Art & Architecture
New Books from MIT 1998-99

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M I T PRESS:
RECENT PUBLICATIONS 1998-99
Art, Architecture, Photography


Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art. (Date Not Set) M I T Press. Christoph Grunenberg, Patrick McGrath and Joyce Carol Oates. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-07184-3 . 218p. $ 25.00

Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession. M I T Press. Roger K. Lewis. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-62048-0 . 05/1985 $ 15.00 Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-12208-1 LCCN: 97-035747 . Revised 01/1998 illus. 391p. $ 30.00

Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art. (Date Not Set) 2nd ed. M I T Press. Edited by M. Catherine De Zegher. Griselda Pollock, Bell Hooks and Judith Wilson. Orig PB illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54081-9 LCCN: 95-047948 . 500p. Size: 11 x 8.500 in. $ 40.00


The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox. 05/1998 M I T Press. Kenji Ekuan. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-05055-2 . 208p. $ 30.00

Albert Renger-Patzsch: Photographer of Objectivity. 02/1998 M I T Press. Edited by Ann Wilde, Jurgen Wilde and Thomas Weski. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-18189-4 . 176p. $ 60.00

The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice. 02/1998 M I T Press. Edited by Francesca Hughes. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-58165-5 . Reprint 288p. $ 17.50

Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession. 01/1998 M I T Press. Roger K. Lewis. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-62121-5 . Revised 391p. $ 16.50

Architecture & Modernity: A Critique. 09/1998 M I T Press. Hilde Heynen. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-08264-0 . 200p. $ 35.00

The Architecture of Historic Hungary. 04/1998 LCCN: NA1012.A73 1998 M I T Press. Edited by Dora Wieberson and Jozsef Sisa. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-23192-1 LCCN: 97-036125 . 436p. $ 50.00 Dewey #: 720 .9439

The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934. 12/1998 M I T Press. Eve Blau. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-02451-9 LCCN: 98-025675 . 500p. $ 50.00

Architecture Theory since 1968. 07/1998 M I T Press. Edited by K. Michael Hays. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-08261-6 LCCN: 98-013415 . 784p. $ 60.00 $ 50.00

Caravaggio's Secret. 08/1998 M I T Press. Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-02449-7 (October Book) . 182p. $ 25.00

Charles & Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century. 02/1998 M I T Press. Pat Kirkham. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-61139-2 . Reprint 504p. $ 27.50

City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture the Automobile & Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. 09/1998 M I T Press. Richard Longstreth. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-62125-8 . 544p. $ 30.00

Civic Space - Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age. 12/1998 M I T Press. Redmond K. Molz and Phyllis Dain. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-13346-6 LCCN: 98-016614 . 272p. $ 30.00

Competing Visions: Aeshetic Invention & Social Imagination in Central European Architecture, 1867-1918. 01/1998 M I T Press. Akos Moravanszky. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-13334-2 . 464p. $ 50.00

Composing Interactive Music: Techniques & Ideas Using Max. 05/1998 LCCN: MT56.W5 1998 M I T Press. Todd Winkler. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-23193-X LCCN: 97-034535 . 368p. $ 50.00 Dewey #: 781.3 45268

The Dancing Column: On Orders in Architecture. 02/1998 M I T Press. Joseph Rykwert. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-68101-3 . Reprint 624p. $ 35.00

Conversations at the Castle: Changing Audiences & Contemporary Art. 06/1998 LCCN: NX427.A88C66 1998 M I T Press. Mary J. Jacob and Michael Brenson. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-10072-X LCCN: 98-010767 . $ 25.00 Dewey #: 700 .1 0309758231

Le Corbusier, the Noble Savage: Toward an Archaeology of Modernism. 06/1998 M I T Press. Adolf M. Vogt. Translated by Radka Donnell. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-22056-3 LCCN: 98-004753 . 408p. $ 40.00

The Design of Everyday Things. 07/1998 M I T Press. Donald A. Norman. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-64037-6 . 274p. $ 15.95

The Ethical Function of Architecture. 09/1998 M I T Press. Karsten Harries. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-58171-X . 424p. $ 25.00

Evictions: Art & Spatial Politics. 09/1998 M I T Press. Rosalyn Deutsche. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54097-5 . $ 20.00

The Favored Circle: The Social Foundations of Architectural Distinction. 11/1998 M I T Press. Garry Stevens. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-19408-2 . 228p. $ 30.00

Hans Richter: Activism, Modernism, & the Avant-Garde. 05/1998 LCCN: PN1998.3.R535H36 199 M I T Press. Edited by Stephen C. Foster. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-06196-1 LCCN: 97-031931 . 304p. $ 40.00 Dewey #: 700 .92

