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This new series is published by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and
distributed by Yale University Press. It provides an international forum for scholars
and museum professionals to confront the philosophical and political questions
provoked by the study of the visual arts in culture. Based on the proceedings
of the annual Clark Conferences, these important publications encourage an
interdisciplinary exploration of issues that are timely, relevant, and even controversial.
Anthropologies
of Art
Edited by Mariët Westermann
With essays by Hans Belting, Janet Berlo,
Suzanne Preston Blier, Steve Bourget, Sarah
Brett-Smith, Shelly Errington, David Freedberg,
Anna Grimshaw, Jonathan Hay, Howard Morphy,
Ikem Stanley Okoye, Francesco Pellizzi, and
Ruth Phillips
Based on the 2003 Clark Conference,
this new volume in the highly successful
series Clark Studies in the Visual Arts
examines the intersections and
divergences between art history and
anthropology. How do these disciplines
understand the term “art”? What sorts
of questions do they ask of the work of
art? Is it possible to find a cross-cultural
definition of art, or are such definitions
inevitably Western in their origins and
concerns? What implications do the
answers to these questions have for the
collecting and display of Western and
non-Western objects in art museums?
Fourteen leading art historians and
anthropologists discuss these and other
questions.
2004 224 pp. 30 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 10353-0 $24.95
The Two Art Histories
The Museum and the University
Edited by Charles W. Haxthausen
While many museum professionals
believe university-based art history
focuses too much on theory and too little
on the aesthetic dimensions of the art
object, many academics feel that
museums are too preoccupied with the
quest for audiences to be a viable source
of innovative scholarship. In this
provocative book, eminent figures from
both sides of the art world explore the
often tense relations between their fields.
2003 224 pp. 40 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 09775-1 $24.95/$19.96
Clark Studies in the Visual Arts
New
Art History, Aesthetics,
Visual Studies
Edited by Michael Ann Holly
and Keith Moxey
Art history, aesthetics, and visual
studies today find themselves in
contested new philosophical and
institutional circumstances. In this
fascinating book, fifteen distinguished
scholars explore the connections and
differences among these three methods
of investigating visual representation.
2003 292 pp. 40 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 09789-1 $24.95/$19.96
Compression vs.
Expression
Containing and Explaining
the World’s Art
Edited by John Onians
In this groundbreaking book, leading
academics, curators, bibliographers,
and representatives of international
organizations explain the ways they deal
with the conflict between the need to
compress and the desire to express.
2003 224 pp. 40 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 09790-5 $24.95/$19.96
The Art Historian
National Traditions and
Institutional Practices
Edited by Michael F. Zimmerman
Essays by renowned international
scholars examine how the institutional
practice of art history has evolved in
the United States compared with such
countries as Germany, France,
England, and the Netherlands.
2003 240 pp. 40 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 09791-3 $24.95/$19.96
“Bonjour, Monsieur
Courbet!”
New
The Bruyas Collection from the
Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Edited by Sarah Lees
Alfred Bruyas (1821-1877) was one of the
foremost collectors of contemporary art in
France. His tastes ranged from romanticism
to realism, and he collected both traditional
and what was then avant-garde art. This
beautifully illustrated book features
ninety-four works from Bruyas’s celebrated
collection, including nine masterpieces
by Gustave Courbet as well as important
paintings, drawings, and sculptures by
such leading French artists of the period
as Delacroix, Ingres, Géricault, Millet,
Corot, Rousseau, and Barye. The
accompanying texts draw upon a wealth
of unpublished correspondence between
Bruyas, his advisors, and the artists
whose work he collected in order to
examine Bruyas’s role as one of the few
mid-nineteenth-century private collectors
of contemporary art.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition
organized under the auspices of FRAME
(French Regional and American Museum
Exchange) and appearing at the Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (March 26
to June 13, 2004), the Sterling and Francine
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Massachusetts (June 27 to September 6,
2004), the Dallas Museum of Art
(October 17, 2004, to January 2, 2005) and
to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(January 22 to April 3, 2005).
2004 256 pp. 32 b/w + 94 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 10523-1 $60.00
Sugaring Off
The Maple Sugar Paintings
of Eastman Johnson
Brian T. Allen
This lovely book provides the first
comprehensive examination of
Eastman Johnson’s vivid paintings
of a quintessential New England theme
—the making of maple sugar. This series
of pictures, executed during the 1860s,
is perhaps the most ambitious project
in the artist’s career. Brian T. Allen
discusses the ways in which Johnson’s
maple sugar paintings reflect a New
England on the edge of vast changes,
both in the technology of farming
and in the social structures of small
communities.
2004 48 pp. 48 color illus.
Paper ISBN 10351-4 $16.95
Turner
The Late Seascapes
New
James Hamilton
This elegant book focuses primarily on
the seascapes Turner painted during the
1840s—the last decade of his illustrious
career—providing new and provocative
insights into these spectacular works.
2003 176 pp. 21 b/w + 70 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 09900-2 $39.95
Édouard Baldus, Cháteau de La Faloise, Late Morning,
1856. Salted paper print from wet-collodion-on-glass
negative, with retouching in graphite. Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Massachusetts.
Édouard Baldus at
the Château de la
Faloise
James A. Ganz
Édouard Baldus (1813–1889) was the
most important French architectural
photographer of the mid-nineteenth
century. This book offers an in-depth
exploration of one of his most intriguing
projects—a remarkable series of views of
the Château de La Faloise, in which his
subject was not primarily the country
house but the owner and his family at
leisure on its grounds.
The book is a dossier-style study of this
group of photographs, which includes
thirteen known prints from nine
different negatives. James A. Ganz locates
the photographs at a key moment in
Baldus’s career and during one of the
most eventful decades in the history of
French photography, showing that they
stand at a crossroad between the English
“conversation piece” and the birth of
Impressionist portraiture in the early
paintings of Monet and Bazille.
2004 48 pp. 30 color illus.
Paper ISBN 10352-2 $16.95/$13.56
Goltzius and the
Third Dimension
New
Stephen H. Goddard and James A. Ganz
2001 88 pp.
Paper ISBN 09899-5 $19.95/$15.96
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