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Book SynopsisExperience the mystical collage art of Amy Zerner and Monte Farber’s Enchanted Worlds with this deluxe poster-size 2025 wall calendar. This striking calendar features a beautiful tapestry image each month and includes a 12 x 18-inch frameable print of the cover art. A YEAR OF ENCHANTED WORLDS: With unique art from The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner & Monte Farber featured each month, this poster wall calendar lets you spend an entire year immersed in Zerner and Farber’s worlds of wonder, rich with layers of meaning, magic, and symbolism. FRAMEABLE PRINT: Included with the calendar is a high-quality 12 x 18-inch frameable print showcasing the cover art. FUNCTIONAL WALL DECOR: This calendar is both a practical tool for mindfulness and an elegant wall decoration designed to feature a new scene from The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner & Monte Farber every month. Measuring 13 x 19 inches, this calendar displays the

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Book Synopsis''I LOVE Little Artist Boy'' Philippa PerryStep into the colourful world of the Little Artist Boy. Linger for some time. Not too long mind, he has things to be getting on with. Whether you''re in the clutches of a bad day or you have a spring in your step from having a good one, you''ll find just what you need in the wise, funny, smart and sensible (but never dull!) words of Little Artist Boy.In a collection of sassy and wise quotations, he dispenses comfort and advice on all areas of life - from ''There''s nothing like a game of crazy golf to clear the air'' to the virtues of a smock and beret, to the effortless ''Stop being a mug''.Trade ReviewI LOVE Little Artist Boy -- Philippa Perry

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. It introduces the work of Latin American authors and artists who have been inspired by Jewish Mysticism from the 1960s to the present focusing on representations of dybbuks (transmigratory souls), the presence of Eros as part of the experience of mystical prayer, reformulations of Zoharic fables, and the search for Tikkun Olam (cosmic repair), among other key topics of Jewish Mysticism. The purpose of this book is to open up these aspects of their work to a broad audience who may or may not be familiar with Jewish Mysticism.Table of ContentsPrefaceList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production—Beyond Borges1. The Exotic in the Eye of the Beholder: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Literature and Film2. The Cycle of Life: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman’s Writings3. In Search of Tikkun Olam: Mario Satz’s Literature4. Wandering Souls in Isaac Goldemberg’s Narrative and PoetryConcluding RemarksBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDjambawa Marawili AM is one of the most important Aboriginal leaders in Australia. A statesman and ceremonial leader, Marawili is the leader of Madarrpa clan and also an acclaimed artist. He has had numerous exhibitions in Australia since 1984 and is represented in most major Australian institutional collections as well as several important overseas public and private collections. Kade McDonald is the CEO and founder of Agency a not-for-profit organisation that celebrates and promotes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture and people. He was formerly the executive director of Durrmu Arts Aboriginal corporation and was the coordinator for Buku-Larrngay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala. He has curated and co-curated over 20 exhibitions, including the touring exhibition Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala (2022). Cara Pinchbeck (editor) is head of First Nations at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. A member of the Kamilaroi community, she has curated over 20 exhibitions. Her recent publications include The Sydney Modern Project: Transforming the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2022, contributor) Nongirrna Marawili: from my heart and mind (2018), Tony Tuckson (2018, contributor), Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back (2016), When silence falls (2015) and Yirrkala drawings(2013). Will Stubbs is coordinator at the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala, Northern Territory, and a passionate advocate of Indigenous arts and Australia's unique arts centres. A former criminal lawyer, Stubbs began working with Yolnu Elders and artists in 1995. In 2015 he was awarded the Australia Council Visual Arts Award for Advocacy.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of a micronaut. Artist, designer and illustrator Graham Percy travelled far and built a career on the closely observed detail. Born in Taranaki in 1938, Percy spent apprentice years in Auckland before moving to London, where with his photographer-partner Mari Mahr he created a workshop-home, a microcosm of the outside world. Here fellow-venturer Gregory O’Brien presents an account of Graham Percy’s life and art, by way of motorbike and hot-air balloon, through sketches and bookshelves, touching on childhood losses and adult nostalgia. Including some of Percy’s most compelling drawings, A Micronaut in the Wide World showcases his early design work, vivid children’s book illustration and thriving mature art. The drawings reveal Percy’s passion for the small and hand-drawn; convey quirky remembered and imagined histories; and feature a cast of curious characters, from storks and trainee running targets to Commedia dell’Arte characters and illustrious composers. In its vivid, exuberant detail — alphabets and elephants, red lettuces and homesick kiwi, the Hungarian navy and the starry skies of the southern hemisphere — A Micronaut in the Wide World is a stimulating rediscovery of a remarkable artist.

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Book SynopsisNone of us had the faintest idea where we were going [but] during 1938aEURO"39 . . . the town [Christchurch] was made strangely interesting for anyone like myself, [with the] scattered arrival of aEURO~the refugees'. All at once there were people among us who were actually from Vienna, or Chemnitz, or Berlin . . . who knew the work of Schoenberg and Gropius.aEURO" Anthony Alpers, 1985 From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants aEURO" refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries aEURO" arrived in New Zealand from Europe. Among them were an extraordinary group of artists and writers, photographers and architects whose European modernism radically reshaped the arts in this country. In words and pictures, Strangers Arrive tells their story. Ranging across the arts from photographer Irene Koppel to art dealer and printmaker Kees Hos, architect Imric Porsolt to writer Antigone Kefala, Leonard Bell takes us inside New Zealand's bookstores and coffeehouses, studios and galleries to introduce us to a compelling body of artistic work. He asks key questions. How were migrants received by New Zealanders? How did displacement and settlement in New Zealand transform their work? How did the arrival of European modernists intersect with the burgeoning nationalist movement in the arts in New Zealand? Strangers Arrive introduces us to a talented group of aEURO~aliens' who were critical catalysts for change in New Zealand culture.

