History of art Books
Harvard University Press Giotto and His Publics
Book SynopsisThis probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.Trade ReviewOne of Julian Gardner’s most significant contributions to the study of late medieval Italian art has been to move the focus of discussion away from style and attribution to context and patronage, and readers expecting such a treatment of Giotto will not be disappointed… It examines the reciprocal relationship between painter and patron, and how the ingenuity of the former satisfied the intellectual, religious and social needs of the latter… It represents a sort of summa, building on the author’s research over some forty years, each word chosen carefully for maximum impact, and each sentence concise yet pregnant with meaning. The text is accompanied by an exceptionally rich scholarly apparatus. -- John Osborne * Burlington Magazine *The expertise of distinguished scholar Gardner reveals itself in every page of this small volume… Gardner has numerous insights about content, patronage, and historical background, and he is especially sensitive to the artistic expression of Franciscan values and concerns. His characterization of the absence of minoritas, or Franciscan humility, in the paintings in Assisi and Florence seems particularly apt. His essays lead readers to look at the paintings anew—both the familiar images, such as the Bardi Chapel frescoes, and the often-overlooked Assisi allegories. -- J. I. Miller * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Temptation of Despair
Book SynopsisIn Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. Drawing on diaries, photographs, essays, reports, fiction and film, Werner Sollors makes visceral the sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience of a defeated people--and the paradoxes of occupation.Trade Review[A] deeply powerful book. It is a work of scholarship that intersperses critical analysis of movies, photographs, and memoirs of the period with Sollors’s own personal memories of being a frightened child, fleeing Silesia with his mother through a bombed-out and chaotic Germany in 1945… The Temptation of Despair belongs among the most distinguished German reckonings with its own past. Like Sebald, Sollors will have nothing to do with another kind of German reckoning—the lachrymose revanchism of the German right who seem so astonishingly indifferent to the sufferings they inflicted, so woundingly alive only to their own… The Temptation of Despair paints a picture of a society in ruins and a people at the edge of psychic collapse. But it is also a story of temptation overcome. The destroyed cities were rebuilt brick by brick, the refugee wanderers found homes and new lives… [A] wrenching book. -- Michael Ignatieff * New Republic *Elegantly written and subtly argued… The Temptation of Despair is, sub rosa, an extraordinary autobiography. In his examination of the social and cultural forces evolving out of the chaos of Germany’s Stunde Null (zero hour) in April 1945, the author looks back on the culture in which his earliest childhood was embedded. And he does so from the vantage point of a lifetime spent in America’s freedom, thinking about the fates of Jews and African Americans. Sollors’s portrait of 1945–48 Germany, like Proust’s portrait of Paris, is filtered through a sophisticated mind shaped for decades by forces antithetical to those at work on the minds of his subjects. As a consequence, Sollors’s book is not a portrait of the unsavory German reality between 1945 and 1948 (just as Recherche is not a portrait of Paris between 1871 and 1916) but the portrait of an Americanized mind in motion trying to retrieve a lost time. It is the intensity, subtlety, and suppleness of that mind that makes The Temptation of Despair a great book. -- Susanne Klingenstein * Weekly Standard *[Sollors’s] new book returns fascinatingly to the ruined landscape of his childhood. He argues that we’re wrong to see the Allied occupation as a prelude to the West German economic miracle. The occupation is often remembered as the moment when young Germans took to jazz and, like Sollors, aped the casual manner of the American soldiers posted in their country, but it was primarily a time of hunger and misery, as the Germans burrowed into ruins, or joined crowds of ragged [Displaced Persons] trekking across the country. -- Lara Feigel * London Review of Books *[A] marvelous new work on World War II–era Germany… This book [is] one of those rarities in academia: a volume that is the product of excellent scholarship, as well as deep introspection. -- Shyam K. Sriram * PopMatters *Anyone who reads this book will gain an important understanding of the few crucial years between Germany’s defeat and its emergence as a free country. -- Robert C. Conrad * Antioch Review *Another Age of Lead: Germany’s immediate post-war years. If there were such a thing as Pandora’s coffin, this book would be its unearthing and opening. -- Wolfgang Schivelbusch, author of In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin 1945–1946As a child Sollors was carried in his mother’s arms across war-torn Germany, played in the ruins, and witnessed the Auschwitz Trials. Now he turns his gaze to the culture that came out of World War II—film director Billy Wilder, photographer Fred Kochmann, and the bestselling A Woman in Berlin, to name just a few. The Temptation of Despair tells fascinating stories of the unfathomable odyssey that is Germany after Hitler and the Holocaust. -- Adrienne Kennedy, Anisfield–Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement winnerWith attentive honesty and scrupulous openness, Sollors captures the utter untowardness of times and things in the making. The result is a complex pleasure—brave, broad, bracing, hugely intelligent, and unfailingly fresh. -- Gish Jen, author of Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
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Harvard University, Asia Center GeoNarratives of a Filial Son
Book SynopsisElizabeth Kindall’s definitive study elucidates the context for the paintings of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673) and identifies geo-narrative as a distinct landscape-painting tradition lauded for its naturalistic immediacy, experiential topography, and dramatic narratives of moral persuasion, class identification, and biographical commemoration.
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Harvard University Press The Column of Antoninus Pius
Book SynopsisShortly after the death in 161 of Antoninus Pius, his sons dedicated a column to him as a funerary monument. The form of the column in general and the reliefs on the pedestal in particular raise problems central to the understanding of Roman art. In this first thorough study, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, Lise Vogel restores the column to its rightful place as one of the major monuments of Roman art. In addition, she re-evaluates the meaning of the column of Antoninus Pius in the context of the development of second century Roman imperial sculpture.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Modern History of the Column of Antoninus Pius From Monte Citorio to the Vatican Restorations Moldings Apotheosis face Lateral faces Inscription face The Fragments 3. The Free-Standing Column Monument History of the Free-Standing Column Monument Obelisks The Cenotaph of Antoninus Pius 4. The Apotheosis Relief,br> Description and Identification Campus Martius Roma Winged Genius Antoninus Pius and Faustina I Eagles The Consecratio Scene Imperial Apotheosis in Roman Art Cameos, coins, medallions, and reliefs Style and development 5. The Decursio Reliefs Description and Identification Foot soldiers Riders Funeral decursio The Decursio Scene Repetition of the Decursio Relief Representation of a Decursio in Roman Art Asia Minor Panorama tradition Turf segments Conclusion 6. Conclusion: Program, Style, and Meaning Abbreviations Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Urban Legends
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s the South Bronx has been reduced to an archetype of the “inner city,” the exemplar of urban decay and of the cultural renaissance produced by hip hop. Peter L’Official turns to literature and visual arts to capture the history of a place whose truth lay obscured between the Bronx as symbol and the Bronx as lived fact.Trade ReviewThe great Bronx book we have needed for decades. L'Official cuts through the foliage of lazy journalism, unexamined assumptions, and political rhetoric and brings together the voices of writers, rappers, social scientists, and people on the street. The result is a nuanced picture of the South Bronx, which for almost a century has been mostly neglected, scorned, and viewed as expendable—perhaps one of New York City's biggest crimes. -- Luc Sante, author of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and The Other ParisThis cultural history of the South Bronx weaves between artistic disciplines and political attitudes, landing on a compelling story of how lived experience is told from the outside. L’Official has an acute way of seeing others’ ways of seeing, and he shows, in a series of exacting analyses, how familiar shorthand about the area has obscured its reality. -- Dan Adler * Vanity Fair *[L’Official] deliberately and skillfully reads the borough…through novels, movies, art, journalism, and municipal records, looking to both unpack and undo its mythology. The result is a vibrant cultural history that gestures beyond the tropes of the boogie down and the burning metropolis, those pervasive narratives of cultural renaissance and urban neglect that have dogged the area for half a century. -- Emily Raboteau * New York Review of Books *L’Official shows us, slowly and precisely, how novelists and artists and civil servants have deployed myths of the South Bronx as both backdrops and blank screens. Some of those myths have been canon for decades…Urban Legends is a parabolic dish microphone pointed at history, collecting the waves that outsiders have bounced off the South Bronx. -- Sasha Frere-Jones * Bookforum *A vibrant cultural history of the South Bronx…L’Official summons photography, film, fiction, and music to bear witness to the multifaceted creativity and vitality of the South Bronx, and deftly reveals a place overflowing with myths, dreams, images, and visions that make us see it afresh. This delightfully innovative narrative is the perceptive look that the Bronx and New York City has long deserved. -- Garnette Cadogan * Literary Hub *I happily devoured Peter L’Official’s terrific cultural narrative, which explores the creative renaissance of an inner city NYC borough, once a poster child for social turmoil, economic wreckage, and physical devastation…An important book that speaks with powerful relevance to the state of Black life in America today—and the demands of Black Lives Matter. -- Mark Favermann * Arts Fuse *L’Official is a careful, thorough, and inventive scholar, and the story he tells is utterly absorbing. Combining analyses of literature, the built environment, art, and municipal documents, Urban Legends is multidisciplinary work at its finest. -- Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the PacificUrban Legends is cultural history at its very best. L’Official demonstrates beautifully how literature, photography, film, journalism, and other renderings of the South Bronx in the imaginations of both its detractors and its defenders powerfully shaped the community’s fate. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeWell conceived, deeply argued, and consistently engaging, Urban Legends is a distinctive and highly original work of cultural history and interpretation that brings fresh insight to conversations about the city and the arts. A fine book. -- Carlo Rotella, author of The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago NeighborhoodThis is urban intellectual history at its best. * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Borders of Chinese Architecture
