This “little history” takes on a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter. John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task. He has researched, taught, and written on virtually every area of literature, and his infectious passion for books and reading has defined his own life. Now he guides young readers on an entertaining journey to a greater awareness of how literature from across the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human. Sutherland introduces great classics in his own irresistible way, enlivening his offerings with humor as well as learning: Beowulf, Shakespeare, Don Quixote, the Romantics, Dickens, Moby Dick, The Waste Land, Woolf, 1984, and dozens of others. He adds to these a less-expected, personal selection of authors and works, Praise for John Sutherland: including literature usually considered well below “serious attention”—from the rude jests of Anglo-Saxon “John Sutherland is among the handful of critics whose every book runes to The Da Vinci Code. With masterful digressions I must have. He’s sharp-eyed and into various themes—censorship, narrative tricks, self- sharp-tongued, with a generous heart publishing, taste, creativity, and madness—Sutherland and a wise head.”—Jay Parini demonstrates the full depth and intrigue of reading. John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature, University College London. He has taught students at every level and is the author or editor of more than 20 books. His popular Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives, published by Yale University Press, has earned widespread acclaim, including one reviewer’s praise as “a reference book that rocks.” The author lives in London.
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Praise for Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War “Surge is an extraordinary account of a decisive campaign in the Iraq War by one who is uniquely qualified to write it. Colonel (Ret.) Pete Mansoor not only is a history professor, he also was a brigade commander in Iraq during our first year there and then was my executive officer for the first fifteen months of the surge. I am confident that his firsthand account of that chapter of our involvement in Iraq will contribute enormously to the understanding of what our military men and women—and their coalition, Iraqi, and civilian partners—accomplished in 2007 and 2008. It is gratifying to see their exceptional work recounted by one who was there and who has the academic expertise and military understanding to provide context to their achievements and depth of understanding to their sacrifices. This superb account of a critical period will inform scholarship on the Iraq War for years to come.”—General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus
Praise for Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq “Unflinching. . . . [Mansoor] tells the story of that fateful first year in Iraq from the point of view of one who saw decisions being made at the highest echelons, yet led soldiers in executing those orders day by day.”—Bill Murphy, Washington Post “Colonel Mansoor displays the knowledge of a soldier alongside the narrative gifts of a true historian, weaving dramatic events together, capturing the thoughts and emotions of street-level fighters, and describing Iraqi society as it tries to emerge from the maelstrom of war.”—Mark Moyar, Wall Street Journal “Destined to be studied in war colleges for generations. . . . A far better guide to counterinsurgency warfare than the official manual published by the Army and Marines.”—Ralph Peters, New York Post
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Surge
My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War
Peter R. Mansoor The first full insider account of the troop surge in Iraq, told by a member of General David Petraeus’s personal staff Surge is an insider’s view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After exploring the dynamics of the war during its first three years, the book takes the reader on a journey to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the controversial new U.S. Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency doctrine was developed; to Washington, D.C., and the halls of the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff struggled to understand the conflict; to the streets of Baghdad, where soldiers worked to implement the surge and reenergize the flagging war effort before the Iraqi state splintered; and to the halls of Congress, where Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus testified in some of the most contentious hearings in recent memory. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published “By far the best account of the decisive sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, campaign of the Iraq War, and the conduct Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, of modern American counterinsurgency, General Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and also the best account anywhere about and military leaders shaped the surge from the center the inner workings of contemporary Iraqi politics. This book will remain the of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington. Peter R. Mansoor is the General Raymond E. Mason, Jr., Chair of Military History, Ohio State University, and a retired U.S. Army colonel. During the surge of 2007–8 he served as executive officer to General David Petraeus, the Commanding General of MultiNational Force-Iraq. He lives in Dublin, OH.
seminal work on this important part of the American experience in Iraq for many years.”—Conrad Crane, lead author of Counterinsurgency: Field Manual 3-24
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Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front Anthony Fletcher A powerful account of life and loss in the Great War, as told by British soldiers in their letters home This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unmentioned for many decades. Intrigued by the heartbreak and history of these family letters, Fletcher sought out the correspondence of other British soldiers who had volunteered for the fight against Germany. This resulting volume offers a vivid account of the physical and emotional experiences of seventeen British soldiers whose letters and one diary survive. Drawn from different regiments, social backgrounds, and areas of England and Scotland, they include twelve officers and five ordinary “Tommies.” The book explores the training, journey to France, fear, shellshock, and life in the trenches as well as the leisure, love, and home leave the soldiers dreamed of. Fletcher discusses the psychological responses of 18- and 19-yearold men facing appalling realities and considers the particular pressures on those who survived their fallen comrades. While acknowledging the horror and futility the soldiers of the Great War experienced, the author shows another side to the story, focusing new attention on the loyal comradeship, robust humor, and strong morale that uplifted the men at the Front and created a powerful bond among them.
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Anthony Fletcher is a historian of the early modern period. He is a former professor at the Universities of Sheffield, Durham, Essex, and London. He lives in Oxfordshire, UK.
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The Climate Casino
Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
William Nordhaus The world’s leading economic thinker on climate change analyzes the economics and politics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues surrounding the climate debate, Nordhaus describes the science, economics, and politics involved—and the steps necessary to reduce the perils of global warming. Using language accessible to any concerned citizen and taking care to present different points of view fairly, he discusses the problem from start to finish: from the beginning, where warming originates in our personal “This is a book written by a master of energy use, to the end, where societies employ regula- the field after more than twenty years tions or taxes or subsidies to slow the emissions of gases of research on the global warming topic.”—David Victor, Director of responsible for climate change. Nordhaus offers a new analysis of why earlier policies, such as the Kyoto Protocol, failed to slow carbon dioxide emissions, how new approaches can succeed, and which policy tools will most effectively reduce emissions. In short, he clarifies a defining problem of our times and lays out the next critical steps for slowing the trajectory of global warming. William Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. He has studied and written extensively about global warming for four decades and is author of the award-winning A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies, published by Yale University Press. He lives in New Haven, CT.
the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation, University of California at San Diego
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Q: How important is friendship in the twenty-first century?
A conversation with A. C. Grayling
A: Friendship has always been central to human existence, and although it is no longer a matter of leaguing together to bring down a woolly mammoth, it remains an indispensable psychological and social platform for good lives. In some ways the new media of communication and social networking has overextended the notion of “friendship” to a shallow simulacrum to that relationship, but they also make it possible for people to be together in new ways, and to nourish the bonds in which friendship consists.
Q: Can friendship ever be bad for us? A: It is all too possible to have toxic friends; it too often happens that people can do unwise or bad things in the name of friendship; having the wrong people as friends can be destructive; so yes—friendship can be bad for us. But it is far more often good for us, because we could not even begin to flourish fully unless we had friends.
Q: Can only humans be friends? A: There is empirical evidence of connections very like friendships among chimpanzees; many people regard their pets, especially dogs, as friends—though here “companion” is a more accurate term. In general it would seem that the focal case of friendship is the conscious, chosen, self-aware human relationship that implies a rich network of factors about trust, obligation, pleasure, and mutual concern.
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Friendship A. C. Grayling An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition? In this fascinating exploration of friendship through the ages, one of the most thought-provoking philosophers of our time tracks historical ideas of friendship, gathers a diversity of friendship stories from the annals of myth and literature, and provides unexpected insights into our friends, ourselves, and the role of friendships in an ethical life. A. C. Grayling roves the rich traditions of friendship in literature, culture, art, and philosophy, bringing into his discussion familiar pairs as well as unfamiliar—Achilles and Patroclus, David and Jonathan, Coleridge and Praise for A. C. Grayling: Wordsworth, Huck Finn and Jim. Grayling lays out “If there is any such person in Britain today major philosophical interpretations of friendship, then as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling. offers his own take, drawing on personal experiences He provides generous help for the ethically and an acute awareness of vast cultural shifts that challenged, the philosophically perplexed, have occurred. With penetrating insight he addresses and the culturally confused.”—The Times internet-based friendship, contemporary mixed gender friendships, how friendships may supersede family relationships, one’s duty within friendship, the idea of friendship to humanity, and many other topics of universal interest. A. C. Grayling is founder and master, New College of the Humanities, London. A multitalented and prolific author, he has written over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects while regularly contributing to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Literary Review, and other publications. He is also a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programs. He lives in London.
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Before the Door of God
An Anthology of Devotional Poetry Edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson A diverse and imaginative selection of works from the long tradition of devotional poetry in English Before the Door of God traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry—poetry that speaks to the divine—remains in vigorous practice, but also that the tradition reaches back to the very origins of poetry in English. There is a sense in these pages that the tradition of lyric poetry that developed was nearly inevitable, given the inherent concerns of the genre. Featuring the work of poets over a three-thousand-year period, Before the Door of God places the devotional lyric in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. The volume traces the various influences on this tradition and identifies features that persist in devotional lyric poetry across centuries, cultures, and stylistic differences. To scholars, literary professionals, and general readers who find delight in fine poetry, this anthology offers much to contemplate and discuss. Jay Hopler is associate professor of English at the University of South Florida. He received the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 2005, as well as several other awards, for his first book of poems, Green Squall. He lives in Tampa, FL. Kimberly Johnson is associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. She is the author of two collections of poetry and a translation of Virgil’s Georgics, as well as a number of scholarly works on Renaissance literature. She lives in Salt Lake City, UT.
I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels—twice descending Reimbursed my store— Burglar! Banker—Father! I am poor once more! —Emily Dickinson Also by Jay Hopler: Green Squall Paper 978-0-300-11454-6 $20.00 sc
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The Complete Rolling Stone Interview Jonathan Cott Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections. Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described “besotted aesthete” and “There’s no incompatibility between “obsessed moralist.” Sontag proclaims a personal credo, observing the world and being tuned into declaring: “Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a an electronic, multimedia, multi-tracked, McLuhanite world . . . Rock ’n’ roll really form of thinking.” Jonathan Cott is the author of numerous books, including most recently Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. He lives in New York City. Susan Sontag gained immediate prominence with the publication of her first book of essays, Against Interpretation, in 1966. She went on to write many more books, including On Photography and Illness as Metaphor, which were translated into more than two dozen languages. She died in December 2004.
changed my life. I think rock ’n’ roll is the reason I got divorced. It was Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry . . . So when I go to a Patti Smith concert, I enjoy, participate, appreciate and am tuned in better because I’ve read Nietzsche.” —Susan Sontag, from the Rolling Stone interview
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Bernard Berenson
A Life in the Picture Trade Rachel Cohen A brilliant new biography of the unsurpassed connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston’s railyards and transformed himself into the world’s most renowned expert on Italian Renaissance paintings, the owner of a beautiful villa and an immense private library in the hills outside Florence. The explosion of the Gilded Age art market and Berenson’s work for dealer Joseph Duveen supported a luxurious life, but it came with painful costs: Berenson hid his origins and, though his attributions remain foundational, felt that he had betrayed his gifts as a critic and interpreter of paintings. This finely drawn portrait of Berenson, the first biography devoted to him in a quarter century, draws on new archival materials that bring out the significance of his secret business dealings and the central importance of several women in his life and work: his sister Senda Berenson; his wife Mary Berenson, his patron Isabella Stewart Gardner; his lover Belle da Costa Greene; his dear friend Edith Wharton; and the companion of his last forty years, Nicky Mariano. Rachel Cohen explores Berenson’s inner world and extraordinary visual capacity while also illuminating the historical forces—new capital, the developing art market, persistent anti-Semitism, and the two world wars—that profoundly affected his life. Rachel Cohen is the author of A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, winner of the PEN/Jerard Fund Award. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Believer, Best American Essays, and many other publications. She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Cambridge, MA.
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Primo Levi
The Matter of a Life Berel Lang The first intellectual biography of Primo Levi to describe the intersection of his roles as both chemist and writer In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only 24 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was employed for thirty years by a company specializing in paints and other chemical coatings. Yet soon after his return to Turin, he also began writing—memoirs, essays, novels, short stories, poetry—and it is for this work that he has won international recognition. His first book, If This Is a Man, issued in 1947 after great difficulty in finding a publisher, remains a landmark document of the twentieth century. Berel Lang’s groundbreaking biography shines new light on Levi’s role as a major intellectual and literary figure—an important Holocaust writer and witness but also an innovative moral thinker in whom his two roles as chemist and writer converged, providing the “matter” of his life. Levi’s writing combined a scientist’s attentiveness to structure and detail, an ironic imagination that found in all nature an ingenuity at once inviting and evasive, and a powerful and passionate moral imagination. Lang’s approach provides a philosophically acute and nuanced analysis of Levi as thinker, witness, writer, and scientific detective. Berel Lang is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, State University of New York, Albany. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books, including Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, The Concept of Style, and, most recently, Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence. He lives in Riverdale, NY.
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Lillian Hellman
An Audacious Life
Dorothy Gallagher A fresh look at Hellman’s restless life, her extraordinary plays, and her autobiographical myths Glamorous, talented, audacious—Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written The Children’s Hour, the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of America’s first rank of dramatists, a position she maintained for more than twenty-five years. Apart from her literary accomplishments—eight original plays and three volumes of memoirs—Hellman lived a rich life filled with notable friendships, controversial political activity, travel, and love affairs, most importantly with Dashiell Hammett. But by the time she died, the truth about her life and works had been called into question. Scandals attached to her name, having to do with sex, with money, and with her own veracity. Dorothy Gallagher confronts the conundrum that was Lillian Hellman—a woman with a capacity to inspire outrage as often as admiration. Exploring Hellman’s leftist politics, her Jewish and Southern background, and her famous testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Gallagher also undertakes a new reading of Hellman’s carefully crafted memoirs and plays, in which she is both revealed and hidden. Gallagher sorts through the facts and the myths, arriving at a sharply drawn portrait of a woman who lived large to the end of her remarkable life and never backed down from a fight. Dorothy Gallagher is the author of Hannah’s Daughters, All the Right Enemies, The Life and Murder of Carlo Trasca, and two volumes of memoirs. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Grand Street. She lives in New York City.
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A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It Jennifer Michael Hecht A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public consciousness. From the Stoics and the Bible to Dante, Shakespeare, Wittgenstein, and such twentieth-century writers as John Berryman, Hecht recasts the narrative of our “secular age” in new terms. She shows how religious prohibitions against self-killing were replaced by the Enlightenment’s insistence on the rights of the individual, even when those rights had troubling appli- “The perfect vehicle for an informed cations. This transition, she movingly argues, resulted conversation about the virtues in a profound cultural and moral loss: the loss of shared, and vices of suicide, this book will secular, logical arguments against suicide. By examin- literally save lives.”—Stephen ing how people in other times have found powerful Prothero, Boston University reasons to stay alive when suicide seems a tempting choice, she makes a persuasive intellectual and moral Praise for Doubt: A History: case against suicide. “Jennifer Michael Hecht has Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of three history books, including the best-selling Doubt: A History, and three volumes of poetry. Her work has won major awards in intellectual history and in poetry. Hecht teaches poetry at the New School University in Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
forever changed the way I will think about history—religious or otherwise.”—Krista Tippett
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Q: Why are you writing about cities when nation-states have all the power and are creating all the problems? A: Because it’s time to change the subject: we have been talking about independent nation-states for centuries, but more and more their power counts for little when it comes to the challenges of an interdependent world. The city’s not just where the action needs to be; it’s where the action is. Let’s talk intercity relations, not international relations; a parliament of mayors, not a League of Nations or a United Nations; global citizens, not local special interest consumers.
A conversation with Benjamin R. Barber
Q: The American democratic process seems to be tied up in partisan knots. How can city mayors and their municipal governments do better? A: As Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem said, mayors don’t give sermons, they fix sewers. They are pragmatists, not ideologues, because in the end someone has to pick up the garbage. They are doing better than national politicians, which is why their trust rates are twice as high.
Q: Can you give an example of a mayor who has addressed a problem that his or her federal government hasn’t dealt with effectively? A: Ever since Copenhagen, nation-states have been trying to deal with global warming, but sovereignty keeps getting in their way. Cities haven’t waited: Mayor Villaraigosa of Los Angeles has been greening up the port, cutting carbon emissions from freighters and trucks by nearly one-half. Since the port accounts for almost 40 percent of L.A.’s carbon emissions, over five years the city’s carbon pollution is way down.
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If Mayors Ruled the World
Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities Benjamin R. Barber Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy’s best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the unique qualities cities worldwide share: pragmatism, civic trust, participation, indifference to borders and sovereignty, and a democratic penchant for networking, creativity, innovation, and cooperation. He demonstrates how city mayors, singly and jointly, are responding to transnational problems more effectively Praise for Jihad vs. McWorld: than nation-states mired in ideological infighting and “Mr. Barber is. . . the first to put Jihad sovereign rivalries. Featuring profiles of a dozen mayand McWorld together in an inescapable ors around the world—courageous, eccentric, or both dialectic . . . . [It] stands as a bold at once—If Mayors Ruled the World presents a compel- invitation to debate the broad contours ling new vision of governance for the coming century. and future of society.”—Barbara Barber makes a persuasive case that the city is democra- Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review cy’s best hope in a globalizing world, and great mayors are already proving that this is so. Benjamin R. Barber is senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is also president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the author of seventeen books, including Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy. He lives in New York City.
November Politics/Political Thought Cloth 978-0-300-16467-1 $28.00 Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World General Interest
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Swann’s Way
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 Marcel Proust he C. K. Scott Moncrieff Translation T Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter
The foremost Proust scholar of our time offers a brilliantly revised and annotated edition of the first volume of the twentieth century’s most acclaimed novel One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and extraordinarily fine translation of the novel from Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. With the passage of time, however, the need for corrections, revisions, and annotations to the Scott Montcrieff translation has become apparent. Esteemed Proust scholar William C. Carter celebrates the publication centennial of Swann’s Way with a new, more accurate and illuminating edition of the first volume of In Search of Lost Time. Carter corrects previous translating missteps to bring readers closer to Proust’s intentions while also providing enlightening notes to clarify biographical, historical, and social contexts. Presented in a reader-friendly format alongside the text, these annotations will enrich and deepen the experience of Proust’s novel, immersing readers in the world of an unsurpassed literary genius.
Also by William C. Carter: Marcel Proust A Life Paper 978-0-300-09400-8 $26.00 tx Proust in Love Cloth 978-0-300-10812-5 $30.00 tx The Memoirs of Ernest A. Forssgren Proust’s Swedish Valet Cloth 978-0-300-11463-8 $65.00 tx
William C. Carter is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Referred to as “Proust’s definitive biographer” by Harold Bloom, Carter is the author of landmark biographical works on Proust. He is currently at work on subsequent volumes of the Yale annotated edition of In Seach of Lost Time, to be published annually in coming years. He lives in Birmingham, AL.
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Jonathan Swift
His Life and His World Leo Damrosch From a master biographer and leading scholar of eighteenth-century literature comes a major new portrait of the greatest satirist in the English language Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver’s Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a national hero, beloved for his fierce protest against English exploitation of his native Ireland. What is really known today about the enigmatic man behind these accomplishments? Can the facts of his life be separated from the fictions? In this deeply researched biography, Leo Damrosch draws on discoveries made over the past thirty years to tell the story of Swift’s life anew. Probing holes in the existing evidence, he takes seriously some daring speculations about Swift’s parentage, love life, and various Praise for Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless personal relationships and shows how Swift’s public ver- Genius sion of his life—the one accepted until recently—was “A delight to read”—Stacy Schiff, deliberately misleading. Swift concealed aspects of New York Times Book Review himself and his relationships, and other people in his “Immensely enjoyable and fast-paced.” life helped to keep his secrets.
Assembling suggestive clues, Damrosch re-narrates the events of Swift’s life while making vivid the scents, sounds, and smells of his English and Irish surroundings. Through his own words and those of a wide circle of friends, a complex Swift emerges: a restless, combative, empathetic figure, a man of biting wit and powerful mind, and a major figure in the history of world letters. Leo Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of nine books, including JeanJacques Rousseau: Restless Genius, a National Book Award Finalist, and most recently Tocqueville’s Discovery of America. He lives in Newton, MA.
—Louis Menand
November Biography Cloth 978-0-300-16499-2 $35.00 Also available as an eBook. 512 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 94 b/w illus. World General Interest
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Citizen Emperor
Napoleon in Power Philip Dwyer
A superb new volume tracks Napoleon’s ruthless drive for absolute power, from the post-coup years to exile on Elba In this second volume of Philip Dwyer’s authoritative biography on one of history’s most enthralling leaders, Napoleon, now 30, takes his position as head of the French state after the 1799 coup. Dwyer explores the young leader’s reign, complete with mistakes, wrong turns, and pitfalls, and reveals the great lengths to which Napoleon goes in the effort to fashion his image as legitimate and patriarchal ruler of the new nation. Concealing his defeats, exaggerating his victories, never hesitating to blame others for his own failings, Napoleon is ruthless in his ambition for power. Following Napoleon from Paris to his successful campaigns in Italy and Austria, to the disastrous invasion of Russia, and finally to the war against the Sixth Coalition that would end his reign in Europe, the book looks not only at these events but at the charac- “A wonderful read that will offer fresh ter of the man behind them. Dwyer reveals Napoleon’s insights to even the most hardened darker sides—his brooding obsessions and propensity Napoleonic veteran: I only wish that for violence—as well as his passionate nature: his loves, I had written this book.”—Charles his ability to inspire, and his capacity for realizing his Esdaile, author of Napoleon’s Wars: visionary ideas. In an insightful analysis of Napoleon as An International History, 1803–1815 one of the first truly modern politicians, the author dis- Also by Philip Dwyer: cusses how the persuasive and forward-thinking leader Napoleon The Path to Power skillfully fashioned the image of himself that persists in Paper 978-0-300-15132-9 $23.00 legends that surround him to this day. Philip Dwyer is director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a leading scholar of Napoleonic Europe. He lives in Australia.
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Wellington
The Path to Victory 1769–1814 Rory Muir A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision beyond purely military matters, a politically astute thinker, and a canny diplomat as well as lover, husband, and friend. Rory Muir’s masterful new biography, the first of a two-volume set, is the fruit of a lifetime’s research and discovery into Wellington and his times. The author brings Wellington into much sharper focus than ever before, addressing his masterstrokes and mistakes in equal measure. Muir looks at all aspects of Wellington’s career, from his unpromising youth through his remarkable successes in India and his role as junior minister in charge of Ireland, to his controversial military campaigns. With dramatic descriptions of major battles and how they might have turned out differently, the author underscores the magnitude of Wellington’s achievements. The biography is the first to address the major significance of Wellington’s political connections and shrewdness, and to set his career within the wider history of British politics and the war against Napoleon. The volume also revises Wellington’s reputation for being cold and aloof, showing instead a man of far more complex and interesting character. Rory Muir is visiting research fellow, University of Adelaide. His previously published books include a highly praised study of Wellington’s great triumph at Salamanca and the edited letters of Alexander Gordon, Wellington’s confidential aide-de-camp. He lives in Australia.
Also by Rory Muir: Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon Cloth 978-0-300-07385-0 $55.00 tx Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807–1815 Cloth 978-0-300-06443-8 $70.00 tx Salamanca, 1812 Cloth 978-0-300-08719-2 $45.00 tx
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The Danube
A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest Nick Thorpe The author takes us on an unexpected journey up the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe’s account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate, and uniquely observant—everything a reader expects in the best travel writing. Immersing himself in the Danube’s waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river’s ecological conditions, some discouraging and others hopeful, and encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary and extraordinary people along the way—the ferrymen and fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique and treasured guide. Nick Thorpe is East and Central European Correspondent for the BBC, a journalist, and filmmaker. He has lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary, for over a quarter of a century.
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Shaping Humanity
How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
John Gurche How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with all things prehistoric, and gifted with a unique artistic vision, Gurche has studied fossil remains, comparative ape and human anatomy, and forensic reconstruction for over three decades. His artworks appear in world-class museums and publications ranging from National Geographic “John Gurche brilliantly brings the long to the journal Science, and he is widely known for his human past alive with his powerful contributions to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and reconstructions of our extinct precursors, and skillfully explains just where the a number of acclaimed television specials. For the boundaries lie between art and science Smithsonian Institution’s groundbreaking David H. in his demanding profession.”—Ian Koch Hall of Human Origins, opened in 2010, Gurche Tattersall, author of Masters of the Planet: created fifteen sculptures representing six million years The Search for Our Human Origins of human history. In Shaping Humanity he relates how he worked with a team of scientists to depict human evolution in the new hall. He reveals the debates and brainstorming that surround these often controversial depictions, and along the way he enriches our awareness of the various paths of human evolution and humanity’s stunning uniqueness in the history of life on Earth. Award-winning paleoartist John Gurche is artist-in-residence, Museum of the Earth, Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY. His works have appeared frequently in National Geographic and similar publications and in major natural history museums including the Smithsonian, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Field Museum. He lives in Trumansburg, NY.
November Science/Natural History Cloth 978-0-300-18202-6 $49.95 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 163 color illus. World General Interest
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The Proteus Paradox
How Online Games and Virtual Worlds Change Us—And How They Don’t Nick Yee
A surprising assessment of the ways that virtual worlds are entangled with human psychology Proteus, the mythical sea god who could alter his appearance at will, embodies one of the promises of online games: the ability to reinvent oneself. Yet inhabitants of virtual worlds rarely achieve this liberty, game researcher Nick Yee contends. Though online games evoke freedom and escapism, Yee shows that virtual spaces perpetuate social norms and stereotypes from the offline world, transform play into labor, and inspire racial scapegoating and superstitious thinking. And the change that does occur is often out of our control and effected by unparalleled—but rarely recognized—tools for controlling what players think and how they behave. Using player surveys, psychological experiments, and in-game data, Yee breaks down misconceptions about who plays fantasy games and the extent to which the online and offline worlds operate separately. With a wealth of entertaining and provocative examples, he “Nick Yee is responsible for the most explains what virtual worlds are about and why they thoughtful work on the psychology matter, not only for entertainment but also for business of avatars and gaming in the past and education. He uses gaming as a lens through which 15 years. He also has a rare gift for to examine the pressing question of what it means to writing compelling prose.”—Jeremy be human in a digital world. His thought-provoking Bailenson, author of Infinite Reality: book is an invitation to think more deeply about virtual Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution worlds and what they reveal to us about ourselves. Nick Yee is a senior research scientist at Ubisoft, where he studies gamer behavior. He is widely known for the Daedalus Project, an extensive study of online gamers, and for his original research at Stanford University on the Proteus Effect, which describes how an avatar’s appearance can affect a user’s behavior online and off. He lives in Mountain View, CA.
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Status Update
Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Alice E. Marwick Social media, once heralded as revolutionary and democratic, have instead proved exclusionary and elitist Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, Internet celebrities, and Silicon Valley journalists—explores the culture and ideology of San Francisco’s tech community in the period between the dot-com boom and the App store, when the city was the world’s center of social media development. Marwick argues that early revolutionary goals have failed to materialize: while many continue to view “In an industry thick with mouth-breathing social media as democratic, these technologies instead fans, Marwick is a long-trusted observer of turn users into marketers and self-promoters, and leave the Silicon Valley ‘scene.’ Readers are sure technology companies poised to violate privacy and to to love and loathe the details she provides prioritize profits over participation. Marwick analyzes of America’s newest version of a rock status-building techniques—such as self-branding, star: the twenty-something social media micro-celebrity, and life-streaming—to show that entrepreneur, and they will appreciate Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only her trenchant critique of ‘Web 2.0’: a furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social term that Marwick argues marks both a moment that has passed, and a discourse stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender. Alice E. Marwick is assistant professor, communication and media studies, Fordham University, and an academic affiliate at the Center on Law and Information Policy, Fordham Law School. Previously a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, she regularly speaks to the press on various social media topics and has written for the New York Times, the Daily Beast, and the Guardian. She lives in New York City.
that continues to structure what and how we think about social media use.”—Terri Senft, author of Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks
November Internet Culture Cloth 978-0-300-17672-8 $30.00 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 2 b/w illus. World General Interest
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Unbalanced
The Co-Dependency of America and China Stephen Roach An original and insightful analysis of the most important economic relationship in the world The modern-day Chinese and U.S. economies have been locked in an uncomfortable embrace since the late 1970s. Although the relationship was built on a set of mutual benefits, in recent years it has taken on the trappings of an unstable co-dependence. This insightful book lays bare the pitfalls of the current China-U.S. economic relationship, highlighting disputes over trade policies and intellectual property rights, sharp contrasts in leadership styles, the role of the Internet, and the political economy of social stability. Stephen Roach, a firsthand witness to the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and an economics expert who likely knows more about U.S.–China trade than any other Westerner, details how the two economies mirror one another. Co-dependency augments the tensions and suspicions between the two nations, but there is reason to hope for less antagonism and rivalry, the author maintains. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, both economies face structural changes that present opportunities for mutual benefit. Roach describes a way out of the escalating tensions of co-dependence and insists that the Next China offers much for the Next America—and vice versa. Stephen Roach is former chairman and chief economist of Morgan Stanley Asia. He is senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and School of Management, Yale University. He lives in New Canaan, CT.
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Water 4.0
The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource David L. Sedlak The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near future Turn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our relationship with water, David Sedlak explains in this enlightening book. To make informed decisions about the future, we need to understand the three revolutions in urban water systems that have occurred over the past 2,500 years and the technologies that will remake the system. The author starts by describing Water 1.0, the early Roman aqueducts, fountains, and sewers that made dense urban living feasible. He then details the “Water 4.0 captures an important story of development of drinking water and sewage treatment the evolution of our current urban systems systems—the second and third revolutions in urban as well as discussing future options that water. He offers an insider’s look at current systems are being researched today.”—Michael that rely on reservoirs, underground pipe networks, C. Kavanaugh, Principal, Geosyntec treatment plants, and storm sewers to provide water Consultants, Inc., and Member, National Academy of Engineering that is safe to drink, before addressing how these water systems will have to be reinvented. For everyone who cares about reliable, clean, abundant water, this book is essential reading. David L. Sedlak is the Malozemoff Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the Berkeley Water Center, and deputy director of the National Science Foundation’s engineering research center for Reinventing the Nation’s Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt). He is a leading authority on water technology. He lives in Berkeley, CA. January Environment/Urban Studies/Science Cloth 978-0-300-17649-0 $28.50 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 30 b/w illus. World General Interest
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz A groundbreaking account of the Nazi-Islamist alliance that changed the course of World War II and influences the Arab world to this day During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret until now. In this groundbreaking book, esteemed Middle East scholars Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz uncover for the first time the complete story of this dangerous alliance and explore its continuing impact on Arab politics in the twenty-first century. Rubin and Schwanitz reveal, for example, the full scope of Palestinian leader Amin al-Husaini’s support of Hitler’s genocidal plans against European and Middle Eastern Jews. In addition, they expose the extent of Germany’s long-term promotion of Islamism “This book is a model of original research and jihad. Drawing on unprecedented research in and the ultimate scholarly study of European, American, and Middle East archives, many German-Arab and German-Muslim recently opened and never before written about, the cooperation during the first half of the authors offer new insight on the intertwined develop- twentieth century, covering both World ment of Nazism and Islamism and its impact on the Wars. It is major contribution in the field, a magnum opus.”—Jacob M. Landau, modern Middle East. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center, Israel. He is the author of many books and publishes frequently on Middle East topics. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Middle East historian Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is visiting professor at the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center, Israel, and an associate fellow at the Middle East Forum of Pennsylvania. He lives in New Jersey.
