Art & Architecture
New Books from the Getty Museum of Art &
Oxford U Press, Fall 1999

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1 to 10 and Back Again
A Getty Museum Counting Book
Teaches kids counting and art appreciation at the same time

Ten objects from the French decorative arts collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum--fine clocks, gilded chairs, and elaborate globes among them--are cleverly arranged for little fingers to find and play with in this children's counting book. Once young readers solidify their counting skills in the first half of the book, the objects are scrambled and used to teach how to count backwards, from ten to one. At the end, all of the objects are shown in context in an image of a gallery filled with the furniture and other objects from the book.
Like its popular companion volume, A is for Artist: A Getty Museum Alphabet Book, this book provides parents and educators with a unique opportunity to help children learn basic skills while, at the same time, teaching them to look closely at great art objects. In addition, adult fans of decorative arts will delight in this book's richly illustrated, whimsically designed pages.

52 pp.; 8 x 8; 0-89236-525-0 1999 $16.95 (03)

A Descriptive Catalogue of The Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library
Part III: Stotras
K. PARAMESWARA AITHAL, Heidelberg University
General Editor: JONATHAN KATZ

The arrival in 1909 of the library of manuscripts now known as the Chandra Shum Shere collection made Oxford the repository of the largest known collection of Sanskrit manuscripts outside the Indian subcontinent. This third volume of the catalogue of the collection contains descriptive entries for over five hundred manuscripts of Sanskrit hymnic and devotional poems from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.

260 pp.; 0-19-951388-0 1999 $105.00 (06) paper

A Passion for Performance
Sarah Siddons and Her Portraitists
Edited by ROBYN ASLESON, SHELLEY BENNETT, both at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, MARK LEONARD, Department Head, Getty Museum, and SHEARER WEST, University of Birmingham

A Passion for Performance features three lively essays--by Robyn Asleson, Shelley Bennett, Mark Leonard, and Shearer West--that explore the life and career of the English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), who was renowned for her majestic beauty and impassioned performances. This lavish volume also illuminates her relationships with a number of artists who portrayed her, bringing together fifty-six portraits of Siddons including works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, and Gilbert Stuart, along with a chronology of the actress' life.


160 pp.; 51 color photos, & 64 b/w halftones; 9 x 11; 0-89236-556-0 1999 $39.95 (02)

Alpha and Omega
Visions of the Millennium
One of the most definitive visions of a new age is described in the Revelation of St. John the Divine, from which the title of this beautiful volume is taken: "I was in the Spirit of the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last."
For many people, the year 2000 has profound significance. Over the centuries humanity has dreamed of a better world and many predictions of an apocalypse preceding a golden age have been timed to coincide with the millennium. Alpha and Omega contains extracts from the Revelation of St. John the Divine and magnificent apocalyptic images. From works by artists ranging from Hieronymus Bosch to Michelangelo to William Blake, as well as miniatures from manuscripts in the Getty Museum, the visionary power of the images in this bookcombined with its resounding prosecreate a timely anthology befitting this extraordinary year.

76 pp.; 33 full color illus; 6 7/8 x 8 3/8; 0-89236-576-5 1999 $16.95 (02)

Introducción a los Metadatos
vías a la información digital
MURTHA BACA

Now available in Spanish, this book describes the increasing significance of the concept of metadata since the emergence of the World Wide Web as a major research tool across all fields of study. Metadata, which can be broadly defined as data about data, refers to the searchable definitions used to locate information. This book defines this little-understood concept, explains its importance and potential uses in the networked environment, and describes existing metadata standards in the field of cultural heritage information.


48 pp.; 2 line illus; 7 x 9-1/2; 0-89236-535-8 1999 $9.95 (06) paper

Jean-Baptiste Greuze
The Laundress
COLIN B. BAILEY

Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. This lively and engrossing book traces the history of the Getty Museum's painting, compares the work to other laundresses painted by Greuze, and explores social mores and the role of artists model in the eighteenth century. It provides an enlightening account of Greuze's life and times and the influences on his work.


