Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 - Yale University Press

Household GodsThe British and their PossessionsPaperbacksDeborah CohenA fascinating account of the British preoccupation with their homes, interior decoration andpersonal possessions since 1830.“In this riveting and revealing book, Deborah Cohen takes the reader on a journey throughinteriors cluttered with papier-mâché beds, fire screens set with stuffed birds, soup tureensshaped as boar’s heads and baths decorated with shells . . . If you want to understand the rootsof Britain’s peculiar taste for home improvement and today’s obsession with DIY, IKEA shopopenings, makeover and property TV programmes, Household Gods provides all the answers.”—Andrea Wulf, The Guardian“[Cohen’s] is a genuinely fresh approach, diverging from the mainstream furrow ploughed by most historians to concentrate inthe main on real lives and real choices—of ‘life lived outside the tyranny of grand design’—and she does it subtly, confidentlyand with real pace.”—Kate Colquhoun, The Daily Telegraph“[An] excellent new history of the British and their possessions . . . So much of what Cohen identifies in her insightful surveyof Victorian and Edwardian consumerism seems to reflect upon our own age.”—Ben Macintyre, The Times“Household Gods is engagingly written, well researched and beautifully illustrated. It makes a significant contribution to ourunderstanding of consumption.”—The Times Higher EducationDeborah Cohen is Associate Professor of History at Brown University.November 336 pp. 234x189mm. 100 b/w + 15 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13641-8 £18.99*Translation rights: Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd, London73Action/AbstractionPollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976Edited by Norman L. KleeblattDrawing on recent critical, historical and biographical work, this lavishly illustrated book offers anew focus on a pivotal art movement. It also presents an extensive commentary on the two mostinfluential critics of postwar American art—Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg—whosepowerful views shaped perceptions of Abstract Expressionism and other contemporary artmovements.“Thorough and scholarly . . . Presents a balanced account of the art, the artists, the critics andthe issues.”—Richard Kalina, Art in AmericaNorman L. Kleeblatt is the Susan and Elihu Rose Curator of Fine Arts at The Jewish Museum.Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New YorkSeptember 344 pp. 305x247mm. 81 b/w + 175 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-13920-4 £18.00*The Sculpture of Louise NevelsonConstructing a LegendEdited by Brooke Kamin RapaportEssays by Arthur C. Danto, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Harriet F. Senie and Michael StanislawskiChronology by Gabriel de GuzmanLouise Nevelson (1900–1988) was a towering figure in postwar American art, exerting greatinfluence with her monumental installations, innovative sculptures made of found objects andcelebrated public artworks. The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson focuses on all phases of the artist’sremarkable ascent to the top of the art world, from her groundbreaking works of the 1940s tocomplex pieces completed in the late 1980s. The most extensive study of Nevelson to be publishedin over 20 years, this beautifully illustrated book also demonstrates how Nevelson’s flamboyant style and carefully cultivatedpersona enhanced her reputation as an artist of the first rank.“The brilliant reproductions give a fine flavour of Nevelson’s genius.”—Jewish ChronicleBrooke Kamin Rapaport is a curator and writer. Arthur C. Danto is Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy atColumbia University.Published in association with The Jewish Museum, New YorkOctober 256 pp. 279x228mm. 37 b/w + 140 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-16025-3 £28.00*