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56 ArtDutch New York, between East and WestThe World of Margrieta van VarickEdited by Deborah Krohn and Peter N. Miller, with Marybeth De FilippisCommemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutchculture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family andher things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but lived at the extremes of the Dutch colonialworld, in Malacca on the Malay Peninsula and in Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she came to New Yorkin 1686 with her husband and set up a shop, she brought an astonishing array of Eastern goods,many of which were documented in an inventory made after her death in 1695. Archival researchhas enabled the authors to reconstruct her story. This is a ground-breaking contribution to thehistories of New York City, the Dutch overseas empire, women and material culture.Exhibition Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture, New York, 19/9/09 – 3/1/10Deborah Krohn is coordinator for History and Theory of Museums at the Bard Graduate Center where Peter N. Miller is Deanand Chair of Academic Programs; Marybeth De Filippis is Assistant Curator for American Art at the New-York Historical Society.Published in association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Material Culture,and the New-York Historical SocietyOctober 352 pp. 292x228mm. 100 b/w + 275 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15467-2 £45.00*The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century EuropeEdited by Peter ParshallMore than a generation before the invention of Gutenberg’s celebrated press, the new technologyof image printing emerged. In this book, a group of scholars treats the earliest manifestations ofprinting in all aspects: technical experimentation, the complex relation of printed books to printedimages, individual and institutional patronage, new iconographies, religious propaganda and thewide variety of private and public ways in which printed images were first employed.The essays examine the technological, social, political, religious, personal and institutionalcontexts of 15th-century woodcuts and challenge many assumptions about the phenomenon ofearly printing, including the beginnings of printing on cloth, the significance of monasticproduction, the development of book printing and book illustration and the extent to whichprinting can or should be termed a ‘revolution’.Peter Parshall is Curator of Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.Studies in the History of Art SeriesPublished by the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts/Distributed by Yale University PressOctober 352 pp. 279x228mm. 124 duotone + 124 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-12163-6 £55.00*Translation rights: National Gallery of Art, WashingtonSacred SpainArt and Belief in the Spanish WorldRonda Kasl, Luisa Elena Alcalá, William A. Christian, Jr., María Cruz de Carlos Varona,Jaime Cuadriello, Javier Portús and Alfonso Rodríguez G. de CeballosThe art of Spain and Spanish America during the 17th century is overwhelmingly religious—it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion and identification. Its forms and meanings areinextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of the people for whom it was made.In this groundbreaking book, scholars of art and religion look at new ways to understand thereception of and use of these images in the practice of belief. As a result, the book argues for afundamental reappraisal of the cultural role of the Church based on an analysis of the specificdevotional and ritual contexts of Spanish art.Handsomely illustrated essays discuss paintings, polychrome sculptures, metalwork and books. They call attention to the paradoxicalnature of the most characteristic visual forms of Spanish Catholicism: material richness and external display as expressions of internalspirituality, strict doctrinal orthodoxy accompanied by artistic expression of surprising unconventionality, the calculated socialprojection of new devotional themes and the divergence of popular religious practices from officially prescribed ones.Exhibition Indianapolis Museum of Art, 11/10/09 – 3/1/10Ronda Kasl is Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.Distributed for the Indianapolis Museum of ArtNovember 400 pp. 305x254mm. 25 b/w + 125 colour illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15471-9 £45.00*Translation rights: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis