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TITLE : Paintings from Mughal India
AUTHOR : Topsfield, Andrew
PUB : CHICAGO U PRESS
$55.00 – Cloth
2007 - 184 p
ISBN: 978-1-85124-331-0

One of the great kingdoms of human history, the Mughal empire is now lost to the relentless sweep of time.
But the wealth of art treasures the Mughals left behind is nonetheless a lasting testament to the
sumptuousness of their culture. Among the most notable vestiges of their art are the lush miniature
paintings of Mughal imperial life, and Andrew Topsfield explores a rich array of these painted works in
Paintings from Mughal India.

Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, the Mughal emperors presided over a flourishing cultural
renaissance, and these miniature paintings vividly depict the splendor of this period. Topsfield examines
the paintings’ unique blend of Indian, Islamic, and Persian styles and analyzes their varied subjects—
ranging from hunting, royal banquets, and other scenes of imperial life to legendary tales, mythic deities,
and battles. Among the paintings featured in the book’s vibrant reproductions are works created between
the reign of Akbar and the fall of Shah Jehanan—an era considered to be the height of Mughal painting—
and illustrations from the celebrated Baharistan manuscript of 1595. A fascinating and gorgeously
illustrated study, Paintings from Mughal India will be an invaluable resource for all art scholars and anyone
interested in the legacy of the Mughal Empire

TITLE : Making Memory Matter: Strategies
of Remembrance in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR : Saltzman, Lisa
Paper $20.00sp
Fall 2006
ISBN: 978-0-226-73408-8

In an ancient account of painting’s origins, a woman traces the shadow of her departing lover on the wall in
an act that anticipates future grief and commemoration. Lisa Saltzman shows here that nearly two thousand
years after this story was first told, contemporary artists are returning to similar strategies of remembrance,
ranging from vaudevillian silhouettes and sepulchral casts to incinerated architectures and ghostly
processions.

Exploring these artists’ work, Saltzman demonstrates that their methods have now eclipsed painting and
traditional sculpture as preeminent forms of visual representation. She pays particular attention to the
groundbreaking art of Krzysztof Wodiczko, who is known for his projections of historical subjects; Kara
Walker, who creates powerful silhouetted images of racial violence in American history; and Rachel
Whiteread, whose work centers on making casts of empty interior spaces. Each of the artists Saltzman
discusses is struggling with the roles that history and memory have come to play in an age when any
historical statement is subject to question and doubt. In identifying this new and powerful movement, she
provides a framework for understanding the art of our time.

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TITLE : Painting Indiana II: The Changing
Face of Agriculture
AUTHOR :
$39.95 – cloth
Publication date: 9/26/2006
ISBN: 0-253-34819-6

Over the past hundred years, Indiana agriculture has evolved from family farming to a global industry using
biotechnology and satellite positioning. This magnificent collection of more than 100 works of art by ten
outstanding Indiana plein air painters tells the story of that transformation, the forces that brought it about,
and the impact it has had on the people, the culture, and the economy of the state. These gifted artists,
selected through a competition, painted subjects as diverse as livestock farms, lumber harvesting, meat
packing, farmers' markets, and huge automated dairy operations. An introduction by Rachel Berenson Perry
discusses the tradition of plein air painting in Indiana. Profiles of the artists and their work conclude this
visually stunning book.

TITLE : Impossible Histories : Historic
Avant-Gardes, Neo-Avant-Gardes, and
Post-Avant-Gardes in
Yugoslavia, 1918-1991
AUTHOR : Edited by Dubravka Djuric &
Misko Suvakovic
PUB : M I T PRESS
April 2006 $22.95/£14.95 (PAPER)
ISBN-10: 0-262-54189-0

Impossible Histories is the first critical survey of the extraordinary experiments in the arts that took place in
the former Yugoslavia from the country's founding in 1918 to its breakup in 1991. The combination of
Austro-Hungarian, French, German, Italian, and Turkish influences gave Yugoslavia's avant-gardes a
distinct character unlike those of other Eastern and Central European avant-gardes. Censorship and
suppression kept much of the work far from the eyes and ears of the Yugoslav people, while language
barriers and the inaccessibility of archives caused it to remain largely unknown to Western scholars. Even
at this late stage in the scholarly investigation of the avant-garde, few Westerners have heard of the
movements Belgrade surrealism, signalism, Yugo-Dada, and zenitism; the groups Alfa, Exat 51, Gorgona,
OHO, and Scipion Nasice Sisters Theater; or the magazines Danas, Red Pilot, Tank, Vecnost, and Zvrk.

