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Book SynopsisA history of the Spanish Gothic cathedral of Toledo. Balances architectural history with close scrutiny of the cathedral's liturgy and cults, the sculpture on its portals and choir enclosure, its royal tombs, and its diverse treasury and textiles.Trade Review“This superb volume is unlikely to be read from cover to cover. It is a mosaic of different studies dealing with disparate themes related to the architectural origins of each part of the building. The intending reader needs to dip into it rather than attempt to absorb its contents at a sitting. Perhaps Nickson’s most valuable contribution is to give us not merely an analysis of stonework but a very lucid presentation of the evidence for multiple aspects of identity, and the claims of the cathedral to power and primacy. . . . Tom Nickson gives us an expert analysis, superbly illustrated, in a highly detailed but also well-accomplished piece of research.”—Henry Kamen Times Literary Supplement“A wonderfully interdisciplinary study, Toledo Cathedral will have great appeal to a variety of readers interested in medieval Spain and Gothic art and architecture, as well as those who study medieval memory and the extended ‘life’ of buildings.”—Elisa A. Foster CAA.Reviews“Compared with those of northern Europe, medieval cathedrals of Spain have thus far received relatively little scholarly attention. This comprehensive study . . . is therefore welcome.”—W. Cahn Choice“Nickson has produced a magnificent and multifaceted piece of scholarship, thus making a superb contribution to the state of our common knowledge. Toledo Cathedral: Building Histories in Medieval Castile will remain for generations to come an essential point of reference for all who wish to embark on the study of medieval Toledo and 'Gothic' (if we must) Spain.”—Cynthia Robinson The Medieval Review“Nickson contends that ‘scale, ambition, and rhetoric’ set Toledo Cathedral apart from the other thirteenth-century Spanish cathedrals of Burgos and León, and certainly the ambitious objectives of his study of Toledo set it apart from previous scholarship on Spanish Gothic architecture.”—Danya Crites Speculum“This study proves a strong voice for Toledo in the realm of scholarship. Nickson’s introduction acknowledges the fact that his diverse angles of approach may make some readers read this book piecemeal. Those who do wish to pursue specific topics will find the volume easy to consult and clearly laid out; the second appendix, for example, pairs with fig. 64 to reconstruct the original location of chapels, altars, and their dedications (some eighty-four in all), while numerous color plates give details ranging from liturgical furnishings, manuscript illuminations, textile work, and, of course, architecture. This rich range, integrated with many high-quality images, will make Toledo Cathedral a valuable resource for any scholar of medieval Castile, or indeed of medieval Europe. But the book is much more than a collection of fascinating parts; the author’s engaging, frank first-person style and interwoven narratives make it a rewarding work in its entirety.”—Charlotte A. Stanford Mediaevistik“A learned but fluent book.”—Christopher Howse The Telegraph / Sacred Mysteries blog“A masterly exploration and minute analysis of a soaring masterpiece, Tom Nickson’s revelatory study directs new and penetrating light onto the social importance—and architectural significance—of his subject.”—Peter Linehan,St. John’s College, University of Cambridge“With this imposing study of the primatial cathedral of Spain, Tom Nickson has written one of the outstanding architectural monographs in the history of Spanish (and European) Gothic. But, as the author underlines, the book is as much concerned with the building of history as the history of building. It reconciles many separate studies on the cathedral and blends new Spanish art-historical scholarship with close documentary archaeology. Above all, it presents a rich overlay of Roman, Visigothic, and Islamic cultures and integrates them into Toledo’s active communities of Jews, Muslims, Christians, and confessional converts—questions of ethnic identity which still dominate our own concerns. Spain, at last, has the cathedral it deserves.”—Paul Crossley,The Courtauld Institute of Art“Few studies of Spanish Gothic architecture address the history and significance of a major cathedral with such mastery as does Tom Nickson’s Toledo Cathedral. Nickson’s meticulous scrutiny of primary texts and material evidence builds a cogent, persuasive construction narrative that illuminates the roots and trajectory of Toledo Cathedral’s distinctive design, while his reconstruction of the late medieval people, objects, and performances that animated this great building sheds unprecedented light on its continuing importance to a city bent on asserting its centrality to Iberian history, politics, and culture. Blending traditional architectural analysis with incisive social history, this impressive, generously illustrated book will reshape our understanding not just of Toledo’s history and meaning but also of the story and significance of Gothic architecture in Spain.”—Pamela Patton,Princeton University“Just as the archbishops of Toledo had envisioned their monumental cathedral as speaking to diverse audiences near and afar, the book can serve a similarly broad readership. In his references to English, French, Italian, and Andalusian traditions, Nickson links Castilian magnificence with international developments.”—Jeffrey Schrader Catholic Historical Review“The cogent publication by Nickson will serve as a touchstone for scholars who pursue new research on a range of questions.”—Jeffrey Schrader Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsTablesAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsNote on the TextPart 1IntroductionBuilding HistoriesThe Historical TrajectoryToledan EncountersChapter 1. The CityThe Forma mezquitePart 2Chapter 2. The DesignRodrigo and his ChapterBuilding BigVaultsChapelsChapter 3. Rodrigo’s ProjectSetting OutNew Altars, Old AltarsThe Upper LevelsBuilding the CathedralBuilding ToledoChapter 4. Between Córdoba and ParisDesign and TransmissionInventing vaultsChapter 5. The Exemplary FormArchaeological EvidenceWritten EvidenceStylistic EvidenceFinding the EndPart 3Chapter 6. The Cathedral of MemoryLiturgyThe DeadSacred TopographyThe TreasuryChapter 7. CultsMad about MaryMary MultipliedGreedyguts and AvariceThe Cult of St IldefonsoThe San Ildefonso ChapelSt EugeneThe CrossChapter 8. Urbs regiaThe Royal ChapelsKings and CrossesHistory EmbodiedPicturing HistoryChapter 9. Cathedral and CityThe Puerta del RelojThe West FaçadeThe Puerta del PerdónChapter 10. Art and BeliefTenorio and his PaintersLocating the Choir EnclosurePicturing the PentateuchThe Choir Enclosure and Image Culture in Late Medieval CastileConclusion. Toledo and BeyondGlossaryAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama. Trade Review“Shattered Objects is an embarrassment of riches: Barnes and affect studies; Barnes and film studies; Barnes and animal studies; Barnes and queer studies. I could go on and on with its generous contributions, but let it be said that, for once and for all, this collection proves her to be a supreme modernist amongst her towering peers. Across these super-sharp pieces she now shines brightest in that grand constellation of twentieth-century experimental art.”—Scott Herring,author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture“With Shattered Objects, we at last get a full look at [Barnes’s] broad range of artistic achievements.”—Megan N. Liberty Brooklyn Rail“Shattered Objects offers an invaluable revision of how we understand one of modernism’s most beguiling authors.”—Peter Adkins The Modernist Review“This handsomely-produced and carefully-assembled collection bespeaks a certain maturity in ‘Barnes studies,’ while also pulling off the trick of recognising that term’s problematic status, given the author’s mocking resistance to all that we associate with author studies: a consolidated academic community, a firm sense of literary periodicity, a relatively stable aesthetics stance, a coherent world-view.”