Also by Barry Rubin: Israel An Introduction Paper 978-0-300-16230-1 $30.00 tx
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Ship of Death
A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World Billy G. Smith How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792 and 1793, transformed the history of the Atlantic world. This extraordinary book uncovers the long-forgotten story of the Hankey, from its altruistic beginnings to its disastrous end, and describes the ship’s fateful impact upon people from West Africa to Philadelphia, Haiti to London. Billy G. Smith chased the story of the Hankey from archive to archive across several continents, and he now brings back to light a saga that continues to haunt the modern world. It began with a group of highminded British colonists who planned to establish a colony free of slavery in West Africa. With the colony failing, the ship set sail for the Caribbean and then North America, carrying, as it turned out, mosquitoes “This stunning book should catapult to infected with yellow fever. The resulting pandemic as the top of the must-read list for Atlantic the Hankey traveled from one port to the next was cata- basin studies. In this gripping, grisly strophic. In the United States, tens of thousands died in story of slavery, rebellion and yellow Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Charleston. The fever holocaust ricocheting around the few survivors on the Hankey eventually limped back to Atlantic rim, Smith brilliantly shows London, hopes dashed and numbers decimated. Smith how stowaway mosquitoes on a single ship reconfigured the societies of Africa, links the voyage and its deadly cargo to some of the Europe, the West Indies, and North most significant events of the era—the success of the America as well as the armies and navies Haitian slave revolution, Napoleon’s decision to sell the of Great Britain and other maritime Louisiana Territory, a change in the geopolitical situa- nations.”—Gary B. Nash, UCLA tion of the new United States—and spins a riveting tale of unintended consequences and the legacy of slavery that will not die. Billy G. Smith is Distinguished Professor of Letters and Science in the History Department of Montana State University, where he has won every major teaching and research award offered. He is the author or editor of eight books and dozens of articles. He lives in Bozeman, MT.
November History Cloth 978-0-300-19452-4 $35.00 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 21 b/w illus. World General Interest
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The Second Arab Awakening Marwan Muasher A knowledgeable insider provides the first clear view of what has happened in the Arab world and why This important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of political change in the Arab world, beginning with the first Awakening in the nineteenth century and extending into future decades when—if the dream is realized—a new Arab world defined by pluralism and tolerance will emerge. Marwan Muasher, former foreign minister of Jordan, asserts that all sides—the United States, Europe, Israel, and Arab governments alike—were deeply misguided in their thinking about Arab politics and society when the turmoil of the Arab Spring erupted. He explains the causes of the unrest, tracing them back to the first Arab Awakening, and warns of the forces today that threaten the success of the Second Arab Awakening, ignited in December 2010. Hope rests with the new generation Praise for The Arab Center: and its commitment to tolerance, diversity, the peace- “This book is a must read to understand ful rotation of power, and inclusive economic growth, how to address the challenges facing Muasher maintains. He calls on the West to rethink the Middle East today.”—Bill Clinton political Islam and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he dis- “Muasher’s book raises what may be the cusses steps all parties can take to encourage positive most damning criticism of the Bush state-building in the freshly unsettled Arab world. administration’s Middle East policy —that Marwan Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, overseeing research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. He has served as Jordan’s ambassador to the United States, foreign minister, and deputy prime minister. He lives in Washington, D.C.
it has unwittingly undercut the very people the United States wanted most to help.”—David Ignatius, Washington Post
Also by Marwan Muasher: The Arab Center The Promise of Moderation Cloth 978-0-300-12300-5 $30.00
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Through a Screen Darkly
Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad Martha Bayles
Why it is a mistake to let commercial entertainment serve as America’s de facto ambassador to the world What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods—but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the financial crisis and the sophisticated propaganda of modern authoritarians. Another reason, explored for the first time in this pathbreaking book, is the distorted picture of freedom and democracy found in America’s cultural exports. In interviews with thoughtful observers in eleven countries, Martha Bayles heard many objections to the violence and vulgarity pervading today’s popular culture. But she also heard a deeper complaint: namely, that America no longer shares the best of itself. Tracing this change to the end of the Cold War, Bayles shows “Bayles points to the elephant in the room how public diplomacy was scaled back, and in-your-face that is ignored in all other discussions of public diplomacy in general and cultural entertainment became America’s de facto ambassador.
diplomacy in particular: the overwhelming
This book focuses on the present and recent past, but its role of commercial mass culture. I know perspective is deeply rooted in American history, culture, of no other book that shows its lopsided religion, and political thought. At its heart is an affir- influence, for good or ill. An extremely mation of a certain ethos—of hope for human freedom intelligent mix of reporting, analysis, and tempered with prudence about human nature—that policy prescription.”—Robert Asahina, is truly the aspect of America most admired by others. author of Just Americans: How Japanese And its author’s purpose is less to find fault than to help Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad chart a positive path for the future. Martha Bayles is the author of Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music. Her reviews and essays on the arts, media, and cultural policy have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, and many other publications. She teaches humanities at Boston College. January History/American Studies/Media Cloth 978-0-300-12338-8 $30.00 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World General Interest
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The Struggle for Iraq’s Future
How Corruption, Incompetence, and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy Zaid Al-Ali
An unbarred account of life in post-occupation Iraq and an assessment of the nation’s prospects for the future Many Westerners have offered interpretations of Iraq’s nation-building progress in the wake of the 2003 war and the eventual withdrawal of American troops from the country, but little has been written by Iraqis themselves. This forthright book fills in the gap. Zaid Al-Ali, an Iraqi lawyer with direct ties to the people of his homeland, to government circles, and to the international community, provides a uniquely insightful and up-to-date view of Iraq’s people, their government, and the extent of their nation’s worsening problems. The true picture is discouraging: murderous bombings, ever-increasing sectarianism, and pervasive government corruption have combined to prevent progress on such crucial issues as security, healthcare, and power availability. Al-Ali contends that the ill-planned U.S. intervention destroyed the Iraqi state, creating a black hole which corrupt and incompetent members of the elite have made their own. And yet, despite all efforts to divide them, Iraqis retain a strong sense of national identity, Al-Ali maintains. He reevaluates Iraq’s relationship with itself, discusses the inspiration provided by the events of the Arab Spring, and redefines Iraq’s most important struggle to regain its viability as a nation. Zaid al-Ali is senior advisor on constitution building for International IDEA, Cairo, and was a legal advisor to the United Nations in Iraq from 2005 to 2009. He often serves as a commentator on Iraqi issues for BBC, Al-Jazeera, Channel 4, and the New York Times among others. He lives in Cairo, Egypt.
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Faisal I of Iraq Ali A. Allawi The first major biography of the founder of modern Iraq, a charismatic champion of Arab independence and unity Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a seminal figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Arab states, Faisal was a central player. His life traversed each of the important political, military, and intellectual developments of his times. This comprehensive biography is the first to provide a fully rounded picture of Faisal the man and Faisal the monarch. Ali A. Allawi recounts the dramatic events of his subject’s life and provides a reassessment of his crucial role in developments in the pre– and post–World War I Middle East and of his lasting but underappreciated influence in the region even 80 years after his death. “Magnificent. . . . Here, finally, is a A battle-hardened military leader who, with the help of Lawrence of Arabia, organized the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire; a leading representative of the Arab cause, alongside Gertrude Bell, at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; a founding father and king of the first independent state of Syria; the first king of Iraq—in his many roles Faisal overcame innumerable crises and opposing currents while striving to build the structures of a modern state. This book is the first to afford his contributions to Middle East history the attention they deserve. Ali A. Allawi is research professor, National University of Singapore. He was appointed Iraq’s first postwar civilian Minister of Defense in 2004 and in 2005 was appointed Minister of Finance. This is his third book. He lives in London and Baghdad.
man of Iraq who knows its history and its wounds.”—Fouad Ajami, New Republic (on The Occupation of Iraq)
Also by Ali A. Allawi: The Occupation of Iraq Winning the War, Losing the Peace Paper 978-0-300-13614-2 $25.00 sc The Crisis of Islamic Civilization Paper 978-0-300-16406-0 $20.00
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Beautiful Province Clarence Coo Foreword by John Guare
The 2012 winner of the Yale Drama Series A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo’s mesmerizing new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark corners. Wildly inventive and heartbreakingly sad, the strange odyssey of Jimmy and the unpredictable Mr. Green takes many surprising turns, crossing the border from reality into unreality and back again while encountering displaced characters from history, literature, and the mundane, often dangerous world. Selected by Tony Award–winning playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and others) from over 1,000 submissions from 29 countries, Clarence Coo’s Beautiful Province is the sixth winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize. In his foreword, Guare calls Coo’s work “elusive and haunting . . . funny, desperate, insane,” praising it for “its intriguing story [and] its tone, sustained to the very end.” Lyrical and adventurous, Beautiful Province is an outstanding new theatrical work, well deserving of these accolades and more.
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Clarence Coo is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a 2012–2013 Dramatists Guild fellow. He received his MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University, where he studied under Charles Mee, and is currently the program administrator of the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia’s School of the Arts.
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The Worth of the University Richard C. Levin Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin’s retirement as president of Yale University, this captivating collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university life and leadership. Whether discussing the economic implications of climate change or speaking to an incoming class of Yale freshmen, he argues for the vital importance of scholarship and the critical role that universities play in educating students and promoting the overall wellbeing of our society. This collection is a sequel to The Work of the University, which contained the principal writings from Levin’s first decade as Yale’s president, and it enunciates many of the same enduring themes: forging a strong partnership with the city of New Haven, rebuilding Yale’s physical infrastructure, strengthening science and engineering, and internationalizing the university. But this companion volume also captures the essence of university leadership. In addressing topics as varied as his personal sources of inspiration, the development of Asian universities, and the university’s role in promoting innovation and economic growth, Levin challenges the reader to be more engaged, more creative, more innovative, and above all, a better global citizen. Throughout, his commitment to and affection for Yale shine through. Richard C. Levin, the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics, is the twenty-second president of Yale University. Before becoming president in 1993, he taught economics at Yale for two decades, chaired the economics department, and served as dean of the Graduate School. Levin serves on President Obama’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. He is a director of the Hewlett Foundation, ClimateWorks, and American Express. He served on a bipartisan commission to recommend improvements in the nation’s intelligence capabilities, and he co-chaired a major review of the nation’s patent system for the National Academy of Sciences. He holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Peking, Tokyo, and Waseda universities, as well as the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Also by Richard C. Levin: The Work of the University Cloth 978-0-300-10001-3 $30.00 tx
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In Flanders Fields
The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914–1918 Birger Stichelbaut A remarkable photographic record of World War One, its relentless progression and the destruction it wrought, as seen from the skies above Flanders Fields Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over the battlefields of the Great War have survived in archives throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. These pictures present the war from a unique perspective, clearly showing the developing trench system, artillery batteries, bunkers, railway lines, airfields, medical evacuation routes, and more. They reveal the expanding war in Flanders Fields as the hostilities spread, kilometer by kilometer, devastating the environment and resulting in the complete destruction of the landscape at the front.
Distributed for Mercatorfonds; In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres; the Imperial War Museum, London; and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels
This illuminating volume, the results of a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, the Imperial War Museum, London, and the Royal Army Museum, Brussels, features hundreds of photographic case studies, illustrating in unprecedented detail the physical extent of World War I and the shocking environmental damage it left in its wake. Supplementing aerial images with maps, documents, and photos taken from the ground, this one-of-a-kind visual record stands as an important contribution to World War I history, revealing the wartime landscape of Flanders Fields as rarely seen before. Birger Stichelbaut is a postdoc researcher based in the department of archaeology, Ghent University, Belgium.
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The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
Jeremy Black A thought-provoking analysis of how the acquisition and utilization of information has determined the course of history over the past five centuries and shaped the world as we know it today Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country’s ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive perspective, focusing on the relationship between information and society and demonstrating how the understanding and use of information have been the primary factors in the development and character of the modern age. Black suggests that the West’s ascension was a direct result of its institutions and social practices for acquiring, employing, and retaining information and the technology that was ultimately produced. His cogent and well-reasoned analysis looks at cartography and the hardware of communication, armaments and sea power, mercantilism and imperialism, science and astronomy, as well as bureaucracy and the management of information, linking the history of technology with the history of global power while providing important indicators for the future of our world.
Also by Jeremy Black: Maps and History Constructing Images of the Past Cloth 978-0-300-06976-1 $48.00 tx War and the World Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450–2000 Cloth 978-0-300-07202-0 $60.00 tx George III America’s Last King Paper 978-0-300-13621-0 $22.00 sc
Jeremy Black is professor of history at the University of Exeter. A writer, lecturer, and broadcaster, he is the author of six books published by Yale University Press, among them Maps and History and George III.
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The Allure of the Archives Arlette Farge Translated by Thomas Scott-Railton; Foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis
An exquisite literary appreciation of the grand rewards of historical research and the elegant craft of discovery, now in its first English translation Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old manuscripts and by the revelatory power of voices otherwise lost. In The Allure of the Archives, she conveys the exhilaration of uncovering hidden secrets and the thrill of venturing into previously unknown dimensions of the past. Originally published in 1989, Farge’s classic work communicates the tactile, interpretive, emotional experience of archival research while sharing astonishing details about life under the Old Regime in France. At once a practical guide to research methodology and an elegant literary reflection on the challenges of writing history, this uniquely rich volume demonstrates how surrendering to the archive’s allure can forever change how we understand the past.
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Arlette Farge is director of research in modern history at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Natalie Zemon Davis is professor of history at the University of Toronto. Thomas Scott-Railton has translated for Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales and New Global Studies.
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The Great Rent Wars New York, 1917–1929
Robert M. Fogelson A groundbreaking account of the early history of rent control Written by one of the country’s foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation’s largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations. The Great Rent Wars traces the tumultuous history of rent control in New York from its inception to its expiration as it unfolded in New York, Albany, and Washington, D.C. At the heart of this story are such memorable figures as Al Smith, Fiorello H. La Guardia, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as a host of ten- “A powerful history of a remarkable contest ants, landlords, judges, and politicians who have long over the governance of the housing market been forgotten. Fogelson also explores the heated in New York City from World War I to debates over landlord-tenant law, housing policy, and the eve of the Great Depression. A highly original contribution to our understanding other issues that are as controversial today as they were of American urban politics.”—Elizabeth a century ago. Blackmar, Columbia University, author of Manhattan for Rent, 1785–1850
Robert M. Fogelson was born and raised in New York City. He is professor of urban studies and history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of several books, most recently Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950, and Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930, both published by Yale University Press.
Also by Robert M. Fogelson: Downtown Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950 Paper 978-0-300-09827-3 $27.00 tx Bourgeois Nightmares Suburbia, 1870–1930 Paper 978-0-300-12417-0 $22.00 tx
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The Citizen’s Share
Putting Ownership Back Into Democracy
Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse A compelling argument for broad-based profit sharing and employee ownership in keeping with the economic vision of America’s Founders The idea of workers owning the businesses where they work is not new. In America’s early years, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison believed that the best economic plan for the Republic was for citizens to have some ownership stake in the land, which was the main form of productive capital. This book traces the development of that share idea in American history and brings its message to today’s economy, where business capital has replaced land as the source of wealth creation. Based on a ten-year study of profit sharing and employee ownership at small and large corporations, this important and insightful work makes the case that the Founders’ original vision of sharing ownership and profits offers a viable path toward restoring the middle class. Blasi, Freeman, and Kruse show that an ownership stake in a corporation inspires and increases worker loyalty, productivity, and innovation. Their book offers history-, economics-, and evidence-based policy ideas at their best. Joseph R. Blasi is J. Robert Beyster Professor and a sociologist at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. Richard B. Freeman is Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Douglas L. Kruse is professor of industrial relations and human resources at the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations.
November Economics/Sociology Cloth 978-0-300-19225-4 $38.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 4 b/w illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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The Global War for Internet Governance Laura DeNardis A groundbreaking study of one of the most crucial yet least understood issues of the twentyfirst century: the governance of the Internet and its content The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium uncontrolled by any one centralized system, organization, or governing body, a reality that has given rise to all manner of free-speech issues and cybersecurity concerns. The conflicts surrounding Internet governance are the new spaces where political and economic power is unfolding in the twenty-first century. This all-important study by Laura DeNardis reveals the inner power structure already in place within the architectures and institutions of Internet governance. It provides a theoretical framework for Internet gover- “A thoroughly researched, carefully nance that takes into account the privatization of global framed and scoped, and well-written power as well as the role of sovereign nations and inter- introduction to Internet governance national treaties. In addition, DeNardis explores what theory and practice from an international is at stake in open global controversies and stresses the perspective.”—Urs Gasser responsibility of the public to actively engage in these debates, because Internet governance will ultimately determine Internet freedom. Laura DeNardis is one of the world’s foremost Internet governance scholars and an associate professor in the School of Communication at American University. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958–1962 An Oral History Zhou Xun A powerful account of China’s Great Famine as told through the voices of those who survived it In 1958, China’s revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a program designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s grand scheme—like so many other utopian dreams of the twentieth century—proved a monumental disaster, resulting in the mass destruction of China’s agriculture, industry, and trade while leaving large portions of the countryside forever scarred by man-made environmental disasters. The resulting three-year famine claimed the lives of more than 45 million people in China. In this remarkable oral history of modern China’s greatest tragedy, survivors of the cataclysm share their memories of the devastation and loss. The range of voices is wide: city dwellers and peasants, scholars and factory workers, parents who lost children and children who were orphaned in the catastrophe all speak “A terrific book. . . . The content is original, out. Powerful and deeply moving, this unique remem- authentic and compelling; the first-hand brance of an unnecessary and unhindered catastrophe accounts of ‘forgotten voices’ come to life illuminates a dark recent history that remains officially vividly. The author’s personal narrative unacknowledged to this day by the Chinese govern- describing how the interviews were elicited ment and opens a window on a society still feeling the is a fascinating contemporary commentary on the continuing lack of openness in impact of the terrible Great Famine. Zhou Xun is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Essex. She is the author of The Great Famine in China, 1958–1962: A Documentary History.
Chinese civil society and the difficulties of getting to the truth, even about events that happened decades ago.”—Gerard Lemos, author of The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future
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Philosophy of Dreams Christoph Türcke Translated by Susan H. Gillespie
A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language, culture, religion, and the arts come into being? Christoph Türcke offers a new answer to these timeworn questions by scrutinizing the phenomenon of the dream, using it as a psychic fossil connecting us with our Stone Age ancestors. Provocatively, he argues that both civilization and mental processes are the results of a compulsion to repeat early traumas, one to which hallucination, imagination, mind, spirit, and God all developed in response. Until the beginning of the modern era, repetition was synonymous with de-escalation and calming down. Then, automatic machinery gave rise to a new type of repetition, whose effects are permanent alarm and distraction. The new global forces of distraction, Türcke argues, are producing a specific kind of stress that “One of Germany’s leading intellectuals breaks down the barriers between dreams and wak- reconstructs the process of civilization ing consciousness. Türcke’s essay ends with a sobering in this masterful and original new book. indictment of this psychic deregulation and the social Attempting to understand both the genesis and economic deregulations that have accompanied it. of culture and the genesis of mind, Türcke Christoph Türcke is professor of philosophy and religion at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, Germany, and the author of What Price Religion? Susan H. Gillespie has translated works by Theodor W. Adorno, Paul Celan, Helga Koenigsdorf, and Hanns Zischler, among others.
shows how our technological age leads straight back to prehistory.”—Oliver Decker, Universität Siegen
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Naturalists at Sea
Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin Glyn Williams
Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorerscholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist’s difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science—among them Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin—this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world.
Also by Glyn Williams: Voyages of Delusion The Quest for the Northwest Passage Cloth 978-0-300-09866-2 $40.00 tx
Glyn Williams is Emeritus Professor of History, University of London. He is the author of more than a dozen books on European voyages of exploration and was historical consultant for the BBC television series, The Ship, on Capt. Cook’s first voyage. He lives in Kent. October Natural History/History Cloth 978-0-300-18073-2 $38.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 336 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 36 color illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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Nation of Devils
Democracy and the Problem of Obedience Stein Ringen Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from levying taxes to enforcing laws and monitoring compliance to regulations. The challenge, Ringen argues, is that power is not enough; the populace must also be willing to be led. Ringen addresses this political conundrum unabashedly, using the United States and Britain as his prime examples, providing sharp opinions and cogent analyses on how the culture of national obedience is created and nurtured. He explores the paths leaders must choose if they wish to govern by authority rather than power, or, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant put it, to “maintain order in a nation of devils.” Stein Ringen is professor emeritus of sociology and social policy at Oxford University. He lives in London.
“This is a terrific book that I can imagine readers turning back to again and again. It is a major contribution to the literature of political science. One of Ringen’s greatest accomplishments here is that he reminds readers why this field was interesting in the first place.”—Alan Wolfe, Boston College
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The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy Anna Harvey Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts or myths? In this groundbreaking new work, Anna Harvey reports evidence showing that the Supreme Court is in fact extraordinarily deferential to congressional preferences in its constitutional rulings. Analyzing cross-national evidence, Harvey also finds that the rights protections we enjoy in the United States appear to be largely due to the fact that we do not have an independent Supreme Court. In fact, we would likely have even greater protections for political and economic rights were we to prohibit our federal courts from exercising judicial review altogether. Harvey’s findings suggest that constitutional designers would be wise to heed Thomas Jefferson’s advice to “let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.” Anna Harvey is associate professor of political science at New York University. She lives in New York City.
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“Using innovative analytic techniques, Anna Harvey offers a surprising argument, that the Supreme Court responds to changes in the partisan composition of the House of Representatives. Her extension of the argument to raise questions about the value of judicial independence and judicial review in established democracies is especially interesting.”—Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
Dream in Shakespeare Marjorie Garber
With a New Preface by the Author Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination—one’s deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a transforming experience which leads the dreamer toward a moment of self-awareness. In this illuminating study, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Marjorie Garber skillfully charts the development of Shakespeare’s use of dream from the opening lines of Richard III to the magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Hamlet’s most famous soliloquy. Drawing on the works of Freud and other psychologists, but basing its argument on the language and dramatic structure of the plays themselves, Dream in Shakespeare presents a coherent and innovative reading of the plays and their developing concept of dream. Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the committee on Dramatic Arts. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
“This reissue of Marjorie Garber’s Dream in Shakespeare will allow those who don’t yet know the book to discover the pleasure of reading a great critic on our greatest author. Garber reads with wonderful alertness and agility, and she writes with clarity, energy, and wit. Her readings are smart, unpredictable, and abidingly humane. For those who do know the book but haven’t looked at it for a while, it will remind you of what Garber has always been so very good at doing: taking something that we thought we knew and showing us how much more interesting and surprising in fact it is.”—David Scott Kastan, Yale University
May Drama/Literary Studies Paper 978-0-300-19543-9 $20.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 248 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2
A Restatement of Religion
Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism Jyotirmaya Sharma
In this third installment of his comprehensive history of “India’s religion” and reappraisal of Hindu identity, Professor Jyotirmaya Sharma offers an engaging portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. Sharma’s work focuses on Vivekananda’s reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as “Hinduism” and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image. The author examines questions of caste and the primacy of the West in Vivekananda’s vision, as well as the systematic marginalization of alternate religions and heterodox beliefs. In doing so, Professor Sharma provides readers with an incisive entryway into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indian history and the rise of Hindutva, the Hindu nationalist movement.
“A book of substance and importance … written in an engaging, straightforward style, illuminated by flashes of wit and, of course, by the author’s deep knowledge of the cultural background and historical record The scholarship is sound, well informed, and well presented and will become the classic statement about Vivekananda in this generation.”—David Shulman
Sharma’s illuminating narrative is an excellent reexamination of one of India’s most controversial religious figures and a fascinating study of the symbiosis of Indian history, religion, politics, and national identity. It is an essential story for anyone interested in the evolution of one of the world’s great religions and its role in shaping contemporary India. Jyotirmaya Sharma is professor of political science at the University of Hyderabad, India. August Religion/History Cloth 978-0-300-19740-2 $40.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 328 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 Not for sale on the Indian subcontinent Scholarly and Academic Titles
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The Formation of the Jewish Canon Timothy H. Lim
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emergence of the Torah in the Persian period to the final acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period. Using the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic literature as primary evidence he argues that throughout the post-exilic period up to around 100 CE there was not one official “canon” accepted by all Jews; rather, there existed a plurality of collections of scriptures that were authoritative for different communities. Examining the literary sources and historical circumstances that led to the emergence of authoritative scriptures in ancient Judaism, Lim proposes a theory of the majority canon that posits that the Pharisaic canon became the canon of Rabbinic Judaism in the centuries after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Timothy H. Lim is Professor of Hebrew Bible & Second Temple Judaism at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.
October Religion/Jewish Studies Cloth 978-0-300-16434-3 $45.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
Diasporas of the Mind
Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Bryan Cheyette In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic, and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century luminaries he examines—among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark—as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries. Bryan Cheyette is professor of modern literature at the University of Reading. He lives in London.
February History Cloth 978-0-300-09318-6 $55.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 336 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World 70
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Reading Dante
Giuseppe Mazzotta
A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works. Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale course, this book offers a critical reading of The Divine Comedy and selected other works by Dante. Through an analysis of Dante’s autobiographical Vita nuova, Mazzotta establishes the poetic and political circumstances of The Divine Comedy. He situates the three sections of the poem—Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise—within the intellectual and social context of the late Middle Ages, and he explores the political, philosophical, and theological topics with which Dante was particularly concerned.
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Giuseppe Mazzotta is Sterling Professor of Humanities in Italian, Yale University. A specialist in medieval literature, he addresses all periods of Italian literature and culture in his extensive writings. He lives in Woodbridge, CT.
January Literature Paper 978-0-300-19135-6 $25.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
An Inspiration to All Who Enter
Fifty Works from Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Edited by Kathryn James
ith contributions by Raymond Clemens, Nancy Kuhl, George W Miles, Kevin Repp, E.C. Schroeder, and Timothy Young In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University’s Beinecke Library, one of the world’s great bibliographic treasure houses, comes this sumptuously illustrated volume of fifty of the Library’s most prized rare books and manuscripts. Selected by the Library’s curators and accompanied by insightful and accessible texts, the featured works range from recently acquired items from living authors and poets to some of the most famous, rare, and notorious books in history. Among these works are the original map of the Lewis and Clark expedition, James Joyce’s proof sheets to Anna Livia Plurabelle, a song printed on papyrus from the second-century Roman Empire, the Voynich manuscript, a poem-painting by Susan Howe, Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred in original manuscript form, and many others.
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Kathryn James is Curator of Early Modern Books and Manuscripts & the Osborn Collection at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
October Books about Books/History PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19642-9 $25.00 tx 128 pp. 8 3⁄8 x 8 3⁄4 61 color illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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All the Trees of the Forest Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
Alon Tal In this insightful and provocative book, Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands, and ecosystems. Tal’s description of Israel’s trials and errors, and his exploration of both the environmental history and the current policy dilemmas surrounding that country’s forests, will provide valuable lessons in the years to come for other parts of the world seeking to reestablish timberlands.
“Alon Tal is a wonderfully engaging writer, and he has crafted a narrative that will have considerable crossover appeal.”—Char Miller, Pomona College ◆◆
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Alon Tal is on the faculty of Ben Gurion University’s Department of Desert Ecology. He founded the Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. He lives in Macabim, Israel, with his wife and three daughters.
October Nature/Environmental Studies Cloth 978-0-300-18950-6 $50.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 35 b/w illus. World
Judges 1-12
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Jack M. Sasson Informed by the cultures of the ancient world, this fresh translation and insightful commentary to chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical book of Judges provide a multilayered analysis of some of Scripture’s most stirring narratives and verses. It expands understanding of the Hebrew text by explaining its meaning, exploring its contexts, and charting its effect over time. A comprehensive Introduction surveys issues and approaches in the study of Judges. Introductory Remarks identify issues of religious, social, cultural, or historical significance for most segments. These provide a background to the Notes and frame for the exposition in the concluding Comments.
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Jack M. Sasson, the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University, lives in Nashville, TN. He is past president of the American Oriental Society and the International Association for Assyriology.
October Religion Cloth 978-0-300-19033-5 $100.00 tx 592 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
The Warburg Years (1919–1933) Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology
Ernst Cassirer ranslated and with an Introduction by S. G. Lofts with A. Calcagno T Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer’s discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence—that our entire emotional and intellectual life is configured and formed through the originary expressive power of word and image, that it is in and through the symbolic cultural systems of language, art, myth, religion, science, and technology that human life realizes itself and attains not only its form, its visibility, but also its reality. Thought and being are set in opposition and united in genuine correspondence by the symbolic strife between them that Cassirer calls Auseinandersetzung, which determines the ethical relationship of the self to the other. November Philosophy/Essays Cloth 978-0-300-10819-4 $55.00 tx 384 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World 72
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Also by Ernst Cassirer: The Logic of the Cultural Sciences Five Studies Paper 978-0-300-08115-2 $22.00 tx S. G. Lofts and A. Calcagno are professors of philosophy at King’s University College at Western University, London, Canada.
Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification
Essays in Comparative Prosody Benjamin Harshav In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, Arabic, Italian, German, Russian, Yiddish, and English poetic forms. Harshav explores the types and constraints of free rhythms, the meanings of sound patterns, the historical and linguistic frameworks that produced the first accentual iambs in English, German, Russian, and Hebrew, and the first discovery of these iambs in a Yiddish romance written in Venice in 1508/09. In each chapter, the author presents an innovative analytical theory on a particular poetic domain, drawing on his close study of thousands of Hebrew poems.
“An original work of powerful analysis that is likely to remain the definitive study of this subject for the foreseeable future . . . . It is a book that anyone even marginally involved in Hebrew poetry would want to have on his or her bookshelf.”— Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley Also by Benjamin Harshav: The Moscow Yiddish Theater Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution Cloth 978-0-300-11513-0 $45.00 tx
Benjamin Harshav is professor emeritus of comparative literature and J. & H. Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Yale University, and professor emeritus of literary theory, Tel Aviv University. He lives in North Haven, CT.
November Poetry Studies/Jewish Studies Cloth 978-0-300-14487-1 $75.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
A Social History of Hebrew
Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period William M. Schniedewind
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More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic period, when the principles of Judaism as we know it today were formulated, to view the story of the Israelites through the lens of their language. Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites’ long history of migration, war, exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew’s linguistic evolution. An excellent addition to the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies, this fascinating work brings linguistics and social history together for the first time to explore an ancient culture. William M. Schniedewind is Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Professor of Biblical Studies and Northwest Semitic Languages, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. November Religion/Jewish Studies Cloth 978-0-300-17668-1 $35.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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The Archaeology of Jerusalem
From the Origins to the Ottomans Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is structured chronologically, exploring the city’s material culture, including fortifications and water systems as well as key sacred, civic, and domestic architecture. Distinctive finds such as paintings, mosaics, pottery, and coins highlight each period. Their book provides a unique perspective on the emergence and development of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the relationship among the three religions and their cultures into the modern period. Katharina Galor is the Hirschfeld Visiting Assistant Professor in the Program in Judaic Studies at Brown University and an Adjunct Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design in the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture and the Department of Architecture. She lives in Providence, RI. Hanswulf Bloedhorn is an expert on Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine architecture and decoration of public and sacred buildings, and a leading authority on the archaeology of Jerusalem. He lives in Tübingen, Germany.