90 pp.; 40 color, & 32 b/w illus; 7 1/2 x 9 1/4; 0-89236-564-1 December 1999 $17.50 (03) Tentative paper

Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Photography and Fame
GORDON BALDWIN and JUDITH KELLER

This engaging catalog features the photographic portraiture of the nineteenth-century Parisian Nadar and the twentieth-century New Yorker Andy Warhol . The two photographers have more in common than one might suppose, particularly as adroit manipulators who simultaneously promoted their own reputations and those of their subjects. Both men emerged from the Bohemia of their day to become photographers after following earlier artistic pursuits: Nadar as a writer and caricaturist, Warhol as a commercial graphic artist, then painter and filmmaker.
While celebrating their individual achievements, Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York also illuminates the role of the visual artist in the conscious creation of celebrity and the changing nature of fame. Among the many portraits in this exhibition catalog are Nadar's photographs of such luminaries as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jean-Francois Millet, and Sarah Bernhardt; and Warhols images of celebrities including Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, Jane Fonda, Robert Rauschenberg, Debbie Harry, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Liza Minnelli.

240 pp.; 124 color, & 7 b/w illus; 9 x 12; 0-89236-560-9 1999 $60.00 (02)

The Decorated Word
Qur'ans of the 17th to 19th Centuries
Part One
MANIJEH BAYANI, ANNA CONTADINI, University of London, and TIM STANLEY, Deputy Curator, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art

This two-part volume is the last of four dedicated to the Qur'ans in the Khalili Collection, and covers the period 1700-1900 and items from Islamic Africa, Ottoman Turkey, Iran, India and the Far East.


272 pp.; 137 color folios, 108 b/w documentation folios, & 1 b/w folio; 0-19-727603-2
1999 $235.00 (04)
Exploring World Art
ANDREA BELLOLI

This colorful introduction to world art brings together seemingly unrelated objects--such as an Aztec calendar stone and a Flemish still life--to help children make connections between the world of art and their own lives. The art is divided into chapters on Time and Space, Other Worlds, Daily Life, History and Myth, and the World of Nature. Ancient Egyptian mummies accompany a native Alaskan mask to illustrate how various cultures have expressed belief in spirits and the afterlife, while an early American quilt and a Polynesian artifact both serve as artistic representations of daily life. An ideal resource for educators and parents, Exploring World Art will help children think about art and its various roles in society.


120 pp.; 120 color illus; 9 x 11; 0-89236-510-2 December 1999 $24.95 (03) Tentative
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Temples of the Empress of Heaven
JOSEPH BOSCO and PUAY-PENG HO

The Empress of Heaven is one of the most important deities of South-east China, renowned for her control of water and her willingness to help those in distress. This book explores contemporary Chinese religious life by looking at many aspects of the cult of the Empress. It examines the decoration of her temples, common practices of everyday devotion, and the special traditions seen at her festivals.


104 pp.; 25 full color photos, 25 b/w line illus & halftones & 2 maps; 0-19-590355-2
1999 $12.95 (01)

Modern Art 1851-1929
Capitalism and Representation
RICHARD R. BRETTELL

A bold new look at the Modern Art era

Richard Brettell's innovative and beautifully-illustrated account, the latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford History of Art series, explores the works of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali--as well as lesser-known figures--in relation to expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the rise of the museum. Beginning with The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, Brettell follows the development of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. Giving attention to the changing social, economic, and political climate, the book focuses on conditions for the development of modern art such as urban capitalism, modernity, and the accessible image made possible by art museums, temporary exhibitions, lithography, and photography. Brettell examines artists' responses to modernism, including changes in representation, vision, and "the art of seeing." Combining the most recent scholarship with 140 illustrations--75 in full color--the book chronicles the change in art and image itself, from the iconology of new representations of the nude human form to the anti-iconography of "art without 'subject'": landscape painting; text and image; and abstraction.
Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media, and offering profuse illustration to bring the changing art forms vividly to life, Modern Art 1851-1929 presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era.

272 pp.; 96 color, & 56 b/w illus; 6 1/2 x 9 1/4; 0-19-284220-X 1999 $16.95 (03) paper
1999 $39.95 (02) cloth

A Descriptive Catalogue of The Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library
Part II: Epics and Puranas
JOHN BROCKINGTON
General Editor: JONATHAN KATZ

The arrival in 1909 of the library of manuscripts now known as the Chandra Shum Shere collection made Oxford the repository of the largest known collection of Sanskrit manuscripts outside the Indian subcontinent. This second volume of the catalogue covers the considerable number of Epic and Puranic texts contained in the collection.


