History of art Books

Book SynopsisExamines the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of heritage research and practice, and the underlying international politics of protecting cultural and natural resources around the globe.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction: Globalizing Heritage 1Lynn Meskell 1 UNESCO and New World Orders 22Lynn Meskell and Christoph Brumann 2 Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights 43Rosemary J. Coombe and Lindsay M. Weiss 3 Civil Societies? Heritage Diplomacy and Neo-Imperialism 70Morag M. Kersel and Christina Luke 4 Bridging Cultural and Natural Heritage 94Denis Byrne and Gro Birgit Ween 5 Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates 112Chip Colwell and Charlotte Joy 6 Heritage Management and Conservation: From Colonization to Globalization 131Webber Ndoro and Gamini Wijesuriya 7 Heritage and Violence 150Alfredo González-Ruibal and Martin Hall 8 Urban Heritage and Social Movements 171Chiara De Cesari and Michael Herzfeld 9 Sustainable Development: Heritage, Community, Economics 196Sophia Labadi and Peter G. Gould 10 Transnationalism and Heritage Development 217Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Ian Lilley 11 Heritage and Tourism 240Noel B. Salazar and Yujie Zhu Index 259

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Book SynopsisThe multitalented comedian Steve Martin and the heralded New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss team up on a collection of humorous cartoons and comic strips, with amusing commentary about their collaboration.

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Book SynopsisA kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans'' unique and vibrant relationship with color.We have an extraordinary connection to colorwe give it meanings, associations, and properties that last millennia and span cultures, continents, and languages. In The World According to Color, James Fox takes seven elemental colorsblack, red, yellow, blue, white, purple, and greenand uncovers behind each a root idea, based on visual resemblances and common symbolism throughout history.Through a series of stories and vignettes, the book then traces these meanings to show how they morphed and multiplied and, ultimately, how they reveal a great deal about the societies that produced them: reflecting and shaping their hopes, fears, prejudices, and preoccupations.Fox also examines the science of how our eyes and brains interpret light and color, and shows how this is inherently linked with the meanings we give

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Book SynopsisA bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New YorkThe Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 19422011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the painters, poets, and musicians who were part of the postwar movements and about her life as an artist in New York and later in Italy, where she continued to paint and write until her death in 2011.Schloss was born in Germany and moved to New York City during World War II. She became part of a thriving community of artists and intellectuals that included Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, John Cage, and Frank O'Hara. She married the photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckha

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Book SynopsisWith wit, wisdom, and a sharp scalpel, Jack Hartnell dissects the medieval body and offers a remedy to our preconceptions.Trade Review"A thick, spicy plum pudding of a book." -- Barbara Newman - London Review of Books"Jack Hartnell tells [an] extraordinary story in his wonderfully rich study of the Middle Ages…His idea of approaching the medieval worldview through the body is inspired…This beautifully illustrated book succeeds brilliantly in bringing this much maligned period to life…A triumph of scholarship." -- PD Smith - Guardian"A dazzling tour through physiognomy and across time, medieval bodies are a route into understanding a richly imaginative and curious age…[C]apacious and entertaining…[M]arvellously detailed…Medieval Bodies lets its readers see through medieval eyes. Guided by Hartnell’s expertise, we gaze upon a long-ago world." -- Rachel Moss - Times Higher Education"One of the achievements of this splendid book is to make our world view seem more narrow and fragmented than that of the extensive period we place somewhere between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance…[A]t every point you’ll encounter wit, learning and riveting stories. A wonderful read." -- Melanie McDonagh - Evening Standard"An ambitiously interdisciplinary study…[E]xtravagantly illustrated…[F]ull of lively information." -- G. R. Evans, - Church Times"[Medieval Bodies will] make you smile and squirm in equal measure…This is a book about the body, but in some ways it is an exploration of the recesses of the medieval mind" -- Mary Wellesley - Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisDeborah van der Plaat is Senior Lecturer at the School of Architecture at The University of Queensland.John Macarthur is Professor of Architecture and Director of Research in the School of Architecture, the University of Queensland, Australia.Trade ReviewThis lavishly-illustrated volume is a fine piece of transnational architectural history writing, documenting the fascinating trajectory of a migrant architect who imported innovative ideas from cosmopolitan Vienna to the provincial Australian tropics and produced work of remarkable local sensitivity. * Johan Lagae, Ghent University, Belgium *A compelling, innovative and timely story of migration, politics and creative collaboration from occupied Vienna to the tropics of Australia. This impressive constellation of authors each bring a fascinating, and carefully researched dimension to the Karl Langer story, not forgetting the crucial contribution made by Gertrude Langer. * Iain Jackson, University of Liverpool, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Modern and Migrant Architect, Deborah van der Plaat and John Macarthur (University of Queensland Australia) 2. Karl Langer and Vienna, Philip Goad (University of Melbourne, Australia), Andrew McNamara (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) and Andrew Wilson (University of Queensland, Australia) 3. Australia is our fate, Fiona Gardiner and Don Watson (University of Queensland, Australia) 4. Bend like bamboo: Always bounce back, Don Watson and Fiona Gardiner (University of Queensland, Australia) 5. The spell of the sunny south, the urge for ‘light, sun and air.’ Karl Langer’s Australian writings, Deborah van der Plaat (University of Queensland, Australia) 6. Bridging Continents: Karl Langer’s contributions to housing, Andrew Wilson (University of Queensland, Australia) 7. Man about Town, Robert Riddel (University of Queensland, Australia) 8. A Touch of Vienna, a Pinch of America, and a Whiff of Exoticism. Karl Langer’s Architecture for Leisure and Lifestyle in Australia, Janina Gosseye (TUDelft, The Netherlands) 9. A League of His Own: Karl Langer’s Landscape Australia, Andrew Saniga (University of Melbourne, Australia) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDebunking the idea that data is ever ‘raw’ or unbiased, this book brings information anxiety to a new level as it goes deep into the underlying power structures at play in the assemblage of data and the motivations of those who amass it. Hall and Dávila explain how design’s focus on clarity and statistical accuracy can serve to enhance dominant narratives inherent in the data and challenge designers to activate their agency to visualize the kind of world in which we want to live. This should be required reading in any data visualization or information design curriculum. -- Thomas Starr, Professor of Graphic and Information Design, Northeastern University, USAHall and Dávila make a compelling argument for a critical approach to data visualization. Through a comprehensive survey of extant literature, a rereading of canonical images through decolonizing frameworks, and discussion of highly topical debates, they arrive at a rich examination of current projects drawn from a wide array of activities. They address self-quantification, smart cities, emotional cartography, and a whole host of specific and activist interventions in conventional data practices. Ultimately, they argue for visualizations that might create alternatives to dominant conventions and the oppressive power asymmetries of the status quo. -- Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, USAWith acuity and depth, Hall and Dávila demonstrate just how much history, culture and context matter for the design and interpretation of data visualization. Their book is timely and important, and will usher in a new era of critical data practice. -- Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, USATable of Contents1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization Defining the field Looking at Visualization beyond Western Paradigms Alternative Western perspectives: Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches 2. Disruptive Histories Positivism and Objectivity A History of Progress Critical Cartography: a 'Defining Moment' A Few Examples: Not a Canon - Haptic Visualization: the Quipu (1200-1532) - Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship (1789) - Polar Area Diagram (1859) - Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1875) - Data Visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois (1900) - Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath Conclusion Focus: Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018 3. Making Data Qualitative and Quantitative Data The Role of Categorization Focus: Data4Change - Keepiton - Hear the Blind Spot - Perceiving Yemen 4. Data and the Self Taylorism Within? Comic Critique What is Normal? Biometrics and Risk-Profiling Challenging Norms The Examined Life Focus: Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann, They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 5. Data and the City Participatory planning: HECTOR Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project 6. Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and Representation Representation as Translation 7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice

