http://www.gilesltd.com/news/ en lj@gilesltd.com Copyright 2012 2012-05-18T11:37:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists-moves-to-minnesota/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists-moves-to-minnesota/#When:11:37:59Z On view June 2 to September 30, 2012 at the Minnesota History Center this major travelling exhibit celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Program, drawing on the Smithsonian American Art Museum's unparalleled collection of paintings created for it. In 1934, Americans were dealing with an economic situation that feels all too familiar today. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the U.S. government created the Public Works of Art Project—the first federal government program to support the arts nationally. A selection of paintings made with support from this program will be on view in the exhibit, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 56 paintings drawn from the museum’s unparalleled collection of vibrant paintings created for the program. News 2012-05-18T11:37:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/two-giles-titles-win-aamc-awards/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/two-giles-titles-win-aamc-awards/#When:08:09:59Z The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) has announced the recipients of the annual awards for excellence in 2011. On May 14th, The Association of Art Museum Curators selected Fragonard’s Progress of Love at the Frick Collection for First Prize in the category of Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection. Of the award, Brooke Kellaway, AAMC prize jury chair, said that "Fragonard is a catalogue of commendable achievement. The breadth and focus of the subject matter, which is informed by impeccable research and compelling illustrations, is also an intriguing story that thoroughly engages the reader.” The book was published in October 2011 by D GILES LTD in association with the Frick Collection. In addition, Stories in Sterling was selected for Honorable Mention. Ms Kellaway said, "Stories in Sterling contributes new perspectives with in-depth documentation complemented by exceptionally high-quality images.” D GILES LTD published this book this month in association with the New-York Historical Society. Further news may be read at the following links: AAMC New York Observer LA Times Arts Journal Press Room 2012-05-18T08:09:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fragonards-progress-of-love-wins-first-prize/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fragonards-progress-of-love-wins-first-prize/#When:10:31:02Z D Giles Limited in 2011 in association with The Frick Collection, New York is pleased to announce that Fragonard's Progress of Love at The Frick Collection has just been awarded first prize as the outstanding catalogue based on a permanent collection by the Association of American Museum Curators (AAMC). Author Colin B. Bailey explains the original sequence and meaning of the paintings and the fascinating story of how they were brought to New York. A study of these panels offers a window into the complex world of art and architectural taste-makers and patronage in 18th-century France, as well as the history of collecting in Europe and America during the two centuries that followed their creation. Jean- Honoré Fragonard’s Progress of Love, a series of 14 paintings, is considered by many to be the artist’s masterpiece. In 1771 four large canvases were commissioned by the comtesse du Barry, for her château in Louveciennes outside Paris, but by 1773 the canvases had been rejected and returned to the artist. In 1790 Fragonard moved them to his cousin’s house, the Villa Maubert, in Grasse, and over the course of the year painted 10 additional panels. Sold to Agnew’s in 1898, the works were finally purchased by Henry Clay Frick, and in 1916 installed in his new mansion in New York in the present-day Fragonard Room. Comments Bailey, “[The Fragonard Room] has always been my favorite gallery in any museum, and …when the Frick renovated the room and its lighting system in 2007, we had the opportunity to view the pictures afresh.” The book draws on a wealth of research materials, new photographs and photomontages, x-rays and site plans, and archival materials relating to J. P. Morgan and Henry Clay Frick as collectors. Colin B. Bailey is Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York, an officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the author of Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection (2009) and The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of 18th-century French Genre Painting (2003). His book Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris was awarded the Mitchell Prize for the best art history book of 2002–3. Fragonard’s Progress of Love at The Frick Collection 192 pages 270 x 205 mm (8 x 10 ⅝5/8 in), portrait 135 colour illustrations Hardback ISBN: 978 1 904832 60 7 Price: US$44.95/UK£29.95 Publication date: September 2011 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London in association with The Frick Collection, New York Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by ACC sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by ACC Distribution Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2012-05-15T10:31:02+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fragonards-progress-of-love-wins-top-prize/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fragonards-progress-of-love-wins-top-prize/#When:08:15:56Z Fragonard's Progress of Love at The Frick Collection has just won a top award at the annual Association of American Museum Curators (AAMC) meeting. The AAMC awarded it first prize as the Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection. {image1} With 140 colour images of the Fragonard paintings, details, shots of the room, plans, original sketches, and other comparative images, author Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, New York, explores their commission and rejection by their original owner the comtesse du Barry. Equally enthralling is the history of how the paintings were rediscovered in the late 19th century and how they eventually came to The Frick. {image2} News 2012-05-15T08:15:56+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/another-title-receives-honorable-mention/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/another-title-receives-honorable-mention/#When:08:14:51Z D Giles Limited is delighted to announce that the Association of Art Museum Curators has awarded Stories in Sterling an Honorable Mention for Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection. {image1} For more than 25 years, AAMC has recognized and encouraged excellence in the graphic design of museum publications through the Museum Publications Design Competition, the only national, juried competition of its kind. Winners are chosen for their overall design excellence, creativity and ability to express an institution’s personality, mission or special features. The panel of judges includes graphic designers, museum professionals and publishers. News 2012-05-15T08:14:51+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/ellis-island-of-the-west/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/ellis-island-of-the-west/#When:09:37:18Z One of America’s best known ‘gates’ which processed immigrants was New York’s Ellis Island, but how many know about the Angel Island Immigration Station off San Francisco, sometimes called the ‘Ellis Island of the West’?According to their website, about 1 million immigrants, mostly Asian, entered the U.S. via the station. The new book, Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates, and the exhibition by the same name opening June 15th at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., show historic photographs from both Ellis Island and the Angel Island Immigration Station of immigrants whose stories were captured in documents and photographs that were attached to government forms and are now part of the National Archives of the United States. In 1962, the Chinese American community successfully lobbied the State of California to designate the Angel Island Immigration Station as a State Landmark. Today, the Angel Island Conservancy supports the park which is visited by over 100,000 people annually from all over the world. It has four main historic sites and miles of hiking and biking trails. And Ellis Island is one of the country’s most important historic sites and also one of the most heavily visited monuments. News, Giles Blog 2012-05-11T09:37:18+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/northern-skies-and-southern-sun-thomas-fearnleys-european-paintings/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/northern-skies-and-southern-sun-thomas-fearnleys-european-paintings/#When:11:09:11Z To be published in October 2012 by D Giles Limited, in association with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, In Front of Nature: The European Landscapes of Thomas Fearnley is the first monograph on Thomas Fearnley (1802–1842), a major romantic artist in the tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, J. C. Dahl and J. M. W. Turner. This volume reveals the full range of Fearnley’s paintings, from large oils to spontaneous sketches, produced en plein air during his summer travels, and which marked him out as one of a new generation of artists deeply committed to naturalism through rapid oil sketching. Four essays consider Fearnley’s career: Frode Ernst Haverkamp studies his Norwegian upbringing and influence; David Jackson looks at his travels to artistic centres in Italy and Germany, including Dresden, where he studied under J. C. Dahl, and his return to Norway via the Swiss Alps and Britain; Ann Sumner studies the artist’s little-known British paintings; while Greg Smith focuses on Fearnley’s appearance in a new type of painting depicting social gatherings of artists. The volume is illustrated with 60 works from the exhibition, in addition to 30 others by leading contemporaries, and includes loans from the National Gallery, Oslo, the National Gallery, London, and the Lunde collection in the U.S. The Authors Frode Ernst Haverkamp is the senior curator, Department of Old Masters and Modern Art, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway; David Jackson is professor of Russian & Scandinavian Art Histories, University of Leeds; Ann Sumner is the director of the Birmingham Museums Trust, and formerly director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham; Greg Smith is an art historian and research curator at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts IN FRONT OF NATURE The European Landscapes of Thomas Fearnley 120 pages, 240 x 255 mm (10 x 9½ in), landscape 90 colour illustrations, paperback ISBN: 978 1 907804 10 6 Price: US$35.00 / UK£22.95 Publication date: October 2012 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the US and Canada by ACC Distribution Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by ACC T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead Tele: 845 297-4569. KLunstead@live.com In the UK contact: Liz Japes Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com Press Room 2012-05-10T11:09:11+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/masters-of-french-painting/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/masters-of-french-painting/#When:11:03:10Z To be published in October 2012 by D Giles Limited, in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Masters of French Painting, 1290–1920: At the Wadsworth Atheneum presents over 130 of the most significant works of art from this internationally recognized collection of French paintings and pastels. As the first public art museum in the U.S., the Wadsworth Atheneum paved the way for encyclopaedic museums across the country. Founded by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum opened in 1844 with 79 paintings and three sculptures, and today holds more than 50,000 works of art. These include great 17th-century religious masterpieces by Poussin and Claude, charming 18th-century genre paintings and portraits by Boucher, Robert, Vigée Lebrun, and Trinquesse, and varied and rich examples from the 19th century, with outstanding works by Géricault, Delacroix, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, and Toulouse-Lautrec. Masters of French Painting, 1290–1920 fills a major gap in the museum’s series of titles devoted to its collections. It provides scholars and researchers with an entirely new catalogue, with up-to-date references, provenance, exhibition histories and technical/conservation reports, in addition to insightful art historical commentaries on the paintings. The book also includes an introductory essay on the creation of this remarkable collection by curator Eric M. Zafran. An exhibition of about 100 highlights of the collection, Medieval to Monet, will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum, October 19, 2012 – January 27, 2013 The Author Eric M. Zafran is the Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum, where he has worked since 1997. As curator of European Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston he wrote volume I of the museum’s Catalogue of French Paintings. He is the author of publications on Rembrandt, Monet, Gauguin, Doré, and Calder. MASTERS OF FRENCH PAINTING, 1290-1920 At the Wadsworth Atheneum 304 pages, 305 x 229 mm (9 x 12 in), portrait 160 colour and 70 b&w illustrations, hardback ISBN: 978 1 904832 93 5 Price: US$65.00/UK£45.00 Publication date: October 2012 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the US and Canada by ACC Distribution 6 West 18th Street, 4B New York, NY 10011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by ACC T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead Tele: 845 297-4569. KLunstead@live.com In the UK contact: Liz Japes Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com Press Room 2012-05-10T11:03:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/the-exuberant-chaos-of-modern-life/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/the-exuberant-chaos-of-modern-life/#When:10:53:04Z To be published in October 2012 by D Giles Limited in association with The New-York Historical Society, Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York is the first major assessment of the work of ‘American Scene’ artist Reginald Marsh (1898–1954) in over 30 years. It accompanies a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, June 21–September 02, 2013Focusing on 60 paintings, drawings, and prints, drawn from public and private collections across the U.S., along with a selection of his photographs and sketches, it sets Marsh’s exuberant depictions of urban daily life within the context of the economic uncertainty of 1930s America and the work of fellow artists who shared his interest in the New York scene. With his fine brushstrokes, busy compositions and bold handling of colour, Marsh revealed a passion for contemporary detail, capturing New York City’s energy and vibrancy. Incorporating well-known advertising signs, newspaper headlines, and other references to popular culture in his work, he recorded a new urban reality. His interest in the earthiness of everyday life is evident in his depictions of the middle and lower classes, and those on the periphery of mainstream society – Bowery bums, Vaudeville stars, burlesque queens, Coney Island musclemen and lonely subway riders. Fascinated by the city’s gaudy colours and the overt sexuality of his subjects, Marsh also expressed a common bond of humanity with those living under severe economic and social hardship, a theme still relevant today. This striking volume sets Marsh’s fascinating work of the 1930s alongside paintings, prints, and photographs of contemporaries such as Isabel Bishop, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Walt Kuhn, Raphael and Isaac Soyer, Guy Pene du Bois, Bernice Abbott, Aaron Siskind, Walker Evans and Arthur Rothstein. Together, they tell a complex and highly contrasting visual story of New York City life in this tumultuous time of change. The Authors Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, and Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities, City University of New York; Erika Doss is Chair and Professor, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana; Barbara Haskell is Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guest Curator for Swing Time, Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York, and the author of numerous books and monographs on early to mid century American artists; Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey; Lance Mayer and Gay Myers are independent painting conservators and the co-authors of American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 (2011); Sasha Nicholas is an independent curator and art historian, and the co-author of Lyonel Feininger: At The Edge Of The World (2011). SWING TIME Reginald Marsh and Thirties in New York Edited by Barbara Haskell Essays by Morris Dickstein, Erika Doss, Barbara Haskell, Jackson Lears, Lance Mayer and Gay Myers, and Sasha Nicholas RRP US$55.00 / UK£35.00 Hardback ISBN 978-1-907804-09-0 176 pages 292 × 254 mm, (10 x 11 ½ in), portrait 80 colour and 35 b & w illustrations In association with the New-York Historical Society, New York Publication date: October 2012 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by ACC T: +44 (0)1394 389950 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by: ACC Distribution Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2012-05-10T10:53:04+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/the-subtle-employment-of-colour-tiffanys-devotional-art/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/the-subtle-employment-of-colour-tiffanys-devotional-art/#When:10:44:05Z To be published in October 2012 by D Giles Ltd in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, Louis C. Tiffany and the Art of Devotion is a beautifully illustrated volume that focuses on the vast assortment of church decorations and memorials produced by Louis C. Tiffany (1848-1933) and the Tiffany Studios.