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Book SynopsisIn the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New Zealand, who transformed himself into one of pop art's pioneers. At the same time, his friend and fellow student David Hockney - young, Northern and openly gay - was making his own waves in the London art world. Bates and Hockney travelled together, bleached their hair together, and, despite being two of London's rising art stars, almost failed art school together. And in the middle of it all was the secretary of the Royal College's Painting School - an aspiring young novelist called Ann Quin. Quin ghost-wrote her lover Bates's dissertation and collaborated with him on a manifesto, all the while writing Berg: the experimental novel that would establish her as one of the British literary scene's most exciting new voices. Taking us back to London's art scene in the late fifties and early sixties, award-winning writer Anthony Byrt illuminates a key moment in cultural history and tackles big questions: Where did Pop and conceptual art come from? How did these three remarkable young outsiders change British culture? And what was the relationship between revolutions in personal and sexual identities and these major shifts in contemporary art? From the Royal College to Coney Island and Madison Avenue, encountering R. D. Laing and Norman Mailer, Shirley Clarke and Larry Rivers, The Mirror Steamed Over is a remarkable journey through a pivotal moment in contemporary culture.Table of ContentsPrologue Part I: The Connection Part II: Flying Tiger Interlude: A Self-Portrait Part III: Mirror/Mirror Epilogue: America, 1964 Sources and Further Reading Illustrations Image Credits Index Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisGalleries of Maoriland introduces us to the many ways in which Pakeha discovered, created, propagated and romanticised the Maori world at the turn of the century - in the paintings of Lindauer and Goldie, among artists, patrons, collectors and audiences; inside the Polynesian Society and the Dominion Museum; among stolen artefacts and fantastical accounts of the Maori past. The culture of Maoriland was a Pakeha creation. But Galleries of Maoriland shows that Maori were not merely passive victims: they too had a stake in this process of romanticisation. What, this book asks, were some of the Maori purposes that were served by curio displays, portrait collections, and the wider ethnological culture? Why did the idealisation of an ancient Maori world, which obsessed ethnological inquirers and artists alike, appeal also to Maori? Who precisely were the Maori participants in this culture, and what were their motives? Galleries of Maoriland looks at Maori prehistory in Pakeha art; the enthusiasm of Pakeha and Maori for portraiture and recreations of ancient life; the trade in Maori curios; and the international exhibition of this colonial culture. By illuminating New Zealand's artistic and ethnographic economy at the turn of the twentieth century, this book provides a new understanding of our art and our culture.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter One - Curios and Exhibitions Chapter Two - Maori Prehistory Chapter Three - Portrait Galleries Chapter Four - Performing the Ancient Past Chapter Five - The Curio Economy Chapter Six - Problems with Portraits Chapter Seven - Pakeha Propaganda Chapter Eight - Cosmopolitan Maoriland Chapter Nine - Maoriland in Focus Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness brings together collaborators, friends, contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and curators to respond to the influence and legacy of Jarman and his late partner Collins. Drawing inspiration from the captivating landscape of Dungeness and Romney Marsh alongside Jarman's expansive body of work, the 112-page book gathers contributions and reflections from the past and present, cultivating a merger of history and memory, which explores the deep bonds between art and nature. Using archive photography, film stills, commissioned writings, and new artworks, Fifth Quarter assembles a chorus of voices, mirroring Jarman's collaborations with Collins and his wider circle of friends and colleagues, while locating collective practice as a central theme within Jarman's polymathic work and life. Edited by Alexander TuckerContributors in alphabetical order: Barry Adamson, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Sarah Bade, Derek Brown, Keith Collins, Garry Clayton, Peter Fillingham, William Fowler, Dan Fox, Elise Lammer, Matthew R. Lewis, James Mackay, Frances Morgan, Garrett Nelson, Stephen O''Malley, Paul Purgas, Damien Roach, Howard Sooley; Mark Titchner, Alexander Tucker, Peter Tucker, Luke Turner, Simon Fisher Turner, and Cosey Fanni Tutti. Fifth Quarter is released alongside a companion LP titled Fifth Continent a collaboration between Keith Collins and Fifth Quarter editor Alexander Tucker which was recorded at Jarman''s Prospect Cottage in Dungeness.

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Book SynopsisThe much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover?and celebrate?queer subjects from around the world.Ingeniously conceived, Ria Brodell?s Butch Heroes books recover and celebrate queer subjects obscured or misrepresented within the dominant narratives of history. More Butch Heroes presents 15 original paintings and biographies in the style of the first volume, Butch Heroes: slyly subverted Catholic holy cards featuring individuals who were assigned female at birth but who presented as masculine.In this book, we meet queer individuals in their everyday lives, relaxing or working, enduring their struggles (which sometimes led to death or punishment), or simply living their lives with their partners or pets: Esther Eng stands with her camera in front of the Mandarin Theatre in San Francisco where she worked in the box office as a child. Tom fishes on the Fraser River in British Columbia. Joe sits astride his horse, ready for a day?s work in Southwestern Idaho.Brodell uses the format of the holy card in its traditional sense, as a means of remembrance and reverence, but also as a way to memorialize those who were often unjustly persecuted by the church. Each deeply researched portrait draws from social class, occupation, clothing, and environmental details of the time period, as well as artifacts, maps, journals, drawings, prints or photos. For Brodell, who was raised Catholic, these queer holy figures act as retrospective replacements for the role models they wish they had known.

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Book SynopsisA bold and timely collection that brings feminist theory and critical thinking to life through vital, approachable design methods and practices.Feminist Designer brings together a constellation of voices and perspectives to examine the intersection of design and feminist theory. For decades, the feminist refrain within design has hinged on the representation and inclusion of women in the field. This collection, edited by Alison Place, however, is a call to move beyond this narrow application. Feminist design is not just about who does design?it is about how we do design and why. Feminist frameworks for design activism are now more relevant than ever, as they emphasize collaborative processes that aim to disrupt and dismantle power hierarchies while centering feminist ways of knowing and doing. The first book in nearly three decades to address such practices in design, Feminist Designer contains essays, case studies, and dialogues by 43 contributors from 16 different countries. It engages a wide variety of design disciplines, from graphic design to disability design to algorithmic design, and explores key feminist themes, such as power, knowledge, care, plurality, liberation, and community. Through diverse, sometimes conflicting, intersectional perspectives, this book contributes new design methods informed by a multiplicity of feminisms that confront design?s patriarchal origins while ushering in new pathways for making critical and meaningful change.ContributorsJennifer Armbrust, Dina Benbrahim, Madeline Avram Blount, Elizabeth Byrd, Benedetta Crippa, Alexandra Crosby, Laura Devendorf, Rachael Dietkus, Ashley K. Eberhart, Griselda Flesler, Aimi Hamraie, Gaby Hernández, Alexis Hope, Jeff Kasper, Ellen Kellogg, Aasawari Kulkarni, Eden Laurin, Una Lee, Andrew Mallinson, Claudia Marina, Victor G. Martinez, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Margaret Middleton, Maryam Mustafa, Becky Nasadowski, Maya Ober, Nina Paim, Elizabeth Pérez, Heather Snyder Quinn, Cami Rincón, Jenn Roberts, Velvet A. Johnson Ross, In-ah Shin, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Ayako Takase, Attia Taylor, Rebecca Tegtmeyer, Aggie Toppins, Ilaria Vanni, Joana Varon, Manon Vergerio, Mandy Harris Williams, Sarah Williams