The pieces in this collection offer comparative and interpretive accounts of the avant-gardes in the former
Yugoslavian countries of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia. The book is divided into four sections: Art and
Politics; Literature; Visual Art and Architecture; and Art in Motion (covering theater, dance, music, film,
and video). All of the contributors live in the region and many of them participated in the movements
discussed. The book also reprints a selection of the most important manifestos generated by all phases of
Yugoslav avant-garde activity.

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TITLE : The Pivot of the World :
Photography and Its Nation
AUTHOR : Blake Stimson
PUB : M I T PRESS
February 2006
$19.95/£12.95 (PAPER)
ISBN-10:0-262-69333-X

The Pivot of the World looks at an exceptional effort to work out that geopolitical tension by cultural
means as developed in three hugely ambitious photographic projects: The Family of Man exhibition that
opened in 1955 and traveled the world for the next decade; Robert Frank's influential book The Americans,
photographed in 1955-1956 and first published in 1958; and Bernd and Hilla Becher's typological record of
ndustrial architecture, begun in 1957 and continuing today. Each of these projects worked to release the
dream of nation--of belonging and sovereignty--from its old civic trappings through the medium of
photography's serial form, in the experience of one photograph followed by another and another and
another, so that all seem at once intimately connected and at the same time autonomous and distinct.
Innovations in the serial composition of photographic form could open new possibilities for social form
while the modern desire for political belonging could be made cosmopolitan, could be globalized--but in
the most human of ways. This epic sense of purpose lasted only for a moment--it had already passed by the
beginning of the 1960s--but it bears particular interest for any historical understanding of the contest over
globalization that continues to hold such great consequence for us now.

TITLE : Writings on Art
AUTHOR : Mark Rothko
Mar 13, 2006
PUB : YALE U PRESS
ISBN-10: 0300114400
Cloth: $25.00

While the collected writings of many major 20th-century artists, including Barnett Newman, Robert
Motherwell, and Ad Reinhardt, have been published, Mark Rothko’s writings have only recently come to
light, beginning with the critically acclaimed The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art. Rothko’s other
written works have yet to be brought together into a major publication. Writings on Art fills this significant
void; it includes some 90 documents—including short essays, letters, statements, and lectures—written by
Rothko over the course of his career. The texts are fully annotated, and a chronology of the artist’s life and
work is also included

TITLE : Olmec Art and Archaeology in
Mesoamerica
AUTHOR : Edited by John E. Clark &
Mary E. Pye
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Mar 20, 2006 ISBN-10: 030011446X
PB-with Flaps: $40.00

This handsome volume presents the creations of Mesoamerica’s most ancient societies in their
archaeological contexts. The Olmec—best known for a unique style of monumental stone head and jade
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were-jaguar—were based along the Gulf of Mexico but have also been linked to other Mesoamerican
civilizations such as the Maya and Aztec. This book discusses recent spectacular finds and provides a
framework for understanding the history, art, and archaeology of the Olmec

TITLE : Mexico and Modern
Printmaking : A Revolution in the
Graphic Arts, 1920 to 1950
AUTHOR : Edited by John Ittmann
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Nov 06, 2006
Cloth: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0300120044

Mexico witnessed an exciting revival of printmaking alongside its better-known public mural program in
the decades after the 1910–20 revolution. Major artists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David
lfaro Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo produced numbers of prints that furthered the social and political
reforms of the revolution and helped develop a uniquely Mexican cultural identity. This groundbreaking
book is the first to undertake an in-depth examination of these prints, the vital contributions Mexico’s
printmakers made to modern art, and their influence on coming generations of foreign artists.

