Art & Architecture
Important New Books
from Oxford U. Press, Spring 2000

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Landscape
And Western Art
MALCOLM ANDREWS

A beautifully-illustrated look at 500 years of one of the most popular genres in art

What is landscape? How does it differ from "land"? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature"? Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance.
Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the fascinating and challenging issues of landscape as art. The books broad sweep covers the full, rich spectrum of landscape art, including painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. Artistic issues are investigated in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context.
Clear explanations and beautiful illustrations convey to the reader the idea of landscape as an experience in which everyone is creatively involved. It is an enlightening and comprehensive critical overview of landscape art.

Covers 500 years of one of the most popular genres in art

Provides a comprehensive critical overview of the subject

Beautifully-illustrated with a wide range of different examples of landscape art
256 pp.; 65 color & 65 b/w halftones; 0-19-210046-7 2000 $39.95 (02) cloth
2000 $17.95 (03) paper

The Gualenghi d'Este Hours
Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara
KURT BARSTOW

One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the Getty Museum, the lavishly illustrated Gualenghi d'Este Hours was created around 1649 on the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional manuscript featured brilliant figured decoration of the suffrages--short prayers to saints--and was created by Taddeo Crivelli, one of the most important manuscript illuminators of the Renaissance.
This volume includes reproductions of all the illuminations in the original manuscript plus selected text pages, each with commentary. Kurt Barstow examines the book's vivid devotional imagery in relation to works of art of the period that help explain the Hours significance for the fifteenth-century patrons. This beautifully illustrated book is published to coincide with an exhibit featuring the manuscript that will tkae palce at the Getty Museum from May 9 to July 30, 2000.

272 pp.; 39 color & 89 b/w illus; 0-89236-370-3 May 2000 $95.00 (02) Tentative

Ancient Greece: Monuments Past and Present
G. BEHOR

This tour through ancient Greece includes the Acropolis, the temple o Poseidon, the Agora, Olympia and Delphi. Overlays depict the sculptures and other adornments thought to have embellished the buildings in their day.


72 pp.; 64 color, 1 map, & 24 color illus; 11 7/8 x 7 7/8; 88-8162-067-7 2000 $24.95 (03)
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The Victory of the New Building Style
WALTER CURT BEHRENDT
Introduction by DETLEF MERTINS
Translated by HARRY FRANCIS

The architect and theorist Walter Behrendt was involved with public housing and urban development as a designer and administrator for the German government after World War I. From 1925 to 1926 he edited the journal Die Form for the German Werkbund and led an articulate and well-orchestrated campaign in support of the Modern Movement. A friend and colleague of Lewis Mumford, he immigrated in 1934 to the United States where he taught courses on city planning and housing at Dartmouth College and the Unviersity of Buffalo.
This book--Behrendt's principle theoretical work in German and the precursor to Modern Building--presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Here, Behrendt calls for architects to return to basic geometries and to articulate explicitly the new social and economic realities. Now available in English for the first time, this incisive treatise bodly advocates international modernism to the general public.

168 pp.; 94 b/w illus; 0-89236-563-3 April 2000 $29.95 (01) Tentative paper

Summary Guide to Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum
Second Edition
Compiled by THOMAS CARPENTER
Updated by THOMAS MANNACK

During the last seventy-five years, the international Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum project has created an enormous database of ancient Greek pottery held in public and private collections. In 1984, a handy Summary Guide was published to help students find their way through the 239 fascicules. The new edition of this essential reference tool is brought up to date with the details of a further sixty fascicules.

A new edition of this very popular research tool

90 pp.; 0-19-726203-1 May 2000 $17.95 (06) Tentative paper

Modern Chinese Art
DAVID CLARKE, University of Hong Kong

Much has been written about China's contemporary art scene, but little attention has been paid to the complicated ways in which the Chinese and Western art traditions have influenced each other. Featuring many stunning reproductions of original artworks, this beautiful book tells that story, exploring how Chinese artists--whether using traditional media or adopting media and techniques from the West--have responded to the momentous changes brought about by modernism.