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Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd turns his gaze to the colours of London in this fascinating and visually engaging work, exploring how the city's many hues have come to shape its history and identity.   Think of the colours of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses, phone boxes and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets and blues that shimmer on the Thames at sunset – reflecting the incandescent light of a city that never truly goes dark. We associate green with royal parks and the District Line; gold with royal carriages, the Golden Lane Estate, and the tops of monuments and cathedrals. The colours of London have inspired artists (Van Gogh, Turner, Monet), designers (Harry Beck) and social reformers (Charles Booth). Colour is everywhere in the ciTrade Review"A truly invaluable book for lovers of art, history, photography or urban geography, this beautifully illustrated title tells a rich and fascinating story of the history of this great and ever-changing city." * Lovereading.co.uk *Table of ContentsLIGHT, FIRE, WHITE, GOLD, BLUE, GREEN RED, BROWN, GRAY, BLACK THE NIGHT THE FULL SPECTRUM ABOUT THE COLOURIZED PHOTOGRAPHS INDEX PICTURE CREDITS

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Book SynopsisClothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a figure, clothes and cloth are used creatively by artists to hint at ambiguities in character, adjust the emotional temperature, direct the eye or make subtle allusions. Drawing on works by artists over a period of six centuries, from Giotto to El Greco, Matisse to Cindy Sherman, the author reveals through paintings, fashion plates, photographs and film stills how drapery in art evolved from Renaissance extravagance to Neoclassical simplicity at the end of the 18th century, and has extended to infinite uses in all genres of Modern art. First published in 2002 to accompany an exhibition of the same name at the National Gallery, London, this beautifully illustrated - and beautifully written - book by pioneering art historian and critic Anne Hollander, is reissued with a new Foreword by Valerie Trade ReviewWith Fabric of Vision, Hollander [explores] the ways in which artists have used dress and drapery to give emphasis and emotional force to the figures portrayed ... [and] brilliantly combines [her] skills as both an art historian and a dress historian. ... Reading this book is like having Hollander walk with us through our favorite art museum, helping us really see and understand the works of art through close attention to dress, drapery, and the depiction of the body,whether clothed or nude. * From the Foreword by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator, The Museum at FIT, New York *A beautifully written, beautifully illustrated introduction to the whole of western European painting from the 14th century through the 20th from a specific, yet basic and widely interesting point of view. This is not just a book for people fascinated by clothes, but for anyone who likes to think about paintings. ... The writing is exceptionally deft; the ideas will interest novices and experts alike. * Choice *Fabric of Vision is a unique and welcome contribution to art history and criticism that will doubtless serve as a valuable scholarly resource. * Reid Ahlbeck, Dialogue *[Fabric of Vision] demonstrates how artists used garments and draperies as an expressive means in their paintings. Covering Western European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century, Hollander shows how fabric in art reflected each era's social preoccupations, fashions, and tastes ... The text is illustrated by more than 140 beautiful full-color illustrations of works by such artists as Tintoretto, Van Dyck, Delacroix, and Picasso. Throughout, Hollander brings new insight into the fields of both art and costume history. * Sandra Rothenberg, Library Journal *Anne Hollander’s Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting ... is rich with color reproductions showing this and other splendid yardage from the classical period through the mid-20th century ... A dynamic and provocative study. * Suzanne Cleary, Bloomsbury Review *Illuminating. * Kim Waller, Victoria magazine *Table of ContentsAuthor's Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction I Cloth of Honour II Liberated Draperies III Sensuality, Sanctity, Zeal IV High Artifice V Romantic Simplicity: Women VI Romantic Simplicity: Men VII Restraint and Display VIII Nude and Mode IX Woman as Dress X Form and Feeling List of Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated study of the works by Edgar Degas in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.In 1874 the first Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris, shocking the art world with a radical new style of painting. Capturing contemporary subjects and everyday life, the Impressionist' artists were fascinated by the way light, colour and shape constantly change. But frequent rejection by the Paris Salon jury led some, including Edgar Degas, to look to Britain for a more receptive audience. This richly illustrated book explores the influence of London-based dealers such as Ernest Gambart and Charles Deschamps, and Glasgow-based dealer Alex Reid, who saw the market for French art in Britain, encouraging an early following among British collectors for artists such as Monet, Pissarro, Manet and Degas. William Burrell's first opportunity to see Degas's work on public display in Scotland was at the 1888 International Exhibition in Glasgow. Over a 40-year peri

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Book SynopsisIn ancient Greece, funerary monuments were visual expressions of mourning that provided the opportunity for the living to commemorate and communicate with the dead. Today they offer a wealth of information about the deceased and the communities of which they were a part, for example, their status, material aspects of their lives, and how they wanted to be depicted. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest collections of Greek funerary monuments outside of Greece. This richly illustrated volume, by renowned author Paul Zanker, presents more than 50 outstanding examples, created from the 7th to the 2nd century B.C., that represent a variety of media and geographical regions. Through their shared focus on memorialising the dead, these extraordinary works of art offer insights into all facets of life in ancient Greece. Table of ContentsDirector’s Foreword 7 Acknowledgments 9 Map 10 INTRODUCTION 13 I. THE ARCHAIC PERIOD 15 Funerary Ritual in the Visual Record • Funerary Monuments of the Archaic Period II. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 47 White-Ground Lekythoi • Private Funerary Monuments • Funerary Monuments of the Classical Period • Three Akroteria from Inscribed Grave Stelai III. THE HELLENISTIC PEERIOD 117 Taranto • Sculptures and Fragments from Free-Standing Tarentine Funerary Monuments • Vases from Canosan Tombs in Daunia • Funerary Vases from Centuripe, Sicily • Lucanian Warrior Graves • Grave Stelai and Funerary Vases from Alexandria • Painted Grave Stelai from Alexandria • Hadra Vases from Alexandria • Hellenistic Funerary Stele from Asia Minor CONCLUSION 177 Bibliography 182 Concordance 186 Index of Names Inscribed on Works 186 Index 187 Credits and Copyright 192