—Tim Armstrong Affirmations of the Modern“Elizabeth Pender and Cathryn Setz’s wide-ranging collection ultimately reveals the ‘difficult’ Djuna Barnes to be the talented and versatile Djuna Barnes--a writer of sheer modernist multiplicity--about whom there will always be more to say.”—Jade French Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionElizabeth Pender and Cathryn SetzPart 1: Modernism in Print1 Djuna Barnes on the PageAlex Goody2 Djuna Barnes’s Short Stories in A Night Among the Horses (1929) and Spillway (1962)Elizabeth PenderPart 2: Human and Beast3 Nightwood ’s HumansRachel Potter4 Djuna Barnes’s Creatures in an Alphabet: From A for Anecdotage to Z for ZoomancyBruce Gardiner5 Djuna Barnes, Thelma Wood, and the Making of the Lesbian Modernist Grotesque Joanne WinningPart 3: Barnesean Style6 The Critique of Modernist Wit: Djuna Barnes’s NightwoodDrew Milne7 “Trees of Heaven”: Djuna Barnes’s Late Metaphysical VerseCathryn Setz8 “If Some Strong Woman”: Djuna Barnes’s Great Capacity for All Things UncertainDaniela Caselli9 “The Havoc of Nicety”: Djuna Barnes’s Ryder and the Catastrophe of Epochal ChangeTyrus MillerPart 4: Modernist Afterlives10 Djuna Barnes: The Flower of Her SecretMelissa Jane Hardie11 Making Contact: Affect, Queer Historiography, and “Our Djuna”Julie TaylorAfterwordPeter NichollsSelected BibliographyElizabeth PenderNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, annotated English translation of Eugène Delacroix’s most significant writings during his travels in Morocco, Algeria, and southern Spain, recording his observations of places, people, costume, landscapes, and architecture.Trade Review“The notebooks make for a fascinating read and will be of interest not only to specialists of Delacroix and Orientalism, but also to scholars of French colonialism in North Africa and travel writing more in general. Delacroix brought a keen eye and wrote avidly about what he saw in Tangiers and elsewhere in Morocco.”—Thomas Dodman H-France“Eugène Delacroix’s journey to Morocco in 1832 was one of the defining artistic moments of the nineteenth century, and it is brought to glorious life by Michèle Hannoosh’s compilation and translation. This work chronicles the artist’s journey and provides exceptional insights into his fascination with the ‘Orient’ and his motivations as a painter.”—John Zarobell,author of Empire of Landscape: Space and Ideology in French Colonial Algeria“Michèle Hannoosh’s 2009 edition of Delacroix’s journal contained a wealth of new information about an artist known for his brilliant insights as well as his magnificent works. Here she reveals to us Delacroix’s direct experience, lasting memories, and recognition of his new way of seeing. Hannoosh’s work is an inestimable contribution to our understanding of this great artist and of the nineteenth century.”—Beth S. Wright,author of Painting and History During the French Restoration“Delacroix scholars know Michèle Hannoosh through her stunning discoveries of unpublished Delacroix texts, her impeccable editions of his writings, and her compelling interpretations of his work. This volume reveals her to be a superb translator as well. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, or simply admirers of Delacroix's work. The introduction and commentary provide crucial new insights for experts, and Hannoosh's translations are eminently readable, marvelously capturing the varying tone of Delacroix's prose, which ranged from direct observations to stylish commentary and from bitter sarcasm to genuine enthusiasm.”—David O'Brien,author of Exiled in Modernity: Delacroix, Civilization, and Barbarism“In this welcome and timely book, Hannoosh presents the first comprehensive, annotated English translation of Delacroix’s important and often cited multifarious observations of his voyages to the Maghreb and Andalusia. The translation is clear, crisp, and elegant as well as faithful to the artist’s original. The voice and thought of Delacroix are made vividly manifest in this splendid translation.”—Dorothy Johnson,author of David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology“Hannoosh’s unfailingly elegant translation and annotation are greatly enriched by her deep research into the wider social and aesthetic universe through which Delacroix moved, traveled, experienced the world, and thus refined his artistic sensibilities. This book is a visual and textual delight, and it contributes immeasurably to long-standing debates in art history and the historical sciences about ‘Orientalist’ representations of peoples and cultures on the Mediterranean’s southern shores.”—Julia Clancy-Smith,author of Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800–1900 Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionMemories of a Visit to MoroccoA Jewish Wedding in MoroccoNotebooksMarginalia to “Memories of a Visit to Morocco”Notes and Drafts for “Memories of a Visit to Morocco”Appendix A: SupplementaryMaterial from the NotebooksAppendix B: History of the ManuscriptsBiographiesGlossary of Moroccan TermsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of Fraktur (illuminated religious manuscripts created and used by Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) and explores its role in early American popular piety and devotional culture. Trade Review“Ames breaks new ground in the study of Pennsylvania German manuscript art by synthesizing the significance of the religious context with the artistic achievements of creating the pieces. This is also the first book to integrate research based on several collections of Pennsylvania German Fraktur across many regions. The Word in the Wilderness is a remarkable achievement reflecting years of study and an amazing breadth of research.”—Jeff Bach,author of Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of Ephrata“[Ames] presents a novel approach to manuscript studies and provides a thoughtful analysis. With his discussion of the manuscripts’ cultural origins, spiritual purpose, and historical significance, he initiates a debate on early American spirituality that invites more comparative research on literacy instruction and penmanship of religious communities in New England and Pennsylvania. His study of Pennsylvania German calligraphic art should be particularly welcomed by historians and researchers of early American religious history who are interested in new and creative ways of engaging with historical devotional texts.”—Berit Jany Yearbook of German-American Studies“Ames’s winsome book gives us a window into understanding why the manuscript objects of these sectarian Protestants require multidimensional analysis. He proves that we need to know something about the theology of reading and writing in Pietistic Protestantisms to understand where fraktur came from and what these early Germanic immigrants were trying to achieve with the practice. And here is the challenge that Ames’s expansive methodology poses to our field: you do need to understand the contours of the Reformation efforts of sixteenth-century Europe, medieval spirituality (including premodern theories of illuminated books), the deep connection between literacy and mysticism, and the sectarianism of the diverse Central European immigrants to Pennsylvania.”—Christopher M. B. Allison Panorama“A strong contribution to our understanding of Pennsylvania Germans’ lived religion.”—Karen Auman Early American Literature“A happy and inestimable gift.”—Richard Mammana Medium.comTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: “The Quill Is My Plow”AcknowledgmentsNote on Sources, Methods, and AbbreviationsIntroduction: “Pages of a Mystical Character”; German Manuscripts in American History1. “Heaven Is My Fatherland”: Manuscript Culture in an Age of Evangelical Piety2. “The Spirit of the Letter”: Calligraphy and Spirituality During the Long Era of Manuscripts3. “Worship Always the Scripture”: Teaching Literacy and Pious Wisdom in German Pennsylvania4. “Incense Hill”: Song, Image, and Ambient Manuscripts5. Marching to “Step and Time”: Text, Commemoration, and the Rituals of Everyday LifeConclusion: “Errand into the Wilderness”; Making Meaning from ManuscriptsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA critical analysis of the art and career of African American painter Loïs Mailou Jones (1905–1998). Examines Jones’s engagement with African and Afrodiasporic themes as well as the challenges she faced as a black woman artist. Trade Review“Books about artist Loïs Mailou Jones have been too few, making VanDiver’s meticulous study a milestone in art, women’s, and African American history.”