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The Sale of the Century
Artistic Relations between Spain and
Great Britain, 1604–1655
Edited by Jonathan Brown and
John Elliott
“It’s no easy thing to track hundreds of
financial transactions over 350 years old
or to map out underground networks
of collectors, artists, art dealers and
runners. But together these essays do
just that: They tell a compelling story
of cultural spoils in all of its byzantine
complexity.”—Art & Auction
2002 320 pp. 120 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09761-1 $65.00/$52.00
The A.W. Mellon Lectures
in the Fine Arts
Fifty Years
Introduction by Elizabeth Cropper
This handsomely illustrated volume
marks the fiftieth anniversary of the
acclaimed A. W. Mellon Lectures in the
Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art.
Essays by contemporary scholars discuss
the fifty influential lecturers, their fields
of expertise, and the subject matter and
historical context for their talks.
Distributed for the Center for Advanced
Study in the Visual Arts at the National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2003 256 pp. 63 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 09961-4 $39.95/$31.96
Farewell to an Idea
Episodes from a History of Modernism
T. J. Clark
1999 464 pp. 210 b/w + 30 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 07532-4 $60.00/$48.00
Paper ISBN 08910-4 $32.50/$26.00
John Dewey and the
Lessons of Art
Philip W. Jackson
1998 222 pp.
Cloth ISBN 07213-9 $45.00/$36.00
Paper ISBN 08289-4 $16.00/$12.80
Masterpieces from
the Leopold Museum
in Vienna
Phone: 1-800-405-1619 Fax: 1-800-406-9145
Rudolf Leopold and Romana Schuler
Distributed for DuMont Buchverlag,
Cologne
2002 360 pp. 60 b/w + 140 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09228-8 $55.00
Seeing Through Paintings
Physical Examination in Art Historical
Studies
Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson
Winner of the College Art Association
and Heritage Preservation joint award
for Distinction in Scholarship and
Conservation and of the Bookbuilders
of Boston and the 44th Annual New
England Book Show book award in the
Professional Illustrated Division
2000 344 pp. 150 b/w + 110 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08046-8 $50.00/$40.00
Paper ISBN 09408-6 $35.00/$28.00
Ornament and Abstraction
The Dialogue between non-Western,
Modern and Contemporary Art
Edited by Markus Brüderlin
Distributed for DuMont, Cologne
2002 256 pp. 160 b/w + 115 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09226-1 $65.00/$52.00
Modern Art in the
Common Culture
Thomas Crow
1996 284 pp. 54 b/w + 37 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 06438-1 $50.00/$40.00
Paper ISBN 07649-5 $19.00/$15.20
The Haunted Self
Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity
David Lomas
2001 280 pp. 85 b/w + 40 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 08800-0 $60.00/$48.00
The Art of the Twentieth Century
A new series published in association with The Open University
Frameworks for
Modern Art
Edited by Jason Gaiger
This generously illustrated volume
introduces and explores a range of
contemporary issues and debates about
art and its place in the wider culture
today.
The opening chapter discusses key
concepts such as modernity,
modernism, autonomy, spectatorship,
and globalization. Four case studies
follow, each devoted to a specific work
of art across the span of the century:
Marcel Duchamp’s Bottlerack, Barnett
Newman’s Eve, Ana Mendieta’s Silueta
series, and Yarla by the Australian
Aboriginal Yuendumu community.
These works have been selected not
only for their intrinsic interest but also
for the way in which they open up
wider questions of meaning and
interpretation that are central to
understanding twentieth-century art.
2004 288 pp. 180 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10140-6 $60.00
Paper ISBN 10228-3 $30.00
Art of the Avant-Gardes
Edited by Steve Edwards and
Paul Wood
This discussion of the development of
modern art in the first third of the
century consists of four parts. The first
looks at the centrally important idea of
‘expression’ in art, and related
questions of Orientalism and the
‘primitive’. The second part
concentrates on Cubism, and the third
goes on to investigate the development
of abstract art. The final part discusses
the radical avant-garde movements
committed to overcoming the barrier
between ‘art’ and ‘life’: Dada,
Constructivism and Surrealism.
2004 480 pp. 279 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10141-4 $60.00
Paper ISBN 10230-5 $30.00
Varieties of Modernism
Edited by Paul Wood
Arranged in four main parts, this
abundantly illustrated book begins by
examining aspects of the European avantgarde
from the 1930s to the aftermath of
the Second World War. The second part
focuses on the emergence of Abstract
Expressionism in the U.S., in particular
the work of Jackson Pollock and
important critics. Part three looks at
“autonomous” high modernism of the
early to mid-1960s and the
contemporary, related modernist
theorization of photography. The final
part of the book addresses the
reemergence in the 1950s and 1960s of
the concerns of the 1920 avant-gardes
operating in the so-called “gap between
art and life.”
2004 352 pp. 285 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10142-2 $60.00
Paper ISBN 10296-8 $30.00
Themes in
Contemporary Art
Edited by Gill Perry and Paul Wood
This volume addresses a fascinating
variety of themes relating to art from the
1960s to the end of the century—the
period of “postmodernism.”
The first of the book’s seven chapters
deals with the emergence in the 1960s of
what has been called an “expanded field”
for art activity. Other chapters discuss the
consequences of Conceptual art for
notions of the aesthetic; the Post-
Conceptual practice of painting; practices
of Post-Conceptual photography; video,
performance, and installation art; and
women’s practice and the question of
gendered and nongendered objects. The
final chapter explores the globalization of
art at the end of the twentieth century.
Full color illustrations are featured
throughout the volume.
2004 352 pp. 267 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10143-0 $60.00
Paper ISBN 10297-6 $30.00
Art of the
Twentieth Century
A Reader
Edited by Jason Gaiger and Paul Wood
This reader, a companion to The Open
University’s four-volume Art of the
Twentieth Century series, offers a
variety of writings by art historians and
art theorists. The writings were
originally published as freestanding
essays or chapters in books, and they
reflect the diversity of art historical
interpretations and theoretical
approaches to twentieth-century art.
Accessible to the general reader, this
book may be read independently or to
supplement the materials explored in
the four course texts. The volume
includes a general introduction as well
as a brief introduction to each piece,
outlining its origin and relevance.
2004 368 pp. 50 color illus.
Paper ISBN 10144-9 $20.00
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