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Book SynopsisNow on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Raphael Cartoons are widely considered one of the glories of the Italian Renaissance. Made as full-scale design drawings for tapestries, their survival is remarkable given their original purpose and inherent fragility. This beautiful and compelling book presents a new consideration of Raphael's achievement, shedding fresh light on the Cartoons' history from their creation, their acquisition by the English Crown in 1623, to their loan to the South Kensington Museum by Queen Victoria in 1865 in memory of Prince Albert. Illustrated with entirely new digital photography, made to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death, the book focuses on Raphael's artistic practice and his legacy. The Cartoons were carefully designed to be reproduced, and they are shown here as never before.Trade Review'contains excellent essays on the tapestries' creation, display and history...' Paul Joannides, The Art Newspaper, 1st February 2021Table of ContentsDirector's Foreword, Tristram Hunt -- The Museum Story: An Introduction, Ana Debenedetti -- The Raphael Cartoons -- The Making of the Cartoons: Raphael and his Workshop, Ana Debenedetti -- Raphael's Tapestries Past and Present, Alessandra Rodolfo -- The Cartoons at Hampton Court Palace, Brett Dolman -- The Afterlife of the Cartoons: Their Copies and British Art, Ana Debenedetti

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length monograph on the paintings of Bernard Frize (b.1949), an artist whose work straddles movements and styles from Colour Field to Minimalism, Fluxus, and Conceptual Art. Frize's works utilise a carefully constructed range of tools, processes, choreography and collaboration to catalogue, in complex and unexpected abstract form and colour, the possibilities of his chosen materials. Emerging from the politicised 1970s onwards, Frize swam against the tide of opinion regarding painting’s apparent obsolescence to develop a painting practice that could express political commitment and social concerns, while avoiding both overt statement and pure decoration. David Rhodes’ text provides a detailed consideration of Frize’s development, from the earliest works onwards. Placing his paintings in a broader art-historical and philosophical context, a wider conversation about painting itself is presented alongside Frize's significant place within the medium's history.Table of ContentsForeword by Barry Schwabsky; 1. Finding a Way; 2. Painting and Its Others; 3. Painting and Thinking; 4. Series and Hapax; 5. Approaching a Painting Methodology; 6. Consistent Change; 7. Abstract Painting's Slow Return; 8. Berlin and the Present; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Biography; Selected Group Exhibitions; Selected Public Collections; Acknowledgements; Image Credits; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a detailed account of Guillermo Kuitca's major bodies of work, analysing his diverse range of imagery and reflecting on his engagement with the spaces in which we live.Following Kuitca’s development from the 1980s to his latest body of work, the narrative reveals an artist who has continually challenged himself and his audience with new kinds of painterly language. In Kuitca’s hands, everyday visual material such as road maps, street plans, architectural blueprints and theatre seating charts are transformed into remarkable paintings. Their impact comes from their apparent engagement with dark subjects such as the Holocaust and Argentina’s 'Dirty War,' as well as the artist’s innovative imagery and techniques.Drawing on conversations and studio visits the author has had with the artist, Guillermo Kuitca reveals the multifarious elements of a challenging and exciting body of work. It is essential reading for anyone fascinated by this truly original artist.Trade Review'Raphael Rubinstein's fine narrative illuminates the experiences and indeed creators that have marked Guillermo Kuitca's courageous trajectory as an artist. They range from Pina Bausch's dance company playing to a hostile audience in 1980, to his unexpected reinvention of the shifting, yet claustrophobic space of Cubism in the recent immersive murals. Gathered in one volume, the images and backstory prove disturbing as well as oddly triumphal.' -- Catherine Lampert'Rubinstein gives an incisive account of Kuitca's work, which is simultaneously abstract and affective, minimalist and exuberant, and deeply engaged with the world. Gingerly situation Kuitca in an international context, the book focuses on how he side-stepped the post-1960s endgame of painting, exploring ever new and compelling ways to give the medium a new lease on life. A must-read for anyone interested in art from beyond Europe and North America.' -- Andreas HuyssenTable of ContentsChapter 1: A Certain Version of History; Chapter 2: The Painter as Dramaturge; Chapter 3: The Pathos of Home; Chapter 4: Cartographic Dreams; Chapter 5: Discovering the Diagram; Chapter 6: In a Garden of Forking Paths; Chapter 7: Space is a Doubt; Bibliography; Endnotes

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Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK’s most distinguished art writers, these intimate and revealing interviews provide a wealth of fascinating insights into the work of leading British artists. They discuss, often very frankly, their lives and art, their working methods and aspirations. The collection features an array of highly engaging and articulate artists, from Frank Auerbach, Anthony Caro, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Howard Hodgkin to Cornelia Parker, Tacita Dean, Grayson Perry and Rachel Whiteread. Drawing out Francis Bacon’s impassioned musings on mortality, Tracey Emin’s obsessive methods and subjects, the intensity of Anish Kapoor’s internal journey and Richard Long’s epic explorations of landscape, Cork is a penetrating, insightful and accessible interviewer. These conversations, brought together for the first time, brilliantly affirm his belief that ‘talking to artists is like embarking on voyages of discovery’.

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Book Synopsis"Stars, stripes, hearts and targets... If Peter Blake's name is not the first thing you spot on the cover of the latest addition to the Antique Collectors' Club's highly regarded Design series, the Pop motifs in the background positively shout it" Eye, Winter 2010/2011 This new title in the highly successful Design series features the design work of the acclaimed artist Peter Blake. Best known of the British pop artists, Peter Blake came to fame in the late 1950's and early 1960's with iconic works like On the Balcony and First Real Target both now in the Tate Gallery. Tate held an exhibition of his works in 1983 as well as a more recent retrospective at Tate Liverpool in 2007. His famous works for album covers, such as The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band the Band Aid single Do They Know Its Christmas, the Oasis greatest hits album Stop the Clocks and Paul Weller's Stanley Road brought him to a wider audience. This stunningly designed book celebrates the brilliant creative talent of this unique British artist. The Design series is the winner of the Brand/Series Identity Category at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2009, judges said: "A series of books about design, they had to be good and these are. The branding is consistent, there is a good use of typography and the covers are superb." Also available: Claud Lovat Fraser ISBN: 9781851496631 GPO ISBN: 9781851495962 FHK Henrion ISBN: 9781851496327 David Gentleman ISBN: 9781851495955 David Mellor ISBN: 9781851496037 E.McKnight Kauffer ISBN: 9781851495207 Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious ISBN: 9781851495009 El Lissitzky ISBN: 9781851496198 Festival of Britain 1951 ISBN: 9781851495337 Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon: Curwen Press ISBN: 9781851495719 Jan Le Witt and George Him ISBN: 9781851495665 Paul Nash and John Nash ISBN: 9781851495191 Rodchenko ISBN: 9781851495917 Abram Games ISBN: 9781851496778Trade Review"Stars and stripes, hearts and targets - if Peter Blake's name is not the first thing you spot on the cover of the latest addition to the Antique Collectors' Club's highly regarded 'Design' series, the Pop motifs in the background positively shout it" Eye, Winter 2010/2011 "This, the latest title in the ACC's highly acclaimed 'design' series of hardback pocket books, largely leaves his fine art work to one side - concentrating instead on his commercial work" Nude magazine, December 2010

