http://www.gilesltd.com/books en lj@gilesltd.com Copyright 2010 2010-02-04T10:52:52+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/rackstraw-downes-onsite-paintings-19722008/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/rackstraw-downes-onsite-paintings-19722008/#When:11:04:21Z Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Parrish Art Museum, 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. It features a fascinating interview with the artist which offers an insight into his creative process over the last 35 years.A comprehensive compendium of the artist’s growth and development Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Painting 1972–2008 features 25 works which track the progress of his themes and concepts over three decades. Beginning with Downes’s earliest landscape paintings, Dunham’s Farm Pond (1972) and The Dam at Fairfield (1974), this volume traces his career from the plein-air paintings done in Maine to his later signature painting of the vast panoramas of the West Texas landscape near his part-time home in Presidio, Texas, and the intricate urbanscapes of New York City. Downes’s panoramic paintings, developed by studying seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes, are painted onsite using a portable easel. Though based on careful study, his paintings are not truthful depictions in a photographic sense – in fact Downes neither uses photographs nor owns a camera. He takes creative liberties that a photorealist painter would not, and because the works are painted from observation over a period of several weeks or months, they are not “snapshots” of a scene recreated in the studio. Rather, as he states, they are about “trying to capture something uncapturable”. 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. The Author Klaus Ottmann is the Robert Lehman Curator, Parrish Art Museum, and an independent scholar. His most recent publications include Yves Klein: Works/Writings/Interview (2010) and Thought Through My Eyes: Writing About Art 1984–2004 (2005). RACKSTRAW DOWNES: ONSITE PAINTINGS 1972–2008 112 pages, 240 x 280mm (11 x 9½ in.), landscape 44 colour illustrations, hardback Text: Up to 11,000 words ISBN: 978 1 904832 73 7 (13 digit) ISBN: 1 904832 73 3 (10 digit) Price: US$39.95/UK£24.95 Publication date: June, 2010 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager, U.S. D Giles Limited P.O. Box 397 Wappingers Falls, N.Y. 12590 Tele: 845 298-7264 KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2010-01-26T11:04:21+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fairfield-porter-raw-the-creative-process-of-an-american-master/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fairfield-porter-raw-the-creative-process-of-an-american-master/#When:11:01:36Z Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Fairfield Porter: Raw–The Creative Process of an American Master is an accessible and highly illustrated survey of the key developments in the career of this major post-war American realist painter (1907–1975), whose studio was based in Long Island’s East End. In 1979 Porter’s widow donated to the Parrish Art Museum 250 of his works including paintings and works on paper, and many unfinished pieces, among which were unstretched paintings on canvas, paintings on boards, sketches and notebooks. Fairfield Porter: Raw features approximately 40 works drawn from this extensive holding, and presents, for the first time, paintings and accompanying sketches, drawings, and ephemera in their “raw” state. The juxtaposition between the finished and unfinished works illustrated in this volume, along with Klaus Ottmann’s illuminating essay, An Unfinished Quality: Fairfield Porter’s Creative Process, offer a rare insight into the working practice of a modern American master. Fairfield Porter: Raw both reveals and celebrates Porter’s artistic legacy and its continuing influence throughout the world. The volume includes facsimiles from one of the artist’s sketchbooks, and of a double-page spread from Frank O’Hara’s article Porter paints a picture from the January 1955 issue of ARTnews. The accompanying exhibition opens at the Parrish Art Museum on April 11, 2010 running through June 13, 2010, with additional tour venues to be confirmed. The Author Klaus Ottmann is the Robert Lehman Curator, Parrish Art Museum, and an independent scholar. His most recent publications include Yves Klein: Works/Writings/Interview (2010) and Thought Through My Eyes: Writing About Art 1984 - 2004 (2005). FAIRFIELD PORTER: RAW - THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF AN AMERICAN MASTER 96 pages, 250 x 210mm (8¼ x 10 in.), portrait 46 colour and 1 b&w illustrations, hardback Text: Up to 12,000 words ISBN: 978 1 904832 72 0 (13 digit) ISBN: 1 904832 72 5 (10 digit) Price: US$39.95/UK£24.95 Publication date: June, 2010 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager, U.S. D Giles Limited P.O. Box 397 Wappingers Falls, N.Y. 12590 Tele: 845 298-7264 KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2010-01-26T11:01:36+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fields-of-vision-evocative-images-of-a-vanished-world1/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/fields-of-vision-evocative-images-of-a-vanished-world1/#When:11:17:41Z Following the publication in September 2008 of the first three titles featuring the Library of Congress’ remarkable collection of Farm Security Administration (FSA) and Office of War Information (OWI) photographs, the series continues with works by John Vachon, Esther Bubley and Jack Delano Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each volume in the Fields of Vision series focuses on a single FSA/OWI photographer whose vision helped shape the collective identity of America and influenced the way we look at photographs in the 21st century. Transporting us to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that was later to blossom on the pages of Look and Life magazines. For many Americans of the pre-television age, the diversity and complexity of their country was defined by the lenses of these men and women. Each of the volumes in the Fields of Vision series presents 50 striking images by an individual FSA/OWI photographer, and an introduction to their work and life by a leading contemporary author or writer. The Authors: Amy Pastan is an independent editor and book packager, formerly a staff editor at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and acquisitions editor at the Smithsonian Institution Press. W. Ralph Eubanks is director of publishing at The Library of Congress. Kurt Andersen is a novelist and journalist and is author of the novels Heyday and Turn of the Century. Melissa Fay Greene is an author and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Esmeralda Santiago grew up in Puerto Rico and New York. She is author of América's Dream and is co-editor of Las Christmas: Favorite Latino Authors Share Their Holiday Memories FIELDS OF VISION For April 2010 (UK and USA): The Photographs of Jack Delano, The Library of Congress Introduction by Esmeralda Santiago ISBN 978-1-904832-46-1 (13 digit); ISBN 1-904832-46-6 (10 digit) The Photographs of John Vachon, The Library of Congress Introduction by Kurt Andersen ISBN 978-1-904832-47-8 (13 digit); ISBN 1-904832-47-4 (10 digit) The Photographs of Esther Bubley, The Library of Congress Introduction by Melissa Fay Greene ISBN 978-1-904832-48-5 (13 digit); ISBN 1-904832-48-2 (10 digit) Already published: The Photographs of Russell Lee, The Library of Congress Introduction by Nicholas Lemann ISBN 978-1-904832-39-3 (13 digit) ISBN 1-904832-39-3 (10 digit) The Photographs of Ben Shahn, The Library of Congress Introduction by Timothy Egan ISBN 978-1-904832-40-9 (13 digit) ISBN 1-904832-40-7 (10 digit) The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott, The Library of Congress Introduction by Francine Prose ISBN 978-1-904832-41-6 (13 digit) ISBN 1-904832-41-5 (10 digit) Each volume: 64 pages, 180 x 180 mm (7 ⅛ x 7 ⅛ in.) 55 colour illustrations, paperback Text: Up to 10,000 words Price: US$12.95/UK£6.95 Publication date: April 2010 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 4SD, UK T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 Enquiries: sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager, U.S. D Giles Limited P.O. Box 397 Wappingers Falls, N.Y. 12590 Tele: 845 298-7264 KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2009-11-03T11:17:41+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/an-extraordinary-moment-of-artistic-collaboration/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/an-extraordinary-moment-of-artistic-collaboration/#When:11:41:55Z Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain is a beautifully illustrated volume which provides a fascinating study of the production of altarpieces in late medieval Spain and the artistic overlap between the Jewish and Christian communities that this industry spawnedReligious art was a significant force in the economy of Aragon (the Kingdoms of Aragon and Valencia, and the region of Catalonia) during the 14th and 15th centuries, and this book and the accompanying exhibition demonstrate the interaction between Jews and Christians who worked either independently or together to produce art for both communities. In the multi-cultural society of late medieval Spain, Jewish and Christian artists collaborated to produce retablos (large multi-panelled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew religious manuscripts. The authors explore the methods of production, workshop locations and shop styles, and the relationship between Christians and Jews at this time, including their portrayal through dress and appearance This volume also offers a significant investigation into the position of the Jewish community in medieval Spain against a backdrop of rising Franciscan and Dominican power and the growth of the Inquisition. The artistic images give an insight into the lives of these communities, whether reflecting the hardships of Jewish life in medieval Spain or offering a view of a future in which Jews and Christians would join in one faith. The exhibition Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain runs at MOBIA February 19, 2010 through May 30, 2010 The Authors Dr. Marcus B. Burke is Curator of Paintings, Drawings, and Metalwork at the Hispanic Society of America, New York, and has taught at Yale University, SUNY Purchase, and the University of Texas. Dr. Burke co-curated the 1990 exhibition, Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has been a guest curator at the Art Museum of South Texas, the Davenport Museum of Art, Iowa, and the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York. María del Carmen Lacarra Ducay is Professor of Ancient and Medieval Art History at the University of Saragossa, where she specializes in medieval art from Aragon and Romanesque and Gothic art from Navarre (from the 12th to the 15th centuries). She has served as consultant to numerous exhibitions, including The Splendor of the Renaissance in Aragon (2009–2010); The Journey of Cosimo III de’ Medici to Santiago de Compostela (2004–5); and Hispano-Flemish Gothic Painting: Bartolomé Bermejo and his Time (2003). Thomas F. Glick is Professor of History at Boston University. A historian of medieval science and technology, he has specialized in the impact of Muslim culture on Christian Spain. His books include Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages (2nd ed., 2005) and From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle (1995). He is co-editor of Medieval Science, Technology and Medicine: An Encyclopedia (2005). Vivian B. Mann is Director of the Masters Program in Jewish Art at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Curator Emerita of the Jewish Museum. Her latest book, Art and Ceremony in Jewish Life. Essays in Jewish Art History was published in 2005. In 1999 Mann received the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Jewish