320 pp.; 0-19-951354-6 1999 $105.00 (06) paper

Sculpture 1900-1945
PENELOPE CURTIS

Provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of sculpture during this important period in art history

Sculpture 1900-1945 provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of sculpture in Europe and America during this important period in art history. The most comprehensive concise history of modern sculpture available, this account puts sculpture back into relation with a range of other phenomena, encompassing many kinds of architects, sculptors, and painters, with widely differing kinds of practices.
Penelope Curtis takes Rodin as her point of departure and recurrent point of reference, building a story that necessarily begins in Paris, the major artistic center of the era, and evolves around responses to Rodin by sculptors in France, Germany, Britain, and America. She charts the key developments in the practice and reception of a wide variety of sculpture, from the avant-garde to public monuments. Covering all the major figures, including Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Dali, El Lissitzsky, Brancusi, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth, Sculpture 1900-1945 focuses on specific themes in each chapter, ranging from the public place of sculpture, to the private arena, to the figurative ideal. Filling a gap in the literature, Sculpture 1900-1945 is the only critically up-to-date book on the subject.

Covers all the key practitioners such as Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Dali, El Lissitzsky, Henry Moore, and Barbara Hepworth

Charts the key developments in the practice and reception of a wide variety of sculpture from the avant-garde to public monuments
304 pp.; 42 color & 110 b/w line illus; 0-19-210045-9 1999 $39.95 (02) cloth
1999 $17.95 (03) paper

Between Nature and Culture
Photographs of the Getty Center by Joe Deal
JOE DEAL, MARK JOHNSTONE, RICHARD MEIER, and WESTON NAEF

From 1983 through 1997, artist Joe Deal documented the site and construction of the Getty Center through a series of black and white photographs. Topos Photographs of the Getty Center Site: A Joe Deal Portfolio presents 130 of Deals photographs, offering an opportunity to view the evolving site through this artists eyes, from the selection of the starkly beautiful chaparral-covered mountain top to the steel and travertine of the final stages of construction. With an introduction by Mark Johnstone that provides both a key to understanding Joe Deals unique vision and commentaries on the thematic groups and individual photographs reproduced, this book offers a dramatic portrait of one of the Getty Center.


132 pp.; 125 halftones; 9-3/4 x 8-1/2; 0-89236-549-8 1999 $45.00 (02)

Infrared Spectroscopy
MICHELE R. DERRICK, DUSAN C. STULIK, and JAMES M. LANDRY

This book provides practical information on the use of infrared spectroscopy for the analysis of materials found in cultural objects. Designed for scientists and students in the fields of archaeology, art conservation, microscopy, forensics, chemistry, and optics, the book discusses techniques for examining the microscopic amounts of complex, aged components in objects such as paintings, sculptures, and archaeological fragments.


320 pp.; 25 illus., 135 charts & graphs; 8 1/2 x 11; 0-89236-469-6 November 1999 $75.00 (04) Tentative paper

Building an Emergency Plan
A Guide to Cultural Institutions
Compiled by VALERIE DORGE and SHARON JONES

In case of earthquake, floods, or human-caused emergencies such as fires, how does a cultural institution protect the people on site, its collections, and the premises from harm? Building an Emergency Plan provides a step-by-step guide that a cultural institution can follow to develop its own emergency preparedness and response strategy.