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Book SynopsisJerry Toner is Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Leisure and Ancient Rome (1995), Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (2009), Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East (2013) and Roman Disasters (2013).Trade ReviewAs part of Classen’s larger series, the book will be a desirable addition to student-focused libraries ... Toner’s volume succeeds in demonstrating how “antiquity ... was a period when the senses were experienced vividly". * Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sensing the Ancient Past Jerry Toner (University of Cambridge, UK) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Feasts and Funerals David Potter (University of Michigan, USA) 2. Urban Sensations: Opulence and Ordure Gregory S. Aldrete (University of Wisconsin, USA) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: The Luxury Market and Eastern Trade in Ancient Rome Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (University of Cambridge, UK) 4. The Senses in Religion: Piety, Critique, Competition Susan Ashbrook Harvey (Brown University, USA) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Five Conceptions from Heraclitus to Plato Ashley Clements (Trinity College Dublin, UK) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Humours, Potions and Spells Helen King (The Open University, UK) and Jerry Toner (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. The Senses in Literature: Falling in Love in an Ancient Greek Novel Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins Universitry, USA) 8. Art and the Senses: The Artistry of Bodies, Stages and Cities in the Greco-Roman World Mark Bradley (University of Nottingham, UK) 9. Sensory Media: Representation, Communication, and Performance in Ancient Literature Benjamin Stevens (Hollins University, USA) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPat Kirkham is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK, Professor Emerita at the Bard Graduate Centre, USA, and Associate Research Fellow at the Cinema and Television Research History Centre, De Montfort University, UK.Sarah A. Lichtman is Assistant Professor of Design History at Parsons School of Design, USA.Trade ReviewThis engaging and highly readable collection is the most comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the subject available, but it reads like a lively conversation among friends. From broad cultural themes to minute details, the essays included here answer myriad questions about how interiors, props, and visual cues shape our reactions to on-screen stories and images. An indispensable resource for anyone who has ever wondered how movies and TV shows are made and why they matter so much to us, this book is both a remarkable achievement and a delight to read. -- Alice Friedman, Glace Slack McNeil Professor of American Art, Wellesley College, USAInnovative and exciting—fascinating topics, new research, wide-ranging approaches, and fresh interpretations, marshalled with sophisticated editorial expertise. Screen Interiors is a much needed cross-disciplinary intervention that stakes out new ground in studies of film, television, and design. -- Catherine Whalen, Associate Professor, American Material Culture Studies, Bard Graduate Center, USAScreen Interiors is a milestone in the literature on production design for film and television. Exploring how moving-image interiors reveal the inner lives of protagonists, the book offers multiple perspectives on a wide range of genres, countries, and time periods and investigates social themes such as gender, class, and sexuality. The book contributes insightful perspectives on popular films and their makers, while shedding light on productions and people. Equally valuable is the book’s concise history of production design and its historiography. -- Donald Albrecht, Independent Curator, USATable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction, Pat Kirkham (Kingston University, UK) and Sarah A. Lichtman (Parsons School of Design, USA) Section One: House and Home: Space, Comfort, Class, Gender, and Generation 1. Comfort and the Domestic Interior in Soviet Fiction Cinema of the 1920s, Eleanor Rees (University of College London, UK) 2. Furnishing I Love Lucy (1951-57), Marilyn Cohen (Parsons School of Design, USA) 3. From the Country House Film to the House in the Country Film: Space, Class, and Generation, Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow, UK) 4. Space, Interiors, and 1980s Hollywood Teen Films, Patrick O'Neill (Kingston University, UK) Section Two: The Curated Home 5. Mobilizing Material Culture: Collecting and Interiority in Luchino Visconti’s Conversation Piece (1974), Shax Reigler (Architectural Digest, USA) 6. From Sex to Narcissism: Understanding Minimalist Interiors in New York Films of the 1970s, Timothy M. Rohan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) 7. “Home furnishing takes a cue from Paris, too”: The Fashion Professional at Work and Home in Postwar Hollywood Films, c. 1957–1961, Rebecca C. Tuite (Bard Graduate Center, USA) Section Three: Framing Interiors and Interiorities: Inside and Out 8. Framing Interiorities: Interiors, Objects, and Hidden Desires in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960), Imma Forino (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 9. Frames, Veils, and Windows: Modern Cinematic Set Design in Early Russian Films by Evgenii Bauer, Maria Korolkova (University of Greenwich, UK) Section Four: Screening Queerness: Class, Gender, Sexual Orientation, Ambiguity, Authorit, and Power 10. Interiors, Class, Perversity, and Ambiguity in The Servant (1963), Barry Curtis (Royal College of Art, UK) 11. In Plain View: London Commercial Interiors as Queer spaces in Three 1960s British Films: Victim (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), and The Killing of Sister George (1968), Andrew Stephenson (University of East London, UK) 12. Queer Interiors: Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1992), Adam Vaughan (University of Southampton, UK) Section Five: Horror and Homicide 13. The Horror of the Homicidal Floor: Destabilized Elements of Interior Architecture, Alexandra Brown (Monash University, Australia) and Kirsty Volz (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) 14. Designed to Destroy: Action Film Interiors and the Construction of Killscapes, Lennart Soberon (Ghent University, Belgium) Section Six: Living in Outer Space: Sci-Fi Interiors 15. Visions of Home: Nostalgia and Mobility, Past, Present, and Future, in Serenity’s Domestic Spaceship Interior, Sorcha O’Brien (Kingston University, UK) 16. Cosmic Heterotopia: Banality and Disjunction in the Interiors of Passengers (2016), Ersi Ioannidou (Kingston University, UK) Author Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal fashion markets, particularly those aimed at prosperous millennial consumers in China, are in thrall to Burberry, and connect the company's output in the 21st century to a quintessential notion of British tradition. The Changing Face of Burberry examines how the company successfully built this sense of tradition and how it has retained and capitalized on it within contemporary consumer culture. Charting the company's modest beginnings in semi-rural Hampshire in 1856 when it primarily produced waxed smocks for agricultural workers, the book follows the ebbs and flows of its fortunes over its 150-year history, from creating garments for the early motorist, the gentleman officer, and the aristocratic adventurer, to its current status as global fashion brand. It also explores Burberry''s more problematic associations, when the brand was sold in tourist souvenir stores and linked to ''chav'' culture. Combining interviews and archive material, including close analysis of advertTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: A one-hundred and fifty year metamorphosis Chapter 2: A New Rose Chapter 3: Surviving Through Britishness Chapter 4: Good and Bad Consumers: the lost fight and the fight back Chapter 5: The £13,000 Handbag Chapter 6: Heritage, Craft and the Global Marketplace Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichard D. Sonn is Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, where he teaches French history, Jewish history, and modern European social, cultural and intellectual history. He is the author of three previous books, including Anarchism and Cultural Politics in Fin de Siècle France (1989), and Sex, Violence and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France (2010).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Modernism and Diaspora: The School of Paris in an Age of Immigration 1. Is There Jewish Art? 2. From Montmartre to Montparnasse: New Social and Psychological Dimensions, 1900-1914 3. Masculinity and Patriotism: Cultural Responses to World War One, 1914-1920 4. Cosmopolitan Montparnasse in Les Années Folles, 1920-1930 5. Jews in Jazz Age Paris: The Symbiosis of Music and Art 6. Marketing Art: Jewish Critics and Art Dealers 7. Nationalism, Internationalism and Zionism in the 1930s 8. The End of Time: Artists in Exile, Hiding, and Deportation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIs “capturing” Japan in images possible? Bohr’s anthology provides intriguing answers to this challenging question. This is a genuinely interdisciplinary and transcultural work that traces the production and global reshaping of “Japanese” images in post-World War II Japan and beyond. * Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan *Japan may not be quite the fearsome economic dynamo it once was, but for that very reason its art world is attracting ever more attention. This book is a compelling series of essays by major scholars on the full spread of Japanese art from the immediate post-War, to now. It is essential reading for all those interested in Japan, in Modernity, in Contemporary Art, and in how non-Western modes of expression compete and conflate with those coming from the West. * Timon Screech, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan *‘Rich in tangible examples ranging from art photography and film culture through to video games, this volume demonstrates the importance of studying Japan and "Japan", proving how inextricably linked they are. Capture Japan will prove highly valuable in the Japanese-studies classroom and beyond.’ * Jaqueline Berndt, Professor in Japanese Language and Culture, Stockholm University, Sweden *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on Text and Translation Introduction, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Part One: Signs Introduction to Part One, Marco Bohr 1. Le Samouraï - Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan, Miyao Daisuke (University of California, USA) 2. Dreaming of Mexico: Japanese Artists Discover the Other, Ramona Bajema (Japan Society, USA) 3. Re/Placing Barthes in the Post-Bubble Era: Youthful Disaffection, Online Fandom, and the Reoriented Visions of ‘Japan’ in Iwai Shunji’s All About Lily Chou-Chou, Man-tat Terence Leung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Part Two: Myths Introduction to Part Two, Marco Bohr 4. The ‘Last Japanese Soldier’: Putting the Nation into Play, Martin Picard (Leipzig University, Germany) and Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 5. Sugimoto Hiroshi and the Emergence of a Geopolitical ‘Japanese style’, Marco Bohr (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 6. Japan as an ‘erotic paradise’ in the Sino-Japanese mobility context: ethnographic encounters, Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) Part Three: Ruins Introduction to Part Three, Marco Bohr 7. Shadows of the Atomic Bombings in The Family of Man: The American photographic exhibition tour of Japan in the post-occupation period, Takenaka Yumi Kim (Ritsumeikan University, Japan) 8. Fractured Land, Then and Now: The Resurgence of Ruins in the 1996 Japan Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Carrie L. Cushman (University of Hartford, USA) 9. Burnt Dresses Left for the Future – Ishiuchi Miyako’s photographic series hiroshima (2007–present), Hagiwara Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) Part Four: Transformations Introduction to Part Four, Marco Bohr 10. Representing Japan: Stereotyping and Self-Stereotyping in the many Careers of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield, UK) 11. Myth, Manga, Technology and Gender: Chobits and the Postwar Pygmalion, Selma A. Purac (Western University, Canada) 12. Personal Connections and Global Relations: Staging “Japan of the Imagination” in the 1980s, Melissa Miles (Monash University, Australia) Index

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Book SynopsisThe sculptural history of the long 1980s has been dominated by New British Sculpture and Young British Artists. Arguing for a more expansive history of British sculpture and its supporting infrastructures, these twenty-three vivid and enthralling interviews with artists, curators, dealers and facilitators working then demonstrate the interconnected networks, diversity of ideas and practices, energy, imagination and determination that transformed British art from being marginal to internationally celebrated. With a substantial introduction, this timely volume provides valuable new insights into the education, work, careers, studios, infrastructures and exhibitions of the artists and facilitators, substantially enlarging our understanding of the era.Trade ReviewThrough twenty-three thoughtful interviews, Imogen Racz’s book surveys the legacies, wit, and energy of British art in the 1980s. The reflections of artists and producers narrate how this decade formed new networks and, importantly, how artists started to democratise art in Britain. * Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director, Holt/Smithson Foundation, USA *This immensely readable collection of interviews sheds light on an overlooked decade. Racz’s warm yet incisive questioning elicits enlightening responses, from astute analyses of individual practices to contextual reflections. A vibrant scene emerges, one fuelled by the actions of a wider network of protagonists than is often acknowledged. * Natalie Rudd, Senior Curator, Arts Council Collection, UK *This fascinating and important book re-examines and reframes the narrative of British sculpture in the 1980s, a decade that saw seismic changes as British artists began to be internationally recognised and exhibited. Racz’s interviewees include many of the leading artists, curators and facilitators of the time and their testimony is a vivid record of what it was like to live and work as an artist and of how this changed in the course of the decade and beyond. The difficulties faced by women artists, not only as a result of prejudice but also owing to complex debates about the representation of the female body, come through strongly. The book is particularly engaging when artists speak about their working methods, the sources of their ideas and the experience of making. For all the financial and other limitations of the decade, the reader has the impression that this was a time of freedom, the burgeoning of ideas and a joy in making. The book is essential reading for scholars of this period of art history and will also appeal to anyone interested in the development of art practice in the UK. * Patricia Townsend, artist, psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author of Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process (2019) *Imogen Racz’s timely and important account of British Art of the Long 1980s unsettles easy narratives of an era recent enough to be part of living memory but long enough ago to enable reflective contemplation. Caught at a moment when the memory of this era threatens to disappear (two of her interviewees are no longer with us), Racz’s book is crafted around a series of vivid, enthralling and sometimes surprisingly candid interviews. By slightly lengthening the timespan and, most revealingly, talking to practitioners, curators, dealers and facilitators who were enmeshed in this history, Racz’s account allows a subtle realignment of the usual co-ordinates. Rather than explode the myths of “New British Sculpture” or the “YBAs”, she reveals underlying connections in the networks of the time and repositions sculpture and object-based practices allowing a more complexly connected history to be revealed. * Joy Sleeman, Professor of Art History and Theory, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Rasheed Araeen, Artist, curator and writer Susan Hiller, Artist Robin Klassnik, Artist and Director of Matt’s Gallery Bill Woodrow, Artist Alison Wilding, Artist Jacqui Poncelet, Artist Richard Deacon, Artist Katherine Gili, Artist Nicholas Pope, Artist Roger Malbert, Art Officer at the Arts Council, then Head of Hayward Gallery Touring Jonathan Harvey, Co-founder and Chief Executive of Acme Studios Mikey Cuddihy, Artist Kate Blacker, Artist Richard Wilson, Artist Antonia Payne, Director of Ikon Gallery, 1981 to 1988 Hilary Gresty, Curator of Kettle’s Yard 1983 to 1989 Veronica Ryan, Artist Langlands & Bell (Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell), Artists Cathy de Monchaux, Artist Laura Ford, Artist James Lingwood, Curator, then Co-director of Artangel Karsten Schubert, Art Dealer Abigail Lane, Artist Afterword Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBringing together an influential group of scholars, this book makes you seriously think about how what you choose to buy and wear impacts on people and our planet. Read and act. * Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Foreword: ‘Hedonism – Notes during an Epidemic’ by Elizabeth Wilson Acknowledgements Introduction: by Louise Wallenberg and Andrea Kollnitz Part I: Producing Aesthetics: Ethical Issues in Contemporary Fashion Production 1. ‘Circular Fashion: Moral Effects and Ethical Implications’ by Herman Stål 2. ‘Kindness to the Environment in Vogue Italia: A Neoliberal Aberration?’ by Morna Laing 3. ‘Producing Garments, Manufacturing Fashion: On the Globalization of Industry and Disconnection with Craft’. Göran Sundberg 4. ‘The Fashion of the Manifesto’ by Marco Pecorari 5. ‘The Cost of Looking Good: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Fashion Industry’ by Louise Wallenberg and Torkild Thanem Part II: Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: from Past to Present 6. ‘Ragged and Unravelled’ by Marcia Pointon 7. ‘Art Nouveau Women’s Fashion and the Theme of Nature’ by Lucy Fischer 8. ‘The Black Panther Party Uniform: Power, Resistance, and Community’ by Anna Hanchett 9. ‘Fashion is Human: Perspectives on the Aesthetics and Ethics of Contemporary Swedish Fashion Photography’ by Andrea Kollnitz Part III: Aesthetics and Ethics: Philosophical Investigations of Fashion 10. ‘Fashion, Prosthetics, Machines: Being Humans and the Body’ by Patrizia Calefato 11. ‘The Missing Juncture: Architecture and Fashion from Schinkel to Le Corbusier’ by Sven-Olov Wallenstein 12. ‘Fashion Aesthetics, Ethics and Choice’ by Malcolm Barnard Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSimon Shaw-Miller is Chair of History of Art, University of Bristol, UK. He is an Honorary Associate and Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Trade ReviewShaw-Miller’s brilliant new volume is a virtuosic critical riff on improvisation as aesthetic principle and artistic practice. Productively entwining histories of jazz and abstraction in 20th-century visual art, this text is a revelatory account of modernism at its most playful and creative. * Daniel Grimley, Professor of Music, University of Oxford, UK *In a wide-ranging and compelling argument, Shaw-Miller rethinks the theory and practice of improvisation in early-20th-century transatlantic culture and offers an essential account of the “jazz modernism” that continues to challenge the racial and experiential hierarchies of modernity. * Michael Hatt, Professor of History of Art, University of Warwick, UK *Having amassed prodigious research, Simon Shaw-Miller is a terrific Orphic guide to the vast musical-visual territory that he fearlessly traverses. Even as he embraces the mutability of jazz as a category, Shaw-Miller offers a jazz paradigm for the visual arts that is sturdy and capacious enough to accommodate composition, execution, and reception in equal measure. * Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, & Photographs, Clark Art Institute, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction & Theoretical Preliminaries: Art, Abstraction and All That Jazz 1. The Sight and Sound of Nascent Jazz: Words, Definitions & Rags 2. Orphism and a New Tune I: Dance, Music, Painting 3. Orphism and a New Tune II: Words, Music, Image 4. Orphism in America: Art, Machines and Jazz Rhythm 5. Objects, Improvisation and Rhythm: Kandinsky, Duchamp and Beyond