96 pp.; 17 b/w, & 22 color illus; 0-19-590606-3 February 2000 $16.95 (01) Tentative

A Dictionary of Architecture
JAMES STEVENS CURL
Line Drawings by JOHN SAMBROOK

The most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of architecture available

Offering lucid explanations for terms ranging from Aalto to ziggurat, this is an authoritative, accessible guide to architecture and its history. Wholly comprehensive and contemporary, A Dictionary of Architecture will be a must for anyone interested in learning--or else learning more--about this rich subject.
* More than 5,000 entries--twice as many as its nearest competitor
* Covers styles ranging from Assyrian architecture to Flemish Mannerism
* Provides extensive coverage for all periods of Western architectural history, from ancient times to the present day
* Over 250 attractive illustrations, all adding crucial visual information to terms like arch and cross
* Features several longer entries that explain the different schools of architecture, from Bauhaus to the Federal Style, and that likewise set each movement in its historical context
* Also provides biographical entries for a great number of architects, dating from the ancients up to the leading figures of modern times--from Brunelleschi and Gropius to Le Corbusier and Brunel

"This is a straighforward work that should quickly become a staple reference source....Beginners will be satisfied with the basic entries, and advanced readers will be led to further material in the extensive bibliography."--Booklist

"Splendid...you can't have a more concise, entertaining, and informative guide to the words of architecture."--Architectural Review

"Dictionaries...are not supposed to be fascinating, only useful. [This] chunky achievement...is both."--The Architect's Journal

"For a single-volume, well-illustrated source, [this] dictionary supersedes its predecessors. It merges entries on individual architects with a carefully illustrated and impressively comprehensive set of building terms...."--Library Journal



848 pp.; 150 line drawings; 0-19-280017-5 June 2000 $16.95 (03) Tentative paper
1999 $45.00 (02) cloth

George Washington's Mount Vernon
At Home in Revolutionary America
ROBERT F. DALZELL, Jr. and LEE BALDWIN DALZELL

"A superb history."--Publishers Weekly

This book brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also loved building, a man passionately committed to impressing the stamp of his character and personal beliefs on the physical world around him. Architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light their book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--enslaved and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of the nation--hopes that embraced the full promise of the American Revolution.
George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of our first President's life, the public and the private, and uses this combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, and with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, it tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.

"George Washington's Mount Vernon, the husband-and-wife collaboration of Robert and Lee Dalzell, is a lovely book...as much about the builder, the foremost Founding Father, as about his house. There are insights in it about the character of George Washington that don't emerge from the rest of the Washington literature, vast as the corpus is."--Eric L. McKitrick, The New York Review of Books

"This is the definitive study of Mount Vernon."--Kirkus Reviews

A fascinating account of the relationship between George Washington, his beloved home, and America's struggle for independence

320 pp.; 82 halftones and line illus; 7 x 10; 0-19-513628-4 February 2000 $19.95 (03)
paper 1998 $30.00 (02) cloth

The Culture of Building
HOWARD DAVIS, University of Oregon

All buildings are ultimately the products of building cultures--complex systems of people, relationships, rules, and habits in which design and building are anchored. In this book of thirteen chapter-essays, Davis uses historical, contemporary and cross-cultural examples to describe the structure of such cultures and how they are reflected in the form of buildings and cities. His aim is to show that special insights about the improvement of the contemporary built world come from looking at the building culture as a whole, not merely the individual acts of architects and city planners. The book is illustrated with over 260 historic and contemporary photographs, drawings and prints.

"I find this book to be wonderful and refreshing. It describes, for the first time, a new point of view in which the overall system and process of construction of the buildings in the world--all of them together--is viewed as a single system: and that system is analyzed for its capacity to create a living world, or not, in different traditional and modern societies. The depth of the examples, the beautiful detail that describes individual instances of building process from culture after culture, and the analytical insight in the hundreds of examples, make this book a landmark. The Culture of Building, if taken as I think it must be taken, heralds a new era in our thinking about architecture."--Christopher Alexander

"With this insightful work, Howard Davis brings a refreshing breeze to ventilate our stuffy attics of architectural thought. He draws our attention away from the tired, singular icons of architectural history and directs it toward the omnipresent urban fabric that shapes our everyday experience. Through his words and photographs, we learn to recognize (and hopefully to replicate) the qualities of a built environment that is healthy for our minds and souls as well as our bodies."--Edward Allen, author of How Buildings Work: The Natural Order of Architecture