November History/Archaeology Cloth 978-0-300-11195-8 $50.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 7 x 9 1⁄2 20 color + 185 b/w illus. World
Men from the Ministry
How Britain Saved Its Heritage Simon Thurley Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the public. This engaging book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place, locating it in the fragile and nostalgic atmosphere of the interwar years, dominated by neo-romanticism and cultural protectionism. The government’s activities were mirrored by the establishment of dozens of voluntary bodies, including the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the National Trust. Men from the Ministry sets all this activity, for the first time, in its political, economic and cultural contexts, painting a picture of a country traumatized by war, fearful of losing what was left of its history, and a government that actively set out to protect them. It dissects a government program that established a modern state on deep historical and rural roots. Simon Thurley is the Chief Executive of English Heritage. He was formerly the Director of the Museum of London, and the Curator of Historic Royal Palaces.
August Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19572-9 $45.00 tx 224 pp. 6 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 100 b/w illus. World 74
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Also by Simon Thurley: The Royal Palaces of Tudor England Architecture and Court Life, 1460–1547 Cloth 978-0-300-05420-0 $80.00 tx Hampton Court A Social and Architectural History Cloth 978-0-300-10223-9 $65.00 Whitehall Palace An Architectural History of the Royal Apartments, 1240–1698 Cloth 978-0-300-07639-4 $90.00 tx
The Letters of C. Vann Woodward Edited by Michael O’Brien
C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days at Yale when he became one of the arbiters of American intellectual culture.
“O’Brien has given Woodward’s letters the respectful, measured treatment that they deserve.”—James C. Cobb, author of Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity Also by C. Vann Woodward: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Paper 978-0-300-02979-6 $32.00
For the first time, his sprightly, wry, sympathetic, and often funny letters are published, including those he wrote to figures as diverse as John Kennedy, David Riesman, Richard Hofstadter, and Robert Penn Warren. The letters shed new light not only on Woodward himself, but on what it meant to be an American radical and public intellectual, as well as on the complex politics and discourse of the historical profession and the anxious modulations of Southern culture. Michael O’Brien is professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of numerous books, including Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810–1860, and Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon. He lives in Cambridge.
September Memoir/History Cloth 978-0-300-18534-8 $40.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 480 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
Monty’s Men
The British Army and the Liberation of Europe John Buckley Historian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany. Following Britain’s military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from D-Day to VE-Day, from the Normandy beaches to Arnhem and the Rhine, and, ultimately, to the Baltic, Buckley’s provocative history demonstrates that the British Army was more than a match for the vaunted Nazi war machine. This fascinating revisionist study of the campaign to liberate Northern Europe in the war’s final years features a large cast of colorful unknowns and grand historical personages alike, including Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and the prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill. By integrating detailed military history with personal accounts, it evokes the vivid reality of men at war while putting long-held misconceptions finally to rest. John Buckley is professor of military history at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and the author and editor of six books on the military history of the Second World War.
November History/Military History Cloth 978-0-300-13449-0 $35.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 368 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 20 b/w illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
Edited by Robert Harms, Bernard K. Freamon, and David Blight
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave trading.
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The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders Galbert of Bruges ranslated by Jeff Rider T
In 1127 Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins while at prayer and killed by a sword blow to the forehead. His murder upset the fragile balance of power between England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, giving rise to a bloody civil war while impacting the commercial life of medieval Europe. The eyewitness account by the Flemish cleric Galbert of Bruges of the assassination and the struggle for power that ensued is the only journal to have survived from twelfthcentury Europe. This new translation by medieval studies expert Jeff Rider greatly improves upon all previous versions, substantially advancing scholarship on the Middle Ages while granting new life and immediacy to Galbert’s well informed and courageously candid narrative.
“The focus on the abolition period marks the volume as unique. It is valuable for that purpose, besides vetting very fine scholarship. I would recommend it to anyone interested in slavery, the Indian Ocean, the Islamic world, and abolition.”—Paul Lovejoy, author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Robert Harms is the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies at Yale University. Bernard K. Freamon is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School and director of the Law School’s Zanzibar Program on Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking. David Blight is professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
“More than just superseding the deeply flawed text of James Bruce Ross from 1959, this new translation is a serious contribution to knowledge, enhancing and advancing scholarship on the Middle Ages.”— Mark Gregory Pegg, Washington University Jeff Rider is a professor of Romance languages and literature at Wesleyan University. He lives in Higganum, CT.
November Paper 978-0-300-15230-2 $30.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 384 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 6 b/w illus. World
Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
Amanda E. Herbert In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women’s lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world. January Cloth 978-0-300-17740-4 $55.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 224 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 27 b/w illus. World 76
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Amanda E. Herbert is assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University. She lives in Williamsburg, VA.
The Field of Cloth of Gold Glenn Richardson
Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war or on the brink of it. In 1520, in an effort to bring conflict to an end, England’s monarch, Henry VIII, and Francis I of France agreed to meet, surrounded by virtually their entire political nations, at “the Field of Cloth of Gold.” In the midst of a spectacular festival of competition and entertainment, the rival leaders hoped to secure a permanent settlement between them, as part of a European-wide “Universal Peace.” Richardson offers a bold new appraisal of this remarkable historical event, describing the preparations and execution of the magnificent gathering, exploring its ramifications, and arguing that it was far more than the extravagant elitist theater and cynical charade it historically has been considered to be. Glenn Richardson is reader in early modern history at St. Mary’s University College, London.
January History Cloth 978-0-300-14886-2 $65.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 x 9 16 pp b/w illus. World
The Great Mirror of Folly
Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 Edited by William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst, and Timothy G. Young
With a Foreword by Robert J. Shiller
The world’s first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris, and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch collection of satirical prints, plays, poetry, commentary, and financial prospectuses entitled Het groote Tafereel de Dwaasheid (The Great Mirror of Folly), a unique and lavish record of the financial crisis and its cultural dimensions. The current book adopts the title. It is a book about the book, a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collaboration that uncovers the meaning and influence of the Tafereel and the profound, lasting, and multifaceted impact of the crash of 1720 on European cultures and financial markets.
“As global as anything could be in its time, the financial collapse of 1720 elicits a multidisciplinary approach from authors magnificently skilled in art, economic, social, and book histories. Would that our own economic crises will one day produce erudition of this quality, in a volume that pleases both the mind and the eye.”—Margaret C. Jacob, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA ◆◆
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William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management at the Yale School of Management. Catherine Labio is associate professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. K. Geert Rouwenhorst is Robert B. & Candice J. Haas Professor of Corporate Finance at the Yale School of Management. Timothy G. Young is curator of modern books and manuscripts at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
September History/Economics Cloth 978-0-300-16246-2 $75.00 tx 432 pp. 9 x 12 240 color + 15 b/w illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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A Plague of Informers Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England
Rachel Weil Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil’s compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on the early years when the survival of the new regime was in doubt. By encouraging informers, imposing loyalty oaths, suspending habeas corpus, and delaying the long-promised reform of treason trial procedure, the Williamite regime protected itself from enemies and cemented its bonds with supporters, but also put its own credibility at risk.
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Rachel Weil is associate professor of history at Cornell University. She lives in Seneca Falls, NY.
January History Cloth 978-0-300-17104-4 $40.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 15 b/w illus. World
Adam Smith’s Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
Jack Russell Weinstein In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723–1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith’s two major works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognized for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity.
“[Weinstein’s] interpretation of Adam Smith is original in challenging both standard philosophical and economic interpretations, producing a lucid and interesting narrative.”—J. Patrick Raines, Jack C. Massey Dean of the College of Business Administration, Belmont University Jack Russell Weinstein is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life at the University of North Dakota.
September Philosophy/Politics Cloth 978-0-300-16253-0 $65.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 1 1 360 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 World
The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses
Compiled, Edited, and Introduced by Barry Alan Shain Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions, and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant narratives that shape contemporary understanding of this all-important document. Rather than arising from strong philosophical convictions and a clearly perceived vision of the future, the Declaration, as these writings demonstrate, was more the result of chance occurrences and practical considerations, and reflective of a society less rebellionminded and far more monarchically inclined than most Americans today have been taught to believe. November History/Political Thought Cloth 978-0-300-15874-8 $125.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 704 pp. 7 x 10 World 78
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Barry Alan Shain is professor and chair of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY.
Practicing Stalinism
Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition J. Arch Getty In old Russia, patron/client relations, “clan” politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party’s personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans (“family circles”) after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin’s conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows. J. Arch Getty is professor of history at UCLA. He lives in Los Angeles.
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“A lively and interesting work, Practicing Stalinism will surely spark historiographical controversy and should be the topic of wide discussion.”—Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Also by J. Arch Getty: The Road to Terror Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–1939, Updated and Abridged Edition Paper 978-0-300-10407-3 $25.00 tx
St. Petersburg
Shadows of the Past Catriona Kelly Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St. Petersburg is one of the world’s most alluring cities—a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city’s pre-1917 and Second World War history than with its recent past. In this beautifully illustrated and highly original book, Catriona Kelly shows how creative engagement with the past has always been fundamental to St. Petersburg’s residents. Weaving together oral history, personal observation, literary and artistic texts, journalism, and archival materials, she traces the at times paradoxical feelings of anxiety and pride that were inspired by living in the city, both when it was socialist Leningrad, and now. Ranging from rubbish dumps to promenades, from the city’s glamorous center to its grimy outskirts, this ambitious book offers a compelling and always unexpected panorama of an extraordinary and elusive place.
Also by Catriona Kelly: Children’s World Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 Cloth 978-0-300-11226-9 $45.00 tx
Catriona Kelly is professor of Russian at the University of Oxford, a fellow of the British Academy, and the author of many books about Russian literature and culture. She lives in Oxford and St. Petersburg.
February History Cloth 978-0-300-16918-8 $35.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 416 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 /14 80 b/w illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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The Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730
Brent S. Sirota This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England’s key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable, and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernization of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelizing and educating merchants, seamen, and slaves throughout the British empire—all leading to what has been termed the “age of benevolence.” January History/Religious History Cloth 978-0-300-16710-8 $65.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 352 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781–1894
David Samuel Torres-Rouff David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America’s most prominent cities; its social, spatial, and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angeles we know today. Before L.A. is a fascinating study of how an innovative intercultural community developed along racial lines, and how immigrants from the United States engineered a profound shift in civic ideals and the physical environment, creating a social and spatial rupture that endures to this day.
September History Cloth 978-0-300-14123-8 $65.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 1 1 368 pp. 6 ⁄8 x 9 ⁄4 40 b/w illus. World
Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70
Polly Jones Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries’ attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism. August History/Soviet Studies Cloth 978-0-300-18512-6 $65.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 384 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World 80
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“An excellent piece of scholarship, The Christian Monitors is a superbly researched, interesting and genuinely original account of the Church of England at a time of upheaval. Sirota’s rich account of the institutional experiments in voluntary association is an important intervention in the intertwined historiographies of the public sphere, the age of projects, secularization and the Enlightenment.”—Rachel Weil, Cornell University ◆◆
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Brent Sirota is an assistant professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He lives in Durham, NC.
“A major contribution to the urban history of the American West, along with environmental and Mexican American history. Before L.A. deepens our understanding of Mexican California and builds on the recent works that are invigorating the field of borderland history.”—Maria Raquel Casas, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ◆◆
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David Samuel Torres-Rouff is an assistant professor of history at the University of California, Merced. He lives in Merced, CA.
“What a book! Moving deftly between history and literary scholarship, Polly Jones shows how Stalin’s ghost continued to haunt Soviet society after 1953. Prodigiously researched and beautifully written, Myth, Memory, Trauma is bound to become the standard work on the Stalin cult’s long afterlife.” —Jan Plamper, author of The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power ◆◆
Eurasia Past and Present
Polly Jones is the Schrecker-Barbour Fellow and University Lecturer in Russian at University College, University of Oxford. She lives in London.
Birds of New Zealand
A Photographic Guide Paul Scofield and Brent Stephenson New Zealand’s birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, but thanks to recent conservation efforts, many of the country’s species of birds are now protected in parks and island sanctuaries. Illustrated with nearly a thousand new photographs from one of New Zealand’s top nature photographers and drawing on the latest information from birders and biologists, Birds of New Zealand offers a definitive introduction to the identification and behavior of the country’s extraordinary avian life. The book includes expert and up-to-date information on the 375 bird species found in New Zealand, including species ranging from albatrosses and shearwaters to kiwi and kaka. It will be a valuable addition to the existing literature on birding. Paul Scofield is Senior Curator of Natural History at Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. Brent Stephenson operates his own photography business and works as an ornithologist and birding guide.
“Scofield and Stephenson’s book will be a major step above all others in the market, both in its scholarship and the quality of photography. It will be a ‘must-have’ for birders.”—Phil Battley, Massey University
September Nature/Ornithology PB-Flexibound 978-0-300-19682-5 $45.00 sc 500 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 1000 color illus. Not for sale in Australia or New Zealand
The Future of Nature
Documents of Global Change Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin, and Paul Warde This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy, and public perception. Through an array of texts and commentaries that examine the themes of progress, population, environment, biodiversity, and sustainability from a fully global perspective, it shows how twenty-first century predictors think about what forecasting the future means. Providing access and reference points to the origins and development of key disciplines and methods, it will encourage policy makers, professionals, and students to reflect on the roots of their own theories and practices.
“This book, drawing primarily from a 300-year legacy of Western scientific literatures related to global thinking, gives much-needed historical context for the ongoing development of human conceptions of themselves and the whole Earth in relation to each other.”—Julianne Lutz Warren, New York University
Libby Robin is professor of environmental history in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University and a senior research fellow in the National Museum of Australia Research Centre. Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and co-founder of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory. Paul Warde is a reader in early modern history at the University of East Anglia, an associate lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and associate research fellow at the Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge. October Environmental Studies Paper 978-0-300-18461-7 $30.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 512 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 44 b/w illus. World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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A Theory of Militant Democracy The Ethics of Combatting Political Extremism
Alexander S. Kirshner
Alexander Kirshner is an assistant p rofessor of political science at Duke University and a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. He lives in Durham, NC.
How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denying these rights may also undermine democratic values. Alexander Kirshner offers a set of principles for determining when one may reasonably refuse rights of participation, and he defends this theory through real-world examples, ranging from the far-right British Nationalist Party to Turkey’s Islamist Welfare Party to America’s Democratic Party during Reconstruction.
January Political Science Paper 978-0-300-18824-0 $35.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 240 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World
Against the Profit Motive The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940
Nicholas Parrillo In America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a cut of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. The list goes on. This book is the first to document American government’s “for-profit” past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officials’ relationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers—by banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary—transformed that relationship forever. October Paper 978-0-300-19475-3 $55.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-17658-2 F ‘13 $125.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 576 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 3 b/w illus.
Barley, Gold, or Fiat Toward a Pure Theory of Money
Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading systems and the role of government authority in the exchange of consumer goods for storable money; exchanges made with durable currency, such as gold; fiat currency, which is flexible but has no consumption value; conditions under which borrowers can declare bankruptcy; and the distinctions between individuals who lend their own money, and financiers, who lend others’.
November Economics Cloth 978-0-300-18815-8 $125.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 384 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 6 b/w illus. World 82
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“Economists beware! In this pathbreaking book, Nicholas Parrillo revolutionizes our understanding of compensation systems. With gripping historical evidence, he demonstrates the profoundly political and cultural construction of the US’s salary system.”—Viviana A. Zelizer, author of Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy ◆◆
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Nicholas R. Parrillo is associate professor of law at Yale University.
Thomas Quint is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Martin Shubik is Seymour Knox Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University.
Investment in Blood
The True Cost of Britain’s Afghan War Frank Ledwidge In this follow-up to his much-praised book Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Frank Ledwidge argues that Britain has paid a heavy cost—both financially and in human terms—for its involvement in the Afghanistan war. Ledwidge calculates the high price paid by British soldiers and their families, taxpayers in the United Kingdom, and, most importantly, Afghan citizens, highlighting the thousands of deaths and injuries, the enormous amount of money spent bolstering a corrupt Afghan government, and the long-term damage done to the British military’s international reputation.
Also by Frank Ledwidge: Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan Paper 978-0-300-18274-3 $27.50 tx Punching Below Our Weight How Inter-Service Rivalry has Damaged the British Armed Forces e-book 978-0-300-19001-4 $1.50 sc
In this hard-hitting exposé, based on interviews, rigorous on-the-ground research, and official information obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, Ledwidge demonstrates the folly of Britain’s extended participation in an unwinnable war. Arguing that the only true beneficiaries of the conflict are development consultants, international arms dealers, and Afghan drug kingpins, he provides a powerful, eyeopening, and often heartbreaking account of military adventurism gone horribly wrong. Frank Ledwidge served as a naval intelligence officer in the Balkan wars and Iraq, and as a civilian justice advisor in Afghanistan. August Current Events/Military History Cloth 978-0-300-19062-5 $45.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 304 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
Hollow Justice
A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States David E. Wilkins This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government’s multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination reveals that even when compensatory programs were instituted, Native peoples never attained a genuine sense of justice. David E. Wilkins addresses the important question of what one nation owes another when the balance of rights, resources, and responsibilities have been negotiated through treaties. How does the United States assure that guarantees made to tribal nations, whether through a century old treaty or a modern day compact, remain viable and lasting?
“There are a good number of books on the subject, but none provide the scope that this one does. . . . I can surely see this becoming the standard book to which people turn when wanting to know the story of Indian claims.”—Christian McMillen, author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory ◆◆
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on A merican Indians and Modernity
David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, where he is also adjunct professor of political science, law, and American studies. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.
October History/American Indian Studies Cloth 978-0-300-11926-8 $40.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 272 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World Scholarly and Academic Titles
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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
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Edited by Claudia Lament and Robert A. King The latest volume in the esteemed series features special sections devoted to sibling relationships and to working with parents of adolescents. Other contributions address the adolescent’s use of cyberspace to regulate intimacy in psychotherapy, the evolution of traumatic memories over the course of development, and the role of the other in object relations models. A section tracing the evolution of child psychoanalysis includes Anna Freud’s own provocative commentary titled “There Has Never Been Anything Like a Classical Child Analysis.”
January Psychology Cloth 978-0-300-19585-9 $75.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 2 b/w illus.
Yale French Studies, Volume 124 Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel
Edited by Hall Bjørnstad and Katherine Ibbett In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of leading scholars of early modern Europe takes its cue from that lapsed project to reread the seventeenth-century French tragic canon as Trauerspiel. These new readings draw attention to early modern French theater’s reflections on chance and contingency, political compromise, the question of allegory, the philosophy of the provisional, the place of sound, and the status of the creaturely.
January Language Paper 978-0-300-19420-3 $30.00 tx 192 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4
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Hall Bjørnstad is assistant professor of French at Indiana University. Katherine Ibbett is reader in early modern studies at University College, London.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass
Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains.
This classic is revisited with a new introduction and notes by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom—indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom—anywhere in the English language.
Also by David W. Blight: Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Cloth 978-0-300-12460-6 $50.00
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was an American social reformer, orator, author, and statesman. David W. Blight is professor of American history at Yale University and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
January History/African American History Paper 978-0-300-19059-5 $13.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 432 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World
The Courage to Be
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Third Edition Paul Tillich
With a New Introduction by Harvey Cox Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new foreword by Harvey Cox that situates the book within the theological conversation into which it first appeared and conveys its continued relevance in the current century.
“The brilliance, the wealth of illustration, and the aptness of personal application . . . make the reading of these chapters an exciting experience.”—W. Norman Pittenger, New York Times Book Review “A lucid and arresting book.”—Frances Witherspoon, New York Herald Tribune “Clear, uncluttered thinking and lucid writing mark Mr. Tillich’s study as a distinguished and readable one.”—American Scholar ■■
Selected as one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was a world-renowned philosopher and theologian. Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. January Religion/Philosophy Paper 978-0-300-18879-0 $15.00 256 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World Yale Course Books
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Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Second Edition
Don C. Talayesva Edited by Leo W. Simmons;
Forewords by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Robert V. Hine
First published in 1942, Sun Chief is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how scholars have used the book since its publication more than seventy years ago. Don C. Talayesva (1890–1985) spent the first nine years of his life raised in the village of Old Oraibi, followed by nearly ten years of training at government schools before returning home. Leo W. Simmons was a Yale anthropologist who recorded Talayesva’s autobiography. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is assistant professor of American Indian studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and enrolled with the Hopi tribe. Robert V. Hine is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside.
August History/American Indian Studies Paper 978-0-300-19103-5 $23.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 512 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World
A Common Faith Second Edition
John Dewey ith an Introduction by Thomas Alexander W In A Common Faith, eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the “emancipation of the true religious quality” from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how the depth of religious experience and the creative role of faith in the resources of experience to generate meaning and value can be cultivated without making cognitive claims that compete with or contend with scientific ones. In a new introduction, Dewey scholar Thomas Alexander contextualizes the text for students and scholars by providing an overview of Dewey and his philosophy, key concepts in A Common Faith, and reactions to the text.
“Thomas Alexander’s deft introduction elegantly unfolds John Dewey’s A Common Faith for a new generation of readers seeking novel answers for the ancient questions of ultimate concern.”—Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech ◆◆
The Terry Lectures Series
John Dewey (1859–1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. Thomas Alexander is professor of philosophy at Southern Indiana University.
August Philosophy/Religion/Psychology Paper 978-0-300-18611-6 $15.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 1 1 120 pp. 5 ⁄2 x 8 ⁄4 World
Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
Edited by Dawn Langan Teele In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist that these methods carry inherent inconsistencies, limitations, or ethical dilemmas that observational approaches do not. This unique collection of essays by the most influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important stakes and will provide useful guidance to students and scholars in many disciplines. January Paper 978-0-300-16940-9 $20.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 272 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World 86
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“An excellent book on a subject that lies at the center of current methodological debates in the social sciences. The volume brings together many of the leading protagonists and antagonists (i.e., skeptics) of the experimental method and in the process illustrates the strengths, and the limitations, of this powerful method. Astute and readable. Highly recommended.”—John Gerring – author of Social Science Methodology: A Unified Framework ◆◆
The Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Dawn Langan Teele is a graduate student at Yale University working toward a Ph.D. in political science.
Russian Full Circle
A First-Year Russian Textbook Donna Oliver with Edie Furniss Russian Full Circle offers a concise but thorough introduction to Russian grammar, foundational vocabulary, and communicative strategies in ten lessons with loose thematic orientations. A rich ancillary Web site provides cultural content and supplemental audiovisual materials. As a single-volume elementary textbook, Russian Full Circle equips students in one year with the essential skills they need to navigate the world of the Russian language and to build upon their language base thanks to the firm grounding in grammar and vocabulary that it supplies. Donna Oliver is professor of Russian at Beloit College in Beloit, WI. Edie Furniss is a doctoral student in the PhD program in Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University.
September Language Cloth 978-0-300-18283-5 $85.00 tx 384 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 105 color + 46 b/w illus. World
Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms Sophia Lubensky
This is the most innovative, comprehensive, and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions, and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the nineteenth century to the present. The Russian idioms are provided with many English equivalents to render idioms in various contexts. Illustrative examples are cited to show how the idioms are used in context. Each entry also contains a grammatical description of the idiom, a definition—an innovative feature for a bilingual dictionary—and stylistic and usage information. A most notable part of the work is the alphanumeric index that makes finding the right expression very easy. Sophia Lubensky is professor emerita of Russian in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at SUNY (Albany). She is author of Nachalo, a basal Russian textbook with a video component (with Gerard Ervin et al.), Advanced Russian: From Reading to Speaking (with Irina Odintsova and Slava Paperno), and numerous articles on semantics, the Russian language, and translation.
October Cloth 978-0-300-16227-1 $75.00 tx Also available as an eBook. 1,376 pp. 8 x 11 World Foreign Language Teaching
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The Yale Book of Quotations App Finding the right words has never been easier The Yale Book of Quotations app brings together a collection of over 13,000 quotations and proverbs from Yale University Press’s award-winning title The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, and the companion edition The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, compiled by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro. The app’s content, unique in its focus on American quotations and proverbs, covers topics ranging from literature and history to popular culture, sports, computers, science, politics, law, and the social sciences. The app allows users to seek specific quotes, search by subject, or just enjoy browsing. It provides a fun, highly functional experience for lovers of words and language everywhere. The app’s easy-to-use features include: ■■ Full-text searchability for all entries within The Yale Book of Quotations and The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs ■■ Sharing of favorite quotations and proverbs via email, Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote ■■ Quotation of the Day ■■ Complete offline use–no Internet connection required ■■ Universal app design, rendering it usable on multiple devices ■■ Hyperlinked cross-references for easy navigation ■■ Bookmarks and personal folders for organization of entries ■■ The capacity to browse by author last name or by proverb keyword ■■ Entries that can be swiped through as if flipping pages of a book ■■ Access to lifetime usage history of the app To learn more, go to www.quotationdictionary.com
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Francis of Assisi
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint André Vauchez Translated by Michael F. Cusato
André Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years to tell a comprehensive and authoritative version of Francis’s life and of how his significance was appropriated in vastly different ways in the decades after his death. “A refreshingly complex portrait of one of Catholicism’s most familiar figures.”—U.S. Catholic “An indispensable document attesting to what can be known of the Poor Man of Assisi, as well as a stirring exemplum of written history.”—Paris Review Daily “[A] well-informed study . . . . Vauchez writes lucidly and thoughtfully.” —Robert E. Lerner, Times Literary Supplement
“This is a winner. It will have a great many readers and will dominate the field of Saint Francis studies for years to come.”—William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
André Vauchez is professor emeritus, University of Paris X. Michael Cusato, O.F.M., teaches at the Dominican House of Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C. May Biography Paper 978-0-300-19837-9 $22.00 Cloth 978-0-300-17894-4 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 416 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 2 maps World
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Geronimo
Robert M. Utley This fast-paced biography strips away the myths that have obscured the real Geronimo and presents an authentic portrait of the ferocious and elusive Apache fighter for the first time. “An accomplished and meticulous historian, with a solid grasp of the history of the American West . . . Utley has done a serviceable job of tracking Geronimo through his many raids [and] . . . has followed Geronimo skillfully through his various escapes from Union soldiers.”—Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books ■■
Winner of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum’s 2013 Wrangler Award for Literary Nonfiction category and of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the best biography of 2012; shortlisted for the MPIBA’s 2012 Reading the West Award for Adult Nonfiction
Robert M. Utley is the award-winning author of seventeen books on western American history. During his career with the National Park Service he served as chief historian and assistant director. He lives in Scottsdale, AZ.
May Biography Paper 978-0-300-19836-2 $20.00 Cloth 978-0-300-12638-9 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 376 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 27 b/w illus. + 13 maps World 90
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“[A] sure-to-be-a-classic book. . . . Fastpaced and engrossing.”—Wild West ◆◆
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Also by Robert M. Utley: The Last Days of the Sioux Nation Second Edition Paper 978-0-300-10316-8 $24.00 sc
The Richard Burton Diaries Edited by Chris Williams The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety for the first time Magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood’s most highly paid actor and one of England’s most admired Shakespearean performers. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton’s extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time, revealing him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. “The Richard Burton Diaries. Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s “Come to this volume for the love story, stay for the lit talk. . . . Burton’s diaries, fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review
published now for the first time, are filled with . . . pocket-size delights . . . But I admired this complicated and fairly remarkable book for its deeper and more insinuating qualities as well.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“The Richard Burton who emerges from these diaries . . . [is] so sensitive, intelligent, deeply well-read and supremely well-informed that you can almost kid yourself he’d have been fun to have to dinner. It would be absurd, of course, to call his a model life. But nobody who has read this book could call it a wasted one.”—Christopher Bray, Wall Street Journal Chris Williams is professor of Welsh history, director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities, and deputy director of the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University. He lives in Swansea, Wales.
July Memoir/Film/Theater Paper 978-0-300-19728-0 $22.00 Cloth 978-0-300-18010-7 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 704 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 16 pp. b/w illus. World Paperback Reprints—General Interest
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John Keats
A New Life Nicholas Roe Filled with revelations and original insights, this definitive book presents a new portrait of the beloved Romantic poet and shows how previously unrecognized turning points in his life provide fresh keys to his works.
“[Roe’s] remarkable achievement . . . should make all future Keats biographers quail.”—John Carey, Sunday Times “Roe’s very thorough new biography is full of scruple. It reminds us that, for all that the letters reveal Keats’s ‘inward mind,’ there are still many uncertainties, many gaps in our knowledge. . . . He brings Keats’s environment more alive than any previous biographer.”—Jonathan Bate, Times Literary Supplement “This absorbing, diligently researched biography draws us into the North London homes of Keats’s circle, imagining even the warmth of the fireplace as the poets challenged each other to sonnet-writing competitions.”—New Yorker Nicholas Roe is professor of English, University of St. Andrews. He is the author of numerous biographical and critical works on writers of the Romantic period. He lives in Scotland.
“A wonderful work that has many new things to say about Keats, his extraordinary work and inner life. A finer biography is unlikely to emerge this year.”—Ian Thomson, Financial Times
July Biography Paper 978-0-300-19727-3 $20.00 Cloth 978-0-300-12465-1 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 480 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 65 b/w illus. World
The Woman Reader Belinda Jack
This engaging book is the first to address the controversies associated with women’s reading throughout history, and to show how vastly different women’s reading experiences have often been compared to those of men. “A lively and erudite history of the many and ingenious covers thrown over women’s minds to keep us in the dark, Jack’s absorbing story describes and deconstructs the endlessly remade cover versions that men (mostly) have told to women, and to themselves, about the reasons why books and women should be kept apart.”—Jeanette Winterson, Times of London “Jack has done an impressive job of synthesising the scholarly work on book-history that has radically changed what we know about women’s reading habits through the ages. In her thorough and informative book, she steadily demonstrates that the woman reader has not been nearly such an isolated or exceptional figure, historically, as was once thought.”—Hermione Lee, The Guardian Belinda Jack is tutorial Fellow in French, Christ Church, University of Oxford. She is the author of George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large and Beatrice’s Spell. She lives in Oxford, UK.
September History/Books about Books Paper 978-0-300-19720-4 $20.00 Cloth 978-0-300-12045-5 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 344 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 50 b/w illus. World 92
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“Engaging, lively and vigorous. The Woman Reader is a landmark work that no feminist—or for that matter, general reader—should miss.”—Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth
The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans Mickey Edwards In this urgently needed analysis of the dysfunction of America’s federal government, Mickey Edwards explains how partisanship is undermining our democracy and what steps we must take so that the people, not parties, control our government.