224 pp.; 8 b/w illus, 24 linecuts; 0-89236-551-X December 1999 $39.95 (06) paper

The Superhuman Crew
Painting by JAMES ENSOR
Lyrics by BOB DYLAN

They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town.
Bob Dylan, from "Desolation Row"
The Superhuman Crew brings together two visionary works of artJames Ensor's masterpiece painting Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 and Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row." The result is a riveting visual and verbal experience.
Ensor's huge, vibrant, and startling canvas presents a scene filled with clowns, masked figures, andbarely visible amid the swirling crowdsthe tiny figure of Christ on a donkey entering the city of Brussels. "Desolation Row," from Dylan's classic 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited, presents its own surreal portrait of modern life in strangely similar terms. These two vast works share a vision of the contemporary world as anarchic, grotesque, and absurd, and The Superhuman Crew combines them in a surprising, thought-provoking format. This book includes a complete reproduction and numerous details of Ensor's painting, the full text of Dylan's lyrics to "Desolation Row," and a compact disc with his recording of the song.
40 pp.; 1 b/w photo, & 27 color paintings, 1 compact disc; 11-3/4 x 9-5/8; 0-89236-552-8
1999 $24.95 (02) paper

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture
Volume V: Lincolnshire
PAUL EVERSON, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, and DAVID STOCKER, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, English Heritage

The wealth of pre-Conquest sculpture in Lincolnshire, recorded here definitively for the first time, forms a crucial source for our understanding of the Anglo-Scandinavian period in this region. Illustrated by excellent photographs, the catalogue contains fresh discussions of such famous carvings as Crowle, Edenham, and South Kyme. It also includes many newly discovered pieces and important re-evaluations of others.


528 pp.; 501 figures & halftones, frontispiece; 0-19-726188-4 1999 $225.00 (06)

Macao Streets
CÉSAR GUILLÉN-NUÑEZ
Photographs by LEONG KA TAI

Encased in hand-painted tiles on the sides of buildings, Macao's street signs hint at the vagaries of its historic development over the past four centuries. This book provides colorful descriptions of forty-five of these unusual signs for street names along with a series of delightful color photographs by award-winning Hong Kong photographer Leong Ka-tai.


148 pp.; 25 b/w & 88 color illus; 0-19-587766-7 1999 $45.00 (06)

Maiolica in the Making
The Gentili/Barnabei Archive
CATHERINE HESS

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, potters from the Italian village of Castelli dAbruzzo created wares that constitute a final, supremely pictorial phase of the tin-glazed earthenware art know as maiolica. Here, Catharine Hess documents the Gentili/Barabei archive--a recently acquired collection of 276 documents relating to these celebrated ceramics--to show how it illuminates the production of maiolica.


196 pp.; 20 color plates, & 89 b/w halftones; 7 x 10; 0-89236-500-5 1999 $35.00 (06)
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In Focusz: André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray
Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Boxed Set of Three
Three volumes from the Getty Museum's popular In Focus series are packaged together here, offering a handsome set of books on these important photographers: Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Man Ray. All born in Europe, each photographer journeyed to the United States and made important contributions to the medium. The volume on Kertesz presents the Getty Museum's holdings of his work from his Budapest, Paris, and New York periods, while the images in the book on Bauhaus teacher Moholy-Nagy include his pioneering photomontages and camera-less "photograms." The Man Ray volume presents his inventive photographs taken in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles, including portraits and nudes, and his experimental work with Rayographs and solarization. Each volume in the In Focus series contains approximately fifty photographs, with commentaries, an introduction, a chronology, and a transcription of a colloquium on the photographer's life and work.
430 pp.; 1 color, & 160 b/w photos; 6 x 7-5/8; 0-89236-568-4 1999 $45.00 (03) paper

The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
Japanese Language Edition
This is a Japanese language edition of the newly revised Museum Handbook.

246 pp.; 305 color, 5 b/w illus.; 5-1/2 x 9-1/2; 0-89236-477-7 July 1999 $14.95 (03) Tentative
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El hilo continuo
La conservación de las tradiciones textiles de Oaxaca
Edited by KATHRYN KLEIN

This is the Spanish-language edition of The Unbroken Thread.

192 pp.; 145 color, 12 b/w illus.; 10-1/2 x 14; 0-89236-382-7 July 1999 $39.95 (02) Tentative

The Silver Canvas
Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum
BATES LOWRY and ISABEL LOWRY

In this beautiful volume, which includes eighty examples from the Museum's collection, the authors present the historical and artistic development of the daguerreian process, chronicling more than two decades of European and American history and culture.