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Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Art Book showcases one of the most beautiful cities in the world through the eyes of its artists. There is so much to wonder at in this lovely book. Its enthusiasm reveals a passion for both contemporary art and the lovely city of Edinburgh and it will renew memories and inspire visits and revisits to all its haunts. The Edinburgh Art Book is a pocket-sized gallery of the city's incredible treasures, and a charming, colourful homage to Edinburgh’s iconic monuments and most beautiful spots, as seen through the eyes of its artists. There is even a map in the book to encourage you to walk around the city and see how the artists have interpreted the buildings and the sites that inspired them. Some of the treasures picture include: - Affectionate depictions of the Royal Mile and The Mound and quirky images of lofty monuments that will raise a smile. - Childhood memories evoked by the fun and colourful images of the seaside at Portobello and sledges in the snow at Warrander Park. - Intimate portraits of shady corners in Stockbridge and sunlit alleys in Circus LaneTrade ReviewThese are the streets of my childhood revealed and adorned by the city's very own artists in a wonderful variety of colour and style. -- Iain Glen, Actor, Game of ThronesEdinburgh's unique character – old and new, architectural and scenic, urban and coastal – is beautifully captured by its artists. -- Rory Bremner, Scottish impressionist and comedianA wonderful collection of artists who have captured both the city's beautiful starkness and its astonishing vivacity. -- Miles Jupp, Actor and comedianA great book with some beautiful pictures of our home city. -- Craig and Charlie Reid ?The Proclaimers'This growing series of books is a beautiful introduction to an expansive universe of artists, known and unknown, and there can be no end of benefit from that. -- Robert Cavanah, Scottish TV and film actorWhat a beautiful book about my favourite city in the World. I have the best memories of Edinburgh and this book will take pride of place in my house. -- Gail Porter, TV presenterTable of ContentsForeword Preface Edinburgh Castle Fireworks and Festival In the vicinity of The Royal Mile Palace of Holyroodhouse and Arthur’s Seat The Scott Monument and The National Gallery A stroll around Edinburgh The Old Town and Skylines Calton Hill Out and about Bridges Dean Village and Stockbridge Leith and Portobello A pub, the stadiums and looking back at Edinburgh Artists’ Credits Artists

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Book SynopsisThis is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696–1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the favourite of the Bourbon King Charles VII, was the chief painter of decorative cycles to emerge from the studio of Francesco Solimena (1657–1747), the famous Baroque artist. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions, with their exquisite light and colouring, heralded the rococo in Naples, and his later style was a precursor of Neo- Classicism. His ceiling frescoes rivalled those of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770). Yet, today, De Mura lacks his proper place in the history of art. Author Arthur Blumenthal argues that this is because nearly a third of De Mura's work was lost during World War II, including, most tragically his crowning achievement, a series of frescos at the abbey of Monte Cassino. It is now time to re-evaluate this once celebrated artist. AUTHOR: Arthur R. Blumenthal is director emeritus of Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College Nicola Spinosa is director of the Capodimonte Museum Naples and former Superintendent of the National Museums in Naples David Nolta is professor in History of Art at Massachusetts College of Art and Design Maria Grazia Leonetti Rodino is governor of the Pio Monte della Misericordia Loredana Gazzara is governor of the Office Picture Gallery and Historical Archive, Pio Monte della Misericordia. 110 colour illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of the raw materials themselves. Thirty-five highlights, ancient to contemporary, provide a window into the spiritual and intellectual context in which these objects were understood by the Indigenous people who made and used them.Este tomo, que coincide con la apertura de las galerías permanentes Arte de las Américas en 2025, examina cómo, para los pueblos indígenas de las Américas, los materiales tenían y siguen teniendo vida propia.Al igual que lo hacían los artesanos de la antigüedad, los de hoy dan forma al jade, al oro, a las plumas o a la arcilla para crear exquisitas obras de arte, cuyo significado en tanto objetos está entrelazado también con la esencia viva de las propias materias primas. 35 piezas destacadas de la colección de las Américas, tanto antiguas como contemporáneas, las que permiten apreciar el contexto espiritual e intelectual en el que eran concebidos estos objetos por los pueblos indígenas que los fabricaban y empleaban.

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Book SynopsisOver the course of five decades, Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili has assembled eight of the world’s most important collections of art. Together they consist of over 35,000 objects, with each collection providing an exhaustive account of its subject. In acquiring, conserving, researching, exhibiting, publishing and digitising these collections, Sir David has contributed, significantly to numerous fields of scholarship and in the process helped foster a greater understanding of the world’s traditions. One of these eight collections – Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage – was compiled not only on the basis of its intrinsic aesthetic merit, but principally as a means of telling a complete visual story of Hajj and the importance of the sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina. Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage consists of twenty-seven essays addressing objects in the remarkable collection of Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili. The collection features more than five thousand objects relating to the arts of pilgrimage, from the eighth century to today, and includes Qur’ans, illustrated manuscripts, rare books, scientific instruments, textiles, coins, paintings, prints, and photo-postcards, as well as archival material, unique historical documents, and examples of the work of some of the earliest Muslim photographers of Hajj. Together the essays in Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage provide a comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious, spiritual, cultural, and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the Holy Sanctuaries of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj itself. Each essay is written by a prominent specialist in the field and beautifully illustrated with full-colour images of objects from the collection, some of which have never been seen before. This work is a fitting tribute to Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili and his decades of passion, determination and scholarship in the field of Islamic art. These volumes will transform our perception of the pilgrimage.Table of ContentsVolume One Foreword, Julian Raby Preface, Qaisra M. Khan List of Authors 1 TheHajj, Michael Wolfe 2 The History and Significance of the Meccan Hajj – from Pre-Islam to the Rise of the Abbasids, Peter Webb 3 The Prophet’s Tomb and the History of Pilgrimage to Medina (Up to the Mamluk Period), Harry Munt 4 Unrolling the Hajj: the Evolution of Pilgrimage Certificates, Sergio Carro Martín 5 Islamic Coins as Witnesses to Secular Power and Pilgrimage in Medieval Mecca and Medina, Aram Vardanyan 6 Futuh al-Haramayn: Muhyi Lari’s Versified Account of Hajj and the Holy Places of the Hijaz, Muhammad Isa Waley 7 Tuhfet ül-Haremeyn: the Ottoman Poet Yusuf Nabi’s Account of his Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, Muhammad Isa Waley 8 The Cemeteries of Mecca and Medina, Qaisra M. Khan 9 Entwined Itineraries: Early Shiʿi Interpretations of the Hajj and the Ziyārah to the Shiʿi Imams, Edmund Hayes 10 Shiʿi Perspectives on Hajj: Illustrated Souvenir Scrolls of Hajj and Ziyārat, Ulrich Marzolph 11 The Work of Dar al-Kiswah, Nahla Nassar 12 Insights from the Accounts of a Noble Enterprise: Ledgers from Dar al-Kiswah 1900–70, Seif el Rashidi 13 The Life and Works of Abdullah Zühdi Efendi, Bilal Badat & Sami De Giosa 14 From Mecca to Medina: a Textile Conservation Story, 2007, Janie Lightfoot 15 The Place of Pilgrimage in Talismanic Shirts from the Islamic World, Saarthak Singh Volume Two 16 The Chronological Development of Mecca Views, Mehmet Tütüncü 17 Multi-, Paraline and Perspectival Views of Islamic Pilgrimage Sites, Sabiha Göloğlu 18 Early Hajj Photography, 1880–1914, Arnoud Vrolijk 19 Regional Styles, International Models: the Holy Sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina on Reverse Glass Paintings, Luitgard Mols 20 Maḥmals in Procession – Spectacles from Cairo and Damascus, Richard McGregor 21 ‘The Puzzle of Egypt’: the Maḥmal in Western Eyes, Alastair Hamilton 22 Travellers in Disguise – Europeans in Mecca and Medina (1500 – 1930), Jan Loop 23 Deadly Journeys: Public Health and Mobility Regulation in the Age of Steam, Michael Christopher Low 24 The Hijaz Railway and Route Guide, James Nicholson 25 The Hajj and Colonial South Asia, John Slight 26 The Special Hajj Banknotes of Pakistan, Qaisra M. Khan 27 South Asia as a Production Hub for Popular Islamic Images, Yousuf Saeed Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFor 12 years, the Schwarz Foundation has been organizing regular exhibitions on the island of Samos at Art Space Pythagorion as well as the Samos Young Artists Festival. Due to its location on the Greek–Turkish border, Samos symbolizes one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time: Migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, geopolitical conflicts at the borders of Europe, and the human impact on the oceans around he world. A Decade of Cultural Production presents the work of the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation, whose declared aim is to promote dialogue through music and art. The book highlights how its projects deal with issues of migration, social responsibility and intercultural coexistence. Text by: Fanie Antonelou, Tania Canas, Markellos Chryssicos, Michelangelo Corsaro, Boris Dezulovic, Dorukhan Doruk, Antje Ehmann, Marina Fokidis, Mulo Francel, Caspar Frantz, Konstantia Gourzi, Katerina Gregos, Masha Ilyashov, Alexis Karaiskakis-Nastos, Dimitris Kountouras, Guy Mintus, Ina Niehoff, Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Daniel Nodel, Lorenda Ramou, Lenia Safiropoulou, Nikos Tsouchlos, Ioli Tzanetaki, Alexander Ullman, Chiona Xanthopoulou-Schwarz, Nikos Xydakis, Katerina Zacharopoulou

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Book SynopsisArte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM) emerged from the liquidation of Successori Andrea Rioda in November 1931. The new factory placed a very personal accent on contemporary artistic glass production on Murano: while designs prior to the Second World War were generally still the responsibility of master glassblowers themselves, after the war designers and freelance artists increasingly determined production. Giulio Radi began experimenting in 1940, obtaining the company's signature chromatic effects by superimposing mould-blown layers of glass, often opaque and transparent in alternation, and inlaying them with gold and silver foil. This latest volume of Marc Heireman's ongoing Murano manufactory books features over 800 design drawings, numerous archive images and new photos of AVEM masterpieces, making this anthology of the company's history indispensable for all Murano glass lovers.

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Book SynopsisCapture all your notes and thoughts with this stunning journal and pen set inspired by the hit HBO show The White LotusTM.

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Book SynopsisIn James Clarke Hook Juliet McMaster tracks the life and career of the brilliant yet underappreciated Victorian painter, from his rigorous training at the Royal Academy Schools, his travelling studentship in Florence and Venice, and his work as a historical painter, to the discovery of his métier as an inspired painter of contemporary rural and coastal scenes.Trade Review"Juliet McMaster convincingly blends biography with discussion of art works and references to contemporary literature (Thackeray and Dickens) and art criticism (Ruskin) in this first comprehensive study of the life and art of Hook, an outstanding colourist and imaginative creator of engaging compositions, most highly regarded for his empathetic portrayal of life by the sea." Judith Nasby, author of The Making of a Museum