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Book SynopsisMary Anne Francis is Principal Lecturer in the School of Art at the University of Brighton, UK.Trade Reviewit is a pleasure to follow the author on her historical and taxonomic crossing of the world of mixed form, from the Renaissance and post-Renaissance cabinet of curiosities till today’s digital creations, over popular genres such as the broadsheet, the chapbook and the scrapbook – all well documented and cleverly illustrated. The visual material of the book is refreshing and often very original, while the comments are always helpful as well as consistently structured in function of the underlying general question of the link with division of labor. * Jan Baetens, Leonardo *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Mixtures of all sorts 1. The cabinet of curiosities as mixed form: depictions and desire 2. Mixed form in working life: the rise of manufacture 3. Popular mixed forms in a long eighteenth century: from the broadside ballad to the chapbook 4. Visual essay 5. Mixed-form and modernism in the visual arts: assemblage and assembly lines 6. Visual essay 7. Digital culture as Wunderkammer Conclusion: A synthesis of sorts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUroš Cvoro (UNSW Sydney, Australia) researches artistic and cultural strategies dealing with the multiple challenges of post-global exchange such as conflict, economic collapse, and migration. His books include Turbo-Folk Music and Cultural Representations of National Identity in Former Yugoslavia (2014), Transitional Aesthetics: Contemporary Art at the Edge of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Post-Conflict Monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unfinished Histories (2020).Kit Messham-Muir (Curtin University, Australia) researches contemporary art and visual culture that addresses war, terror, and political violence. He wrote Double War: Shaun Gladwell, visual culture and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (2015). He is Lead Chief Investigator of the Art in Conflict project, which receives a Linkage Project grant from the Australian Research Council of $293,380 over 2018-2021.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Zero Hour, Ground Zero Chapter 1: The Trauma Artist Chapter 2: Weaponising Affect Chapter 3: The Gamification of Terror Chapter 4: Weaponisation of History Chapter 5: Military Humanism Chapter 6: Militant Humanism: Repurposing War Infrastructure Conclusion: Weaponised Art Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCharlotte Ashby is an art and design historian based at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Modernism in Scandinavia (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017) and co-editor of Imagined Cosmopolis: Internationalism and Cultural Exchange, 1870s-1920s (2019).Mark Crinson is Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. Among his books are Modern Architecture and the End of Empire (2003) and Rebuilding Babel: Modern Architecture and Internationalism (I.B. Tauris, 2017).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Foreword, Adrian Forty (University College London, UK) Introduction, Mark Crinson and Charlotte Ashby (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part 1: Grey Zones 1. A Good Shelf: The Material Culture of Reading in Colonial India, Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California-Santa Barbara, USA) 2. Power of Television in Modern Turkish Homes, Meltem Ö. Gürel (Yasar University, Turkey) 3. Bin, Bag, Box: The Architecture of Convenience, Louisa Iarocci (University of Washington, USA) 4. Atmospheric Exchanges: Air-conditioning, Thermal Material Culture, and Public Housing in Singapore, Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore) 5. Beyond Buildings and Objects: Reyner Banham’s Freeway Ecology, Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) Part 2: Dissolved Distinctions 6. Designing for a Nocturnal Banquet, Versailles 1674, Panagiotis Doudesis (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Printed Objects and Ready-Mades in the Architectural Magazine (1834-38), Anne Hultzsch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 8. Entangled Histories of Buildings and Furniture: Knoll International and the Production and Mediation of Modern Architecture in Post-war Belgium, Fredie Floré (KU Leuven, Belgium) 9. Disaster Relief and ‘Universal Shelters’: Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976, Tania Messell (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland) and Lilian Sanchez-Moreno (University for the Creative Arts, UK) Part 3: Uneasy Difference 10. Regulation by Design: Reification and Building Regulations, Alistair Cartwright (Independent Scholar, UK) 11. The Relational Object: Haus-Rucker-Co.’s Designs for Re-Shaping the Environment, Ross K. Elfline (Carleton College, USA) 12. The Stylistic End-games of Modernism: High Tech Design in Criticism and History, Jane Pavitt (Kingston University, UK) 13. Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil, Livia Rezende (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Tatiana Pinto (Independent Scholar, Sweden) Afterword, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisFashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth century - Marcel Duchamp - created works that challenge the notion that fashion does not belong in the museum. As well, there is material evidence of his engagement with clothing as part of his oeuvre. This book reveals that clothing and dressing are significant themes that recur in Duchamp''s life and his work including his drawings, his fashioning of his body, his readymades, and in his curatorial gestures. In examining the items of clothing worn by Duchamp and the related traces of his wardrobe management, Duchamp is unmasked as a dandy. His waistcoat readymade series ''Made to Measure'' (1957-1961) is in fact a remarkable and deliberate effort to recalibrate the definition of the readymade to include clothing. With this little-studied readymade series, Duchamp established a precedent for sartorial art as a valid form of artistic expressiTrade ReviewFresh and original, Mida brings astute intellectual insight into Marcel Duchamp’s unexplored sartorial entanglements with dress and clothing … A must read, you will be elated and challenged and then saddened when you realise you have reached the end of this book. * Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand *A fascinating examination of Duchamp’s self-fashioning and attention to the fashioned body throughout his career. Mida makes an important contribution to our understanding of the readymade and to the porous boundaries between fashion and art. * Justine De Young, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Drawing Duchamp: Fashioning the Figure 2. Dressing Duchamp: Unmasking the Dandy 3. Dressing Up: Readymade Identities 4. Made to Measure: Recalibrating the Readymade 5. Reading the Readymade: The Thingly Nature of Fashion in the Museum End-Game Bibliography Image Credits Index