"In this innovatory and challeging work, Howard Davis explores the relationships between the institutions and operations of building design and construction in practical and human terms. Drawing upon a remarkably broad frame of reference, Davis cites examples from his own studies in Japan, India, North Africa, and elsewhere, in addition to focused examination of the building culture of the past and present in Europe and the United States. This unprecedented book should be essential reading, not merely for architects and students of architecture, but for all who are seriously engaged in the production of buildings now, and in the future."--Paul Oliver, Director, Centre for Vernacular Architecture, Oxford Brookes University


400 pp.; 173 color halftones & line illus, 45 b/w halftones & 56 linne illus; 7 x 10; 0-19-511294-6 2000 $45.00 (01)

Pompeii: Monuments Past and Present
A. DE FRANCISCUS

A look at this fabled city--buried beneath a rain of ash and cinder during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD--includes the Porta Marina, one of the best preserved gates to the city, as well as the Forum, tmple of Apollo, and several public walkways and private villas.


56 pp.; 68 color, 2 maps & 12 color overlays; 11 1/4 x 7 3/4; 88-8162-075-8 2000 $21.95 (03)
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York Minster: The St William Window
TOM FRENCH, The Society of Antiquaries

This next stage in Tom French's majestic treatment of York Minster's glass covers the brilliantly colored St William Window. Painted c.1414, it celebrates the city's only local saint with ninety-five large stained glass panels that tell the story of his life and subsequent miracles at his tomb. This catalogue provides valuable illustrations of medieval life and its artistic achievements,

Sumptuously illustrated, including 24 pages of colour capturing the full palette of the original glass



170 pp.; 125 halftones; 0-19-726202-3 February 2000 $65.00 (06) Tentative

Glass
Sasanian Antecedents to European Imitations
SIDNEY M. GOLDSTEIN, Director, St.Louis Art Museum

The Khalili Collection contains more than 300 examples of pre-Islamic and Islamic glass objects that encapsulate the history of ancient glass. This catalogue illustrates the development of glass-making technology from its Byzantine and Sasanian beginnings, and follows it into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when European makers found new inspiration in Islamic forms.

Illustrates the entire history of glass-making in the Islamic world

Full colour photographs throughout

Includes supplementary line drawings of shapes and patterns

248 pp.; full color photographs throughout; 0-19-727613-X May 2000 $250.00 (06) Tentative

Pompeii
PIERO GIOVANNI GUZZO and ANTONIO D'AMBROSIO

Since its discovery in the middle of the eighteenth century, Pompeii has aroused the interest of scholars and laypeople alike. The thrill of finding the ancient city--buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD--was heightened by the rich history of this Roman town and her people. When the ancient sculptures, decorations, and buildings of Pompeii first came to light, they were eagerly compared with then-contemporary knowledge of classical antiquity, and still today are immensely important in understanding ancient Roman civilization.
This comprehensive guide features an insightful history of Pompeii along with beautiful photographs of the ruins, frescoes, and art objects of the city. Pompeii is toured via three itineraries: from Porta Marina to the House of Ceii; from Via dell'Abbondanza to Porta Nocera; and from the House of Julius Polibius to the Villa of the Mysteries. A thematic index and an index of places and buildings are also included, making this a useful guide for travelers, students, scholars, and anyone else with an interest in this fascinating site.

160 pp.; 137 color, 1 line drawing, 4 maps, & 19 plans; 6 5/8 x 9 3/8; 88-8265-026-X March 2000 $24.95 (03) paper

Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum
This is the sixth in a series that documents the vast collection of Greek vases in the Getty Museum. Eight essay--in English, German, and Italian--shed light on a number of objects from the Museum's fine collection.
Included are the identification of a new Corinthian painter by C.W. Neeft; the publication of three Caeretan hydriai by J.M. Hemelrijk; and the reconstruction of an important early krater by the Berlin painter discussed by Mary B. Moore. Also included is a discussion of a parody of a phylax comedy on a South Italian vase by Anneliese Kossatz-Deissmann, as well as essays by Petra Reichert-Sudbeck, Glann Markoe, Flavia Zisa, and Ruth Lindner.

