http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/news/ en lj@gilesltd.com Copyright 2008 2008-06-26T09:06:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/news/new-book-winner-of-2008-henry-allen-moe-prize/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/news/new-book-winner-of-2008-henry-allen-moe-prize/#When:09:06:00Z D Giles Limited is proud to announce that its recently published book A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls has been selected from a highly competitive field as the winner of the 2008 Henry Allen Moe Prize The Henry Allen Moe Prize is awarded annually by the New York State Historical Association to the outstanding catalogue in the arts published in New York State. The prize committee says of its choice: "This exhibition catalogue provides a fascinating and important historical study that will influence future works on Tiffany lamps and the Tiffany Company. Its content, design, and contributions to the field make it an excellent choice for the 2008 Moe prize." A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls is a ground-breaking book which explores the turn-of-the-century New York women who created many of Tiffany Studios' celebrated decorative objects. It features beautiful colour images of over 50 Tiffany lamps, windows, mosaics, enamels, and ceramics, as well as pages of newly discovered correspondence written by designer Clara Driscoll. As co-author and curator Margaret K. Hofer explains, “Clara Driscoll was the hidden genius behind many of Louis C. Tiffany's designs. We are thrilled to be telling the story of this remarkable woman, primarily through her own words. This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue represent a great step forward in the scholarship of Tiffany Studios.” 2008-06-26T09:06:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/news/new-book-encounters-travel-and-money-in-the-byzantine-world/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/news/new-book-encounters-travel-and-money-in-the-byzantine-world/#When:12:46:55Z New book celebrating 10 centuries of Byzantine, Islamic and Western art runner-up in prestigious award.D Giles Limited is proud to announce that its recently published book, Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World, in association with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, and the British Museum, was runner-up in the prestigious Art Newspaper and AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007. This award was set up six years ago in order to recognise the innovative research and design of exhibition catalogues, which often goes unnoticed by the press. A shortlist of 25 works was drawn up from an impressive 183 entries, and the award was announced and presented by the 12th Duke of Devonshire on November 22nd. Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World is a vibrant portrayal of the politics, trade, travel and commerce in the Byzantine empire. Over 70 rare coins, medals and related works of art chart the history of the area from the 5th Century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. This highly accessible book, with 72 full-colour pages, goes further than other numismatic studies, putting into historical and social context the production and use of coins in the Byzantine empire. Co-authors Dr Barrie Cook and Dr. Eurydice Georganteli examine the spread of Byzantine money beyond the borders of the empire, the means through which this occurred and the response of other peoples and cultures to the iconography and value of Byzantine coins. They illustrate the widespread and complex role of Byzantine coinage in the medieval world, initially in the form of the gold solidus, and subsequently the hyperpyron, with coins shown to have been found in burial deposits as far flung as Britain and China. The Authors Eurydice Georganteli studied history of art and archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Oxford. She has been a Bodossakis and an A.G. Leventis scholar at Oxford, fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, and Robinson scholar at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She has worked for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and taught at the University of Thessaly,Volos, before becoming in 2000 Curator of the Barber Institute Coin Collection and Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. Her museum work, teaching and publications focus on late Roman and Byzantine numismatics and art. Barrie Cook studied history at the University of Manchester. In 1985 he joined the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum as Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coinage. In this capacity he has catalogued several hundred new coin hoards from England. He is co-author of Money: A History,the Coin Atlas, co-editor and contributor to Money and History in the North Sea World 500-1250 and has published many articles on numismatic subjects. He was one of the organisers of the British Museum’s HSBC Money Gallery and has worked on many other exhibitions, including 14 specialist numismatic displays on subjects that range from the Dark Ages to World War II. 2008-04-22T12:46:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-arnhold-collection-of-meissen-porcelain-1710-50/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-arnhold-collection-of-meissen-porcelain-1710-50/#When:08:44:32Z By Maureen Cassidy-Geiger. Introduction by Henry Arnhold. Essays by Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann. Published by: GILES in association with The Frick Collection, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-44-7) Publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Frick Collection throughout summer 2008 An invaluable source of reference for dealers, scholars and collectors Features colour illustrations of more than 400 pieces of Meissen porcelain, the majority dating from the early period of the royal factory, 1710-1740 Includes catalogue entries, commentaries and scholarly apparatus The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great pre-war Meissen collections to have survived intact, remaining with the descendants of the original collectors. Most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory established by August II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, in 1710, featuring a broad range of early works, much of it experimental. Most of the pieces in the Arnhold collection were bought by Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold from 1926-35, and most have royal or significant provenance. The collection was brought to America in the 1940s ahead of the family’s move from Dresden. Since 1974 Henry Arnhold has continued to expand the depth and range of the collection. The volume also contains major essays by Sebastian Kuhn, who studies the wider trends in collecting European porcelain between 1900 and 1960 in Europe and America, and by Heike Biedermann, who studies the Arnholds as collectors of modern art in Dresden from their marriage in 1914 until 1935. The catalogue is introduced by a personal recollection by Henry Arnhold of his family as collectors and art patrons in Dresden and how the porcelain collection was created. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2008-06-04T08:44:32+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:28Z 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) Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition beginning July 2008 through 2011. Venues include Indianapolis Museum of Art (July- September 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, with dates and additional venues to be announced Presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection, including the famous Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history Offers a new look at a perennially fascinating topic by considering all economic and social ranks of Egyptian society Life after death was a primary cultural belief through thousands of years of Egyptian history. The ancient Egyptians regarded death as an enemy that could be defeated through proper preparation. This brand new book, and its accompanying travelling exhibition, To Live Forever, draws on important ancient Egyptian monuments from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. The book answers the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explains the Egyptians’ beliefs about death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs. At the same time, curator 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. Dr. Bleiberg deals with the afterlife preparations not only of kings and nobles, but also of the middle class and the poor. Not all ranks of society had access to the elaborate funeral preparations made for a king. Poorer people could use painted wood or clay coffins as substitutes for the hard stone and gold sarcophagi of kings. Expensive granite vessels, the property of the rich, could be cheaply reproduced in clay and painted to imitate stone for someone of more modest means. In keeping with the book’s special focus on the practicalities of afterlife preparation, Kathlyn M. Cooney breaks new ground in her essay, entitled How Much Did a Coffin Cost?, by addressing such pragmatic questions as the price of a coffin in relation to average salaries, and how the costs of different colours of paint affected decisions about coffin decoration. Drawing on original research using documents from the artist settlement at Deir el-Medina, Dr. Cooney discusses how Egyptians chose the objects for their tombs, how much the items cost, how they were paid for, and how the high-priced burial-goods market affected Egyptian society. She shows the ancient Egyptians as ordinary people with problems and desires often similar to those of people today. To Live Forever presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection. Among the works are acknowledged masterpieces of the stone sculptor’s art, along with the renowned Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history. With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-cinema-effect/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-cinema-effect/#When:11:02:00Z Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image By Essays by Kerry Brougher, Anne Ellegood, Kelly Gordon and Kristen Hileman. With a chronology of the moving image by Tony Oursler. Published by: GILES in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Available in North America and Canada exclusively from Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-50-8 ) Publication accompanies a two-part exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Part 1: Dreams opens in February 2008; Part 2: Realisms opens in June 2008 Features the work of Matthew Buckingham, Candice Breitz, Paul Chan, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Kota Ezawa, Omer Fast, Christoph Girardet, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Pierre Huyghe, Runa Islam, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Kelly Richardson and Andy Warhol, among others Features an illustrated chronology of the moving image by internationally renowned video artist Tony Oursler The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image offers the first in-depth exploration of the influence of cinema on contemporary artists using moving-image technology, and explores the way in which this medium has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivalled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary (and of subsequent incarnations like television and the internet) has grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable. This volume opens with an overview by Kerry Brougher of the cultural, social and psychological issues raised by the project, before dividing into two parts which reflect the opposing poles at the core of cinema and its role in art and contemporary culture. Part I, Dreams, opens with a discussion by Kelly Gordon of how and why moving-image work has shifted from the margins to the center of art production, and considers the analogous relationship between cinema technology and the psychology of dreams and the ways in which artists compel or challenge the suspension of disbelief, encouraging viewers’ awareness of their participation in this process. Part II, Realisms, shifts the focus to the larger societal impact of cinema’s pervasiveness and looks at the work of emerging artists. In Man and the Movie Camera Kristen Hileman explores the complex issue of authenticity in art, film, and culture, whilst Anne Ellegood, in Character Driven: Subjectivity and the Cinematic, examines how the interplay between reality and fiction informs artists’ explorations into subjectivity, individuality and character. At the heart of Realisms is the irony that, while over the course of the 20th century moving-picture media have become dominant modes for documentary and distribution of factual imagery, and it has become easier and easier to capture real life in real time, the moving image is also understood to be a powerful vehicle of illusion and distraction. The difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly complicated and difficult to determine. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2008-02-07T11:02:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/hirshhorn/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/hirshhorn/#When:08:18:00Z 30 Postcards By Edited by Deborah E. Horowitz. Published by: GILES in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gallery (ISBN: 978-1-904832-24-9) Presents 30 beautiful colour postcards of the most significant works from one of the leading museums of modern and contemporary art Includes a brief overview of the collection and history of the museum Features works by leading American and international artists, including Edward Hopper (Eleven A.M., 1926), Joseph Cornell (Medici Princess, c1952), Ellsworth Kelly (Red White, 1961), Gerhard Richter (Annunciation After Titian, 1973), Chuck Close (Roy II, 1994), James Turrell (Milk Run, 1996), and Ron Mueck (Untitled (Big Man), 2000) The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian’s museum of modern and contemporary art. Located on the National Mall in the heart of Washington, D.C., the Museum and its collection are the result of the generosity and enthusiasm for art of one man, Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899–1981). Hirshhorn, who immigrated to the United States from Latvia with his parents at the age of eight, began collecting at an early age. Although originally attracted to traditional nineteenth-century French academic and impressionist painters and sculptors, he discovered that it was the art of the present that he found most exciting and engaging. He became a devotee of contemporary art and eventually donated over 12,000 works to the institution that bears his name. Established in 1966 as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, in 1974 the collection moved to a purpose-built museum designed by Gordon Bunshaft. It is now the primary collection of contemporary art and culture in America, and seeks to enhance public understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through acquisitions, exhibitions, educational programmes and research. Each of the 30 works in this brand new book has been chosen as a highlight of this remarkable collection, and will appeal to art lovers of all age Art & Decorative Arts 2007-09-01T08:18:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/variations-on-america/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/variations-on-america/#When:09:53:55Z Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections By George Gurney, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Joann Moser, George Speer and Elaine Yau. 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: 978-1-904832-42-3) Presents colour plates of over 70 paintings by the leading names in 19th- and 20th-century American art Features works by Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mary Cassatt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Bellows, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O’Keefe, James Earl Fraser, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney This volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the American Art Forum, by presenting 72 treasured works of art selected by the curators of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In six thematic and chronological sections, the curators cover the huge variety of American art: luminous images of nature from the mid-nineteenth century, such as Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Meadows I, and fine landscape masterpieces in the Hudson River tradition, including Sanford Robinson Gifford’s The Marshes of the Hudson (1876); light-filled impressionist canvases, such as Mary Cassatt’s Reading “Le Figaro” (1878); dazzling Gilded Age glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and paintings by John Singer Sargent; gritty Ashcan records from a dynamic New York City, such as George Bellows’s Noon (1908); vivid aesthetic creations of the modern age; the triumphant abstract expressionism of Willem de Kooning; and resonant contemporary works by Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney. The book also showcases major canvases by Georgia O’Keefe, such as Black Cross with Red Sky (1929), John Marin’s Taos Canyon, New Mexico (1929), Cyrus Edwin Dallin’s major statue Appeal to the Great Spirit and James Earl Fraser’s emotive bronze sculpture End of the Trail (1918). Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-06-06T09:53:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-christian-story/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/the-christian-story/#When:09:20:36Z Five Asian Artists Today By Patricia C. Pongracz, Volker Küster and John W. Cook. With a Preface by Ena G. Heller, Executive Director of the Museum of Biblical Art, New York. Published by: GILES in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-20-1) Presents paintings by leading contemporary Asian artists workings in Bali, China, Sri Lanka and Thailand Features colour plates of over 40 of the artworks and artists’ statements, and includes essays by leading scholars Patricia C. Pongracz, John W. Cook and Volker Küster This colourful catalogue features paintings and statements by five leading contemporary Asian artists, Sawai Chinnawong (Thailand), He Qi (China), Nalini Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka), Nyoman Darsane (Bali) and Wisnu Sasongko (Thailand), which highlight the very different ways artists of diverse cultures today perceive Biblical tales. Over forty new paintings are explored showing how the Judeo-Christian narrative has been adapted for both western and indigenous audiences. Though greatly influenced by regional and cultural traditions, many of these artists have also been exposed to western Judeo-Christian teachings, and it is this mixture of influences which is so striking in their work. The book considers the importance of these works to the development and exportation of Asian Biblical Art to the West and its reception, audience and patronage. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-05-10T09:20:36+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/collecting-with-vision/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/collecting-with-vision/#When:09:36:19Z 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 The Chrysler Museum of Art houses one of America's great collections of fine and decorative art from antiquity to contemporary America. Founded in 1939 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Museum experienced explosive growth in 1971 when automobile heir and art collector Walter P. Chrysler presented the city of Norfolk with his collection. Since Chrysler's death in 1989 the Museum has continued to expand, building on his incredible legacy. This illustrated volume presents paintings by leading American artists, including Copley, Cole, Bierstadt, Homer, Cassatt and Hopper; Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces by Filippino Lippi and Salvator Rosa; Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, including works by Jan Gossaert and Peter Paul Rubens; and the work of European painters like Velazquez, Delacroix and Gauguin. The Chrysler Museum also boasts major collections of decorative art, including Tiffany and Gallé glass, Worcester porcelain and Gorham silver. The glass collection is internationally important and ranges from antiquity to studio works by Dale Chihuly and Catherine “Cappy” Thompson. Photography also features strongly, with major collections of early photographs, Civil War images and iconic images from the Civil Rights Movement. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-05-08T09:36:19+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/hidden-burne-jones/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/hidden-burne-jones/#When:08:53:38Z 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) Provides a complete listing of the unique collection of over 1,100 drawings, watercolours, sketches, stained glass cartoons, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Highlights the connections between little-known drawings selected from the works on paper collection at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Includes essays by Burne-Jones specialists John Christian, Elisa Korb, and Tessa Sidey, Curator of Drawings and Prints at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Hidden Burne-Jones is a major new volume which throws new light on the draughtsmanship of leading Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones, by studying Burne-Jones's development as an artist and image maker through his life-long commitment to drawing. The volume includes three essays by leading Burne-Jones specialists. The first, by John Christian, presents new research on Burne-Jones's drawing technique and stylistic development, most clearly seen in works like The Fairy Family series (1857), The Annunciation (1857-61), An Idyll (1862), and Drapery Study of Lucretia for Chaucer’s ‘Legend of Good Women’ (1863). The second essay, by 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. The artist’s fascination with the female form is most strongly evoked in works like Female Nude: Three Studies (1865-66), Two Nude Female Studies for The Lament (1865), Lucretia (1867) and Composition Study for Charity (1867). The final essay, by 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, which appear throughout the essays and the main exhibition presentation, nearly 30 of which are reproduced in colour. Each work is accompanied by an entry, which includes full specifications, provenance, inscriptions and an extended caption. The Burne-Jones collection at Birmingham is in every sense an international public resource. It contains nearly 1,200 works, of which over a thousand are works on paper and related archive material. This volume includes a complete catalogue listing of all 1,137 drawings, watercolours, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which forms the basis of a new on-line Burne-Jones Resource Site. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-04-10T08:53:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/kindred-spirits/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/kindred-spirits/#When:09:48:34Z Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape By Edited by Linda S. Ferber. Contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Kenneth T. Jackson and Sarah B. Snook. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-26-3) Publication accompanies the first dedicated exhibition of Durand’s work since 1973 Reproduces works from every aspect of Durand’s long career as an engraver, portrait painter and landscape artist, 100 of which are reproduced in stunning colour plates, including the iconic Kindred Spirits (1849) and The First Harvest in the Wilderness (1855) Includes an illustrated biographical chronology and an appendix of Durand’s “Letters on Landscape Painting,” published in their entirety for the first time since their original publication in the Crayon in 1855 This major new volume revisits for the first time in 30 years the world and the works of Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), one of 19th-century America’s most important artists. Durand was a central figure, both as an artist and as the major spokesman for the American landscape school, and was the acknowledged dean of American landscape painting from his election as president of the National Academy of Design in 1845 until his death at the age of ninety. Five chapters reconstruct Durand’s career before and after the moment when landscape painting became his passion, so re-establishing the full scope of his achievement. The authors consider landscape production, patronage, markets and criticism during the six decades of Durand’s career. They take us from the earliest efforts of artists to create a national cultural identity by means of American scenery, through the mid-century triumph and, later, the eclipse of what is now called the Hudson River School. This survey features 100 colour and 100 black and white illustrations, including paintings, engravings and drawings by Durand, as well as numerous photographs and comparative images. This long over-due volume reevaluates Durand's position as a major American landscape artist, his relationship with other artists including Thomas Cole, and his critical role in the American art world of the antebellum period Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-03-02T09:48:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/a-new-light-on-tiffany/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/art-decorative-arts/a-new-light-on-tiffany/#When:10:42:22Z Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls By Contributions by Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-35-5) Presents brand new information about the creative process behind the production of lamps, stained glass panels and other wonderful products of the Tiffany Studios, as well as the individuals behind the products and designs Fully illustrated with over 70 colour plates of wonderful Tiffany lamps, stained-glass panels and glass mosaics Features a wealth of rare black-and-white archival images Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Recent scholarly books and exhibitions have explored Tiffany's creative genius and marketing savvy, as well as his success in elevating the status of decorative arts in America. Though the products of Tiffany Studios—from stained glass windows and lamps to metalwork, enamels, furniture, and textiles—have been justly acclaimed for their artistic value, the process of creating these objects and the individuals involved have remained mostly obscure. Recently discovered correspondence written by Ohio-born Clara Driscoll, head of the so-called "Women's Glass Cutting Department" at Tiffany Studios, reveals in convincing and vivid detail how it was in fact Driscoll who generated designs for such masterpieces as the famous Wisteria, Dragonfly and Peony goods. A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls presents the celebrated works of Tiffany Studios in an entirely new context, focusing on the women who laboured behind the scenes to create the masterpieces now inextricably linked to the Tiffany name.In this ground-breaking book, the authors explore the role of the "Tiffany girls"—the 27 women responsible for making Tiffany lamps, windows, mosaics, and other luxury goods—and their talented leader and designer, Clara Driscoll. At the heart of the book are over 50 Tiffany lamps, windows, ceramics, enamels and mosaics, supplemented by a wide array of related documents and archival photographs. The volume also features biographies on all the women workers – the “Tiffany Girls”. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-03-01T10:42:22+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/architecture/building-americas-hangar/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/architecture/building-americas-hangar/#When:10:03:10Z 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 2004-12-01T10:03:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:28Z 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) Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition beginning July 2008 through 2011. Venues include Indianapolis Museum of Art (July- September 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, with dates and additional venues to be announced Presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection, including the famous Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history Offers a new look at a perennially fascinating topic by considering all economic and social ranks of Egyptian society Life after death was a primary cultural belief through thousands of years of Egyptian history. The ancient Egyptians regarded death as an enemy that could be defeated through proper preparation. This brand new book, and its accompanying travelling exhibition, To Live Forever, draws on important ancient Egyptian monuments from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. The book answers the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explains the Egyptians’ beliefs about death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs. At the same time, curator 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. Dr. Bleiberg deals with the afterlife preparations not only of kings and nobles, but also of the middle class and the poor. Not all ranks of society had access to the elaborate funeral preparations made for a king. Poorer people could use painted wood or clay coffins as substitutes for the hard stone and gold sarcophagi of kings. Expensive granite vessels, the property of the rich, could be cheaply reproduced in clay and painted to imitate stone for someone of more modest means. In keeping with the book’s special focus on the practicalities of afterlife preparation, Kathlyn M. Cooney breaks new ground in her essay, entitled How Much Did a Coffin Cost?, by addressing such pragmatic questions as the price of a coffin in relation to average salaries, and how the costs of different colours of paint affected decisions about coffin decoration. Drawing on original research using documents from the artist settlement at Deir el-Medina, Dr. Cooney discusses how Egyptians chose the objects for their tombs, how much the items cost, how they were paid for, and how the high-priced burial-goods market affected Egyptian society. She shows the ancient Egyptians as ordinary people with problems and desires often similar to those of people today. To Live Forever presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection. Among the works are acknowledged masterpieces of the stone sculptor’s art, along with the renowned Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history. With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-naming-of-america/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-naming-of-america/#When:08:59:00Z 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) The first sheet-by-sheet colour facsimile of Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map – one of the most important maps in the history of cartography Summarizes the current state of knowledge on Waldseemüller and his collaborators Features a completely new translation of the Cosmographiae Introductio – Waldseemüller’s guidebook to his famous map – and identifies Waldseemüller’s sources 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. The Cosmographiae Introductio by Martin Waldseemüller (ca. 1470-ca.1521) and Matthias Ringmann (1482-1511) was printed in two editions in 1507 in the small village of St. Dié in North Eastern France, under the patronage of Duke René II of Lorraine. Its importance stems from the mention on its title page of two maps that appear to have originally been part of the book. One of these maps, described in Latin as a plano, is Martin Waldseemüller’s famous 1507 World Map. It represents the continents of North and South America with a shape similar to those we would recognize today, eparated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean. The other map, called a solido, was a printed globe gore that is thought to be the first of its kind. Together, the 1507 map and the Cosmographiae introductio occupy a crucial place in history, between the discovery of the New World by Columbus in 1492 and the birth of the scientific revolution with Copernicus in 1543. 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 2008-02-07T08:59:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-american-history-in-england/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/discovering-american-history-in-england/#When:10:37:01Z An Illustrated Traveler’s Guide By Catherine Leitch. Published by: GILES (ISBN: 978-1-904832-38-6) A widely-researched combination of historical biography, tour guide and reference book featuring both subject-specific chapters and a Gazetteer Focuses on real people and real places, and why they are important in American history Will particularly appeal to American tourists and Americans expatriates in the U.K. (currently over 224,000 resident) 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. Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, which helped incite revolt in the American Colonies, was born in Thetford, Norfolk, where he lived until the age of 19. Benjamin Franklin’s home at 36 Craven Street in London served as the de facto American embassy, where he first articulated his argument disputing the right of the British Parliament to tax the American colonies without representation. Historic figures like Paine and Franklin fascinate author and historian Catherine Leitch, an American who has lived in England for 12 years. During this time she 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. With its lively and informative text and beautiful colour images, this book will inspire readers to learn about the Britons who have had a defining influence on America, and also about those Americans who travelled eastward across the Atlantic to make a lasting contribution to the culture of Britain. History & General Interest 2008-02-05T10:37:01+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lee-and-grant/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/lee-and-grant/#When:11:02:26Z By William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. Published by: Published in association with the Virginia Historical Society (ISBN: 9781904832362) Publication accompanies a travelling exhibition with the following venues: Virginia Historical Society (October 2007); Missouri Historical Society (spring 2008); New-York Historical Society (fall 2008); Museum of Southern History, Houston (spring 2009) and Atlanta History Center (fall 2009) Includes a major re-assessment, by two leading American historians, of the development of historical thought and popular attitudes towards both figures in the years since the outbreak of the Civil War Covers the entirety of 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, examining how their lives interconnected and how they diverged Features over 270 fascinating illustrations, including the generals’ uniforms and accoutrements, letters, rare photographs and newly-discovered paintings, prints, engravings and images from popular culture Presents an enormous amount of information on both the Grant and the Lee families Addresses the question, how should Lee and Grant be evaluated in 2007, the 200th anniversary of Lee’s birth? Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are without a doubt two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history. Their often-times controversial characters, lives and careers are intrinsically linked with the American Civil War, and subsequent written histories on both individuals have frequently been shaped by the positions and roles both took up during the Civil War. However, curiously, 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 combine fascinating images and an extensive well-researched and written narrative text. Together with the accompanying touring exhibition, it provides a major re-assessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of Lee and Grant. This heavily illustrated volume contains over 270 images – 175 of which are in colour – and brings together a huge number of pictorial representations of both Grant and Lee, by a wide range of artists, as well as photographs and engravings, and images from popular culture. The lengthy narrative text, written by leading authors William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, covers the entirety of 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, and how they interconnected and how they diverged. It also features a wealth of new information about the Grant and the Lee families. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2008-02-01T11:02:26+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-armenians/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-armenians/#When:10:34:05Z 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) The first accessible study of the Armenian people and their history as seen through Armenian art, literature, language and religion from the late 5th to the early 20th century Illustrated with a wide range of contextual images, including leading historic monuments and sites from Armenian history Features appendices on the Armenian language and alphabet and a timeline 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. These are intrinsically linked to Armenia’s religious, ecclesiastical and liturgical traditions, which have developed independently from both Catholic and Orthodox churches since the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451. Nira and Michael Stone tell the story of the Armenian landscape, people, Armenian Christianity, language and writing, 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 2007-12-25T10:34:05+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/school-house-to-the-white-house/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/school-house-to-the-white-house/#When:16:48:41Z The Education of the Presidents By Contributors: The Archival and Museum Staff of the Presidential Libraries and the Exhibit Staff of the Center for the National Archives Experience Foreword by Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States. Published by: Published in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-43-0) Draws on numerous memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of the presidents of the 20th-century Accompanies a major exhibition opening at the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. and travelling to the Presidential Libraries Fully illustrated with 130 colour, including Franklin D Roosevelt’s Groton School report cards, a photograph of Dwight Eisenhower from his freshman class at Abilene High School, Richard Nixon’s diploma from Whittier College, California and a photograph of Ronald Reagan in his college swimming team. This highly-illustrated volume which uses memoirs, scrapbooks and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of the presidents of the 20th-century. Many of the presidents were guided by a special teacher and fondly recalled their influence. Whatever their station in life at the time, wherever in America they were educated and whatever circumstances they faced, each young man developed a special regard for schooling and the importance of education. These memoirs and souvenirs include Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Groton School report cards, a photograph of Dwight Eisenhower from his freshman class at Abilene High School, Richard Nixon’s diploma from Whittier College, California and a photograph of Ronald Reagan on his college swimming team. Saved by the residential Libraries, they illustrate something of what these leaders accomplished, remembered and valued in the classrooms of their youth. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2007-09-01T16:48:41+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/joan-of-arc/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/joan-of-arc/#When:08:51:17Z Her Image in France and America By Nora M. Heimann and Laura Coyle. Published by: GILES in association with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-940832-19-5) Presents major new research on the history and wider context of the portrayal of Joan of Arc in France and America Draws on a huge range of carefully researched images of Joan of Arc, many never seen before, from museum, libraries and archives in France and the U.S. An invaluable resource for those interested in the cultural legacy of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc: Her Image in France and America celebrates the cultural legacy of a medieval French heroine who led the armies of her nation to victory against the English, who was tried on charges of heresy, and who was burned at the stake in Rouen in 1431. Two decades after her death, her trial was reopened and the court reversed the verdict. But it was not until the pinnacle of her popularity, nearly 500 years later, that the Catholic Church canonized her. Born in Domremy, France, around 1412, Saint Joan endures as one of the most famous people of the Middle Ages, and her extraordinary life has engaged generations of historians, writers, artists and—most recently—Hollywood film producers, many of whom have used her image to stir an astonishing array of passions. This highly illustrated book, published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, is the first to explore the history of Joan’s image both in France and the United States. For several centuries representations of Joan have reflected the historical contexts in which they were created, and have been used to promote a huge variety of political, cultural and religious views. These range from icons of martial ascendancy and nationalist unity to paragons of humble piety and maidenly purity, supporting both the power of the people, and the divine right of kings. Leading art historian, Nora Heimann, explores the history of Joan’s image in France from the 15th century to 1920. Heimann demonstrates that where Joan’s image appears— from public monuments to bottles of perfume—it is nearly always tied to the most timely political events and debates often revolving around the fluctuating relationship between Church and State. Laura Coyle, in her essay A Universal Patriot: Joan of Arc in America during the Gilded Age and GreatWar, examines Joan’s image in America in the later 19th and early 20th century, from the Gilded Age through to the period immediately following World War I. Drawing on works as wide-ranging as Mark Twain’s apologist biography, the Ringling Brothers enormous “Spectacles”, U.S. War Bond posters and Hollywood movies, Coyle shows how these images of Joan eminently suited American concerns about self-reliance, feminism, patriotism, and self-sacrifice. Coyle’s essay also includes the history of the commissioning of the Gallery’s remarkable series of paintings representing events from Joan of Arc’s life executed by the French artist and book illustrator Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel between 1903 and 1911, which were commissioned by Senator William A. Clark. Boutet de Monvel’s illustrated and immensely popular deluxe picture book Jeanne d’Arc (1896) was the precursor to these paintings, and was published in both France and America. The authors assess the reasons why de Monvel’s images of Joan were so widely admired on both sides of the Atlantic. Art & Decorative Arts, History & General Interest 2006-11-01T08:51:17+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/encounters/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/encounters/#When:09:17:00Z Travel and Money in the Byzantine World By Eurydice S. Georganteli and Barrie Cook. Published by: GILES in association with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (ISBN: 978-1-904832-27-0) Presents up to 80 masterpieces of Byzantine, Islamic and Western art as presented in coins, medals and related works of art from 500 to 1453 AD This new volume was published to accompany the exhibition Encounters: Travel and Money in the Byzantine World , which opened at the British Museum in Summer 2006, before travelling to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham in February 2007. At the heart of this highly illustrated and accessible volume is the notion that to study of coins and medals is to study the history of communications and movement of people and ideas. From the end of Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople, coins circulated and constantly changed hands in the markets of towns and cities, in rural communities,along pilgrimage routes, between stationing armies and local populations, at the customs offices in harbours, and at other major entrances to the Byzantine Empire. In five chapters this volume looks variously at city markets and the exchange of goods between different parts of the Byzantine Empire; at Byzantines travelling to the West; including trade between the Svear and the Romans and trade with Britain; Byzantines travelling to the East, including Armenia, Anatolia and China; the Byzantine legacy in the Islamic world, including the cult of Alexander the Great; and Western merchants in the East, particularly Venetians. The study concludes with the story of the late Byzantineemperors travelling to the West, and the impact their journeys had on western European art. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2006-09-01T09:17:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-public-vaults-unlocked/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/the-public-vaults-unlocked/#When:09:17:13Z Discovering American History in the National Archives By Thora Colot, Marvin Pinkert, Christina Rudy Smith, Bruce I. Bustard, Stephanie Moore, and William Sandoval, with a 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: 978-1-904832-17-1) Heavily illustrated with over 230 rare archival photographs, documents and transcripts, including President Nixon’s resignation letter and pages from the Watergate Building burglar’s address book, JFK’s own Cuban Missile Crisis meeting notes, the Zapruda Camera, Bob Hope’s immigration record, Albert Einstein’s Declaration of Intention seeking US citizenship following his escape from Nazi Germany, early spy satellite images of the Kremlin, a telegram from Abraham Lincoln to General Grant instructing no let up in the Union campaign,D-Day newsreel footage,and major episodes in the US civil rights movement Published to celebrate the installation of a brand new exhibition at the newly renovated National Archives building in Washington, D.C. A wonderful pictorial record of great moments of American history captured in different times and places This book introduces the public to the incredible wealth of American political, social and economic history that is held in the records under the stewardship of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of the United States of America. Published to celebrate a permanent exhibition at the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C., The Public Vaults Unlocked provides an accessible and highly visual “way in” to American history and society. Looking behind the scenes, readers will discover, in personal and meaningful ways, real and unexpected moments from American history, from the signing of the Declaration of Independence to Presidential web sites. The images and text have been selected and arranged to stimulate new connections with records of major events from America’s past, by placing people “inside” these events. The book allows us to feel what it would have been like to be an immigrant coming to the US in the 1900s, or to have been Senator Russell being pressured by LBJ to serve on the Warren Commission into President Kennedy’s assassination, or to have been a GI on D-Day at the moment you launched yourself off the landing vessel and onto a Normandy beach. The Public Vaults Unlocked stimulates new ways of thinking about America’s past and the people – both in public and in private life – who have shaped the country’s history and society. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2005-10-01T09:17:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/building-americas-hangar/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/history-general-interest/building-americas-hangar/#When:10:03:10Z 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 2004-12-01T10:03:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:28Z 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) Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition beginning July 2008 through 2011. Venues include Indianapolis Museum of Art (July- September 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, with dates and additional venues to be announced Presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection, including the famous Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history Offers a new look at a perennially fascinating topic by considering all economic and social ranks of Egyptian society Life after death was a primary cultural belief through thousands of years of Egyptian history. The ancient Egyptians regarded death as an enemy that could be defeated through proper preparation. This brand new book, and its accompanying travelling exhibition, To Live Forever, draws on important ancient Egyptian monuments from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. The book answers the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explains the Egyptians’ beliefs about death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs. At the same time, curator 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. Dr. Bleiberg deals with the afterlife preparations not only of kings and nobles, but also of the middle class and the poor. Not all ranks of society had access to the elaborate funeral preparations made for a king. Poorer people could use painted wood or clay coffins as substitutes for the hard stone and gold sarcophagi of kings. Expensive granite vessels, the property of the rich, could be cheaply reproduced in clay and painted to imitate stone for someone of more modest means. In keeping with the book’s special focus on the practicalities of afterlife preparation, Kathlyn M. Cooney breaks new ground in her essay, entitled How Much Did a Coffin Cost?, by addressing such pragmatic questions as the price of a coffin in relation to average salaries, and how the costs of different colours of paint affected decisions about coffin decoration. Drawing on original research using documents from the artist settlement at Deir el-Medina, Dr. Cooney discusses how Egyptians chose the objects for their tombs, how much the items cost, how they were paid for, and how the high-priced burial-goods market affected Egyptian society. She shows the ancient Egyptians as ordinary people with problems and desires often similar to those of people today. To Live Forever presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection. Among the works are acknowledged masterpieces of the stone sculptor’s art, along with the renowned Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history. With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/collecting-with-vision/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/collecting-with-vision/#When:09:36:19Z 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 The Chrysler Museum of Art houses one of America's great collections of fine and decorative art from antiquity to contemporary America. Founded in 1939 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Museum experienced explosive growth in 1971 when automobile heir and art collector Walter P. Chrysler presented the city of Norfolk with his collection. Since Chrysler's death in 1989 the Museum has continued to expand, building on his incredible legacy. This illustrated volume presents paintings by leading American artists, including Copley, Cole, Bierstadt, Homer, Cassatt and Hopper; Italian Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces by Filippino Lippi and Salvator Rosa; Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, including works by Jan Gossaert and Peter Paul Rubens; and the work of European painters like Velazquez, Delacroix and Gauguin. The Chrysler Museum also boasts major collections of decorative art, including Tiffany and Gallé glass, Worcester porcelain and Gorham silver. The glass collection is internationally important and ranges from antiquity to studio works by Dale Chihuly and Catherine “Cappy” Thompson. Photography also features strongly, with major collections of early photographs, Civil War images and iconic images from the Civil Rights Movement. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-05-08T09:36:19+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/hidden-burne-jones/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/hidden-burne-jones/#When:08:53:38Z 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) Provides a complete listing of the unique collection of over 1,100 drawings, watercolours, sketches, stained glass cartoons, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Highlights the connections between little-known drawings selected from the works on paper collection at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Includes essays by Burne-Jones specialists John Christian, Elisa Korb, and Tessa Sidey, Curator of Drawings and Prints at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Hidden Burne-Jones is a major new volume which throws new light on the draughtsmanship of leading Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones, by studying Burne-Jones's development as an artist and image maker through his life-long commitment to drawing. The volume includes three essays by leading Burne-Jones specialists. The first, by John Christian, presents new research on Burne-Jones's drawing technique and stylistic development, most clearly seen in works like The Fairy Family series (1857), The Annunciation (1857-61), An Idyll (1862), and Drapery Study of Lucretia for Chaucer’s ‘Legend of Good Women’ (1863). The second essay, by 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. The artist’s fascination with the female form is most strongly evoked in works like Female Nude: Three Studies (1865-66), Two Nude Female Studies for The Lament (1865), Lucretia (1867) and Composition Study for Charity (1867). The final essay, by 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, which appear throughout the essays and the main exhibition presentation, nearly 30 of which are reproduced in colour. Each work is accompanied by an entry, which includes full specifications, provenance, inscriptions and an extended caption. The Burne-Jones collection at Birmingham is in every sense an international public resource. It contains nearly 1,200 works, of which over a thousand are works on paper and related archive material. This volume includes a complete catalogue listing of all 1,137 drawings, watercolours, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which forms the basis of a new on-line Burne-Jones Resource Site. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-04-10T08:53:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/an-impressionist-sensibility/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/an-impressionist-sensibility/#When:08:41:10Z The Halff Collection By Eleanor Jones Harvey. 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: 978-1-904832-32-4) Presents colour plates and details of over 40 paintings by the leading names in late 19th-century American art Over 40 great American paintings are featured, including works by Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper,Theodore Robinson and John Singer Sargent. This beautiful volume was published to accompany the exhibition, An Impressionist Sensibility, at the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum, which celebrated the Museum’s recent reopening in the newly restored and refurbished Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. At the heart of the exhibition is a remarkable collection of paintings amassed in the late 1980s by Texans Hugh and Marie Halff. The works range from Ernest Lawson’s celebration of modern urbanism in his Flatiron Building (1906-07), to the exoticism of Harry Siddons Mowbray’s Two Women (1893-96), and the harmonious plein-air geometry of Theodore Robinson’s The Anchorage,Cos Cob (1894). The Halff’s collection spans the period in American art known as ‘The Gilded Age’, when Ruskin’s credo of ‘truth to nature’ gave way to Whistler’s rallying cry of ‘art for art’s sake’. Reverence for narrative gave way toa highly intellectualized sensory appreciation for the abstract beauty of a work of art, reflecting late 19th-century American cultural aspirations. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-01-01T08:41:10+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-art-of-glass/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/the-art-of-glass/#When:09:18:58Z Toledo Museum of Art By Jutta-Annette Page. Foreword by Don Bacigalupi, Director, Toledo Museum of Art. Contributions by Stefano Carboni, Martha Drexler Lynn, Sidney M. Goldstein, Sandra E. Knudsen, Jutta-Annette Page and Arlene Palmer. Published by: GILES in association with the Toledo Museum of Art (ISBN: 978-1-904832-23-2) A major new survey, highly illustrated with more than 100 full-page colour plates of key masterpieces from the Museum’s internationally renowned collection of ancient, Islamic, European, American and contemporary studio glass Published to accompany the opening of the important new Glass Pavilion, which houses the Toledo Museum of Art’s collection of glass and glass-working studios Each work of art is accompanied by an extended commentary written by a leading scholar Includes many additional comparative and/or supplementary colour images, including works of art from the Toledo Museum’s collections in other media, artists’ sketches, and magnificent details This brand new book introduces both specialists and generalists alike to the remarkable world of glass manufacture and design from the Ancient World to the present day, as presented in one of the world’s great collections of glass. Published on the occasion of the opening of the new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, lead architects of SANAA Ltd., Tokyo, in 2006, this book draws on the superb quality of the collections at Toledo. The Museum has consciously collected the best examples of the glassmaker’s art across all ages. Today the Museum is internationally renowned for the quality and scope of its glass collection. The Museum has trail-blazed new areas of glass collecting. Thanks to its founder, glass industrialist Edward D. Libbey, the Museum has collected art in glass for more than a century. The Museum was also the birthplace of the Studio Glass Movement in the 1960s. The opening of the Glass Pavilion will further enhance the Museum’s leading position in this field of art – it will offer visitors the matchless experience of being able to see a broad range of historic glass next to studios where glass artists are creating works. In this way the Museum and this publication will provide a unique insight into the design and working of glass through the ages, all within the context of a purpose built art museum space. This volume presents more than 100 major examples of the glassmaker’s art from ancient times to the present, accompanied by discursive texts written by leading writers. The combination of these thought-provoking entries and the wealth of illustration makes this title a must for specialist collectors and generalists alike. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2006-07-01T09:18:58+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/an-american-view/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/an-american-view/#When:11:09:21Z Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum By Teresa A. Carbone. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-11-9) Will appeal to general audiences and genuinely complements the 2-volume catalogue. Presents over 64 masterpieces of the Museum’s American paintings, showing the quality and scope of the collection Introductory essay surveys the development of Brooklyn’s American paintings collection in the context of developments in the field of American art over the past 150 years Chronology focuses on wider key moments, movements and styles that developed in American art post-Independence Special attention on individual artists whose work heavily influenced the development of American painting, such as Copley, Cole and Eakins This new volume accompanies and complements the publication of the major new 2-volume catalogue the Brooklyn Museum’s collection American paintings by artists born before 1876. It provides a richly illustrated general survey of American painting, aimed at the nonspecialist, from the late Colonial era to the early years of the twentieth century as it is presented in 64 of the Museum’s most significant paintings by American artists.Each painting is illustrated in colour, many with accompanying colour details and comparative images. The selected works are arranged in four thematic sections: early American art, art of the 1830’s to 50’s, American painting in the Civil War Era, and painting of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Extended captions discuss the key features of each painting, information about the artist, and the wider artistic context of the work and the period in which it was produced. The volume features a Chronology, which focuses on wider key moments, movements and styles that developed in American art post-Independence. Special attention is also given to works by individual artists who heavily influenced the development of American painting, such as Copley, Cole and Eakins. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2006-05-03T11:09:21+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/lines-of-discovery/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/lines-of-discovery/#When:11:11:14Z 225 Years of American Drawings. The Columbus Museum By Volume Editor: Stephen C. Wicks. Contributions by the curators of the Columbus Museum. Introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Preface and Acknowledgements by Charles T. Butler, Director and Collector’s Statement by Philip L. Brewer. Published by: GILES in association with The Columbus Museum, Georgia (ISBN: 978-1-904832-12-6) A major survey of American art from the Colonial period to the early 21st-century The first time many these drawings have been made available to curators, scholars and collectors from one of the most important and actively acquiring collections in the U.S. Featured artists include Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam,Winslow Homer, John Marin, Reginald Marsh, Robert Motherwell, John Singer Sargent, John Sloan, Frank Stella, Benjamin West and Andrew Newell Wyeth Presents the full range of media, including drawings in graphite, charcoal, monotype and pastel Includes full provenance, exhibition history and bibliographic references for each drawing Lines of Discovery: Four Centuries of American Drawing presents a major new thematic and chronological catalogue survey of the Columbus Museum’s most significant holdings of drawings and works on paper, including examples in graphite, charcoal, monotype and pastel. At the heart of the Columbus Museum's collection, and of this volume, is the work of a remarkable individual, Dr. Phillip L. Brewer, who has amassed a truly significant collection of American works on paper – both in terms of its depth and breadth. For the first time this volume presents nearly 200 of these master drawings, 120 of the most important of which are grouped into six chapters, illustrated in full colour, and accompanied by extended catalogue entries written by leading experts. A further 79 works are presented as colour and mono thumbnails interspersed amongst the images of the key works. Included are images by Copley, West and Cole that date from the earliest years of American nationhood; works by Oscar Bluemner, Arthur Dove and Morton Schamberg which herald the advent of modernism; while others by Hans Hoffmann, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Blanche Lazzell and Rico Lebrun confirm its continued presence through such varied expressions as social realism, surrealism and abstraction. While artists like Milton Avery, Jack Beal, Paul Cadmus, Philip Evergood, Nancy Grossman, and Louise Nevelson explore the strength and beauty of the human form, James Valerio and Andrew Wyeth document the changing faces of the natural world. Together these works, and Lines of Discovery, offer a comprehensive survey of the history of American art. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2006-05-02T11:11:14+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/american-paintings-in-the-brooklyn-museum/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/american-paintings-in-the-brooklyn-museum/#When:10:06:00Z Artists Born by 1876 By Teresa A. Carbone, Barbara Dayer Gallati and Lydia S.Ferber. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-08-9 (2-volume set); 978-1-904832-09-6 (Volume 1); 978-1-904832-10-2 (Volume 2)) Winner of the College Art Association Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award 2006 and the Association of Art Museum Curators Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection 2006 One of the most important and among the oldest collections of American painting in the U.S., with a near-complete survey of American painting from the colonial period to the early twentieth century Presents nearly 700 paintings by 340 artists, 160 of them in colour, including masterpieces by Copley, Cole, Eakins, Ryder and Sargent Strong coverage of colonial portraiture, Hudson River School, American Renaissance, American Impressionism and the Ashcan School Features artist biographies and individual scholarly, interpretative entries for each painting, accompanied by provenance and exhibition history, and systematic inclusion of technical information and analysis of each painting This major new authoritative catalogue documents one of the world’s most important collections of American art by artists born before 1876. Like the collection, this 2-volume catalogue is remarkable for its scope, depth, and quality. The inclusion of a critical 2-part introduction on the history of the founding and growth of the collection sets this catalogue above many publications that have merely provided standardized information on artists and individual objects, without a larger context. This analytical introduction considers the two-fold origin of Brooklyn’s American painting collection: the progressive programmes of the mid-nineteenth-century Brooklyn Institute (the Museum’s predecessor institution) to collect the work of living American artists of the 1840s and 1850s; and the Brooklyn Museum’s active and forward-thinking collecting in the field of contemporary American art throughout the twentieth century. Both of these discussions are considered within the wider context of shifting attitudes towards American art, and the role of museums in fostering it over the course of twentieth century. The main body of the catalogue presents nearly 700 works by 340 artists, which together constitute an invaluable reference resource in the study of historical American painting. The Brooklyn Museum’s collection provides a near-complete survey of American painting up to the early twentieth century, which documents most of the major American artists from John Singleton Copley and Thomas Cole to Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent. Brooklyn’s collection offers remarkable concentrations of works in such important categories as colonial portraiture; Hudson River School landscape; mid-nineteenth-century narrative painting; American Impressionism; Gilded Age figure painting; and early modern realism. Individual artists like Eakins, Albert Pinkham Ryder, and Sargent are also represented in heavy concentration. The catalogue provides detailed biographical information on each artist, and a scholarly, interpretative entry on every painting, accompanied by provenance and exhibition history. Full technical information is also provided, and is based on firsthand analysis of each painting conducted for this catalogue by a conservator. This catalogue will become a milestone in the study of American painting. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2006-05-01T10:06:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/masterpieces-of-italian-painting/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/masterpieces-of-italian-painting/#When:10:04:13Z The Walters Art Museum By Volume Editors: Morten Steen-Hansen, and Joaneath A. Spicer. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-904832-14-0) Presents 50 major Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings by leading artists, and shows the huge range of artistic development in Italian painting from the late thirteenth to the eighteenth century Colour illustrated throughout, including details and comparative illustrations, with commentaries on each work which focus on why each painting is important Addresses specific questions on the subject matter and style of each painting, and discusses these within the wider context of the period and school Includes a select bibliography and index of artists’names,titles of works and schools of painting This book introduces the general public and scholarly audience alike to one of the great collections of Italian Renaissance and Baroque paintings, with examples of major works dating from the late Medieval period to the late Baroque. The volume presents 50 key paintings in colour, many with colour details. Each work is accompanied by an extended commentary, written in a clear and accessible style. Specific terminology and Italian words, when used, are always explained; each text clearly states why a particular painting is important and interesting; and each commentary is informed by the most recent scholarship. The paintings have been selected to show the huge range of artistic and stylist development in painting during this period, and signature works featured in this volume include: Pietro Lorenzetti, Virgin and Child, 1342-8; Bicci di Lorenzo, Annunciation, ca. 1430; Giovanni Bellini and assistants, Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors, ca. 1510; Raphael, Madonna of the Candelabra, 1513-14; Veronese, Countess Livia da Porto Thiene and Daughter, ca. 1551; Luca Giordano, Ecce Homo, 17th-century; Guido Reni, The Penitent Magdalene, ca. 1638; and Francesco Guardi, Venetian Courtyard, ca. 1770-90. Particular emphasis is placed on the subject matter and style of the paintings; each is discussed both in itself and within the context of the wider period and school. The authors focus on key questions, such as “What issues and trends does a painting exemplify?” Footnotes are included only where they are genuinely useful for the reader. A select bibliography provides information on further reading and sources for each work and artist featured in the book, including both standard reference sources, and a selection of the most important recent books and articles. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2005-10-01T10:04:13+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/bedazzled-5000-years-of-jewelry/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/museum-guides-collections/bedazzled-5000-years-of-jewelry/#When:09:47:38Z The Walters Art Museum By Sabine Albersmeier. Published by: GILES in association with the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (ISBN: 978-1-904832-16-4) The first presentation in nearly 20 years of highlights of this major collection of jewellery from the Ancient World to Art Nouveau Reveals the exquisite craftsmanship of major known makers, including Fabergé and Lalique, and of unknown master craftsmen from the ancient Greek, later Roman and early Byzantine empires Colour illustrated throughout, including details and comparative illustrations, with a glossary of terms, makers and region This brand new and exquisitely illustrated book introduces the general public to one of the great collections of jewellery, with examples of major objects dating from the 1st century BC to the turn of the twentieth century. The volume presents 50 key items of jewellery, each illustrated in colour, many with details. Each object is accompanied by an extended caption, including information on date, maker – where known – and region. Specific terminology, when used, is always explained; each text clearly states why a particular object is important. The jewellery selected shows an enormous range of periods, regions, artistic and stylist development, and materials. Signature items featured in this volume include a magnificent pair of gold bracelets encrusted with precious stones and multicolour enamel inlay discovered inside a tomb in Olbia, Ukraine, and dating to the Hellenistic Period of the 1st-century BC; a pair of gold and semi-precious stone-inlaid eagle fibulae, dating from 6th-century Visigothic Spain; a cameo and gold-mounted brooch depicting Ellen Walters, made in Italy by the Saulini family around 1862; a gold Iris Corsage ornament by Tiffany & Co., decorated with sapphires, garnets, topaz