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Book SynopsisCarolyn S. Loeb is Associate Professor Emerita in Art & Architectural History in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, USA. She has published on public art and urban redevelopment in Berlin, among other subjects.Trade Review“Grounded in a close and critical reading of a number of works of public art and monuments in contemporary Berlin, The City as Subject draws on a sophisticated array of scholarship rooted in critical urban studies and the history of memory, providing something of a blueprint for activist artists and citizens in other places.” * Joe Perry, Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Preface and acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Public Art and the Affirmation of the City 2. West Berlin Walls, Street Art, and the Right to the City 3. City Spaces: Contemporary Public Sculpture in Berlin 4. The Memorial Landscape of the Berlin Wall 5. Conclusion: Public Art within an Urban Discourse Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA knowledgeable and informative text showing the changing styles and fashions for each decade of the long reign of Queen Victoria.

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Book SynopsisSuperb collection of art work depicting the Royal Navy at war and in peace.

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Book Synopsis ''Reorganizes the field and challenges our preconceptions in both familiar areas and in disciplines that are not usually treated in studies on the classical tradition. A must read.'' - Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University ''An exciting read: energetic, considered, sparklingly written. One gets the feeling that all angles have been properly covered. An ambitious project brilliantly realized.'' - Matthew Bell, King''s College London ''The authors have pulled off the seemingly impossible task of fusing their three voices into a single, urgently argued discourse, and for that reason among many others, this will be a wonderful book to read and to use, for all kinds of readers.'' - Terence Cave, St John''s College, Oxford ''I found the text very readable and I particularly enjoyed the post-postmodernist take on many issues. It is hugely stimulating and intriguing throughout.'' Table of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Plates viii Prologue ix Acknowledgements xiii Part I Overview 1 §1 The Classical Tradition and the Scope of Our Book 3 §2 Mapping the Field 10 §3 Eras 15 §4 Sustaining the Tradition: Classics and Education 32 §5 Authority and Authorities 52 §6 Masters of Knowledge 61 §7 Models of Style 69 §8 Beacons of Morality 79 §9 Love Guides 87 §10 Special Relationships 98 §11 The Visual Arts: Contexts and Connections 102 §12 Popular Culture and Its Problematics 119 §13 Languages and Language 137 §14 Modes of Engagement 166 §15 Translation 173 §16 Science and Sensibility 199 §17 Looking at the Past 224 §18 The Classical Tradition – and the Rest 241 Part II Archetypes 249 §19 Preface 251 §20 The Dome 253 §21 The Hero 263 §22 Word-Genres 276 Part III The Imaginary 287 §23 Preface 289 §24 Myth 292 §25 The City: Rome 306 §26 Forms of Government 322 §27 The Order of Things 331 Part IV Making a Difference 341 §28 Preface 343 §29 Originators 346 §30 Points of Departure 358 §31 Ideas and Action 375 Part V Contrasts and Comparisons 391 §32 Preface 393 §33 Painting 394 §34 Political Thought 402 §35 Poetry 411 Epilogue 428 Bibliography 432 Index 475

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, authoritative account of the development Greek Art through the 1st millennium BC. An invaluable resource for scholars dealing with the art, material culture and history of the post-classical world Includes voices from such diverse fields as art history, classical studies, and archaeology and offers a diversity of views to the topic Features an innovative group of chapters dealing with the reception of Greek art from the Middle Ages to the present Includes chapters on Chronology and Topography, as well as Workshops and Technology Includes four major sections: Forms, Times and Places; Contacts and Colonies; Images and Meanings; Greek Art: Ancient to Antique Trade Review“Overall, Tyler’s and Plantzos’s Companion to Greek Art offers a great many useful essays, which will, I am sure, be a regular point of reference for students and scholars in the field.” (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 27 February 2013) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Color Plates xxvii List of Maps xxix Notes on Contributors xxx Preface xxxviii PART I Introduction 1 1 The Greeks and their Art 3Tyler Jo Smith and Dimitris Plantzos PART II Forms, Times, and Places 15 2 Chronology and Topography 17Nicki Waugh 3 Greek Decorated Pottery I: Athenian Vase-painting 39Thomas Mannack 4 Greek Decorated Pottery II: Regions and Workshops 62Stavros A Paspalas 5 Free-standing and Relief Sculpture 105Dimitris Damaskos 6 Architecture in City and Sanctuary 132Marina Yeroulanou 7 Architectural Sculpture 153Olga Palagia 8 Wall- and Panel-painting 171Dimitris Plantzos 9 Mosaics 186Ruth Westgate 10 Luxury Arts 200John Boardman and Claudia Wagner 11 Terracottas 221Lucilla Burn 12 Coinages 235François de Callataÿ 13 Workshops and Technology 255Eleni Hasaki 14 Ancient Writers on Art 273Kenneth Lapatin PART III Contacts and Colonies 291 15 Egypt and North Africa 293Sabine Weber 16 Cyprus and the Near East 312Tamar Hodos 17 Asia Minor 330Veli Köse 18 The Black Sea 350Jan Bouzek 19 Sicily and South Italy 369Clemente Marconi PART IV Images and Meanings 397 20 Olympian Gods at Home and Abroad 399H.A Shapiro 21 Politics and Society 414Eleni Manakidou 22 Personification: Not Just a Symbolic Mode 440Amy C Smith 23 The Non-Greek in Greek Art 456Beth Cohen 24 Birth, Marriage, and Death 480John H Oakley 25 Age, Gender, and Social Identity 498Jenifer Neils 26 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 510Timothy J McNiven 27 Drinking and Dining 525Kathleen M Lynch 28 Competition, Festival, and Performance 543Tyler Jo Smith 29 Figuring Religious Ritual 564François Lissarrague 30 Agency in Greek Art 579James Whitley PART V Greek Art: Ancient to Antique 597 31 Greek Art through Roman Eyes 599Michael Squire 32 Greek Art in Late Antiquity and Byzantium 621Anthony Kaldellis 33 The Antique Legacy from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 633Jill Johnson Deupi 34 Greek Art and the Grand Tour 649Sue Blundell 35 Myth and the Ideal in 20th c Exhibitions of Classical Art 667Delia Tzortzaki 36 The Cultural Property Debate 683Stelios Lekakis 37 Greek Art at University, 19th–20th c 698Stephen L Dyson 38 Surveying the Scholarship 711Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos Bibliography 723 Index 817