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Book SynopsisTrailblazing women working in digital arts media and education established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago created an authentic, community-driven atmosphere of creative expression, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration that crossed gender lines and introduced artistically informed approaches to advanced research. Interweaving historical research with interviews and full-color illustrations, New Media Futures captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based art. The editors and contributors give voice as creators integral to the development of these new media and place their works at the forefront of social change and artistic inquiry. What emerges is the dramatic story Trade Review"This is a book that can be picked up and opened to any area to explore. If you do, you will come away a little bit wiser, certainly more informed and totally impressed with what these women have done." --Illinois Times"This important anthology offers riveting testimonials to the tangible contributions of women during the dawn of the digital era. Concentrated in the Midwest, these scientists, inventors, designers and artists faced down gender bias to shape the global future of technology and culture."--Sara Diamond, President, OCAD University"It was one of the formative periods in my life to be associated with many of the creative women in this book. It was a magic period, when these women helped transform the world as we knew it. I am so happy to see their innovative work is finally getting "New Media Futures will be a rewarding read and a prized possession for scholars interested in the experimental, creative spaces for art carved out by women working between the coasts. . . . The many images from the artists’ own collections, and stories told in their own words make this lively and engaging volume a welcome addition to the literatures on women’s history, the histories of computing, and the digital media arts." --Platypus"This is a fascinating and important book. It will appeal to scientists, technologists, artists and the general public. It tells wonderfully exciting stories of creative, risk-taking women (and men) that will inspire present and future generations. These stories demonstrate that the creative spark that drives scientists and artists knows no disciplinary boundaries. And it is simply a delightful read."--Walter E. Massey, Chancellor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago"New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts is poised to become a valuable study tool for those interested in the intersection between art, women artists, and technology." --Hyperallergic“A very necessary book that all daughters should read." --Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, University of California, Berkeley"New Media Futures is an important and interesting work not only because it seeks to create a history of largely undocumented subject, the importance of women and the Midwest to digital arts, but also because of the approach the editors take to the work. . . . Anyone from a casual reader to an artist, scientist, or academic may learn from and appreciate this work." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"New Media Futures will be a rewarding read and a prized possession for scholars interested in the experimental, creative spaces for art carved out by women working between the coasts. . . . The many images from the artists’ own collections, and stories told in their own words make this lively and engaging volume a welcome addition to the literatures on women’s history, the histories of computing, and the digital media arts." --Platypus "It was one of the formative periods in my life to be associated with many of the creative women in this book. It was a magic period, when these women helped transform the world as we knew it. I am so happy to see their innovative work is finally getting the attention it deserves."--Larry Smarr, Founding Director, Calit2 and NCSA