and diamonds, first displayed in Paris in 1900; and a wonderful corsage ornament of pansy blossoms executed in a combination of cast glass and plique-à-jour enamel by René Lalique, dating from 1904. The latter piece is especially significant because it marks one of the first instances of Lalique’s use of cast glass, and anticipates his decision in 1909 to renounce jewellery production and turn exclusively to glass manufacturing. Particular emphasis is placed on the style, beauty and craftsmanship of the selected items; each is discussed both in itself and within the context of the wider regional makers and period. A Glossary provides information on terms, makers and regions. Art & Decorative Arts, Museum Guides & Collections 2005-10-01T09:47:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-arnhold-collection-of-meissen-porcelain-1710-50/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-arnhold-collection-of-meissen-porcelain-1710-50/#When:08:44:32Z By Maureen Cassidy-Geiger. Introduction by Henry Arnhold. Essays by Sebastian Kuhn and Heike Biedermann. Published by: GILES in association with The Frick Collection, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-44-7) Publication accompanies a major exhibition at The Frick Collection throughout summer 2008 An invaluable source of reference for dealers, scholars and collectors Features colour illustrations of more than 400 pieces of Meissen porcelain, the majority dating from the early period of the royal factory, 1710-1740 Includes catalogue entries, commentaries and scholarly apparatus The Arnhold porcelain collection is the most important of the great pre-war Meissen collections to have survived intact, remaining with the descendants of the original collectors. Most of the pieces date from the first decades of the royal factory established by August II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, in 1710, featuring a broad range of early works, much of it experimental. Most of the pieces in the Arnhold collection were bought by Heinrich and Lisa Arnhold from 1926-35, and most have royal or significant provenance. The collection was brought to America in the 1940s ahead of the family’s move from Dresden. Since 1974 Henry Arnhold has continued to expand the depth and range of the collection. The volume also contains major essays by Sebastian Kuhn, who studies the wider trends in collecting European porcelain between 1900 and 1960 in Europe and America, and by Heike Biedermann, who studies the Arnholds as collectors of modern art in Dresden from their marriage in 1914 until 1935. The catalogue is introduced by a personal recollection by Henry Arnhold of his family as collectors and art patrons in Dresden and how the porcelain collection was created. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2008-06-04T08:44:32+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/to-live-forever/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/to-live-forever/#When:10:19:28Z 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) Publication accompanies a major national touring exhibition beginning July 2008 through 2011. Venues include Indianapolis Museum of Art (July- September 2008), the John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, and the Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, with dates and additional venues to be announced Presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection, including the famous Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history Offers a new look at a perennially fascinating topic by considering all economic and social ranks of Egyptian society Life after death was a primary cultural belief through thousands of years of Egyptian history. The ancient Egyptians regarded death as an enemy that could be defeated through proper preparation. This brand new book, and its accompanying travelling exhibition, To Live Forever, draws on important ancient Egyptian monuments from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum to illustrate Egyptian strategies for defeating death and living forever. The book answers the questions at the core of the public’s fascination with ancient Egypt, and explains the Egyptians’ beliefs about death and the afterlife, the process of mummification, the conduct of a funeral, and the different types of tombs. At the same time, curator 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. Dr. Bleiberg deals with the afterlife preparations not only of kings and nobles, but also of the middle class and the poor. Not all ranks of society had access to the elaborate funeral preparations made for a king. Poorer people could use painted wood or clay coffins as substitutes for the hard stone and gold sarcophagi of kings. Expensive granite vessels, the property of the rich, could be cheaply reproduced in clay and painted to imitate stone for someone of more modest means. In keeping with the book’s special focus on the practicalities of afterlife preparation, Kathlyn M. Cooney breaks new ground in her essay, entitled How Much Did a Coffin Cost?, by addressing such pragmatic questions as the price of a coffin in relation to average salaries, and how the costs of different colours of paint affected decisions about coffin decoration. Drawing on original research using documents from the artist settlement at Deir el-Medina, Dr. Cooney discusses how Egyptians chose the objects for their tombs, how much the items cost, how they were paid for, and how the high-priced burial-goods market affected Egyptian society. She shows the ancient Egyptians as ordinary people with problems and desires often similar to those of people today. To Live Forever presents over 120 colour photographs of beautiful objects from the Brooklyn Museum’s world-renowned Egyptian collection. Among the works are acknowledged masterpieces of the stone sculptor’s art, along with the renowned Bird Lady—one of the oldest preserved statues from all Egyptian history. With its illuminating visual comparisons across different economic levels, this book adds a new dimension to our experience of ancient Egypt. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest, Museum Guides & Collections 2008-06-01T10:19:28+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-cinema-effect/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-cinema-effect/#When:11:02:00Z Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image By Essays by Kerry Brougher, Anne Ellegood, Kelly Gordon and Kristen Hileman. With a chronology of the moving image by Tony Oursler. Published by: GILES in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Available in North America and Canada exclusively from Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-50-8 ) Publication accompanies a two-part exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Part 1: Dreams opens in February 2008; Part 2: Realisms opens in June 2008 Features the work of Matthew Buckingham, Candice Breitz, Paul Chan, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Kota Ezawa, Omer Fast, Christoph Girardet, Rodney Graham, Gary Hill, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Pierre Huyghe, Runa Islam, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen, Kelly Richardson and Andy Warhol, among others Features an illustrated chronology of the moving image by internationally renowned video artist Tony Oursler The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image offers the first in-depth exploration of the influence of cinema on contemporary artists using moving-image technology, and explores the way in which this medium has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivalled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary (and of subsequent incarnations like television and the internet) has grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable. This volume opens with an overview by Kerry Brougher of the cultural, social and psychological issues raised by the project, before dividing into two parts which reflect the opposing poles at the core of cinema and its role in art and contemporary culture. Part I, Dreams, opens with a discussion by Kelly Gordon of how and why moving-image work has shifted from the margins to the center of art production, and considers the analogous relationship between cinema technology and the psychology of dreams and the ways in which artists compel or challenge the suspension of disbelief, encouraging viewers’ awareness of their participation in this process. Part II, Realisms, shifts the focus to the larger societal impact of cinema’s pervasiveness and looks at the work of emerging artists. In Man and the Movie Camera Kristen Hileman explores the complex issue of authenticity in art, film, and culture, whilst Anne Ellegood, in Character Driven: Subjectivity and the Cinematic, examines how the interplay between reality and fiction informs artists’ explorations into subjectivity, individuality and character. At the heart of Realisms is the irony that, while over the course of the 20th century moving-picture media have become dominant modes for documentary and distribution of factual imagery, and it has become easier and easier to capture real life in real time, the moving image is also understood to be a powerful vehicle of illusion and distraction. The difference between fact and fiction has become increasingly complicated and difficult to determine. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2008-02-07T11:02:00+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/lee-and-grant/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/lee-and-grant/#When:11:02:26Z By William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. Published by: Published in association with the Virginia Historical Society (ISBN: 9781904832362) Publication accompanies a travelling exhibition with the following venues: Virginia Historical Society (October 2007); Missouri Historical Society (spring 2008); New-York Historical Society (fall 2008); Museum of Southern History, Houston (spring 2009) and Atlanta History Center (fall 2009) Includes a major re-assessment, by two leading American historians, of the development of historical thought and popular attitudes towards both figures in the years since the outbreak of the Civil War Covers the entirety of 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, examining how their lives interconnected and how they diverged Features over 270 fascinating illustrations, including the generals’ uniforms and accoutrements, letters, rare photographs and newly-discovered paintings, prints, engravings and images from popular culture Presents an enormous amount of information on both the Grant and the Lee families Addresses the question, how should Lee and Grant be evaluated in 2007, the 200th anniversary of Lee’s birth? Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee are without a doubt two of the most important, and heavily published about, figures in nineteenth-century American history. Their often-times controversial characters, lives and careers are intrinsically linked with the American Civil War, and subsequent written histories on both individuals have frequently been shaped by the positions and roles both took up during the Civil War. However, curiously, 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 combine fascinating images and an extensive well-researched and written narrative text. Together with the accompanying touring exhibition, it provides a major re-assessment of the lives, careers and historical impact of Lee and Grant. This heavily illustrated volume contains over 270 images – 175 of which are in colour – and brings together a huge number of pictorial representations of both Grant and Lee, by a wide range of artists, as well as photographs and engravings, and images from popular culture. The lengthy narrative text, written by leading authors William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, covers the entirety of 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, and how they interconnected and how they diverged. It also features a wealth of new information about the Grant and the Lee families. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2008-02-01T11:02:26+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/school-house-to-the-white-house/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/school-house-to-the-white-house/#When:16:48:41Z The Education of the Presidents By Contributors: The Archival and Museum Staff of the Presidential Libraries and the Exhibit Staff of the Center for the National Archives Experience Foreword by Allen Weinstein, Ninth Archivist of the United States. Published by: Published in association with the Foundation for the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (ISBN: 978-1-904832-43-0) Draws on numerous memoirs, photographs, scrapbooks and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of the presidents of the 20th-century Accompanies a major exhibition opening at the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C. and travelling to the Presidential Libraries Fully illustrated with 130 colour, including Franklin D Roosevelt’s Groton School report cards, a photograph of Dwight Eisenhower from his freshman class at Abilene High School, Richard Nixon’s diploma from Whittier College, California and a photograph of Ronald Reagan in his college swimming team. This highly-illustrated volume which uses memoirs, scrapbooks and letters to reveal the formative experiences that shaped the lives of the presidents of the 20th-century. Many of the presidents were guided by a special teacher and fondly recalled their influence. Whatever their station in life at the time, wherever in America they were educated and whatever circumstances they faced, each young man developed a special regard for schooling and the importance of education. These memoirs and souvenirs include Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Groton School report cards, a photograph of Dwight Eisenhower from his freshman class at Abilene High School, Richard Nixon’s diploma from Whittier College, California and a photograph of Ronald Reagan on his college swimming team. Saved by the residential Libraries, they illustrate something of what these leaders accomplished, remembered and valued in the classrooms of their youth. Exhibition Catalogues, History & General Interest 2007-09-01T16:48:41+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/variations-on-america/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/variations-on-america/#When:09:53:55Z Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections By George Gurney, Eleanor Jones Harvey, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, Joann Moser, George Speer and Elaine Yau. 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: 978-1-904832-42-3) Presents colour plates of over 70 paintings by the leading names in 19th- and 20th-century American art Features works by Sanford Robinson Gifford, Mary Cassatt, Louis Comfort Tiffany, George Bellows, Willem de Kooning, Georgia O’Keefe, James Earl Fraser, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney This volume celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the American Art Forum, by presenting 72 treasured works of art selected by the curators of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In six thematic and chronological sections, the curators cover the huge variety of American art: luminous images of nature from the mid-nineteenth century, such as Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Meadows I, and fine landscape masterpieces in the Hudson River tradition, including Sanford Robinson Gifford’s The Marshes of the Hudson (1876); light-filled impressionist canvases, such as Mary Cassatt’s Reading “Le Figaro” (1878); dazzling Gilded Age glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany and paintings by John Singer Sargent; gritty Ashcan records from a dynamic New York City, such as George Bellows’s Noon (1908); vivid aesthetic creations of the modern age; the triumphant abstract expressionism of Willem de Kooning; and resonant contemporary works by Andrew Wyeth and David Hockney. The book also showcases major canvases by Georgia O’Keefe, such as Black Cross with Red Sky (1929), John Marin’s Taos Canyon, New Mexico (1929), Cyrus Edwin Dallin’s major statue Appeal to the Great Spirit and James Earl Fraser’s emotive bronze sculpture End of the Trail (1918). Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-06-06T09:53:55+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-christian-story/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/the-christian-story/#When:09:20:36Z Five Asian Artists Today By Patricia C. Pongracz, Volker Küster and John W. Cook. With a Preface by Ena G. Heller, Executive Director of the Museum of Biblical Art, New York. Published by: GILES in association with the Museum of Biblical Art, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-20-1) Presents paintings by leading contemporary Asian artists workings in Bali, China, Sri Lanka and Thailand Features colour plates of over 40 of the artworks and artists’ statements, and includes essays by leading scholars Patricia C. Pongracz, John W. Cook and Volker Küster This colourful catalogue features paintings and statements by five leading contemporary Asian artists, Sawai Chinnawong (Thailand), He Qi (China), Nalini Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka), Nyoman Darsane (Bali) and Wisnu Sasongko (Thailand), which highlight the very different ways artists of diverse cultures today perceive Biblical tales. Over forty new paintings are explored showing how the Judeo-Christian narrative has been adapted for both western and indigenous audiences. Though greatly influenced by regional and cultural traditions, many of these artists have also been exposed to western Judeo-Christian teachings, and it is this mixture of influences which is so striking in their work. The book considers the importance of these works to the development and exportation of Asian Biblical Art to the West and its reception, audience and patronage. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-05-10T09:20:36+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/hidden-burne-jones/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/hidden-burne-jones/#When:08:53:38Z 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) Provides a complete listing of the unique collection of over 1,100 drawings, watercolours, sketches, stained glass cartoons, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Highlights the connections between little-known drawings selected from the works on paper collection at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Includes essays by Burne-Jones specialists John Christian, Elisa Korb, and Tessa Sidey, Curator of Drawings and Prints at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Hidden Burne-Jones is a major new volume which throws new light on the draughtsmanship of leading Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones, by studying Burne-Jones's development as an artist and image maker through his life-long commitment to drawing. The volume includes three essays by leading Burne-Jones specialists. The first, by John Christian, presents new research on Burne-Jones's drawing technique and stylistic development, most clearly seen in works like The Fairy Family series (1857), The Annunciation (1857-61), An Idyll (1862), and Drapery Study of Lucretia for Chaucer’s ‘Legend of Good Women’ (1863). The second essay, by 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. The artist’s fascination with the female form is most strongly evoked in works like Female Nude: Three Studies (1865-66), Two Nude Female Studies for The Lament (1865), Lucretia (1867) and Composition Study for Charity (1867). The final essay, by 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, which appear throughout the essays and the main exhibition presentation, nearly 30 of which are reproduced in colour. Each work is accompanied by an entry, which includes full specifications, provenance, inscriptions and an extended caption. The Burne-Jones collection at Birmingham is in every sense an international public resource. It contains nearly 1,200 works, of which over a thousand are works on paper and related archive material. This volume includes a complete catalogue listing of all 1,137 drawings, watercolours, prints and archive material at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which forms the basis of a new on-line Burne-Jones Resource Site. Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Museum Guides & Collections 2007-04-10T08:53:38+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/kindred-spirits/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/kindred-spirits/#When:09:48:34Z Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape By Edited by Linda S. Ferber. Contributions by Linda S. Ferber, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Kenneth T. Jackson and Sarah B. Snook. Published by: GILES in association with the Brooklyn Museum, New York (ISBN: 978-1-904832-26-3) Publication accompanies the first dedicated exhibition of Durand’s work since 1973 Reproduces works from every aspect of Durand’s long career as an engraver, portrait painter and landscape artist, 100 of which are reproduced in stunning colour plates, including the iconic Kindred Spirits (1849) and The First Harvest in the Wilderness (1855) Includes an illustrated biographical chronology and an appendix of Durand’s “Letters on Landscape Painting,” published in their entirety for the first time since their original publication in the Crayon in 1855 This major new volume revisits for the first time in 30 years the world and the works of Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), one of 19th-century America’s most important artists. Durand was a central figure, both as an artist and as the major spokesman for the American landscape school, and was the acknowledged dean of American landscape painting from his election as president of the National Academy of Design in 1845 until his death at the age of ninety. Five chapters reconstruct Durand’s career before and after the moment when landscape painting became his passion, so re-establishing the full scope of his achievement. The authors consider landscape production, patronage, markets and criticism during the six decades of Durand’s career. They take us from the earliest efforts of artists to create a national cultural identity by means of American scenery, through the mid-century triumph and, later, the eclipse of what is now called the Hudson River School. This survey features 100 colour and 100 black and white illustrations, including paintings, engravings and drawings by Durand, as well as numerous photographs and comparative images. This long over-due volume reevaluates Durand's position as a major American landscape artist, his relationship with other artists including Thomas Cole, and his critical role in the American art world of the antebellum period Art & Decorative Arts, Exhibition Catalogues 2007-03-02T09:48:34+00:00 http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/a-new-light-on-tiffany/ http://www.gilesltd.com/index.php/books/catalogue/exhibition-guides/a-new-light-on-tiffany/#When:10:42:22Z Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls By Contributions by Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray and Margaret K. Hofer. Published by: GILES in association with the New-York Historical Society (ISBN: 978-1-904832-35-5) Presents brand new information about the creative process behind the production of lamps, stained glass panels and other wonderful products of the Tiffany Studios, as well as the individuals behind the products and designs Fully illustrated with over 70 colour plates of wonderful Tiffany lamps, stained-glass panels and glass mosaics Features a wealth of rare black-and-white archival images Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) is celebrated today as one of the most influential creative designers of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries. Recent scholarly books and exhibitions have explored Tiffany's creative genius and marketing savvy, as well as his success in elevating the status of decorative arts in America. Though the products of Tiffany Studios—from stained glass windows and lamps to metalwork, enamels, furniture, and textiles—have been justly acclaimed for their artistic value, the process of creating these objects and the individuals involved have remaine