144 pp.; 165 b/w illus, 22 drawings; 0-89236-561-7 July 2000 $45.00 (06) Tentative paper

Scent in the Islamic Garden
A Study of Deccani Urdu Literary Sources
ALI AKBAR HUSAIN

This work explores literary perceptions of the Indo-Islamic garden. Using a knowledge of Islamic horticulture and medical botany, Husain explains why scented plants in particular were popular in Islamic cultures and suggests which kinds were used to ornament the gardens we now call Mughal.

300 pp.; 28 color plates, 12 maps & 12 line drawings; 0-19-579334-X April 2000 $19.95 (06) Tentative

In Focus: August Sander
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist, exemplified the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of his time. He was at once innovative and deeply wedded to the past, blending a progressive vision with a traditional view of society and his craft.
The approximately fifty plates featured in In Focus: August Sander are some of the most striking from the Getty Museum's more than twelve hundred pictures by the artist. They include images of rural dwellers such as those found in Young Farmers and Farm Girls, and other portraits including Wife of the Cologne Painter Peter Abelen, Parliamentarianand the poignant Blind Children, Duren. A chronological overview of Sander's life provides a factual framework for this discussion.

144 pp.; 150 duotones; 6 x 7 5/8; 0-89236-567-6 January 2000 $16.95 (03) Tentative paper
My Museum Journal
A Writing and Sketching Book
SHELLY KALE and LISA VIHOS

A journal is a popular way for children and young adults to contemplate many aspects of their lives. This unique diary, designed especially for children ages nine and up, helps kids articulate their personal experience of art and museums.
My Museum Journal combines fine art with stimulating writing and sketching activities which encourage children to record and understand their art impressions. A self-portrait by Edgar Degas provides inspiration for an activity entitled "Who Am I?" David Hockney's photographic collage Pearblossom Hwy introduces the topic of travel. A European tapestry depicting a fantastical scene from China beckons youngsters to let their imagination fly away to distant places. Other themes in the journal include heroes, family, growing up, games, friends, dreams, and celebrations. Each topic includes an introduction, an artwork thematically related to the text, and a mix of writing and sketching activities intended to inspire creative drawing and writing in the shape of poetry, dialogue, and illustrations. Extra blank pages for writing and sketching and a section on visiting museums wrap up this handsome volume.
48 pp.; 13 color illus & 10 drawings; 7 x 10; 0-89236-570-6 March 2000 $14.95 (03) Tentative
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Architects to the Nation
The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office
ANTOINETTE J. LEE, Heritage Preservation Services, National Park Service

This unique book traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design. Among its more memorable buildings are the Italianate U.S. Mint in Carson City, the huge granite pile of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, D.C., the towering U.S. Post Office in Nashville, New York City's neo-Renaissance customhouse, and such "resetorations" as the ancient adobe Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe. In tracing the evolution of the Office and its creative output, Antoinette J. Lee evokes the nation's considerable efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture.


320 pp.; 101 halftones; 7 x 10; 0-19-512822-2 February 2000 $45.00 (01) Tentative

Cultural Links between Portugal and Italy in the Renaissance
Edited by K. J. P. LOWE

Cultural links between Portugal and Italy, the two most innovative and influential European areas during the Renaissance, have never been systematically explored. In this unique and lavishly illustrated collection of essays, contributors map the cultural interconnections, exchanges, and influences between these two nations.

Makes significant contributions to Renaissance scholarship

Of great importance for an understanding of European culture and society

Lavishly illustrated throughout

Ranges across Portuguese and Italian history of art, history, and literature

The only book in English on the Portuguese Renaissance

Includes contributions from American, British, Italian, and Portuguese scholars

328 pp.; 32 color plates, 133 b/w plates; 0-19-817428-4 April 2000 $105.00 (06) Tentative

Departures
11 Artists at the Getty
LISA LYONS

Departures chronicles the exhibition of specially commissioned works produced by eleven acclaimed artists as each responds to an object in the Getty Museum. Using the Getty collections as a point of departure, the artists create new works spanning a broad spectrum of media including painting, sculpture, photography, film, and video. Conceptual artist John Baldessari enlarges Albrecht Durer's diminutive drawing ^Stag Beetle (1505) to a mural held in place by a gigantic specimen pin, while ceramicist Adrian Saxe creates a porcelain and stoneware centerpiece designed especially for an eighteenth-century French table in the collection.
Other participating artists include Uta Barth, Sharon Ellis, Judy Fiskin, Martin Kersels, John M. Miller, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Lari Pittman, Stephen Prina, and Alison Saar. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Getty Museum from February 29 through May 7, 2000, this book provides a rare glimpse at these artists, including their past work, the objects they created for this unusual exhibition, and their studios. Essays on each artist's commissioned work along with Grant Mumford's photographs of the artists and the artwok provide a thought-provoking exploration of the potent and surprising ways in which the art of the past can inform the art of today.
72 pp.; 16 color & 40 b/w illus; 0-89236-582-X March 2000 $24.95 (03) Tentative paper