‘We must have a combination of the physical and mental in fine art decoration — the objective and subjective must be married and intimately blended by the subtle employment of colour, as the composer employs the moods of music.’ Louis C. Tiffany For over half a century, Tiffany oversaw the production and marketing of a multitude of decorative elements for many of America’s leading congregations— Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. Although an important part of the ecclesiastical business consisted of the vibrantly coloured leaded-glass windows most famously associated with his name, Tiffany was interested in the bigger picture and employed designers, draftsmen, and craftspeople to produce a complete interior design including mosaics, windows, floors, lighting, furniture, altarpieces, pulpits, candlesticks, headstones and mausolea, vestments and jewellery. Works in all media including marble, glass, wood, metal and fabric, could be bought “off the shelf” or as special commissions designed for a particular patron. This new volume includes preliminary designs, cartoons, watercolour sketches and archival photographs of these windows, interiors and pieces of ecclesiastic furniture, many never published before. Many of these are the only surviving remnants of buildings which have since been demolished. The authors consider the reasons for the success of the Tiffany Studios’ Ecclesiastical Department: skilful advertising, the quality and variety of work and the boom in church building in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century. Tiffany promoted his designs to the public and potential clients through a variety of marketing techniques — showroom displays, sales catalogues, press releases, luxurious illustrated pamphlets, and installations made for national and international expositions. He was so successful that high-quality church and memorial designs became synonymous with the Tiffany Studios brand. The accompanying exhibit is at MOBIA October 12, 2012 – January 20, 2013. The Authors Elka Deitsch is the senior curator, Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum of Judaica; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen is Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and co-author of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate (2006); Lindsy Parrott is the director at The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York, and the co-author with Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen of Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design (2009); Patricia C. Pongracz is the director of curatorial affairs at MOBIA. Elizabeth De Rosa teaches at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Program, and curated the exhibition Tiffany: Behind the Glass (2001) at The Neustadt Collection, New York; Jennifer Perry Thalheimer is curator and collection manager at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. She co-curated the exhibition Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006; Peter W. Williams is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and American Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Miami University; Diane C. Wright is a senior fellow in the American Decorative Arts Department at the Yale University Art Gallery. LOUIS C. TIFFANY AND THE ART OF DEVOTION 216 pages, 280 x 240mm (9½ x 11 in.), portrait 125 colour illustrations, hardback ISBN: 978 1 907804 02 1 Price: US$55.00/UK£35.00 Publication date: October 2012 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by ACC T: +44 (0)1394 389950 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by ACC Distribution Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2012-05-10T10:44:05+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/stories-in-sterling/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/stories-in-sterling/#When:10:04:19Z Four Centuries of Silver in New York By Margaret K. Hofer with Debra Schmidt Bach. Essays by Kenneth L. Ames, David L. Barquist and Margaret K. Hofer. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-65-2) Winner of an Honorable Mention in the AAMC award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection 2011 “a model of useful scholarship” Stephen May, Antiques and the Arts “It belongs on the shelf of any student of American silver or material culture” Dean Six, Silver Magazine “To see one of the country’s most historically compelling silver collections without leaving home, read Stories in Sterling, the first comprehensive guide to the silver collected by the New-York Historical Society” Doris Athineos, Traditional Home Accompanies a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society from May 4 to September 2, 2012 Stories in Sterling is the first comprehensive survey of the New-York Historical Society’s superb collection of early American silver, one of the finest in the United States. It features the full range of silver works, from masterpieces like the 1772 salver by New York City silversmith Lewis Fueter, to the simpler, but no less significant teapot made for the Schuyler family by the Albany silversmith Kiliaen Van Rensselaer in 1695 – one of the earliest teapots made in New York. Seven chapters consider silver from a range of perspectives: its reflection of the multiethnic character of colonial New York; the impact of industrialization on its manufacture and consumption; its role in honouring public achievement or marking rites of passage; and, finally, its ability to express its owners’ social standing. With a wealth of related objects and original documents, Stories in Sterling is a vital reference tool for for scholars, collectors and enthusiasts of American silver and culture. It features extensive and superbly illustrated entries with full dimensions, makers’ marks and weights in troy ounces, and an appendix and checklist Accompanies a major exhibition showing at the New-York Historical Society from May 4 to September 2, 2012. "It will surely become an essential volume in any library not only on American silver, but on social history and material culture as well" Gerald W.R. Ward, Senior Consulting Curator and Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York is an engrossing slice of history as told through one of the most treasured metals. Anyone with a love of silver, an admiration for creativity or an interest in New York’s great history will want to own this beautiful book" Donald Fennimore, Curator Emeritus, Winterthur Museum "Stories in Sterling will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference books on American silver and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the rich social and cultural history of New York and its inhabitants" Beth Carver Wees, Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-05-01T10:04:19+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/#When:08:31:47Z The John Bourne Collection By Dorie Reents-Budet. Contributions by Julie Lauffenburger, Jessica Arista, Glenn Gates, and Marc Zender. With an introduction by John Bourne. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-907804-05-2) Presents works from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of ancient Mesoamerican, Central American, and Andean South American art, with a checklist of the full collection. Includes a major chapter on conservation and authentication of pre-Columbian art Accompanies the exhibition Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift which is on show at the Walters Art Museum, February 12 - May 20, 2012. This stunning new volume presents full-colour plates, details, groupings and comparative images of approximately 147 Pre-Columbian works (spanning 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1530) from the collection assembled by John G. Bourne in the 1950s and 1960s. It features fine examples of painted earthenware vessels and figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery and vessels from Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean America covering a host of civilizations, including Teotihuacán, Olmec, Maya, Andean, Aztec and Mixtec. In addition to John Bourne’s fascinating account of his first expedition to Chiapas in 1945 and 1946, which started his passion for collecting, there is an extensive essay on authentication, a significant part of the study of pre-Columbian art. Each of the three geographical sections of the main catalogue opens with an introductory text on the art, culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed by discursive entries accompanying each work. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2012-03-01T08:31:47+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-look-of-love/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-look-of-love/#When:10:20:59Z Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection By Edited by Graham C. Boettcher. Essays by Graham C. Boettcher, Elle Shushan and Jo Manning. Published by: GILES in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (ISBN: 978-1-907804-01-4) “Cultivating a Love of ‘Lover’s Eyes’.” Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times “beautifully photographed…this book casts light on a small, neglected corner of sentimental jewellery that, in its personal nature, still has the power to move the reader two centuries on” Sophia Tobin, Jewellery History Today Accompanies the exhibition organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, February 7 - June 10, 2012, featuring nearly 100 jewels from the private collection of Dr and Mrs David A. Skier. This stunning volume explores the little-known subject of "lover’s eyes," hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewellery and given as tokens of affection or remembrance. In 1785, when the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye, he inspired an aristocratic fad for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets and toothpick cases. Graham Boettcher discusses the history and function of lover’s eyes, as well as the language and symbolism of their jewelled settings; Elle Shushan examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and Jo Manning offers five fictional vignettes imagining the circumstances surrounding the creation of these extraordinary objects. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-02-01T10:20:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/monet-in-giverny/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/monet-in-giverny/#When:10:06:37Z Landscapes of Reflection By Edited by Benedict Leca, with contributions by Benedict Leca, Lynne D. Ambrosini, Andria Derstine, and Beth E. Wilson . Published by: GILES in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-907804-03-8) “written with such care and sophistication” Blake Gopnik, The Daily Beast Features 12 famous paintings from Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Dayton Art Institute, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Accompanies an exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum, closing on Mother’s Day, May 13, 2012 Recommended by Outdoor Painting.com as the ideal companion to the new show Monet’s Garden opening at the New York Botanical Garden on May 19, 2012 This beautifully illustrated book takes a fresh look at some of the masterpieces Claude Monet painted between 1883 and 1926 in and around his garden near Paris. His depiction of iconic motifs such as the Japanese footbridge, water lilies, and wisterias are characterized by subtle colouring and expressive brushwork, making these paintings among the most innovative of late 19th and early 20th-century French art. Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection takes reflection in all of its meanings as the governing theme: as a literal motif as well as a metaphor for both Monet’s experimentation and a reflection of his own theories on art. Four illustrated essays explore the importance of Monet’s garden as a continuing source of inspiration, and examine his work in Giverny in the context of developments in painting and photography. A firsthand account of the garden, written in 1891 by French author and art critic Octave Mirbeau has been translated for this book by author Benedict Leca. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-02-01T10:06:37+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/master-paintings-from-the-phillips-collection/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/master-paintings-from-the-phillips-collection/#When:10:09:08Z By Eliza E. Rathbone, Susan Behrends Frank and Robert Hughes. Published by: GILES in association with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-92-8) “Like The Phillips Collection itself, the paintings chosen for this book, as varied as they are, possess an ineffable unity that casual flippers, interested hobbyists, as well as art connoisseurs can enjoy.” Miriam Laufer, DC Spotlight Features an essay by internationally acclaimed art critic and writer, Robert Hughes, author of The Shock of The New (1980, 1991), and Goya (2004) Highlights include Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81), the most famous painting in The Phillips Collection. The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), a Washington D.C. collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to their European counterparts, often hanging their works side by side. Moreover, Phillips chose to buy and exhibit works according to stylistic continuities and affinities, reflecting the visual connections between various artistic expressions, past and present. Master Paintings from The Phillips Collection offers a unique insight into the creation of one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern art. Featuring works by 85 artists, including major European artists Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, and Picasso, El Greco who was “discovered” by Phillips, and celebrated American artists championed by Phillips: Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and Augustus Vincent Tack, this volume aims to re-create what Duncan Phillips considered the “life-enhancing” experience of seeing new or challenging forms of artistic expression in an intimate setting Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2012-01-02T10:09:08+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/making-american-taste/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/making-american-taste/#When:11:10:33Z Narrative Art for A New Democracy By Edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati. Contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Ella M. Foshay and Kimberly Orcutt. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-76-8) “An important contribution to nineteenth-century American art scholarship.” The Magazine Antiques “Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is the latest in a sequence of stellar publications that throw open new windows onto the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, making the artworks more accessible and launching them with current interpretive scholarship.” Katherine Manthorne, Professor of American Art, Graduate Center, City University of New York “Making American Taste“adds greatly to our understanding of how nineteenth-century paintings told stories, while documenting our own age’s interest in the complexity of those tales and the narrative process.” Marc Simpson, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College. “A readable catalog makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of this too-often ignored and undervalued class of painting and sculpture.” Bruce Cole, Wall Street Journal “Focusing on the remarkable holdings of the New-York Historical Society, this landmark publication is exquisitely illustrated with both recognized and underappreciated masterpieces….By discussing the artworks in their rich cultural context, these thought provoking texts enhance our understanding of each individual piece and the society that fostered their production.” Holly Pyne Connor, Ph.D., Curator of 19th-Century American Art, Newark Museum “This book does not confine itself to the high ground of acknowledged “masterpieces.”  Instead, it candidly surveys the uneven and uncertain terrain of art and art appreciation, while digging down to expose the tangled roots of taste formation in a disorderly new democracy that was still trying to figure out what should be “American” about American art.”  Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor, Indiana University “Making American Taste” dives into the core of narrative art—carrying the reader from the antebellum period to the end of the century—through the esteemed collections of the New-York Historical Society. Along the way, we encounter works of art we’ve long considered quaintly irrelevant and are reintroduced to the paintings and sculptures we thought we knew well.” Rebecca E. Lawton, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is a landmark publication on American art from 1825–1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting in America during this period, it presents 55 paintings from 38 artists drawn from the New-York Historical Society’s newly restored, and superb collection of narrative art. American art at this time was dominated by powerful arguments about what constituted true art: should it be for the many, or the educated few, and should specifically American art forms and styles be favoured over more traditional, academic, European traditions. Making American Taste accompanies an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - August 19, 2012; travelling to Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 2013–January 12, 2014; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, February 13–May 19, 2014; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, October 11, 2014–January 4, 2015 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2011-11-02T11:10:33+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/revolution/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/revolution/#When:13:07:29Z The Atlantic World Reborn By Edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois and Richard Rabinowitz. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-94-2) “Timely and provocative” Jason Nguyen, Enfilade “Revolution! The Atlantic Word Reborn is a book that adds further nuances, documentary evidence, and perspectives to a period we think we know well” Temi Odumosu, The Image of Black Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn is a fascinating illustrated volume which brings together three globally influential revolutions—in America, France, and Haiti—to explore the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars 52 years later. While most histories of these revolutions have been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, Revolution! draws on an international cross-section of experts to present the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society. The volume accompanies the exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012, and features works from the New-York Historical Society, Musée National du Château de Versailles et de Trianon, The British Museum, London, the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Library of Congress and other international lenders Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2011-11-01T13:07:29+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/eugene-savage/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/eugene-savage/#When:11:07:50Z The Seminole Paintings By Elizabeth Heuer. Published by: GILES in association with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (ISBN: 978-1-904832-99-7) Accompanies the first show devoted to the artist’s work since a memorial exhibition held at the National Academy of Design in 1978, which runs at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Features 40 paintings from the Cummer Museum of Art’s important recent acquisition of more than 100 of the Seminole works for its permanent collection Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings is a colourful introduction to an American artist best known today as a muralist with the Works Progress Administration. Eugene Savage (1883-1978) first visited the Florida Everglades in the 1930’s, became enchanted with the local Seminole Indian tribe and spent the next 20 years depicting them. Savages’s paintings, drawings, and watercolours not only document the Seminoles, they are also important works of art in their own right. Each presents Seminole traditions, threatened by encroachment on the Everglades, in an artistic manner reminiscent of Surrealist dreamscapes and Art Deco sensibilities. Although Savage’s series is perhaps the most extensive painted record of the Florida Seminoles, art historians have largely overlooked these works in favour of studies of the natives of the American Plains or Southwest. This new volume provides an opportunity to re-assess the artist’s career, and offers new insights into the representation of the Seminoles in American art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-10-01T11:07:50+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-medieval-world/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-medieval-world/#When:10:05:34Z The Walters Art Museum By Martina Bagnoli and Kathryn B. Gerry. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-96-6) “Bursting with large, high-quality color photos, it is so satisfying to hold and peruse that even this reviewer’s incurably digital ten-year-old picked it up for a good half-hour browse” Pamela A. Patton, The Medieval Review “A finely illustrated general guide written in a narrative style giving just enough context for the reader to understand and appreciate the works of art before him. For the more knowledgeable reader, an annotated checklist gives full entries for each item (including provenance) and bibliographic listings for futher study.” Eleanor Robbins, Cassone The Medieval World: The Walters Art Museum presents some of the most important aspects of medieval art, through the examination of nearly 150 stunning objects from the Walters Art Museum, one of the richest collections of medieval art in the United States. It features superb examples of sculpture and carvings, metal and enamel work, stained glass, jewellery and illuminated manuscripts, ranging in date from the Romanesque and early Byzantine period to the late Gothic and early Renaissance period. Divided into subjects such as the classical tradition and artistic process in the Middle Ages, the church as a heavenly space, saints, relics and devotion, and earthly possessions, each chapter is generously illustrated with artworks, special feature boxes, and details, which provide a fuller understanding of both the formal qualities and social context of medieval art. A wonderfully written and illustrated introduction to the subject of medieval art and society, The Medieval World also features an extensive checklist, bibliography and index Art & Decorative Arts, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-09-02T10:05:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/illuminating-fashion/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/illuminating-fashion/#When:12:29:56Z Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325-1515 By Anne H. van Buren. Edited by Roger S. Wieck. Published by: GILES in association with the Morgan Library & Museum, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-90-4 ) “Visually informative and very attractive.” Jane Bridgeman, The Art Newspaper “Highly recommended for its organization, accessibility, and the way it visually clarifies the interrelationship between social and cultural and the political, ceremonial, and religious spheres deciphered through clothes that would have been obvious at the time but not so for the modern viewer.” Andrea Walton, ARLIS “Copiously illustrated and meticulous in its chronology, the book is a definitive guide to medieval fashion that should prove useful for scholars and designers alike” Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times “This volume is a feast for the eyes as well as an invaluable tool for specialists and non specialists in the field of fashion” Nuova Informazione Bibliografica A comprehensive study of dress in Northern Europe from the early fourteenth century to the beginning of the Renaissance, Illuminating Fashion is the first thorough study of the history of fashion in this period based solely on firmly dated or datable works of art. It draws on illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, tapestries, paintings, and sculpture from museums and libraries around the world. “Symbolism and metaphors are buried in the art of fashion,” says Roger Wieck, the editor of Illuminating Fashion and curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library. Examining the role of social customs and politics in influencing dress, at a time of rapid change in fashion, this fully illustrated volume demonstrates the richness of such symbolism in medieval art and how artists used clothing and costume to help viewers interpret an image. At the heart of the work is A Pictorial History of Fashion, 1325 to 1515, an album of over 300 illustrations with commentary. This is followed by a comprehensive glossary of medieval English and French clothing terms and an extensive list of dated and datable works of art. Not only can this fully illustrated volume be used as guide to a fuller understanding of the works of art, it can also help date an undated work; reveal the shape and structure of actual garments; and open up a picture’s iconographic and social content. It is invaluable for costume designers, students and scholars of the history of dress and history of art, as well as those who need to date works of art. Art & Decorative Arts 2011-09-01T12:29:56+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/tobi-kahn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/tobi-kahn/#When:10:14:51Z Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century By Edited by Ena Giurescu Heller, Executive Director of MOBIA; essay by David Morgan, Professor of Religion at Duke University; contributions by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, Klaus Ottman, Jeff Edwards and Nessa Rapoport. Published by: GILES in association with The Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-64-5 ) “Nessa Rapoport’s poems (“songs”) introduce and accompany a section of exquisite photographs of works in the exhibition. This book gives the exhibition the permanence it deserves.” Jewish Book World Based on a recent exhibition at the Museum of Bilbical Art, New York, this volume discusses the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, examining 28 works by Tobi Kahn including his recent commission for Congregation Emau-El B'ne Jeshrun in Milwaukee. Each work is accompanied by a Meditation by novelist and poet Nessa Rapoport. From large 6’ x 4’ canvasses with biomorphic forms to three-dimensional pieces such as the art nouveau-influenced thrones, Kahn’s work has a presence that is immediately striking, and his reputation has grown steadily since his inclusion in the Guggenheim’s New Horizons in American Art show in 1985. Much of Kahn’s art, especially his landscapes, is ambiguously abstract, inviting the viewer to project onto it their own ideas, feelings and desires. Acting as aids to contemplation, they can be seen as building on the work of Romantic artists who sought to capture the majesty of nature and imbue it with divine resonance. Art & Decorative Arts, Architecture, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-01T10:14:51+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/building-americas-hangar/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/building-americas-hangar/#When:10:03:33Z The Design and Construction of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center By Lin Ezell. Published by: GILES in association with the National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-07-2) Heavily illustrated in colour with a stunning mix of large-scale ground, installation and aerial photographs Lively and accessible text written by a leading author, including special sidebar topics Use of action shots and photomontages reveals both specific building processes and the installation of the aircraft, including the space shuttle Enterprise, the Enola Gay and the Concorde Will appeal both to specialists and generalists alike The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center building at Washington’s Dulles International Airport, the first phase of which opened in December 2003, represents the fulfillment of the Smithsonian Institution’s long-held ambition to build a specialist facility to house the National Air & Space Museum’s ever-growing collection of commercial aviation and space artifacts. As early as the mid-1960s proponents of the NASM were suggesting that the newly built Washington Dulles Airport could meet the needs of the Smithsonian as the ideal location for the display and conservation of its huge aircraft collections held at its store in Suitland Maryland. In the end the Downtown site on the National Mall won the day, and in July 1976 one of the most popular museums in the world opened it doors, leaving many aircraft behind at a 21-acre Maryland site. This copiously illustrated volume tells the story of the building of the new Hazy Center building. Beginning with the project’s earliest conception and planning in 1993, when the US Congress approved $8 million for the design the “Dulles Extension”, Lin Ezell – celebrated author of Out of Harm’s Way, Moving America’s Lighthouse (2001) – unfolds the story of the clearance of the site and the construction of the building designed by architects Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum. HOK remained true to the original concept a building that would meet the special needs of a large collection of air-and space craft, along with millions of visitors, but still fit the ambience of an airport. HOK’s solution was a dramatic yet incredibly elegant building, featuring a massive vaulted space, reminiscent of the old zeppelin hangars, to house 200 aircraft – a second “hangar” to house 135 space vehicles, together with specialist restoration facilities, research archives, an education center and Imax movie theatre – some 760,000 square feet in all. Employing a lively and accessible mix of running text, special-feature sidebars and stunning large-format ground, installation and aerial photographs, as well as plans, photomontages, and detailed “action” shots, the author brings to life the details of engineering and construction processes– such as the raising of the massive main hangar roof – and explores the challenges and demands faced by the project team, of which she was a key member. Architecture, History & General Interest 2004-12-01T10:03:33+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-gordon-parks/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-gordon-parks/#When:12:48:41Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Charles Johnson. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-87-4 ) “We wanted to find images that you haven’t seen…We also wanted to choose photographs that documented the human condition, rather than just the Great Depression.” W. Ralph Eubanks, director of publishing at the Library of Congress, quoted by Deirdre Van Dyk, Lightbox.Time.com “A gem of a book” James Estrin, The New York Times Lens blog “The portrait of Ella Watson, American Gothic, became a famous expression of outrage at the treatment of black people in America thanks to the moment with Watson and the positioning of the American flag in the background.” Tim O’Brien, F-Stop “Despite the racial pressures, what I had learned within the year [at FSA] outdistanced the bigotry I encountered… . I had been forced to take a hard look backward at black history; to realize the burdens of those who had lived through it.” Gordon Parks “Clearly, the life of Gordon Parks was washed by all waters. He leaves a legacy that is luminous for its prodigious creativity and contributions to American culture, for at no time during his inspiring odyssey did Parks lose sight of our shared humanity.” Charles Johnson on Gordon Parks Following on from the publication of the first six books featuring The Library of Congress’ internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, the series continues with images chosen from the works of Gordon Parks. Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children in a poor tenant-farming family, Parks was working odd jobs in Minnesota when he saw the work of FSA photographers in a magazine and was inspired to buy a camera. His early pictures landed him a position as Roy Stryker’s apprentice in 1942. Among his extraordinary FSA photos is “American Gothic,” which shows charwoman Ella Watson posed with mop and broom against an American flag. After the FSA, Parks worked at Life magazine. He also became a respected writer and film director. He died in 2006. Photography 2011-09-01T12:48:41+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-carl-mydans/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-carl-mydans/#When:12:33:35Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Annie Proulx. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-88-1 ) “When I began to use my 35 mm camera, I was never separated from it. I wore it often under my jacket, on my shoulder like a weapon in a holster. I always had the feeling…that something was going to happen in front of me, and when it did, I wanted my camera to be there.” Carl Mydans “Most of these photographs show Mydans’ skill at getting inside what he saw….What made him an outstanding photographer, sensitive and conscientious, was his smart ability to grasp a large event and in his bones know how to capture its essence…” Annie Proulx on Carl Mydans Following on from the publication of the first six books featuring The Library of Congress’ internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, the series will continue with images chosen from the works of Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks and Carl Mydans. Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of the photographer and 50 evocative images selected from their work.Carl Mydans was born in Boston in 1907 and earned a degree in journalism from Boston University in 1930. In 1935 he joined the Resettlement Administration (which became the FSA) as a photographer. Mydans traveled in the South, documenting agricultural workers and rural poverty, and toured New England towns hard-hit by the Depression. His work was distinguished by his ability to tell an entire story in a single image. After sixteen months with the government, Mydans left to work at Life magazine, where he stayed until the magazine closed in the early 1970s. He died in 2004. Photography 2011-09-01T12:33:35+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-arthur-rothstein/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-arthur-rothstein/#When:12:18:01Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by George Packer. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-89-8 ) “I found that a kind of individualism existed among the people, an inability to conform, desire to be the master of their own fate…the one thing I found in traveling through the United States was that every man and every woman was different.” Arthur Rothstein “Rothstein was happy enough to be a useful agent of New Deal propaganda, but his belief in social progress didn’t congeal into a rigid ideology of the lens. Instead, it opened him to the stunning variety of human landscapes in the far corners of the republic.” George Packer on Arthur Rothstein “The introduction to Rothstein’s photographs, written by George Packer, states that most papers in the country at the time were owned by wealthy Americans that opposed the New Deal. This is a situation that is all too familiar in America today.” Tim O’Brien, F-Stop Magazine Following on from the publication of the first six books featuring The Library of Congress’ internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Arthur Rothstein includes an introduction to the life of the photographer and 50 evocative images selected from his work. Arthur Rothstein was born in New York in 1915. In the early 1930s he attended Columbia University, where he studied with Roy Stryker, who later hired him at the FSA. During his five years as an FSA photographer, Rothstein produced a gripping visual record of the country’s poor that included Virginia farmers, the Dust Bowl, cattle ranchers in Montana, and a tenant community in Gee’s Bend, Alabama. After World War II he joined Look magazine, serving as director of photography until the magazine ceased production in 1971. He died in 1985. Photography 2011-09-01T12:18:01+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-esther-bubley/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-esther-bubley/#When:12:24:55Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Melissa Fay Greene. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-48-5) “Unlike some of her better-known colleagues under the direction of Roy Stryker, Ms. Bubley seemed not to have had a political point of view. Instead, her photos recorded meaningful personal encounters. They are striking for their authenticity — and for their focus on women.” James Estrin, New York Times Lens blog “I have found the human race. It is like finding one’s family at last.” Esther Bubley “The images of Esther Bubley have a unique style of capturing a spot of light on the single figure in the frame” Elizabeth Powis, Apogee Photo Magazine “Bubley’s discreet, delightfully perceptive imagery is worth celebrating.” Benjamin Ivry, Forward.com “Esther Bubley chewed up the instruction manual and spat it out. She remained untamed, creative, surprising, and funny to the end, a genius in black-and-white.” Melissa Fay Greene in the introduction to Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Esther Bubley Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress's collection. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. Esther Bubley was born in Wisconsin in 1921 to Russian Jewish immigrants. Hired as a darkroom assistant at the OWI in 1942, she soon became a field photographer, recording US wartime life from a greyhound bus. After the war Bubley worked for Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Look, McCall's and Harper's Bazaar, reporting from Europe, Central and South America, North Africa, Australia and the Philippines. She died in 1998. Photography 2010-04-01T12:24:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-john-vachon/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-john-vachon/#When:12:19:16Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Kurt Andersen. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-47-8) “[W]e are today making a conscious effort to preserve in permanent media the fact and appearance of the 20th century”  to “leave for the future a very living document of our age, of what people today look like, of what they do and build.” John Vachon “The greatness of Vachon’s portrait of America is that it’s not a happy-all-the-time Bedford Falls nor a ghastly Pottersville, neither propagandistically pro- nor anti-American, but achieves some truer, more complicated, liminal version of the nation at midcentury” Kurt Andersen in the introduction to Fields of Vision: The Photographs of John Vachon Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress's collection. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. John Vachon was born in Minnesota in 1914. He joined the FSA in 1936 as an assistant messenger and became an official photographer in 1941. Unlike the photographs of most of his FSA peers, many of Vachon's are distinctly urban. In 1947 he started shooting for Life and Look magazines, and remained as a staff photographer at Look until it closed in 1971. He died in 1975. Photography 2010-04-01T12:19:16+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-jack-delano/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-jack-delano/#When:12:00:59Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Esmeralda Santiago Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-46-1) “What impels me to click the shutter is not what things look like, but what they mean.” Jack Delano, Photographic Memories “Delano never tells us the meaning of his photographs. Rather, he lures us into an image, and before we know it, we’re asking ourselves what it means to us” Esmeralda Santiago in the introduction to Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Jack Delano Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work held by the Library of Congress. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. Jack Delano was born in Russia in 1914 and moved with his family to Philadelphia at the age of nine. Hired by the FSA in 1940 as an itinerant photographer, he was assigned in 1941 to the Virgin islands and Puerto Rico. After service during World War II, he returned to Puerto Rico on a Guggenheim fellowship to produce a book documenting conditions there. He continued to live and work on the island until his death in 1997. Photography 2010-04-01T12:00:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-marion-post-wolcott/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-marion-post-wolcott/#When:11:48:53Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Francine Prose. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-41-6) “Modestly presented and priced the books nonetheless punch above their weight, and this edition is no exception” Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography “...I was given freedom to—well, document America.” Marion Post Wolcott “What you see from the photographs is that Post’s range was wider than might be supposed from an acquaintance limited to her more familiar images. Everywhere are surprizes and experiments that, in all likelihood, never occurred to her as being in the least bit experimental.” Francine Prose on Marion Post Wolcott This book is part of a completely new photography series, featuring The Library of Congress’ internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs which provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War. Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott includes an introduction to her life and 50 evocative images selected from her work, offering a glimpse of her inspiring and experimental style that became far more than reportage. Photography 2008-09-04T11:48:53+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-ben-shahn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-ben-shahn/#When:09:28:35Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Timothy Egan. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-40-9) Shahn “more than holds his own in the medium…his volume is particularly insightful”. “Should be required reading in schools, particularly now” Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts “We just took pictures that cried out to be taken.” Ben Shahn “No matter where he pointed his camera, Shahn could not help but find a telling detail that went beneath the surface. Sent to document the brutality of the Depression, he came home with that, plus its heart.” Timothy Egan on Ben Shahn Part of a completely new photography series, featuring The Library of Congress’ internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, this title provides a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War. Fields of Vision: The Photographs of Ben Shahn features an introduction to his work by Timothy Egan and 50 striking images. Trained as an artist and designer, and best known as a painter and illustrator, Shahn's primary interest was in people rather than landscapes, "the authentic faces of rural America" Photography 2008-09-04T09:28:35+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-russell-lee/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-russell-lee/#When:08:59:00Z The Library of Congress By Introduction by Nicholas Lemann. Series statement by W. Ralph Eubanks. Series editor Amy Pastan. Published by: GILES in association with The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-39-3) “The most engaging aspect of Lee’s book is the generous use of color” Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts “We could picture the frontier which has unalterably molded the American character and make frontier life vivid and understandable.” Russell Lee “It’s hard to think of any photographer for whom a more plausible claim can be made that he recorded the entire life of the United States (at least, for people in the bottom two-thirds of the income distribution) at a particular historical moment—what Toqueville did as a social observer, or Dos Passos as a novelist, or John Gunther as a journalist.” Nicholas Lemann on Russell Lee The approximately 77,000 photographs in The Library of Congress’ collection from the (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War. This government photography project, headed by Roy E. Stryker, was initially conceived to document government loans to farmers and their resettlement in suburban communities, but the scope of the project expanded to create a visual record of agricultural workers across the United States. These evocative pictures transport the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, while offering a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. This volume features an introduction to the work of Russell Lee and presents 50 images selected from his work. Photography 2008-09-04T08:59:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/damaged-romanticism/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/damaged-romanticism/#When:09:06:08Z A Mirror of Modern Emotion By Terrie Sultan, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Nick Flynn, Claudia Schmuckli. Published by: GILES in association with Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston (ISBN: 978-1-904832-51-5) Features works by Richard Billingham (England), Berlinde de Bruyckere (Belgium), Edward Burtynsky (Canada), Sophie Calle (France), Petah Coyne (United States), Angelo Filomeno (Italy/United States), Jesper Just (Denmark/United States), Mary McCleary (United States), Florian Maier-Aichen (Germany/United States), Wangechi Mutu (Kenya/United States), Julia Oschatz (Germany), Anneè Olofsson (Sweden/United States), David Schnell (Germany), and Ryan Taber/Cheyenne Weaver (United States) Publication accompanies a major exhibition which opened at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston in September 2008, and travelling to Grey Art Gallery, New York University and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, in 2009 Includes a new work of fiction by Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004) Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion features 15 internationally recognized contemporary artists whose work, in painting, sculpture, installations, and photography based media, embodies an essentially idealistic outlook formed of traditional "romanticism", but tempered by a strong sense of reality and stubborn optimism in the face of daily adversity and heartbreaking disappointment. Belonging neither to a style nor a traditional “school”, the artists and works of art featured in this new volume capture the existential dilemma of the human condition. In her opening essay Terrie Sultan offers an overview of the concept behind the exhibition, David Pagel considers the historical and contextual aspects of the subject, and Colin Gardner surveys similar elements in film. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Photography 2008-09-01T09:06:08+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/revolution/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/revolution/#When:13:07:29Z The Atlantic World Reborn By Edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois and Richard Rabinowitz. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-94-2) “Timely and provocative” Jason Nguyen, Enfilade “Revolution! The Atlantic Word Reborn is a book that adds further nuances, documentary evidence, and perspectives to a period we think we know well” Temi Odumosu, The Image of Black Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn is a fascinating illustrated volume which brings together three globally influential revolutions—in America, France, and Haiti—to explore the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars 52 years later. While most histories of these revolutions have been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, Revolution! draws on an international cross-section of experts to present the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society. The volume accompanies the exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012, and features works from the New-York Historical Society, Musée National du Château de Versailles et de Trianon, The British Museum, London, the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Library of Congress and other international lenders Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2011-11-01T13:07:29+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/eating-with-uncle-sam/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/eating-with-uncle-sam/#When:13:03:33Z Recipes and Historical Bites from the National Archives By Edited by Patty Reinert Mason; with a message from the Archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero, and an Introduction by Chef José Andrés. Published by: GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-907804-00-7) “History buffs will devour this cookbook filled with recipes from presidential kitchens.” Best Ideas for Christmas, Woman’s Day “The book ranges well beyond Thanksgiving and the White House, offering a peek inside our country’s history. It would make a thoughtful hostess gift or a source for trivia topics.” Joe Gray, Chicago Tribune “These recipes, from Hoover’s sour cream cookies to President Bill Clinton’s roasted rack of lamb with pumpkin thyme crust, capture a vivid time and a place in American history.” Addie Broyles, The Austin American-Statesman “A delicious collection of tidbits, trivia, and recipes from records of the U.S. government.” Today’s Diet and Nutrition President John F. Kennedy’s favourite fish chowder and First Lady Michelle Obama’s turkey lasagna are just a couple of the dishes chosen from the National Archives of the United States which feature in this fascinating and entertaining book of 150 presidential, celebrity and government administration recipes from the United States National Archives. This unique collection includes historical and modern-day dishes from U.S. school lunch programmes, government-sponsored radio shows, and war-time recipes meant to conserve wheat, sugar and meat. Inspired by the exhibition What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet at the National Archives Experience in Washington, D.C., this highly illustrated recipe volume also provides historical tidbits from the presidential files, including the transcript of President George H.W. Bush’s speech in which he expressed his hatred of broccoli, and a description of the hotdog parties hosted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Features a 2-page Introduction by the celebrity chef and food author José Andrés Accompanies the exhibition What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam? The Government’s Effect on the American Diet, showing at the National Archives, Washington D.C., June 10, 2011 until January 3, 2012 History & General Interest 2011-10-01T13:03:33+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-medieval-world/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-medieval-world/#When:10:05:34Z The Walters Art Museum By Martina Bagnoli and Kathryn B. Gerry. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-96-6) “Bursting with large, high-quality color photos, it is so satisfying to hold and peruse that even this reviewer’s incurably digital ten-year-old picked it up for a good half-hour browse” Pamela A. Patton, The Medieval Review “A finely illustrated general guide written in a narrative style giving just enough context for the reader to understand and appreciate the works of art before him. For the more knowledgeable reader, an annotated checklist gives full entries for each item (including provenance) and bibliographic listings for futher study.” Eleanor Robbins, Cassone The Medieval World: The Walters Art Museum presents some of the most important aspects of medieval art, through the examination of nearly 150 stunning objects from the Walters Art Museum, one of the richest collections of medieval art in the United States. It features superb examples of sculpture and carvings, metal and enamel work, stained glass, jewellery and illuminated manuscripts, ranging in date from the Romanesque and early Byzantine period to the late Gothic and early Renaissance period. Divided into subjects such as the classical tradition and artistic process in the Middle Ages, the church as a heavenly space, saints, relics and devotion, and earthly possessions, each chapter is generously illustrated with artworks, special feature boxes, and details, which provide a fuller understanding of both the formal qualities and social context of medieval art. A wonderfully written and illustrated introduction to the subject of medieval art and society, The Medieval World also features an extensive checklist, bibliography and index Art & Decorative Arts, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-09-02T10:05:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-great-american-hall-of-wonders/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-great-american-hall-of-wonders/#When:11:39:16Z Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century By Claire Perry. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-97-3) “An interesting and informative account of the American ingenuity and innovation that fired the 19th century development of the country.” Michael Blackman, World Patent Information “The book is richly illustrated with high-quality images on every page, and Perry’s essays address the broader issues of a young nation.” Marc Vincent, Cleveland.com The Great American Hall of Wonders is a vividly illustrated survey of the American vision that energized all aspects of 19th-century society, from the painting of landscapes and scenes of everyday life, to the planning of scientific expeditions and the development of new mechanical devices. Featuring rarely seen prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models, and engineering diagrams, it focuses on six iconic objects that inspired the American imagination: the buffalo, the giant sequoia, and Niagara Falls (symbolizing vast natural bounty), and the gun, the railroad, and the clock (representing all things mechanical and the purposeful use of time). Each of these served as cultural lightning rods, sparking creativity across a wide swathe of American society. Visions of buffalo herds, railroad trestles, big trees, and Colt rifles engaged not only artists, scientists, and inventors, but also poets, educators, farmers, chaplains, and members of Congress. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2011-09-01T11:39:16+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-the-civil-war/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-the-civil-war/#When:09:11:45Z By By the National Archives Experience’s “Discovering the Civil War” Exhibition Team; with a message from David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; foreword by Ken Burns . Published by: GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives (ISBN: 978-1-904832-91-1) “Avoids predictable blow-by-blow accounts of battles.” “A tantalizing glimpse into daily operations at the nation’s foremost repository” Christine M. Kreiser, American History “A beautifully presented, thorough grounding in the history of the war” Michael Burland, The American “Photographs of astonishing detail, reproductions of handwritten records, and personal tales bring one of the most important eras of American history to rich, fascinating life” Publishers Weekly “A stunning work in design and delivery that all public and university libraries and Civil War historians will want to have” Randall M. Miller, Library Journal Reviews Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the American Civil War, this generously illustrated book peels back years of accumulated analysis, interpretation, and opinion to reveal the human face of history. Discovering the Civil War focuses on specific records to build into fascinating stories. It features over 400 letters, diaries, photographs, maps, petitions, receipts, patents, amendments, and proclamations from the unparalleled holdings of the National Archives, taking a fresh look at the war through little-known stories, seldom-seen documents, and unusual perspectives. Includes a foreword by Ken Burns, whose award-winning PBS series The Civil War has just been repeated Accompanies a major travelling exhibition now showing at the Henry Ford Museum Dearborn, MI, May 21 - September 5, 2011; Houston Museum of Natural Science, TX, Fall 2011 through Winter 2012; Durham Museum, Omaha, NE, Fall 2013 History & General Interest 2011-02-01T09:11:45+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/records-of-our-national-life/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/records-of-our-national-life/#When:12:06:41Z American History at The National Archives By Essays by Michael Beschloss, Tom Brokaw, Ken Burns, John Carlin, David McCullough, Cokie Roberts, Allen Weinstein, Tom Wheeler, and Don W. Wilson. With a foreword by Adrienne Thomas, Acting Archivist of the United States . Published by: GILES in association with The Foundation for the National Archives (ISBN: 978-1-904832-71-3 ) “American history enthusiasts will relish the chance to see culturally evocative documents…this design succeeds admirably in visually showcasing the defining documents of American history” Publisher’s Weekly “This is a great book for all public libraries and all American history buffs” Bryan Craig, MLS, Library Journal “Whets the appetite for the millions of records stored in the archives” Maine Antique Digest “Recommended.” Choice Published in honour of the National Archives’ 75th anniversary, this highly illustrated volume takes the reader on a journey through American history, offering a close-up examination of some of the billions of documents, photographs, maps, and films in the holdings of the National Archives. All facets of the American story emerge here, from the noble to the ignoble, the monumental to the mundane. The overriding themes of the nation’s history are covered—territorial exploration and expansion, immigration and migration, political life, the rights of women and minorities, and the growth of industry and technology. Featuring more than 800 illustrations, with succinct captions, and essays by some of America’s leading journalists, political commentators and broadcasters, Records of Our National Life, provides readers with a glimpse into the extensive holdings waiting to be discovered at the National Archives. It also features a highly illustrated timeline of American history from the earliest days of nationhood, right up to the present History & General Interest 2010-04-01T12:06:41+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/an-uneasy-communion/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/an-uneasy-communion/#When:11:04:48Z Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain By Edited by Vivian B. Mann. Essays by Marcus B. Burke, Carmen Lacarra Ducay, Thomas F. Glick and Vivian B. Mann. Published by: GILES in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-70-6) “This volume, which is handsomely illustrated with many detailed illustrations and containing an extensive bibliography, is well worth a place in one’s library” Richard Dellamora, Religion and the Arts “One of the most interesting publications in recent times on the presence of Jews in Medieval Spain” Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez, Goya. Revista de Arte “While much has been published on Spanish altarpieces, very little has been written in English on the role of Jewish artists in the creation of altarpieces specifically, and on Jewish/Christian relationships in medieval Spain more generally… this exhibition catalog fills in this gap in scholarship from both an art historical and strictly historical perspective.” “Recommended for all libraries.” Amy Balmer, ARLIS Published in conjunction with the exhibition Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain, this volume provides a fascinating study of the iconography of altarpieces and the artistic collaboration between Jews and Christians. In the multi-cultural society of late medieval Spain, Jewish and Christian artists worked together to produce retablos (large multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew religious manuscripts. The authors of this highly illustrated volume explore the methods of imagery, workshop locations and shop styles, and the relationship between Christians and Jews at this time, including their portrayal of one another through dress and appearance. The essays featured in