“Not content to simply criticize, Edwards also proposes solutions to the hyperpartisanship currently corroding civil discourse. . . . An important—and I believe, enduring—addition to the growing literature of nonpartisan political reform.”—John Avlon, Daily Beast “A spirited, well-constructed argument for reform that does not shy away from comprehensive solutions.”—Kirkus Reviews “Edwards gets to the heart of what most troubles Americans about our government today. Nothing gets done, our elected representatives play the blame game, and the operative word is gridlock. . . . A well-written, thoughtful and timely book.”—Washington Times Mickey Edwards, a congressman for sixteen years and a faculty member at Harvard and Princeton for the subsequent sixteen years, is a vice president of the Aspen Institute.
“Overcoming tribalism and kneejerk partisanship is the central challenge of our time. Mickey Edwards shows why and how in this fascinating book filled with sensible suggestions.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
August Politics/Political Science Paper 978-0-300-19821-8 $16.00 Cloth 978-0-300-18456-3 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 232 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World
America the Possible
Manifesto for a New Economy James Gustave Speth A noted activist and scholar offers a bold manifesto and action plan for all who want to change America’s political economy to give true priority to people and planet.
“It is indeed possible to restore America to a true, durable, and decent prosperity and Gus Speth shows how. Cogent, clear, compelling and essential reading for liberals and conservatives; optimists and pessimists alike. We can and we must!”—David W. Orr, Oberlin College; author of Hope is an Imperative and Down to the Wire “A readable prescription for the future that’s actually possible. [Speth’s] message is clear: A new political economy is coming, and will eventually win the day. One that is more democratic, sustainable and, in a word, better for us all.”—Robert M. Thorson, Hartford Courant James Gustave Speth is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos, and Professor of Law at Vermont Law School. He is the author of Red Sky at Morning and The Bridge at the Edge of the World.
September Current Events/Politics/Economics Paper 978-0-300-19834-8 $18.00 Cloth 978-0-300-18076-3 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 272 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World
“[Speth] does a marvelous job of summarizing the most pressing problems and offering realistic and promising solutions. . . . This book is optimistic even in the midst of seemingly insurmountable problems.”—Choice Also by James Gustave Speth: The Bridge at the Edge of the World Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability Paper 978-0-300-15115-2 $18.00 sc
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Emma Goldman
Revolution as a Way of Life Vivian Gornick Emma Goldman is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Here, celebrated author Vivian Gornick draws a vibrant and surprisingly intimate portion of a woman of heroic proportions, a woman dedicated to fierce protest against the tyranny of institutions over individuals. “[An] elegant portrait.”—Russell Baker, New York Review of Books “An intense, engrossing essay written with an allusive, sinuous style.”—Fred Siegel, Wall Street Journal ■■
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Vivian Gornick is the author of, among other books, the acclaimed memoir Fierce Attachments and three essay collections: The End of the Novel of Love, Approaching Eye Level, and, most recently, The Men in My Life. She lives in New York City.
“Arresting . . . Gornick sees Goldman’s lifelong commitment to anarchism as doing ‘what Tolstoy said a work of art should do: It made people love life more’; this generous book does the same.”—New Yorker ◆◆
Jewish Lives
September Biography/History/Jewish Studies Paper 978-0-300-19823-2 $16.00 Cloth 978-0-300-13726-2 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 160 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World
Leon Trotsky
A Revolutionary’s Life Joshua Rubenstein Leon Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. In Joshua Rubenstein’s interpretation, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man—mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky’s own political oblivion. “Rubenstein does him justice as an intellectual and a man of action: he captures the brilliance, courage and grandeur of a meteoric rise. . . . [An] accessible introduction to a flawed but fascinating 20th-century giant.”—Times Higher Education “An exemplary biography. . . . Rubenstein depicts Trotsky as a tragic hero, a complex man whose brilliance and fallibility were inseparable.”—Judith Maas, Jewish Advocate “Fast-paced and engaging, Rubenstein’s brief biography provides a solid introduction to the period and a detailed examination of a man much studied but little understood.”—Publishers Weekly Joshua Rubenstein was a staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and is a longtime associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. September Biography/History/Jewish Studies Paper 978-0-300-19832-4 $16.00 Cloth 978-0-300-13724-8 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 240 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 1 b/w illus. World 94
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“This trim book . . . pulls together all the essentials of the life of Leon Trotsky and the revolution he so significantly shaped into a seamless, intelligent, and wonderfully accessible synopsis.”—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs ◆◆
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Also by Joshua Rubenstein: Stalin’s Secret Pogrom The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee Paper 978-0-300-10452-3 $30.00 tx
The Cost Disease
Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t William J. Baumol With Contributions by David de Ferranti, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Hilary Tabish, and Lilian Gomory Wu
A highly respected economist explains why the costs of health care and higher education continue to rise so dramatically and why these services can be provided affordably to American families. “Health-care costs are huge, and still rising. Based on current trends, in 2105 US health care will consume 62% of our national income. And this is nothing to worry about. How can this be? Relying primarily on simple logic and storytelling, NYU economist William J. Baumol lays out the answer in his new book.”—Kyle Smith, New York Post “It’s a testament to Professor Baumol’s lucid prose . . . that economists and noneconomists alike will find it easy to grasp his surprisingly comforting argument for why we shouldn’t panic. . . . This book is a quick read, packed with charts and case studies. But it is the author’s command of storytelling that makes it not just digestible but also enjoyable.”—Amy Wallace, New York Times
“A provocative and timely critique of the fallacies in the conventional wisdom that we can no longer afford good education and decent health care.”—Sir Harold Evans, author of They Made America
William J. Baumol is professor of economics and academic director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, New York University, and professor emeritus, Princeton University. He lives in New York City.
Also by William J. Baumol: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity Paper 978-0-300-15832-8 $22.00
September Economics/Business Paper 978-0-300-19815-7 $20.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-17928-6 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 20 b/w illus. World
Childism
Confronting Prejudice Against Children Elisabeth Young-Bruehl A seminal volume on prejudice against children for parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, policy-makers—anyone concerned with the crucial subject of child welfare. “Childism is an alarming analysis of the policies and behaviors that are so harmful to our children. Young-Bruehl’s deeply humane insights should be required reading for policymakers and parents.”—Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System “By giving a name to the prejudice against children, Young-Bruehl makes it possible for us to see what is right before our eyes. It’s not easy to speak about this prejudice—it comes too close to home—and yet Young-Bruehl does so in a way that is engaging, intelligent, humane, and enlightening. Read this book, and then give it to your partner, your friends, your representatives. This is something we can change.”—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice ELISABETH YOUNG-BRUEHL was a psychoanalyst and an award-winning author. She lived in Toronto.
September Psychology/Child Care Studies Paper 978-0-300-19240-7 $18.00 Cloth 978-0-300-17311-6 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 368 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 World
“This brilliant, provocative book . . . exposes American society’s prejudice against its children— ‘childism’—and the harm it causes them . . . . A clarion call for urgent action.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Also by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl: Why Arendt Matters Paper 978-0-300-13619-7 $15.00 sc Hannah Arendt For Love of the World, Second Edition Paper 978-0-300-10588-9 $28.00 tx
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A Little History of Science William Bynum A spirited volume on the great adventures of science throughout history, for curious readers of all ages Filled with stories of men and women who asked endless questions about the world and found exciting answers through scientific discovery, this lively and engaging book takes us on a journey through the amazing history of science. “A super-accessible introduction.”—Booklist “Bynum’s lively narrative . . . certainly delivers on his opening line: ‘Science is special.’”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Beginning with the Babylonians and ending with the World Wide Web, Bynum manages to squeeze in nearly every essential scientific idea and discovery while also discussing most major disciplines. . . . I happily confess I learned a lot.”—Andrew Robinson, New Scientist “One advantage of a brief history is that this impressive “[An] entertaining history . . . for curious teen and adult roll of modern achievements unfolds while the leaps of readers.”—Publishers Weekly prior centuries are still fresh in mind. That juxtaposition of what we know now versus what we knew then is breathtaking to contemplate. . . . In Mr. Bynum’s telling, a little history goes a long way.”—Alan Hirshfeld, Wall Street Journal William Bynum is professor emeritus, history of medicine, University College London. He is author or editor of numerous publications, including most recently Great Discoveries in Medicine. He lives in Suffolk, UK.
September History/History of Science Paper 978-0-300-19713-6 $15.00 Cloth 978-0-300-13659-3 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 272 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2 40 b/w illus. World 96
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A Little History of the World Illustrated Edition E. H. Gombrich Now available in paperback, a glorious illustrated edition of the international bestseller Blending high-grade design and fine paper, this is both a lovely gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history. “Brilliant, irresistible: a wonderful surprise.”—Philip Pullman “A masterpiece of nonfiction writing for children. It is a wry and charming book, perfectly suited to the capacities of a 10-year-old, but also remarkably free of condescension. An adult can read it with pleasure. And, indeed, with instruction.”—Scott McLemee, Newsday “Gombrich opens with the most magical definition of history I have ever read. . . . Tolerance, reason and humanity . . . suffuse every page of the Little “Sumptuously illustrated. . . . Perfect for reading to alert and curious children, but History.”—Amanda Vickery, Guardian Review “A timeless and engaging human race.”—Booklist
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“In simple, vivid prose, Gombrich surveys the human past from pre-history to his own time. . . . Lucky children will have this book read to them. Intelligent adults will read it for themselves and regain contact with the spirit of European humanism at its best.”—Anthony Grafton, Wall Street Journal
it’s even better as a secret pleasure, read alone, with no children in sight.”—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post
Also by E. H. Gombrich: A Little History of the World PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-14332-4 $14.95 Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art Cloth 978-0-300-06357-8 $15.00 sc
E. H. Gombrich was the author of the international classic The Story of Art. Winner of the Erasmus Prize, the Hegel Prize, the Wittgenstein Prize, and the Goethe Prize, he was admitted to Britain’s highest honour, the Order of Merit, in 1988.
November History Paper 978-0-300-19718-1 $22.00 Cloth 978-0-300-17614-8 F ‘11 304 pp. 7 3⁄4 x 9 1⁄2 200 color illus. World Paperback Reprints—General Interest
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Of Africa
Wole Soyinka In search of a deeper understanding of Africa, its identity, its current crises, and its future, Wole Soyinka explores a wide range of topics, including culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. “[Soyinka] defends Africa against its condescending critics, offering both sweeping reflections and clear-eyed assessments.”—Editors’ Choice, New York Times Book Review “The Nobel laureate and Nigerian playwright tries to rescue Africa from racism, ignorance, and stereotype in this forceful manifesto.”—Daily Beast “A fascinating, urgent appraisal of Africa’s relationship to the world. . . . Pitched to a general reader but with implications for specialists as well, this is necessarily big thinking laced with the subtle insights and analogies of a gifted writer, and a stirring defense of the ‘spiritual aspirations’ of human beings for freedom and peace.”—Publishers Weekly Wole Soyinka, the first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a Nigerian writer, poet, and playwright. For his implacable resistance to political tyranny he has been imprisoned, threatened with assassination, and at times forced to live in exile.
“An intellectually robust, booklength essay that attempts to unravel the paradoxes and contradictions plaguing Nigeria and, by extension, Africa.”—George Ayittey, Wall Street Journal
November History/Cultural History Paper 978-0-300-19833-1 $16.00 Cloth 978-0-300-14046-0 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 224 pp. 6 x 7 3⁄4 Not for sale in Africa
The First Thousand Years
A Global History of Christianity Robert Louis Wilken Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of a global Christianity over the first thousand years of its history and shows how it constituted one of the most profound revolutions the world has known.
“Robert Wilken has written the best kind of authoritative historical survey. Its treatment is learned, thorough, but also accessible for all aspects of early Christian history, and especially for the great significance of Islam to the entire Christian world from the seventh century forward.”—Mark Noll, author of The Rise of Evangelicalism “Ambitious and wide-ranging. . . . [This] highly accessible volume abounds with lively tales and fascinating connections.”—Philip Jenkins, Christian Century “Brilliant. . . . A riveting story.”—Publishers Weekly “Elegantly written [and] highly readable.”—First Things Robert Louis Wilken is William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity Emeritus, University of Virginia. He lives in Washington, D.C. November Religious History Paper 978-0-300-19838-6 $22.00 Cloth 978-0-300-11884-1 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 416 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 28 b/w illus. World 98
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“Compelling. . . . An outstanding achievement.”—Maria E. Doerfler, Commonweal Also by Robert Louis Wilken: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought Seeking the Face of God Paper 978-0-300-10598-8 $22.00 The Christians as the Romans Saw Them Second Edition Paper 978-0-300-09839-6 $15.95 tx
The Bride and the Dowry
Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War Avi Raz This is the first comprehensive study of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the crucial years after the Six Day War. Mining newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British, and UN archives, as well as private papers of individual participants, Avi Raz uncovers how and why Israeli-Arab peacemaking negotiations failed.
“The story of Israeli policy in the late 1960s has been told before. But no one has provided as thorough—or as damning—an account as Avi Raz. The Bride and the Dowry is a work of meticulous scholarship.”—Adam Shatz, London Review of Books “Avi Raz’s readable, scholarly, and engaging volume is situated firmly within the ‘new’ history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. . . .A tight, convincing examination, . . . sure to provoke counter-debates.”—Matthew Hughes, Middle East Journal AVI RAZ is a member of the faculty of Oriental studies, University of Oxford, research associate at Oxford’s Centre of International Studies, and research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
“[Raz’s] conclusions may be radical, but his case is set out with the utmost scruple, and in damning detail.”—Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman
September History/Mideast Studies Paper 978-0-300-19850-8 $22.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-17194-5 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 480 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 7 maps World
Egypt on the Brink
From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood Tarek Osman In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the country in 1954. This new edition takes events up to summer 2013, looking at how Egypt has become increasingly divided under its new Islamist government. “Tarek Osman writes with feeling, backed up by an impressively broad list of sources as well as sharp critical insight and astute judgement.”—The Economist “Osman delivers textured historical context . . . and he focuses analysis more accurately than most current pundits.”—Carlin Romano, Chronicle of Higher Education “It is hard to imagine a timelier book. . . . An elegantly written and insightful analysis of the fissures and discontents of contemporary Egypt.”—James Jankowski, Middle East Journal
“Short, readable, clear, and passionately written. A good introduction to Egypt’s story.”—Boston Globe
Tarek Osman is an Egyptian political economist with fifteen years’ experience in strategy consulting, private equity, and political-economy advisory. He writes for several international publications and frequently comments on Egypt and the Arab world for think tanks and news media. August Current Events/History Paper 978-0-300-19869-0 $16.00 sc Paper 978-0-300-17726-8 F ‘11 304 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 7 3 ⁄4 20 illus. World Paperback Reprints—Scholarly and Academic
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Orderly and Humane
Why did the Allied nations violently expel many millions of German-speaking civilians from their homes across Europe in the wake of the Second World War? This book reveals for the first time the full story of an unparalleled episode of mass human rights abuse.
The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War
R. M. Douglas
“The most thorough study available of the largest expulsion of a people in human history and by far the most horrific instance in post-war Europe of what is now called ethnic cleansing.”—Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic “[An] important, powerful, and moving book.”—Richard J. Evans, New Republic ■■
R. M. Douglas is associate professor of history, Colgate University. He lives in Hamilton, NY.
August History Paper 978-0-300-19820-1 $25.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-16660-6 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 504 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 12 b/w illus. + 1 map World
Belonging and Genocide
How could the German people have condoned and participated in the Holocaust? Thomas Kühne offers a provocative answer to this troubling question. He shows how the Nazis used the human desire for community to build a genocidal society.
Hitler’s Community, 1918–1945
Thomas Kühne
Named one of the best books of 2012 by The Atlantic
“A provocative and persuasive explanation of the ‘fighting power’ whose sources continue to challenge students of more conventional military history.”—Dennis E. Showalter, Holocaust and Genocide Studies “This is a gripping, even splendid book, synthesizing a breathtaking amount of material.”—Margaret Lavinia Anderson, University of California, Berkeley Thomas Kühne is Strassler Professor of Holocaust History at the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. He lives in Massachusetts.
August History Paper 978-0-300-19828-7 $30.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-12186-5 F ‘10 Also available as an eBook. 224 pp. 6 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 World
The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives
Richard Bidlack and Nikita Lomagin Translations by Marian Schwartz ◆◆
A nnals of Communism Series
November History Paper 978-0-300-19816-4 $40.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-11029-6 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 552 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 76 b/w illus, 5 maps, 3 tables World 100
Based on new archival research, this book presents a comprehensive account of the response of Soviet authorities and the population at large to the German siege of Leningrad in 1941– 1944, during which close to one million Leningraders perished. “[An] outstanding book.”—Choice “The authors strive to strip away the long-standing and largely politically- and ideologically-motivated misconceptions and myths which have clouded non-military aspects and circumstances of the siege. They stress, in particular, the actions and mistakes of Soviet political authorities and the human condition and attitudes of the many peoples who endured the siege.”—David M. Glantz, editor of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies
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Richard Bidlack is professor of history at Washington and Lee University. Nikita Lomagin is professor of economics at St. Petersburg State University.
Syria The Fall of the House of Assad
David W. Lesch
One of the only Westerners well acquainted with Assad sheds new light on the ophthalmologist-turned-tyrant and how his regime failed Syria. “Personal knowledge and on-the-ground experience inform this behind-the-headlines chronicle of the Syrian conflict.”—Kirkus “Lesch . . . excels in explaining the underlying economic reasons for the Syrian people’s frustrations with their regime.”—Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Christian Science Monitor “Timely, relevant, and to the point, providing the educated reader with everything needed to make sense of what is happening in that country. . . . A major contribution to our knowledge of Syria and the Middle East.”—Andrew Rosenbaum, New York Journal of Books
July Current Events/Mideast Studies Paper 978-0-300-19722-8 $18.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-18651-2 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 World
Islamic Imperialism A History Second Edition
Efraim Karsh
David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East history at Trinity University. He lives in San Antonio, TX.
Efraim Karsh, a widely respected expert in Middle Eastern affairs, challenges the way we understand Middle Eastern history and politics in this provocative book. This new edition brings Karsh’s analysis up to date through the events of the Arab spring. “A vigorous refutation of the oversimplified analysis of Middle Eastern woes which piles responsibility for all these troubles on the West and its imperialist policies, past and continuing.”—Edmund Bosworth, Times Literary Supplement “The book succinctly describes the rise and spread of Islam over the centuries and relates that history to the present state of world affairs. . . . I highly recommend it.”—Diane Ravitch, New York Sun (The Year’s Best Books)
September History/Current Events Paper 978-0-300-19817-1 $20.00 sc Paper 978-0-300-12263-3 S ‘07 Cloth 978-0-300-10603-9 S ‘06 304 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 7 7⁄8
The Forgotten Palestinians A History of the Palestinians in Israel
Ilan Pappé
July Current Events/History Paper 978-0-300-18432-7 $22.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-13441-4 S ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 344 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 7 3⁄4 8 b/w illus. World
Efraim Karsh is professor and head of the Mediterranean Studies Programme, King’s College, University of London.
In this book, historian Ilan Pappé examines how Palestinians with Israeli citizenship have fared under Jewish rule and what their lives tell us about both Israel’s attitude toward minorities and Palestinians’ attitudes toward the Jewish state. “The Forgotten Palestinians strings together fragments, events, documents, and interviews into a coherent and convincing narrative in a way that will certainly lend itself to advancing future studies. In this way, Pappé’s book is also a cornerstone study, and one that will certainly produce many more in the same tradition, making this book both overdue and timely.”—Ryvka Barnard, Arab Studies Journal The best selling author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé is currently Professor of History at Exeter University, UK, and previously taught at Haifa University, Israel. He lives in the UK.
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The Voting Wars
This important book chronicles the disappointing failure of election reform efforts in the wake of the controversial 2000 presidential election. The potential for worse election meltdowns is real and the legitimacy of our democracy is at stake, the author warns.
From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
Richard L. Hasen
“This is a Stephen King novel for election junkies. No one has a better eye for the next big thing in election law than Rick Hasen. The Voting Wars provides an engaging, highly readable guide to the thrill ride we call election season.”—Heather Gerken, author of The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System is Failing and How to Fix It Richard L. Hasen is Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science, University of California, Irvine School of Law. He lives in Studio City, CA.
August Political Science/Current Events Paper 978-0-300-19824-9 $22.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-18203-3 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 9 b/w illus. World
Good Italy, Bad Italy
In this lively analysis, now updated to cover events up to the dramatic election of February 2013, a respected journalist explores Italy’s fascinating dual national character, the nation’s descent into economic malaise and political corruption, and what can be done to ensure a return to more prosperous and more democratic times.
Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
Bill Emmott
“Emmott’s breezy narrative provides a quick overview of the beleaguered Italian economy and sketches some background causes for its woes before offering glimpses of a brighter future.”—Publishers Weekly “[A] lucid and thoughtful book.”—Financial Times “Engaging and stimulating.”—David Gilmour, The Spectator Bill Emmott was editor-in-chief of The Economist and is now a freelance commentator on international affairs. He divides his time between London and Somerset, UK.
August Current Events/History Paper 978-0-300-19716-7 $20.00 sc Also available as an eBook. 312 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 7 3⁄4 World
The New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production
Peter Marsh
The world is on the cusp of a manufacturing revolution, and opportunities abound for countries and companies who understand the changes, says the author of this upbeat analysis. “A fizzing analysis of the history and geography of manufacturing and where it is heading.”—The Economist “Highly readable and engaging, liberally peppered with anecdotes that convey . . . Marsh’s knowledge of the very human nature of industry. . . . [This] will be a valuable read for anyone who wants to understand the role of manufacturing.”—Bryan Betts, Engineering and Technology “A must-read.”—Global Journal
October Business/Economics/Current Events Paper 978-0-300-19723-5 $25.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-11777-6 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 World 102
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Peter Marsh is former manufacturing editor for the Financial Times. He lives in London.
The End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future
Gerard Lemos
This path-breaking study reveals the truth behind exaggerated headlines about China’s rapid rise. In fact Chinese people face immense personal, family, and financial anxieties that destroy their aspirations and communities. This edition includes a new preface. “A much-needed and remarkably well-timed glimpse into the underbelly of this Asian tiger.”—Geoffrey Cain, New Republic “[Lemos] nails the anxiety middle-class Chinese are feeling. . . . He performs a valuable substantive service by exposing the dark side of China’s rise.”—Wall Street Journal
November Current Events/Sociology Paper 978-0-300-19721-1 $25.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-16924-9 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 312 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 9 b/w illus. World
The Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities
Austin Troy
Gerard Lemos, a social policy expert, was a visiting professor at Chongqing Technology and Business University between 2006 and 2010 and chaired the board of the British Council from 2008 to 2010. He lives in London.
This accessible book explores how cities around the world consume energy, assesses innovative ideas for reducing urban energy consumption, and discusses why energy efficiency will determine which cities thrive economically in the future. “Austin Troy delivers a fascinating—and chilling—look at our cities’ dangerous dependence on an unpredictable world energy market. He shows why we need to break our addiction to cheap energy, and offers practical solutions on how to do it.”—Arianna Huffington, cofounder and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post “A sure-handed, cogent treatment of urban challenges.”—David Orr, Nature
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The Carbon Crunch How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong— and How to Fix It
Dieter Helm
Austin Troy is associate professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont, and principal and cofounder of Spatial Informatics Group, LLC. He lives in Shelburne, VT.
In this hard-hitting book, Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy—from transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to electrification of transport, to carbon pricing and a focus on new technologies. “A powerful and heartfelt plea for hard-nosed realism.”—Fred Pearce, New Scientist “A velvet sledgehammer in the global conversation about climate change.”—America Dieter Helm, CBE, is professor of energy policy, University of Oxford and fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Committee to the UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Chair of the Natural Capital Committee.
September Environmental Studies Paper 978-0-300-19719-8 $22.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-18659-8 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 5 1⁄4 x 7 3⁄4 World Paperback Reprints—Scholarly and Academic
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The Science of Human Perfection How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine
Nathaniel Comfort
In this bold, engaging work of revisionist history, a historian of science reveals how contemporary genetic medicine emerged out of the twin goals of Progressive-era eugenics: the relief of suffering and hereditary improvement. “[A] beautifully written account of how genes became central to American medicine.”—Science “This is a rich and important book, laced with lively vignettes and provocative judgments. Comfort recounts with an unblinking eye the evolution of medical genetics from its origins in eugenics to the era of the genome. An absorbing and informative work.”—Daniel J. Kevles, author of In the Name of Eugenics Nathaniel Comfort is associate professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and a participant in The Oral History of Human Genetics project.
January Science/Health Paper 978-0-300-19819-5 $22.50tx Cloth 978-0-300-16991-1 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 336 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 25 b/w illus. World
Ancient Rome
This concise and beautifully written history of ancient Rome from its founding in the eighth century b.c. through Justinian’s rule in the sixth century a.d. pays unique attention to the values that propelled the Empire’s rise and fall.
From Romulus to Justinian
Thomas R. Martin
Praise for Thomas R. Martin’s Ancient Greece: “A limpidly written, highly accessible, and comprehensive history of Greece and its civilizations from prehistory through the collapse of Alexander the Great’s empire. . . . A highly readable account of ancient Greece, particularly useful as an introductory or review text for the student or the general reader.”—Kirkus Reviews Thomas R. Martin is professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications include Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China, and, as co-author, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. He lives in Sutton, MA.
September History Paper 978-0-300-19831-7 $16.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-16004-8 F ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 13 maps, 35 b/w illus. World
A Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century South Africa
Roger S. Levine ◆◆
New Directions in Narrative History
This groundbreaking history reclaims the lost story of Jan Tzatzoe, an African intermediary and intellectual whose remarkable life epitomizes the initial possibilities and ultimate tragedy of the colonial encounter in South Africa and Great Britain. “This is a fascinating and frequently moving book, packed with unexpected detail and beautifully crafted. A rich micro history of the life of an African chief, diplomat and Christian evangelist who was ultimately betrayed by the colonial state, A Living Man from Africa also raises penetrating wider questions about the lived experience of colonialism.”—Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University Roger S. Levine is associate professor of history at Sewanee: The University of the South.
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This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485–1746
Charles Carlton
In an innovative and moving account of the effects of war on early modern Britain, Charles Carlton shows how war forged the British state and explores personal experiences of battle and bloodshed. “This Seat of Mars deserves to become a classic text on war itself and on Britain’s martial ancestry.”—Allan Mallinson, The Times “Very readable, packed with details and abundant endnotes, this is a fine addition to British military and naval history.”—D.M. Hall, Choice “Readable, thought-provoking, and humane.”—Barbara Donagan, Times Literary Supplement
October History/Military History Paper 978-0-300-19714-3 $30.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-13913-6 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 360 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 24 b/w illus. + 10 maps World
Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power
John France
Charles Carlton is professor emeritus of history at North Carolina State University.
This major new history encompasses warfare around the world from 3100 b.c. to the Gulf War and challenges accepted ideas about the development of military strength, the impact of culture on war, the future of Western dominance, and much more. “This is a powerful book, opinionated but crisply argued, and packed with information. . . . It’s hard to think of a more impressive single-volume history of the not-only Western way of war.”—Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph “An absorbing account of the history of warfare that does not shy away from challenging the reader’s preconceptions. . . . A worthy addition to any military history collection.”—Jonathan Eaton, Military Times
October History/Military History Paper 978-0-300-19717-4 $23.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-12074-5 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 456 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 32 b/w illus. World
Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West
Daniel Justin Herman ◆◆
The L amar Series in Western History
P ublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
JOHN FRANCE is professor emeritus, Department of History and Classics, Swansea University. He lives in Swansea, UK.
In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s, prizewinning author Daniel Herman uncovers surprising truths about the complex interplay of honor, conscience, violence, and identity in the history of the American West. “[A] fine analysis. . . . Any reader will be stimulated and challenged by the use of this lens for viewing the American West and indeed much of the nation.”—Richard W. Slatta, American Historical Review “Deserves a wide reading by historians of the West and scholars of American violence.”—Patrick Q. Mason, Western Historical Quarterly Daniel Justin Herman is professor of history at Central Washington University. He lives in Ellensburg, WA.
September History Paper 978-0-300-19826-3 $30.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-13736-1 F ‘10 Also available as an eBook. 400 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 40 b/w illus. World Paperback Reprints—Scholarly and Academic
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The Art of Robert Frost
A wonderfully accessible guide to the work of Robert Frost, this hybrid anthology presents a selection of poems from across the poet’s career and places each poem in its social, biographical, historical, and literary context with insightful and astute commentary.
Tim Kendall
“Kendall’s book . . . is a good way to revisit Frost—and, per Frost, revisiting him is precisely what we should do.”—Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine’s Vulture.com “[An] immensely pleasurable anthology.”—Seamus Perry, Times Literary Supplement “Kendall is a masterful critic and teacher.”—Library Journal Tim Kendall is professor of English literature and Head of English, University of Exeter. He lives in Devon.
October Poetry Studies/Literary Studies Paper 978-0-300-19827-0 $22.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-11813-1 S ‘12 408 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 For sale in North America and the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, excluding Canada
The Golden Ass
With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, acclaimed poet and translator Sarah Ruden breathes new life into Apuleius’s classic work by skillfully duplicating in English the verbal high jinks of Apuleius’s ever-popular novel.
Apuleius Translated by Sarah Ruden
“A cause for celebration. . . . We owe Sarah Ruden a great debt of thanks for [this] English translation that is no less inventive, varied, and surprising than the original.”—G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books “A rollicking ride well worth the fare. . . . Marvelously, sidesplittingly ridiculous.”—Tracy Lee Simmons, National Review Sarah Ruden is a visiting scholar at Wesleyan University. Her books include a translation of Vergil’s Aeneid and Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time. September Classics/Literature Paper 978-0-300-19814-0 $14.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-15477-1 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 5 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄4 World
The Making of the English Gardener Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560–1660
Margaret Willes
A fascinating account of the people, ideas, and publications that revolutionized the nation’s gardens in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from courtiers’ grand estates to the humble kitchen plots of housewives. “Winter evenings were made for books like this.”—Rachel De Thame, Sunday Times (Home) “The sheer handling of a mass of material and making it readable would have been recommendation enough for this book. But it is much more—a revelation, a delight, and a work that no one who has made a garden can be without.”—Ronald Blythe, Church Times Margaret Willes, the former Publisher for the National Trust, has written and illustrated numerous books. She lives in London.
August Gardening/History Paper 978-0-300-19726-6 $30.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-16382-7 F ‘11 Also available as an eBook. 312 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 80 b/w +24 pp. color illus. World 106
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Strindberg A Life
Sue Prideaux
This mesmerizing new biography of Strindberg, named the “greatest genius of all modern dramatists” by Eugene O’Neill, uncovers the full story of his chaotic life and his revolutionary writings. “A lively, enlightening, at times thrilling life of an extraordinary artist.”—John Banville, New York Review of Books “What an absolutely extraordinary man August Strindberg was, and what a tormented, demented life he led! I haven’t read such a fascinating biography for ages.”—Sam Leith, The Spectator ■■
July Biography Paper 978-0-300-19806-5 $30.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-13693-7 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 352 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 20 color + 50 b/w illus. World
Robespierre A Revolutionary Life
Peter McPhee
Winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for 2012
Sue Prideaux is a writer living in Sussex, UK. Her book Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.