Book SynopsisChinese architecture is astonishingly uniform. Buddhists, Daoists, and Muslims, inside China and beyond, built Chinese-style structures the same way for two thousand years, despite mastering new technologies along the way. Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt offers an authoritative overview of design principles that have stood the test of time—and geography.Trade ReviewAn exceptional book that significantly increases our knowledge about the extent of Chinese architecture across a land whose borders have been fluid over the millennia. No one in the West knows this material better than Nancy Steinhardt, who brilliantly weaves Korea and Mongolia into the story of the development of Chinese architecture. Her work is rooted not only in written records and visual materials, but in personal exploration of the sites themselves. Her mastery of the Chinese building system, both above and below ground, and her command of the full range of built structures is outstanding. -- Ronald G. Knapp, author of Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a NationA fascinating look at architectural examples from China and neighboring regions that are related to China’s long building tradition but not usually included in Chinese architectural history. Steinhardt demonstrates that the cultural ‘boundary’ of Chinese architectural traditions and practices was actually much more porous than expected. By putting border crossing into sharper focus, she argues for a much broader understanding of Chinese architecture as a dynamic cultural expression across East Asia, and even beyond. A delightful treat and indispensable reference for anyone interested in border-crossing issues in art and architectural history. -- Wei-Cheng Lin, author of Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China’s Mount WutaiSteinhardt brings an authoritative perspective to answering a fascinating question: why has Chinese architecture remained a stylistic constant for 2,000 years?…[A] scholarly and provocative read about the cultural significance (and enduring power) of non-Western architectural ideas. -- Mark Favermann * Arts Fuse *
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Harvard University Press Pious Fashion How Muslim Women Dress
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPious Fashion is a look at contemporary dress and how it can help us see the ‘Muslim community’ as a vast array of individuals rather than an inscrutable monolith… Bucar disabuses readers of any preconceived ideas that women who adhere to an aesthetic of modesty are unfashionable or frumpy. -- Robin Givhan * Washington Post *I defy anyone not to be beguiled by [Bucar's] generous-hearted yet penetrating observation of pious fashion in Indonesia, Turkey and Iran…Outlining how young Muslim women in Tehran, Yogyakarta and Istanbul shape urban cultures of modest dress, Bucar uses interviews with consumers, designers, retailers and journalists alongside ethnographic vignettes of outfits to examine the presumptions that modest dressing can’t be fashionable, and fashion can’t be faithful. -- Reina Lewis * Times Higher Education *The brilliance of Bucar’s book is that she goes beyond the hijab, showing how seamlessly (pun unintended) an entire outfit can carry multiple resonances, simultaneously revealing truths about piety, the body, gender, and politics. She shows how women’s sartorial choices within Islamic norms—and their interpretations of those choices—reflect and shape the values of a faith tradition, create spaces for agency and judgment, indicate or obscure economic status, secure or foreclose access to political power, and allow for individual expression…She blends history, anthropology, personal experience, interviews, and stunning photographs from fashion blogs to present a vivid cross-cultural picture of the complex relationship between clothing, faith, and beauty. -- Elizabeth Palmer * Christian Century *In Pious Fashion Elizabeth Bucar adds her voice to a growing body of literature that seeks to move beyond simplistic and polemical arguments for or against ‘the veil’ towards an exploration of the complex and thriving world of Islamic fashion…[Pious Fashion] manages to be informative, ethnographically rich and highly readable, and to those unfamiliar with the topic, it provides an engaging introduction…[Bucar] brings out both the sensuality and pleasure of sartorial experimentation and also its politics. -- Emma Tarlo * Times Literary Supplement *[Bucar] comes across as warm, engaging and funny. The women she studies trust her and she has an eye for minute details: the book is packed with them, and this is where Bucar comes into her own. Amid the descriptions of fabrics, colors and styles, she really gets under the skin of how [Muslim] women like to dress…There are fascinating insights too. -- Ramita Navai * Literary Review *[A] persuasive case for taking fashion seriously in religious studies…An ethnographic project vast in scope as it introduces the diversity and complexity of pious fashion among Muslim women…Bucar’s expansive understanding of piety is helpful as she applies it to nationalism, cultural fidelity, religious sincerity, and class as the means and expertise to participate in aesthetic-making activities. -- Jeanine Viau * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *At a time when Muslim women’s clothing is discussed in terms of freedom, oppression, and piety, Bucar…explains that modest clothing in Muslim cultures means much more than religious authority and social conformity…Bucar reveals an underexplored segment of the fashion industry and excellently exhibits the ways in which Muslim women engage with their faith and the world of fashion by choosing head coverings, clothing, and accessories that are both reverent and in vogue. Featuring street style photos of fashionable women, this book adds some much-needed frills to debates surrounding the hijab. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A smart, eye-opening guide to the creative sartorial practices of young Muslim women who live in Tehran, Istanbul, and Yogyakarta. Bucar’s lively narrative illuminates fashion choices, moral aspirations, and social struggles that will unsettle those who prefer to stereotype rather than inform themselves about women’s everyday lives in the fast-changing, diverse, and historically specific societies that constitute the Muslim world. -- Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?Islamic dress is in the news. Either as a symbol of female oppression or as a new, colorful statement on the global fashion stage, Islamic dress can be misunderstood because it seems singular and monolithic. This book offers first-person observations from the stores and streets of three cities in Muslim-majority countries. Through vivid descriptions of styles and shoppers, readers realize that Muslim women dress in as many varied ways as non-Muslim women do. -- Carla Jones, University of Colorado Boulder[Bucar] argues in this fascinating read that pious fashion is much more than modest dress standards imposed on women. It is a way that Muslim women claim their identity and express their faith in a world that is rapidly westernizing. * WATER: Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual *It's thrilling to learn of the often extraordinarily complex meanings accompanying different varieties of dress…Truly an eye-opening book. -- Megan Volpert * PopMatters *Throughout this informative addition to literature about Muslim women, the author reminds her readers that hijab—as worn on the head or other parts of a woman’s body or called by another name—is open to limitless interpretations and is bound by meanings that are socially constructed and sufficiently fluid for further evolution. -- Debra Majeed * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
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Harvard University, Asia Center Printing Landmarks
Book SynopsisSpanning the fields of book history, travel literature, map history, and visual culture, Printing Landmarks provides a new perspective on Tokugawa-period culture. Robert Goree draws on diverse archival and scholarly sources to explore why meisho zue enjoyed widespread and enduring popularity.Trade ReviewA valuable addition to the understanding of early modern publishing culture and geographical imagination. -- Radu Leca * Journal of Japanese Studies *Goree’s work is methodologically rigorous, insightful, and well researched in English and Japanese… Printing Landmarks is a terrific work of scholarship, and it should change how we read, cite, and understand meisho zue for many years to come. -- R. Keller Kimbrough * Monumenta Nipponica *Constitutes not only an important introduction to an underrepresented genre, but also a model for approaching the complex illustrated printed works of the Tokugawa period. …Goree’s book will no doubt be invaluable for specialists who must contend with this dense and complex material. …[This] book illustrates just how groundbreaking it was for a Tokugawa-period reader to enjoy virtual travel through meisho zue. This important study of meisho zue shows the broad-reaching possibilities of popular geography in print, shaping a common understanding of places near and far -- Quintana Heathman Scherer * Journal of Asian Studies *A tour de force of interdisciplinary scholarship that draws on studies of literature, history, art history, cartography, and visual culture in order to create the first comprehensive account of meisho zue… The meticulousness and precision of Goree’s prose facilitates his presentation of documents that might otherwise appear obscure to modern readers, thereby rendering them as living texts. Perhaps the greatest virtue of Printing Landmarks is that it makes meisho zue readable in an intuitive way, thereby opening up an entire world of topographic literature that was previously inaccessible to nonspecialists. -- Pedro Bassoe * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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Archeological Exploration of Sardis Ordinary Lydians at Home
Book SynopsisThis publication of two major Lydian excavation sectors at Sardis is the first in-depth presentation of the architecture, pottery, and other artifacts belonging to the inhabitants of this native Anatolian kingdom. The two-volume book catalogues nearly 800 objects, illustrated by more than 300 color plates of photos and detailed drawings.
£67.16
Harvard University Press Persian Manuscripts Paintings from the Berenson
Book SynopsisPersian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and paintings collected by the world-renowned art historian, art critic, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Fourteen essays focus on three manuscripts and four detached folios.