Thought from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She is one of the senior editors of Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. UK£39.95/US$60.00, hardback ISBN: 978-1-904832-70-6 (13 digit) ISBN: 978-1-904832-70-9 (10 digit) 176 pages, 305 x 229 mm (9 x 12 in.), portrait 66 colour and 8 b & w illustrations Text: Up to 73,000 words Publication date: February 2010 Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, Sales and Marketing Administrator 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead Tele: 845 298-7264 E-mail: KLunstead@live.com Museum of Biblical Art, New York Email: info@mobia.org Online: http://www.mobia.org Press Room Contact: Lisa Dierbeck Tel: 646-336-7230 E-mail: ldierbeck@earthlink.net Press Room 2009-10-07T11:41:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/perspectives-on-medieval-art-seeing-the-medieval-today/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/perspectives-on-medieval-art-seeing-the-medieval-today/#When:11:36:21Z Published by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York in association with D Giles Limited 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.This volume is based on the proceedings of the Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today symposium organized by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham University and the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York. Contributions from leading theologians and historians 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, including Thomas Cahill, and Kathryn Kueny, C. Griffith Mann and Xavier John Seubert 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. Lavishly illustrated, with colour photographs of medieval buildings and monuments, art objects and illuminated manuscripts, and including suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index, Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking will be a major contribution to our broader understanding of medieval art and its teaching. The Editors Ena Giurescu Heller is executive director of MOBIA, editor of Reluctant Partners: Art and Religion in Dialogue (2004) and contributor to Women’s Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church (2005). Robin M. Jensen is the Luce Chancellor’s Professor in the History of Christian Art and Worship at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee. She is author of Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity (2005) Patricia C. Pongracz is curator-at-large at MOBIA and an adjunct professor at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, New Jersey. Her publications include catalogues for MOBIA including Biblical Art and the Asian Imagination (2007). The Authors Dirk H. Breiding is an assistant curator in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and author of “Dynastic Unity: Fourteenth Century Military Effigies in the Chapel of Castle Kronberg” (2001). Thomas Cahill is author of the best-selling series The Hinges of History®, in which the history of the Western world is retold through stories of individuals, and has taught at Queens College, Fordham University, and Seton Hall University. Margot Fassler is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre-Dame, and is author of the prize-winning Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris (Cambridge, 1997). Kathryn Kueny is director of the Religious Studies Program and clinical associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University and is author of The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam (2001). C. Griffith Mann is the chief curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He has organised and contributed to several exhibitions, including Sacred Arts and City Life: The Glory of Medieval Novgorod (2005). Mary C. Moorman is a PhD candidate and lecturer in Systematic Theology at Southern Methodist University, and has taught at Boston University. Xavier John Seubert is Thomas Plassmann Distinguished Professor for Art and Theology and director of the Art History Department at St. Bonaventure, New York. He has contributed to In Solitude and Dialogue: Contemporary Franciscans Theologize (2000). Nancy Wu is the museum educator at the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Publications include The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture, co-authored with Peter Barnet (2005). UK£40.00/US$60.00, hardback ISBN: 978-1-904832-69-0 (13 digit) ISBN: 978-1-904832-69-5 (10 digit) 224 pages, 250 x 210 mm (8 ¼ x 10 in.), portrait 90 colour illustrations Text: Up to 100,000 words Publication date: February 2010 Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, Sales and Marketing Administrator 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead Tele: 845 298-7264 E-mail: KLunstead@live.com Museum of Biblical Art, New York Email: info@mobia.org Online: http://www.mobia.org Press Room Contact: Lisa Dierbeck Tel: 646-336-7230 E-mail: ldierbeck@earthlink.net Press Room 2009-10-07T11:36:21+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/journey-through-american-history/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/journey-through-american-history/#When:10:17:53Z With a mix of pithy, well-focused essays, together with an illustrated chronology, this new volume published by D Giles Limited and the Foundation for the National Archives, celebrating the 75th anniversary at the U.S. National Archives, takes the reader on a journey through American history. All facets of the American story emerge here, from the noble to the ignoble, the monumental to the mundane. Featuring essays by leading figures in broadcasting, film, scholarship, and journalism, including documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns and political commentator, Cokie Roberts, together with more than 800 illustrations with succinct captions, this highly illustrated volume offers a close-up examination of some of the billions of documents, photographs, maps, and films in the holdings of the National Archives. The Records of Our National Life provides readers with a glimpse into the extensive holdings waiting to be discovered at the National Archives. The Contributors Michael Beschloss is an award-winning Presidential historian and best-selling author. He serves as the Presidential Historian for NBC News and is often featured on PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Tom Brokaw is a special correspondent for NBC News and author. Ken Burns is a documentary filmmaker. For more than 30 years he has produced some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including The Civil War, Baseball, and The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. John Carlin, former Governor of Kansas, served as the eighth Archivist of the United States from 1995 to 2005. He is currently visiting professor and executive in residence in the School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University. David McCullough is an award-winning author. He has twice received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Cokie Roberts is a political analyst for ABC News and NPR as well as a best-selling author. Allen Weinstein is an author and historian; he served as the ninth Archivist of the United States from 2005 to 2008. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Maryland, College of Information Studies. Tom Wheeler is managing director of Core Capital Partners as well as an author. He is the former president of the Foundation for the National Archives. Don W. Wilson served as the seventh Archivist of the United States from 1987 to 1993. He was also the first director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential library and was deputy director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential library. RECORDS OF OUR NATIONAL LIFE American History from the National Archives 320 pages, 286 x 267mm (10 ½ x 11 ¼ in.), portrait Up to 812 colour illustrations, hardback Text: Up to 63,000 words ISBN: 978 1 904832 71 3 (13 digit) ISBN: 1 904832 71 7 (10 digit) Price: US$59.95/UK£40.00 Publication date: October, 2009 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead Tele: 845 298-7264 E-mail: KLunstead@live.com Press Room 2009-10-07T10:17:53+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/new-publication-accompanies-first-exhibition-in-america-to-survey-the-full-/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/new-publication-accompanies-first-exhibition-in-america-to-survey-the-full-/#When:10:07:28Z Published by D Giles Limited in association with Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C, Sèvres Then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000, showcases the longstanding achievements of the French porcelain factory, in particular its unparalleled invention and creativity over three centuries. Published on the opening of a major exhibition at Hillwood in October 2009, this volume features an assemblage of over 80 international loan objects and pieces from Hillwood’s own renowned collections, many of which are inaccessible and have never been published before. The first to juxtapose the earliest Sèvres pieces with the cutting-edge works of the 21st century, it is one of most vibrant volumes of Sèvres ever to be published. Three informative essays by Hillwood curator and organizer of the exhibition Liana Paredes, illustrated with the stunning pieces, are devoted to the continuous innovation, in both the production and the design, which has been the hallmark of ceramics at the Sèvres factory from the 1750s to the early years of the 21st century. The opening section explores the beginnings of the factory under royal patronage in the 18th century, and the changes brought about by the French Revolution. The 19th-century section examines the classicizing period of the First Empire and the Restoration, the historicist style of the Second Empire, and closes with Art Nouveau ceramics. Finally the 20th- and 21st-century essay features Art Deco pieces, productions of the 1950s and 60s, and brings the study of Sèvres right up-to-date with the contemporary studio wares by Alexander Calder, Adrien Saxe, and Richard Peduzzi. The volume features detailed catalogue entries on each of the objects, which include technical information, provenance, bibliography and, in selected cases, an image of the mark. It is illustrated with over 240 colour plates, the vast majority of these from newly commissioned photography. The Author Liana Paredes is senior curator of Western European Art at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens in Washington, D.C. She is the author of French Furniture from the Collection of Hillwood Museum and Gardens (2002) and co-author of A Taste for Splendor: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from Hillwood Museum and Gardens (1999) . SÈVRES THEN AND NOW Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000 176 pages, 9” x 11” (279 x 229mm), portrait 275 colour illustrations, hardback Text: Up to 40,000 words ISBN: 978 1 904832 63 8 (13 digit) ISBN: 1 904832 63 6 (10 digit) Price: US$60.00/UK£35.00 Publication date: October, 2009 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 4SD UK T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 Enquiries: sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 E-mail: klunstead@antiquecc.com Press Room 2009-10-07T10:07:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/tobi-kahn-sacred-spaces-for-the-21st-century/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/tobi-kahn-sacred-spaces-for-the-21st-century/#When:09:37:08Z Published by D Giles Limited, London in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, this new volume focuses both on Tobi Kahn’s large canvasses and his three dimensional architectural works for private spiritual spaces, and will be an important milestone in appraising the development of his work over the past two decadesThis volume discusses the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, highlighting 