Was Robespierre a heroic martyr or a bloodthirsty tyrant? McPhee reevaluates the ideology and reality of “the Terror,” what Robespierre intended, and whether it represented an abandonment or a reversal of his early liberalism and sense of justice. “This book is a triumph: an important, open-minded and often moving account of Robespierre. . . . A great and lasting achievement.”—Marisa Linton, author of The Politics of Virtue in Enlightenment France “A wonderful, convincing study, splendidly analytical and evocative, and beautifully penned.”—John Merriman, author of Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror
November Biography/History Paper 978-0-300-19724-2 $25.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-11811-7 S ‘12 Also available as an eBook. 320 pp. 5 x 7 3⁄4 32 b/w illus. World
Galileo Watcher of the Skies
David Wootton
Peter McPhee is a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He lives in Abbottsford, Australia.
A provocative and penetrating new biography of Galileo as author, inventor, and astronomer, revealing both his centrality to the scientific revolution and the Renaissance, and his godlessness, failures, and obstinacy. “[This book] demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature. . . . [An] engaging account.”—Owen Gingerich, New York Times Book Review “Fascinating reading. . . . With this highly adventurous portrayal of Galileo’s inner world, Wootton assures himself a high rank among the most radical recent Galileo interpreters.”—John F. Haught, America
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“Wootton writes a fascinating book. . . . Absolutely first rate, and well worth reading and re-reading.”—Rev. Jeremy Craddock, Church Times David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History, University of York.
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Evangelical Disenchantment
This engaging and at times heartbreaking book looks at evangelicalism through the lives of nine public figures—George Eliot, Vincent van Gogh, James Baldwin, and others—who embraced this religious tradition but later repudiated it.
Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt
David Hempton
“A beautifully written and artfully constructed book that draws intriguing conclusions about the nature of evangelical Protestantism.”—Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame “David Hempton’s powerful and poignant new book, Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt, is itself a work of art, humming along smoothly with the grain of evangelical attentiveness to personal narrative.”—Timothy Larsen, Books and Culture David Hempton is Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. He is also Dean of Harvard Divinity School. He lives in Bedford, MA.
August Religious History/History Paper 978-0-300-19825-6 $22.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-14067-5 F ‘08 Also available as an eBook. 256 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 9 b/w illus. World
The Late Medieval English Church
The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome.
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
G.W. Bernard
“Superbly researched and coherently argued.”—Peter Marshall, Literary Review “Bernard has again achieved what he does best: making us go back to an old problem and start thinking afresh.”—Lucy Wooding, Times Higher Education Supplement GEORGE BERNARD is professor of early modern history at the University of Southampton. He lives in Southampton, England.
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The Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
James Loeffler
Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an insightful account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion. “A significant contribution to cultural history. Beautifully written . . . [and] a pleasure to read.”—Ellen Schiff, www.jewish-theatre.com “James Loeffler’s stimulating and provocative study contributes creatively to a number of scholarly streams of inquiry.”—Alexander Orbach, Russian Review ■■
September Music History/History Paper 978-0-300-19830-0 $40.00 tx Cloth 978-0-300-13713-2 S ‘10 Also available as an eBook. 288 pp. 6 1⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 26 b/w illus. World
Wagner and the Art of the Theatre
Patrick Carnegy
Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies’ 2011 USC Book Prize and of ASCAP’s 2011 Béla Bartók Award; finalist for the Jewish Book Council’s 2012 Sami Rohr Book Prize.
James Loeffler is Associate Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia.
In this groundbreaking book, Patrick Carnegy vividly evokes the great productions of Wagner’s operas that have influenced our understanding not only of the composer but also of modern theatre. “[A] massive undertaking. . . . This book is truly epic in its scope, and it will certainly become one of the standard reference works in English, not only on Wagner but on twentieth-century stagecraft.”—Patrick O’Connor, Literary Review ■■
September Paper 978-0-300-19715-0 $30.00 sc Cloth 978-0-300-10695-4 F ‘06 352 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄4 100 b/w illus. World
Winner of the Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Memorial Award, Special Jury Prize, and of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Award
Formerly a music critic for the Times and dramaturg at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Patrick Carnegy has lectured, broadcast, and published widely on Wagner, opera, and the theatre.
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Bruteig, Edvard Munch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-30 Buckley, Monty’s Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Burton, The Richard Burton Diaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Bynum, A Little History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Cadava, The Itinerant Languages of Photography . . . . . . . A-38 Calderisi, Earthly Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Carbon Crunch, The, Helm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Carlton, This Seat of Mars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Carnegy, Wagner and the Art of the Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Carruthers, The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland . . . A-33 Casid, Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn . . . . . . . A-48 Cassirer, The Warburg Years (1919–1933) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Chagall, Goodman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-37 Charity, Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cheyette, Diasporas of the Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Childism, Young-Bruehl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Christian Monitors, The, Sirota. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Citizen Emperor, Dwyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Citizen’s Share, The, Blasi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 City and the King, The, Stevenson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-47 Civil Disobedience, Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Clark, Exhibiting Fashion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10 Climate Casino, The, Nordhaus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Coetzee, Cripplewood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-41 Cohen, Bernard Berenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Comfort, The Science of Human Perfection . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Common Faith, A, Dewey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Conspiracy of Images, A, Curley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-55 Coo, Beautiful Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Cooper, The Making of Assisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-44 Cost Disease, The, Baumol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Cott, Susan Sontag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Courage to Be, The, Tillich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Cripplewood, Coetzee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-41 Curley, A Conspiracy of Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-55 Daftari, Iran Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-45 Damrosch, Jonathan Swift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Danube, The, Thorpe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 de Carvalho, Printmaking in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9 De Keersmaeker, En Atendant and Cesena . . . . . . . . . . . A-40 Declaration of Independence in Historical Context, The, Shain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Delacroix and the Matter of Finish, Kahng . . . . . . . . . . . . A-49 DeNardis, The Global War for Internet Governance . . . . . . 64 Devil’s Invention, The, Breiding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-48 Dewey, A Common Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Dias, Exhibiting Englishness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-34 Diasporas of the Mind, Cheyette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Doderer-Winkler, Magnificent Entertainments . . . . . . . . . . A-34 Douglas, Orderly and Humane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Draaisma, The Nostalgia Factory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Dream in Shakespeare, Garber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Dreams and Echoes, McCullagh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-46 Dressing Dangerously, Faiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-19 Dwyer, Citizen Emperor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Earthly Mission, Calderisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Edvard Munch, Bruteig. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-30 Edwards, The Parties Versus the People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Egypt on the Brink, Osman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Emma Goldman, Gornick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Emmott, Good Italy, Bad Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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Adam Smith’s Pluralism, Weinstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Adams, Raising Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7 African Shore, The, Rey Rosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Against the Profit Motive, Parrillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Al-Ali, The Struggle for Iraq’s Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Albers, Interaction of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2 Alcala, Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820 . . . . . . . . . A-42 All the Trees of the Forest, Tal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Allawi, Faisal I of Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Allure of the Archives, The, Farge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Alpers, Roof Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, A-6 Alteveer, Imran Qureshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3 America the Possible, Speth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 American Adversaries, Neff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-43 American Style, An, Tartsinis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-36 American West in Bronze, 1850–1925, The, Smith. . . . . . A-29 Ancient Rome, Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Anderson, Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 André Le Nôtre in Perspective, Bouchenot-Déchin . . . . . . . A-60 Antonio Berni, Ramírez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-50 App Generation, The, Gardner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15 Apuleius, The Golden Ass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Archaeology of Jerusalem, The, Galor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Art and Appetite, Barter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-25 Art and Music in Venice, Goldfarb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-57 Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn, Casid. . . . . . . A-48 Art of Robert Frost, The, Kendall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Art of the American Frontier, Heydt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-24 Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden, The, Fonkenell. . . . . . . A-23 Artists and Amateurs, Stein. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-45 Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland, The, Carruthers . . . A-33 Bailey, Northamptonshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-61 Balthus, Rewald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-14 Barbara Chase-Riboud, Basualdo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-41 Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38–39 Barbour, Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History . . . . . A-40 Barley, Gold, or Fiat, Quint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Barnet, Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim . . . . . . . . . . A-44 Barter, Art and Appetite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-25 Basualdo, Barbara Chase-Riboud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-41 Baum, New Jersey as Non-Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-38 Baumol, The Cost Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Bayles, Through a Screen Darkly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Beautiful Province, Coo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Before L.A., Torres-Rouff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Before the Door of God, Hopler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Belonging and Genocide, Kühne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Bernard Berenson, Cohen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Bernard, The Late Medieval English Church . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Bernstein, The Leonard Bernstein Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22–23 Bet, The, Sabin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Bidlack, The Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944 . . . . . . . . . . 100 Birds of New Zealand, Scofield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Bjørnstad, Yale French Studies, Volume 124 . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Black, The Power of Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Blackshaw, Facing the Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20 Blair, God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-47 Blasi, The Citizen’s Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Bonnefoy, Second Simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bouchenot-Déchin, André Le Nôtre in Perspective . . . . . . . A-60 Breiding, The Devil’s Invention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-48 Bride and the Dowry, The, Raz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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En Atendant and Cesena, De Keersmaeker . . . . . . . . . . . A-40 End of the Chinese Dream, The, Lemos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Erwin Blumenfeld, Eskildsen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-31 Eskildsen, Erwin Blumenfeld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-31 Eva Hesse 1965, Rosen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3 Evangelical Disenchantment, Hempton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Exhibiting Englishness, Dias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-34 Exhibiting Fashion, Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-10 Experience of God, The, Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–11 Facing the Modern, Blackshaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20 Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History, Barbour. . . . . A-40 Faiers, Dressing Dangerously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-19 Faisal I of Iraq, Allawi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Farge, The Allure of the Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Female Alliances, Herbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Fernand Léger and the Modern City, Vallye . . . . . . . . . . . A-18 Field Experiments and Their Critics, Teele. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Field of Cloth of Gold, The, Richardson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 First Thousand Years, The, Wilken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Fletcher, Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Fogelson, The Great Rent Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Fonkenell, The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden . . . . . . . A-23 Forgotten Palestinians, The, Pappé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958–1962, Zhou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Formation of the Jewish Canon, The, Lim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 France, Perilous Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Francesco Vanni, Marciari. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-35 Francis of Assisi, Vauchez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Frank, Made in the U.S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-22 Friedlander, JFK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6 Friendship, Grayling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30–31 From Still Life to the Screen, Monteyne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-42 Future of Nature, The, Robin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Galbert of Bruges, The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders . . . . 76 Galileo, Wootton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Gallagher, Lillian Hellman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Galor, The Archaeology of Jerusalem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Garber, Dream in Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Gardner, The App Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14–15 Generation Dada, White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-53 Geraghty, The Sheldonian Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-39 Geronimo, Utley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Getty, Practicing Stalinism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Global War for Internet Governance, The, DeNardis. . . . . . 64 God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty, Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-47 Goetzmann, The Great Mirror of Folly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Golden Ass, The, Apuleius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Goldfarb, Art and Music in Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-57 Gombrich, A Little History of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Good Italy, Bad Italy, Emmott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Goodman, Chagall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-37 Gornick, Emma Goldman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Goya in the Norton Simon Museum, Wilson-Bareau . . . . . A-57 Grayling, Friendship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30–31 Great Mirror of Folly, The, Goetzmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Great Rent Wars, The, Fogelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Greenough, Tell It With Pride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7 Gurche, Shaping Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Harms, Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition . . . . . . 76 Harshav, Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification . . . . . 73 Index
Hart, The Experience of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–11 Harvey, A Mere Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Hasen, The Voting Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Haskell, Robert Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-13 Haskell, The King’s Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-43 Hearn, Ink Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-28 Hecht, Stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Hell on the Range, Herman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Helm, The Carbon Crunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Hempton, Evangelical Disenchantment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Herbert, Female Alliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Herman, Hell on the Range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Heydt, Art of the American Frontier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-24 History of Design, Kirkham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-26–A-27 Hollow Justice, Wilkins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Holmes, The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence . . . A-49 Hooligan’s Return, The, Manea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hopler, Before the Door of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Houses of Louis Kahn, The, Marcus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-16 Huguenots, The, Treasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38–39 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art, MacDonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-39 Impressionist France, Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-52 Imran Qureshi, Alteveer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3 In Flanders Fields, Stichelbaut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition, Harms. . . . . . . 76 Ink Art, Hearn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-28 Inspiration to All Who Enter, An, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Interaction of Color, Albers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2 Intersecting Modernities, Ramírez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-37 Interwoven Globe, Peck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8 Investment in Blood, Ledwidge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Iran Modern, Daftari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-45 Ireland and the Picturesque, O’Kane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-32 Islamic Imperialism, Karsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Itinerant Languages of Photography, The, Cadava . . . . . . . A-38 Jack, The Woman Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 James, An Inspiration to All Who Enter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe, Ottmann . . . . . . . A-33 Jewels by JAR, Sassoon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-29 JFK, Friedlander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6 John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Pardo. . . . . . . . . . . A-56 John Keats, Roe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Jonathan Swift, Damrosch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Jones, Myth, Memory, Trauma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Judges 1-12, Sasson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Kahng, Delacroix and the Matter of Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . A-49 Karsh, Islamic Imperialism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Kelly, Impressionist France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-52 Kelly, St. Petersburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Kendall, The Art of Robert Frost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Kent: North East and East, Newman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-61 Kimbell Art Museum, Kimbell Art Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . A-54 King’s Pictures, The, Haskell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-43 Kirkham, History of Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-26–A-27 Kirshner, A Theory of Militant Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Kühne, Belonging and Genocide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Lair, The, Manea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Lament, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child . . . . . . . . . . 84 Lang, Primo Levi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Late Medieval English Church, The, Bernard. . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Ledwidge, Investment in Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Naturalists at Sea, Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Rubin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Neff, American Adversaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-43 New Industrial Revolution, The, Marsh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 New Jersey as Non-Site, Baum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-38 Newman, Kent: North East and East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-61 Nordhaus, The Climate Casino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Northamptonshire, Bailey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-61 Nostalgia Factory, The, Draaisma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ó Ríordáin, Selected Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 O’Kane, Ireland and the Picturesque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-32 O’Malley, Painting under Pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-59 Of Africa, Soyinka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Oldenburg, Strange Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-12 Oliver, Russian Full Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Orderly and Humane, Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Origin of the World, The, Michon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Osman, Egypt on the Brink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Ottmann, Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe . . . . . . . A-33 Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820, Alcala . . . . . . . . . A-42 Painting under Pressure, O’Malley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-59 Pappé, The Forgotten Palestinians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Pardo, John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné . . . . . . . . . . . A-56 Parrillo, Against the Profit Motive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Parties Versus the People, The, Edwards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Peck, Interwoven Globe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-8 Perilous Glory, France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Perry, Civil Disobedience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Pevsner’s Architectural Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-61 Philosophy of Dreams, Türcke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Plague of Informers, A, Weil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Portraits, Storr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-12 Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination, Unglaub. . . . . . . . . . . A-54 Power of Knowledge, The, Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Powys, Scourfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-62 Practicing Stalinism, Getty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Prideaux, Strindberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Primo Levi, Lang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Printmaking in Paris, de Carvalho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-9 Prochaska, The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Proteus Paradox, The, Yee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Proust, Swann’s Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The, Lament. . . . . . . . . . 84 Queer History of Fashion, A, Steele. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-11 Quint, Barley, Gold, or Fiat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Raising Henry, Adams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7 Ramírez, Antonio Berni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-50 Ramírez, Intersecting Modernities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-37 Rathbone, Van Gogh Repetitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-17 Raz, The Bride and the Dowry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Reading Dante, Mazzotta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Rebirth, Tezuka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-51 Restatement of Religion, A, Sharma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Rewald, Balthus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-14 Rey Rosa, The African Shore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Richard Burton Diaries, The, Burton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Richardson, The Field of Cloth of Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Rimbaud the Son, Michon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ringen, Nation of Devils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Rituals of Rented Island, Sanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-50 Roach, Unbalanced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Lee, Silla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-53 Lemos, The End of the Chinese Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Leningrad Blockade, 1941–1944, The, Bidlack. . . . . . . . . . 100 Leon Trotsky, Rubenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Leonard Bernstein Letters, The, Bernstein. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22–23 Lesch, Syria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Letters of C. Vann Woodward, The, Woodward. . . . . . . . . . 75 Levin, The Worth of the University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Levine, A Living Man from Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front, Fletcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, Zaqtan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Lillian Hellman, Gallagher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Lim, The Formation of the Jewish Canon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Lima, Lina Bo Bardi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15 Lina Bo Bardi, Lima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15 Little History of Literature, A, Sutherland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Little History of Science, A, Bynum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Little History of the World, A, Gombrich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Living Man from Africa, A, Levine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Lobel, Talent Wants to Be Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Loeffler, The Most Musical Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Lubensky, Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . 87 MacDonald, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-39 Made in the U.S.A., Frank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-22 Magnificent Entertainments, Doderer-Winkler. . . . . . . . . . A-34 Making of Assisi, The, Cooper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-44 Making of the English Gardener, The, Willes . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Manea, The Hooligan’s Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Manea, The Lair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mansoor, Surge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26–27 Marciari, Francesco Vanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-35 Marcus, The Houses of Louis Kahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-16 Marsh, The New Industrial Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Martin, Ancient Rome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Marwick, Status Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Masters and Servants, Michon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Matisse’s Sculpture, McBreen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-35 Mazzotta, Reading Dante . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 McBreen, Matisse’s Sculpture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-35 McCullagh, Dreams and Echoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-46 McPhee, Robespierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim, Barnet. . . . . . . . . . . A-44 Memoirs of Walter Bagehot, The, Prochaska . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Men from the Ministry, Thurley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, A-32 Mere Machine, A, Harvey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Michon, Masters and Servants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Michon, Rimbaud the Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Michon, The Origin of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence, The, Holmes. . . A-49 Monteyne, From Still Life to the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-42 Monty’s Men, Buckley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Most Musical Nation, The, Loeffler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Muasher, The Second Arab Awakening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Muir, Wellington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders, The, Galbert of Bruges . . . . . . . . . . . 76 My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Myth, Memory, Trauma, Jones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Nation of Devils, Ringen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Roy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-59
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Talayesva, Sun Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Talent Wants to Be Free, Lobel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Tartsinis, An American Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-36 Teele, Field Experiments and Their Critics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Tell It With Pride, Greenough. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-7 Tezuka, Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-51 Theory of Militant Democracy, A, Kirshner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 This Seat of Mars, Carlton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Thom, Survey of London: Battersea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-62 Thomas Sully, Rudolph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-51 Thorpe, The Danube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification, Harshav. . . . . 73 Through a Screen Darkly, Bayles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Thurley, Men from the Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, A-32 Tillich, The Courage to Be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Torres-Rouff, Before L.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Treasure, The Huguenots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Troy, The Very Hungry City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Türcke, Philosophy of Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Unbalanced, Roach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Unglaub, Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination. . . . . . . . . . . A-54 Utley, Geronimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Vallye, Fernand Léger and the Modern City . . . . . . . . . . . A-18 Van Gogh Repetitions, Rathbone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-17 Vauchez, Francis of Assisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Very Hungry City, The, Troy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Violence and Virtue, Straussman-Pflanzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . A-46 Voting Wars, The, Hasen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Wagner and the Art of the Theatre, Carnegy . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Warburg Years (1919–1933), The, Cassirer. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Water 4.0, Sedlak. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Weber, William Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-36 Weil, A Plague of Informers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Weinstein, Adam Smith’s Pluralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Weiss, Robert Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-58 Wellington, Muir. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 White, Generation Dada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-53 Wilken, The First Thousand Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Wilkins, Hollow Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Willes, The Making of the English Gardener . . . . . . . . . . . 106 William Kent, Weber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-36 Williams, Naturalists at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Williams, The Richard Burton Diaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Williams, Wunderkammer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-21 Wilson-Bareau, Goya in the Norton Simon Museum . . . . . A-57 Woman Reader, The, Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Woodward, The Letters of C. Vann Woodward . . . . . . . . . . 75 Wootton, Galileo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, The, Schacter. . . . . . A4–A5 Worth of the University, The, Levin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Wunderkammer, Williams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-21 Yale Book of Quotations App, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Yale French Studies, Volume 124, Bjørnstad. . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Yee, The Proteus Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Young-Bruehl, Childism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Zaqtan, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Zhou, Forgotten Voices of Mao’s Great Famine, 1958–1962 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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Imran Qureshi
With an introduction by Sheena Wagstaff and an interview with the artist by Ian Alteveer and Navina Najat Haidar Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference both the miniature painting of the Mughal tradition, in which he was trained, and large, site-specific installations in architectural space, which address both the building itself and its historical and political meanings. In May 2013, Qureshi will create the latest rooftop installation for the Metropolitan Museum. This volume discusses the specific interplay between the artist’s vision and the particulars of the space for which the work was created. An interview with Qureshi highlights the traditions from which his work derives, as well as the political and aesthetic connotations that inform this latest creation. Sheena Wagstaff is chairman of the department of modern and contemporary art; Ian Alteveer is assistant curator in the department of modern and contemporary art; and Navina Najat Haidar is curator and administrator in the department of Islamic Art, all at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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ith a foreword by Susan Fisher Sterling and contributions by W Jo Applin, Todd Alden, and Kirsten Swenson In 1964 the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt invited Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and her husband, Tom Doyle, to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse’s practice. The artist’s studio space was located in an abandoned textile factory that contained machine parts, tools, and materials that served as inspiration for her complex, linear mechanical drawings and paintings. In 1965 Hesse expanded on this theme and began using objects found in the factory and papier-mâché to produce a series of fourteen vibrantly colored reliefs that venture into three-dimensional space with such materials as wood, metal, and cord protruding from the picture plane. With dynamic new scholarship and previously unpublished illustrations, Eva Hesse 1965 highlights key drawings, paintings, and reliefs from this pivotal time and demonstrates how the artist was able to rethink her approach to color, materials, and dimensional space and begin moving toward sculpture, preparing herself for the momentous strides that she would take upon her return to New York.
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BORN 1968, Philadelphia, USA MEDIUM Spray paint, installation STYLE Emotional advertising THEMES Community, love, vitality INFLUENCES Vernacular art, street signage, typography, advertising
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STEVE POWERS Espo, perhaps more famously known as Steve Powers, is an artist, sign painter, and self-confessed raconteur based in New York City. Having made the journey from graffiti writer to Fulbright scholar, Powers has progressed from traditional illicit work to highly conceptual installations, from classical sign painting to visionary community projects, utilizing an endearingly impudent, witty style regardless of the medium or theme he chooses. With a mastery of wordplay and typography intertwined in his search for the perfect triad of candor, clarity, and creativity, Powers forms an aesthetic that disrupts the fine line between artist and artisan, between art and advertising, and celebrates the beauty and sincerity of the vernacular within each project he undertakes. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Powers first remembers painting at about the age of three or four, when he says he mashed crayons over every wall “from three feet down” in his family home. Although his artistic instincts were set from an early age, his entrance into graffiti came admittedly late, however. He first began to tag around his neighborhood when he was sixteen and it satisfied, as he puts it, his need for “line, color, [and] adventure.” Powers immediately understood graffiti as a compromise of crimes, a practice that contained the allure of the illicit yet which could produce a highly refined aesthetic, a world away from the staid still lifes he was being instructed in at his art classes. While his growing love of graffiti pushed him toward Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, at the same time Powers was founding, writing, and editing the legendary On the Go magazine, a pioneering graffiti and hip-hop publication that he ran between 1988 and 1996. He continued to experiment with his graffiti, however, and by 1997, after deciding to focus on his artwork more seriously, Powers initiated his groundbreaking Exterior Surface Painting Outreach project (an inversely formed acronym of his graffiti name), which represented a radical new approach in both formal and conceptual terms. Working on the already graffitied surfaces of shop front shutters, and taking on the guise of a public employee (working openly during the day and providing his believably bureaucratic acronym if questioned), Powers painted huge blocks of either white or silver on top of the existing graffiti, subsequently marking out his name in the negative space through a 1 Knocked On Your Door, 5027 Market Street, Philadelphia, USA, 2009
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BORN 1976 MEDIUM Spray paint, performance STYLE Abstract graffiti, performance art THEMES Geometry, color, light, kaleidoscopic patterns INFLUENCES Gaudí, Miro, hieroglyphics
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Not many graffiti artists like to paint the streets in the nude, but Kenor is not just any graffiti artist. A self-proclaimed extraterrestrial, and a born performer, Kenor’s organic, kaleidoscopic productions are geometric representations of sound and movement, visual interpretations of music and dance in two-dimensional form. Their multicolored, effervescent hues and fluid, protean contours force us to enter his paintings, to travel within what he terms his “abstract architecture.” Until 2000, Kenor was focused on more traditional urban art, obsessed with typography, logos, and textual experimentation. Yet as the Barcelona movement gathered pace, Kenor found himself wrapped up within the changes, forming designs that functioned, in his own words, as “parallel worlds, dreams, hopes, illusions, questions, options, and exits.” He is driven to transform the city, to counteract the encroaching gray with a wealth of color, to “decorate the dead cities”—in his memorable phrase— to open up the street as a public gallery for everyone. He is moved by the
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texture of the city, the broken and tired parts, the boundaries. Such sites call to him—they necessitate repair, resuscitation, reanimation. Through both his words and images, Kenor has become something of a spokesperson against the increasing commodification of Barcelona’s street culture, railing against the new laws that have begun to repress so much of the city’s previously vibrant urban life. From skateboarding to performance art, break-dancing to busking, street practices have been curtailed—though the city still identifies itself with a liberal, cultural heritage: “They support for a day the same people they punish, to win the sympathy of the young people,” Kenor complains. He strives to keep his work constantly evolving, “recreating spaces of freedom,” in another of his vivid analogies. Now working on a monumental scale, covering walls all over the world, Kenor has also moved into new realms—not only installations and sculptures, but a deeper progression into video and performance art. Films such as Dentro de Mi and Cualquier Lugar, un Dia Cualquiera in particular display the connection between dance and inscription, the choreography of the image. Metamorphosing his art like a living organism, his works grow into ever new dimensions, captured by the infinite possibilities of the movement that surrounds us. SOUTHERN EUROPE
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The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti Rafael Schacter Foreword by John Fekner
An authoritative guide to the most significant artists, schools, and styles of street art and graffiti around the world Painted murals first appeared in Latin America in the early 20th century; in the 1950s, spray-can graffiti associated with Latino gangs followed, notably the “cholo” graffiti of Los Angeles. Today, street art has traveled to nearly every corner of the globe, evolving into a highly complex and ornate art form. The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti is the definitive survey of international street art, focusing on the world’s most influential urban artists and artworks. Since the lives and works of urban artists are inextricably linked to specific streets and places, this beautifully illustrated volume features specially commissioned “city artworks” that provide an intimate understanding of these metropolitan landscapes.
Aram Bartholl, Berlin, Maps, 2006–10.
Organized geographically by country and city, more than 100 of today’s most important street artist —including Espo in New York, Shepard Fairey in Los Angeles, Os Gêmeos in Brazil, and Anthony Lister in Australia—are profiled alongside key examples of their work. The evolution of street art and graffiti within each region is also chronicled, providing essential historical context. With contributions by the foremost authorities on street art and graffiti, this landmark publication provides a nuanced understanding of a widespread contemporary art practice. The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti emphasizes urban art’s powerful commitment to a spontaneous creativity that is inherently connected to the architecture of the metropolis. Rafael Schacter is honorary research fellow at the Department of Anthropology at University College, London. John Fekner is a street and multimedia artist. September Art/Reference Cloth 978-0-300-19942-0 $35.00 400 pp. 9 1⁄4 x 8 1⁄2 750 color illus. For sale in North and South America Art and Architecture—General Interest
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JFK
A Photographic Memoir Lee Friedlander The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was only exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual component: likenesses of the president were framed in shop windows, pinned to living room walls, and plastered in public spaces across the nation. Fifty years after Kennedy’s death, this book observes the public’s reaction to the president’s election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanized the nation and continues to resonate today.
Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Also by Lee Friedlander: In the Picture Self-Portraits, 1958–2011 Paper over Board 978-0-300-17729-9 $75.00
Lee Friedlander is a photographer based in New York City.
August Photography Paper over Board 978-0-300-19108-0 $45.00 60 pp. 9 1⁄8 x 8 1⁄2 49 tritone illus. World
Roof Life
Svetlana Alpers Svetlana Alpers has spent a lifetime looking at art. She writes here about looking as a way of being in the world. This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Alpers has kept files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. She reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. Roof Life made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. It refers to the way one’s attention is sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Svetlana Alpers is Professor Emerita, History of Art, at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting scholar at the Department of Fine Arts, New York University. She divides her time between New York City and France.
August Art/Biography Cloth 978-0-300-18275-0 $28.00 176 pp. 6 x 8 1⁄4 World A-6
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Also by Svetlana Alpers: Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence Paper 978-0-300-06817-7 $40.00 tx The Making of Rubens Paper 978-0-300-06744-6 $29.00 tx The Vexations of Art Velázquez and Others Paper 978-0-300-12613-6 $30.00
Tell It With Pride
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial Sarah Greenough and Nancy Anderson With a foreword by Richard J. Powell and contributions by Lindsay Harris and Reneé Ater
A rich narrative and detailed documentation of the 54th regiment give insight into Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ famous Civil War Memorial On July 18, 1863, six months after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment suffered great losses, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry legitimized the idea of blacks serving in the military, and Lincoln considered their sacrifice a turning point in the Civil War. Twenty years later, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens began work on a bronze memorial for this heroic troop, which was installed on the Boston Common in 1897. Tell It With Pride explores the enduring significance of this beloved monument. Original daguerreotypes, carte-de-visite portraits, and a full listing of the regiment’s members, along with vintage and contemporary artworks by Matthew Brady, Lewis Hine, and Carrie Mae Weems tell the story of the legacy of the Battle of Fort Wagner and the role of photography in memorializing the regiment then and now.
E xhibition Schedule: National Gallery of Art 09/15/13–01/05/14
P ublished in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sarah Greenough is senior curator and head of the department of photographs and Nancy Anderson is head of the department of American and British paintings, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
September Art/African American History Cloth 978-0-300-19773-0 $55.00 240 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 210 color illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Interwoven Globe
The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 Amelia Peck ith contributions by John Guy, Joyce Denney, Marika Sardar, Melinda Watt, Elena Phipps, and W Maria João Ferreira
A global exploration of textile design and its far-reaching influence on aesthetics, commerce, and taste Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation created a vigorous textile trade, and a breathtaking variety of textile designs subsequently spread across the globe. Trade textiles blended the traditional designs, skills, and tastes of their cultures of origin, with new techniques learned through global exchange, creating beautiful new works that are also historically fascinating. Interwoven Globe is the first book to analyze these textiles within the larger history of trade and design. Richly illustrated texts explore the interrelationship of textiles, commerce, and taste from the age of discovery to the 19th century, including a detailed discussion of 120 illuminating works. From the elaborate dyed and painted cotton goods of India to the sumptuous silks of Japan, China, Turkey, and Iran, the paths of influence are traced westward to Europe and the Americas. Essential to this exchange was the trade in highly valued natural dyes and dye products, underscoring the influence of global exploration on the aesthetics and production techniques of textiles, and the resulting fashion for the “exotic.”
E xhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 09/10/13–01/05/14 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press
Amelia Peck is Marica F. Vilcek Curator, The American Wing, and manager, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
September Decorative Arts/Art Cloth 978-0-300-19698-6 $65.00 304 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 280 color + b/w illus. For sale in North America, U.S. territories and dependencies, and the Philippines A-8
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Printmaking in Paris
The Rage for Prints at the Fin de Siècle Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho and Marije Vellekoop “No one pays attention nowadays to anything but prints; it’s a rage, the young generation produces nothing else.”—Camille Pissarro, 1897 In the years between 1890 and 1905, Paris witnessed a revolution in printmaking. Before this time, prints had primarily served reproductive or political ends, but, as the century came to a close, artistic quality became paramount, and printmaking blossomed into an autonomous art form. This gorgeously illustrated and accessibly written book looks at the circumstances in which this terrific new enthusiasm for prints unfolded; the principal players in its development; and the various printmaking techniques being used. Most modern French artists experimented with lithographs, etchings, or woodcuts, many of which were published in small editions intended for art connoisseurs and collectors. Their popularity, however, was not confined to these exclusive groups. Colorful prints designed by Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, HenriGabriel Ibels, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edouard Vuillard, among others, were seen and admired all over Paris in the form of illustrated theater programs, sheet music, magazines, books, and street posters.
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Featuring highlights from the Van Gogh Museum, which houses a superb collection of prints from fin-desiècle Paris, this enlightening volume shows how the most influential artists of the day turned their hands to making beautiful “impressions”—prints that were works of art in themselves. Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho is curator of prints and drawings and Marije Vellekoop is head of collections, research and exhibitions, both at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
September Art Cloth 978-0-300-19730-3 $45.00 184 pp. 8 x 10 1⁄2 205 color + 5 b/w illus. World Mercatorfonds
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Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971
Judith Clark and Amy de la Haye A vivid history of fashion exhibitions that informs contemporary curating practices, from two experts in the field With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Fashion: An Anthology by Cecil Beaton, revealing it to be symptomatic of a shift in museological attitudes. The authors’ combined experience of more than forty years, one in architecture and exhibition design and the other in fashion history and curating, informs their detailed account of the exhibition. Accompanied by photographs of Beaton’s museum work published here for the first time, their narrative establishes a perspective from which to view working practices today. Research into international exhibitions from the early 20th century to the present results in some 150 stunning illustrations, including previously unpublished exhibition photographs and out-of-print documents. Through this research and the testimony of curators, exhibition designers, and mannequin manufacturers, the authors discover striking continuity in the development of the fundamental equation of mannequin, dress, and mise-en-scène. A comprehensive chronology from 1971 illustrates the exponential rise in exhibitions of Western dress on an international scale.
Also by Judith Clark: Handbags The Making of a Museum Cloth 978-0-300-18618-5 $50.00
Judith Clark is professor of fashion and museology and Amy de la Haye is professor of dress history and curatorship, Rootstein Hopkins Chair, both at the London College of Fashion.
October Fashion Cloth 978-0-300-12579-5 $50.00 192 pp. 9 x 11 100 color + 50 b/w illus. World A-10
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A Queer History of Fashion From the Closet to the Catwalk
Edited by Valerie Steele An unprecedented in-depth exploration of the complex interrelationship between high fashion and queer history and culture From Christian Dior to Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, many of the greatest fashion designers of the past century have been gay. Fashion and style have played an important role within the LGBTQ community, as well, even as early as the 18th century. This provocative book looks at the history of fashion through a queer lens, examining high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and exploring the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people, especially since the 1950s, to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture to the creation of modern fashion. Contributions by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion—including Christopher Breward, Shaun Cole, Vicki Karaminas, Jonathan D. Katz, Peter McNeil, and Elizabeth Wilson—investigate topics such as the context in which key designers’ lives and works form part of a broader “gay” history; the “archeology” of queer attire back to the homosexual underworld of 18th-century Europe; and the influence of LGBTQ subcultural styles from the trouser suits worn by Marlene Dietrich (which inspired Yves Saint Laurent’s “Le Smoking”) to the iconography of leather. Sumptuous illustrations include both fashion photography and archival imagery. Valerie Steele is director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
Lady Gaga, wearing a dress by Alexander McQueen, arrives at the 2010 MTV Music Awards. Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.
E xhibition Schedule:
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York 09/13/13–01/04/14
P ublished in association with The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York Also by Valerie Steele: Shoe Obsession Cloth 978-0-300-19079-3 $45.00 Daphne Guinness Cloth 978-0-300-17663-6 $45.00 The Corset A Cultural History Paper 978-0-0300-09953-9 $29.00
October Fashion/Gender Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19670-2 $50.00 192 pp. 9 x 11 100 color illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Strange Eggs
Claes Oldenburg and Michelle White In 1957–58, after he moved to New York’s Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as “mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode.” Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the Strange Eggs are enigmatic, surrealistic, and vastly different from the Pop art of the 1960s for which he soon became famous. Inspired by the original avant-garde collage artists, these works are characterized by self-contained forms, or “eggs,” the artist made by melding cut fragments of photographic reproductions. While many of the pieces are unrecognizable, within the amalgamations some original references are discernible: a piece of pie, the hind leg of a horse, the creased skin of a clenched fist, and the texture of concrete. These eighteen collages were first shown in their entirety at the Menil Collection in 2012 and are being published here for the first time, close to actual size and with a short text by Menil curator Michelle White.
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Claes Oldenburg is a world-famous sculptor and Pop artist. Michelle White is curator at the Menil Collection.
October Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-19785-3 $45.00 56 pp. 11 x 14 18 b/w illus. World
Portraits
Luc Tuymans Essays by Robert Storr and Toby Kamps
With contributions by Susan Sutton and Clare Elliott Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a painter engaged with “figuration,” using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources—photographs, film stills, mirror images—with a spare palette, unexpected cropping, and blurring to reinforce the painted image’s status as a replica. Perhaps more than any other genre, portraiture allows Tuymans to explore the balance between revealing and concealing, and to comment on history and its perpetrators. Portraits: Luc Tuymans presents 35 paintings from bodies of work ranging over the artist’s entire career. Most seem conventional portraits— Himmler, 1997/98, A Flemish Intellectual, 1995—but others, such as Bloodstains, 1993, and Fingers, 1995, exhibit the artist’s elliptical approach to re-presentation. Tuymans’s canvases are placed in counterpoint to his selections from the Menil Collection: masks, statuary, and paintings from African, ancient Mediterranean, and Native American cultures, as well as European figurative works. The assembly explores such themes as death and memorials, ritual or religion, power, evildoers and altruism.
E xhibition Schedule:
The Menil Collection 09/27/13–01/05/14
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Robert Storr is an art critic and dean of the Yale University School of Art. Toby Kamps is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection.
October Art Cloth 978-0-300-19644-3 $50.00 128 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 65 color illus. World A-12
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THE MENIL COLLECTION
Robert Indiana Beyond LOVE
Barbara Haskell With essays by René Paul Barilleaux and Sasha Nicholas
An insightful and long overdue reassessment of the full scope of the career of Robert Indiana, who combined Pop Art, hard-edged abstraction, and language-based conceptualism Robert Indiana’s popular LOVE works have made the esteemed Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually charged work. Robert Indiana is a compelling reassessment of the artist’s contributions to American art during his long and prolific career. Indiana (b. 1928) has explored the power of language, American identity, and personal history for five decades. Although visually dazzling and apparently cheerful on the surface, his imagery has a depth and a darkness that draws on his own biography as well as on the myths, history, and literature of the United States. This insightful book repositions him as a seminal figure of the 1960s and 1970s, whose artistic genius combined Pop Art, hard-edged abstraction, and language-based conceptualism. With a generous illustration program, an appendix of the artist’s interviews and statements, and essays by leading experts, this book provides a long overdue analysis of the development of Indiana’s career, his relationship to early 20th-century American painters, and his influence on contemporary language-based artists. In addition to a chronology, selected exhibition history, and selected bibliography, Robert Indiana includes the transcript from a round table discussion with renowned scholars, including Thomas Crow, Robert Storr, John Wilmerding, and Robert PincusWitten offering thoughts on the significance of Indiana and his art.
Robert Indiana (b. 1928), EAT/DIE, 1962. Oil on canvas, 2 panels; 72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm) each. Private collection. © 2013 Morgan Art Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
E xhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art 09/26/13–01/05/14 McNay Art Museum Spring 2014 Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Barbara Haskell is curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. October Art Cloth 978-0-300-19686-3 $60.00 256 pp. 9 x 11 175 color illus. World Whitney Museum of American Art
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Balthus
Cats and Girls
Sabine Rewald An insightful new look at Balthus’s ongoing fascination with cats and girls, including his controversial paintings of young adolescents Balthus’s lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908– 2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters’ psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever committed to canvas. Often included in these scenes are enigmatic cats, possible stand-ins for the artist himself. Balthus: Cats and Girls is the first book devoted to this subject, focusing on the early decades of the artist’s career from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the artist’s life and work, as well as on interviews with Balthus and the models themselves, Sabine Rewald explores the origins and permutations of Balthus’s obsessions with adolescents and felines. She addresses the crucial influence of such key figures as poet Rainer Maria Rilke, his mother’s lover, who acted as Balthus’s surrogate father, but also includes the previously unknown voices of the girl models: their recollections and comments provide a unique perspective on some of the best known and most controversial paintings of the 20th century.
E xhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 09/24/13–01/12/14 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press
Sabine Rewald is Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator, department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
October Art Cloth 978-0-300-19701-3 $45.00 192 pp. 9 x 10 100 color + 20 b/w illus. For sale in North America, U.S. territories and dependencies, and the Philippines A-14
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lina Bo Bardi Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll
The first major retrospective of the Brazilian modernist architect’s life and work Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), one of the most important architects working in Latin America in the 20th century, was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil with her husband in 1946. In Brazil, her practice evolved within the social and cultural realities of her adopted country. While she continued to work with industrial materials like concrete and glass, she added popular building materials and naturalistic forms to her design palette, striving to create large, multiuse spaces that welcomed public life. Lina Bo Bardi is the first comprehensive study of Bo Bardi’s career and showcases author Zeuler Lima’s extensive archival work in Italy and Brazil. The leading authority on Bo Bardi, Lima frames the architect’s activities on two continents and in five cities. The book examines how considerations of ethics, politics, and social inclusiveness influenced Bo Bardi’s intellectual engagement with modern architecture and provides an authoritative guide to her experimental, ephemeral, and iconic works of design. Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima is an architect and associate professor of history, theory, and design at the School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Barry Bergdoll is professor of architectural history in the department of art history and archaeology at Columbia University and the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
November Architecture/Latin American Studies Cloth 978-0-300-15426-9 $65.00 256 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 81 color + 95 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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The Houses of Louis Kahn George H. Marcus and William Whitaker A stunning celebration of the architect’s residential masterpieces Louis Kahn (1901–1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the importance of his houses has been largely overlooked. This beautiful book is the first to look at Kahn’s nine major private houses. Beginning with his earliest encounters with Modernism in the late 1920s and continuing through his iconic work of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors trace the evolution of the architect’s thinking, which began and matured through his design of houses and their interiors, a process inspired by his interactions with clients and his admiration for vernacular building traditions. Richly illustrated with new and period photographs and original drawings, as well as previously unpublished materials from personal interviews, archives, and Kahn’s own writings, The Houses of Louis Kahn shows how his ideas about domestic spaces challenged conventions, much like his major public commissions, and were developed into one of the most remarkable expressions of the American house.
“Quite simply the most important book on Kahn to be published in over two decades.”—Michael J. Lewis, Williams College, author of American Art and Architecture
George H. Marcus is adjunct assistant professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. William Whitaker is curator of the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, which houses the Louis I. Kahn Collection.
November Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-17118-1 $65.00 272 pp. 9 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄2 100 color + 150 b/w illus. World A-16
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Van Gogh Repetitions Eliza Rathbone and William Robinson With Elizabeth Steele and Marcia Steele
A fascinating look at van Gogh’s “repetitions”— multiple versions of single compositions—and what they reveal about the artist and his creative process Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist’s method was more often controlled and deliberate. Van Gogh Repetitions is the first book to focus on the artist’s “repetitions,” a term he used to describe his process of producing multiple versions of a composition. Van Gogh ultimately developed a conceptual framework that distinguished his répétitions from copies, études, tableaux, and décorations, balancing modernist aspirations toward originality with the creation of multiples. The artist’s practice of producing repetitions was far more extensive and vital to his creative process than is commonly recognized. In this groundbreaking and beautifully illustrated book, a series of essays considers the many unresolved issues and controversies surrounding the repetitions, which include their origins, development, and meaning in van Gogh’s art. Analyses of specific paintings make use of technical and analytical examinations to understand how the artist worked, as well as to improve techniques for preserving and restoring his artworks in the future.
E xhibition Schedule:
The Phillips Collection 10/12/13–01/26/14 Cleveland Museum of Art 03/02/14–05/26/14
P ublished in association with The Phillips Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art
Eliza Rathbone is chief curator at The Phillips Collection. William Robinson is curator of modern European art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Elizabeth Steele is head of conservation at The Phillips Collection. Marcia Steele is paintings conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
November Art Cloth 978-0-300-19082-3 $50.00 208 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 10 125 color illus. World The Phillips Collection
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Fernand Léger and the Modern City Edited by Anna Vallye With contributions by Christian Derouet, Maria Gough, Stuart Liebman, Spyros Papapetros, Anna Vallye, and Jennifer Wild
An insightful look at the dynamic relationship between modern art and modern urban life in 1920s Paris through the lens of Fernand Léger’s masterpiece The City With his landmark 1919 painting The City, Fernand Léger (1881–1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to urban life, ranging from graphic and advertising design to theater, dance, film, and architecture. This catalogue casts new light on the painting (reproducing all of its studies together for the first time), the avant-garde use of print media, and Léger’s fascination with cinema and architecture, and contextualizes a network of international avant-gardes—including Blaise Cendrars, Le Corbusier, Jean Epstein, Piet Mondrian, Amédée Ozenfant, Francis Picabia, and Theo van Doesburg—in relation to Léger. Featuring nearly 250 images of paintings, architectural designs, models, posters, set designs, and film stills and an anthology of relevant historical texts not previously published in English, this handsome volume conveys the spirit of experimentation of the 1920s. Scholars in the fields of art, architecture, and film history offer a deeper understanding of the relationship between art and the modern urban experience that defined this significant chapter in the history of modern art.
Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), The City (La ville), 1919. Oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952-61-58 © Artists Rights Society, New York
E xhibition Schedule:
Philadelphia Museum of Art 10/14/13–01/05/14 P ublished in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Anna Vallye is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
November Art/Architecture/Film History PB-Flexibound 978-0-300-19766-2 $60.00 256 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 238 color + 11 b/w illus. World A-18
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dressing Dangerously
Dysfunctional Fashion in Film
Jonathan Faiers A thought-provoking examination of the challenging and sometimes sinister roles that fashion has played in the history of cinema When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer’s attention—not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fashion in film goes far beyond glamorous costumes on glamorous stars, as Jonathan Faiers proves in Dressing Dangerously, a pioneering study of the “cinematic negative wardrobe” revealed in mainstream movies. The book emphasizes how problematic, even shocking depictions of dress, until now largely overlooked, play pivotal roles in shaping film narrative. Integrating fashion theory, film analysis, and literature, the insightful text investigates the ways cinema influences fashion and, conversely, how fashion speaks to film. The book also reveals how clothing, imbued with its own symbolic meaning, can be read much like a text; when used to provocative effect, for example, in films such as Villain, Leave Her to Heaven, and Casino, the stars’ costumes as well as their actions elicit a complex set of emotional responses. Dressing Dangerously brings together a wealth of illustrations, from glossy publicity photos featuring immaculately dressed stars to film stills that capture “dangerously” fashionable moments. Jonathan Faiers is reader in fashion theory at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
November Fashion/Film Cloth 978-0-300-18438-9 $60.00 320 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 50 color + 200 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Facing the Modern
The Portrait in Vienna 1900 Gemma Blackshaw ith a foreword by Edmund de Waal and contributions by Tag Gronberg, Julie Johnson, W Doris Lehmann, Elana Shapira, Sabine Wieber, and Mary Costello
An engaging look at how the middle classes of fin-de-siècle Vienna used innovative portraiture to define their identity During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-desiècle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow us to reconstruct the subjects’ shifting identities as the Austro-Hungarian Empire underwent dramatic political changes, from the 1867 Ausgleich (Compromise) to the end of World War I. This is viewed as a time when the avant-garde overthrew the academy, yet Facing the Modern tells a more complex story of the time through thought-provoking texts by numerous leading art historians. Their writings examine paintings by innovative artists such as Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele alongside earlier works, blurring the conventionally-held distinctions between 19th-century and early-20th-century art, and revealing surprising continuities in the production and consumption of portraits. This compelling book features works not only by famous names but also by lesser-known female and Jewish artists, giving a more complete picture of the time.
E xhibition Schedule:
The National Gallery, London 10/09/13–01/12/14 P ublished by National Gallery Company/ Distributed by Yale University Press
Gemma Blackshaw is associate professor of history of art and visual culture at Plymouth University.
November Art Cloth 978-1-85709-561-6 $50.00 192 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 11 1⁄2 140 color illus. World A-20
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National Gallery, London
Wunderkammer Tod Williams and Billie Tsien An alluring glimpse into magnificent Cornelllike boxes created by some of the world’s leading architects and designers Inspired by the idea of the wunderkammer—“wonderroom” or “cabinet of curiosities”—that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 42 celebrated architects and designers from around the world to create their own wunderkammers, filling boxes with objects that inspire them. This delightful book gathers together the varied, evocative wunderkammers along with accompanying statements by their architect-creators, including such luminaries as Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Peter Eisenman, Steven Holl, Richard Meier, Murray Moss, Diébédo Francis Keré, Juhani Pallasmaa, Elias Torres, and Peter Zumthor. An introduction by Williams and Tsien explains their fascination with the wunderkammer and looks at their own history of collecting. The boxes, each spotlighted in its own section, are explored through each architect’s essay; working drawings and sketchbook pages; construction and installation photos; a list of the items contained; and a photograph of the final box. Wunderkammer offers a new way to think about art and inventiveness, collection and meaning in everyday objects.
Top: Juhani Pallasmaa, Memory Box, 2012 Bottom: Wunderkammer, installation, 2012 Photos by Michael Moran
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are the founding members of the New York-based architecture firm in their name. Their built works include the recently relocated Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
November Art/Architecture/Design Cloth 978-0-300-19798-3 $29.95 240 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 5 3⁄4 300 color illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Made in the U.S.A.
American Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, 1850–1970 Edited by Susan Behrends Frank With essays by Susan Behrends Frank and Eliza Rathbone
A comprehensive survey of The Phillips Collection’s spectacular holdings in American art American art has been essential to The Phillips Collection since its founding by Duncan Phillips in 1921. Phillips’s collecting interests were decidedly against the grain: he acquired the work of living American artists when it was unpopular to do so and promoted diversity, as seen in works by self-taught artists, artists of color, and naturalized Americans, resulting in a rich assembly of independent-minded artists, including Milton Avery, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, and Georgia O’Keeffe. The Phillips Collection’s superb collection of American art, acquired over half a century, is presented here for the first time in a comprehensive overview, featuring 160 works from heroes of the late 19th century—such as William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer, who set the course for modern art in America—to abstract expressionists Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko, whose efforts to create a new visual language following World War II brought a new global significance to American art. A perennial guide to this important collection, the book includes scholarly essays on Phillips and on the Rothko Room, introductions to key groups of works in the collection, and ninety biographies of the most influential artists represented.
Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), Skyscrapers, 1922. Oil on canvas, 20 x 13 in. (50.8 x 33 cm). The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Acquired 1926
E xhibition Schedule:
The Phillips Collection 02/22/14–08/31/14
P ublished in association with The Phillips Collection
Susan Behrends Frank is associate curator for research and Eliza Rathbone is chief curator, both at The Phillips Collection.
November Art PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19615-3 $29.95 272 pp. 9 x 10 165 color + 126 b/w illus. World A-22
Art and Architecture—General Interest
The Phillips Collection
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden Guillaume Fonkenell With essays by Laura D. Corey, Paula Deitz, Bruce Guenther, and Sarah Kennel
A stunning new look at the Tuileries Garden and its importance to the history of art and landscape architecture The Tuileries Garden is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world’s most iconic public art spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape architect André Le Nôtre, it served the now-destroyed Tuileries Palace. It was opened to the public in 1667, becoming one of the first public gardens in Europe. The garden has always been a place for Parisians to convene, celebrate, and promenade, and art has played an important role throughout its history. Monumental sculptures give the garden the air of an outdoor museum, and the garden’s beautiful backdrop has inspired artists from Edouard Manet to André Kertész. The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden brings together 100 works of art, including paintings and sculptures, as well as documentary photographs, prints, and models illuminating the garden’s rich history. Beautifully illustrated essays by leading scholars of art and garden studies highlight the significance of the Tuileries Garden to works of art from the past 300 years and reaffirm its importance to the history of landscape architecture.
Camille Pissarro (French, 1830–1903), The Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1900. Oil on canvas. 28 3⁄4 x 36 1⁄4 inches. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 2811
E xhibition Schedule:
High Museum of Art 10/29/13–01/19/14 Toledo Museum of Art 02/13/14–05/11/14 Portland Art Museum 06/14/14–09/28/14
P ublished in association with the High Museum of Art
For a related title on André Le Nôtre, see page A-60.
Guillaume Fonkenell is curator of sculpture and museum historian at the Louvre. Laura D. Corey is consulting curator at the High Museum of Art. Paula Deitz is editor of The Hudson Review. Bruce Guenther is chief curator at the Portland Art Museum. Sarah Kennel is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
November Art/Landscape Design Cloth 978-0-300-19737-2 $50.00 160 pp. 12 x 10 79 color + 25 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Art of the American Frontier
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West Stephanie Mayer Heydt
With essays by Mindy A. Besaw and Emma Hansen
A sweeping look at 100 years of art and material culture from the American frontier The visual history of the American West calls to mind iconic artworks and nostalgia for the past. Art of the American Frontier presents more than 300 artworks and artifacts from 1830 to 1930, showcasing the premier collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. The complicated history of westward expansion is presented through the iconography of the frontier, spanning Plains Indian materials, government survey photographs, and paintings by early artist-explorers. In the 20th century, a growing romance with the West is evident in the theatrics of Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West show, with its blend of popular culture and history that inspired numerous artists. The dialogue between the historical West and the nostalgia for it can be seen in highlights including Timothy O’Sullivan’s government survey photographs, Frederic Remington’s rare Impressionist landscape studies, and charming wax sculptures by Charles Russell. Complete with three essays and ten brief expositions on a range of art, culture, and history topics, this generously illustrated catalogue provides a comprehensive overview of 100 years of art from the American West.
Thomas Moran, American, 1837–1926, Golden Gate, Yellowstone National Park, 1893. Oil on canvas. 36 1⁄4 x 50 1⁄4 inches. Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming. Museum purchase, 4.75
E xhibition Schedule:
High Museum of Art 11/02/13–03/02/14
P ublished in association with the High Museum of Art
Stephanie Mayer Heydt is Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High Museum of Art. Mindy A. Besaw is John S. Bugas Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art and Emma Hansen is curator of the Plains Indian Museum, both at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West.
November Art/American Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19738-9 $45.00 160 pp. 12 x 10 320 color illus. World A-24
Art and Architecture—General Interest
Art and Appetite
American Painting, Culture, and Cuisine Edited by Judith A. Barter ith essays by Judith A. Barter, Annelise K. Madsen, Sarah Kelly Oehler, Ellen E. Roberts, and W Nancy Siegel
An appealing exploration of the art and culture of food in 18th- through 20th-century America Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society. Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that the artists’ representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic, and social moments in which they were created. Using food as an emblem, artists were able to both celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating to politics, race, class, gender, and commerce. Focusing on the late 18th century through the Pop artists of the 20th century, this lively publication investigates the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America. Richly illustrated, Art and Appetite features still life and trompe l’oeil painting, sculpture, and other works by such celebrated artists as William Merritt Chase, John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Paxton, Norman Bel Geddes, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, and many more. Essays by leading experts address topics including the horticultural and botanical underpinnings of still-life paintings, the history of alcohol consumption in the United States, Thanksgiving, and food in the world of Pop art. In addition to the images and essays, this book includes a selection of 18th- and 19th-century recipes for all-American dishes including molasses cake, stewed terrapin, rice blancmange, and roast calf’s head.
William Glackens (American, 1870–1938), At Mouquin’s, 1905. Oil on canvas. 122.4 x 92.1 cm (48 1⁄8 x 36 1⁄4 in.). The Art Institute of Chicago, Friends of American Art Collection, 1925.295.
E xhibition Schedule:
The Art Institute of Chicago 11/03/13–01/20/14 Amon Carter Museum 02/22/14–May 2014
Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Judith A. Barter is the Field-McCormick Chair and Curator, Department of American Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
December Art/Food Culture Cloth 978-0-300-19623-8 $50.00 256 pp. 9 x 12 200 color illus. World The Art Institute of Chicago
Art and Architecture—General Interest
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1 1. A. Bhida Jeeram. Silver presentation ewer, Bombay, early 20th century. Private collection.
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Bard Graduate Center
History of Design
Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000 Edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber
A survey of spectacular breadth, covering the history of decorative arts and design worldwide over the past six hundred years Spanning six centuries of global design, this farreaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated, the volume covers interiors, furniture, textiles and dress, glass, graphics, metalwork, ceramics, exhibitions, product design, landscape and garden design, and theater and film design. Divided into four chronological sections, each of which is subdivided geographically, the authors elucidate the evolution of style, form, materials, and techniques, and address vital issues such as gender, race, patronage, cultural appropriation, continuity versus innovation, and high versus low culture.
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Leading authorities in design history and decorative arts studies present hundreds of objects in their contemporary contexts, demonstrating the overwhelming extent to which the applied arts have enriched customs, ceremony, and daily life worldwide over the past six hundred years. This ambitious, landmark publication is essential reading, contributing a definitive classic to the existing scholarship on design, decorative arts, and material culture, while also introducing these subjects to new readers in a comprehensive, erudite book with widespread appeal. Pat Kirkham is a professor at the Bard Graduate Center, where Susan Weber is founder and director.
November Design/Decorative Arts/Landscape Design Paper over Board 978-0-300-19614-6 $80.00 704 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 12 760 color + b/w illus. World Bard Graduate Center
Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Ink Art
Past as Present in Contemporary China Maxwell K. Hearn With contributions by Wu Hung
An illuminating investigation into how contemporary Chinese artists have reinterpreted past traditions to forge new artistic paths The Chinese tradition of “ink art” stretches far beyond works in ink, to embrace a set of aesthetic principles centered on renewal and reinterpretation of the past. The 80 works, by 40 contemporary artists, featured in Ink Art range from variations on the written word to radical abstractions to contemporary landscapes, and represent media as diverse as photography, video, ceramic, wood, bronze, and stainless steel—as well as traditional ink (which might be on cardboard, polyester, or the human body). They include such iconic pieces as Book from the Sky by Xu Bing and Han Jar Overpainted with Coca Cola Logo by Ai Weiwei, “pseudo-characters” by Gu Wenda, handscrolls by Liu Dan, and videos and animation by Qiu Anxiong and Chen Shaoxiong. The illuminating texts give a history of contemporary Chinese ink painting and how it is perceived in the West. A discussion of the works themselves show how they respond to, subvert, or reinterpret the traditional idioms to define a modern artistic identity that remains both Chinese and global.
Zhang Huan (born 1965), Family Tree, 2000. Lent by Yale University Gallery, New Haven
E xhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 12/10/13–04/06/14 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Distributed by Yale University Press
Maxwell K. Hearn is Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge, department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and director, Center for the Art of East Asia, The University of Chicago.
December Art/Asian Studies Paper over Board 978-0-300-19703-7 $65.00 304 pp. 9 x 10 1⁄2 250 color illus. World A-28
Art and Architecture—General Interest
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jewels by JAR
Adrian Sassoon
Called “the Fabergé of our time” by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and semi-precious stones resplendent with myriad shades of vibrant color and set in organic shapes: one brooch, for instance, features lifelike petals in subtly differentiated hues, made from a thousand pavé sapphires and amethysts. The New York Times has described his jewelry as “belligerent, stubborn, audacious, funny, contradictory,” while JAR himself has characterized his work as “somewhere between geometry and a bouquet of flowers.” This book, featuring nearly 40 pieces from throughout JAR’s career, provides a concise, accessible, elegantly designed retrospective of the best of his jewelry creations, and is the only book of its kind on his work available in English.
Butterfly brooch, 1994, JAR. Sapphires, fire opals, rubies, amethysts, green garnets, black diamonds, silver, gold. Private collection, Switzerland
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Adrian Sassoon is a renowned gallerist and critic living in London.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 11/19/13–03/09/14 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
December Decorative Arts Cloth 978-0-300-19868-3 $35.00 120 pp. 7 1⁄4 x 8 65 color illus. World
The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925 Thomas Brent Smith and Thayer Tolles
ith contributions by Carol Clark, Brian Dippie, W Peter H. Hassrick, Karen Lemmey, and Jessica Murphy Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-andtumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi. Fascinating texts offer a fresh look at the roles that artists played in creating interpretations of the “vanishing West”—whether based on fact, fiction, or something in-between. These artists, including Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington, embody a range of life experiences and artistic approaches. Some grew up in the West and based their artwork on first-hand experience, while others never set foot west of the Rockies. Four thematic sections—Indians, animals, cowboys, and settlers—are illustrated with new photography and provide a cultural overview to the works presented. Also included are biographies of the artists, each illustrated with a vintage portrait, plus an illustrated chronology of historical and artistic events. Thomas Brent Smith is director, Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Denver Art Museum. Thayer Tolles is curator, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January Art/American Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19743-3 $65.00 256 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 245 color + b/w illus. World The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Frederic Remington, The Broncho Buster, 1895
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 12/17/13–04/13/14 Denver Art Museum 05/09/14–08/31/14 Nanjing Museum October 2014–January 2015 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Edvard Munch
Works on Paper
Edited by Magne Bruteig and Ute Kuhlemann Falck A celebratory homage to Edvard Munch on the 150th anniversary of his birth This superb book is dedicated to Edvard Munch’s vast and fascinating oeuvre of works on paper. Featured in beautiful color reproductions are key images related to well-known prints and drawings, as well as lesser known works, such as childhood drawings and caricatures. Essays by critically acclaimed art historians examine, among other things, the various techniques that Munch used for his prints and drawings; charming examples of childhood drawings featuring his family and their daily life; his interaction with contemporary artists and the intellectual milieu of the so-called “Kristiania Bohemia” and Oslo’s night life; and the impact of his volatile romantic relationship with Tulla Larsen. In sum, this invaluable book reveals many new insights into the life and work of one of the world’s best-known yet enigmatic artists. Magne Bruteig and Ute Kuhlemann Falck are both senior curators in the prints and drawings department at the Munch Museum.