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Book SynopsisNews and World Report, MSNBC Online, and other international venues, this groundbreaking work will be a landmark in the study of ancient warfare.Trade ReviewReconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor is essential for anyone interested in ancient warfare and/or experimental archaeology, from academic to layman, and is a defining and valuable contribution to our understanding of the ancient world. -- Christopher Matthew Bryn Mawr Classical Review Anyone interested in archeological textiles, historical textiles, historical reenactment, military history, costume construction, or flax and linen should consider this fascinating and unique book. -- Joanne Robbins Hicken The Complex Weaver Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor is a model example of the benefits that can come from creative engagement with historical re-enactors. -- Peter Thonemann Times Literary Supplement In introducing the developing disciplines of experimental and reconstructive archaeology alongside the traditional approaches of textual and visual analysis, the authors provide a challenging and illuminating exploration of a poorly understood piece of ancient body armour that will satisfy both academic scholars and military history aficionados alike HermathenaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe State of Linothorax Scholarship and Typologies of Greek ArmorThe Structure of This BookMethodology and Audience1. Ancient Evidence for Linen ArmorLiterary SourcesLinen in the Ancient WorldVisual Sources2. Structural Variants and Decorations on Type IV ArmorStructural Elements I: Shoulder FlapsStructural Elements II: Shoulder Flap TiesStructural Elements III: PterugesStructural Elements IV: Structural Elements IVDecorative Elements I: Painted DesignsDecorative Elements II: ColorDistinctive Aspects of Etruscan Type IV Armor3. What Material Was Used to Make Type IV Armor?Leather versus Linen ConstructionSewn versus Laminated ConstructionComposite Construction4. Reconstructing the LinothoraxDeveloping a Basic PatternFabrics and GluesThe Lamination ProcessHeroic Nudity and Armor LengthDecorationThickness5. Arrow Test Methodology and MaterialsArrow Test RationaleTest PatchesArrows and BowsArrow Test Procedure6. Arrow Test ResultsGeneral ObservationsLess Significant Test VariablesHand-Produced versus Modern LinensLaminated versus Sewn and QuiltedDifferent ArrowheadsDepth of Penetration and Lethality of InjuryAngled ShotsTest Results Compared to Ancient Source TestimonyTesting Other Types of AttacksArrow versus Unarmored WarriorArrow versus Test Patch: Test Result TablesLinen versus Metal Armor7. Wearability IssuesPotential Vulnerability to MoistureWaterproofing ExperimentsDurability and RepairRange of Motion, Mobility, and FitHeat, Weight, and Endurance8. Economic and Social ConsiderationsLabor Required to Construct a LinothoraxThe Cost of Linen ArmorCost and Availability of Leather versus LinenLarge- Scale ProductionGender IssuesConclusionAppendix: Database of Visual Sources for Type IV ArmorBlack-Figure VasesWhite- Ground Technique VasesRed- Figure VasesStone Sculptures and ReliefsTerracotta Sculptures and ReliefsMetal ObjectsPaintingsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFeaturing more than 300 magnificent National Geographic images of all 50 states--and inspiring words from luminaries across the country--this collection is a gift-worthy celebration of America's unique natural and cultural treasures. America the Beautiful showcases the stunning spaces closest to our nation's heart--from the woods in the Great Appalachian Valley that Davy Crockett once called home to the breathtaking sweep of California's Big Sur coast to the wilds of Alaska. It also celebrates the people who have made this country what it is, featuring a wide range of images including the Arikara Nation in the early 1900s and scientists preparing for travel to Mars on a Hawaiian island. Culled from National Geographic's vaunted photo archives, spanning a period of more than 130 years, this provocative collection depicts the splendor of this great nation as only National Geographic can, with a dramatic combination of modern and historical imagerTrade Review“For those yearning to hit the road for the first time or maybe the hundredth, National Geographic provides an alternative way to see the wonders of the U.S. This incredible collection of photographs, assembled from National Geographic's archives of more than 20 million images, begins with an introduction by historian and best-selling author Jill Lepore describing Katharine Lee Bates’ journey across the U.S. in 1893. This tour by train inspired Bates to write “America, the Beautiful,” the poem that became the country’s unofficial anthem…Organizedgeographically, America the Beautiful begins in the West as stunning photographs guide readers from one region to another. Each picture highlights the distinct landscape and unique culture ofevery state and territory alongside a descriptive caption or personal message from one of its well-known offspring: Barack Obama, Maya Rudolph, Wayne Newton, Eva Longoria, and manyothers. These aren't just beautiful images; they're momentary encapsulations of people, wildlife, environment, and emotion at their essence. Readers will be transported as they experience the expansiveness of the nation and the connectedness of its people.” –Booklist, Starred Review “A photographic homage to the natural and cultural treasures of the U.S…The consistently high-quality, striking photos are as diverse as the country’s citizenry: aurora borealis shining over a snow-covered Alaskan highway; scientists scaling a 3,200-year-old tree in Sequoia National Park; bison and elk roaming the frozen ranges of Wyoming; farmers harvesting wheat in Kansas; children enjoying a fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park; massive waves crashing on the rocks next to Maine’s oldest lighthouse; Martin Luther King Jr. standing with other civil rights leaders during the 1963 March on Washington; blues legend B.B. King playing in a small club in Mississippi; and Mexican American students standing for the Pledge of Allegiance in Brownsville, Texas. This outstanding collection meets the high standards that readers have come to expect from National Geographic, providing a wonderful representation of the country’s rich and diverse culture, heritage, and landscape. A stunning celebration of a country’s beauty.” –Kirkus, Starred Review