£35.66
Harvard University Press Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese
Book SynopsisJuliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery. Noth offers a new understanding of these experiments by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world.Trade Review[An] important new volume…It will be necessary reading for all scholars of Republican China’s cultural politics. -- Craig Clunas * Journal of Chinese History *A comprehensive and insightful series of analyses on the problems of landscape painting and its practitioners at the junction of intermediation via photography, and on the need to proclaim and reinforce the continuity of ‘Chinese landscape painting’. Because of its detail and precise analysis this text will be an important reference for some time. -- John Clark * 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual *
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Harvard University Press James Loeb Collector and Connoisseur
Book SynopsisThe second James Loeb Biennial Conference focused on his multifaceted engagement with the material culture of the ancient world as a scholar, connoisseur, collector, and curator. The resulting essays also reflect on Loeb’s contemporary significance, as his collections continue to be curated and studied in today’s rapidly evolving arts environment.
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Harvard University Press Lost and Found
Book SynopsisFlorence’s iconic foundling home of the Innocenti is often taken as a symbol of Renaissance creativity, innovation, and humanity. The essays in Lost and Found explore new dimensions and contexts for foundling care at the Innocenti and use archival documents and digital tools to locate it architecturally, geographically, and socially.
£32.26
Harvard University, Asia Center The Efficacious Landscape
Book SynopsisInk landscape painting is a distinctive feature of the Northern Song, and Song painters created some of the most celebrated artworks in Chinese history. Foong Ping shows how landmark works of this era came to be identified first as potent symbols of imperial authority and later as objects by which exiled scholars expressed disaffection and dissent.
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Harvard University Press Bernard Berenson Formation and Heritage
Book SynopsisBernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage explores the intellectual world of Berenson (1865–1959), who put the connoisseurship of Renaissance art on a firm footing at the turn of the twentieth century. Essays explore his relationships with various cultural figures including William James, Jean Paul Richter, Katherine Dunham, and many others.Trade ReviewIn the past fifty years, Villa I Tatti has become a powerhouse of scholarly production on all aspects of Renaissance studies, and Bernard Berenson: Formation and Heritage celebrates this achievement by examining the founder’s intellectual achievements. Thoughtfully edited by Joseph Connors and Louis Waldman, the book stems from a conference held at I Tatti in 2009, and the range of papers published here is a testimony to the enduring fascination with Berenson. -- Bruce Boucher * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art
Book SynopsisThe Image of the Black in African and Asian Art asks how the black figure was depicted by artists from the non-Western world—Africa, East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. The aesthetic traditions represented are as diverse as the political and social histories of these regions.Trade ReviewExamines the way the black man and woman have been portrayed outside of the West, beginning with ancient Egypt—positioned properly as part of African history—and moving through modern photography from Mali. It examines the representation of Africans outside the continent, in Indian miniatures and Japanese prints, showing a very different depiction of race outside the stereotypes of the Western gaze. -- Miss Rosen * Crave *
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Harvard University Press Sentinel The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of
Book SynopsisIcon of freedom and multiethnic democracy, memorial to Franco-American friendshipthe lofty meanings we accord the Statue of Liberty today obscure its turbulent origins in 19th-century politics and art. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that vibrant history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life.Trade ReviewFascinating…and relentlessly inquisitive…The thrust of her argument rings true: Lady Liberty is fiercer and far more complex than we ever knew. -- Michael O’Donnell * Wall Street Journal *An attempt to pick apart the complex and sometimes strange history of this colossal gift to America from the government and people of France. * The Economist *Viano’s revisionist account of the statue’s ‘unlikely origins’ is a welcome corrective to settled opinion…This is superb scholarship, interpreted with an elegant touch and beautifully produced. -- Stephen Bayley * Spectator *Extravagant and gripping… Sentinel offers a sweeping dual narrative and reads like a Victorian novel. Viano writes with the flair of a novelist and a historian’s humility. The research is prodigious, the set piece alive with detail. -- Dominic Green * Literary Review *Does as much as any book can…to restore Bartholdi’s grim goddess some of her original mystery, and in the process it tells the story of Liberty’s birth with a probing complexity that’s a far better tribute to both the country of her origin and the country that welcomed her, the most prominent immigrant in the world. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *Lively, detailed, and full of surprises, a fascinating account of the Statue of Liberty’s conception and construction. -- James T. Kloppenberg, Harvard UniversitySentinel is a cornucopia of a book, not just an in-depth history of the origins and evolution of an iconic monument, but a narrative full of insights. Viano writes with breathtaking scope and remarkable knowledge. No other work on the Statue of Liberty is as rich or rewarding. -- John Brewer, California Institute of TechnologyIn her astonishing narrative, Viano overturns virtually every assumption Americans have about their famous statue standing in New York’s harbor. Her global story traces how a ‘devilish colossus,’ inspired by Eastern esoteric knowledge and meant to stand in Egypt as a testament of French colonial domination, became an ambiguous symbol of American liberty. Viano’s indefatigable research into long-forgotten documents has yielded a truly wonderful history. -- R. Laurence Moore, Cornell UniversityThe Statue of Liberty is so American, and so bound up with an idea of America’s largesse and openness to the rest of the world, that we can easily forget that it was designed by an Alsatian sculptor and gifted to the United States by France. Francesca Viano brilliantly reorients the statue’s meaning by recovering its truly international origins. At once a detective story about its enigmatic creators, an appreciation of the artistic and philosophical influences that informed its design, and a rumination on liberty—colossal but fragile—in an age of empire, Sentinel offers a dazzling perspective on the most famous statue in the world. -- Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge
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Harvard University Press The Italian Renaissance of Machines
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance was a rebirth of art and literature—and of machines. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Paolo Galluzzi guides readers through a singularly inventive period featuring Taccola’s and da Vinci’s fusion of artistry and engineering and new concepts of learning that enabled Galileo’s revolutionary mathematical science of mechanics.Trade ReviewGalluzzi’s project in this erudite and beautifully illustrated book is to consider Renaissance humanism from the relatively unfamiliar perspective of machine design…Leonardo’s projects, like Taccola’s, combined philosophy, art, experimental science, performance, politics, diplomacy, and fantasy. It’s not that these engineer-humanists did many different things, but that they regarded all things as one. -- Jessica Riskin * New York Review of Books *Galluzzi has long been one of the premier scholars of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history of technology and science. But most of his scholarship is not available in English and is thus inaccessible to those who do not read Italian. This beautifully written book will bring his scholarship to the general reader, while promising to be of great use to specialists. -- Pamela O. Long, author of Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century RomeIn a period of economic development, profound urbanization, and constant warfare, artist-engineers offered Renaissance society creative solutions to technical problems, new ways of imagining and understanding the world, and empirical methodologies that laid the groundwork for the new sciences. Galluzzi’s richly illustrated book therefore does well to demonstrate how artist-engineers revolutionized the conceptualization and production of textual and visual content, and, consequently, produced radical innovations in graphic representations that reflect the ever-fascinating world that is the Italian Renaissance. -- Jennifer Strtak * Renaissance and Reformation *Galluzzi, director of the Museo Galileo since 1982, is eminently qualified to synthesize this vast body of work…His observations display a freshness, immediacy, and acuity…Anyone who studies or teaches the renaissance of arts and letters will benefit from this more inclusive view of the period. -- Michael Kucher * Technology and Culture *Galluzzi is the doyen of Leonardo da Vinci scholars today…This is apt to become a canonical text in its field. -- Bert Hall * Renaissance and Reformation *An authoritative introduction to Galluzzi’s scholarly achievement, making it accessible as a reference work to an international English language reading audience, while at the same retaining stylistic traces of the vividness of the lectures. -- Sven Dupré * Journal of Modern History *
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Princeton University Press Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
Book SynopsisIn a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, this title invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1993 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993 "[This book] is a work of art which, in richness of subject matter and ideas, as well as in its craft of language and imagery, might be considered worthy of Daidalos himself... [T]his is a marvelous, thought-provoking book ... packed with epigrammatic sentences and memorable one-liners."--Susan Sherratt, Antiquity "Morris's impressive control of ancient evidence and modern bibliography on archaeology, history, literature, and mythology enables her to produce a persuasive synthesis... [T]his is a book to be reckoned with by historians as well as art historians and philologists."--Peter Krentz, History "Morris, using art and literature, myth and iconography, etymology and textual analysis, builds an enviably comprehensive thesis... Morris' book establishes itself as a leader in the field."--Greece and Rome "No brief review can do justice to the originality and breadth of this major work of revisionist scholarship... Gathering an imposing array of linguistic, literary, archaeological, and historical sources from around the Mediterranean, the author has demonstrated the profound, appreciative dependence of the Greeks on the Levantine 'East', beginning in the Late Bronze Age."--Choice
£59.50
Princeton University Press Words of Light Theses on the Photography of
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of history, this title argues that the questions raised by this link between photography and history touch on issues that belong to the entire trajectory of his writings.Trade Review"Cadava presents a series of sensitive meditations on Benjamin's work, in which, like Benjamin himself, he explores the mass image and its role in the making of popular memory."--The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface: PhotagogosHistory3Heliotropism5Origins5Mortification7Ghosts11Mimesis13Translations15Inscriptions18Lightning21Stars26Eternal Return31Reproducibility42Politics44Danger47Caesura59Traces64Nightdreams66Twilight71Awakening81Language84Matter87Reflections92Psyches97Shocks102Similarity106Petrification115Death128Epitaphs128Notes133Bibliography157Index169
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Princeton University Press A Documentary History of Art Volume 1
Book SynopsisA collection of notebooks, letters, treatises, and contracts dealing with the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It gives the reader an insight into the personalities and conditions of the times.