256 pp.; 31 color and 89 b/w illustrations; 9 x 11; 0-89236-536-6 December 1999 $39.95 (03)
paper 1998 $80.00 (02) cloth

Masterpieces of the J. Paul Getty Museum: Illuminated Manuscripts
French Language Edition
These lavish volumes feature highlights of five of the collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Each volume contains between seventy-five and one hundred objects, handsomely reproduced in full color and described by members of the curatorial staff.


128 pp.; 80 color illus.; 8-1/2 x 11; 0-89236-449-1 July 1999 $19.95 (03) Tentative paper
1998 $34.95 (02) cloth

Copper as Canvas
Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM

Later this year, approximately 100 of the most important and best-preserved examples of paintings on copper from collections in the U.S., Europe, and South America, along with displays of copper mining and copper ores, and copper objects and printing plates from the period, will be exhibited at the Phoenix Art Museum, travelling next to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and then to the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis in The Hague. The artform of painting on copper dates back to the mid-sixteenth century, when European artists found that the smooth surfaces of thin sheets of copper lent themselves to fine workmanship, were easy to handle, and even gave a luminous shine to the paint. Masters including Jan Breughel the Elder, Claude, El Greco, Reni, Guercino, Rembrandt, and Vernet are among those who produced fine works on copper.
Copper as Canvas brings together 100 full-color and sixty-five black and white reproductions of these paintings, each accompanied by a detailed entry, as well an interdisciplinary range of essays covering the history of painting on copper. From the history of the copper industry in Europe circa 1500-1700, to the technique's emergence in the New World colonies (particularly Mexico and Peru), to technical studies of the technique, the essays provide illuminating background information for the museum-goer. A combination of beautifully produced illustrations and fascinating reading, Copper as Canvas brings these stunning paintings to art-lovers in an impressive volume sure to have a long afterlife beyond the exhibition.
368 pp.; 137 color, & 71 b/w illus; 8-1/2 x 11; 0-19-512396-4 1999 $49.95 (06) cloth
1999 $27.50 (03) paper

Palace Sculptures of Abomey History Told on Walls
FRANCESCA PIQUÉ and LESLIE RAINER

The Fon, who are the largest ethnic group in the Republic of Benin in West Africa, established the powerful kingdom of Dahomey in the early seventeenth century. In their capital city of Abomey, they built a remarkable complex of palaces, featuring walls decorated with colorful low-relief sculptures, or bas-reliefs, which recount legends and battles and glorify the history of their royal dynasty's reign. Over the centuries, these visual stories have represented and perpetuated the history and myths of the Fon people.
Palace Sculptures of Abomey combines lavish color photographs of the bas-reliefs with a lively history of the Dahomey kingdom, complemented by period drawings, rare historical photographs, and colorful textile art. The book provides a vivid portrait of these exceptional narrative sculptures and the equally remarkable people who crafted them. Also included is a discussion of the continuing popularity of bas-reliefs in contemporary West African art, a reading of the stories on the walls, and details of the four-year collaboration between the Benin Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Getty Conservation Institute to conserve the bas-reliefs of Abomey.

120 pp.; 120 color, 17 b/w illus; 8 x 10; 0-89236-569-2 October 1999 $24.95 (03) Tentative
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The Group Portraiture of Holland
ALOIS RIEGL
Introduction by WOLFGANG KEMP
Translation by EVELYN M. KAIN

In The Group Portraiture of Holland, art historian Alois Riegl (18581905) argues that the artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland radically altered the beholders relationship to works of art. Group portraits by artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Halls reflect an egalitarian viewpoint not found in the more hierarchically structured Italian works of the same period. First published in 1902 and here in English for the first time, the book opened up areas of inquiry that continue to engage scholars today.

448 pp.; 98 b/w illustrations; 7 x 10; 0-89236-548-X November 1999 $55.00 (06) Tentative
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Marguerite Makes a Book
Written by BRUCE ROBERTSON
Illustrated by KATHRYN HEWITT

Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle's name day?
In this richly illustrated tale, Marguerite comes to her father's aid. She journeys all over Paris buying goose feathers for quills, eggs for mixing paints, dried plants and ground minerals for pigments. Then she expertly finishes the illumination of Lady Isabelle's book, to the delight of her father and his patron. This delightful book, brought to life by the finely detailed, evocative art of a renowned children's artists, was inspired by an illuminated manuscript in the collection of the Getty Museum.

