Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 - Yale University Press

new & recent
••• Asian, Islamic & Pacific art
Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3 February – 1 May 2011
Milwaukee Art Museum
11 June – 12 September 2011
Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5 June – 5 September 2011
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
23 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
Chinese Ceramics
From the Paleolithic Period through the
Qing Dynasty
Edited by Li Zhiyan, Virginia L. Bower
and He Li
A lavishly illustrated encyclopedic survey
of the history of Chinese ceramics from
its earliest origins through the Qing
dynasty, showing the grace and grandeur
of this art form.
2010 608 pp. 75 b/w + 700 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-11278-8 £60.00*
The Emperor’s Private Paradise
Treasures from the Forbidden City
Nancy Berliner • With Mark C. Elliott and
Liu Chang, Yuan Hongqi and Henry Tzu Ng
An extraordinary glimpse at imperial art
from the Qianlong Garden, one of
China’s most stunning historical sites,
located deep within the Forbidden City.
Organized by the Peabody Essex Museum in
partnership with the Palace Museum and in
cooperation with the World Monuments Fund
2010 256 pp. 25 b/w + 267 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16389-6 £45.00*
Wonder, Image, and Cosmos
in Medieval Islam
Persis Berlekamp
Closely examining pre-modern
illustrated manuscripts of Islamic
cosmographies, this original book sheds
new light not only on the historical
relationships among Islam,
representational images and philosophy,
but also on the history of book
illustration.
May 2011 232 pp. 30 b/w + 60 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17060-3 £45.00*
Gifts of the Sultan
The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts
Linda Komaroff
This glorious catalogue is the first to
investigate gift-giving and its impact on
the development of art in the wider
Islamic world from the 8th through the
19th centuries. The book features 240
rare and costly works of art, all once
circulated as courtly gifts.
Distributed for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
June 2011 336 pp. 250 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-17110-5 £45.00*
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The World of Khubilai Khan
Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty
Edited by James C. Y. Watt • With essays by
Maxwell K. Hearn, Denise Patry Leidy,
Zhixin Jason Sun, John Guy, Joyce Denney,
Birgitta Augustin and Nancy S. Steinhardt
A fascinating exploration of art and
culture during the reign of Khubilai
Khan and beyond.
Published in association with The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
2010 360 pp. 28 b/w + 379 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16656-9 £45.00*
Wisdom Embodied
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture
in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan
With contributions by Lawrence Becker,
Arianna Gambirasi, Takao Itoh, Mechtild Mertz,
Won Yee Ng, Adriana Rizzo and Mark Wypyski
Featuring all new photography, this
volume reassesses 120 works from the
Metropolitan Museum’s collection of
Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture.
Published in association with The Metropolitan
Museum of Art
2011 256 pp. 168 b/w + 227 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-15521-1 £40.00*
Ancestors of the Lake
Art of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay,
New Guinea
Edited by Virginia-Lee Webb
A fascinating exploration of the New
Guinea art acquired by 19th-century
Western visitors, including the collection of
French writer and art dealer Jacques Viot.
The book also explores how European
Surrealist artists found inspiration in the
art of New Guinea, highlighted by rarely
seen photographs by Man Ray.
Distributed for The Menil Collection
July 2011 128 pp. 86 colour illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-16610-1 £35.00*
Exhibition: The Menil Collection
6 May – 28 August 2011
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
27 September – 11 December 2011
Arts of the Pacific Islands
Anne D’Alleva
Featuring works from Melanesian,
Polynesian, Micronesian and New
Guinean traditions, this comprehensive
survey explains the significance of the
art of the Pacific Rim by contextualising
works within each island’s unique
culture and practices.
2010 176 pp. 19 b/w + 106 colour illus.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-16412-1 £14.99*
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