£28.80
Princeton University Press Cubism Stieglitz and the Early Poetry of William
Book SynopsisPrevious studies of William Carlos Williams have tended to look only for the literary echoes in his verse. This title catches the excitement of this period of revolutionary art, reveals the interactions between writers and painters, and shows in particular the specific and general impact this world had on Williams' early writings.Trade Review"Dijkstra has demonstrated beyond any doubt that Williams was enormously influenced by experimentation in the visual arts and that he attempted to emulate the Stieglitz group in focusing on the object itself, delineating it as precisely as possible and letting it represent the moment of perception without intruding personal comment."--Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsPrefaceList of IllustrationsIThe New York Avant Garde, 1910-19173IIThe Poem as a Canvas of Broken Parts47IIIStieglitz82IVThe Evangelists of the American Moment108VDoctor Williams and the New World127VIThe Hieroglyphics of a New Speech145VIIThe Poem as Still-Life161Selective Bibliography199Index211
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Princeton University Press The Door in the Sky
Book SynopsisAnanda K Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. This is a collection of his writings on myth drawn from his "Metaphysics" and "Traditional Art and Symbolism".Trade Review"There are many who consider Coomaraswamy as one of the great seminal minds of this century... This selection of his papers should go into every library."--Kathleen Raine, The [London] TimesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceList of Abbreviations and Short TitlesList of Works by A.K. Coomaraswamy Cited in this Volume1Mind and Myth32Svayamatrrna: Janua Coeli63Imitation, Expression, and Participation624Atmayajna: Self-Sacrifice725A Figure of Speech or a Figure of Thought?1136The Nature of Buddhist Art1437An Indian Temple: The Kandarya Mahadeo1758Literary Symbolism1849The Symbolism of the Dome192Index243
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Princeton University Press The Survival of the Pagan Gods
Book SynopsisThe gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity - or so we have been taught to believe. This title offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life.Trade Review"Such a synthesis has never been attempted before, and the author ... has performed this much-needed service with exceptional distinction and clarity of purpose."--Art Digest "Here is a book ... that tells us what became of the gods after the fall of Rome, in what strange disguises they lived on, and how they emerged in the Quattrocento with odd attributes and symbols the ancients never knew... It is a formidable task, demanding vast learning in many fields; and it is brilliantly performed."--The Times Literary Supplement
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Princeton University Press Virtue and Vice
Book SynopsisThe concept of opposing forces of good and evil expressed in a range of moral qualities - virtues and vices - is one of the dominant themes in the history of Christian art. This catalogue documents the occurrence of the Virtues and Vices in well over 1,000 works of art produced between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Notes on the Contributors xi List of Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xviii Introduction 3 PART 1: ESSAYS Virtus or Virago? The Female Personifications of Prudentius's Psychomachia S. GEORGIA NUGENT 13 Learning from Nature: Lessons in Virtue and Vice in the Physiologus and Bestiaries RON BAXTER 29 The Spirit in the World: The Virtues of the Floreffe Bible Frontispiece: British Library, Add. Ms. 17738, ff. 3v-4r ANNE-MARIE BOUCHE 42 Good and Evil, Not-So-Good and Not-So-Evil: Marginal Life on Gothic German Sacrament Houses ACHIM TIMMERMANN 66 The Art of the Tongue: Illuminating Speech and Writing in Later Medieval Manuscripts JESSE M. GELLRICH 93 The Virtuous Pelican in Medieval Irish Art COLUM HOURIHANE 120 PART 2: CATALOGUE OF VIRTUES AND VICES IN THE INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART Introduction to the Catalogue 151 List of Virtues and Vices in the Catalogue 153 Abbreviations Used in the Catalogue 157 Virtues 159 Unidentified Virtues 309 Tree of Virtues 323 Cardinal Virtues 324 Vices 330 Unidentified Vices 433 Tree of Vices 437 Seven Vices 438 Wheel of Vices 438 Conflict of Virtues and Vices 439 Index of Catalogued Objects 443
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Princeton University Press Augustan Culture An Interpretive Introduction
Book SynopsisGrand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 BC to AD 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies throughout Western history. This book presents an overview, one that brings together political and social history, art, literature, architecture, and religion.Trade Review"A thought provoking study that complements and integrates the fruits of many significant studies on individual elements of this major international ancient culture."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Augustan Evolution3Ch. IA Principal Concept: Auctoritas10Ch. IIThe Restoration of the Res publica42Ch. IIIIdeas, Ideals, and Values80Ch. IVArt and Architecture141Ch. VAugustan Literature225Ch. VIReligion288Ch. VIICentral Characteristics332Ch. VIIIEpilogue: Auctor Perpetuus376Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Works391Notes393Bibliography435Provenience of Illustrations461Index of Passages465General Index469
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Princeton University Press Classical Pasts The Classical Traditions of
Book SynopsisThe term "classical" is used to describe everything from the poems of Homer to entire periods of Greek and Roman antiquity. But just how did the concept evolve? This collection of essays by leading classics scholars from the United States and Europe challenges the limits of the understanding of the term.Trade Review"In addition to his own outstanding introduction and essay, Professor Porter presents here works by true luminaries in the wide variety of fields that are touched by the issue of classicism in its many forms. The result is a highly significant work."—Mark Fullerton, Ohio State University, author of Ancient Art and Its Historiography"This is an appealing and innovative book that will make a difference and attract considerable attention from all the sub-fields of what is conventionally known as Classics."—Allesandro Barchiesi, Stanford University and the University of Siena, author of Speaking VolumesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table vii Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction: What Is "Classical" about Classical Antiquity? by James I. Porter 1 Part I: The Deep Past: Bronze Age Classicism Chapter 1: "No Greater Marvel": A Bronze Age Classic at Orchomenos by Susan E. Alcock and John F. Cherry 69 Part II: Classical Innovations Chapter 2: Intimations of the Classical in Early Greek Mousik by Armand D'Angour 89 Chapter 3: Rehistoricizing Classicism: Isocrates and the Politics of Metaphor in Fourth-Century Athens by Yun Lee Too 106 Part III: Baroque Classics Chapter 4: Baroque Classics: The Tragic Muse and the Exemplum by Andrew Stewart 127 Part IV Latin Letters Chapter 5: From into PHILOSOPHIA: Classicism and Ciceronianism John Henderson 173 Chapter 6: The Concept of the Classical and the Canons of Model Authors in Roman Literature by Mario Citroni 204 Part V: Roman Art Chapter 7: Greek Styles and Greek Art in Augustan Rome: Issues of the Present versus Records of the Past Tonio Holscher 237 Chapter 8: Classicism in Roman Art by Jas Elsner 270 Part VI: Imperial Prose Chapter 9: Feeling Classical: Classicism and Ancient Literary Criticism by James I. Porter 301 Chapter 10: Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece by Tim Whitmarsh 353 Coda Looking Back and Beyond Chapter 11: Athens as the School of Greece by Glenn W. Most 377 Bibliography 389 Contributors 431 Index 433
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Princeton University Press The Artless Jew
Book SynopsisSynthesizes evidence from medieval Jewish philosophy, mysticism, poetry, biblical commentaries, travelogues, and law, concluding that premodern Jewish intellectuals held a positive, liberal understanding of the Second Commandment and did, in fact, articulate a certain Jewish aesthetic.Trade Review"The research for this work reflects a great and careful scholarly effort...Highly recommended."--Choice "Bland has shown that the whole question of whether Jews are 'rtless' is a construction of modern thought, and has little to do with pre-modern Jews... An excellent counterweight to the vast literature that claims that Jews and Judaism are visually handicapped."--Steven Fine, Baltimore Hebrew University and the University of Cincinnati, for CAA.Reviews "A highly recommended building-block text for further study into the relationship between Judaism and visual art."--Religious Studies Review "Bland's carefully researched book offers an erudite riposte to post-Kantian aesthetic theory and an unusually useful account of the image in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish culture... [It] unsettles many received ideas and unearths many buried texts that change our notions of Jewish visual culture."--Adam Bresnick, Times Literary Supplement "Bland does an excellent job of convincing us ... of the high status of visual production in ancient, medieval and early modern Jewish societies."--Pamela Kachurin, The Art BookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 3 One Modern Denials and Affirmations of Jewish Art: Germanophone Origins and Themes 13 Two Anglo-American Variations 37 Three The Premodern Consensus 59 Four The Well-Tempered Medieval Sensorium 71 Five Medieval Beauty and Cultural Relativism 92 Six Twelfth-Century Pilgrims, Golden Calves, and Religious Polemics 109 Seven The Power and Regulation of Images in Late Medieval Jewish Society 141 Notes 155 Bibliograpby 201 Index 229
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Princeton University Press Insights and Interpretations
Book SynopsisEstablished in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. This book features essays that highlight some of the research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been renowned.Table of ContentsPreface ix Notes on the Contributors xi List of Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xix "They stand on his shoulders": Morey, Iconography, and the Index of Christian Art by COLUM HOURIHANE 3 Mary Magdalen's Seven Deadly Sins in a Thirteenth-Century Liege Psalter-Hours by ADELAIDE BENNETT 17 Jephthah apd His Daughter in Medieval Art: Ambiguities of Heroism and Sacrifice by LOIS DREWER 35 Images of Instruction, Marie de Bretagne, and the Life of St. Eustace as Illustrated in British Library Ms. Egerton 745 by JUDITH K. GOLDEN 70 Innovation and Identity: A Franciscan Program of Illumination in the Verger de soulas (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Ms. fr. 9220) by LYNN RANSOM 85 Picturing Women in the First Bible moralisee by GERALD B. GUEST 106 The Economy of Salvation in Geiler von Kaysersberg: The "Bilger" Frontispiece of 1494 by A. E. WRIGHT 131 The Iconography of St. Paul in Medieval Malta by MARGARET LINDSEY 140 Joseph the Carpenter's Failure at Familial Discipline by PAMELA SHEINGORN 156 Dei Saturitas. St. Elizabeth's Works of Mercy in the Medieval Pictorial Narrative by IVAN GREAT 168 Prophecy in Glass and Stone: Jewish Influences on the Cathedral of Bourges 182 The Zafarnama [Book of Conquest] of Sultan Husayn Mirza by MIKA NATIF 211 Index 228
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Princeton University Press A Shoemakers Story Being Chiefly about French
Book SynopsisOn a June morning in 1870, seventy-five Chinese immigrants stepped off a train in New England. They threaded their way through a hostile mob and then their new employer lined them up and had them photographed. This work seeks to understand the social forces that brought this photograph into being, and the events it subsequently spawned.Trade Review"Generously illustrated with many extraordinary photographs, A Shoemaker's Story brings 1870s America to vivid life. Combining painstaking research with world-class storytelling, Lee illuminates an important episode in the social history of the United States, and reveals the extent to which photographs can be sites of intense historical struggle."--Spartacus Educational "Although some historians might be put off by Lee's narrative style, it is a useful and informative method to access the complexity of American industrialization and especially to bring the voices of those who are often silent in the past to the forefront. Furthermore, for historians who are looking for model scholarship that uses photographs as more than illustrations, this book is a welcome and much-needed resource."--Krystyn R. Moon, American Historical Review "The rewards are everywhere present in Lee's research--and the pleasure of his writing. As a historian, Lee combines the local detail with the large issues, all the while turning elegant phrases and marshalling his account into a page-turning story that asserts, after all, 'what the author saw.'"--Ellen Wiley Tod, College Art Association "Innovative and ambitious, A Shoemaker's Story is a lucid and detailed account that is sophisticated in its methodology. Given the wide-ranging subject matter, Lee has produced a remarkably disciplined text, presenting the reader with a distinctive narrative tone that is mature, confident, and occasionally playful."--James Opp, Labour-Le Travail "Lee's lively and accessible account of their story is a must read for students and scholars of immigration and labor history."--Evelyn Sterne, Journal of American Ethnic History "A Shoemaker's Story will justifiably find a place in the historiography of photography, immigration, the visual culture of diaspora, and nineteenth-century industrialization. It is a model of research design, engaging narrative prose, and close attention to the specificity of form... Telling a new story in old-fashioned ways, [Lee] has crafted an exquisite piece of scholarship whose very title suggests the traditional detective work essential to both good history and compelling prose."--Elspeth H. Brown, CAA Reviews "A Shoemaker's Story gives us a history of these events, offering an instructive and vividly written case study into the development of industry and unions, the deskilling of labor, the growth of immigration, and the transformation of identities that characterized post Civil War America."--Mike Rabourn, Historical Journal of MassachusettsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: What the Shoe Manufacturer Saw 12 Chapter Two: What the Photographers Saw 74 Chapter Three: What the Crispins Saw 144 Chapter Four: What the Chinese Saw 197 Postscript 264 Acknowledgments 273 Notes 277 Index 299
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Princeton University Press Magnificent Buildings Splendid Gardens
Book SynopsisMagnificent Buildings, Splendid Gardens returns to print some of the most important works of David Coffin, a leading authority on Renaissance architecture who, as one of the first scholars to apply the tools of art history to the study of gardens, became a founder of the discipline of garden and landscape studies. These essays span the wide range of Coffin''s work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Coffin''s approaches are as varied as his subject matter. Some of these essays present the results of his archival research, including his discovery of crucial documents on the Emilian architect Giovan Battista Aleotti and the only documentary evidence identifying Vignola as the architect of the Villa Lante at Bagnaia. Other essays take a much broader cultural view, investigating, for example, the phenomenon of public access to privatTrade Review"This compendium of scholarly essays charts admirably David Coffin's remarkable and enviable ability to express simply, clearly and authoritatively the results of a lifetime's scrupulous and disciplined research."--Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Burlington Magazine "Each essay, almost every paragraph, had the effect of inspiring the reader to follow it up with more research of their own."--Gillian Mawrey, Historic Gardens Review "The volume stands as witness to the accomplishments of this prolific scholar and reflects his many interests."--Claudia Lazzaro, Sitelines: A Journal of Place "We ... may ... praise the work of David Robbins Coffin in bringing aspects of Italian architecture and gardens, and instances of English gardens to wider attention. All scholars may wholeheartedly welcome this most useful volume, whose index is exemplary."--David H. Kennett, Sixteenth Century Journal
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Princeton University Press The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins
Book SynopsisThe young Thomas Eakins''s most revealing letterspublished here for the first timeThe most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time; in fact, this is the first edition of Eakins''s correspondence from the period. Edited and annotated by Eakins authority William Innes Homer, this book provides a treasure trove of new information, revealing previously hidden facets of Eakins''s personality, providing a much richer picture of his artistic development, and casting fresh light on his debated psychosexual makeup. The book is illustrated with the small, gemlike drawings Eakins included in his correspondence, as well as photographs and paintings.In these letters, Eakins speaks openly and frankly about human relationships, male companionship, marriage, and women. In viviTrade Review"Although there are a number of excellent biographies, critical works, and published collections of the work of seminal American artist Thomas Eakins, this is the first collection of his letters from his years as a student in Paris (1866-70)... Highly recommended for scholars and art history students as well as general readers and young adults."--Library Journal "Homer has been writing and lecturing about Eakins for 40 years, and his familiarity adds much to his annotations of these letters; he captures their essence even in the briefest synopses. Homer's second volume, collecting later Eakins letters, should continue to present this lucid perspective and, more important, promises further firsthand insights."--Edith Newhall, ArtNewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Thomas Eakins: The Artist and His Letters 1 Chapter 1: 1866 9 Chapter 2: 1867 79 Chapter 3: 1868 187 Chapter 4: 1869 237 Chapter 5: 1870 293 Chapter 6: The Spanish Notebook (1870) 299 Chapter 7: Letters & Theories after 1870: A Summary 309 Collection Code Key 321 List of Owners of Thomas Eakins Letters 323 Selected Bibliography 331 Index 333 Letter Credits and Permissions 341
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Princeton University Press The Melancholy Art
Book SynopsisMelancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of aTrade Review"Enchanting."--Holland Cotter, New York Times "Nostalgic and plaintive, this title's examination of the work of art historians is an enjoyable literary exercise that will foster discussion among art historians and their students."--Library Journal "To consider melancholy in art beyond the limits of despondency, loss, and grief is a refreshing way to induce a different space and energy between the past of the artwork and the viewer's present. In these erudite essays, art historian Michael Ann Holly makes case for works of art--'these beautiful orphans'--that reinvest in melancholia as the signifier and the signified."--Greta Aart, Cerise Press "In support of her argument, Holly marshals a wealth of erudition indicative of formidable trans-historical, interdisciplinary expertise... With the utmost refinement, Holly's own poetic resonance echoes from artful analogy and suggestive imagery."--Giovanna Costantini, Leonardo Reviews "While the driving power of melancholy remains unclear, many readers will be intrigued by this highly personal take on the profession."--Choice "Holly's elegant and thoughtful book focuses on the encounter of the viewer with the work of art."--Kathryn Murphy, Apollo Magazine "Exemplary."--Ivan Gaskell, Brooklyn Rail "The Melancholy Art is both an apt embodiment of contemporary disciplinary conundrums and a deeply moving account of one art historian's personal attempt to reckon with the impossibility - the futility - of 'closing the gap between words and images.'... Holly clearly exemplifies both senses of the term in this memorable and indeed rather haunting text... The value of The Melancholy Art is precisely in simultaneously manifesting such a conundrum and in refusing to fall into the fundamentalist trap of either attributing or denying real agency to artworks. All our 'art history' books should be so brave."--Donald Preziosi, CAA ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xxiii 1 The Melancholy Art 1 2 Viennese Ghosts 25 3 Stones of Solace 53 4 Patterns in the Shadows 73 5 Mourning and Method 95 Postscript 117 Notes 133 Bibliography 165 Index 183
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Princeton University Press Imago Dei
Book SynopsisCharts the theological defense of icons during the Iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in AD 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. This title demonstrates how the dogmas of the Trinity and the Incarnation eventually provided the basic rationale for images.Trade Review"[Pelikan's] extraordinary breadth as a historian, not to mention his mastery of the Christian theological traditions, enables him to establish a proper context and a necessary rhetoric for the exploration of Byzantine icons."--John Wesley Cook, Theology Today "[T]his book is genuine cause for celebration. I look forward to recommending it heartily to students and colleagues alike."--Alexander Golitzin, Patristics "The book is beautifully produced and lavishly illustrated. Instructive and pleasing, Imago Dei repays both close reading and close viewing."--Cross Currents "[L]ucid, crisp, inclusive, comprehensive, and articulate."--Daniel J. Sahas, History of Christianity "Pelikan clearly delineates the path the theological defense of icons took during the iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries ... Commendably Pelikan addresses the role played by the other senses in the defense of icons. The fact that touch, taste, audition and smell were acceptable made it easier to argue for the place of the visual."--Theological StudiesTable of ContentsForeword vii Preface xix Illustrations xxi Abbreviations xxiii Introduction: The Idea in the Image Chapter 1: The Context Religion and "Realpolitik" Byzantine Style 7 Chapter 2: Graven Images The Ambiguity of the Iconographic Tradition 41 Chapter 3: Divinity Made Human Aesthetic Implications of the Incarnation 67 Chapter 4: The Senses Sanctified The Rehabilitation of the Visual 99 Chapter 5: Humanity Made Divine Mary the Mother of God 121 Chapter 6: The Great Chain of Images A Cosmology of Icons 153 Bibliography 183 Index 194
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Princeton University Press The Marquis de Sade and the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, Modern Language Association""The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde [is] a book that is a treasure house of information and inspiration, at the same time scholarly and completely engaging. . . . An important work to add to your bookshelf; it will fascinate you, it will inspire you, and it will delight you."---Penelope Rosemont, Rain Taxi Review of Books"Perceptive."---Allan Graubard, Leonardo Reviews"[A] remarkable new book. . . . In this deeply researched study, Mahon moves gracefully from a thorough exposition and analysis of Sade’s life and work to his many critics. . . . She leaves her readers with the urgent reflection that Sade’s function has unceasingly been to provoke an assessment of life’s value. This is a timely and important book and should be widely read."---Katharine Conley, French Forum"A beautifully written and meticulously researched defense of another kind. Mahon deftly narrates the history of Sade the person as well as what she calls the ‘Sadean imagination’. . . . Mahon’s study of Sade and defense of his texts as central to the legacies of the avant-garde are, no doubt, well-argued and deeply researched, and they make for a compelling read; the book is a significant and important contribution."---Angelique Szymanek, CAA Reviews
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Princeton University Press Art of the Everyday
Book SynopsisExplores the 19th century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. This book shows how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike.Trade Review"A charming, even masterful footnote in the history of taste... Thoroughly researched, highly readable, and lavishly illustrated."--James Gardner, New York Sun "Yeazell looks to bring together both the high and the low, bridging Barrett Browning's gap between the Dutch and the Italian...Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel sheds new light on both the realist novel and Dutch painting and covers both fields with the clear, warm glow of a fine Vermeer."--Bob Duggan, Art Blog by Bob "[A]s Ruth Bernard Yeazell makes abundantly clear in her study of the influence of Dutch painting on realist novels, it was the humanity, the ordinariness, the domesticity, of the work of a dozen or so Dutch (and Flemish) artists that proved both appealing and inspiring to Balzac, George Eliot, Hardy, and Proust--to name only the masterly writers whom Yeazell considers most essential and instructive... Yeazell documents her thesis with skill, erudition, and elegance."--Ed Minus, Sewanee Review "Yeazell's is an accomplished book, at once meticulous and highly readable, in which narratives of social meaning-making interact in complex, often uneasy ways with stories of conflicted inwardness."--Paul K. Saint-Amour, Novel "Yeazell's grasp over seventeenth-century Dutch painting is both thorough and nuanced, and the several very interesting connections that she makes between these paintings and realistic novels will have major implications for future work on literary realism."--Sambudha Sen, Victorian Studies "Yeazell's well-documented book (more than 500 endnotes and the opinions of many critics on this topic) offers strong evidence that beyond the visual imagery of nineteenth century English and French realist novelists there lies the minute pictorial syntax of the visual images of the seventeenth-century Dutch painter."--Camelia-Mihaela Cmeciu, European Legacy "There's something about the way Art of the Everyday has been written, which takes the reader right inside the canvas of Dutch painting. Upon reading two chapters in particular, 'Low Genre and High Theory' and 'Proust's Genre Painting,' one feels so immersed within the writing, that by proxy, the paintings themselves feel almost within reach. It's as if one is no longer reading about art, but rather, within the art itself... [L]et there be no doubt that Art of the Everyday is an august, and extraordinary contribution to the world of literary theory and the art-historical."--David Marx, Davidmarx.com "Art of the Everyday is one of those rare works that succeeds in comparing these media while doing full justice to their differences and complexities. Yeazell's close readings of nineteenth-century narratives are matched by her vivid interpretations of Dutch paintings, several of which are reproduced in stunning full-color plates. The book is useful not only for the argument it makes about the influence of Dutch painting on the nineteenth-century novel, but also for the high standard it sets for future interdisciplinary studies... Art of the Everyday promises to become an influential work in both literary and art historical studies."--Aviva Briefel, Nineteenth-Century ContextsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface xv Chapter One: The Novel as Dutch Painting 1 Chapter Two: Low Genre and High Theory 24 Chapter Three: Balzac's Bourgeois Interiors and the Quest for the Absolute 58 Chapter Four: George Eliot's Defense of Dutch Painting 91 Chapter Five: Hardy's Rural Painting of the Dutch School 125 Chapter Six: Proust's Genre Painting and the Rediscovery of Vermeer 162 Notes 195 Index 243
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Princeton University Press Greek Manuscripts at Princeton Sixth to
Book SynopsisA work about the rich holdings of Greek manuscripts and miniatures in Princeton, New Jersey, housed in the Firestone Library and the art museum of Princeton University, in the Scheide Library, and in Princeton Theological Seminary. It features key monuments in the history of Byzantine illumination.Trade Review"This extraordinarily handsome volume presents in detail 63 Greek manuscripts and fragments to be found at Princeton University (including the University Library, the Scheide collection and the University Art Museum) and one volume at the Theological Seminary. It is a substantial volume, for its appealing presentation, its heft and its rigorous presentation. By current standards, this is a luxury production, and it shows just cause for Princeton's longstanding reputation in Hellenic studies and its strengths in publishing its endeavors in this field."--Glenn Peers, Medieval Review "Here is a generously presented large quarto volume, handsomely designed, and printed and bound on acid-free paper, to ensure that it will last physically as long as its scholarly content, and be enjoyed and appreciated for just as long; and that will be for many years indeed. This is a book of great value for academic studies of mediaeval Greek, for studies of Biblical and other religious texts, or for the history of the book."--Stuart James, Reference Reviews "Greek Manuscripts at Princeton is ... such a model of this genre that it should find a place in all serious university libraries and a home with manuscript scholars of all stripes and Byzantinists across the subspecialties of the discipline."--Leslie Brubaker, Speculum
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Princeton University Press French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the
Book SynopsisThe National Gallery of Art houses one of the most important collections of French old master paintings outside France. This book catalogues nearly one hundred paintings of the collection, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth.Trade Review"Each entry is preceded by an admirable biography of the artist and a useful technical note (on the state of conservation of the painting and its successive restorations), its provenance, exhibitions, then the entry itself, notes to the text and main bibliographic references. The photographic reproductions are excellent."--Pierre Rosenberg, Burlington Magazine
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Princeton University Press The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright
Book SynopsisFrank Lloyd Wright pioneered a bold kind of architecture, one in which the spirit of modern man truly 'lived in his buildings'. This title presents a compendium of Wright's some of the most critically important - and personally revealing - writings on various conceivable aspects of his craft.Trade Review"Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is a living link to Wright himself and has performed an important service by publishing books of letters, photographs, and drawings which bring us closer to the architect's world, creative process, personal life and literary sources. The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright ... is a well-designed anthology."--William J. R. Curtis, Times Literary Supplement "[T]his valuable record of Wright's words forms a welcome addition to the three key accounts of his designs that appeared at the end of the 20th century... Heartily recommended."--Peter Kaufman, Library Journal "[A] reproduction of the original publication of Modem Architecture, handsome to hold and read, and additionally valuable for its enlightening new introduction by Wright scholar Neil Levine of Harvard University... The Essential Wright is essential reading."--Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Antiques "[T]he book is inspiring and presents a very good recompilation of the life work one of the most important architects of the twentieth century that was also very concerned with organic architecture and conservation of the natural environment. In addition, this hardbound book is made of high quality materials, it is well written, and it is a must-have resource for architects and scholars."--Martha Patricia Nino, Leonardo Reviews "Perhaps some people think you can have too many books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I believe there's always room for more. This year, it's a scholarly duo from Princeton University Press: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture, edited by Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (453 pages, $49.95) and the essential Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930, with a new introduction by Neil Levine (115 pages, $29.95)."