44 pp.; 33 full color; 9 x 11; 0-89236-372-X 1999 $18.95 (03) laminated boards

From the Ocean of Painting
India's Popular Paintings, 1589 to the Present
BARBARA ROSSI

A stunning collection of 101 works, spanning 400 years of popular painting in India

In this groundbreaking publication, Barbara Rossi, who has traveled and researched extensively in India, presents 101 works of extraordinary beauty representing twenty-one forms of popular painting and spanning 400 years. Based on a traveling exhibition that Rossi curated, From the Ocean of Painting offers Western audiences a comprehensive collection of paintings largely unknown in Europe and the United States.
Organized around the primary functions these artworks serve, this volume enables readers to see the folk, tribal, and urban contexts in which these forms of painting arose, and to gain a fuller understanding of the representative works, all of which are illustrated and given in-depth commentaries. But the chief pleasure here is, of course, the art itself--a wealth of remarkable pictorial images rendered in vibrantly rich palettes. Gorgeously illustrated with fifty-seven color and fifty-three black-and-white reproductions, From the Ocean of Painting brings us a world of art rarely glimpsed in the West and a stunning collection anyone interested in painting will not want to miss.

"Informative, well researched, and accessible."--Library Journal

"This beautiful book offers a look at 400 years of [a] wealth of visual material. "--Hungry Mind Review

314 pp.; 58 color, & 60 b/w plates; 8 1/2 x 10; 0-19-511194-X December 1999 $29.95 (03)
paper 1998 $60.00 (01) Cloth

Leonid Pasternak: The Russian Years, 1875-1921
A Critical Study and Catalogue
Volume I: Text, Volume II: Plates
RIMGAILA SALYS, University of Colorado, Boulder
Introduction by JON WHITELEY, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) was an important Russian artist with a reputation as a fine portraitist. This fully illustrated catalogue raisonne covers much of the best of his oeuvre and contains over 2,000 items. The art historical introduction sets his work in the context of European art, and a biographical sketch has been written in close collaboration with surviving members of the artist's family.


1048 pp.; 42 color plates, 2085 b/w plates; 0-19-817516-7 1999 $675.00 (04
Adriaen de Vries 1556-1626
Imperial Sculptor
FRITS SCHOLTEN

This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the Medici dukes beginning in 1580s, and in 1601 he was appointed official court sculptor to Rudolf II in Prague, where he worked until his death. Some of his best-known works are illustrated and described in this comprehensive volume, including the Bust of Emperor Rudolph II, the fountain Mercury and Cupid, Psyche Born Aloft by Putti, Juggling Man and The Wrestlers.


312 pp.; 70 color, & 200 b/w illus; 9 x 12; 0-89236-553-6 December 1999 $60.00 (02)

Early Medieval Architecture
ROGER STALLEY

Presents new research and archaeological discoveries in an accessible form

The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the church spire, and the monastic cloister. By avoiding the traditional emphasis on chronological development, Roger Stalley provides a radically new approach to the subject, exploring issues and themes rather than sequences and dates. In addition to analysing the language of the Romanesque, the book examines the engineering achievements of the builders, and clearly how the great monuments of the age were designed and constructed. Ranging from Gotland to Apulia, the richness and variety of European architecture is explored in terms of the social and religious aspirations of the time. Symbolic meanings associated with architecture are also thoroughly investigated. Written with style and humour, the lively text includes many quotations from ancient sources, providing a fascinating insight into the way that medieval buildings were created, and in the process enlivening study of this period.

Provides many new and original observations to enliven study of this subject

Highlights the achievements and innovations of the period: the church spire, castle keep, etc.

272 pp.; 54 color & 107 b/w line illus; 0-19-284223-4 1999 $17.95 (03) paper

Introductino to Object ID
ROBIN THORNES

The illegal trade of art, antiques, and other cultural objects is one of the most prevalent categories of international crime. Documentation is a crucial security measure, for law enforcement officials can rarely recover and return objects that have not been photographed and adequately described. Object ID is an international standard which outlines the minimum information needed to identify stolen art objects. In this volume, Robin Thornes provides a brief history of the international development of the standard and guidelines, and describes techniques for photographing cultural objects.


