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Decorative Arts / Urban & Landscape Studies 22 Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America Thomas Andrew Denenberg “This deeply informed and lavishly illustrated landmark book is essential reading for every curator, collector, and interested student of American antiques.”—Wendell Garrett, The Magazine Antiques As the principal authority on early American furniture for much of the twentieth century, Wallace Nutting collected, reproduced, and marketed colonial artifacts, promoting an idealized notion of a time and place he called “Old America.” This handsomely illustrated book is the first full-length study of Nutting’s life, work, and important contributions to American culture. Published in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 2003 240 pp. 131 b/w + 31 color illus. Cloth ISBN 09683-6 $39.95 Harlequin Unmasked The Commedia Dell’Arte and Porcelain Sculpture Meredith Chilton Winner of the 2001 George Freedley and Theatre Library Association Book Award Published in association with the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto 2001 384 pp. 300 b/w + 300 color illus. Cloth ISBN 09009-9 $75.00/$60.00 The Peacock Room A Cultural Biography Linda Merrill Winner of the 1998 Historians of British Art Book Prize in the category of nineteenth-century studies Published in association with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1998 408 pp. 150 b/w + 100 color illus. Cloth ISBN 07611-8 $95.00/$76.00 City Urbanism and Its End New Douglas W. Rae “Quite simply, one of the best books I’ve read in years.”—Robert Putman How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early “urbanist” decades of the twentieth century. Rae’s subject is New Haven, Connecticut, but the lessons he draws apply to many American cities. Rae argues that strategies for the urban future should focus on nurturing the unplanned civic engagements that make mixed-use city life so appealing and so civilized. Cities need not reach their old peaks of population, or look like thriving suburbs, to be once again splendid places for human beings to live and work. The Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University Series 2003 544 pp. 80 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 09577-5 $30.00 Republic of Shade New England and the American Elm Thomas J. Campanella “There should be a book like this for every great American tree. Campanella is a terrific scholar and a writer of great style. What Mark Kurlansky did for codfish in his bestseller Cod, Campanella does for elms.”—Amy Godine, Orion “In Thomas J. Campanella’s edifying Republic of Shade, the mighty elm . . . rises again, as Campanella explores the history of the plant that launched an entire nation of Elm Streets.”—Mark Rozzo, New Yorker 2003 240 pp. 62 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 09739-5 $35.00 Mississippi Floods Designing a Shifting Landscape Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha “This book challenges us to look at the Mississippi in a fresh way. Mathur and da Cunha bring together diverse perspectives on the river and create a masterful work of art in the process.” —Steven Hoelscher 2001 176 pp. 180 b/w + 104 color illus. Cloth ISBN 08430-7 $50.00/$40.00 Downtown Its Rise and Fall, 1880–1950 Robert M. Fogelson “A stimulating new history of a longneglected subject.”—Witold Rybczynski, Wilson Quarterly “The book is an impressive work of research and synthesis, and it will undoubtedly help to rewrite the story of American cities in the first half of the twentieth century.”—Max Page, The New England Quarterly Winner of the 2001 Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American City and Regional History and the Urban History Association Prize for Best Book in North American Urban History 2001 492 pp. 40 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 09062-5 $45.00/$36.00 Paper ISBN 09827-8 $19.95 Going Shopping Consumer Choices and Community Consequences Ann Satterthwaite “A contemporary, well-informed, and nuanced judgment of the impact of malls, remote retail, big box stores, and other expressions of contemporary shopping.”—Gary Cross, Journal of Economic History 2002 400 pp. 150 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 08421-8 $45.00/$36.00 yalebooks.com/art
Surrealism and Modernism From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art New Eric Zafran and Paul Paret This beautiful book showcases the remarkable works of twentieth-century art acquired by a succession of adventurous directors and curators at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Eric Zafran relates the fascinating details behind the acquisition of works by Dalí, Calder, Picasso, Henry Moore, Georgia O’Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and many others. Published in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 2003 152 pp. 40 b/w + 75 color illus. Cloth ISBN 10203-8 $50.00 Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties James Meyer Selected by Architects Journal as one of the Books of the Year for 2001 2001 