How, When & Why Modern Art Came to New York. 09/1998 M I T Press. Marcus De Zayas. Edited by Francis M. Naumann. (TheGraham Foundation Series in Contemporary Discourse) illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54096-7 . 280p. $ 15.00

Human Settlements & Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City. 04/1998 LCCN: HT243.M62M487 1998 M I T Press. Keith Pezzoli. (Urban & Industrial Environments Ser.) illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-16173-7 LCCN: 97-039497 . 464p. $ 35.00 Dewey #: 363.7 07 097253

A Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture. 06/1998 M I T Press. Ann Cline. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-53150-X LCCN: 97-033107 . 176p. $ 17.50

Iconography & Electronics upon a Generic Architecture. 02/1998 M I T Press. Robert Venturi. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-72029-9 . Reprint 392p. $ 20.00 $ 22.50

Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1943. 04/1998 LCCN: N6853.D8J67 1997 M I T Press. David Joselit. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-10067-3 (October Book) LCCN: 97-028732 . 264p. $ 30.00 Dewey #: 709 .2

Information Design. 12/1998 M I T Press. Edited by Robert Jacobson. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-10069-X . 354p. $ 35.00

Minimalism Beyond the Nurnberg Funnel. 01/1998 M I T Press. Edited by John M. Carroll. Contribution by Greg Kearsley, Robert R. Johnson, JoAnn T. Hackos, R. John Brockmann, Tricia Anson, Steve Draper and David K. Farkas. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-03249-X LCCN: 97-036124 . 350p. Size: 9 x 6 in. $ 45.00

Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. 07/1998 M I T Press. Edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Lisa Jacobs. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-19412-0 . 160p. $ 25.00

Kant after Duchamp. 02/1998 M I T Press. Thierry De Duve. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54094-0 (October Book) . Reprint 504p. $ 20.00 $ 25.00

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism & Self-Representation. 04/1998 M I T Press. Edited by Whitney Chadwick. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-53157-7 . 264p. $ 35.00 Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-03251-1 . 156p. $ 35.00

Perspecta 29: The Yale Architectural Journal. 02/1998 M I T Press. Edited by William Deresiewicz and Garrett S. Finney. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54092-4 . 120p. $ 30.00 $ 20.00

The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art. 12/1998 M I T Press. Mary A. Staniszewski. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-19402-3 LCCN: 98-007880 . 400p. $ 45.00

Robert Hudson & Richard Shaw: New Ceramic Sculpture. 01/1998 M I T Press. Jock Reynolds. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 1-879886-43-X LCCN: 97-077851 . 66p. $ 18.00

Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875. 10/1998 LCCN: TR222.A76 1998 M I T Press. Carol Armstrong. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-01169-7 LCCN: 98-018193 . $ 40.00 Dewey #: 770 .9 034

The Situationist City. 01/1998 M I T Press. Simon Sadler. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-19392-2 LCCN: 97-031783 . 353p. $ 35.00

The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno & Derrida. 04/1998 M I T Press. Christoph Menke. (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-13340-7 LCCN: 97-046401 . 336p. $ 30.00 $ 35.00

The Springboard in the Pond: An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool. 12/1998 M I T Press. Thomas A. Van Leeuwen. (Graham Foundation - MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse) illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-22059-8 . 304p. $ 40.00

Welcome to the Hotel Architecture. 04/1998 M I T Press. Roger Connah. illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-53153-4 LCCN: 97-047324 . 160p. $ 14.00 $ 17.50

Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture. 09/1998 M I T Press. Robert Harbison. (TheGraham Foundation Series in Contemporary Discourse) illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-58170-1 . 224p. $ 12.50

What Is a Bridge?: The Making of Calatrava's Bridge in Seville. 04/1998 M I T Press. Spiro N. Pollalis. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-16174-5 . 224p. $ 25.00

Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art. (Date Not Set) M I T Press. Christoph Grunenberg, Patrick McGrath and Joyce Carol Oates. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-07184-3 . 218p. $ 25.00

Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession. M I T Press. Roger K. Lewis. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-62048-0 . 05/1985 $ 15.00 Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-12208-1 LCCN: 97-035747 . Revised 01/1998 illus. 391p. $ 30.00

Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art. (Date Not Set) 2nd ed. M I T Press. Edited by M. Catherine De Zegher. Griselda Pollock, Bell Hooks and Judith Wilson. Orig PB illus. Trade Paper ISBN 0-262-54081-9 LCCN: 95-047948 . 500p. Size: 11 x 8.500 in. $ 40.00

Reality Transformed: Film As Meaning & Technique. 08/1998 M I T Press. Irving Singer. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-262-19403-1 LCCN: 98-017339 . 180p. $ 25.00

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