—Donna Seaman Booklist“While VanDiver has plenty to cover about the artist’s contributions, her prose leaves room for a nuanced look at Jones’s upbringing.”—Eva Recinos Hyperallergic“VanDiver’s ambitious volume certainly deserves a place among scholarly books about ‘New Negro’ artists, such as Renée Ater’s Remaking Race and History and Theresa A. Leininger-Miller’s New Negro Artists in Paris. As these authors did, VanDiver has excavated facts on an artist’s life and work, filling in the substantial gaps in the record about her training and exhibition history.”—Jacqueline Francis,author of Making Race: Modernism and “Racial Art” in America “VanDiver proves that Loïs Mailou Jones was one of the most sophisticated American modernists to look to Africa and the broader African diaspora for artistic inspiration. The author expertly analyzes Jones’s extensive body of work, making important use of interviews, Jones's papers, and archives at Howard University, and she presents strong close individual readings of Jones's paintings and collages.”—Phoebe Wolfskill,author of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art“This monograph not only elevates Jones but is a valuable contribution to the discourse on the visual articulation of Black identity in the twentieth century. Designing a New Tradition should be included in a variety of art history collections, including those with a focus on women artists, Black artists, and the arts histories of Boston and Washington, DC.”—Lynora Williams ARLIS/NA Reviews“Erudite, readable, and generously illustrated, this book is a worthy monument to an important figure in the history of art.”—K. P. Buick Choice“VanDiver has considerably advanced understanding of Jones’s career by contextualizing the artist and her work in light of larger cultural issues and international art movements. [Designing a New Tradition] will be the standard source on Jones for years to come.”—Theresa Leininger-Miller CAA.Reviews“By bringing art history and Black study into direct relation, VanDiver demonstrates how interdisciplinary work can spur new knowledge and new ways of seeing the (Black) world. Not only does the author reclaim the monograph as a valid and enduring form of scholarship; she also reframes Loïs Mailou Jones as a practitioner and proponent of a modernism that is uniquely transnational and Pan-African.”—Tiffany E. Barber Woman's Art JournalTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Claiming Middle Ground1. Seeking Success: School, Society, and Career Aspirations2. Routes to Roots: From Black Washington to Black Paris3. Diasporic Directions: Haiti, Collage, and Composite Aesthetics4. In and Out: Africa and the AcademyConclusion: Composite Naming Practices and Art HistoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between sound and statuary in Western aesthetic thought in light of discourses on aurality emerging within the field of sound studies. Considers the sounding statue as an event and as conceptualized through acts of writing and performance. Trade Review“Within the field of historical sound studies, Ryan McCormack claims a forceful voice. He finds his own well-reasoned way between studies of sound as a physical phenomenon and studies of ‘aural culture.’”—Bruce R. Smith,author of The Acoustic World of Early Modern England:Attending to the O-Factor“The Sculpted Ear evidences a long and rich history of sounding and hearing associated with the apparently silent art of sculpture. The book tackles important questions in sound studies, musicology, philosophy, and art history from a fresh perspective. The case studies to be found in each chapter provide new, fascinating information to the scholar of sound as well as intriguing new perspectives on the history of hearing.”—James G. Mansell,author of The Age of Noise in Britain: Hearing Modernity“By incorporating sounds from statues with events in history, The Sculpted Ear provides a meaningful picture of statues and their interplay with historical narratives.”—Constance Wallace Sound StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Elvis Leaves the Building1. Animation Introduces Animation2. Breathing Voice into Laocoön’s Mouth3. Imperial Possessions4. Hearing a Stone Man5. Aural Skins6. Now You Have to Go, Comrade7. Museums of ResonanceConclusion: I Now Present Sergei RachmaninoffNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary, examining their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg state.Trade Review“This is a well-written and organized overview of the history of fine arts display in late nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary and will be of interest to any scholar who studies cultural production or urbanization in that period.”—Laura A. Detre Journal of Austrian Studies“This is a highly original study. There is no other comparative treatment of the development of art museums in the major cities of the Habsburg monarchy, and only such a study can address effectively the analytic questions about the development and functions of the art museums in a changing public sphere that are raised here.”—Gary B. Cohen,author of Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918“While the history of British, French, and Italian museums has received extensive coverage in recent Anglophone scholarship, the history of collections in the Habsburg lands is much less widely known. Composed by experts in the empire’s many cultural worlds, this volume fills that gap, breaking new ground by illustrating how a polyphonic empire generated a rich profusion of highly diverse museums.”—Suzanne Marchand,author of German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship“. . . this monograph not only represents an important contribution to the history of museums in the Habsburg Empire but also a contribution to the history of the Viennese school of art history, one of the starting points of the history of art as a profession. As such, it will undoubtedly serve numerous researchers as a starting point for further investigations.”—Dragan Damjanović Austrian History Yearbook

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Book SynopsisExamines the intersection of private art collecting, domestic social life, and recreational practices in Renaissance Venice. Trade Review“Henry’s book makes an important contribution to scholarship on the history of collecting and display as an activity related to, but distinct from, patronage. And it conveys a substantive interdisciplinary look at early modern Venetian secular images, seen through the lens of contemporaneous developments in literature, music and theatre, which up to this point have been studied in isolation from one another.”—Susan Nalezyty Journal of the History of Collections“Henry helps readers think about the role of pictures and their construction or reflection of sex and gender, courtship, love triangles, modes of behavior, and relations to other art forms. She assembles an array of paintings often discussed in isolation and renders them much richer together in the complex web of Venetian cultural experience. Though aimed at an academic audience, this book will reward all serious readers. The many familiar works Henry looks at become new again through their enhanced associations.”—A. V. Coonin Choice“Playful Pictures provides a rich and welcome study of secular Venetian domestic paintings, many of which are familiar to art historians but have not been connected fully to the literary, social, and performative worlds of Venetian culture. Henry brings a well-researched interdisciplinary perspective and vividly re-creates the viewing contexts for these paintings.”—Jodi Cranston,author of Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice“Playful Pictures addresses a lingering gap in our understanding of a significant innovation: secular pictures, often open-ended, produced for the home in Renaissance Venice at the end of the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth centuries and described by contemporaries as delitie (delights). Henry takes this term seriously, and readers are rewarded for this insight as she reinserts a range of famous to lesser-known works into their shared performative context in the domestic sphere.”—Tracy E. Cooper,author of Palladio’s Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic“Well-written and learned, the book succeeds in synthesising a vast literature devoted to the cabinet paintings of the late quattrocento and first half of the cinquecento, convincingly setting them into their specifically Venetian cultural milieu.”—James Jewitt Burlington Magazine