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 Kahn’s large 6 x 4 ft canvasses of 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. Publication accompanies an exhibition opening at the Museum of Biblical Art, New York in October 2009 The Authors Ena Giurescu Heller is executive director of MOBIA; David Morgan is professor of Religion at Duke University; Rabbi Daniel Sperber is professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, Israel; Klaus Ottman is an art critic and curator; Jeff Edwards is masters candidate at the Department of Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts, NYC; Nessa Rapoport is a poet and the author of Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn (2004) 112 pages, 280 x 240mm (9 ½ x 11in.), portrait 50 colour and 6 b & w illustrations, hardback Text: Up to 21,000 words ISBN: 1-904832-64-4 (10 digit) 978-1-904832-64-5 (13 digit) Price: US$39.95/UK£29.95 Publication date: October 2009 Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, Sales and Marketing Administrator 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 E-mail: klunstead@antiquecc.com Museum of Biblical Art, New York Email: info@mobia.org Online: http://www.mobia.org Press Room Contact: Anne Edgar Tel: 646-336-7230 E-mail: anne@anneedgar.com Press Room 2009-10-01T09:37:08+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/anne-truitt-perception-and-reflection/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/anne-truitt-perception-and-reflection/#When:10:19:14Z Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection is the first complete monograph of the artist, and includes a full survey of 50 of her sculptures and over 40 two-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career, up to her death in 2004. It will be published by D Giles Limited, London in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in October 2009. Anne Truitt, an artist based in Washington D.C. for most of her career, remains a largely under-recognized force in art post-1960, which has been dominated by Minimalist artists such as Donald Judd and Ellsworth Kelly. Part of this lack of recognition stems from the fact that Truitt pursued a staunchly independent course in her art: not only did she take a different path from the Color Field artists often associated with Washington, D.C., but she created reduced geometric abstraction that deviated from the approach of Minimalist artists in some significant ways. For example, her highly nuanced use of colour veered dramatically from primary hues, and the titles of many of her works evoked places and events that were important to her, suggesting a complex network of references beyond and yet somehow contained by the sculpture. This volume accompanies an exhibition opening at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in October 2009, the first major retrospective exhibition of Anne Truitt’s work since 1974. At the heart of this volume are colour plates of the columnar sculptures that became the hallmark of Truitt’s profoundly focused practice, and that made her so significant to the development of minimal abstraction. Whilst Truitt’s work has featured as part of larger surveys of Minimalism, as well as in Truitt’s own artist’s journals – Daybook (1984), Turn (1987), and Prospect (1996) – it has never before been the subject of a complete monographic survey. Featuring essays by organizing curator Kristen Hileman and leading scholar James Meyer that interpret Truitt’s career and her place within the broader context of the American Abstraction, publication of Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection in 2009 will be a major event in itself, and one that will significantly increase our understanding of post-1960’s art. Exhibition details: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden October 8 2009-January 3 2010 The Authors: Kristen Hileman is associate curator, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where she recently curated The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, Part II, Realisms (2008); James Meyer is Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University and the author of Minimalism: Art & Polemics in the Sixties (Yale, 2001) and Themes & Movements: Minimalism (Phaidon, 2000). He organized the Anne Truitt exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University in 2004. He also co-authored Howard Hodgkin with Nicholas Serota (Tate Britain 2006) ANNE TRUITT: PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION 176 pages, 9 ½ x 11in. (280 x 240mm), portrait 150 colour and 12 b & w illustrations, hardcover plc with dust jacket Text: Up to 40,000 words ISBN: 978 1 904832 61 4 (13 digit) ISBN: 1 904832 61 X (10 digit) Price: US$55.00/UK£40.00 Publication date: October 2009 Publisher: D Giles Limited, London Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 4SD UK T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 Enquiries: sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 E-mail: klunstead@antiquecc.com Press Room 2009-09-30T10:19:14+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/news/scripture-for-the-eyes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/news/scripture-for-the-eyes/#When:09:21:14Z Published by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York in association with D Giles Limited, this ground-breaking new book explores the central role played by scriptural prints of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, during one of the most complex periods of religious transformation in early modern European culture.This major scholarly publication, which accompanies the new exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York, Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in the Sixteenth Century Low Countries opening in Summer 2009, focuses attention on the extraordinarily rich array of biblical prints produced in the Low Countries (comprising today’s Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg) in a time of dynamic and sometimes violent religious and political change. In cities such as Antwerp and Amsterdam prints were the primary medium for the invention and dissemination of biblical imagery that gave viewers new ways of relating to scripture and hence to God. Far from merely following artistic developments in the monumental arts, this fascinating book shows that prints of Old and New Testament subjects were agents of innovation in their own right, offering a clarifying lens through which the Bible was received and interpreted. Scripture for the Eyes studies the forms, functions and meanings of the printed images through which this most crucial of books, newly available in vernacular and Latin editions, came increasingly to be read as a living source of religious truth. Over 130 prints, engravings, woodcuts and etchings by Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Philips Galle, Hendrick Goltzius and Hieronymus Wierix, among others, are classed into five functional groups: Sacred History and Geography, Exegesis, Worship, Morality and Politics and Polemics. The Authors Dr James Clifton is director of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation and curator in Renaissance and Baroque Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is the co-author of A Portrait of the Artist, 1525–1825: Prints From The Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation (2005) and The Body of Christ in the Art of Europe and New Spain, 1150–1800 (1997); Dr Walter S. Melion, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, is the author of Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: Karel van Mander’s “Schilder- Boeck” and The Meditative Art: Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625. UK£45.00/US$65.00, hardback ISBN: 978-1-904832-66-9 (13 digit) ISBN: 978-1-904832-66-0 (10 digit) 224 pages, 240 x 280mm (11 x 9 ½ in.), landscape 66 colour and 70 b & w illustrations Text: Up to 100,000 words Publication date: September 2009 Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York Distributed in the UK and Rest of World (excluding US and Canada) by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, Sandy Lane Old Martlesham Woodbridge Suffolk IP 12 4SD T: +44 (0)1394 389950 F: +44 (0)1394 389999 sales@accdistribution.com Distributed in the US and Canada by Antique Collectors’ Club ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 Toll-free orders: +1 800-252-5231 sales@antiquecc.com For Further Information and Review Copies: In the UK contact: Liz Japes, Sales and Marketing Administrator 20 Lockitt Way Kingston Lewes East Sussex BN7 3LG Tel: +44 (0)1273 480225 E-mail: lj@gilesltd.com In the USA contact: Karen Lunstead, Marketing Manager ACC Distribution, 6 West 18th Street Fourth Floor New York, NY 1011 E-mail: klunstead@antiquecc.com Museum of Biblical Art, New York Email: info@mobia.org Online: http://www.mobia.org Press Room Contact: Anne Edgar Tel: 646-336-7230 E-mail: anne@anneedgar.com Press Room 2009-09-29T09:21:14+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/gardens-in-perpetual-bloom/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/gardens-in-perpetual-bloom/#When:10:34:10Z Botanical Illustration in Europe and America, 1600-1850 By Nancy Keeler. Published by: MFA Publications. Available exclusively through Distributed Art Publishers (ISBN: 978-0-87846-749-5) Features over 90 wonderful botanical illustrations, ranging over three centuries, from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Includes works by Basil Besler, Nicolas Robert, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and Pierre-Joseph Redouté This book presents wonderful botanical illustrations, mainly hand-coloured prints, from 35 antiquarian volumes in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The first in a series of books featuring works from the Museum’s collections, it will be published to accompany an exhibition being presented at MFA Boston’s sister’s museum in Nagoya, Japan. Perhaps the most celebrated flower painter in Western art, Jean-Baptiste Redouté defined the botanical artist as one “whose paintbrushes give lasting existence to the ephemeral gifts of Flora”, and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the “golden age” of botanical illustration, the main goal of the artists and printmakers was to bring the garden alive on the page. As the examples in this catalogue illustrate, botanical art is both an exact scientific record and a thing of beauty. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-01-01T10:34:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/anne-truitt/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/anne-truitt/#When:11:32:22Z Perception and Reflection By Kristen Hileman and James Meyer . Published by: GILES in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (ISBN: 978-1-904832-61-4 ) The first complete monograph of the artist, which includes a full survey of 50 of Anne Truitt’s sculptures and over 40 two-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career, up to her death in 2004 Features essays by organizing curator Kristen Hileman and leading scholar James Meyer that interpret Truitt’s career and her place within the broader context of American abstraction Anne Truitt, an artist based in Washington, D.C. for most of her career, remains an under-recognized force in art post-1960, partly because she pursued a staunchly independent course in her art: not only did she take a different path from the Color Field artists often associated with Washington, D.C., but she created reduced geometric abstraction that deviated from the approaches of Minimalist artists in some significant ways. This volume, which accompanied the first major retrospective exhibition of Anne Truitt’s work in over 30 years, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 2009, forms an important part of the re-evaluation of Truitt’s art, due to the scope of work which it presents. Whilst Truitt’s work has featured as part of larger surveys of Minimalism, as well as in Truitt’s own artist’s journals it has never before been the subject of a complete monographic survey. Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection significantly increases our understanding of post-1960’s art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-02T11:32:22+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists/#When:10:45:17Z By Ann Prentice Wagner. Essay by Roger G. Kennedy. Introduction by Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C (ISBN: 978-1-904832-67-6 ) Draws on 56 vibrant paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s unique collection created for the Public Works of Art program during the Great Depression Invaluable for students in schools and colleges Publication accompanies a major touring exhibition until 2013 1934: A New Deal for Artists 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, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the U.S. Government created its first program to support the arts. The PWAP lasted for six months, from mid-December 1933 to June 1934, and artists from across the United States were encouraged to depict the American scene, and boost morale through art. The Program paid artists to paint regional, recognizable subjects—ranging from portraits to cityscapes, from images of city life to landscapes and depictions of rural life—that reminded the public of the essential American values of hard work, community and optimism. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar today. The exhibition will travel to the following venues: The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh January 30 through April 30 2010; Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana, May 12 until August 22 2010; The What Com Museum, October 16 2010 to January 6 2011; The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, February 3 until June 2011; Mennello Museum, August-October 2011; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, November 5 2011 until January 29 2012; Muskegon Museum, February 16 to May 6 2012; Portland Museum of Art, October 25 2012 to January 20 2013. Other venues tbc. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-01T10:45:17+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/sevres-then-and-now/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/sevres-then-and-now/#When:10:34:13Z Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000 By Liana Paredes. Published by: GILES in association with Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-63-8 ) “The catalogue…is well illustrated and the book is a useful overview of two and a half centuries of high-end ceramic production.” Aileen Dawson, The Art Newspaper Publication marks the opening of a major new exhibition, Sèvres then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000, showing at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. October 20 2009 through May 30 2010   Sèvres then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000, showcases the longstanding achievements of the French porcelain factory, in particular its unparalleled invention and creativity over three centuries. Featuring an assemblage of over 80 international loan objects as well as pieces from Hillwood’s own renowned collection, many of which have never been published before, this vibrant volume juxtaposes the earliest Sèvres pieces with the cutting-edge works of the 21st century. Three informative essays by Hillwood curator and organizer of the exhibition Liana Paredes are devoted to the continuous innovation in both production and design that has been the hallmark of ceramics at the Sèvres factory from the 1750s to the early years of the 21st century. It is illustrated with 240 colour images, the vast majority of these from newly-commissioned photography, with a wide range of full-size plates, details, marks and other comparative illustrations Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-01T10:34:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/tobi-kahn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/tobi-kahn/#When:10:14:38Z 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 A milestone in appraising the development of Kahn’s work over the past two decades Based on a recent exhbtion 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 2009-10-01T10:14:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/scripture-for-the-eyes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/scripture-for-the-eyes/#When:13:05:49Z 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 ) “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 2009-09-01T13:05:49+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/#When:10:29:00Z 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) Presents an overview of Egyptian art in the context of kingship, religion and daily life Features nearly 80 beautiful and historically significant objects ranging from small, exquisitely worked jewels to massive carved granite statues of gods and goddesses, that span Egypt’s early dynastic period through the Greco-Roman period Features stunning new photography of the objects, including colour plates and details, and a wealth of comparative illustrations 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 2009-06-02T10:29:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/cincinnati-art-museum/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/cincinnati-art-museum/#When:10:18:47Z Collection Highlights By Introduction by Aaron Betsky, Director. Catalogue entries by the curators of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with Cincinnati Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-53-9) “the book serves to educate even the most exposed art connoisseur” Florida International Magazine Features highlights from one of the major mid-western museums, including works by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Picasso, Renoir, Derain, Modigliani and Chagall, and details from the mural by Miró for the Cincinnati Terrace Plaza Hotel, an example of the New International style. Includes items from the internationally renowned collection of costumes and textiles, including haute couture outfits by Dior, Balenciaga and Lanvin, and by prominent local dressmakers As one of the oldest art institutions in the United States, the Cincinnati Art Museum has an unparalleled collection of over 60,000 works spanning six thousand years. This beautifully illustrated new volume highlights over 300 works of art from this unique collection, featuring examples of painting and sculpture, decorative art, prints, drawings, photographs, costumes and textiles from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia and the Middle-East, Africa, North and South America and Europe. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-06-02T10:18:47+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/leonardo-drew-existed/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/leonardo-drew-existed/#When:10:48:52Z By Edited by Claudia Schmuckli. Essays by Claudia Schmuckli and Allen S. Weiss. Published by: In association with Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston (ISBN: 978-1-904832-58-4) “Facing the difficult task of capturing works so large, so detailed, and so dependent on a close appreciation of their aggregation and texture, Existed comes through with flying colours.”  “A choice reference on the artist and his work”, Katherine R. Lieber, Artscope.net The first book to document and interpret fully Drew’s career over the last twenty years, including reproductions of 44 sculptures realized between 1988 and 2007 and 26 works on paper Features scholarly essays that interpret Drew’s career and his place within the broader context of contemporary art, an annotated chronology, selected biography and bibliography Throughout his career, Leonardo Drew has been continuously engaged with the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his formally abstract but emotionally charged compositions have a metaphorical weight that is as unique as it is symbolic. Often interpreted as a comment on the position of African-Americans in contemporary American society, his work transcends any specific historic and ethnic reference, and is deeply embedded in the theory and practice of mid-20th-century abstraction. Ranging from the intense drama of his sculptures and installations of the 1980s, to the epic sweep of his massive wall-bound tableaux in the 1990s, to the ethereal language of his paper casts of the early 2000s, his works transcend time and place. Add the poetic intimacy of his recent works on paper, and Drew’s practice can be described as a journey toward enlightenment, full of reprises and returns as well as new beginnings. Publication accompanies an exhibition at Blaffer Gallery, the University of Houston on May 16 to August 15, 2009, travelling to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., from February 7, 2010 through May 9, 2010 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-05-07T10:48:52+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/modern-masters/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/modern-masters/#When:10:46:25Z American Abstraction at Midcentury By Virginia Mecklenburg. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-59-1) “A wonderful starting point for a new generation of artists and scholars” Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts “Modern Masters serves as a noteworthy introduction to this important field of modernist and American art.  Also Mecklenburg’s introductory essay ...offers as good an outline of the origins, rise, success, and demise of American abstract art as one could find” Henry Berry online This brand new volume presents in, stunning colour, over 70 postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the centre of the modern art scene in the two decades following the Second World War. Some 31 major artists are featured, including Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers and Theodore Roszak. In her main essay Virginia Mecklenburg draws heavily on contemporary photographs, magazine and newspaper articles, diaries and personal recollections, to bring to life the works of art, the lives of the artists who created them, the galleries that exhibited them and the public’s reaction to them. She explains how the unique combination of the media, individual critics, and curators and gallery owners, was so important in shaping a distinctly modern American art form during the late 1940s and 1950s. Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Yann Weymouth building designed to house the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami. Other dates are the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa. (June 14 – Sept. 6, 2009), the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. (Nov. 13, 2010 – Feb. 5, 2011), the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tenn. (March 19, 2011 – June 19, 2011) and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Oct. 7, 2011 – Jan. 1, 2012). Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-02-02T10:46:25+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/tobi-kahn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/architecture/tobi-kahn/#When:10:14:38Z 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 A milestone in appraising the development of Kahn’s work over the past two decades Based on a recent exhbtion 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 2009-10-01T10:14:38+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-marion-post-wolcott/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/fields-of-vision-the-photographs-of-marion-post-wolcott/#When:11:48:31Z 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 2008-09-04T11:48:31+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:09:28:39Z 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 2008-09-04T09:28:39+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:08:59:28Z 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 2008-09-04T08:59:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/damaged-romanticism/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/damaged-romanticism/#When:09:06:02Z 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 2008-09-01T09:06:02+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/st-georges-chapel-windsor/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/photography/st-georges-chapel-windsor/#When:08:53:27Z A Portrait By Eleanor Curtis. Published by: GILES in association with St George's Chapel, Windsor (ISBN: 978-1-904832-55-3) “Her pictures, taken on film and in black and white ... capture the day-to-day existence of the college” John Goodall, Country Life   Published on the occasion of the 660th anniversary of the Order of the Garter and the College of St George, St George’s Chapel, Windsor: A Portrait is a stunning publication on the Queen’s Free Chapel of St George at Windsor Castle. It portrays, in traditional black and white film photography, the incredible variety of activities that take place throughout the year, showing both the public and the intimate face of the Chapel. Over the course of eighteen months between 2005 and 2007, writer and photographer Eleanor Curtis was given unprecedented and privileged access to St George’s Chapel. The result is a body of photographs which reveal both the function and the spirit of the building, as well as the drama of its architecture and the lives and duties of the staff who work there and in other parts of the College of St George. These include photographs of HM The Queen and the Royal Family in attendance at religious services and ceremonial occasions there, including the special service to celebrate the Queen’s 80th birthday. Exhibition Catalogues, Photography 2008-09-01T08:53:27+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:10:52:52Z 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) A major contribution to our broader understanding of medieval art and its teaching Based on the proceedings of the symposium, Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today, held at the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) Lavishly illustrated, with colour photographs of medieval buildings and monuments, art objects and illuminated manuscripts 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 2010-02-04T10:52:52+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:13:05:49Z 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 ) “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 2009-09-01T13:05:49+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:10:29:00Z 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) Presents an overview of Egyptian art in the context of kingship, religion and daily life Features nearly 80 beautiful and historically significant objects ranging from small, exquisitely worked jewels to massive carved granite statues of gods and goddesses, that span Egypt’s early dynastic period through the Greco-Roman period Features stunning new photography of the objects, including colour plates and details, and a wealth of comparative illustrations 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 2009-06-02T10:29:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lighter-than-air/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lighter-than-air/#When:09:49:55Z An Illustrated History of Balloons and Airships By Tom D. Crouch. Published by: GILES in association with The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Available exclusively from The John Hopkins University Press (ISBN: ) Provides a concise overview of the history of lighter-than-air flight from antiquity to the space age Communicates the colour and excitement of buoyant flight in a lively and accessible way Richly illustrated with a wealth of prints and photos from one of the world’s finest collections, including objects that illustrate the history of buoyant flight This volume is the first concise history of lighter-than-air (LTA) flight to be published for many years. Classic books like L.T.C. Rolt’s The Aeronauts are now long out of print, and coffee table books abound. This book fills the gap to provide a highly entertaining illustrated history in a single volume. The author covers the entire story of LTA flight, from Archimedes to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Through it all, he focuses on the people—flamboyant and daring, heroes and scoundrels—who made history in the sky. The first half of the book is devoted to the invention of the balloon, its early use in reconnaissance and its key role in scientific research. The second half of the volume presents the colourful and compelling story of the airship, from 18th-century dreams to 20th-century reality. Tom D. Crouch concludes with the history of modern blimps, sport balloons, the great transoceanic and around-the-world balloon voyages from 1960 to 2000, and a look at the future of the oldest way to fly. The volume features two appendices: a chronology of LTA flight and a listing of key statistics from selected airships of the world. History & General Interest 2009-03-04T09:49:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/big/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/big/#When:11:20:18Z Big Records, Big Events and Big Ideas in American History: Celebrating 75 Years of the National Archives By Stacey Bredhoff. Foreword by Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States. Published by: GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-62-1 ) Publication accompanies a major exhibition opening at the US National Archives in March 2009 to celebrate its 75th anniversary Features some of the largest (both in size and historical significance) records from the US National Archives Collection Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Archives, Washington, D.C. in 2009, this new volume features big records, big events, and big ideas from the US National Archives collection. Starting with the 13-foot scroll of the Articles of Confederation—the first constitution of the United States—the full-scale records reveal some of the formative moments in American history. Among the items reproduced, some with fold-out pages, are a section from the enormous 13-foot square map of the Gettysburg battlefield, and the size 22 sneakers of basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal. The variety of documents and objects is huge, ranging from orders for fitting out of a ship with reinforced beds and extra large baths to carry William H. Taft – at 320lbs, the heaviest President in U.S. history – to prints of the mammoth glass-plate negatives by photographer Carleton Watkins of Yosemite Valley in California, now the site of a National Park, dating from the 1860s. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2009-03-02T11:20:18+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:27Z Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum By Edward Bleiberg. With an essay by Kathlyn M. Cooney. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-52-2) “In his reader-friendly visual and writing style, this author draws the curtain back on a fascinating area of ancient Egyptian society” Henry Berry online “A thorough discussion of Egyptian theology and the process of preparing a corpse for the afterlife” Berkshire Fine Arts With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. This new book draws on over 120 ancient Egyptian monuments from the world-renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. In answering the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explaining Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife, author Edward Bleiberg offers a fresh take on the subject by addressing the practical, economic considerations an ancient Egyptian faced when preparing for the next life. Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition in the USA which began in July 2008. Forthcoming venues are the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 6–September 12, 2010; San Antonio Museum of Art, October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011;Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 12–May 8, 2011; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, June 11–September 4, 2011; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 6–January 7, 2012 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:27+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-naming-of-america/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-naming-of-america/#When:08:59:52Z Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map and the Cosmographiae Introductio By John W. Hessler. Published by: GILES in association with The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C (ISBN: 978-1-904832-49-2) “Both a scholarly treatise and a book anyone would purchase to remeber the cornerstone map” Peter J. Porrazzo, The Portolan, Journal of the Washington Map Society “A scholarly affair, impeccably printed” Elinor Teele, California Literary Review This new book features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemüller – the first map ever to display the name America – and tells the fascinating story behind its creation in 16th-century France and rediscovery 300 years later in the library of Wolfegg Castle, Germany, in 1901. It also includes a completely new translation and commentary to Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann’s seminal cartographic text, the Cosmographiae Introductio, which originally accompanied the World Map. John Hessler considers answers to some of the key questions raised by the map’s representation of the New World, including “How was it possible for a small group of cartographers to have produced a view of the world so radical for its time and so close to the one we recognize today?”; and “What evidence did they possess to show the existence of the Pacific Ocean when neither Vasco Nûnez de Balboa nor Ferdinand Magellan had yet reached it?”. There are no easy answers, and yet, as this fascinating book reveals, this group of unknowns created some of the most important maps in the history of cartography, and afford us a glimpse into an age when accepted scientific and geographic principles fell away, spawning the birth of modernity. History & General Interest 2008-02-07T08:59:52+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-american-history-in-england/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-american-history-in-england/#When:10:37:34Z An Illustrated Traveler’s Guide By Catherine Leitch. Published by: GILES (ISBN: 978-1-904832-38-6) “A comprehensive and entertaining work. Ideal for any American visiting Britain” The American” “As an introductory and entertaining read on US historical connections in England this book is excellent” Reference Reviews “A simply written compendium of fun and fantastic facts, with related places to visit, and many “Ah Ha!” moments.