Along with a thorough discussion of the printmaking practices of Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros, Tamayo, and
others, the book features some 300 handsomely illustrated prints––many previously unpublished. Essays by
distinguished scholars investigate the dynamic cultural exchange between Mexico and other countries at
this time. They analyze the work of such Mexican artists as Emilio Amero and Jesús Escobedo, who
traveled abroad, and such international artists as Elizabeth Catlett and Jean Charlot, who came to Mexico.
They also discuss the important roles of the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a flourishing print workshop
founded in Mexico City in 1937, and the Weyhe Gallery in New York, which published and distributed
prints by many of these artists during the 1920s and 1930s. Together, the prints and essays tell the
fascinating history of Mexico’s graphic-arts movement in the first half of the 20th century

TITLE : The Sight of Death : An
Experiment in Art Writing
AUTHOR : T. J. Clark
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Jul 31, 2006
Cloth: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117264

Why do we find ourselves returning to certain pictures time and again? What is it we are looking for? How
does our understanding of an image change over time? In his latest book T. J. Clark addresses these
questions—and many more—in ways that steer art writing into new territory.

In early 2000 two extraordinary paintings by Poussin hung in the Getty Museum in a single room,
Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, London) and the Getty's own Landscape with a
Calm. Clark found himself returning to the gallery to look at these paintings morning after morning, and
almost involuntarily he began to record his shifting responses in a notebook. The result is a riveting
analysis of the two landscapes and their different views of life and death, but more, a chronicle of an
investigation into the very nature of visual complexity. Clark’s meditations—sometimes directly personal,
sometimes speaking to the wider politics of our present image-world—track the experience of viewing art
through all its real-life twists and turns
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TITLE : The Arts in Latin America, 1492-
1820
AUTHOR : Joseph J. Rishel
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Nov 13, 2006
Cloth: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300120036

Selected for Honorary Mention in the competition for the Association for Latin American Art Book for
2005-2006

Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke,
Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martín, M. Concepción García Sáiz, Ilona
Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos,
Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie Trusted.

By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a
vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these
continents and a proliferation of diverse art forms in Latin America. This monumental book transcends
geographic boundaries and explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques
among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial era––a period marked by the
independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art.

TITLE : Art and Revolution in Latin
America, 1910-1990
AUTHOR : David Craven
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Sep 25, 2006
Paper: $35.00
ISBN-10: 030012046X

In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin
American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. He discusses the upheavals in Mexico
(1910-1940), in Cuba (1959-1989), and in Nicaragua (1979-1990) and assesses their legacies,
demonstrating how the revolutions' consequences reverberated in arts and cultures far beyond their own
borders.

TITLE : Francis Bacon in the 1950s
AUTHOR : Michael Peppiatt
PUB : YALE U PRESS
Dec 18, 2006
Cloth: $50.00
ISBN-10: 030012192X

From the screaming heads and snarling chimpanzees of the late 1940s to the anonymous figures trapped in
tortured isolation some ten years later, during one crucial decade British artist Francis Bacon created many
of the most central and memorable images of his entire career. The artist enters the decade of the 1950s in
search of himself and his true subject; he finishes ten years later having completed some of his great
masterpieces and having acquired technical mastery over one of the most disturbing and revealing visions
of the 20th century.

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This book brings both Bacon the man and Bacon the painter vividly to life, focusing for the first time on
this key period in his development. Michael Peppiatt, the leading authority on Bacon and a close friend of
the artist for thirty years, reveals essential keys to understanding Bacon's mysterious and subversive art.
The book presents and assesses a wide range of paintings (many of them rarely seen before) representing
all of Bacon's major themes during the 1950s. Also included is an account of the artist's life in the 1950s.

TITLE : From a High Place : A Life of
Arshile Gorky
AUTHOR : Matthew Spender
PUB : CALIFORNIA U PRESS
$ 21.95, paperback
978-0-520-22548-0

An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c. 1900-1948) made his
way to the U.S. to become a painter in 1920. Having grown up haunted by memories of his alternately
idyllic and terrifying childhood--his family fled the Turks' genocide of Armenians in 1915--he changed his
name and created a new identity for himself in America. As an artist, Gorky bridged the generation of the
surrealists and that of the abstract expressionists and was a very influential figure among the latter. His
work was an inspiration to Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko, among others. Matthew Spender
illuminates this world as he tells the story of Gorky's life and career
TITLE : Modern Chinese Artists :
A Biographical Dictionary
AUTHOR : Michael Sullivan
PUB : CALIFORNIA U PRESS
$34.95, £19.95 hardcover
978-0-520-24449-8
Published April 2006