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Book SynopsisExplores the paintings of Monet and the personal, cultural, and historical contexts within which they were created, including rapid changes of government in France, the Dreyfus Affair, and the destruction and devastation of World War I.Trade Review“This impressive book is a valuable contribution to the scholarship on Monet and later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art and culture more broadly. By the end of it, readers will have a far richer understanding of the manifold ways that Monet’s late work intersects with major artistic, political, and philosophical currents of the period.”—Michelle Foa,author of Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining surrealism’s cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism’s interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe. Trade Review“Radical Dreams reignites Surrealism’s revolutionary appeal from the 1960s and 1970s and rewrites an often forgotten chapter of the movement.”—Stephanie D’Alessandro,Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductory EssaysSurrealism as RadicalismAbigail Susik and Elliot H. KingSurrealism and Revolutionary Romanticism in May ’68Michael LöwyPart 1: Surrealist Solidarity1. “Down with Art, Up with Revolution”: Protesting Dada and Surrealism in 1968Sandra Zalman2. Ted Joans, the Other Jones: Jazz Poet, Black Power Missionary, and Surrealist InterpreterGrégory Pierrot3. Angry, Hopeful Chaos an the Great Secret of Surrealism: Unraveling the Tangled Web of the 1970sPenelope RosemontPart 2: Against the Liquidators4. Passionate Attraction: Fourier, Feminism, Free Love, and L’Écart absolu Claire Howard5. “To Be a Painter Means to Oppose”: Exhibiting and Politicizing Robert Rauschenberg, 1959-1965Gavin Parkinson6. A Consciousness of Being: Burn, Baby, Burn and the Political Art of Roberto MattaAlyce MahonPart 3: The Right to Insubordination7. The Fantasy of a Powerful Myth: The Situationist International After SurrealismMikkel Bolt Rasmussen8. Afrosurrealism as a Counterculture of ModernityJonathan P. Eburne9. The Surrealist Adventure and the Poetry of Direct Action: Passionate Encounters Between the Chicago Surrealist Group, the Wobblies, and Earth First!Ron SakolskyPart 4: Passional Attractions10. A Useful Bile: André Breton’s Humour Noir in 1960s AmericaRyan Standfest11. Oz Magazine and British Counterculture: A Case Study in the Reception of SurrealismDavid Hopkins12. Surrealism and Punk: The Case of COUM TransmissionsMarie Arleth SkovList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the iconography and symbolism of scent in nineteenth-century art and visual culture, with a particular focus on Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism. Trade Review“Bradstreet delivers a thoroughly-researched and richly-illustrated book, which will stand as a major reference in the field.”—Clara Muller The Senses and Society“With her investigation into the motif of smelling and the depiction of smells in art between 1850 and 1914, Christina Bradstreet ties in with current specialist discourses. Bradstreet brings together a large number of paintings and embeds them in an exciting network that takes into account literary and art-historical references as well as contemporary debates in medicine, psychology and urban planning.”—Christian Sauer 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual“. . . [An] important and much-needed study for the field of art history.”—Marion Tempest Grant Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies“The first study of its kind, Christina Bradstreet’s Scented Visions documents in stunning detail the important role of scent in nineteenth-century art. Tracing a myriad of scent motifs that emerge across a wide array of art styles and movements, Bradstreet’s book makes a powerful contribution to our understanding of the cultural contexts of smell and history, particularly in this visual discipline in which we assume it must be marginalized. Upending assumptions about what constitutes the visual, Bradstreet offers a powerful model for what it means to ‘see’ smell in our archives of the past.”—Holly Dugan,author of The Ephemeral History of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern England“A perfect profusion of pungent propositions, this book is a feast for the eyes as much as it is a delight to the nose.”—Hannah Squire PRS Review

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Book SynopsisConsiders the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound. Trade Review“Sculptors Against the State is a substantial and significant contribution to the existing literature on the aesthetics of anarchism. Antliff boldly ventures into new conceptual territory, reading form and materiality against political discourse and artistic criticism during the brief period leading up to the outbreak of World War I, precisely when such relationships came to be understood as some of the fundamental signposts of modernism.”—Adam Jolles,author of The Curatorial Avant-Garde: Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925-1941“Mark Antliff’s work has been crucial in the transformation of our understanding of modernist art and the avant-garde. Through exacting scholarship he has shown that the ideological and philosophical aspects of artistic production in the early twentieth century are vital both to an understanding of modernism and to the interpretation of particular works of art. Sculptors Against the State is essential reading both for art historians and for students of anarchism.”—Paul Edwards,author of Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer “Antliff’s text will ensure that their [Epstein, Boccioni, Gaudier-Brzeska] contributions, and the anarchist leanings of all the artists herein discussed, are not forgotten, and the book will inspire artists, art historians, creators, educators, and writers who are engaged with the intersection between art and politics in their own work.”—Caterina Y. Pierre Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“Sculptors Against the State makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on the cultural politics of early twentieth-century London and Paris and provides many paths to further investigate sculpture against the state.”—Rosalind McKever CAA.Reviews

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Book SynopsisExamines landscape, harborscape, and seascape paintings by Fitz H. Lane (1804–1865) that comment on agriculture, extraction industries, settlement patterns, trade, and the political economy of nineteenth-century coastal New England.Trade Review“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is an American art history that in its depth of research and its absolute assurance in method and goals matches or surpasses anything done by any global modernist art historian today. It is a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century world history in visual and material studies, and will be of interest to anyone looking at the formation of global modernism, technologies, and capital markets.”—Bruce Robertson,coauthor of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far the most insightful study of Lane and his art to date. Margaretta Lovell's close examination of Lane’s life, art, and the historical contexts within which he worked represents not only a quantum leap for our understanding of Lane and his world but also a new standard of scholarship for the field of American art.”