this volume take us on a journey from the general to the particular, and include a study of Jewish communities within Spanish society of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by Thomas F. Glick, a survey of the painting of the period by Carmen Lacarra Ducay, an examination of specific artworks that address the issue of Jewish–Christian relationships by Vivian B. Mann, and a historiography of scholarship on Jewish involvement in the creation of Spanish medieval art by Marcus B. Burke. It features a glossary and a selected bibliography Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2010-04-01T11:04:48+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/perspectives-on-medieval-art/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/perspectives-on-medieval-art/#When:10:52:49Z Learning through Looking By Edited by Ena G. Heller and Patricia C. Pongracz. Contributions by Thomas Cahill, Peter Steinfels, Kathryn Kueny, C Griffith Mann and Nancy Wu. Published by: GILES in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-69-0) “This is a wonderful book for students” Sacramento Book Review Based on the proceedings of the symposium, Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today, held at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking examines medieval art from a number of different viewpoints to reveal how the art of the Middle Ages provides a unique insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and culture, as well as society’s longing for ecclesiastical drama, the desires of patrons, the wider social framework and distinct regional aesthetics. Contributions from leading theologians and historians, including Thomas Cahill, Margot Fassler and Robin Jensen, variously study life and art in the Middle Ages, why the Medieval period matters today and how Medieval art speaks to a 21st-century audience. Scholars from different disciplines consider individual works of art simultaneously and examine the whole subject of teaching medieval art from museum to divinity school, to the university and college classroom. History & General Interest 2010-02-04T10:52:49+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/scripture-for-the-eyes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/scripture-for-the-eyes/#When:13:04:13Z Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century By Edited by James Clifton and Walter S. Melion; essay by Walter S. Melion and contributions by James Clifton, Walter S. Melion, Merel Groentjes, Todd Martin Richardson, Jamie Smith, and Wendy Thompson; Foreword by Ena G. Heller, Director of MOBIA. Published by: GILES in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-66-9 ) “Scripture for the Eyes serves both its principal purposes, as it instructs and delights simultaneously” Larry Silver, The Art Book “An important contribution to the study of Netherlandish Bible illustration” Peter van der Coelen, Print Quarterly “Aimed at upper level undergraduates or graduate students, reasonably priced, and expertly produced, this exhbition catalogue makes an excellent addition to the academic research library” Kasia Leousis, Art Libraries Society of North America “Will make us use our eyes differently and encourage us to see deeper than we did before. It will certainly repay several readings” Jay Turner, Vidimus Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in the Sixteenth Century Low Countries opens up our understanding of the design, production and market for Biblical prints and illustrated Bible images in 16th century Flanders, and explores the central role they played in one of the most dramatic artistic and religious transformations in European history. Prints are often seen as merely following artistic developments in the more prestigious medium of painting and, in turn, the visual arts are seen as mirroring changes in society, but this groundbreaking book challenges these views. Featuring approximately 130 engravings, woodcuts, and illustrated Bibles and books by Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Philips Galle, Hendrick Goltzius, Hieronymus Wierix and others, it reveals that biblical prints were a dynamic force both in the transformation of Northern European art between Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn, and in the intensified attention to Scripture in the religious turmoil of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2009-09-01T13:04:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/#When:10:29:32Z The Walters Art Museum By Volume Editor: Matthias Seidel. With contributions by Regine Schulz, Betsy Bryan and Christianne Henry. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-904832-57-7) “There are some exquisite, unique and important pieces included in these pages and the book is the next best thing to actually visiting the collection.  It brings the museum’s wonderful collection to a world-wide audience” Ancient Egypt Magazine This volume is the latest in a growing list of beautifully illustrated titles about some of the most significant and popular subjects in art history and archaeology published in association with the Walters Art Museum. It presents 79 objects from the museum’s internationally renowned collection of ancient Egyptian art, ranging in date from the early dynastic to the Roman period. An introductory overview of Egyptian art is followed by the main presentation of artworks, which are divided into five chronological sections, reflecting the broader divisions of Egyptian political history: the early dynastic period and Old Kingdom; the Middle Kingdom; the New Kingdom; the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period and the Ptolemaic and Roman Period. Each section is prefaced by an introduction to the key political, artistic and wider cultural developments of that period. Each artwork is accompanied by an extended entry that places it within the context of ancient Egyptian art and discusses key stylistic and decorative features, as well as technical information Art & Decorative Arts, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-06-02T10:29:32+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/#When:08:31:47Z The John Bourne Collection By Dorie Reents-Budet. Contributions by Julie Lauffenburger, Jessica Arista, Glenn Gates, and Marc Zender. With an introduction by John Bourne. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-907804-05-2) Presents works from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of ancient Mesoamerican, Central American, and Andean South American art, with a checklist of the full collection. Includes a major chapter on conservation and authentication of pre-Columbian art Accompanies the exhibition Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift which is on show at the Walters Art Museum, February 12 - May 20, 2012. This stunning new volume presents full-colour plates, details, groupings and comparative images of approximately 147 Pre-Columbian works (spanning 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1530) from the collection assembled by John G. Bourne in the 1950s and 1960s. It features fine examples of painted earthenware vessels and figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery and vessels from Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean America covering a host of civilizations, including Teotihuacán, Olmec, Maya, Andean, Aztec and Mixtec. In addition to John Bourne’s fascinating account of his first expedition to Chiapas in 1945 and 1946, which started his passion for collecting, there is an extensive essay on authentication, a significant part of the study of pre-Columbian art. Each of the three geographical sections of the main catalogue opens with an introductory text on the art, culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed by discursive entries accompanying each work. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2012-03-01T08:31:47+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/master-paintings-from-the-phillips-collection/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/master-paintings-from-the-phillips-collection/#When:10:09:08Z By Eliza E. Rathbone, Susan Behrends Frank and Robert Hughes. Published by: GILES in association with The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-92-8) “Like The Phillips Collection itself, the paintings chosen for this book, as varied as they are, possess an ineffable unity that casual flippers, interested hobbyists, as well as art connoisseurs can enjoy.” Miriam Laufer, DC Spotlight Features an essay by internationally acclaimed art critic and writer, Robert Hughes, author of The Shock of The New (1980, 1991), and Goya (2004) Highlights include Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81), the most famous painting in The Phillips Collection. The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips (1886–1966), a Washington D.C. collector who played a vital role in introducing America to contemporary art. Unusually for his time, Phillips saw American artists as fully equal to their European counterparts, often hanging their works side by side. Moreover, Phillips chose to buy and exhibit works according to stylistic continuities and affinities, reflecting the visual connections between various artistic expressions, past and present. Master Paintings from The Phillips Collection offers a unique insight into the creation of one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern art. Featuring works by 85 artists, including major European artists Degas, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, and Picasso, El Greco who was “discovered” by Phillips, and celebrated American artists championed by Phillips: Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and Augustus Vincent Tack, this volume aims to re-create what Duncan Phillips considered the “life-enhancing” experience of seeing new or challenging forms of artistic expression in an intimate setting Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2012-01-02T10:09:08+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/eugene-savage/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/eugene-savage/#When:11:07:50Z The Seminole Paintings By Elizabeth Heuer. Published by: GILES in association with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (ISBN: 978-1-904832-99-7) Accompanies the first show devoted to the artist’s work since a memorial exhibition held at the National Academy of Design in 1978, which runs at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Features 40 paintings from the Cummer Museum of Art’s important recent acquisition of more than 100 of the Seminole works for its permanent collection Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings is a colourful introduction to an American artist best known today as a muralist with the Works Progress Administration. Eugene Savage (1883-1978) first visited the Florida Everglades in the 1930’s, became enchanted with the local Seminole Indian tribe and spent the next 20 years depicting them. Savages’s paintings, drawings, and watercolours not only document the Seminoles, they are also important works of art in their own right. Each presents Seminole traditions, threatened by encroachment on the Everglades, in an artistic manner reminiscent of Surrealist dreamscapes and Art Deco sensibilities. Although Savage’s series is perhaps the most extensive painted record of the Florida Seminoles, art historians have largely overlooked these works in favour of studies of the natives of the American Plains or Southwest. This new volume provides an opportunity to re-assess the artist’s career, and offers new insights into the representation of the Seminoles in American art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-10-01T11:07:50+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-medieval-world/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-medieval-world/#When:10:05:34Z The Walters Art Museum By Martina Bagnoli and Kathryn B. Gerry. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-96-6) “Bursting with large, high-quality color photos, it is so satisfying to hold and peruse that even this reviewer’s incurably digital ten-year-old picked it up for a good half-hour browse” Pamela A. Patton, The Medieval Review “A finely illustrated general guide written in a narrative style giving just enough context for the reader to understand and appreciate the works of art before him. For the more knowledgeable reader, an annotated checklist gives full entries for each item (including provenance) and bibliographic listings for futher study.” Eleanor Robbins, Cassone The Medieval World: The Walters Art Museum presents some of the most important aspects of medieval art, through the examination of nearly 150 stunning objects from the Walters Art Museum, one of the richest collections of medieval art in the United States. It features superb examples of sculpture and carvings, metal and enamel work, stained glass, jewellery and illuminated manuscripts, ranging in date from the Romanesque and early Byzantine period to the late Gothic and early Renaissance period. Divided into subjects such as the classical tradition and artistic process in the Middle Ages, the church as a heavenly space, saints, relics and devotion, and earthly possessions, each chapter is generously illustrated with artworks, special feature boxes, and details, which provide a fuller understanding of both the formal qualities and social context of medieval art. A wonderfully written and illustrated introduction to the subject of medieval art and society, The Medieval World also features an extensive checklist, bibliography and index Art & Decorative Arts, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-09-02T10:05:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/early-meissen-porcelain/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/early-meissen-porcelain/#When:10:16:27Z The Wark Collection from The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens By Ulrich Pietsch . Published by: GILES in association with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (ISBN: 978-1-904832-79-9 ) “This new volume, luxuriously produced and beautifully illustrated incorporates much new research.”  “The Wark Collection and its new catalogue are a fitting testimony to the attraction that the factory still exerts on collectors and scholars alike.” Aileen Dawson, The Art Newspaper Telling the story of Meissen from its establishment by Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in 1710, and the early experiments of the alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger in creating the recipe for white hard-paste porcelain, this volume represents the most recent and significant scholarship on the Collection. Scholar Ulrich Pietsch recounts both the fascinating history of the foundation of the Meissen factory, and the surprising story of Wark’s collection and how it survived the war in a Hamburg cellar before being shipped to America. The volume presents nearly 700 pieces of Meissen porcelain dating from the first half of the 18th century. It features examples by the leading sculptors, painters and patrons of the time including an experimental red urn from 1715 by Johann Friedrich Böttger, and a set of Augustus Rex Vases, decorated by Johann Gregor Höroldt, and dating from about 1728. Also known as the Darmstädter Vases, these represent the only known complete set of miniature vases that form a garniture or mantle decoration. Each piece is beautifully photographed, and is accompanied by a catalogue entry including, where relevant, comparable objects and details and illustrations of the artists’ mark. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-05-01T10:16:27+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/birmingham-museum-of-art/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/birmingham-museum-of-art/#When:11:03:25Z Guide to the Collection By Foreword by Gail Andrews, director of Birmingham Museum of Art. Catalogue essays by the curators of Birmingham Museum of Art. Published by: GILES in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (ISBN: 978-1-904832-77-5) A beautifully illustrated new handbook highlighting over 250 artworks from the Museum’s collections of Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American art Introduces the reader to the Museum, and is a useful guide, an enticement to view more, and a richly illustrated souvenir to this encyclopedic collection. Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, has one of the finest collections in the Southeastern United States, with more than 24,000 objects representing a rich panorama of cultures. This new guide to the collection showcases examples of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts, as well as textiles, photographs, drawings, and architecture, with pieces chosen for their importance in the development of the collection over the last sixty years. Of particular note are the Museum’s collections of Asian art with works from Japan, China, Korea, and India, and the finest holding of Vietnamese ceramics in the United States. Highlights include a rare example of a Ming dynasty temple wall. A chapter on the arts of Africa and the Americas features stunning objects from Meso-America, Central America, and the Northern Andes, as well as ancient Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. This collection features gold jewelry, volcanic stone figure sculpture, ceremonial gold vessels and ceramics from the Moche, Chimu, Chancay, and Vicus cultures, Incan masks, and Peruvian textiles. The remarkable collection of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century European decorative arts includes superior examples of English ceramics and French furniture and the Museum’s world-renowned collection of Wedgwood, which is the largest outside England. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-02-01T11:03:25+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/sacred-and-profane/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/sacred-and-profane/#When:10:53:10Z Treasures of Ancient Egypt from the Myers Collection, Eton College and University of Birmingham By Martin Bommas, Eurydice Georganteli, Maria Michela Luiselli and Michael Sharp. Published by: GILES in association with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (ISBN: 978-1-904832-80-5) “Ideal as a souvenir of the exhibition, but especially useful for the many people who might not be able to visit Birmingham” Ancient Egypt Magazine Published on the opening of a dazzling exhibition at the Barber Institute, this volume displays a treasure trove of ancient Egyptian artifacts from the rarely-seen Myers Collection. Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt from the Myers Collection highlights over 80 objects, tracing two and a half millennia of life and death in ancient Egypt. The Myers Collection of Egyptian Art at Eton College is widely-regarded as one of the most important, collections of small Egyptian artefacts in the world, yet the cache of about 3,000 statuettes of mortals and gods, mummy masks, jewellery and cosmetics, pottery, papyri and children’s toys has been until now under-researched and unseen. This new volume contributes significantly to the wider scholarship and understanding of this stunning private collection in particular and Egyptian art in general. Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt is showing at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 18 June, 2010–18 January, 2012 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-09-09T10:53:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/american-landscapes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/american-landscapes/#When:10:14:25Z Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum By Alicia G. Longwell. Published by: GILES in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-74-4) Celebrates 42 landscape paintings from the Parrish Art Museum’s extensive permanent collection of American art Includes examples from the 19th century Hudson River School through to contemporary painters such as Alex Katz, April Gornik and Jane Wilson This vibrant book displays 42 colour plates ranging from majestic views to intimate glimpses, all of which contribute to what we have come to think of as a distinctly American vision. American Landscapes contains works by some of the most important figures in the history of American art, including the Hudson River School’s Thomas Doughty and Asher B. Durand; European-influenced artists Theodore Robinson, William Lamb Picknell, and William Stanley Haseltine; and artists associated with major American artist colonies such as John Henry Twachtman, John Sloan, and Ernest Lawson. In addition, this volume features important highlights of the museum’s unique collection of paintings by artists who lived and worked on Eastern Long Island, including William Merritt Chase, Samuel Colman, Irving Wiles and Frederick Childe Hassam, as well as contemporary painters Fairfield Porter, Jane Freilicher, and Alex Katz. The exhibition will be at Mobile Museum of Art, October 15, 2010 to January 5, 2011; Westmoreland Museum of American Art (in Greensburg, PA), January 30, 2011-April 24, 2011. Other venues to be confirmed. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-09-02T10:14:25+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/first-impressions/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/first-impressions/#When:10:27:43Z Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints By Alicia G. Longwell. Published by: GILES in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-75-1) “It’s one of those books you spend time with. The book is filled with gorgeous images, printed on paper that does justice to the images, and every page is beautiful and informative.” Rebecca Ronstadt, Publisher, Journal of the Print World “This volume ... is a lesson in connoisseurship.” “A pleasant armchair exhibition and a good introduction to the medium.” Maine Antique Digest Nominated for a prestigious award by the American Historic Print Collectors Society First Impressions features over 70 works by some of the leading “painter-etchers” of the 1880s including Thomas Moran and Mary Nimmo Moran, William Merritt Chase, Henry Farrer, Stephen Parrish, James D. and George H. Smillie, John Henry Twachtman, and Thomas Waterman Wood. These artists sought to imbue the traditionally rigid line of engraving with the freedom and spontaneity they expressed in their painting. The book includes some of the etching revival’s most beautiful images, notably the atmospheric landscapes of Long Island’s East End. Many of the prints in the Parrish’s collection are bon à tirer, that is, the first impression that was fully acceptable to the artist and the printer. The quality of these works evokes the moment of complete artistic collaboration shared by artist and printer, when the ‘master’ print was pulled from the press. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-09-01T10:27:43+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/rackstraw-downes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/rackstraw-downes/#When:12:55:13Z Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 By Klaus Ottmann. Published by: GILES in association with Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-73-7 ) “This excellent book ... will surely help Downes find a receptive audience who will marvel at his balance of realism and abstraction, timelessness and history, and will embrace the work of a plein-air master of our time”. Maine Antique Digest “Through essays, an interview, and a host of full-page images, Downes emerges as an astute observer, quietly and powerfully documenting the surrounding reality of modern life that goes unnoticed by most.” Alyssa Payley, ARTINFO.com “This catalog is recommended for libraries focusing on American or modern art.” Doug Litts, ARLIS (Art Libraries Society of North America) Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 is an important overview of the work and methods of this British-born ‘realist’ panoramic painter (b. 1939) who was given the MacArthur Fellowship genius award in 2009. Though primarily based in New York City, Downes has travelled widely and has created a significant number of landscape paintings on site including the harbour of Portland, Maine, and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas. Downes’s panoramic paintings, which he developed by studying 17th-century Dutch panoramic landscape painting possess a unique balance between realism and abstraction, timelessness and history. Painted from observation, they are not "snapshots" of a scene recreated in the studio; rather, they are chronicles of the human experience— records of social history as it evolves. The book also features a wide-ranging interview between the artist and Terrie Sultan, director of Parrish Art Museum Publication accompanies an exhibition at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, June 20 – August 8, 2010; Portland Museum of Art, Maine, December 16, 2010 - March 20, 2011; Weatherspoon Art Museum of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, May 28, 2011 - August 21, 2011 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-06-03T12:55:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/stories-in-sterling/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/stories-in-sterling/#When:10:04:19Z Four Centuries of Silver in New York By Margaret K. Hofer with Debra Schmidt Bach. Essays by Kenneth L. Ames, David L. Barquist and Margaret K. Hofer. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-65-2) Winner of an Honorable Mention in the AAMC award for Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection 2011 “a model of useful scholarship” Stephen May, Antiques and the Arts “It belongs on the shelf of any student of American silver or material culture” Dean Six, Silver Magazine “To see one of the country’s most historically compelling silver collections without leaving home, read Stories in Sterling, the first comprehensive guide to the silver collected by the New-York Historical Society” Doris Athineos, Traditional Home Accompanies a major exhibition at the New-York Historical Society from May 4 to September 2, 2012 Stories in Sterling is the first comprehensive survey of the New-York Historical Society’s superb collection of early American silver, one of the finest in the United States. It features the full range of silver works, from masterpieces like the 1772 salver by New York City silversmith Lewis Fueter, to the simpler, but no less significant teapot made for the Schuyler family by the Albany silversmith Kiliaen Van Rensselaer in 1695 – one of the earliest teapots made in New York. Seven chapters consider silver from a range of perspectives: its reflection of the multiethnic character of colonial New York; the impact of industrialization on its manufacture and consumption; its role in honouring public achievement or marking rites of passage; and, finally, its ability to express its owners’ social standing. With a wealth of related objects and original documents, Stories in Sterling is a vital reference tool for for scholars, collectors and enthusiasts of American silver and culture. It features extensive and superbly illustrated entries with full dimensions, makers’ marks and weights in troy ounces, and an appendix and checklist Accompanies a major exhibition showing at the New-York Historical Society from May 4 to September 2, 2012. "It will surely become an essential volume in any library not only on American silver, but on social history and material culture as well" Gerald W.R. Ward, Senior Consulting Curator and Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture Emeritus, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Stories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New York is an engrossing slice of history as told through one of the most treasured metals. Anyone with a love of silver, an admiration for creativity or an interest in New York’s great history will want to own this beautiful book" Donald Fennimore, Curator Emeritus, Winterthur Museum "Stories in Sterling will undoubtedly become one of the standard reference books on American silver and an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the rich social and cultural history of New York and its inhabitants" Beth Carver Wees, Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-05-01T10:04:19+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/exploring-art-of-the-ancient-americas/#When:08:31:47Z The John Bourne Collection By Dorie Reents-Budet. Contributions by Julie Lauffenburger, Jessica Arista, Glenn Gates, and Marc Zender. With an introduction by John Bourne. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-907804-05-2) Presents works from the internationally renowned Bourne Collection of ancient Mesoamerican, Central American, and Andean South American art, with a checklist of the full collection. Includes a major chapter on conservation and authentication of pre-Columbian art Accompanies the exhibition Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift which is on show at the Walters Art Museum, February 12 - May 20, 2012. This stunning new volume presents full-colour plates, details, groupings and comparative images of approximately 147 Pre-Columbian works (spanning 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1530) from the collection assembled by John G. Bourne in the 1950s and 1960s. It features fine examples of painted earthenware vessels and figures, carved basalt effigies, jewellery and vessels from Mesoamerica, Central America and Andean America covering a host of civilizations, including Teotihuacán, Olmec, Maya, Andean, Aztec and Mixtec. In addition to John Bourne’s fascinating account of his first expedition to Chiapas in 1945 and 1946, which started his passion for collecting, there is an extensive essay on authentication, a significant part of the study of pre-Columbian art. Each of the three geographical sections of the main catalogue opens with an introductory text on the art, culture and ceremonial features of that region, followed by discursive entries accompanying each work. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2012-03-01T08:31:47+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/the-look-of-love/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/the-look-of-love/#When:10:20:59Z Eye Miniatures from the Skier Collection By Edited by Graham C. Boettcher. Essays by Graham C. Boettcher, Elle Shushan and Jo Manning. Published by: GILES in association with the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama (ISBN: 978-1-907804-01-4) “Cultivating a Love of ‘Lover’s Eyes’.” Eve M. Kahn, The New York Times “beautifully photographed…this book casts light on a small, neglected corner of sentimental jewellery that, in its personal nature, still has the power to move the reader two centuries on” Sophia Tobin, Jewellery History Today Accompanies the exhibition organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, February 7 - June 10, 2012, featuring nearly 100 jewels from the private collection of Dr and Mrs David A. Skier. This stunning volume explores the little-known subject of "lover’s eyes," hand-painted miniatures of single human eyes set in jewellery and given as tokens of affection or remembrance. In 1785, when the Prince of Wales secretly proposed to Mrs. Maria Fitzherbert with a miniature of his own eye, he inspired an aristocratic fad for exchanging eye portraits mounted in a wide variety of settings including brooches, rings, lockets and toothpick cases. Graham Boettcher discusses the history and function of lover’s eyes, as well as the language and symbolism of their jewelled settings; Elle Shushan examines their role in the broader context of Georgian and early Victorian portrait miniatures; and Jo Manning offers five fictional vignettes imagining the circumstances surrounding the creation of these extraordinary objects. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-02-01T10:20:59+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/monet-in-giverny/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/monet-in-giverny/#When:10:06:37Z Landscapes of Reflection By Edited by Benedict Leca, with contributions by Benedict Leca, Lynne D. Ambrosini, Andria Derstine, and Beth E. Wilson . Published by: GILES in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-907804-03-8) “written with such care and sophistication” Blake Gopnik, The Daily Beast Features 12 famous paintings from Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Dayton Art Institute, the Denver Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Accompanies an exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum, closing on Mother’s Day, May 13, 2012 Recommended by Outdoor Painting.com as the ideal companion to the new show Monet’s Garden opening at the New York Botanical Garden on May 19, 2012 This beautifully illustrated book takes a fresh look at some of the masterpieces Claude Monet painted between 1883 and 1926 in and around his garden near Paris. His depiction of iconic motifs such as the Japanese footbridge, water lilies, and wisterias are characterized by subtle colouring and expressive brushwork, making these paintings among the most innovative of late 19th and early 20th-century French art. Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection takes reflection in all of its meanings as the governing theme: as a literal motif as well as a metaphor for both Monet’s experimentation and a reflection of his own theories on art. Four illustrated essays explore the importance of Monet’s garden as a continuing source of inspiration, and examine his work in Giverny in the context of developments in painting and photography. A firsthand account of the garden, written in 1891 by French author and art critic Octave Mirbeau has been translated for this book by author Benedict Leca. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2012-02-01T10:06:37+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/making-american-taste/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/making-american-taste/#When:11:10:33Z Narrative Art for A New Democracy By Edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati. Contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Ella M. Foshay and Kimberly Orcutt. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-76-8) “An important contribution to nineteenth-century American art scholarship.” The Magazine Antiques “Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is the latest in a sequence of stellar publications that throw open new windows onto the holdings of the New-York Historical Society, making the artworks more accessible and launching them with current interpretive scholarship.” Katherine Manthorne, Professor of American Art, Graduate Center, City University of New York “Making American Taste“adds greatly to our understanding of how nineteenth-century paintings told stories, while documenting our own age’s interest in the complexity of those tales and the narrative process.” Marc Simpson, Associate Director of the Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College. “A readable catalog makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of this too-often ignored and undervalued class of painting and sculpture.” Bruce Cole, Wall Street Journal “Focusing on the remarkable holdings of the New-York Historical Society, this landmark publication is exquisitely illustrated with both recognized and underappreciated masterpieces….By discussing the artworks in their rich cultural context, these thought provoking texts enhance our understanding of each individual piece and the society that fostered their production.” Holly Pyne Connor, Ph.D., Curator of 19th-Century American Art, Newark Museum “This book does not confine itself to the high ground of acknowledged “masterpieces.”  Instead, it candidly surveys the uneven and uncertain terrain of art and art appreciation, while digging down to expose the tangled roots of taste formation in a disorderly new democracy that was still trying to figure out what should be “American” about American art.”  Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor, Indiana University “Making American Taste” dives into the core of narrative art—carrying the reader from the antebellum period to the end of the century—through the esteemed collections of the New-York Historical Society. Along the way, we encounter works of art we’ve long considered quaintly irrelevant and are reintroduced to the paintings and sculptures we thought we knew well.” Rebecca E. Lawton, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy is a landmark publication on American art from 1825–1870. A significant contribution to our understanding of taste and collecting in America during this period, it presents 55 paintings from 38 artists drawn from the New-York Historical Society’s newly restored, and superb collection of narrative art. American art at this time was dominated by powerful arguments about what constituted true art: should it be for the many, or the educated few, and should specifically American art forms and styles be favoured over more traditional, academic, European traditions. Making American Taste accompanies an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - August 19, 2012; travelling to Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 2013–January 12, 2014; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, February 13–May 19, 2014; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, October 11, 2014–January 4, 2015 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2011-11-02T11:10:33+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/revolution/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/revolution/#When:13:07:29Z The Atlantic World Reborn By Edited by Thomas Bender, Laurent Dubois and Richard Rabinowitz. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-94-2) “Timely and provocative” Jason Nguyen, Enfilade “Revolution! The Atlantic Word Reborn is a book that adds further nuances, documentary evidence, and perspectives to a period we think we know well” Temi Odumosu, The Image of Black Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn is a fascinating illustrated volume which brings together three globally influential revolutions—in America, France, and Haiti—to explore the enormous transformations in the world’s politics and culture between the 1763 triumph of the British Empire in the Seven Years War and the end of the Napoleonic Wars 52 years later. While most histories of these revolutions have been told exclusively as chapters within national histories, Revolution! draws on an international cross-section of experts to present the story of the 18th-century Atlantic revolutions as a part of wider, intertwined, global narrative. Vivid text and images provide a context for our understanding of these major social upheavals and their lasting influence on contemporary society. The volume accompanies the exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, November 11, 2011 - April 15, 2012, and features works from the New-York Historical Society, Musée National du Château de Versailles et de Trianon, The British Museum, London, the Yale Center for British Art, the Lewis Walpole Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Library of Congress and other international lenders Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2011-11-01T13:07:29+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/eugene-savage/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/eugene-savage/#When:11:07:50Z The Seminole Paintings By Elizabeth Heuer. Published by: GILES in association with the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens (ISBN: 978-1-904832-99-7) Accompanies the first show devoted to the artist’s work since a memorial exhibition held at the National Academy of Design in 1978, which runs at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012 Features 40 paintings from the Cummer Museum of Art’s important recent acquisition of more than 100 of the Seminole works for its permanent collection Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings is a colourful introduction to an American artist best known today as a muralist with the Works Progress Administration. Eugene Savage (1883-1978) first visited the Florida Everglades in the 1930’s, became enchanted with the local Seminole Indian tribe and spent the next 20 years depicting them. Savages’s paintings, drawings, and watercolours not only document the Seminoles, they are also important works of art in their own right. Each presents Seminole traditions, threatened by encroachment on the Everglades, in an artistic manner reminiscent of Surrealist dreamscapes and Art Deco sensibilities. Although Savage’s series is perhaps the most extensive painted record of the Florida Seminoles, art historians have largely overlooked these works in favour of studies of the natives of the American Plains or Southwest. This new volume provides an opportunity to re-assess the artist’s career, and offers new insights into the representation of the Seminoles in American art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2011-10-01T11:07:50+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/richard-bell/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/richard-bell/#When:11:50:06Z Uz vs. Them By Maura Reilly. With Richard Bell and Djon Mundine. Foreword by Eleanor Heartney. Published by: GILES in association with the American Federation of Arts (ISBN: 978-1-904832-95-9) “His first American show, at the Tufts University Art Gallery, presents an engaging overview of his two-decade career as an activist and provocateur.” Sebastian Smee, The Boston Globe Includes a major interview with the artist by Maura Reilly in which the formal and complex qualities of his work are discussed within the wider context of indigenous politics Richard Bell, one of Australia's most collectable leading contemporary artists, has established a significant reputation as a political commentator and an “enfant terrible” in Indigenous art over the past two decades. This stunningly illustrated catalogue features more than 26 colour plates of his provocative and often humorous works. With their bold use of images and text, they force viewers to face the troubling issue of racism in Australia. Bell’s inspiration is complex and multi-layered. He is an avid appropriator, borrowing from other artists, periods, and cultures, including Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, and Aboriginal painter Emily Kam Kngwarreye, among others. He works across a wide range of media, including painting, performance, and video, producing powerful messages that confront and unsettle: about Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians’ relationship to each other, about their country’s history and about art itself. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Richard Bell: Uz vs. Them: Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, September 14–November 20, 2011; University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky, February 12–May 6, 2012; Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, September 13–December 9, 2012; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana. March 1–May 5, 2013 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2011-09-01T11:50:06+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/the-great-american-hall-of-wonders/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/the-great-american-hall-of-wonders/#When:11:39:16Z Art, Science, and Invention in the Nineteenth Century By Claire Perry. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-97-3) “An interesting and informative account of the American ingenuity and innovation that fired the 19th century development of the country.” Michael Blackman, World Patent Information “The book is richly illustrated with high-quality images on every page, and Perry’s essays address the broader issues of a young nation.” Marc Vincent, Cleveland.com The Great American Hall of Wonders is a vividly illustrated survey of the American vision that energized all aspects of 19th-century society, from the painting of landscapes and scenes of everyday life, to the planning of scientific expeditions and the development of new mechanical devices. Featuring rarely seen prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models, and engineering diagrams, it focuses on six iconic objects that inspired the American imagination: the buffalo, the giant sequoia, and Niagara Falls (symbolizing vast natural bounty), and the gun, the railroad, and the clock (representing all things mechanical and the purposeful use of time). Each of these served as cultural lightning rods, sparking creativity across a wide swathe of American society. Visions of buffalo herds, railroad trestles, big trees, and Colt rifles engaged not only artists, scientists, and inventors, but also poets, educators, farmers, chaplains, and members of Congress. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2011-09-01T11:39:16+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/romare-bearden/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/romare-bearden/#When:10:44:54Z Southern Recollections By Edited by Carla M. Hanzal. Contributions by Carla M. Hanzal, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Jae Emerling, Lesley King-Hammond, and Mary Lee Corlett. Published by: GILES in association with the Mint Museum of Art (ISBN: 978-1-904832-98-0) Mary Lee Corlett’s essay on the jazzlike repetitions and variations in Bearden’s work is particularly strong.” David Yezzi, Wall Street Journal “Bright and accessible” Karol V. Menzie, AmericanStyle “Especially well done with excellent essays”.  Lennie Bennett, Tampa Bay Times “Carla M. Hanzal offers a focused and intriguing study of the artist’s important contributions to the practice of collage, an art form that continues to be expanded upon by emerging artists today….Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections offers a great resource for artists, curators and scholars by providing fresh interpretations of the artist’s life and work, and excellent, full-color reproductions.” Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro “The first of its kind to examine in depth how the South served as a source of inspiration throughout Bearden’s career.” artrepublic.com Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections presents 90 works from the full span of the artist’s career, drawing on the Mint Museum’s and other public and private collections of Bearden’s work. It is a significant development in the wider understanding of the numerous sources and inspiration behind much of Bearden’s art, focusing on a largely unstudied area of his work, his recollections and memories of his southern childhood. Bearden recorded the notions of ritual, and the celebration of a lost way of life, as families like his own dispersed across the urban centres of the north east. Colour plates from the accompanying exhibition are presented throughout four essays by leading Bearden scholars. These include Dr Leslie King-Hammond, who focuses on the feminist component in his art, as well as the role of complex iconographic features such as trains and birds, as possible metaphors for God in the machine and the means of deliverance to a new life. Accompanies the exhibition at the Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts from 2 September 2011 - 8 January 2012, travelling to the Tampa Museum of Art, 28 January - 6 May 2012, and Newark Museum 23 May - 19 August 2012 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2011-09-01T10:44:54+00:00