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Everything Is Sampled deploys the idea of production in deft and thoughtful manners to think together African arts, the integrity of the discrete aesthetic phenomenon, and the historical matrix within which aesthetic objects gain life. Everything Is Sampled adopts and rechannels terms implicated in the workings of text-making practices like curation, translation, media and modes (streaming technologies included), to establish patterns of changes and regularities in drama, film, video, poetry, and art installation. Individuals interested in lucid cultural analysis ought to find the eminently accessible style of presentation very appealing."—Adeleke Adeeko, Ohio State University"Everything Is Sampled will make significant contributions to African literary and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and world literature studies. It's central objects of analysis extend over an impressively wide range of artistic productions in sub-Saharan Africa, from the mid twentieth-century to the contemporary moment of globalization and digital culture. This unusual capaciousness is risky but exciting. Adesokan's work takes on this ambitious task with a flair that is at once substantive and stylistic."—Olakunle George, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The New Terrains of African Arts and LettersPart One: Shifting Margins1. Modes of Creative Practice2. Spatial Assemblages: Festivals as CurationPart Two: Across the Digital Divide3. The Griot's Compositions in Time4. Adaptation or Remake: New Formats for Old Prints5. Approaching the World as Platform, Literally6. The Remix: Of New Identities and Technologies of ReuseEpilogue: In Relative AccountAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA volume of essays by scholars of Byzantine art, history, and literature addressing the entanglements between the academic discipline of Byzantine studies and the practice and legacies of European colonialism.Trade Review“With this slim yet rich and thoughtful volume, the field of Byzantine studies has finally joined the project of excavating the colonialist, imperialist, and white supremacist foundations of modern academia. This collection of essays does more than merely remedy a scholarly lacuna; it sounds an urgent call to action that is bound to reverberate in years to come, generating further self-reflection, debate, and dialogue.”—Ivan Drpić,author of Epigram, Art, and Devotion in Later Byzantium “This dynamic, multivocal volume has the potential to reshape not only the field of Byzantine studies but also larger movements within the humanities, with outstanding contributions by Aschenbrenner and Ransohoff, Achi, and Williams. Anderson and Ivanova’s work—particularly its willingness to engage with critical race and decolonial studies—will appeal to Byzantinists as well as those engaged in global medieval studies and adjacent fields, especially Ethiopian and Islamic studies.”—Suzanne Conklin Akbari,author of Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: The Historical ConjunctureIntroduction: For a Critical Historiography of Byzantine StudiesBenjamin Anderson and Mirela IvanovaPart 1: How Is Byzantine Studies (Re)Produced?1. Hieronymus Wolf’s Silver Tongue: Early Byzantine Scholarship at the Intersection of Slavery, Colonialism, and the CrusadesNathanael Aschenbrenner and Jake Ransohoff2. Byzantine Archaeology: Teaching the Tenth and the Twentieth CenturiesHugh G. Jeffery3. Byzantium in ExileŞebnem Dönbekci, Bahattin Bayram, and Zeynep OlgunPart 2: How Is Byzantium (Re)Produced?4. Methodological ImperialismNicholas S. M. Matheou5. The Price of AdmissionAnthony Kaldellis6. Byzantine Studies: A Field Ripe for DisruptionAveril Cameron7. Subaltern ByzantinismMaria MavroudiPart 3: How Are Byzantine Texts (Re)Produced?8. Byzantine and Western Narratives: A Dialogue of EmpiresArietta Papaconstantinou9. The Ethnic ProcessAlexandra Vukovich10. Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine StudiesMatthew KinlochPart 4: How Is Byzantine Art (Re)Produced?11. The South Kensington Museum, Byzantine Egyptian Textiles, and Art-Historical ImperialismArielle Winnik12. From Ethnographic Illustration to Aphrodisian Magistrate: Changing Perceptions of an Early Byzantine PortraitStephanie R. Caruso13. Expanding and Decentering Byzantium: The Acquisition of an Ethiopian Double-Sided Gospel LeafAndrea Myers Achi14. Equity, Accessibility, and New Narratives for Byzantine Art in the MuseumElizabeth Dospěl WilliamsA Collective Bibliography Toward a Critical Historiography of Byzantine StudiesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.Trade ReviewA prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship that will serve indefinitely as the basic reference for the study of Maya astronomy and religion. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines. It will serve for years to come as a gateway to the field for nonspecialists and a valuable research tool for all. * Isis *Table of Contents Introduction The Mesoamerican Calendar Decipherment of Maya Glyphs Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Overview of Contents 1. Contemporary Maya Images of the Heavens The Seasonal Cycle The Solar Calendar Modern Maya Cosmic Diagrams How the Sun Moves and Transforms The Sun God Images of Eclipses The Lunar Rhythms Lunar Agriculture The Celestial Pair The Moon Goddess Venus among the Contemporary Maya The Planets among the Contemporary Maya Stars and Constellations The Milky Way Other Celestial Phenomena Contemporary Maya Astronomy in Cultural Context 2. Naked-Eye Astronomy Tracking the Solar Seasons Lunar Positions and Phases Eclipses The Planets The Stars and the Seasons 3. Precolumbian and Colonial Period Maya Solar Images The Seasonal Cycle and the Solar Calendar Solar Orientations in Architecture The Sun in Precolumbian Maya Cosmic Diagrams Concepts of the Sun's Motion The Precolumbian Kin Glyph The Sun God in the Colonial and Postclassic Periods The Sun God at Chichén Itzá The Sun King Classic Maya Images of the Sun God and Earlier Prototypes The Monkey's Sun The Solar Bird and Solar Fire The Sun and Felines Hunahpu and Hun Ahau GIII: The Sun as the Middle Brother The Sun in the Precolumbian Maya Worldview 4. Precolumbian and Colonial Period Lunar Images and Deities Lunar Calendars Colonial and Postclassic Eclipse Imagery The Dresden Codex Eclipse Table Classic Period Eclipse Imagery and Events Maya Moon Glyphs and Symbols Lunar Symbolism of Fish, Frogs, Toads, and Shells The Moon and Rabbits The Water-lily Jaguar The Jaguar War God The Jaguar Paddler: The Moon Paired with the Sun The Lunar Twin: Xbalanque The Classic Period Moon God in Monumental Art The Young Moon Goddess in Colonial and Postclassic Times The Aged Moon in Colonial and Postclassic Times The Moon in the Postclassic Murals at Tulum Lunar Deities at Chichén Itzá The Classic Maya Moon Goddess The Ever-changing Moon 5. Venus and Mercury: The Body Doubles Venus Observations among the Precolumbian Maya Venus in the Popol Vuh Colonial and Postclassic Images of Venus The Dresden Codex Venus Pages The Layout of Pages 46-50 The Seasonal Aspects of Venus Regents and Victims in the Venus Pages Quetzalcoatl-Kukulcan: The Venus God from Central Mexico Central Mexican Venus Symbols in the Maya Area Maya Glyphs and Symbols Representing Venus Venus Warfare Lineage Founders and the Venus Cult Tlaloc and the Storm God Chac and God B in Colonial and Postclassic Yucatán Classic Period Images of Chac Chac and GI in the Classic Period The Sidereal Position of Venus Venus and the Moon Mercury in Maya Imagery and Calendrics The Inferior Planets in the Maya Worldview 6. The Celestial Wanderers Colonial Period Images of the Superior Planets Mars among the Precolumbian Maya Monkey Deities and the Planets God K in the Colonial and Postclassic Periods The Classic Period God K and GII Jupiter Events and God K on Classic Maya Monuments Classic Period Calendar Records Relating to the Superior Planets Assembly of the Gods The Celestial Wanderers as Planetary Gods 7. Stars, the Milky Way, Comets, and Meteors Comets, Meteors, and Supernovas Images of Stars The Maya Zodiac The Pleiades The Scorpion and Skeletal Snake Constellations Orion and Gemini The Peccary Constellation Bird Constellations Cross Constellations and Stellar Trees The North Star and the "Dippers" Central Mexican Images of the Milky Way The Cosmic Monster and the Milky Way Serpent Forms of the Milky Way Four Roads in the Sky and Four Itzamnas Classic Period Monuments with Images of the Milky Way Rotating the Milky Way The Maya in the History of World Astronomy Appendix 1. Guide to Astronomical Identities Appendix 2. Table of Classic Period Dates and Associated Astronomical Events Appendix 3. Table for Calculating the Tzolkin Intervals Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTaking a wholly different perspective on Max Ernst and alchemy, the author persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career.Trade Review"M. E. Warlick's book is a unique and highly significant contribution to the literature on modern art and modern culture in general." --Linda D. Henderson, Professor of Art History, University of Texas at Austin " ... when M. E. Warlick discusses {Ernst's] early art and the Surrealist context, she is authoritative... Her own scrupulously researched chapters on the artist's formative years andpre-Surrealist paintings, together with her abbreviated history of alchemy, its literature and the"occultation of Surrealism" which began in the 1920s, are useful additions to the existingscholarship."--TLS, 21 September 2001Table of Contents Foreword by Franklin Rosemont Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Myth of the Child 2. Alchemy: Its History, Revival, and Symbolism 3. Initiation 4. The Occultation of Surrealism 5. Collage as Alchemy 6. The Alchemical Androgyne: Ernst and the Women in His Life 7. As Above, So Below: The Alchemical Landscapes Conclusion Notes An Alchemical Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA beautiful bookthat argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genrebeginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Ekserdjian explores its origins in classical antiquity and the gradual re-emergence of still life in Renaissance painting. The author presents a visual anthology of finely executed flowers, fruit, food, household objects, and furnishings seen in the background of paintings. Paintings are reproduced in full and paired with detailed close-ups of still-life elements within the work. Ekserdjian further examines both the artistic and symbolic significance of a chosen detail, as well as information about each artist's career. Featured works include radiant paintings from Renaissance greatssuch as Da Vinci, Dürer, Holbein, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Van Eyck, as well as the work of less-celebrated masters Barthélemy d'Eyck and Ortolano.Trade Review“[A] lovely and enlightening book” – Susan Owens, Literary Review“A beautiful visual anthology of painters from Holbein and Leonardo to Raphael and Van Eyck who delighted in the depiction of things.” — Michael Prodger, The Sunday Times (Books of the Year 2018)

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Book SynopsisA daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of makingTrade Review“[Bryan-Wilson] shows why Nevelson’s sculpture matters today, and that art history can be a tool for responding to what is happening now.”—Sophie Oliver, Times Literary Supplement“Boldly conceived, Julia Bryan-Wilson’s far-reaching study gives us a multidirectional understanding of Louise Nevelson’s intersectional abstraction that renders the artist strikingly contemporary.”—Kobena Mercer, author of Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s“Julia Bryan-Wilson’s Louise Nevelson is exceptional in its innovative framing, physical structure, and above all, brilliantly original weaving of personal experience, material analysis, and art historical methodologies.”—Jo Applin, author of Lee Lozano: Not Working“Bryan-Wilson brings world-class critical, feminist, and social-historical skills to bear on Nevelson’s sculpture and public persona. The result is that we see Nevelson’s radiant intelligence in a new light.”—Richard Meyer, author of Master of the Two Left Feet: Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered“From the multicomponent design to the conceptual approaches therein, Bryan-Wilson has crafted an innovative and engaging look at Louise Nevelson. Further, she offers a queered, critical methodology that changes the game.”—Bridget R. Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum

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