Time and Bits
Managing Digital Continuity
Edited by MARGARET MAC LEAN and BEN H. DAVIS

What are the long-term implications of relying on current digital technology to preserve our cultural memory? This is the question that framed a symposium at the Getty Center where leaders from industry, entertainment, and digital information technology focused on the critical issues of the fragility of digital media and our growing dependence on these new media. This volume, which includes the proceedings from discussions as well as chapters on our reliance on digital media, promotes the debate and resolution of these problems.
Contributors include Stewart Brand, author of the Whole Earth Catalog; musician and artist Brian Eno; Kevin Kelly, senior editor at Wired Magazine; Danny Hillis, vice president of Disney; and other involved in digital technology, conservation, and reference.

84 pp.; 24 b/w illus; 0-89-236583-8 March 2000 $9.95 (03) Tentative paper

Cosmé Tura
The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara
JOSEPH MANCA, Rice University

This is the first major monograph to appear in forty years of the major Italian Renaissance painter, Cosmé Tura. Tura worked for the Estense court in Ferrara which was one of the leading cultural centers in fifteenth-century Italy. The richly illustrated book includes a catalogue raisonne and full transcriptions of the original documents that record his life.


288 pp.; 15 color plates, & 135 b/w illus; 0-19-817424-1 April 2000 $125.00 (06) Tentative

F. L. Griggs, 1876-1938
The Architecture of Dreams
JERROLD NORTHROP MOORE

F. L. Griggs was universally acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time. An influential figure in British Romantic art, Griggs's work links that of Turner, Blake, and Samuel Palmer with the Neo-Romantics Graham Sutherland and John Piper. Written wtih great passion and skill, this scholarly and detailed account of Griggs's life and work fills an important gap.

F. L. Griggs was universally acclaimed as one of the finest etchers of his time

This scholarly and detailed account fills an important gap

The first full biography, setting Griggs in the visionary tradition of Samuel Palmer, the Blake disciple

Includes high quality reproductions of Griggs's etchings

304 pp.; 145 b/w plates, 6 color illus.; 0-19-817407-1 January 2000 $120.00 (06) Tentative

The Florentine Tondo
ROBERTA OLSON, Wheaton College, Massachusetts

Roberta Olson explores an important phenomenon in Italian Renaissance art: the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century flowering of the tondo (or circular) form in painting and sculpture. The tondo represented the Renaissance ideal of the perfect form. This book fills a major gap in Florentine artistic and cultural history, collating documentary, textual, and artistic material with new evidence.

400 pp.; 12 color plates, & 297 b/w plates; 0-19-817425-X April 2000 $140.00 (06) Tentative

Making a Prince's Museum
Drawings for the Late-Eighteenth-Century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese
CAROLE PAUL

In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir.
In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.

176 pp.; 13 color, & 58 b/w illus; 0-89236-539-0 June 2000 $24.95 (06) Tentative paper

The Faustian Bargain
The Art World in Nazi Germany
JONATHAN PETROPOULOS

The extraordinary story of five individuals who plundered art masterpieces and put their creative talents to work for Hitler

Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the subject of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape of Europa. But such books leave us wondering: What made thoughtful, educated, artistic men and women decide to put their talents in the service of a brutal and inhuman regime? This question is the starting point for The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos's study of five key figure in the art world of Nazi Germany.
Petropoulos follows the careers of these prominent individuals that like Faust, that German archetypechose to pursue artistic ends through collaboration with diabolical forces. Readers meet Ernst Buchner, the distinguished museum director and expert on Old Master paintings who "repatriated" Van Eyck's Ghent altarpiece to Germany, and Karl Haberstock, an art dealer who filled German museums with works bought virtually at gunpoint from Jewish collectors. Robert Scholz, an art critic in the Third Reich, became an officer in the chief art looting unit in France and Kajetan Muhlmanna leading art historianheaded looting agencies in Poland and the Netherlands. Finally, there is Arno Breker, a gifted artist who exchanged his modernist style for monumental realism and became Hitler's favorite sculptor. If it is striking that these educated men became part of the Nazi machine, it is equally is striking that most of them lived comfortably after the war.
Based on previously unreleased information and recently declassified documents, The Faustian Bargain is a gripping read about the art world during this period, and a fascinating examination of the intense relationship between culture and politics in the Third Reich.