48 pp.; 2 color and 24 b/w illus.; 7 x 9 1/2; 0-89236-572-2 December 1999 $11.95 (01)
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The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
ABY WARBURG
Introduction by KURT W. FORESTER
Translation by DAVID BRITT

Bibliophile, scholar, founder of what would become the Warburg Institute, Aby Warburg (1866-1929) ranks as one of the most original and brilliant art historians of this century. Warburg looked beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation, and in particular he contemplated the meaning of the re-use of ancient motifs. His scholarship--published in German in 1932 in two volumes encompassing all of his published essays along with manuscript notes in his working copies--has had a crucial influence on the work of twentieth-century art historians. Now, with the publication of this new translation of The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity, these seminal volumes are available in their entirety in English for the first time.


868 pp.; 214 b/w halftones; 7 x 10; 0-89236-537-4 1999 $75.00 (06) paper

Oxford First Book of Art
GILLIAN WOLFE

The Oxford First Book of Art is a dazzling introduction for young children to the mesmerizing beauty of art. It collects a wonderfully varied collection of images--paintings, drawings, sculptures, and textiles--from around the world and through the ages. The author encourages children to look carefully at the art, ask questions about its contents, and be curious about who created it and when. Pictures are grouped by themes, starting with more accessible subjects--such as "Mother and Child" and "Faces"--and proceeding to such abstract concepts as "Light," "Patterns," and "Shapes." Superb, full-color reproductions of art by traditional artists--like Mary Cassatt's "The Bath" and William Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire"--alternate with works from modern art's foremost representatives, including Picasso, Fernand Leger, Klee, Henri Moore,and Giacometti. The selections range from Native American and Maori to Indian and Iraqi paintings and sculptures.
Simple, vivid text encourage children to get involved with the pictures, to look closely and to share their observations. For every theme there is an "Art Activity" which demonstrates to the young reader ways in which the ideas and concepts presented in the book can be applied to his or her own drawings. Wolfe intersperses numerous quizzes and games among the more serious themes of this special gift book that will provide gentle, entertaining guidance to talented, artistically-inclined children.

"Wolfe uses examples that children will understand, such as the gentleness and tenderness between "Mother and Child" depicted in Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath.... Clear, full-color reproductions and photographs illustrate the text. A volume to spark children's imaginations and their interest in art."--School Library Journal

"The samples of artwork are from a wide range of time periods and cultures; medieval and Aboriginal art are included as well as examples of pop, impressionistic, and surrealistic art.... Wolfe's emphasis is to persuade readers to bring their own experiences to their understanding of art.... In this way, those new to looking at art will begin to trust their own interpretations of what they see, instead of feeling intimidated or in need of expert explanation. Large, attractive reproductions invite readers to linger over the pages."--Kirkus Reviews

"Wolfe has collected a varied collection of images--paintings, drawings, sculptures, and textiles--from around the world. She encourages readers to scrutinize selected pieces and question their content and meanings, as well as inquire about the artists who created them.... Every theme offers an "Art Activity" section that shows children ways to apply concepts from the book to their drawings."--Curriculum Administrator

48 pp.; 45 color illus; 8-1/2 x 11; 0-19-521556-7 1999 $18.95 (03)

Nietzsche and An Architecture of Our Minds
Edited by ALEXANDRE KOSTKA and IRVING WOHLFARTH

Appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has been the subject of countless volumes of literature. Until now, though, there has been no in-depth study devoted specifically to Nietzsches thoughts and impact on architecture. In the essays comprising Nietzsche and An Architecture of Our Minds, thirteen eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines--including art history, architecture and architecture theory, literature, philosophy, and city planning--address his far-reaching notion of an architecture commensurate with the modern mind. They assess the relationship of Nietzschean philosophy to art and architecture, elucidate frequent misunderstandings, and determine patterns of influence, illuminating an unsurveyed aspect of the philosophy of one of the most profound thinkers of the modern age.

376 pp.; 75 b/w halftones; 7 x 10; 0-89236-485-8 1999 $45.00 (01) paper

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