--Mary Chandler, Rocky Mountain NewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer 1 Part I 1901The Art and Craft of the Machine 23 1908I n the Cause of Architecture 34 1910A usgefuhrte Bauten und Entwurfe von Frank Lloyd Wright 52 1912The Japanese Print: An Interpretation 66 1924Louis Henry Sullivan: His Work 75 1925I n the Cause of Architecture: The Third Dimension 80 1927I n the Cause of Architecture I: The Architect and the Machine 92 In the Cause of Architecture II: Standardization, the Soul of the Machine 95 In the Cause of Architecture II: Steel 98 In the Cause of Architecture IV: Fabrication and Imagination 102 In the Cause of Architecture V: The New World 106 1928In the Cause of Architecture I: The Logic of the Plan 109 In the Cause of Architecture II: What "Styles" Mean to the Architect 115 In the Cause of Architecture II: The Meaning of Materials-- Stone 120 n the Cause of Architecture IV: The Meaning of Materials--Wood 126 In the Cause of Architecture V: The Meaning of Materials--The Kiln 131 In the Cause of Architecture VI: The Meaning of Materials--Glass 137 In the Cause of Architecture VI: The Meaning of Materials--Concrete 141 In the Cause of Architecture VI: Sheet Metal and a Modern Instance 145 In the Cause of Architecture IX: The Terms 151 Part II 1931Modern Architecture, Being the Kahn Lectures (Princeton) 159 Two Lectures on Architecture (Art Institute of Chicago) 217 1932The Disappearing City 235 1937A rchitecture and Modern Life: Some Aspects of the Past and Present of Architecture 276 1938"The Architectural Forum" 292 Part III 1954The Natural House 319 1957A Testament 365 Index 441
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Princeton University Press Ambitious Form
Book SynopsisDescribes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. This book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors - Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti - as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "In this stimulating offering, Cole investigates sculptural enterprise in Florence during the second half of the 16th century. Focusing on Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti, this book is no mere survey of trends or compilation of biographies. It concerns what being a sculptor meant in this dynamic time and place and the nature of the plastic arts themselves. The study, which is as ambitious as its subjects were, succeeds brilliantly... [P]rofoundly original."--Choice "The book is beautifully illustrated and structured around clearly defined thematic chapters, and Cole weaves, or perhaps it would be better to say, builds an art historical text that is just as monumental as the sculptural works he discusses."--Jennifer D. Webb, Sixteenth Century Journal "Cole is persuasive and unsettling enough to ensure that no reader will be able to look at a sixteenth-century sculpture the same way again."--Cammy Brothers, Oxford Art Journal "Ambitious Form has much to recommend it as essential reading for anyone interested in the history of art. Cole's ability to make the reader/viewer take a second and more studied look at an object is repeatedly evinced."--Fredrika Jacobs, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction i Chapter 1: Models 21 Chapter 2: Professions 51 Chapter 3: Naturalism 90 Chapter 4: Pose 121 Chapter 5: Sculpture as Architecture 158 Chapter 6: Chapels 193 Chapter 7: Sculpture in the City 244 Conclusion 283 Photo Credits 287 Notes 293 Acknowledgments 353 Index 357
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Princeton University Press Michelangelo A Life on Paper
Book SynopsisMichelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the Piet, and the dome of St Peter's. He not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, composed his own words. This book examines this interplay of words and images, providing insight into his life and work.Trade ReviewOne of the The Daily Beast's (Brad Gooch) Favorite Books of the Year for 2010 "But for sheer joy of reading, reach for Michelangelo: A Life on Paper, by Leonard Barkan ($49.50). The writer is a professor of comparative literature at Princeton, and his view of the artist usually regarded as superhuman, a Sistine-style colossus, is through the intimate, sometimes all-too-human medium of his words--private letters, poems, notes to self--as well as drawings. Personable in tone, astute in observation, Mr. Barkan's book is that rare thing, a historical study as absorbing as a novel."--Holland Cotter, New York Times "In Michelangelo: A Life on Paper (Princeton University Press, 366 pages, $49.50), scholar Leonard Barkan has not only found something new to say about this well-picked-over artist; he has come up with a new approach to his subject, producing one of the most absorbing books of the year. Like many Renaissance artists, Michelangelo often used the same piece of paper for multiple purposes. A given sheet might contain sketches, wording for a contract, fragments of verse and a shopping list--what Mr. Barkan vividly describes as a 'riot of activities.' Until now, scholars have approached these sheets piecemeal, focusing on the parts of greatest interest to them--the figure sketches, say--to the exclusion of the others. Mr. Barkan's simple but, as it turns out, revolutionary idea was to ask himself: 'What can we learn by taking each sheet as an organic unity and regarding everything on it as equally relevant?' Mr. Barkan's book blends art history, biography and detective work to give us an unparalleled insight into the mind of Michel angelo as a creator, citizen, papal lackey, businessman and family man."--Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal "Leonard Barkan's ingenious, lavishly illustrated study does not linger over the familiar aspects of the Divine One's life and work. It focuses instead on the artist's 'life on paper,' the hundreds of sheets that have survived containing drawings, poems, doodles, instructions to assistants and 'notes to self.' For Barkan, a professor of comparative literature at Princeton, these sheets are a treasure trove of aesthetic delights; traces of the historical context of Renaissance art making; and, most important, a window onto the personality and artistic practice of a figure who came to define genius... Barkan is a tentative but deeply learned interpreter. His close readings of these complex traces are marvels of erudition, even though he understands that claims about the meaning of these images will never be proven... Barkan is a sensitive and thoughtful guide through this fragile legacy of a monumental figure. Michelangelo, he writes, 'remains stuck in the paradox of a godlike creativity that cannot bring him closer to God.' This biography of the artist's 'life on paper' reveals both his solitude and his efforts at communion. Barkan's reading of the richly evocative paper trail reminds us how much we still have to learn about this towering, quivering man."--Michael S. Roth, Washington Post "A sumptuous art book full of brain food, Michelangelo is a book and concept that has been hiding in plain sight for centuries. Princeton University Comp Lit Professor Leonard Barkan has decided to shift his eye, and attention, two inches to the left and right to take seriously all the scribbling, doodling, lines of poetry, and notes to workshop assistants, in the margins of Michelangelo's drawings on paper. (The volume includes more than 200 museum-quality reproductions of the artist's most private papers, many in color.) As quirkily brilliant--and ultimately more satisfying and helpful than--Derrida's '80s meditations on Nietzche's laundry list, Barkan's book is both fun and a paradigm shift."--Brad Gooch, Daily Beast "With a similar spirit of pure joy in language's capacity to illuminate great art and great artists, Leonard Barkan in Michelangelo: A Life on Paper gives us a more human Michelangelo who looks and sounds a lot like us today, but with all the genius left intact."--Bob Dugan, Big Think "Barkan explores the full complexity of Michelangelo as revealed in hundreds of pieces of paper on which the artist combined both writing and drawing. This is the first study to fully explore the intriguing interplay of words and images, providing numerous insights into the artist's life, work, and unconscious motivations... His brilliant analysis of individual sheets vividly highlights the important role played by the written word in Michelangelo's artistic process and creativity. The book provides a rare and intimate look at how Michelangelo's artistic genius expressed itself, especially in moments of unselfconscious expression when the artist shifted from drawing to words and vice versa. Illustrated with more than 200 excellent reproductions, many in color, this sumptuous volume is beautifully produced."--Choice "Barkan's analyses are rich and complex--this is a book that rewards close reading... The book is beautifully produced, with excellent reproductions."--Bernadine Barnes, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Chapter 1: Hieroglyphs of the Mind 1 Chapter 2: O n the Same Page 35 Chapter 3: Picture Writing 69 Chapter 4: Making a Name 97 Chapter 5: Crowded Sheets 127 Chapter 6: Private in Public 173 Chapter 7: V at. lat. 3211 235 Chapter 8: Drawing the Line 287 Notes 305 Credits 353 Index 357