320 pp.; 50 halftones; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; 0-19-512964-4 February 2000 $30.00 (02) Tentative

Walker Evans
Florida
ROBERT PLUNKET

American photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) is best known for his portraits of Depression-era America, a number of which were included in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), his famous collaboration with writer James Agee. In 1942 at the behest of retired journalist Karl Bickel, Evans journeyed to Sarasota to take photographs for the Mangrove Coast, a book Bickel was writing about the long and colorful history of Florida's Gulf Coast.
Featured in Walker Evans: Florida are the surprising images Evans took during that six-week stay in the area, which constitute a little-known chapter in Evans's distinguished career. Far from stereotypical postcard pictures of sandy beaches and palm trees, Evans captured a region of contradictions. Here in the nation's seaside vacationland, Evans focused his lens on decaying architecture, crowded street scenes, retirees, and numerous images of animals, railroad cars, and circus wagons from Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, whose winter home was Sarasota.
Accompanying the fifty-two images in Walker Evans: Florida is novelist Robert Plunket's wry account of the human and geographic landscape of Florida.
80 pp.; 52 duotone & 50 b/w illus; 0-89236-566-8 March 2000 $19.95 (02) Tentative

Aegean Art and Architecture
DONALD PREZIOSI and LOUISE HITCHCOCK

First comprehensive introduction to the visual arts and architecture of the ancient Aegean

The discoveries in Crete, Greece, and the Aegean islands that began a century ago were nothing less than stunning, and seemed to give shape and substance to tales of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth, of Theseus and Ariadne, of Minos and Icarus. Ancient Aegean Art is the first comprehensive historical introduction to the art and architecture Crete, mainland Greece, and the Cycladic islands in the Aegean, beginning with the Neolithic period, before 3000 BCE, and ending at the close of the Bronze Age and the transition to the Iron Age of Hellenic Greece (c.1000 BCE).
Covering a broad range of objects and artefacts, from sealstones to pots to buildings and settlements, Preziosi and Hitchcock discuss both the historiography of the field of ancient art history and explain the artefacts original intentions and functions. In chronologically organized chapters, the authors emphasize the more widely known images and structures, with a glimpse at the lesser-known but important discoveries, explaining their design, uses, meanings, and formal developments. Ancient Aegean Art incorporates the latest archeological discoveries and theoretical and methodological developments, in the only volume to examine both Crete and the mainland.

Only book on the prehistoric Aegean designed to be accessible to a general audience and the specialist

Examines both Crete and the Mainland in a single book

Provides a historiographical survey of the discipline



272 pp.; 146 illus.; 0-19-284208-0 2000 $17.95 (03) paper

A Medieval Islamic City Reconsidered
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Samarra
Edited by CHASE ROBINSON, Oxford University

This book represents the first sustained attempt to understand Islamic urbanism and court life from an interdisciplinary approach. Samarra, the last great example of early Islamic city building in Iraq, was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate and the center of court culture during the second half of the ninth century. Although archaeologists and art historians have worked on the site extensively, the bounty of numismatic, literary, and historical evidence has hardly been tapped. Since much of this evidence overlaps, Samarra offers unique insights into the character of city building, administration, military history, court life (ritual, court poetry), and imperial ideology throughout this period.

the first truly interdisciplinary approach to the study of early Islamic urbanism

250 pp.; b/w illus.; 0-19-728024-2 July 2000 $70.00 (06) Tentative

I quaderni di Aldo Rossi
ALDO ROSSI

The Italian architect and theorist Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) gained international renown for his imaginative and starkly beautiful designs featuring simple forms such as cones, cylinders, prisms, and cubes. Among his most famous projects are the cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena; the Gallaratese residential complex in Milan; the Hotel Il Palazzo in Fukuoka, Japan; and Il Teatro del Mondo, a temporary floating theater created in 1979 for the Venice Bienniale.
This limited, boxed-set edition contains facsimiles of Rossi's notebooks for the years 1968 to 1986. Their pages are filled with Rossi's thoughts on architectural theory and history, his musings on progress, cities, and museums, and the impressions he recorded during his extensive travels. Handwritten in Italian and illustrated with Rossi's superb pastel and watercolor sketches, these literate and visually stunning notebooks display the genius of an architect and theorist who was, at heart, a poet of the visible.