—Alan Wallach,author of Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United StatesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: A Small City with a Far Reach1. Reputation: Lane, Gloucester’s “Own Artist,” 1842–18652. Value: Lane, 1865–20203. Canvas: Names, Naming, and Identity4. Fish: Lane’s Gloucester5. Lumber: Lane’s Maine6. Granite: Shipwreck with Spectators7. Travelers I: Surinam and California8. Travelers II: Ireland, China, Puerto RicoConclusionAppendix A: Exhibitions and Sales That Included Fitz H. Lane Paintings During His LifetimeAppendix B: Inventories and Lists of Located Lane Paintings, 1865–1961NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine, emphasizing the role of the spectator in the production of meaning.Trade Review“This brilliantly original book illuminates the relationship, long debated by scholars, between portraiture and religious images in early modern Spain and its empire. Throughout, Jasienski engages an impressively wide range of texts, whether writings on naturalism in portraiture, treatises on God-given royal power, or Inquisitorial condemnations of idolatrous devotion to portraits. Praying to Portraits is a book of great interpretive breadth and depth, and it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the visual culture of the Spanish world.”—Tanya J. Tiffany,author of Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of three massive palaces built outside Naples in the eighteenth century—at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta—and examines how these buildings were designed to help reshape the economic and cultural fortunes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.Trade Review“In sparkling prose, Thomas argues that three remarkable palaces in Naples were not only important works of architecture but embodiments of Enlightenment ideals. These buildings have never been considered together in print nor have their larger cultural ambitions been discussed. Built on learned foundations of eighteenth-century printed and archival sources, much of it unpublished, Palaces of Reason serves to put Naples back in its proper place as a key artistic and intellectual center of the 1700s.”—Heather Hyde Minor,author of The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome and Piranesi's Lost Words“Palaces of Reason orders and animates one of the most ambitious and complex architectural programmes of eighteenth-century Europe. No author has studied the three Bourbon palaces of Naples together in this way and provided such an original and well-researched analysis.”—Melissa Calaresu,Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

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Book SynopsisExamines how fragile and decaying artworks transformed the relation between art, time, and value in eighteenth-century France.Trade Review“A lyrical and witty rereading of eighteenth-century French art that connects the popularity of physically fragile artworks—from cracking Watteau paintings to precarious Clodion terracottas by way of disintegrating pastel paintings and quixotic experiments with encaustic—to a nascent consumer culture dependent on ephemeral goods. Wunsch adroitly joins sophisticated technical analysis to a thought-provoking argument about the ways in which the market shaped artistic practice, art collecting, and aesthetic theory.”—Amy Freund,author of Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France

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Book SynopsisIn early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch to forge a more authentic relationship to the past, to challenge stagnant artistic canons, and to foster deeper human connections. Networks of Touch is an engaging exploration of this sensory turn. In this book, Michael J. Hatch examines the artistic network of Ruan Yuan (17641849), a scholar-official whose patronage supported a generation of artists and learned people who prioritized epigraphic research as a means of truing the warped contours of Confucian heritage. Their work instigated an epigraphic aesthetican appropriation of the stylistic, material, and tactile features of ancient inscribed objects and their reproductive technologiesin late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century artwork. Rubbings, a reduplicative technology, challenged the dominance of brushwork as the bearer of artistic authority. While brushwork represented theTrade Review“Thoroughly researched, smartly conceived, and artfully presented, Networks of Touch is one of those rare books that would satisfy both the specialist scholar and the general reader. With his intellectual ambition, formal visual analysis skills, and fine eye for details, Hatch has enlivened both the forest and the trees down to the textures of the bark and leaf.”—Dorothy Ko,author of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China

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Book SynopsisTo bring Speed’s mysterious and compelling work to a wider audience, this beautifully illustrated volume presents one hundred color plates of her oil paintings, constructions and works on paper.Table of Contents Speed Time (Elizabeth Ferrer) Julie Speed: The Art of Metaphor (Edmund P. Pillsbury) Questions and Answers Plates Exhibitions Collections

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Book SynopsisUsing epigraphic, iconographic, and stylistic analyses, this study explores the integrated political-religious meanings of Quirigua's monumental sculptures during the eighth-century A.D.Trade ReviewThis is a strange and powerful story, based on impeccable scholarship, and compellingly told. It is one of the few academic books on the Maya that I would recommend to everyone. -- Nick Saunders * New Scientist *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Life at the Crossroads: Quirigua before K'ak' Tiliw 2. A Restive Vassal: The Early Reign of K'ak' Tiliw 3. Rebellion and Revival: The First Stelae of K'ak' Tiliw 4. Dreams of Power: Stelae F, D, and E 5. Foundation of the Cosmic House: Stelae C and A and Zoomorph B 6. In Honor of a Great Warrior: The Legacy of K'ak' Tiliw Appendix A. Rulers of Quirigua Appendix B. Historical Events Recorded in the Texts of Quirigua Appendix C. Selected Historical Events from the Texts of Copan Appendix D. Transcriptions and Translations of the Monumental Inscriptions Commissioned by K'ak' Tiliw Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA state-of-the-art overview of prehistoric Moche culture by an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research.Table of Contents Preface (Steve Bourget) Introduction (Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones) Chapter 1. Iconography Meets Archaeology (Elizabeth P. Benson) Chapter 2. Sacrifices and Ceremonial Calendars in Societies of the Central Andes: A Reconsideration (Anne Marie Hocquenghem) Chapter 3. Ulluchu: An Elusive Fruit (Donna McClelland) Chapter 4. Moche Masking Traditions (Christopher B. Donnan) Chapter 5. Convergent Catastrophe and the Demise of Dos Cabezas: Environmental Change and Regime Change in Ancient Peru (Michael E. Moseley, Christopher B. Donnan, and David K. Keefer) Chapter 6. Forensic Iconography: The Case of the Moche Giants (Alana Cordy-Collins and Charles F. Merbs) Chapter 7. Moche Forms for Shaping Sheet Metal (Christopher B. Donnan, David A. Scott, and Todd Bracken) Chapter 8. Moche Art Style in the Santa Valley: Between being "à la Mode" and Developing a Provincial Identity (Claude Chapdelaine) Chapter 9. The Priests of the Bicephalus Arc: Tombs and Effigies Found in Huaca de la Luna and Their Relation to Moche Rituals (Santiago Uceda) Chapter 10. The Moche People: Genetic Perspective on Their Sociopolitical Composition and Organization (Izumi Shimada, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Walter Alva, Steve Bourget, Claude Chapdelaine, and Santiago Uceda) Chapter 11. Communality and Diversity in Moche Human Sacrifice (John W. Verano) Chapter 12. Art and Moche Martial Arts (Jeffrey Quilter) Chapter 13. Moche Textile Production on the Peruvian North Coast: A Contextual Analysis (Jean-François Millaire) Chapter 14. Spiders and Spider Decapitators in Moche Iconography: Identification from the Contexts of Sipán, Antecedents and Symbolism (Néstor Ignacio Alva Meneses) Chapter 15. The Third Man: Identity and Rulership in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture (Steve Bourget) Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich, some of which has been subsequently destroyed by vandals.Trade Review"The present volume is not only an extraordinarily detailed and insightful analysis of the painted representations and texts found in Naj Tunich but also a complete survey of all known Maya painted caves... Stone has given us a major monograph on a major Maya site. For completeness of presentation, for clarity of writing, and for depth and scope of analysis, it is a model of what a final report should be, but seldom is." Michael D. Coe, Journal of Anthropological ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Topographic Context of Maya Cave Painting 3. A Further Exploration of Topographic Context: The Mesoamerican Landscape and the Cave 4. Maya and Mesoamerican Cave Painting: A Survey of Sites and Images 5. Naj Tunich: An Introduction to the Site and Its Art 6. Images from Naj Tunich 7. The Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of Naj Tunich by Barbara MacLeod and Andrea Stone 8. A Catalog of Naj Tunich Paintings and Petroglyphs 9. Maya Cave Painting: Summary of a Tradition Appendix A. The Geologic Context of Maya Cave Paintings by George Veni Appendix B. Standard Cave Map Symbols Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.Table of Contents Foreword by Peter T. Furst Acknowledgments 1. The Path to the Sierra Madre 2. Wixárika: Children of the Ancestor Gods 3. Kakauyari: The Gods and the Land Are Alive 4. Gifts for the Gods 5. Sacred Yarn Paintings 6. Commercialization of the Nierika 7. Footprints of the Founders 8. Making Yarn Paintings 9. The Colors Speak 10. Sacred Colors and Shamanic Vision 11. The Artist as Visionary 12. The "Deified Heart": Huichol Soul Concepts and Shamanic Art 13. Arte Mágico: Magical Power in Yarn Paintings 14. Shamanic Art, Global Market 15. The Influence of the Market 16. Ancient Aesthetics, Modern Images Notes Glossary of Huichol and Spanish Terms Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Background, Training, and Early Philosophical Readings 2. Exploring the Relationship between Artist and Society 3. The Design Laboratory and Pereira’s Introduction to Bauhaus Theories 4. The “Glass Age” and Pereira’s First Paintings on Glass 5. Pereira’s Study of Perception: Hildebrand, Worringer, Hinton, and Giedion 6. The Impact of Jung, Alchemy, and Tales of Transformation on Pereira’s Abstract Symbolism 7. Reconciling the Inner-Outer Duality: Pereira’s Philosophy of Space, Time, and Light 8. Pereira versus Abstract Expressionism Conclusion Appendix 1: Chronology Appendix 2: Exhibitions Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSpanning some three hundred years, this masterful study of the transmission of the Virgin of Guadalupe from Spain to the Americas and back again explores the subjectivity of seeing and the power of an image at the intersection of religion and politics.Trade ReviewIncredibly thorough in both research and analysis, this book sets a standard for scholars of Spanish and Mexican art, religion, and culture. * Library Journal *The book expands the understanding of the connections between sacred representations and the ways they are envisioned by different communities of the faithful. . . . Future researches on Latin American sacred art and Mexican culture in general will indeed be inspired by Visualizing Guadalupe. * The Americas *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Subjectivity of Seeing Chapter 1: The Sacrality of Blackness Chapter 2: “Because She Was of Their Color” Chapter 3: Her Presence in Her Absence Chapter 4: Making Guadalupe Chapter 5: A “Book of Miracles” Chapter 6: Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body Chapter 7: Aura and Authorship Chapter 8: The Civil/Savage Paradox Chapter 9: The Viceroys and the Virgin Chapter 10: Collecting Guadalupe Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisViewing four centuries of art and architecture anew through the lens of cosmopolitanism, this pathfinding book explores how Mexican visual culture presents an ongoing process of negotiation between the local and the global.Trade ReviewThe sweep of Fernández's study is ambitious, and her ability to navigate discourses and archival materials from so many periods and in several languages is impressive. * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Sigüenza y Góngora's Teatro de Virtudes Políticas Chapter 2. Castas, Monstrous Bodies, and Soft Buildings Chapter 3. Experiments in the Representation of National Identity: The Pavilion of Mexico in the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and the Palacio de Bellas Artes Chapter 4. Of Ruins and Ghosts: The Social Functions of Pre-Hispanic Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Chapter 5. Traces of the Past: Reevaluating Eclecticism in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Architecture Chapter 6. Visualizing the Future: Estridentismo, Technology, and Art Chapter 7. Re-creating the Past: Ignacio Marquina's Reconstruction of the Templo Mayor de Tenochtitlan Chapter 8. Transnational Culture at the End of the Millennium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "Relational Architectures" Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSurveying the major antiwar artists, art collectives, and iconic works, as well as offering an original typology of antiwar engagement, this is the first comprehensive history of American artistic protest against the Vietnam War.Trade ReviewThis is an accessible and informative book on a topic that has been less explored by art historians than it should be, relative to its importance, and that has escaped the attention of much of the art-going public, especially those who were not alive at the time. * Art Libraries Society of North America *Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: The Beginnings of the Vietnam War and the Antiwar Movement Chapter Two: The Beginnings of Artistic Antiwar Engagement: Artists and Writers Protest and the Artists’ Protest Committee Chapter Three: Creating Antiwar Art Chapter Four: Angry Arts Chapter Five: 1968 Chapter Six: 1969: AWC, Dead Babies, Dead American Soldiers Chapter Seven: The Invasion of Cambodia, the New York Art Strike, and Conceptual Art as Antiwar Chapter Eight: Toward an End Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book that addresses color in photography from the beginning of the medium to the present, this landmark copublication with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art explores how color transformed photography into today’s dominant artistic form.Trade Review"The invention of the Autochrome in 1907 ushered color into photography and excited artists at the time. But then something strange happened: they recoiled from color, feeling it was too similar to the way we see the world. If the burgeoning medium of photography couldn't provide something different than what each of us could see using our own eyes, what was it good for? Color: American Photography Transformed tracks the curious history of color in American photography and is a sumptuous beauty to hold in the hand, with images from Walker Evans, Irving Penn and Ansel Adams, among many others." - Kirkus "This volume examines in detail what colour brings to photography and its connections to other arts, particularly painting. Expansive in focus and attractively presented 25-30 full-page reproductions illuminate each essay. An overview of technical advances and an impressive bibliography conclude the book. Entertaining, informative and vivid in its examples, this new scholarly interpretation is a valuable work... Summing Up: Highly recommended" - Choice "John Rohrbach's terrific book, copiously illustrated and footnoted, significantly enlarges the scope of this history and our understanding. The four chapters - "Inventing Color Photography"; "Defining Color, 1936-1970"; "Using Color, 1970-1990"; and "Interrogating Color, 1990-2010" - offer a sweeping view of multi-hued photography as a problem that bedeviled - and a mirage that beguiled - generations of inventors, artists, critics, and businesses." - Collector DailyTable of Contents Foreword Introduction Chapter One: Inventing Color Photography Chapter Two: Defining Color, 1936–1970 Chapter Three: Using Color, 1970–1990 Chapter Four: Interrogating Color, 1990–2010 By John Rohrbach From Potatoes to Pixels: A Short Technical History of Color Photography By Sylvie Pénichon List of Plates Bibliography Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisLavishly illustrated with more than eighty works, including drawings and sculptures, objects and installations, this catalog of the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of Waltercio Caldas offers insight into his entire artistic production to date, one ofTable of Contents Foreword: Simone Wicha, Blanton Museum of Art Preface and Acknowledgments: Fundação Iberê Camargo The Octopus and a Completely Full Aquarium: Waltercio Caldas: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro The Mirage Maker: Robert Storr The Question: Richard Shiff Chronology, 1946-2012 Selected Bibliography About the Artist and Contributors