348 pp. 130 b/w + 30 color illus. Cloth ISBN 08155-3 $55.00 On Abstract Art Briony Fer 1997 208 pp. 70 b/w + 12 color illus. Cloth ISBN 06975-8 $50.00/$40.00 Paper ISBN 08735-7 $25.00/$20.00 Phone: 1-800-405-1619 Fax: 1-800-406-9145 Renaissance to Rococo Masterpieces from the Collection of the New Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Edited by Eric Zafran When the Wadsworth Atheneum opened in 1844 as the first public gallery of fine arts in America, the highlights of the collection were works by contemporary American artists. However, gifts soon brought a number of old master paintings to the museum, and today perhaps the most famous aspect of its fine European painting collection is the concentration of Italian Baroque masterpieces. This beautiful book is a catalogue of its collection of old master paintings and a history of the museum’s acquisition program and distinguished directors. Published in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art 2004 160 pp. 20 b/w + 80 color illus. Cloth ISBN 10205-4 $50.00 The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton A Nota Bene Paperback 2000 768 pp. Cloth ISBN 08702-0 $30.00/$24.00 Paper ISBN 06458-6 $12.95 Unearthing the Past Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture Leonard Barkan Winner of the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey book award; of the Modern Language Association’s 1999 Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literature Studies; of Phi Beta Kappa’s 2000 Christian Gauss Award; and cowinner of the 2001 PEN/Architectural Digest Award for Literary Writing on the Visual Arts 2000 464 pp. 206 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 07677-0 $60.00/$48.00 Paper ISBN 08911-2 $22.00/$17.60 Vernacular Visionaries International Outsider Art Edited by Annie Carlano With essays by Annie Carlano, New John Beardsley, Caterina Gemma Brenzoni, Victoria Y. Lu, John Maizels, and Jacques Mercier Outsider Art is a name for the often mesmerizing creations of those who live and work at a distance from prevailing notions about mainstream artistic trends, individuals who are frequently unaware of themselves as artists or their works as art. This striking book presents and discusses some of the twentieth century’s most significant examples of Outsider Art. Featuring eight unique Outsider artists from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, the book is filled with stunning photographs and important new scholarship on this mesmerizing form of human creativity. It presents a major study of international Outsider Art and demonstrates the importance of place and time—as well as internal genius—in these artists’ creative processes. This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe (October 31, 2003 to summer 2004). Published in association with the Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2003 168 pp. 93 color illus. Cloth ISBN 10173-2 $45.00 Kimbell Art Museum Handbook of the Collection Edited by Timothy Potts With contributions by Malcolm New Warner, Nancy E. Edwards, and Jennifer Casler Price et al. This beautiful and up-to-date handbook presents over 240 works from the Kimbell Art Museum’s renowned collection, with masterpieces ranging from ancient to modern times, including Old Master paintings, Impressionist works, antiquities from Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome as well as artworks of Asia, Precolumbian America, and Africa. Distributed for the Kimbell Art Museum 2003 312 pp. 270 color illus. Paper ISBN 10181-3 $19.95 The Sculptural Imagination Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist Alex Potts 2001 432 pp. 115 b/w + 50 color illus. Cloth ISBN 08801-9 $55.00/$44.00 Flesh and the Ideal Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History Alex Potts 1994 302 pp. 43 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN 05813-6 $45.00/$36.00 Paper ISBN 08736-5 $20.00/$16.00 Kenwood Paintings in the New Iveagh Bequest Julius Bryant Set high on a ridge in historic parkland less than five miles from Trafalgar Square, Kenwood is London’s favorite “country house.” Remodeled by Robert Adam in the eighteenth century, in 1928 it became the home of the Iveagh Bequest, a superb collection of old master paintings donated by Edward Cecil Guinness, First Earl of Iveagh. The collection includes Rembrandt’s most celebrated self-portrait, one of only five Vermeers in Britain, Gainsborough’s Countess Howe, and classic works by Reynolds, Romney, Lawrence, and Turner. This handsome book is published to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Iveagh Bequest and is the first new catalogue of the collection to be produced in fifty years. It discusses each work, revealing details about the portrait subjects, the social circumstances of each commission, and the way that art met the ambitions of artists, patrons, sitters, and collectors. There are also two introductory essays that provide historical background. 2003 448 pp. 200 b/w + 120 color illus. Cloth ISBN 10206-2 $85.00 General Art History 23
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