—a great addition for any American traveling in the UK” Sandra Barghini, Director, The American Museum in Britain Many of America’s most notable citizens have spent substantial amounts of time in England, and yet the traces of their lives are widely overlooked by travellers. Author and historian Catherine Leitch, an American who has lived in England for 12 years, has compiled anecdotes, maps and descriptions of the often-surprising connections between English and American culture. This brand new book opens with an historical overview of England and America, before presenting chapters which cover Colonial Settlers in the New World, the birth of American Independence, military connections, politicians, American ladies in England, artists, musicians, poets and writers. Each section contains illustrated entries for key people, together with a list of places connected to the person that can be visited. These places are listed in the Gazetteer of London and England which follows. Special “side-bars” also feature information on major buildings and cities with notable connections to America. History & General Interest 2008-02-05T10:37:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lee-and-grant/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lee-and-grant/#When:11:02:50Z By William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. Published by: Published in association with the Virginia Historical Society (ISBN: 9781904832362) “Rasmussen and Tilton…have produced a tour de force” Greg Bayne, Crossfire, Magazine of the American Civil War Round Table (UK) “Two American icons descend from lofty pedestals for a close and revealing examination.” Professor John Y. Simon, Executive Director, Ulysses S. Grant Association “The manuscript is uncommonly sound and insightful…Especially significant are the reinventing Lee and Grant sections which offer context and present a “past-present” perspective. I enjoyed reading the work and found it both entertaining and enlightening.” Emory Thomas, Regent’s Professor, University of Georgia Publication accompanies a major exhibition - after closing at the New-York Historical Society in New York City on March 29, 2009 it will travel to the Museum of Southern History in Houston (May 23, 2009–September 20, 2009); and the Atlanta History Center (November 7, 2009–February 28, 2010) Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history, but despite the enormous amount of published material on the Civil War, including individual biographies of Lee and Grant, there is almost nothing that has been published which looks at these two figures together and which compares them over an extended period of time. This new, fully illustrated book is the first to provide a major re-assessment of their lives, careers and historical impact. This illustrated volume contains over 270 images, pictorial representations of both men, as well as photographs and engravings, and images from popular culture. Leading authors William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton cover both these major figures’ lives, from their early education and military training at West Point, through the Civil War and its immediate aftermath, to their retirement. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2008-02-01T11:02:50+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-armenians/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-armenians/#When:10:34:03Z Art, Culture and Religion By Nira and Michael Stone. Published by: GILES in association with the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin (ISBN: 978-1-904832-37-9) “An attractive, informative, and accessible book” Marc A. Mamigonian, Director of Programs and Publications, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research The first accessible study of the Armenian people and their history as seen through Armenian art, literature, language and religion, this volume takes as its starting point the internationally important collection of Armenian illuminated manuscripts in the collection of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. The authors have selected over 20 of the rarest and most beautiful manuscripts to tell the history of the Armenian people, their art and literature, from the time when the Arsacid Armenian dynasty ended in 428 and the first Armenian kingdom was divided into Greater Armenia, to the East, under Iranian rule, and Lesser Armenia, to the West, under the Byzantine Empire, through the cultural renaissance of the New Julfa Armenians during the 17th century, to the Ottoman genocide of 1915 and the creation of the Armenian Diaspora. They draw on a wide range of comparative and contextual material, including 40 colour images of key monuments and historic sites, engravings and contemporary religious ceremonies. History & General Interest 2007-12-25T10:34:03+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/gardens-in-perpetual-bloom/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/gardens-in-perpetual-bloom/#When:10:34:10Z Botanical Illustration in Europe and America, 1600-1850 By Nancy Keeler. Published by: MFA Publications. Available exclusively through Distributed Art Publishers (ISBN: 978-0-87846-749-5) Features over 90 wonderful botanical illustrations, ranging over three centuries, from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Includes works by Basil Besler, Nicolas Robert, Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and Pierre-Joseph Redouté This book presents wonderful botanical illustrations, mainly hand-coloured prints, from 35 antiquarian volumes in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The first in a series of books featuring works from the Museum’s collections, it will be published to accompany an exhibition being presented at MFA Boston’s sister’s museum in Nagoya, Japan. Perhaps the most celebrated flower painter in Western art, Jean-Baptiste Redouté defined the botanical artist as one “whose paintbrushes give lasting existence to the ephemeral gifts of Flora”, and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the “golden age” of botanical illustration, the main goal of the artists and printmakers was to bring the garden alive on the page. As the examples in this catalogue illustrate, botanical art is both an exact scientific record and a thing of beauty. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2010-01-01T10:34:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-art-of-ancient-egypt/#When:10:29:00Z 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) Presents an overview of Egyptian art in the context of kingship, religion and daily life Features nearly 80 beautiful and historically significant objects ranging from small, exquisitely worked jewels to massive carved granite statues of gods and goddesses, that span Egypt’s early dynastic period through the Greco-Roman period Features stunning new photography of the objects, including colour plates and details, and a wealth of comparative illustrations 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 2009-06-02T10:29:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/cincinnati-art-museum/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/cincinnati-art-museum/#When:10:18:47Z Collection Highlights By Introduction by Aaron Betsky, Director. Catalogue entries by the curators of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with Cincinnati Art Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-53-9) “the book serves to educate even the most exposed art connoisseur” Florida International Magazine Features highlights from one of the major mid-western museums, including works by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Picasso, Renoir, Derain, Modigliani and Chagall, and details from the mural by Miró for the Cincinnati Terrace Plaza Hotel, an example of the New International style. Includes items from the internationally renowned collection of costumes and textiles, including haute couture outfits by Dior, Balenciaga and Lanvin, and by prominent local dressmakers As one of the oldest art institutions in the United States, the Cincinnati Art Museum has an unparalleled collection of over 60,000 works spanning six thousand years. This beautifully illustrated new volume highlights over 300 works of art from this unique collection, featuring examples of painting and sculpture, decorative art, prints, drawings, photographs, costumes and textiles from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia and the Middle-East, Africa, North and South America and Europe. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-06-02T10:18:47+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/modern-masters/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/modern-masters/#When:10:46:25Z American Abstraction at Midcentury By Virginia Mecklenburg. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-59-1) “A wonderful starting point for a new generation of artists and scholars” Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts “Modern Masters serves as a noteworthy introduction to this important field of modernist and American art.  Also Mecklenburg’s introductory essay ...offers as good an outline of the origins, rise, success, and demise of American abstract art as one could find” Henry Berry online This brand new volume presents in, stunning colour, over 70 postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the centre of the modern art scene in the two decades following the Second World War. Some 31 major artists are featured, including Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers and Theodore Roszak. In her main essay Virginia Mecklenburg draws heavily on contemporary photographs, magazine and newspaper articles, diaries and personal recollections, to bring to life the works of art, the lives of the artists who created them, the galleries that exhibited them and the public’s reaction to them. She explains how the unique combination of the media, individual critics, and curators and gallery owners, was so important in shaping a distinctly modern American art form during the late 1940s and 1950s. Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Yann Weymouth building designed to house the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami. Other dates are the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa. (June 14 – Sept. 6, 2009), the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. (Nov. 13, 2010 – Feb. 5, 2011), the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tenn. (March 19, 2011 – June 19, 2011) and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Oct. 7, 2011 – Jan. 1, 2012). Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-02-02T10:46:25+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/drawn-by-new-york/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/drawn-by-new-york/#When:10:09:15Z Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society By Roberta J. M. Olson. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-34-8) “As lavish as it is weighty” and “Highly recommended” K. Rhodes, Drew University Choice “the gorgeously illustrated accompanying catalogue provides informative commentary on each work” Antiques & Fine Art “I also strongly recommend Ms Olson’s massive and outstanding catalog” The New York Sun     The New-York Historical Society’s drawing collection is one of the earliest assembled in the United States, yet its trove of over 8,000 sheets and 75 rare sketchbooks is surprisingly unknown. Drawn by New York presents over 200 highlights, spanning six centuries, from 16th-century avian watercolours and a Dutch view of New Amsterdam (1650), to the façade of St. Patrick’s Cathedral captured from inside Rockefeller Center by Richard Haas (2002) and representations of the World Trade Center, both before and after September 11th 2001. There are works by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and John Singer Sargent, sheets by Asher B. Durand, and a cache of 500 watercolours by John James Audubon (including those for The Birds of America, 1827–38). Over 200 “Outline Drawings” by George Catlin record long-vanished Native American cultures. Publication accompanies a travelling exhibition which opened at the New-York Historical Society in September 2008 (until January 7, 2009), moving to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (August 14 - November 1 2009) and the Taft Museum of Art (November 2009–February 2010) Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-09-01T10:09:15+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/one-hundred-stories/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/one-hundred-stories/#When:09:59:18Z Highlights from the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts By Edited by Elizabeth Johns. Contributions by Sarah Cantor, Margaret Dameron, Alan Fern, Angela S. George, Elizabeth Johns, Mary L. Pixley, Joseph Ruzicka and Ann Prentice Wagner. Published by: GILES in association with the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (ISBN: 978-1-904832-54-6) A beautifully illustrated survey of six centuries of art from one of the finest collections in the northeast United States Features some of the leading names in 19th- and 20th-century art including Albert Bierstadt, Childe Hassam, George Luks, Willard Metcalf and Charles Willson Peale Presents colour plates, with captions, of 100 of the Museum’s most important holdings of American and European Art One Hundred Stories celebrates one hundred paintings, sculptures, works on paper and decorative arts in the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (WCMFA), Hagerstown, Maryland. Founded in 1931 by Anna Brugh Singer and William Henry Singer, Jr., the collection now includes over 6,000 objects, ranging from Old Master paintings to 20th-century art, with a particular emphasis on American art from the last two centuries. Among the artworks presented are examples by leading American 18th- and 19th-century artists, including William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, Robert Henri and Joshua Johnson. 