0-89236-589-7 March 2000 $600.00 (06) Tentative

Ancient Rome: Monuments Past and Present
R. A. STACCIOLI

[series copy]
The Monuments Past and Present series explores the ancient regions of Rome, Greece, and Pompeii with an eye toward contrasting what they were with what they are today. Important monuments and districts are presented with overlays that clearly depict how these notable ancient sites look today and how they may ahve appeared when first built. These titles are excellent resources for travelers, students, and anyone else interested in the fascinating histories of these ancient regions.
Beginning with the Colosseum, the symbol of "The Eternal City," this volume explores twenty-four significant ancient landmarks such as the Roman Forum, Circus Maximus, the Pantheon, and the Appain Way.

72 pp.; 65 color & 75 color overlays; 11 1/8 x 7 7/8; 88-8162-030-8 2000 $24.95 (03)
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Seeing the Getty/Seeing the Getty Gardens
Here, two of the Getty's most popular books are brought together in one handsome boxed set. In Seeing the Getty, numerous color photographs show the Getty Center in all its magnificence--from the tram and the noted architecture to the elegant interiors of the Museum galleries. In Seeing the Getty Gardens, vivid color photographs of the plazas, fountains, hillsides, and Robert Irwin's Central Garden offer a dazzling look at the breathtaking outdoor spaces at the Getty Center. Together these books provide an engaging glimpse of one of America's most important cultural institutions.


128 pp.; 157 color; 0-89236-555-2 March 2000 $21.95 (03) Tentative paper

European Drawings 4
Catalogue of the Collections
NICHOLAS TURNER

This fourth volume of the catalogue of the Getty's drawings collection reproduces and describes all the works acquired by the museum from 1995 to 1998, a time when particular emphasis was palced on strenghtening the collections of French drawings.
Included in this volume are Edouard Manet's Bullfight (ca. 1864), a self-portrait by a young Edgar Degas, Nicolas Puossin's Path Leading into a Forest Clearing, and A Lady Walking in a Garden with a Child by her Side by Thomas Gainsborough. Also catalogued are a Degas sketchbook and a notebook by Theodore Gericault.

320 pp.; 20 color, 210 b/w illus; 0-89236-584-6 July 2000 $75.00 (06) Tentative


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford
ANDREW G. WATSON, University of London

Founded in 1314, Exeter College, Oxford, still holds over 70 copies of its medieval manuscripts, as well as some that were acquired later. Based on close examination of the manuscripts, this detailed and handsomely illustrated catalogue replaces one that was published in 1852.


208 pp.; 6 b/w & 6 color plates; 0-19-920192-7 May 2000 $105.00 (06) Tentative

Dutch, Flemish, and German Paintings Before 1900
CHRISTOPHER WHITE

This catalog describes and illustrates the 175 Dutch, Flemish, and German pictures of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This outstanding group includes four brilliant oil-sketches by Rubens as well as two rare oil sketches by van Dyck.

Fully illustrated throughout

Includes oil sketches by Rubens and van Dyck

Contains 22 comparative plates

224 pp.; 194 b/w plates; 0-19-920184-6 April 2000 $135.00 (04) Tentative

Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum
Revised Edition
Curated by GILLIAN WILSON
Introduction by SIR FRANCIS WATSON

Since the Middle Ages Europeans mounted oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as a tribute to the value of the pieces. And beginning in the 18th century, it became increasingly fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and mounted porcelain. This revised catalog features thirty-two examples from the Gettys collection of lacquer and porcelain mounted in settings of silver, gold, and gilt bronze, ranging in date from 1665 to 1785.


128 pp.; 31 color & 80 b/w illus.; 9 x 12; 0-89236-562-5 January 2000 $75.00 (01) Tentative

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