© Munch Museum/Munch-Ellingsen Group/BONO, Oslo 2013
E xhibition Schedule:
Munch Museet, Oslo 11/01/13– 02/02/14
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January Art Cloth 978-0-300-19731-0 $65.00 288 pp. 9 3⁄4 x 11 130 color illus. World A-30
Art and Architecture—General Interest
Mercatorfonds
Erwin Blumenfeld Edited by Ute Eskildsen A revelatory book about the life and work of an important fashion photographer and artist Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld’s peripatetic career took him first to Amsterdam and then to Paris, where his work in fashion photography began at Vogue in 1938. After two years in a French concentration camp, he made his way to the United States and established himself as an eminent fashion photographer. Over one hundred of his photographs featured on the covers of prominent fashion and general interest magazines, including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Life, Look, and Cosmopolitan. Often minimalist, mainly in color, these photographs testify to Blumenfeld’s lifelong interest in experimentation. This landmark publication broadens our understanding of Blumenfeld’s innovations, reuniting all the media used by the artist throughout his long career: drawing, photography, photomontage, and collage. The motifs of his experimental, sometimes overtly political, black-and-white photographs appear alongside numerous self-portraits and celebrity portraits, as well as the fashion photographs for which he is most known. Presenting some 150 images, this book provides a fresh understanding of Blumenfeld’s photography for the commercial worlds of fashion and advertising.
Erwin Blumenfeld, Eiffel Tower. Variant of the photograph published in the Vogue (France) portfolio, May 1939. Model: Lisa Fonssagrives. Dress: Lucien Lelong. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld
E xhibition Schedule:
Jeu de Paume 10/15/13–01/26/14
Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris
Ute Eskildsen is deputy director and head of the photography collections for the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
January Photography PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19938-3 $50.00 240 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 3⁄4 90 color + 90 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—General Interest
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Ireland and the Picturesque
Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700–1840 Finola O’Kane
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque’s development and argues for a far greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design. Positioned offaxis from the greater force-field, and off-shore from mainland Europe and America, where better to cultivate the oblique perspective? This book charts the creation of picturesque Ireland, while exploring in detail the role and reach of landscape painting in the planning, publishing, landscaping and design of Ireland’s historic landscapes, towns, and tourist routes. Thus it is also a history of the physical shaping of Ireland as a tourist destination, one of the earliest, most calculated, and most successful in the world. Finola O’Kane is lecturer in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin.
August Art/Design Cloth 978-0-300-18538-6 $85.00 tx 288 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 120 color + 45 b/w illus. World
Men from the Ministry
How Britain Saved Its Heritage Simon Thurley Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the public. This engaging book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place, locating it in the fragile and nostalgic atmosphere of the interwar years, dominated by neo-romanticism and cultural protectionism. The government’s activities were mirrored by the establishment of dozens of voluntary bodies, including the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and the National Trust. Men from the Ministry sets all this activity, for the first time, in its political, economic and cultural contexts, painting a picture of a country traumatized by war, fearful of losing what was left of its history, and a government that actively set out to protect them. It dissects a government program that established a modern state on deep historical and rural roots. Simon Thurley is the Chief Executive of English Heritage. He was formerly the Director of the Museum of London, and the Curator of Historic Royal Palaces.
August Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19572-9 $45.00 tx 224 pp. 6 1⁄4 x 9 1⁄4 100 b/w illus. World A-32
Art and Architecture—Scholarly
P ublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History Annette Carruthers
This authoritative book is the first to chronicle the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among the wider public. The heyday of the movement occurred between 1890 and 1914, a time when Scotland’s art schools energetically promoted new design and the Scottish Home Industries Association campaigned to revive rural crafts. Across the country the movement influenced the look of domestic and church buildings, as well as the stained glass, metalwork, textiles, and other furnishings that adorned them. Art schools, workshops, and associations helped shape the Arts and Crafts style, as did individuals such as Ann Macbeth, W. R. Lethaby, Robert Lorimer, M. H. Baillie Scott, Douglas Strachan, Phoebe Traquair, and James Cromar Watt, among other well-known and previously overlooked figures. These architects, artists, and designers together contributed to the expansion and evolution of the movement both within and beyond Scotland’s borders.
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Annette Carruthers is a senior lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.
December Decorative Arts/Design Cloth 978-0-300-19576-7 $85.00 sc 468 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄4 100 color + 250 b/w illus. World
Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe
Works 1970–2011 Klaus Ottmann, Terrie Sultan, and Jennifer Bartlett A critical and commercial success since the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) has become one of the most visionary and influential artists of our time. In the words of New York Times critic John Russell, Bartlett’s art “enlarges our notion of time, and of memory, and of change, and of painting itself.” Her abundant intelligence and inventiveness allow her to synthesize diverse sources and styles, and imbue her paintings with expressive life and moral imagination. Included in this handsome volume are an intimate interview with the artist and an excerpt from History of the Universe, Bartlett’s first novel, giving further insight into the thought processes of this uniquely creative artist. Klaus Ottmann is director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and curator at large, The Phillips Collection. Terrie Sultan is director of the Parrish Art Museum. Jennifer Bartlett is an artist.
E xhibition Schedule:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 06/29/13–10/13/13 Parrish Art Museum 04/20/14–07/14/14
Distributed for the Parrish Art Museum
August Art PB-Flexibound 978-0-300-19735-8 $45.00 sc 104 pp. 11 x 11 50 color + 110 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Exhibiting Englishness
John Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic Rosie Dias In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With its very name, the Shakespeare Gallery signaled to Londoners that the artworks on display shared an undisputed quality and a national spirit. Exhibiting Englishness explores the responses of key artists of the period to Boydell’s venture and sheds new light on the gallery’s role in the larger context of British art. Tracking the shift away from academic and Continental European styles of history painting, the book analyzes the works of such artists as Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, James Northcote, Robert Smirke, Thomas Banks, and William Hamilton, laying out their diverse ways of expressing notions of individualism, humor, eccentricity, and naturalism. Exhibiting Englishness also argues that Boydell’s gallery radically redefined the dynamics of display and cultural aesthetics at that time, shaping both an English school of painting and modern exhibition practices.
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Rosie Dias is associate professor in the history of art at the University of Warwick.
September Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19668-9 $85.00 tx 288 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 50 color + 95 b/w illus. World
Magnificent Entertainments
Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals Melanie Doderer-Winkler A thoroughly original study of ephemeral architecture and design, Magnificent Entertainments examines the spectacular displays created for large-scale public celebrations in the Georgian period. The book focuses on a number of specific events—including royal weddings, coronations, battle victories, and birthday fêtes—that employed elaborate decorative measures to outshine the typical festivities of the day. Some of these elements, ranging from floral displays and scenery to music and light shows, transformed existing venues into unfamiliar marvels; other times, completely new settings were devised for short-lived occasions. Drawing on primary sources such as commemorative prints, newspaper accounts, and diary entries, the book investigates just how essential these fanciful designs were in creating events with lasting impact and popular appeal. The author also delves into the various materials used for construction and embellishment: applications of sugar, sand, marble dust, or chalk lent luster and color to surfaces, while stand-alone firework temples and temporary reception rooms were often crafted of little more than wood, canvas, paint, and paste. Melanie Doderer-Winkler is an independent scholar and a former furniture specialist at Christie’s, London.
September Art/Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-18642-0 $75.00 tx 320 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄2 133 color + 100 b/w illus. World A-34
Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Matisse’s Sculpture
The Pinup and the Primitive Ellen McBreen Long perceived as a side pursuit to his celebrated painting career, Henri Matisse’s sculpture receives an overdue critical examination in this book. Beginning in 1906, soon after the artist acquired his first African sculpture, Matisse found inspiration in erotic and ethnographic photography, which had become inexpensively mass-produced thanks to advances in halftone technology. Working from these two radically different depictions of the body—one hand carved, the other mechanically made—was a foundational method for Matisse and crucial to the development of his pre-World War I abstraction. Far from a simple narrative of the artist “discovering” Africa, the highly original readings of Matisse’s Sculpture plot new coordinates of study for early 20th-century primitivism. It examines the larger constructs of thought at the time, with a penetrating analysis of anthropology, popular erotica, and the visual culture of French. In addition, the book repositions Matisse’s sculptural practice, particularly in regard to its investigations of race and sexuality, as a cornerstone of his prolific career. Ellen McBreen is assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
September Art Cloth 978-0-300-17103-7 $55.00 sc 288 pp. 9 x 11 50 color + 100 b/w illus. World
Francesco Vanni
Art in Late Renaissance Siena John Marciari and Suzanne Boorsch
With contributions by Jamie Gabbarelli and Alexa A. Greist Francesco Vanni (1563/64–1610) was the most important artist in Siena at the turn of the 17th century. His works combine dazzling technical virtuosity and brilliant coloring with the naturalistic approach employed by his more famous contemporaries Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. He painted altarpieces for every significant church in Siena, as well as for Saint Peter’s and other churches in Rome. Beautifully illustrated and featuring new research, Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena is the definitive resource on the artist. John Marciari investigates Vanni’s career, including his connections with patrons and his adaptation of traditional subject matter to serve the Counter-Reformation. Suzanne Boorsch explores Vanni’s engagement with printmakers and the dissemination of his compositions through prints. The catalogue examines more than 80 paintings, drawings, and prints, including the Madonna della Pappa, one of Vanni’s masterpieces, acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery in 2003.
E xhibition Schedule:
Yale University Art Gallery 09/27/13–01/05/14
P ublished in association with the Yale University Art Gallery
John Marciari is the curator of European art and head of provenance research at the San Diego Museum of Art. Suzanne Boorsch is the Robert L. Solley Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery.
October Art Cloth 978-0-300-13548-0 $65.00 tx 256 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 194 color + 13 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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William Kent
Designing Georgian Britain Edited by Susan Weber The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685–1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors, elaborate gardens, and exquisite furniture. Among his creative innovations are bold combinations of elements from Palladian, rococo, and gothic design, anticipating the intermingling of architectural styles we see today. William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain is the first comprehensive exploration of this important designer and his extraordinary creations.
An international team of the foremost experts in the field examines the entire spectrum of Kent’s oeuvre, including the interiors at Kensington Palace and Houghton Hall. Essays illuminate issues about the authorship of Kent’s furniture and metalwork, situate his contributions in relation to architectural discourse, and classify the characteristics of his designs. Copiously illustrated, including many stunning new photographs, this handsome volume celebrates the work and career of one of the most influential figures in the history of architecture and design. Susan Weber is founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center.
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Bard Graduate Center, New York 09/09/13–02/16/14 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 03/22/14–07/13/14 P ublished for the Bard Graduate Center, New York
September Design/Architecture Paper over Board 978-0-300-19618-4 $90.00 sc 656 pp. 9 x 12 624 color illus. World
An American Style
Global Sources for New York Textile and Fashion Design, 1915–1927 Ann Marguerite Tartsinis In 1915 the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) embarked upon a mission to energize the American textile industry. Curators sought to innovate a distinctly “American” design idiom drawing on a more universal “primitive” language. Ethnographic objects were included in study rooms; designers gained access to storage rooms; and museum artifacts were loaned to design houses and department stores. In order to attract designers and reluctant manufacturers, who quickly responded, collections were supplemented with specimens including fur garments from Siberia, Persian costumes, and Javanese textiles. This book positions the project at the AMNH in the broader narrative of early 20th-century design education in New York, which includes the roles of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Newark Museum. Ann Marguerite Tartsinis is associate curator at the Bard Graduate Center.
E xhibition Schedule: Bard Graduate Center 09/27/13–02/19/14
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Chagall
Love, War, and Exile Susan Tumarkin Goodman
With an essay by Kenneth E. Silver Marc Chagall (1887–1985), one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, created his unique style by blending richly colored folk art with Cubism, Surrealism, and imagery drawn from the Russian Christian icon tradition. This book explores a significant but neglected period in the artist’s career, from the rise of fascism in the 1930s through the end of World War II, which he spent in Paris and then in exile in New York. Chagall’s paintings from this time express the horror of the Holocaust as well as hope for the survival of his people and belief in the ultimate triumph of love. Works use many of Chagall’s familiar figures—the Artist, the Bride, the Clown, the Wandering Jew—set in unexpected, often wrenching scenes. These contrast with lavish flower paintings that reflect the artist’s adoration of his wife, Bella. Less well known are Chagall’s canvases showing the Crucifixion of Jesus, often depicted as a Jew, and his rarely seen, dreamlike poems, eleven of which are published here. Susan Tumarkin Goodman and Kenneth E. Silver analyze Chagall’s complex iconography and phantasmagorical style, tracing his Jewish, Christian, autobiographical, French, and Russian sources.
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Jewish Museum, New York 09/13/13–02/02/14
P ublished in association with the Jewish Museum, New York
Susan Tumarkin Goodman is senior curator at the Jewish Museum. Kenneth E. Silver is professor of art history at New York University. September Art/Jewish Studies Cloth 978-0-300-18734-2 $45.00 sc 160 pp. 8 x 9 1⁄4 72 color + 27 b/w illus. World
Intersecting Modernities
Latin American Art from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection Edited by Mari Carmen Ramírez Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg has assembled one of the most superb collections of modern Latin American art in the world. Including masterworks by some of the most inventive artists of the 20th century, and also of our time, this volume offers beautiful illustrations accompanied by insightful essays that offer a context for the rarely exhibited works. The volume features paintings, wood constructions, and collages by Joaquín Torres-García, Francisco Matto, and Emilio Pettoruti, Argentinean and Uruguayan contributions to South America’s early avant-garde; works by Mexican artists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Rufino Tamayo, and Francisco Toledo that reflect elements of cinema and politics, mysticism and modern design; and paintings by Venezuelan artist Armando Reverón that capture the singular effects of Caribbean light. The book also includes brief biographies of each of the nineteen artists represented, and an interview by Mari Carmen Ramírez with the collector exploring Capriles de Brillembourg’s unique philanthropic path.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 06/23/13–09/02/13 Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
September Art/Latin American Studies Paper over Board 978-0-300-19645-0 $70.00 tx 280 pp. 10 x 11 180 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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The Itinerant Languages of Photography Eduardo L. Cadava and Gabriela Nouzeilles
ith contributions by Joan Fontcuberta, Valeria González, W Thomas Keenan, Mauricio Lissovsky, and John Mraz While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated, and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. The Itinerant Languages of Photography examines photography’s capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature, and cinema. Taking its point of departure from Latin American and Spanish photographic archives, the volume offers an alternative history of photography by focusing on the transnational dimension of technological traffic and image production at a time when photography is at the center of current debates on the role of representation, authorship, and reception in a global contemporary culture. Featuring a wide-range of photographs—images that converse across temporal, political, and cultural boundaries by artists such as Lola and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marcelo Brodsky, Joan Colom, Marc Ferrez, and Joan Fontcuberta—the book argues that the photographic image comes into being only as a consequence of reproduction, displacement, and itinerancy.
Joan Fontcuberta, Googlegram: Niepce, 2005. Type C print, 120 x 160 cm. Collection Joan Fontcuberta. © Joan Fontcuberta
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Princeton University Art Museum 09/07/13–01/19/14
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Eduardo L. Cadava is professor of English and Gabriela Nouzeilles is professor and chair of the department of Spanish and Portuguese, both at Princeton University. October Photography Paper over Board 978-0-300-17436-6 $45.00 tx 224 pp. 8 x 10 70 color + 80 b/w illus. World
New Jersey as Non-Site Kelly Baum
Between 1950 and 1975, some of the postwar era’s most innovative artists flocked to a very unexpected place: New Jersey. Appreciating what others tended to ignore or mock, they gravitated to the state’s most desolate peripheries: its industrial wastescapes, crumbling cities, crowded highways, and banal suburbs. There they produced some of the most important work of their careers. The breakthroughs in land, conceptual, performance, and site-specific art that New Jersey helped catalyze are the subject of New Jersey as Non-Site, whose title evokes the mixed-media sculptures that Robert Smithson began to create in 1968 while driving the state’s highways with Nancy Holt. This catalogue examines more than 100 works by sixteen artists, including Amiri Baraka, George Brecht, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta-Clark, and George Segal. Organized around three themes—ruin, cooperation, and displacement—Kelly Baum’s essay considers their work in relationship to seismic shifts in the world of art and equally dramatic changes to New Jersey’s economy, infrastructure, landscape, demography, and social stability.
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Princeton University Art Museum 10/05/13–01/04/14 Distributed for the Princeton University Art Museum
Kelly Baum is the Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
October Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-17437-3 $40.00 sc 176 pp. 8 5⁄8 x 11 150 color illus. World A-38
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The Sheldonian Theatre
Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford Anthony Geraghty A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building’s construction, this meticulously researched book takes a fresh look at the historical influences that shaped the Sheldonian’s development, including the Restoration of the English monarchy and the university’s commitment to episcopal religion. The book explains just how novel Wren’s design was in its day, in part because the academic theater was a building type without precedent in England, and in part because the Sheldonian’s classical style stood apart in its university context. The author also points to a shift in the guiding motivation behind the architecture at Oxford: from a tradition that largely perpetuated medieval forms to one that conceived classical architecture in relation to late Renaissance learning. Newly commissioned photographs showcase the theater’s recently restored interior.
P ublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Anthony Geraghty is senior lecturer in the history of art at the University of York.
October Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-19504-0 $75.00 tx 168 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 45 color + 22 b/w illus. World
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series Edited by Heather MacDonald
ith essays by Richard R. Brettell, André Dombrowski, W Stephen F. Eisenman, Paul Galvez, John House, Richard Kendall, Dorothy Kosinski, Antoinette Le NormandRomain, Nancy Locke, Belinda Thomson, Richard Thomson, and Paul Hayes Tucker Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, the volume comprises twelve beautifully illustrated essays from leading academics and museum specialists. Opening with a new reading of one of Gustave Courbet’s great hunting scenes, The Fox in the Snow, and ending with an exploration of a group of interior scenes by Edouard Vuillard, each essay stands alone as a richly contextualized reading of a single work or group of works by one artist. The authors approach their subjects from a range of methodological perspectives, but all pay close attention to the experience of making and viewing works of art.
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Heather M acDonald is Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art. October Art Paper 978-0-300-18757-1 $24.95 tx 176 pp. 7 x 10 150 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks Edited by Daphne Barbour and E. Melanie Gifford The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for “the manner in which things are made,” Facture addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art history to scientific research. The inaugural volume focuses on great works of the Renaissance, studying sculpture, painting, and drawing from various points of view. With the publication of this biennial journal, the National Gallery maintains a tradition of fostering dialogue among art historians, scientists, and conservators working in the international museum community. Facture presents articles by highly respected authorities aimed at the specialist as well as the general reader with a passion for art. Future issues will concentrate on other themes in the materiality and history of art, addressing all aspects of the discipline from conservation treatment and history to technical art history and fundamental scientific research.
P ublished by the National Gallery of Art, Washington/Distributed by Yale University Press
Daphne Barbour is senior object conservator and E. Melanie Gifford is research conservator for paintings technology at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
October Art Conservation PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19742-6 $60.00 tx 192 pp. 8 x 11 115 color illus. World
En Atendant and Cesena
A Choreographer’s Score Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Bojana Cveji´c Record book by Michel François
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have created an impressive series of choreographic works that have been described as “pure writing with movement in time and space.” In these two volumes and accompanying set of 3 DVDs, De Keersmaeker offers wide-ranging insights into choreography and into the making of her two most recent large-scale works: En Atendant and Cesena. In addition to sketches, notes, and photographs, interviews with De Keersmaeker, as well as dance demonstrations and extensive video clips, are featured. A second volume is a book of photographs by Michel François. ´ Bojana Cvejic is performance theorist and maker, working in contemporary dance and performance also as dramaturge and performer.
October Dance 2 Volumes in a Slipcase with 3 DVDs 978-0-300-19732-7 $65.00 tx 304 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 3⁄4 100 color + 50 b/w illus. World A-40
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Distributed for Mercatorfonds Also by Anne Theresa De Keersmaeker: A Choreographer’s Score Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena’s Aria, Bartók Paper with DVD 978-0-300-18873-8 $65.00 tx
Barbara Chase-Riboud
The Malcolm X Steles Edited by Carlos Basualdo
Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist, and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the assassinated civil rights leader Malcolm X. Begun in 1969, Chase-Riboud’s series is explored in terms of developing artistic practice; her travels to China and North Africa; and her experiences in Europe, particularly during the cultural, political, and social upheavals of the 1960s. The volume also includes a fascinating analysis of the Malcom X sculptures in light of critical debates on abstract art’s role in memorializing the past. Beautifully designed and produced, this book presents an illustrated checklist of the 13 sculptures in the series, related drawings and sculptures, and a chronology of Chase-Riboud’s life and career. Carlos Basualdo is The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Malcolm X #3, 1970. Polished bronze and silk. Height 118 inches (300 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with funds contributed by Regina and Ragan A. Henry, and with funds raised in honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Museum and in celebration of African American art, 2001-92-1
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Philadelphia Museum of Art 09/14/13–12/08/13
October Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-19640-5 $35.00 sc 120 pp. 9 x 11 75 color illus. World
P ublished in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Cripplewood
Berlinde De Bruyckere at the Biennale di Venezia J. M. Coetzee and Herman Parret Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964) is a Belgian artist who specializes in sculpture using various media, including wax, wood, wool, and horse skin and hair. Published to coincide with De Bruyckere’s participation in the 2013 Venice Biennale, this richly illustrated catalogue traces her work from conception to installation, providing a multifaceted introduction to the artist’s complex and compelling work. Struck by the passion and fierce beauty in the writings of J. M. Coetzee, De Bruyckere asked the acclaimed writer to curate the Belgian Pavilion’s exhibition. A previously unpublished text by Coetzee is included in this volume, as well as correspondence that the two exchanged throughout their collaborative process. The book is also enriched by writings by Herman Parret, who explores Saint Sebastian—the dual incarnation of sensuality and mystical suffering, and Venice’s quintessential symbol—and his particular significance to De Bruyckere’s oeuvre.
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Cripplewood © Mirjam Devriendt
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J. M. Coetzee is a novelist, essayist, linguist, translator, and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Herman Parret is professor emeritus at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of Leuven University (Belgium).
October Art Paper over Board; Trilingual (English, Dutch, French) Edition 978-0-300-19657-3 $35.00 tx 92 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 50 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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From Still Life to the Screen
Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London Joseph Monteyne From Still Life to the Screen explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. The desire for goods emerged in tandem with modern notions of identity, in which things were seen to mirror and symbolize the self. Prints, particularly graphic satires by such artists as Matthew and Mary Darly, James Gillray, William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, and Paul Sandby, were actively involved in this shift. Many of these images play with the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, self and thing. They also reveal the recurring motif of image display, whether on screens, by magic lanterns, or in “raree-shows” and print-shop windows. The author links this motif to new conceptions of the self, specifically through the penetration of spectacle into everyday experience.
P ublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Joseph Monteyne is associate professor in the history of art at the University of British Columbia.
October Art/Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19635-1 $85.00 tx 288 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 55 color + 101 b/w illus. World
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820 From Conquest to Independence Luisa Elena Alcala and Jonathan Brown
Painting in Latin America, 1550–1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects, and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied, and adapted throughout Latin America, colonial painting is not a derivative extension of Europe. The ongoing debate over what to call it—mestizo, hybrid, creole, indo-hispanic, tequitqui—testifies to a fundamental yet unresolved question of identity. Comparing and contrasting the Viceroyalties of New Spain, with its center in modern-day Mexico, and Peru, the authors explore the very different ways the two regions responded to the influence of the Europeans and their art. A wide range of art and artists are considered, some for the first time. Rich with new photography and primary research, this book delivers a wealth of new insight into the history of images and the history of art. Luisa Elena Alcala is a professor titular at the department of history and theory of art, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. Jonathan Brown is Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University.
October Art History/Latin American Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19101-1 $75.00 sc 480 pp. 9 1⁄4 x 11 3⁄4 250 color + 100 b/w illus. World A-42
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American Adversaries
West and Copley in a Transatlantic World Emily Ballew Neff and Kaylin H. Weber American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738–1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America’s first global art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals, the artists painted contemporary events as they happened, illustrating the transformation of imperial power through diplomacy between British Americans and the Iroquois, and through transatlantic trade, exploration, and the natural history of the West Indies. Focusing on two iconic works, West’s The Death of General Wolfe (1770) and Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1778), American Adversaries charts the rise of contemporary history painting, and offers a compelling examination of American history and New World exploration. Featuring more than two hundred color reproductions of paintings, works on paper, and objects that informed the artists, this handsome volume also includes essays that shed new light on, among other subjects, West and Copley within the context of the Royal Academy and the use of Western and Native American objects in cultural diplomacy.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 10/06/13–01/05/14 Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Emily Ballew Neff is curator of American painting and sculpture, and Kaylin H. Weber is assistant curator of American painting and sculpture, both at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. October Art Cloth 978-0-300-19646-7 $75.00 sc 320 pp. 9 3⁄4 x 12 220 color illus. World
The King’s Pictures
The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers Francis Haskell ith a foreword by Nicholas Penny W Edited and with an introduction by Karen Serres
The greatest paintings in today’s most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael, and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of fervent pursuit by art connoisseurs. Francis Haskell traces the fate of collections extracted from Italy, Spain, and France by King Charles I and his circle, which, after a brief stay in Britain, were largely dispersed after the Civil War to princely galleries across the Continent. From vivid case studies of individual collectors, advisers, and artists, and acute analysis of personality and motive, Haskell challenges ideas about this episode in British cultural life and traces some of the factors that forever changed the artistic map of Europe. Francis Haskell (1928–2000) was one of the most influential art historians of the 20th century. He expanded the discipline to include the study of patronage and collecting, the formation of museums and canons of taste, the idea of revival and of illustration. He was professor of art history at the University of Oxford from 1967 until his retirement in 1995.
P ublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Also by Francis Haskell: Patrons and Painters A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque Paper 978-9-998-02540-8 $38.00
October Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19012-0 $60.00 sc 256 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 10 1⁄2 80 color + 40 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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The Making of Assisi
The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica Donal Cooper and Janet Robson For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis. Putting to one side the long debate about whether the Saint Francis cycle was or was not painted by Giotto, The Making of Assisi takes a fresh approach and treats the cycle as part of a larger, integrated, and far-reaching program of renewal at the Basilica. In this deeply researched, illuminating, and beautifully illustrated book, Donal Cooper and Janet Robson investigate the particular historical moment in which the frescoes were made, casting new light on their patronage and iconography. Donal Cooper is an associate professor (lecturer) in the History of Art Department, University of Warwick. Janet Robson is an independent scholar.
October Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19571-2 $75.00 sc 288 pp. 9 x 11 60 color + 134 b/w illus. World
Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim Edited by Peter Barnet and Michael Brandt
Hildesheim, Germany, was a leading center of art between 1000 and 1250, when outstanding precious works, such as the larger-than-life size Ringelheim Crucifix, illuminated manuscripts lavishly bound in jeweled covers, and a monumental bronze baptismal font, were commissioned for its churches and cathedral. In 1985, UNESCO designated St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Michael’s Church in Hildesheim a world cultural heritage site, recognizing them as monuments of medieval art with exceptionally rich treasures. Despite its significance, Hildesheim’s incomparable collection of medieval church furnishings is little known outside of Germany. This book provides the first comprehensive examination in English of the city’s treasures, its leading role in the art of the Middle Ages, and its churches’ history of commissioning and collecting outstanding objects. Highlighting fifty precious and rare works, this book beautifully illustrates some of the great masterpieces of medieval church art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 09/17/13–01/05/14
Peter Barnet is Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Michael Brandt is director, Hildesheim Cathedral Museum.
P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
October Art/History of Religion PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19699-3 $24.95sc 176 pp. 9 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄2 100 color illus. World A-44
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Artists and Amateurs
Etching in Eighteenth-Century France Edited by Perrin Stein
ith essays by Charlotte Guichard, Rena M. Housington, W Elizabeth Rudy, and Perrin Stein Over the course of the 18th century a great number of artists, ranging from established painters and sculptors to amateurs, experimented with etching, an accessible form of printmaking akin to drawing. In a period when artists strained to navigate the highly regulated Académie Royale and the increasingly discordant public spheres of the marketplace and the Salon, etching afforded them stylistic freedom and allowed them to produce exquisite works of art in a spirit of collaboration and experimentation. Featuring works by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, and many others, Artists and Amateurs embarks on a fresh exploration of how etching flourished in ancien régime France, shedding new light on artistic practice and patronage at that time. Treating such topics as technique and practice, experimentation, and the crucial role of the amateur, it establishes the unique place of etching in the shifting social terrain of 18th-century Paris, and explores an artistic context in which conventional hierarchies of genre and medium were breached to brilliant effect.
Detail, Joseph Marie Vien the Elder, The Arrival of the Wine Vat, ca.1755. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 10/01/13–01/05/14 P ublished The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Perrin Stein is Curator, department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
October Art Cloth 978-0-300-19700-6 $60.00 sc 240 pp. 9 x 10 1⁄2 189 color + b/w illus. World
Iran Modern
Edited by Fereshteh Daftari and Layla S. Diba Supported by a thriving art market in the Persian Gulf, interest in Iranian modern art has intensified in recent years. Iran Modern offers a timely exploration of the cultural diversity and production of avant-garde art in Iran after World War II and up to the revolution—from 1950 through 1979. Generously illustrated, this volume provides a new understanding of global interconnectedness not yet addressed in art historical accounts. Ten essays by distinguished scholars of art and history elucidate the early development of Iranian artists, patrons, galleries, art schools, architects, and writers who influenced and participated in the dynamic decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The essays describe a time when Iran experienced an outpouring of original and creative modern art and when the country was very much a part of the international art world. Fereshteh Daftari is an independent scholar who was a curator with The Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1988–2009. Layla S. Diba is an independent scholar who was Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the director and chief curator of the Negarestan Museum in Tehran from 1975–1979.
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Asia Society Museum 09/07/13–01/05/14
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October Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-19736-5 $65.00 sc 324 pp. 7 7⁄8 x 9 1⁄4 150 color + 25 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Violence and Virtue
Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” Eve Straussman-Pflanzer Violence and Virtue examines a single, uniquely powerful painting: Judith Slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. A quintessential example of early Baroque painting, this work has, more than any other picture in her oeuvre, come to define Gentileschi as an early modern woman and a superb Baroque painter. Eve Straussman-Pflanzer explores the circumstances surrounding the painting’s creation and the meanings conveyed by the image itself. Among other topics of investigation, the author addresses the role of women artists and patrons in the 17th century and the fascination with violence and the importance of female heroes during the Baroque era. A comparative analysis between Gentileschi’s masterpiece and other paintings and works on paper by artists such as Caravaggio, Botticelli, Cristofano Allori, and Felice Ficherelli, among others, testifies to the importance of Gentileschi’s portrayal of the heroine Judith.
Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593– c. 1654), Judith Slaying Holofernes, c. 1620. Oil on canvas. 199 × 162.5 cm (78 3⁄8 x 64 in.). Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer is the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1750 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago 10/15/13–01/06/14
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Dreams and Echoes
Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection Edited by Suzanne Folds McCullagh Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vignon, George Romney, Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon, James Ensor, Jan Toorop, Pablo Picasso, JeanJacques Feuchère, August Rodin, and Jean Carriès, among many others. Dreams and Echoes features 90 of the most extraordinary pieces from this collection, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century British drawings and French drawings and sculptures of the 19th century. Each work is accompanied by a physical description, provenance, bibliography, and exhibition history, along with discussion of the work’s attribution, subject, and function. An international team of scholars and experts offers insight into the artworks, resulting in an illuminating book about a collection of exceptional quality. Suzanne Folds McCullagh is the Anne Vogt Fuller and Marion Titus Searle Chair and Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The Art Institute of Chicago 10/20/13–01/12/14
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November Art Cloth 978-0-300-19624-5 $50.00 tx 224 pp. 9 x 12 180 color + 20 b/w illus. World A-46
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God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty
The Object in Islamic Art and Culture Edited by Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom The Islamic world, spanning centuries and far-flung regions, is renowned for its diverse cultural and artistic traditions. This sumptuous book delves into that vast creative output, examining a dozen exquisite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, in Doha, Qatar, designed by the ChineseAmerican architect I. M. Pei and opened in 2008. Twelve prominent scholars from across the globe select works representing various centers of Islamic life, from early Spain to 17th-century India, as well as a range of media including textiles, ceramics, metalwork, and miniature paintings. Authoritative texts put the objects into context, exploring the relationships to those people who produced and lived among them. In addition, architectural critic Paul Goldberger discusses the museum, assessing its place in Pei’s career and in the broader scope of Islamic architecture, while Oliver Watson, the museum’s former director, sheds light on the installation of works throughout the building. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, wife and husband scholars, share the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair of Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University as well as the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College.
November Art/Islamic Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19666-5 $75.00 tx 496 pp. 9 x 11 1⁄2 400 color + 20 b/w illus. World
P ublished in association with The Qatar Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar Also by Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan Bloom: Islam A Thousand Years of Faith and Power Paper 978-0-300-09422-0 $16.95 tx The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250–1800 Paper 978-0-300-06465-0 $40.00 tx
The City and the King
Architecture and Politics in Restoration London Christine Stevenson The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two momentous events: the restoration of the monarchy, in 1660, and the Great Fire six years later. Spotlighting little-known projects alongside such landmarks as Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, it explores how they were made to bear meaning. It draws on a range of evidence wide enough to match architecture’s resonances for its protagonists: paintings, prints, and poetry, sermons and civic ceremony mediated and politicized buildings and built space, as did direct and sometimes violent action. The City and the King offers a nuanced understanding of architecture’s place in early modern English culture. It casts new light not only on the reign of Charles II, but on the universal mechanisms of construction, decoration, and destruction through which we give our monuments significance. Christine Stevenson is senior lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
P ublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Also by Christine Stevenson: Medicine and Magnificence British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660–1815 Cloth 978-0-300-08536-5 $50.00 tx
November Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-19022-9 $75.00 tx 304 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 23 color + 115 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn Edited by Jill H. Casid and Aruna D’Souza
With globalization steadily reshaping the cultural landscape, scholars have long called for a full-scale reassessment of art history’s largely Eurocentric framework. This collection of case studies and essays, the latest in the Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, brings together voices from various disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, each proposing ways to remap, decenter, and reorient what is often assumed to be a unified field. Rather than devise a one-size-fits-all strategy for what has long been a divided and disjointed terrain, these authors and artists reframe the inherent challenges of the global—most notably geographic, political, aesthetic, and linguistic differences—as productive starting points for study. As the book demonstrates, approaching art history from such alternative perspectives rewrites some of the most basic narratives, from the origins of representation to the beginnings of the “modern” to the very history of globalization and its effects. Jill H. Casid is professor of visual studies in the department of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Aruna D’Souza is the former associate director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark, and a scholar of modern and contemporary European visual culture and feminist theory.
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November Art History Paper 978-0-300-19685-6 $24.95 tx 256 pp. 7 x 9 1⁄2 105 b/w illus. World
The Devil’s Invention
European Crossbows, 1250–1850 Dirk Breiding The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. The Devil’s Invention presents a lively, accessible survey of the crossbow’s “golden age,” along with detailed descriptions of twenty-four remarkable examples. Beginning in the middle ages, the European aristocracy’s enthusiasm for the crossbow heralded shooting competitions and pageants that featured elaborately decorated weapons bearing elegant embellishments of rare materials and prized artistry. In addition to being highly functional, these weapons were magnificent works of art. The Devil’s Invention includes fascinating descriptions of crossbows used by Margaret of Savoy and Holy Roman Emperors Maximilian I and Charles V, among others. Dirk Breiding is J. J. Midveckis Curator of Arms and Armor at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
November Art/Military History PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19704-4 $24.95 sc 144 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 100 color illus. World A-48
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Light Crossbow with Lever, 1728. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence Megan Holmes
In Renaissance Florence, certain paintings and sculptures of the Virgin Mary and Christ were believed to have extraordinary efficacy in activating potent sacred intercession. Cults sprung up around these “miraculous images” in the city and surrounding countryside beginning in the late 13th century. In The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence, Megan Holmes questions what distinguished these paintings and sculptures from other similar sacred images, looking closely at their material and formal properties, the process of enshrinement, and the foundation legends and miracles associated with specific images. Whereas some of the images presented in this fascinating book are well known, such as Bernardo Daddi’s Madonna of Orsanmichele, many others have been little studied until now. Holmes’s efforts center on the recovery and contextualization of these revered images, reintegrating them and their related cults into an art-historical account of the period. By challenging prevailing views and offering a reassessment of the Renaissance, this generously illustrated and comprehensive survey makes a significant contribution to the field. Megan Holmes is professor of the history of art at the University of Michigan.
November Art History Cloth 978-0-300-17660-5 $75.00 sc 400 pp. 8 1⁄2 x 11 80 color + 170 b/w illus. World
Delacroix and the Matter of Finish
Edited by Eik Kahng, Marc Gotleib, and Michèle Hannoosh This groundbreaking publication centers on a previously unknown variation of Eugène Delacroix’s (1798–1863) dramatic masterpiece The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reassessment of the relationship of the artist, widely consider a primary exemplar of Romanticism, to Neoclassical themes, as demonstrated by his life-long fascination with the death of Marcus Aurelius. Through this investigation, the authors reinterpret Delacroix’s lineage to such fellow artists as Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) and Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825). Playing on the various interpretations of the word “finish,” the book also offers a fascinating account of Delacroix’s famously troubled collaboration with his studio assistants, his conflicted feelings about pedagogy, and his preoccupation with the fate of civilizations. Eik Kahng is assistant director and chief curator, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Marc Gotlieb is director of the graduate program and Class of 1955 Memorial Professor of Art, Williams College. Michèle Hannoosh is professor of French, University of Michigan.
Eugène Delacroix, The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, 1844. Oil on canvas, 256 x 337.5 cm. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art 10/27/13–01/26/14 Distributed for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
November Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-19944-4 $35.00 sc 136 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 1⁄2 100 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Antonio Berni
Juanito and Ramona Mari Carmen Ramírez and Marcelo E. Pacheco Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905–1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Through the stories of Juanito, a denizen of Argentina’s shantytowns, and Ramona, who rises from the working class to the upper echelons of society, Berni addressed topics from industrialization to neocolonialism to economic backwardness and their effects on the population of underdeveloped countries. Written by leading scholars of Latin American art, this handsome volume presents the first comprehensive survey of the internationally acclaimed Juanito and Ramona series. Richly illustrated with more than 250 color images, the volume brings together nearly two decades of Berni’s monumental, mixed-media reliefs and assemblages, experimental works on paper, and sculptural constructions made of found, everyday objects. Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Marcelo E. Pacheco is chief curator at MALBA–Fundación Costantini.
Antonio Berni, Carnaval de Juanito, 1962, collage, private collection.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 11/10/13–02/02/14 Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
November Art/Latin American Studies Paper over Board 978-0-300-19648-1 $85.00 sc 464 pp. 10 x 11 3⁄4 270 color illus. World
Rituals of Rented Island
Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama—Manhattan, 1970–1982 Jay Sanders with J. Hoberman This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: “object theater” (in which artists engage directly with the objects drawn from the world around them); “loft performance” (where artists performed in lofts, storefronts, and the alternative spaces of New York’s SoHo); and “new psychodrama” (in which artists drew on formal performance modes to explore everyday experience). By tracing the paths of such artists as Stuart Sherman, Julia Heyward, Jared Bark and Jill Kroesen, this catalogue makes newly visible a critical period in the development of performance art. Rituals of Rented Island examines the disparate yet related practices of the artists mentioned above alongside those of the notorious Kipper Kids; composer-musician John Zorn; and legendary playwright and filmmaker Jack Smith; among others. With an array of previously unpublished images, including installation photographs, posters, and other ephemera, drawn from the artists’ own archives, this volume illuminates the eccentric singularities of the performance art of this era and its relevance today. Jay Sanders is curator of performance at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. J. Hoberman is an independent writer and critic.
November Art Paper 978-0-300-19586-6 $55.00 sc 176 pp. 10 x 8 140 color + 30 b/w illus. World A-50
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Jared Bark performing Lights: on/off, The Clocktower, New York, June 21, 1974. Photograph by Babette Mangolte
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Whitney Museum of American Art 10/31/13–February 2014 Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art
Thomas Sully
Painted Performance William Keyse Rudolph and Carol Eaton Soltis Thomas Sully (1783–1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Although he created more than two thousand portraits and subject paintings, his full production has never before been examined in depth. The child of actors, Sully’s lifelong connection to the theater informed his imagination. His portraits of 19th-century actors, celebrities, royalty, and politicians established his reputation, and would mark all his works, particularly his “fancy pictures,” portraits evoking scenes from literature, fairy tales, Shakespeare, or of his own devising. This essential introduction demonstrates how the artist interpreted the nature of painting as performance, manifested in his dazzling productions. Three essays, 160 color reproductions, and an illustrated chronology survey and elucidate his career. William Keyse Rudolph is Dudley J. Godfrey Jr. Curator of American Art and Decorative Arts and Director of Exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Carol Eaton Soltis is project associate curator at the Center for American Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Milwaukee Art Museum 10/11/13–01/05/14 San Antonio Museum of Art 02/07/14–05/04/14 Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum
November Art Cloth 978-0-300-19741-9 $60.00 sc 192 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 12 160 color illus. World
Rebirth
Recent Work by Mariko Mori Edited and with a foreword by Miwako Tezuka
With essays by Brett Littman and Takayo Iida
Contemporary artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) has transformed herself many times since her memorable debut onto the international art scene in the mid-1990s. Over the past two decades, Mori has made a significant shift in the focus of her work, moving away from self-obsessive motifs and performance pieces to a diametrically opposite approach of self-effacement. Her own image has disappeared from her Pop-oriented work, and her interest now inclines toward the prehistoric world in which everything existed in an amorphous state without text, religion, nation, or division between humankind and nature. Accompanying a major solo exhibition at Japan Society Gallery in New York, this fascinating book features over 35 immersive installations, sculptures, drawings (including many unpublished works), and videos produced by the artist between 2003 and 2012. It presents not only Mori’s artistic evolution during the last decade, but also defines her current work relating to rebirth in an age of endangered environment and a lost connection between man and nature.
Mariko Mori (b. 1967, Japan; lives in New York), White Hole VII, 2009. Mixed media on Plexiglas panel. 50 x 55 in. Collection of the artist
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Japan Society Gallery 10/11/13–01/12/14
Distributed for Japan Society
Miwako Tezuka is director of Japan Society Gallery. Brett Littman is executive director of The Drawing Center, New York. Takayo Iida is chief curator of Aomori Museum of Art in Japan. November Art Paper over Board 978-0-300-19688-7 $60.00 sc 176 pp. 8 1⁄3 x 11 1⁄2 80 color + 15 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Impressionist France
Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet Simon Kelly and April M. Watson With essays by Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin
A novel look at the relationship between Impressionist painting and photography and the forging of a national identity in France between 1850 and 1880 Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and antimodern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères, Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre, and Camille Pissarro. This ambitious premise focuses on the whole of France, exploring the relationship between landscape art and the notion of French nationhood across the country’s varied and spectacular landscapes in seven geographical sections and four scholarly essays, which provide new information regarding the production and impact of French Impressionism.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 10/19/13–02/09/14 Saint Louis Art Museum 03/16/14–07/06/14 Distributed for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art
Simon Kelly is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. April M. Watson is associate curator, photography, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
November Art PB-Flexibound 978-0-300-19695-5 $35.00 sc 320 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 11 359 color illus. World A-52
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Generation Dada
The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War Michael White For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective—Club Dada, to members—was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, and Johannes Baader—renamed Propaganda Marshall, Monteurdada, Dadasoph, and Oberdada within the organization—have remained largely unexamined until now. Drawing on extensive archival research, this book documents the group’s beginnings in wartime Berlin and reveals how these relationships influenced its provocative acts, which were inextricably tied to the era’s chaos and brutality. Studying how the Dadaists saw themselves as a new generation—in contrast to their pacifist forebears, the Expressionists—the book sheds light on key developments and events, such as the First International Dada Fair, held in Berlin in 1920. It also offers the first serious consideration of the group’s role in constructing its own legacy, even as the works were deliberately rooted in the ephemeral. Michael White is reader in the history of art at the University of York and is best known internationally for his research on the early-20th-century De Stijl group in the Netherlands.
December Art Cloth 978-0-300-16903-4 $55.00 sc 288 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 10 20 color + 130 b/w illus. World
Silla
Korea’s Golden Kingdom Soyoung Lee and Denise Patry Leidy
With contributions by Juhyung Rhi, Insook Lee, Ham Soon-seop, Yoon Sang-deok, Yoon Onshik, and Her Hyeong Uk The Silla Kingdom, which flourished in Korea from 57 b.c. to 935 a.d., is known for its intricately crafted ornaments, many in resplendent gold, and for the creation of prominent Buddhist temples. Silla focuses on the striking artistic traditions of the Old and Unified Silla Kingdoms (4th– 8th century), and is the first publication in English to explore the artistic and cultural legacy of this ancient realm. Among the topics explored are Korea’s position as the eastern culmination of the Silk Road in the first millennium a.d. and the character and evolution of Buddhism, as illuminated by objects from major monuments, temples, and tombs. The book also presents new research about Silla’s ancient capital, Gyeongju, which is known for the Gyerim-ro Dagger, as well as the pottery, glass, and beads discovered in tombs located there. Featuring over 100 magnificent objects, newly photographed and presented with the latest scholarship, this volume will be a revelation to many, and a lavish introduction to the glory that was Silla. Soyoung Lee is assistant curator and Denise Patry Leidy is curator, department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gold Crown, from the Northern chamber of the Great Tomb of Hwangnam, Silla Kingdom. Gyeongju National Museum, Korea
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art 10/29/13–02/23/14 P ublished by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
November Art/Asian Studies Cloth 978-0-300-19702-0 $65.00 sc 256 pp. 8 x 10 220 color + b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Kimbell Art Museum Guide Kimbell Art Museum
Completely updated, this comprehensive guide covers the Kimbell Art Museum’s world-renowned collection of masterpieces. Its publication is timed to coincide with the highly anticipated opening of the museum’s new building, designed by Renzo Piano. The book highlights more than 250 works of art from the museum’s collection, which ranges from ancient to modern times and includes European works by artists such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Cézanne, and Matisse; important Egyptian and classical antiquities; and exquisite Asian, Precolumbian, and African works. The handsomely designed book features new photography of all of the museum’s recent acquisitions, including Michelangelo’s Torment of Saint Anthony and Nicolas Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination. Each work in the book will be illustrated and accompanied by informative text written by the Kimbell’s curatorial staff and leading scholars.
Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum
December Art PB-Flexibound 978-0-300-19633-7 $24.95 tx 368 pp. 6 7⁄8 x 9 7⁄8 330 color illus. World
Poussin’s Sacrament of Ordination
History, Faith, and the Sacred Landscape Jonathan W. Unglaub Painted by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), The Sacrament of Ordination is a major milestone of Franco-Italian classicism of the 17th century. The magisterial painting depicts Christ’s charge to Saint Peter and offers a profound meditation on nature, faith, and the epochal unfolding of sacred history. This lovely book celebrates the work, recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum. Jonathan W. Unglaub, esteemed authority on the topic, shows how Poussin ingeniously employed the landscape setting and seemingly incidental figures to imbue the apparently conventional but deceptively meaningful painting with a broad sweep of sacred history. The author also considers the painting in the context of Poussin’s two series of the Seven Sacraments and makes the case that the artist redefined the ambitions of narrative painting and landscape, sowing the seeds of pictorial classicism.
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Jonathan W. Unglaub is chairman and associate professor of fine arts at Brandeis University.
December Art PB-with Flaps 978-0-300-19591-0 $16.95 tx 100 pp. 7 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄4 75 color + 5 b/w illus. World A-54
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A Conspiracy of Images
Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War John J. Curley An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the danger for the public. In the following months, two artists with antithetical backgrounds arrived at a similar aesthetic: Andy Warhol, who began his career as a commercial artist in New York City, turned to the silkscreened replication of violent photographs. Gerhard Richter, who began as a mural painter in socialist Dresden, East Germany, painted blurred versions of personal and media photographs. In A Conspiracy of Images, author John J. Curley explores how the artists’ developing aesthetic approaches were informed by the political agency and ambiguity of images produced during the Cold War, particularly those disseminated by the mass media on both sides. As the first scholarly consideration of the visual conditions of the Cold War, A Conspiracy of Images provides a new and compelling transatlantic model for Cold War art history. John J. Curley is assistant professor of art history at Wake Forest University.
December Art History Cloth 978-0-300-18843-1 $65.00 sc 296 pp. 8 x 10 32 color + 136 b/w illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné
Volume Two: 1975–1986
Edited by Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean The second in a projected four-volume series of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari’s work from 1975–86. It covers his photo-based works such as the “Strobe,” “Word Chain,” and “Pathetic Fallacy” series from 1975; the “Violent Space” and the seminal “Concerning Diachronic/ Synchronic Time: Above, On, Under (With Mermaid),” from 1976; and the “Blasted Allegories” series from 1977–78, which drew heavily from the artist’s vast collection of photo stills taken from commercial television. In the 1980s, Baldessari’s art took a different direction, beginning with the expansive “Fugitive Essays” triptychs from 1980 and leading to 1982’s photographic interpretations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Building on these themes, Baldessari began producing a body of work that was inspired in part by dreams, psychology, film, and popular culture. Ensuing works were more formal, elaborate, and large-scale. From 1984 to 1986 Baldessari created a number of works that employed his soon-to-be-signature colored discs painted over people’s faces in the photos.
See also: John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume One: 1956–1974 Hardcover with Slipcase 978-0-300-17448-9 $200.00
An introductory critical essay will provide a close reading of selected works and a historical context for understanding Baldessari’s art from this period. A detailed chronology and exhibition history and bibliography are also included. Robert Dean is editorial director and Patrick Pardo is research editor of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné.
December Art/Reference Hardcover with Slipcase 978-0-300-19810-2 $200.00 sc 496 pp. 9 7⁄8 x 11 1⁄2 500 color + 20 b/w illus. World A-56
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Art and Music in Venice
From the Renaissance to Baroque Edited by Hilliard T. Goldfarb
Artistic and musical creativity thrived in the Venetian Republic between the early 16th century and the close of the 18th century. The city-state was known for its superb operas and splendid balls, and the acoustics of the architecture led to complex polyphony in musical composition. Accordingly, notable composers, including Antonio Vivaldi and Adrian Willaert, developed styles that were distinct from those of other Italian cultures. The Venetian music scene, in turn, influenced visual artists, inspiring paintings by artists such as Jacopo Bassano, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Pietro Longhi, Bernardo Strozzi, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, Tintoretto, and Titian. Together, art and music served larger aims, whether social, ceremonial, or even political. Lavishly illustrated, Art and Music in Venice brings Venice’s golden age to life through stunning images of paintings, drawings, prints, manuscripts, textbooks, illuminated choir books, musical scores and instruments, and period costumes. New scholarship into these objects by a team of distinguished experts gives a fresh perspective on the cultural life and creative output of the era. Hilliard T. Goldfarb is associate chief curator and curator of Old Masters at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
Marietta Robusti, called la Tintoretta, Self-portrait with a Madrigal, ca. 1580, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Scala/ Art Resource, NY
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 10/12/13–01/19/14 Portland Art Museum 03/07/14–06/18/14 Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris
December Art/Music History Paper over Board 978-0-300-19792-1 $65.00 sc 240 pp. 9 1⁄2 x 14 200 color illus. World
Goya in the Norton Simon Museum
Juliet Wilson-Bareau
Edited by Leah Lehmbeck
During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907– 1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings, and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas, and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist’s oeuvre, and that passion inspired him to assemble monographic holdings of work by several masters, chief among them Francisco de Goya (1746–1828). This book examines the extraordinary Goya collection, which includes more than 1,400 prints, a drawing, and three paintings, in the founder’s namesake museum. Simon’s enduring interest in serial images led him to acquire prints from various series and editions, and to compare and contrast seemingly identical ones. Spotlighting rare proofs and single prints, the catalogue also presents a complete set each of Los Caprichos, Disasters of War, and other seminal series. Juliet Wilson-Bareau is a preeminent scholar of Goya’s work. Leah Lehmbeck is curator at the Norton Simon Museum, where she oversees the 19thand 20th-century collections.
Distributed for the Norton Simon Art Foundation Also by Juliet Wilson-Bareau: Manet and the American Civil War The Battle of U.S.S. Kearsarge and the C.S.S. Alabama Paper 978-0-300-09962-2 $9.95 tx Manet and the Sea Cloth 978-0-300-10164-3 $75.00 sc
January Art Cloth 978-0-300-19626-9 $65.00 tx 264 pp. 10 x 11 354 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Robert Morris
Object Sculpture, 1960–1965
Jeffrey Weiss The first book to address the full body of Robert Morris’s “object sculptures” Over the past half-century, American artist and critic Robert Morris (b. 1931) has been a key figure in the history of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art. Between 1960 and 1965, part of his artistic output consisted of approximately 100 “object sculptures,” or as Morris called them at the time, “process type objects.” These consist of plaques, containers, and assisted or simulated readymades of wood, Sculpmetal, and lead. This book is the first study to address the object sculptures as a full and complex yet coherent body of work. Jeffrey Weiss, an authority on modernist and postwar sculpture, in close collaboration with Morris, systematically catalogues the object sculptures, and subjects them to critical and historical interpretation in the context of Morris’s early practice overall. Featuring new photography of many of the works and an interview with the artist, this book offers an important and original perspective on a crucial early period in the career of one of America’s most important artists. Jeffrey Weiss is senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and adjunct professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York.
Also by Jeffrey Weiss: Mark Rothko Cloth 978-0-300-07505-2 $70.00 sc Jasper Johns An Allegory of Painting, 1955–1965 Cloth 978-0-300-12141-4 $65.00 Dan Flavin A Retrospective Paper 978-0-300-10632-9 $50.00 sc
January Art Cloth 978-0-300-19667-2 $65.00 sc 368 pp. 8 x 10 1⁄2 200 color + 50 duotone illus. World A-58
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Painting under Pressure
Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence Michelle O’Malley In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O’Malley analyzes the lives and works of four artists: Alessandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi, and Pietro Perugino. She considers network systems, production practices, economic concepts, and workshop input to demonstrate the consequences of high demand on some of the most respected artists of the time. In this fascinating and incisive book, O’Malley asks how painters approached the manufacture of large bodies of commissioned work, how they made day-to-day decisions about design and the application of pigments, and how serial production related to creating work for commissions, in addition to questions of economics. Using documentary evidence about price, scientific evidence about production, and formal analysis about appearance, the book demonstrates Renaissance business practices and shows the individual approaches artists took to producing excellence and meeting high demand.
Also by Michelle O’Malley: The Business of Art Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy Cloth 978-0-300-10438-3 $60.00 tx
Michelle O’Malley is reader in art history and head of the department of art history, University of Sussex, Brighton.
January Art History Cloth 978-0-300-19797-6 $60.00 tx 256 pp. 6 1⁄2 x 9 1⁄2 25 color + 100 b/w illus. World
National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Volume 34, Titian’s Painting Technique before 1540 Edited by Ashok Roy
Jill Dunkerton and Marika Spring With contributions from Rachel Billinge, Kamilla Kalinina, Rachel Morrison, David Peggie and Ashok Roy Titian (active 1506; died 1576) is acclaimed as the greatest of the Venetian masters. His technique has long fascinated painters and collectors, and his use of oil paints and the richly colored pigments available to him in Venice influenced the subsequent history of European painting. The National Gallery, London, is home to an outstanding group of Titian’s paintings, and this special edition of its annual Technical Bulletin is dedicated to the study of the artist during the first part of his career. An introductory essay focuses on Titian’s painting technique, from its origins in the workshops of Venice and the Veneto, through close examination of nine works in the gallery’s collection, including the stunning Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23). The authors also discuss significant early works from other collections, such as The Triumph of Love (about 1544–6). New research and discoveries, published here for the first time, will be essential reading for Titian scholars and enthusiasts alike.
P ublished by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press
Ashok Roy is director of collections, Jill Dunkerton is senior restorer, and Marika Spring is principal scientific officer, all at the National Gallery, London.
January Art Conservation Paper 978-1-85709-552-4 $70.00 tx 128 pp. 8 1⁄4 x 11 3⁄4 120 color illus. World Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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André Le Nôtre in Perspective Edited by Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin and Georges Farhat A beautifully illustrated investigation of the life, work, and legacy of the great 17th-century landscape and garden designer André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), principal gardener to Louis XIV, was France’s greatest landscape and garden designer. The parks created by him at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles are the supreme examples of the French 17th-century style of garden design. He was responsible also for the central pathway through the Tuileries, which became the grand axis of Paris running to the Arc de Triomphe and on to La Défense. This magnificent book sheds new light on the royal gardener’s life and his practice as a landscape architect, engineer and art collector, and examines the legacy of his influence. It highlights his major achievements and enhances our understanding of the French formal-garden model. Le Nôtre’s output is re-examined in terms of its social and cultural contexts; its artistic, technological, material and spatial components; and the dissemination of his ideas. The book contains illustrations of both original documents and the majority of extant drawings by Le Nôtre and his collaborators. Comprehensive and impeccably researched, André Le Nôtre in Perspective brings together the scholarship of some of the world’s leading experts in early-modern art, gardens and allied fields.
View of the gardens of the Château of Conflans
E xhibition Schedule:
Chateau of Versailles 10/22/13–02/24/14
Distributed for Editions Hazan, Paris
Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin is research associate, Centre de recherche du château de Versailles and Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles. Georges Farhat is associate professor at the University of Toronto and a founding member of the Laboratoire de l’École d’Architecture de Versailles.
December Landscape Design Paper over Board 978-0-300-19939-0 $65.00 sc 440 pp. 9 3⁄4 x 12 1⁄4 180 color + 170 b/w illus. World A-60
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December Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-18506-5 $85.00 tx 800 pp. 4 3⁄4 x 8 1⁄2 120 color illus. World
Northamptonshire Bruce Bailey and Nikolaus Pevsner ◆◆
evsner P A rchitectural Guides
September Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-18507-2 $85.00 tx 800 pp. 4 3⁄4 x 8 1⁄2 120 color illus. World
The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated, and expanded edition of John Newman’s classic survey, first published in 1969. The city of Canterbury is the county’s greatest treasure, and its glorious cathedral is the first mature example of Gothic architecture in England. The influence of Canterbury appears also in the remains of St Augustine’s 7th-century mission churches, and in sophisticated Norman carved work at churches such as Barfrestone. Kent is also a maritime county, and its coastal towns are excitingly diverse: the royal stronghold of Dover with its mighty medieval castle; the medieval port of Sandwich; and resorts large and small, from genteel Folkestone to lively Margate, with its bold new art gallery. John Newman is the author of several other volumes for the Pevsner Architectural Guides, including Kent: West and the Weald (2012), Shropshire (2006), and Glamorgan and Gwent/Monmouthshire in the Buildings of Wales series.
Some of England’s grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century Frenchinspired Boughton, Hawksmoor’s stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton and the evocative New Beild at Lyveden. Of no less interest are the fine churches, from Anglo-Saxon Brixworth to the noble Gothic of Warmington, Rushden and Finedon and from All Saints, Northampton, one of the grandest 17th-century churches outside London, to Comper’s St. Mary’s, Wellingborough. Chief among the towns, Northampton has not only distinguished Victorian and Edwardian public, commercial and industrial buildings but also the principal work in England by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Bruce Bailey is a Northamptonshire man and has contributed to both of the previous editions of the guide to the county in this series. He serves as archivist at Drayton House and for the Althorp Estate. Art and Architecture—Scholarly
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Powys
Robert Scourfield and Richard Haslam ◆◆
evsner P A rchitectural Guides
November Architecture Cloth 978-0-300-18508-9 $85.00 tx 800 pp. 4 3⁄4 x 8 1⁄2 120 color illus. World
The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire, and Breconshire are described in this final volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979. Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampments, Early Christian monuments, ruined castles and the enigmatic remains of early industry enhance the landscapes of this wild and beautiful region. Atmospheric medieval churches survive in quantity, together with diverse Nonconformist chapels. Vernacular traditions are represented by robust medieval cruck-framed houses, and by the manor houses and farmhouses of the Tudors and Stuarts. Other highlights include Montgomery, with its beguiling Georgian heritage, the Victorian spa at Llandrindod Wells, and Powis Castle, with its Baroque interiors and terraced gardens. Robert Scourfield is Buildings Conservation Officer for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, and co-author of Pembrokeshire (2004) and Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (2006) in the Buildings of Wales series. Richard Haslam is the author of the first edition of Powys, and co-author of the Buildings of Wales volume on Gwynedd (2009).
Survey of London: Battersea
Volume 49: Public, Commercial, and Cultural Edited by Andrew Saint Volume 50: Houses and Housing Edited by Colin Thom The south London parish of Battersea has roots as a working village, growing produce for London markets, and as a high-class suburb, with merchants’ villas on the elevated ground around Clapham and Wandsworth Commons. Battersea enjoyed spectacular growth during Queen Victoria’s reign, and railroads brought industry and a robust building boom, transforming the parish into another of London’s dense, smoky neighborhoods, though not without its unique and distinguishing features. Among these are Battersea Park, which was created by the Crown in the 1850s; the monumental Battersea Power Station, completed in 1939; and Clapham Junction railway station, which is, by measure of passenger interchanges, the busiest station in the United Kingdom. The two latest volumes of the Survey of London, 49 and 50, trace Battersea’s development from medieval times to the present day. Offering detailed analysis of its streets and buildings both thematically and topographically, and including copious original in-depth research and investigation, the books are a trove of architectural and British history. Profusely illustrated with new and archival images, architectural drawings and maps, these volumes are welcome additions to the acclaimed Survey of London series. ANDREW SAINT is the general editor of The Survey of London and the author of Richard Norman Shaw. Colin Thom is senior historian, Survey of London, English Heritage.
December Architecture Volume 49: Cloth 978-0-300-19616-0 $150.00 tx Volume 50: Cloth 978-0-300-19617-7 $150.00 tx Each volume 520 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 11 1⁄4 150 color + 250 b/w illus. World Volumes 49 and 50: Cloth Set with Slipcase 978-0-300-19813-3 $275.00 tx 1,040 pp. 8 3⁄4 x 11 1⁄4 300 color + 500 b/w illus. World A-62
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