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Princeton University Press Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Book SynopsisThrough Victorian art, opera, and novels, this title examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. It offers insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Robert Lowry Patten Award, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Rice University "[I]mmensely scholarly, highly-entertaining and broad-ranging... Goldhill's timescale offers a new and contentious definition of the term 'Victorian', stretching from 1760 to the 1980s."--Jane Thomas, Times Higher Education Supplement "[G]ripping."--Literary Review "Simon Goldhill, a professor at Cambridge, is a leading expert on Greek literature and culture; if you want to know more about the world of Aeschylus and Euripides, Goldhill is your man."--Daniel Snowman, Literary Review "Using reception theory, Goldhill examines paintings, operas, and novels produced in Europe that appropriate stories from the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews. He shows how artists and writers retold these ancient stories to further their political and religious agendas. The author is persuasive in arguing that in the 19th century the classics were used to bolster an agenda of anti-Semitism, setting the state for WW II. The book contains beautiful color plates and also black-and-white photos showing works of art of the period and poses drawn from classical statuary... The book is well written and the thesis well worth development."--Choice "[T]he book is of interest from a Wagnerian perspective in the insight it offers into the concerns of a society contemporary with Wagner and just across the water... In its main topics, the painting and historical novel of Britain in the 19th century, this book is an eye-opener in its fascinating material and its approach."--Michael Dyson, Wagner Journal "In its scope and verve, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity clearly signals just how far reception studies has come within the field of classics, but remains, as well, a timely reminder of just how far we have to go if we are to achieve a true, lasting, and abiding interdisciplinarity."--Thomas E. Jenkins, New England Classic Journal "[O]ne of the many virtues of Goldhill's work ... is his ability to draw connections across centuries."--William Baker, Years Work in English Studies "[T]his is an extremely good book. If it finds the readership it deserves, this volume, which is at once humane and scholarly in its historical account of culture and its vicissitudes, will not only illuminate central issues in Victorian culture; it will also open up new lines of research while closing off fruitless lines of generalization about the classics in the nineteenth century."--Jonah Siegel, Victorian Studies "This is certainly an important and well researched book. Above all, it provides a valuable reminder to those working in classical reception studies of the importance of historicity."--H. Ellis, English Historical Review "Goldhill's book is a fascinating contribution to the study of the Victorian reception of the Classics. It provides many new angles on an important area of Reception Studies, and throws new light on more familiar ones."--Richard Warren, Anzeiger fur AltertumwissenschaftTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii INTRODUCTION: Discipline and Revolution: Classics in Victorian Culture 1 PART 1. ART AND DESIRE CHAPTER ONE: The Art of Reception: J. W. Waterhouse and the Painting of Desire in Victorian Britain 23 Fleshliness and Purity 26 Visualizing Desire, Elsewhere 45 Off the Chocolate Box 62 CHAPTER TWO: The Touch of Sappho 65 Viewed in the Light of Greece 66 Touching 72 Sappho on the Strand 79 PART 2. MUSIC AND CULTURAL POLITICS CHAPTER THREE: Who Killed Chevalier Gluck? 87 Revolutionary Opera 90 The Art of Crying and the Happy Ending 97 Disinterring a Classic 104 The German Way 112 London Fashion 116 CHAPTER FOUR: Wagner's Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism 125 "To be half a day a Greek!" 127 Staging the Sonderweg 134 Endeavoring to Forget 140 PART 3. FICTION: VICTORIAN NOVELS OF ANCIENT ROME CHAPTER FIVE: For God and Empire 153 Every Book Needs a Hero 153 Whose History? 163 Fictionalizing the Past 177 CHAPTER SIX: Virgins, Lions, and Honest Pluck 193 The Knebworth Apollo 193 The Fiction of the Church 202 The Best-Selling Novel in America 215 The Harry Potter Effect 223 Jews, Egyptians, and Other Cliches of the Popular Sublime 231 SEVEN: Only Connect! 245 The Life of the Author 245 Victoria's Historian, Darwin's Parson 251 The Fight for the Middle Ground 258 CODA 265 Notes 273 Bibliography 313 Index 341
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Princeton University Press The Arab Imago
Book SynopsisThe birth of photography coincided with the expansion of European imperialism in the Middle East, and some of the medium's earliest images are Orientalist pictures taken by Europeans in such places as Cairo and Jerusalem--photographs that have long shaped and distorted the Western visual imagination of the region. But the Middle East had many of itTrade Review"Sheehi's text is a deep scholarly investigation of portrait photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that lays out a new methodology for examining historical photographs from indigenous photographers of the Ottoman World and potentially other regions of the global South, thereby adding an important, missing element to the field of photo-history."--Tina Barouti, H-Net ReviewTable of ContentsContents ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Translations and Transliterations xv INTRODUCTION Proem to Indigenista Photography xvii PART ONE HISTORIES AND PRACTICE 1 An Empire of Photographs: Abdullah Freres and the Osmanlilik Ideology 1 2 The Arab Imago: Jurji Saboungi and the Nahdah Image-Screen 27 3 The Carte de Visite: The Sociability of New Men and Women 53 4 Writing Photography: Technomateriality and the Verum Factum 75 PART TWO CASE STUDIES AND THEORY 5 Portrait Paths: The Sociability of the Photographic Portrait 103 6 Stabilizing Portraits, Stabilizing Modernity 121 7 The Latent and the Afterimage 141 8 The Mirror of Two Sanctuaries and Three Photographers 163 EPILOGUE On the Cusp of Arab Ottoman Photography 193 Notes 204 Index 218 Illustration Credits 221
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Princeton University Press Princeton and the Gothic Revival
Book SynopsisInvestigates America's changing attitudes toward medieval art around the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of Princeton University and its role as a major patron of Gothic Revival art and architecture.Trade Review"This is a well-researched and richly-illustrated study of a pioneering glass manufacturer whose main years of production coincided with a formative phase in the history of American stained glass. Patriquin and Sloan have jointly organized their data in a commendably readable and attractive form."--Peter Cormack, Journal of Stained Glass
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Princeton University Press The Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan
Book SynopsisCatalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the twentieth century.Trade Review"This is a handsome and authoritative volume."--Choice
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Princeton University Press Cultural Exchange
Book SynopsisDemonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societTrade Review"Clearly, this book is only the beginning of a series of works dedicated to the study of material links between medieval Jewish and Christian communities and of the interdependence they unveil. And we can only hope that its successors will keep up the high standards of writing and methodological expertise established in Cultural Exchange by Joseph Shatzmiller."--Andor Kelenhegyi, European Review of HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface xi Introduction 1 Part 1 Pawnbrokers: Agents of Cultural Transmission 5 Chapter 1 Financial Activities in the Medieval Marketplace 7 Chapter 2 Securities for Loans: Church Liturgical Objects 22 Chapter 3 High Finance: Urban and Princely Pledges 45 Part 2 Human Imagery in Medieval Ashkenaz 59 Chapter 4 The Decorated Home of the Rabbi of Zurich 61 Chapter 5 German Jews and Figurative Art: Appreciation and Reservation 73 Part 3 At the Marketplace: Professionals in the Service of the "Other" 111 Chapter 6 Christian Artists and Jewish Patronage 113 Chapter 7 Jewish Craftsmanship at the Service of the Church 141 Conclusions 158 Appendix Jewish Traditions and Ceremonies: How Original? 162 Select Bibliography 167 Index 177
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Princeton University Press Art of the Deal
Book SynopsisArt today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged, sold, and branded. In Art of the Deal, Noah HorowiTrade Review"Art of the Deal is a crucial book on art and finance."--Blake Gopnik, Daily Beast "[T]he precision and lucidity with which Mr. Horowitz describes the commercialization of art should garner appeal for his book across a broad swath of market participants. For the rest of us, it is an enjoyable glimpse into the opaque corners of the art community."--Benjamin R. Mandel, Journal of Cultural Economics "Horowitz has provided readers with a very thorough and wide-ranging analysis of the contemporary art market that brings an unprecedented complexity to this discussion. His synthesis of the literature on the topic is sophisticated yet lucid and the book is exceptionally well researched, supported by countless citations."--John Zarobell, Tabula Quarterly "I thoroughly enjoyed this critical account of the global contemporary art economy; Noah Horowitz has a real understanding of the inner workings of the market. The fact that he chose to focus on video and experiential art renders his account unique and gives even the seasoned reader interesting insights."--Thaddaeus Ropac, Art Newspaper "One welcome aspect of the book is that its avoids to a degree but not entirely the usual cast and plot lines because of its focus on the relative undermined areas on 'immaterial' art genres in the first two essays. The book's discussion of video and experiential art is interesting. The discussion of the minutiae of this world of performances, installations, action and social interaction and their ancillary elements, content ownership and the rise of the collector's box will add greatly to the reader's ability to appear learned on a suitable social occasion."--Satyajit Das, naked capitalismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Notes on Sources xxi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Video Art 26 Chapter 2: Experiential Art 87 Chapter 3: Art Investment Funds 143 Conclusion 188 Postscript to the Paperback Edition 215 Appendix A: Record Prices for Video Art at Auction, December 2009 229 Appendix B: The Film and Video Collections of Tate and the Whitney Museum of American Art 232 Appendix C: Art Investment Fund Universe 271 Notes 295 Selected Bibliography 347 Index 365
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Princeton University Press The Origins of Monsters
Book SynopsisCan cognitive science explain the potency of such images? Does evolutionary psychology hold a key to understanding the transmission of symbols? How is our making and perception of images influenced by institutions and technologies? This title deals with these questions.Trade Review"Few archaeologists would venture into as many regions or across as many disciplinary boundaries as David Wengrow does in his eloquent and ambition analysis."--Christina Riggs, Times Literary Supplement "The Origins of Monsters is a fascinating exposition of the archaeology of the ancient world as a topic that has current resonance. Well written and presented, wonderfully informed and confident, it is well placed to achieve Wengrow's worthy ambition to start a particular dialogue between disciplinary approaches to the topic of monsters."--Michael Punt, Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Image and Economy in the Ancient World: The Bronze Age of Mikhail Rostovtzeff 8 2 Materials for an Epidemiology of Culture 19 3 The Hidden Shaman: Fictive Anatomy in Paleolithic and Neolithic Art 33 4 Urban Creations: The Cultural Ecology of Composite Animals 50 5 Counterintuitive Images and the Mechanical Arts 74 6 Modes of Image Transfer: Transformative, Integrative, Protective 88 CONCLUSION Persistent, but Not Primordial: Emergent Properties of Cognition 108 Notes 113 References 133 Index 161
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