20th-century art is represented in works by Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Norman Rockwell, Frank Stella and a host of regional artists. The volume also features wonderful examples of decorative art, including a silver tea service by Christopher Dresser, earthenware by George Ohr, and fine examples of French Moderne art, and Art Deco glass. Two essays cover the history of the Museum, and the wider role of museums in the United States Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-09-01T09:59:18+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/ford-madox-brown/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/ford-madox-brown/#When:09:50:05Z The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite: Works on Paper by Ford Madox Brown from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery By Edited by Tessa Sidey. Essays by Angela Thirlwell, Tim Barringer and Laura MacCulloch. Published by: GILES in association with Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (ISBN: 978-1-904832-56-0) “The whole catalogue is thoughtful and well illustrated” Colin Harrison, The Print Quarterly “This catalogue is a must for all those interested in this fine Victorian artist” Visions Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite – the third in a series of publications on Birmingham’s unique collection of 19th-century drawings – reassesses the work of this important artist, and reveals his achievements. Older than his contemporaries Holman Hunt, Millais, and pupil Rossetti, and never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ford Madox Brown was nonetheless a central figure within this major art movement. The creator of Work and The Last of England, whose art was marked by an unmistakable originality in the face of critical rejection and market failure, Madox Brown has until now remained a neglected presence in art history. In this volume Angela Thirlwell, deals with the broader aspects of the artist’s developments, setting his works in the context of his life, Tim Barringer, studies the difficulty of categorizing Madox Brown’s work, and his refusal to be defined by a particular artistic movement, and Laura MacCulloch, looks specifically at Madox Brown’s illustrations, including his undervalued drawings for Shakespeare’s King Lear and Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon. Ther is a complete catalogue listing of all 174 drawings, watercolours, designs and archive material by Madox Brown in the BMAG collection . Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-09-01T09:50:05+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:27Z Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum By Edward Bleiberg. With an essay by Kathlyn M. Cooney. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum (ISBN: 978-1-904832-52-2) “In his reader-friendly visual and writing style, this author draws the curtain back on a fascinating area of ancient Egyptian society” Henry Berry online “A thorough discussion of Egyptian theology and the process of preparing a corpse for the afterlife” Berkshire Fine Arts With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. This new book draws on over 120 ancient Egyptian monuments from the world-renowned collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. In answering the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explaining Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife, author Edward Bleiberg offers a fresh take on the subject by addressing the practical, economic considerations an ancient Egyptian faced when preparing for the next life. Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition in the USA which began in July 2008. Forthcoming venues are the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 6–September 12, 2010; San Antonio Museum of Art, October 15, 2010–January 9, 2011;Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 12–May 8, 2011; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, June 11–September 4, 2011; Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 6–January 7, 2012 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:27+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/collecting-with-vision/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/collecting-with-vision/#When:09:36:21Z Treasures from the Chrysler Museum of Art By Jefferson C. Harrison, Gary E. Baker and Brooks Johnson. With a Foreword by William J. Hennessey, Director. Published by: GILES in association with the Chrysler Museum of Art (ISBN: 978-1-904832-33-1) A beautifully illustrated survey of five centuries of art from the collections of one of America’s leading museums Features colour plates of over 200 of the most important artworks from the Museum’s holdings of American, European and decorative art Featuring highlights from the great collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art, this volume includes paintings by leading American artists, such as Copley, Cole, Bierstadt, Homer, Cassatt and Hopper; Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces by Filippino Lippi and Salvator Rosa; Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, including Peter Paul Rubens; and the work of European painters like Velazquez, Delacroix and Gauguin. The Museum also boasts major collections of decorative art, including Worcester porcelain, Gorham silver, and the internationally important glass collection with works by Tiffany, Gallé, Dale Chihuly and Catherine “Cappy” Thompson. Photography also features strongly, with early photographs, including images form the Civil War and iconic photographs from the Civil Rights Movement. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-05-08T09:36:21+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/hidden-burne-jones/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/hidden-burne-jones/#When:08:53:02Z Works on Paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery By John Christian, Elisa Korb and Tessa Sidey. Published by: GILES in association with Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (ISBN: 978-1-904832-30-0) “An excellent catalogue” Andrew Lambrith, The Spectator “[A] considerable achievement” Jane Munro, Print Quarterly “embodying mature insight, new research, modern technology and hands-on experience in a highly effective synthesis” Dr Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Senior Curator, Barber Institute of Fine Arts Hidden Burne-Jones throws new light on the draughtsmanship of leading Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones, by studying his development as an artist and image maker through his life-long commitment to drawing. Leading Burne-Jones specialist John Christian presents new research on Burne-Jones's drawing technique and stylistic development; Elisa Korb studies Burne-Jones’s depiction of the female form, his approach to using models, and the stylistic development of subjects such as the nude over the course of his career; and Tessa Sidey looks at Burne-Jones’s often uneasy relationship with his native city of Birmingham, and the work of major benefactors, especially local patrons J.R. Holliday and Charles Fairfax Murray, in helping to develop the Museum and Art Gallery’s internationally important holdings the artist’s work. The volume illustrates 63 selected drawings and works on paper, with a complete catalogue listing of all 1,137 drawings, watercolours, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-04-10T08:53:02+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/anne-truitt/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/anne-truitt/#When:11:32:22Z Perception and Reflection By Kristen Hileman and James Meyer . Published by: GILES in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (ISBN: 978-1-904832-61-4 ) The first complete monograph of the artist, which includes a full survey of 50 of Anne Truitt’s sculptures and over 40 two-dimensional works made during the artist’s 40-year career, up to her death in 2004 Features essays by organizing curator Kristen Hileman and leading scholar James Meyer that interpret Truitt’s career and her place within the broader context of American abstraction Anne Truitt, an artist based in Washington, D.C. for most of her career, remains an under-recognized force in art post-1960, partly because she pursued a staunchly independent course in her art: not only did she take a different path from the Color Field artists often associated with Washington, D.C., but she created reduced geometric abstraction that deviated from the approaches of Minimalist artists in some significant ways. This volume, which accompanied the first major retrospective exhibition of Anne Truitt’s work in over 30 years, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 2009, forms an important part of the re-evaluation of Truitt’s art, due to the scope of work which it presents. Whilst Truitt’s work has featured as part of larger surveys of Minimalism, as well as in Truitt’s own artist’s journals it has never before been the subject of a complete monographic survey. Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection significantly increases our understanding of post-1960’s art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-02T11:32:22+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/1934-a-new-deal-for-artists/#When:10:45:17Z By Ann Prentice Wagner. Essay by Roger G. Kennedy. Introduction by Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C (ISBN: 978-1-904832-67-6 ) Draws on 56 vibrant paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s unique collection created for the Public Works of Art program during the Great Depression Invaluable for students in schools and colleges Publication accompanies a major touring exhibition until 2013 1934: A New Deal for Artists 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, against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the U.S. Government created its first program to support the arts. The PWAP lasted for six months, from mid-December 1933 to June 1934, and artists from across the United States were encouraged to depict the American scene, and boost morale through art. The Program paid artists to paint regional, recognizable subjects—ranging from portraits to cityscapes, from images of city life to landscapes and depictions of rural life—that reminded the public of the essential American values of hard work, community and optimism. The 55 paintings in this volume are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time; a response to an economic situation that is all too familiar today. The exhibition will travel to the following venues: The Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh January 30 through April 30 2010; Fort Wayne Museum, Indiana, May 12 until August 22 2010; The What Com Museum, October 16 2010 to January 6 2011; The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, February 3 until June 2011; Mennello Museum, August-October 2011; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, November 5 2011 until January 29 2012; Muskegon Museum, February 16 to May 6 2012; Portland Museum of Art, October 25 2012 to January 20 2013. Other venues tbc. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-01T10:45:17+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/sevres-then-and-now/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/sevres-then-and-now/#When:10:34:13Z Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000 By Liana Paredes. Published by: GILES in association with Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-63-8 ) “The catalogue…is well illustrated and the book is a useful overview of two and a half centuries of high-end ceramic production.” Aileen Dawson, The Art Newspaper Publication marks the opening of a major new exhibition, Sèvres then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000, showing at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C. October 20 2009 through May 30 2010   Sèvres then and Now: Tradition and Innovation in Porcelain, 1750–2000, showcases the longstanding achievements of the French porcelain factory, in particular its unparalleled invention and creativity over three centuries. Featuring an assemblage of over 80 international loan objects as well as pieces from Hillwood’s own renowned collection, many of which have never been published before, this vibrant volume juxtaposes the earliest Sèvres pieces with the cutting-edge works of the 21st century. Three informative essays by Hillwood curator and organizer of the exhibition Liana Paredes are devoted to the continuous innovation in both production and design that has been the hallmark of ceramics at the Sèvres factory from the 1750s to the early years of the 21st century. It is illustrated with 240 colour images, the vast majority of these from newly-commissioned photography, with a wide range of full-size plates, details, marks and other comparative illustrations Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-10-01T10:34:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/tobi-kahn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/tobi-kahn/#When:10:14:38Z 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 A milestone in appraising the development of Kahn’s work over the past two decades Based on a recent exhbtion 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 2009-10-01T10:14:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/scripture-for-the-eyes/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/scripture-for-the-eyes/#When:13:05:49Z 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 ) “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 2009-09-01T13:05:49+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/leonardo-drew-existed/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/leonardo-drew-existed/#When:10:48:52Z By Edited by Claudia Schmuckli. Essays by Claudia Schmuckli and Allen S. Weiss. Published by: In association with Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston (ISBN: 978-1-904832-58-4) “Facing the difficult task of capturing works so large, so detailed, and so dependent on a close appreciation of their aggregation and texture, Existed comes through with flying colours.”  “A choice reference on the artist and his work”, Katherine R. Lieber, Artscope.net The first book to document and interpret fully Drew’s career over the last twenty years, including reproductions of 44 sculptures realized between 1988 and 2007 and 26 works on paper Features scholarly essays that interpret Drew’s career and his place within the broader context of contemporary art, an annotated chronology, selected biography and bibliography Throughout his career, Leonardo Drew has been continuously engaged with the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his formally abstract but emotionally charged compositions have a metaphorical weight that is as unique as it is symbolic. Often interpreted as a comment on the position of African-Americans in contemporary American society, his work transcends any specific historic and ethnic reference, and is deeply embedded in the theory and practice of mid-20th-century abstraction. Ranging from the intense drama of his sculptures and installations of the 1980s, to the epic sweep of his massive wall-bound tableaux in the 1990s, to the ethereal language of his paper casts of the early 2000s, his works transcend time and place. Add the poetic intimacy of his recent works on paper, and Drew’s practice can be described as a journey toward enlightenment, full of reprises and returns as well as new beginnings. Publication accompanies an exhibition at Blaffer Gallery, the University of Houston on May 16 to August 15, 2009, travelling to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., from February 7, 2010 through May 9, 2010 Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2009-05-07T10:48:52+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/big/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/big/#When:11:20:18Z Big Records, Big Events and Big Ideas in American History: Celebrating 75 Years of the National Archives By Stacey Bredhoff. Foreword by Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States. Published by: GILES in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-62-1 ) Publication accompanies a major exhibition opening at the US National Archives in March 2009 to celebrate its 75th anniversary Features some of the largest (both in size and historical significance) records from the US National Archives Collection Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the National Archives, Washington, D.C. in 2009, this new volume features big records, big events, and big ideas from the US National Archives collection. Starting with the 13-foot scroll of the Articles of Confederation—the first constitution of the United States—the full-scale records reveal some of the formative moments in American history. Among the items reproduced, some with fold-out pages, are a section from the enormous 13-foot square map of the Gettysburg battlefield, and the size 22 sneakers of basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal. The variety of documents and objects is huge, ranging from orders for fitting out of a ship with reinforced beds and extra large baths to carry William H. Taft – at 320lbs, the heaviest President in U.S. history – to prints of the mammoth glass-plate negatives by photographer Carleton Watkins of Yosemite Valley in California, now the site of a National Park, dating from the 1860s. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2009-03-02T11:20:18+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/modern-masters/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/modern-masters/#When:10:46:25Z American Abstraction at Midcentury By Virginia Mecklenburg. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-59-1) “A wonderful starting point for a new generation of artists and scholars” Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts “Modern Masters serves as a noteworthy introduction to this important field of modernist and American art.  Also Mecklenburg’s introductory essay ...offers as good an outline of the origins, rise, success, and demise of American abstract art as one could find” Henry Berry online This brand new volume presents in, stunning colour, over 70 postwar artworks from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and looks at the rise to prominence of New York as the centre of the modern art scene in the two decades following the Second World War. Some 31 major artists are featured, including Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Nevelson, Larry Rivers and Theodore Roszak. In her main essay Virginia Mecklenburg draws heavily on contemporary photographs, magazine and newspaper articles, diaries and personal recollections, to bring to life the works of art, the lives of the artists who created them, the galleries that exhibited them and the public’s reaction to them. She explains how the unique combination of the media, individual critics, and curators and gallery owners, was so important in shaping a distinctly modern American art form during the late 1940s and 1950s. Publication accompanies the inaugural exhibition at the new Yann Weymouth building designed to house the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami. Other dates are the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa. (June 14 – Sept. 6, 2009), the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, Ga. (Nov. 13, 2010 – Feb. 5, 2011), the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tenn. (March 19, 2011 – June 19, 2011) and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, N.C. (Oct. 7, 2011 – Jan. 1, 2012). Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2009-02-02T10:46:25+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/going-west/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/going-west/#When:10:32:55Z Quilts and Community By Sandi Fox and Roderick Kiracofe. Published by: GILES in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-45-4) “this lavishly illustrated book gives a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these brave Pioneer women” Patchwork and Quilting “Steven Oliver’s masterful photographs reveal the artistry in these colorful but vital textiles” Early Homes Recently reprinted after the first edition (October 2007) sold out   Going West! Quilts and Community presents, in striking colour, over 50 19th-century quilts either made, or transported along the great migratory wagon trails, and reveals the essential role that quilts and quiltmaking played in the lives of frontier women. Pioneers heading for a new life in the Nebraska Territory packed their wagons with necessities that almost always included quilts, which were used as sturdy domestic bedding along the trail, or packed tenderly in the trunk as a tie to all that had been left behind. The quilts have been selected by independent curator and co-author Sandi Fox, with an essay on the history and social context of quilt-making by leading quilt scholar Roderick Kiracofe. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2008-10-01T10:32:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/drawn-by-new-york/ http://www.gilesltd.com/books/catalogue/exhibition-catalogues/drawn-by-new-york/#When:10:09:15Z Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings at the New-York Historical Society By Roberta J. M. Olson. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-34-8) “As lavish as it is weighty” and “Highly recommended” K. Rhodes, Drew University Choice “the gorgeously illustrated accompanying catalogue provides informative commentary on each work” Antiques & Fine Art “I also strongly recommend Ms Olson’s massive and outstanding catalog” The New York Sun     The New-York Historical Society’s drawing collection is one of the earliest assembled in the United States, yet its trove of over 8,000 sheets and 75 rare sketchbooks is surprisingly unknown. Drawn by New York presents over 200 highlights, spanning six centuries, from 16th-century avian watercolours and a Dutch view of New Amsterdam (1650), to the façade of St. Patrick’s Cathedral captured from inside Rockefeller Center by Richard Haas (2002) and representations of the World Trade Center, both before and after September 11th 2001. There are works by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and John Singer Sargent, sheets by Asher B. Durand, and a cache of 500 watercolours by John James Audubon (including those for The Birds of America, 1827–38). Over 200 “Outline Drawings” by George Catlin record long-vanished Native American cultures. Publication accompanies a travelling exhibition which opened at the New-York Historical Society in September 2008 (until January 7, 2009), moving to the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (August 14 - November 1 2009) and the Taft Museum of Art (November 2009–February 2010) Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-09-01T10:09:15+00:00