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond the dominant model of syncretism, this extensively illustrated volume proposes a completely different approach to the field known as Latin American “colonial art,” positioning it as a constitutive part of Renaissance and early modern art hisTable of Contents Note on Translations Acknowledgments Prologue: From One Triptych to Another Introduction: At the Frontiers of Art Histories Part One: A Triptych from New Spain Chapter 1. Treasures Chapter 2. Figures Chapter 3. Malicias Part Two: Images between Words Chapter 4. Mosaics Chapter 5. Landscape Chapter 6. Scratching Part Three: The Creation of Unexpected Languages Chapter 7. Relics of Ixiptla Chapter 8. Circular Realism Chapter 9. Figurative Condensation Conclusion: Untranslatable Images? Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

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Book SynopsisIn this pathbreaking study, Frances Pohl traces the political and artistic struggles Ben Shahn became embroiled in as he tried to remain a socially concerned artist during the early Cold War period.Trade ReviewAs an example of integrated cultural history, Pohl's book stands as a model...highly recommended.... * Choice *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Battle Lines Are Drawn The CIO-PAC Trouble in the Labor Movement Censorship in the Art World A Tribute to Shahn 2. Wallace, Dondero, and Roosevelt, N.J. The Progressive Party Campaign From the Topical to the Universal: The Hickman Story Dondero, Communism, and Modern Art A Call for Peace In the Key of Roosevelt, N.J. 3. Defending Civil Liberties at Home and the American Image Abroad Signs of an Epoch Humanism and Art Portrait of the Artist as an American Liberal Attack and Counterattack Civil Liberties and the Liberal Community "With works of Art their armies meet, And War shall sink beneath thy feet." 4. An American in Venice The Slaying of the Dragon Italy, the United States, and Cultural Propaganda The Venice Biennial Promotional Literature and Press Reaction A Broad Appeal: Liberation and The Red Stairway Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.Table of Contents Preface Photographs Hans Beacham Sixteen Creative Artists of Mexico Fiction Juan de la Cabada María-The-Voice Juan José Arreola Five Fables Truly, I Tell You Juan Rulfo Macario No Dogs Bark Guadalupe Amor The Small Drawing Room José Vasconcelos The Boar Hunt Emilio Carballido The Empty Coffin Guadalupe Dueñas A Clinical Case Julio Torri Four Sketches Poetry Three Aztec Poems Fiesta Song (Atamalcualoyan) The Great Kings The Return of the Warriors Three Nahuatl Poems. Rosario Castellanos First Elegy A Palm Tree Silence Concerning an Ancient Stone Jose Juan Tablada Haikais Enrique Rivas Possession Francisco Gonzalez Guerrero Fountain Ali Chumacero Dialogue with a Portrait Manuel Duran The Garden Well Neftalí Beltrán Wherever I Go ... Rubén Bonifaz Nuño November Theme Jaime Sabines After All from Tarumba Tomas Segovia The Distant Gardens The Day Has Eyes In These Clean Depths Carlos Pellicer Theme for a Nocturne Octavio Paz The Endless Instant Hymn Among Ruins Drawings Federico Cantú Louis Nishizawa David Alfaro Siqueiros Benjamin Molina Diego Rivera José Clemente Orozco Juan Soriano Fernando Castro Pacheco Dr. Atl Rufino Tamayo Roberto Montenegro Isidoro Ocampo Guillermo Meza Jesús Guerrero Galván Leonora Carrington Alfredo Zalce Cordelia Urueta Enrique Climent Carlos Mérida Amador Lugo Gunther Gerzso José Reyes Meza Fanny Rabel Celia Calderón Raúl Anguiano Héctor Xavier Francisco Dosamantes Gilberto Aceves Navarro Rafael Coronel José Luis Cuevas

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Events Introduction: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China Part One | Cartoonists 1. Ding Cong’s True Story of the Outcast Ah Q 2. Feng Zikai Protests the Giant Hedge Cutters Part Two | Academy Painters and a President 3. Li Keran’s Luminous Path through Mountains 4. Li Kuchan’s Eagle Gazes Far 5. Huang Yongyu’s Eye Talk 6. Pan Tianshou’s Nocturne for a Plum Tree Part Three | Communist Idealist Shi Lu 7. Inside the Secret Notebook 8. At Cliff ’s Edge 9. From Trauma to Recovery Conclusion Appendix: Poems from Shi Lu’s Secret Notebook, ca. 1973–75 Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A compelling introduction to the artistic techniques, training processes, and the cultural imperatives that are underlying the carving. It is, finally, a celebration of both artistic talent and cultural persistence." * Journal of the West *"An important record of late-twentieth-century pole carving that will be appreciated by future historians of Northwest Coast art." * American Indian Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisAmong Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed its policy of suppressing Native practices and began to pay Tlingit and Haida communities to restore older totem poles and move them from ancestral villages into parks designed for tourists. Dramatically altering the patronage and display of historic Tlingit and Haida crests, this New Deal restoration project had two key aims: to provide economic aid to Native people during the Depression and to recast their traditional art as part of America's heritage. Less evident is why Haida and Tlingit people agreed to lend their crest monuments to tourist attractions at a time when they were battling the US Forest Service for control of their traditional lands and resources. Drawing on interviews and governTrade Review"Moore presents a well-constructed read to a complicated story, bringing Southcentral Totem Pole restoration to all Alaskans." * Anchorage Press *"[A] lively and compelling narrative...a welcome addition to the expansive literature that has expressed fascination with the histories and meanings of totem poles along the Northwest Coast since the nineteenth century." * Alaska History *

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2022 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Arts of the PresentShowcases the exceptionally diverse photographic work of Latinx artistsWhether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States. Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise ofTrade Review"[A] discerning and timely illustrated history...this revealing volume will appeal to scholars and anyone with an interest in Latinx art.”" * Publishers Weekly *"Ferrer's thoroughly researched text situates Latinx photographers as prominent practitioners in the medium's history and as key to its development, and every single image sings." * Booklist *"[A]n impressive and urgenty needed survey to launch a conversation about Latinx people's role in visually chronicling the United States." * PopMatters *"Ferrer presents a concise history of the ways in which Latinx artists have been quintessential to the development of the medium." * ARTnews, Best Art Book of 2021 *"A groundbreaking survey of Latinx photography." * Choice *"[A] first of its kind encyclopaedic survey." * History of Photography *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Morris’s] excellent in-depth analysis of two case studies may provide a starting point for future broader discussions and analyses of landscape and the themes she identifies with contemporary indigenous work. . ." * Choice *"[S]ignificant contribution to art history" * Artblog *"Shifting Grounds is elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated...fascinating study." * H-Net *"[S]ignificant interdisciplinary strides...toward uniting the fields of art history and Indigenous studies." * Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Corey’s masterful monograph will be a must-read not only for Documenta visitors but also for anyone interested in global contemporary art and South East Asia." * South East Asia Research *"It is valuable asset to any syllabus of Southeast Asian contemporary art history to inspire new writings." * Art & Market *"This book invites a reflection on the affective shaping of our spatiotemporal experience of living in cities, thereby appealing to scholars in landscape studies as well as art researchers who will enjoy the original and eloquent critique of a very gratifying selection of artworks." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan is the first study in a Western language devoted exclusively to carved rock inscriptions at thousands of scenic and historical sites of Kŭmgangsan in North Korea, a currently inaccessible site to most people. The author’s thoughtful analysis of carefully selected cases from rock carvings, maps, paintings, and board games brings insightful perspectives of the culture of journey, religious and secular visions of Kŭmgangsan, history of calligraphy, and material culture relevant to travel in the late Joseon era." * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *"Stiller's work provides a wealth of valuable insights into the history of social status, travel, and cultural production in mid-tolate Chosŏn Dynasty Korea. Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan is also a beautiful example of book production--elegantly laid-out, and richly illustrated with photographs and reproductions of paintings and calligraphy." * Asian Studies Review *"Through her analysis of rock carvings, literary documents, and other visual materials, Stiller has uncovered a new layer of cultural history related to Kŭmgang-san." * Acta Koreana *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 IPPY Gold Religion Nonfiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Award Centuries of monumental sculpture, embedded in the landscapeAt sixty-two meters the Leshan Buddha in southwest China is the world's tallest premodern statue. Carved out of a riverside cliff in the eighth century, it has evolved from a religious center to a UNESCO World Heritage Site and popular tourist destination. But this Buddha does not stand alone: Sichuan is home to many cave temples with such monumental sculptures, part of a centuries-long tradition of art-making intricately tied to how local inhabitants made use of their natural resources with purpose and creativity. These examples of art embedded in nature have altered landscapes and have influenced the behaviors, values, and worldviews of users through multiple cycles of revival, restoration, and recreation. As hybrid spaces that are at once natural and artificial, they embody the interaction of art and the environmenTrade Review"[A] very inspiring contribution to our understanding of ecological art history from the perspective of Asian art. It should be read by anyone who is interested in the interrelationships among Buddhist studies, art history, and environmental humanities." * H-Environment *"Sonya Lee’s Temples in the Cliffside is a welcome addition to studies of the religious cliff sculpture of southwestern China." * Journal of Chinese History *"[A] truly multidisciplinary work of scholarship that examines Buddhist art from intertwined technical, environmental, religious, historical, aesthetic, economic, and political perspectives...Temples in the Cliffside innovatively locates religious art within its historical, political, and natural landscapes to show how people have managed their relationships to nature, and nonhuman entities in general, in different contexts. At a time when floods will likely wash the Great Buddha’s feet more and more frequently, thinking about art holistically and ecologically is particularly urgent." * CAA Reviews *"Sonya Lee's superbly researched work has paid attention to the aesthetic and historical content of the monuments, but has also updated it by framing the events in the context of environment and sustainability which are very much part of our present time. This most original approach will inspire a younger generation of art historians. Lastly, her uncommon familiarity with all matters related to conservation and restoration have contributed to this groundbreaking book." * Studies in Chinese Religions *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stands out as an exemplary work of social, artistic, and archaeological history." -- Association for Asian Studies Levenson Prize Committee"Barbieri-Low’s command of the material record is stunning." * American Historical Review *"Splendidly reanimates [the artisans’] lost lives, and gives them due credit for greasing the wheels of China's first empires." * Time Magazine, Asia Edition *"Barbieri-Low has opened up a whole new field and raised challenging questions that should give rise to many new areas of research." * Art Bulletin *"The author has taken the reader . . . into the complexities of the often hidden depths of early Chinese society. Barbieri-Low has opened up a whole new field and raised challenging questions . . . [for] many new areas of research." -- Jessica Rawson * Art Bulletin *"Artisans in Early Imperial China is a major contribution to our understanding of ancient China and to the cross-cultural study of craft production. I expect it will provide readers with a new appreciation for the ancient artisans behind the art objects that they see, as Barbieri-Low hoped." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"Artisans in Early Imperial China fills an important gap in the field . . . . Barbieri-Low has produced a solid and insightful work on a topic neglected by scholars in both China and the West." * Labour/LeTravail *"Barbieri-Low pulls off a major achievement: reconstructing the life and work of the craftsmen who created early China's most impressive works of art. Combining artistic, archaeological, and textual evidence, he gives us a finely drawn portrait of how they created objects, how they suffered, and how other strata viewed them . . . . The author's rich description of these little-known historical subjects stands out as an exemplary work of social, artistic, and archaeological history." * Association for Asian Studies Levenson prize committee *"Barbieri-Low's study provides us with a multifaceted perspective of the lives and working conditions of Han artisans . . . . By providing a bold and grounded interpretation of the lives of artisans, Barbieri-Low has done much to enhance our understanding of the lives of the men who served the elite. More generally, he has illuminated the social and economic dynamics of the early empire." * American Historical Review *"Barbieri-Low's book is extremely successful in explicating the social and economic conditions around laborers during China's early imperial period." * CAA Reviews *"[Barbieri-Low's] history of the people in the early workshops, marketplaces, construction sites and foundries who produced art imbues their activity with a vivid sense of contemporary life and times through a combination of solid research and enthusiastic engagement with his subject." * Orientations *"Featuring a thoroughly scholarly approach with copious notes, a glossary of Chinese characters, and an exhaustive bibliography, this book presents a wonderfully fresh viewpoint; it is a veritable goldmine for students and scholars of Chinese culture. Essential." * Choice *"A sapient guide through not only the bustling, state-regulated markets, but back down the production line to the small private workshops where many of the goods. . . were produced. . . . Barbieri-Low splendidly reanimates [the artisans] lost lives, and gives them due credit for greasing the wheels of China's first empires." * Time Magazine, Asia Edition *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Artisans and Their Art in Context 2. Artisans in Society 3. Artisans in the Workshop 4. Artisans in the Marketplace 5. Artisans at Court 6. Artisans in Irons Epilogue Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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