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Book SynopsisThis compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family, many of whom died in WWI. Sargent expressed his grief on canvas, painting the war’s devastation. Drawing on a rich trove of letters, diaries, and journals, this beautifully illustrated history brings Sargent and his times to life.Trade ReviewAn indelible account of lives maximally charged with talent and romance, and horribly undone by loss. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman have produced a brilliant book, a tale of intertwined families that is at once panoramic and intimate. Full of apposite images and quotations from primary sources, it sets out to tell the story of John Singer Sargent’s most famous commission—the murals for the Boston Public Library—but it ends up telling a story that is so much bigger, and even more moving. -- Sebastian Smee, Washington Post * Washington Post *This biography casts new light upon the influences and family history of the famed American portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Coauthors Corsano and Williman focus intently on two major figures in the artist’s life: Rose-Marie Ormand, Sargent’s niece and favored model, and her husband, Robert André-Michel, an art historian and the son of a prominent French art critic. Wed in 1913, young Robert and Rose-Marie were 'raised in the cult of the beautiful,' moving in refined circles of artists, scholars, and connoisseurs. Corsano and Williman use the couple’s correspondence records to eloquently chart the tragedy that WWI brings to their lives, and to the entirety of the European Belle Epoque. Robert perishes in the trenches as an infantry sergeant in 1917, and Rose-Marie bravely works as an army nurse until she too is killed, by German bombs, in 1918. The authors’ final chapters reconsider Sargent’s postwar work (including the mural masterpiece, Triumph of Religion) as memorial to his beloved family and to the era of beauty and refinement cut short by the Great War. * Booklist *This powerful book describes the tragic result of the rush to Armageddon in August 1914 in a way that is not easily forgotten. The subtitle of this evocative book leaves no doubts about the human cost of the war: Painting Love and Loss. * Art Eyewitness *Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman have written a gem of a book. Their research here reveals important new biographical discoveries that fill out the historical record on renowned artist John Singer Sargent and his body of work. In addition, the authors provide an intimately nuanced and textured account of select moments and events in the city of Paris and elsewhere during the First World War. This deeply archival and beautifully elaborated story of art and war, of human love and loss, will be of value and substantial interest to art historians and the general reader alike. -- Sally M. Promey, Yale University; author of Painting Religion in PublicThe authors have brilliantly captured a vibrant, artistic, and intellectual Europe on the brink of catastrophic change. They have combined the meticulous research and narrative pace of biography with the lyricism of a love story, which, were it not poignantly real, might seem to be the stuff of fiction. The adventure of Robert’s scholarship and the beauty of Rose-Marie (captured in her uncle’s ravishing studies) are silent testaments to the glory of their short lives, the tragedy of the Great War that killed them both, and the pity of promise unfulfilled. -- Elaine Kilmurray, research director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue RaisonnéCorsano and Williman have created a tapestry of cultural and family connections, illuminating one particularly vibrant corner of the turn-of-the-century world of Sargent and his cosmopolitan friends—a world that would not survive the onslaught of war. The authors have focused on a fascinating cast of characters with a moving tale to tell. -- Mary McAuliffeDan Williman and Karen Corsano have told the story of Robert and Rose-Marie Michel for the first time, against the richly textured artistic and intellectual milieu in which they grew up and flourished. . . . The research has been exemplary, the authors delving into French, English, and American archives (public and private) in search of their quarry. Particularly revealing for me is the new material on the André Michel family and their network of relations; the story of Robert’s career as a scholar; and the detailing of his military service from his reconstituted notebooks. Rose-Marie’s wartime work as a nurse is documented and brought to life, including a rare illustration of her among a group of nurses, leading a line of blinded soldiers. Fascinating discoveries like that abound in a narrative that is at once poignant at the human level and revealing on the wider issues of scholarship, art, and war. -- Richard Ormond, coauthor of John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings (from the foreword)John Singer Sargent and His Muse . . . intricately pieces together the stories of Sargent, his niece, and her husband, scholar-turned-soldier Robert André-Michel. . . . Corsano and Williman affectingly describe how Sargent’s losses infused, but did not weigh down, his work at the library. It’s a wrenching story about a young couple largely lost to history, whose lives and deaths touched the visions of a great American artist. * Boston Globe *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Painter and the Critic: John Sargent and André Michel Chapter 2: The Ormonds and the Sargents Chapter 3: Rose-Marie Ormond Chapter 4: Robert André-Michel Chapter 5: Robert’s War, 1914 Chapter 6: Rose-Marie’s War, 1914–1918 Chapter 7: The Paris Gun Chapter 8: Sargent’s War, 1914–1919 Chapter 9: The End of The Triumph of Religion Chapter 10: Epilogues Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSketchtravel is an artistic journey unlike any other. No editorial project has ever before brought together as many visual artists around a common object. Passed between 72 artists over 5 years and across over 35,000 miles, the Sketchtravel sketchbook showcases the creativity of artists in numerous disciplines from around the world. Illustrators, animators, painters, and more each illustrated a page with their unique style before passing the book to the next artist. Reflecting a who''s who of popular contemporary artists, this imaginative diverse collection of artwork will inspire art lovers with its scope, diversity, and beauty, much as it did each artist who contributed a link in its chain.

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Book SynopsisA teacher of artists, a student of nature. Few great painters have had the uncanny ability to transition between the worlds of teacher and artistAuseklis Ozols is one of them. He founded the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, where he emphasizes the classical disciplines of artistic instruction. In this fascinating biography, author John Kemp uses Ozols own paintings to reveal the life of the talented artist and teacher dedicated to passing down the lessons of the great painters of the past.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The compendium deserves consideration as a teaching text for middle and high school libraries." – VOYA Magazine "Photography is 'a true celebration of the greatest photographs and photographers from around the world.'" – Shutterbug Magazine

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