The first biographical dictionary of its kind in any Western language, this pioneering work provides short,
information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. In recent years interest in modern Chinese art has spread across the globe. Public and private
collections are being formed; courses in modern Chinese art are offered in many universities and museums.
At the same time, the number of practicing artists in China and the amount of published material have
greatly increased. Michael Sullivan's pathbreaking book Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China,
published in 1996, included a biographical index of some eight hundred artists. This volume includes more
than twice that number, with entries that have been revised, expanded, and brought up to date. Illustrated
with portraits and photographs of more than seventy leading artists, this comprehensive, convenient
reference will be an essential tool for anyone interested in the study or collection of modern Chinese art.

TITLE : Pieter Bruegel and the Art of
Laughter
AUTHOR : Walter S. Gibson
PUB : CALIFORNIA U PRESS
$49.95, £29.95 hardcover
Published February 2006
978-0-520-24521-1

Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century,
was described in 1604 by his earliest biographer as a supremely comic artist, few of whose works failed to
elicit laughter. Today, however, we approach Bruegel's art as anything but a laughing matter. His paintings
and drawings are thought to conceal profound allegories best illuminated with scholarly erudition. In this
delightfully engaging book, Walter S. Gibson takes a new look at Bruegel, arguing that the artist was no
erudite philosopher, but a man very much in the world, and that a significant part of his art is best
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appreciated in the context of humor. In his illuminating examination of the witty and amusing elements in
Bruegel's paintings, prints, and drawings in relation to the sixteenth century European culture of laughter,
Gibson reminds us exactly why Bruegel was one of the most original artists of his time.
In a series of engrossing chapters, Gibson explores the function and production of laughter in the sixteenth
century, examines the ways in which Bruegel exploited the comic potential of Hieronymus Bosch, and
traces how the artist developed his remarkable gift for physiognomy in his work, culminating in three
paintings of festive peasants he produced during the 1560s: the Wedding Dance, the Kermis, and the
Wedding Banquet. Gibson also takes a detailed look at the Dulle Griet, Bruegel's most complex evocation
of Bosch.

TITLE : The New Typography
AUTHOR : Jan Tschichold
PUB : CALIFORNIA U PRESS
$32.50, £19.95 paperback
Published September 2006
978-0-520-25012-3

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized
as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995,
with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who
considers current thinking about Tschichold's life and work

TITLE : Francis Bacon : The Papal
Portraits of 1953
AUTHOR : Hugh M. Davies
PUB : LUND HUMPHRIES
£27.50 - Hardback
January 2002 - 80 pages
ISBN: 0 85331 846 8

British artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992), one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century, is known for
his expressive figurative paintings. Perhaps Bacon's most famous image - the so-called 'screaming pope' in
Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953) - became the touchstone for the longest series
of paintings in his career, the Papal Portraits of 1953.

In 1953 'haunted and obsessed by the image…by its perfection,' Bacon sought to reinvent Velázquez's
seventeenth-century Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1650) in the paintings that are the focus of this book.
Francis Bacon replaced the grand, official state portrait with an intimate, spontaneous 'candid camera'
glimpse behind the well-ordered exterior. While the Spanish master Velázquez portayed the pope ex
cathedra, Bacon captured him in camera, as if behind a closed door or through a one-way mirror.

This series of eight papal portraits, painted during a period of just a few weeks in the summer of 1953, was
brought together for the first time by noted Bacon scholar Hugh M. Davies for a 1999 exhibition at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, along with several other works from the same period, including
Sphinx I and two recently found Study after Velázquez paintings from 1950. This book includes a new
essay by Davies, discussing the artist's influences and sources of imagery for the series, and a previously
unpublished interview that Davies conducted with Bacon in 1973.

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TITLE : A Separate Sphere:
Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age,
1877-1922
AUTHOR : Cynthia Amneus
PUB : TEXAS TECH U PRESS
$32.50 paper
09/2003 - 216 pages
0896725154

One gets a rare glimpse into the business of fashion in this stunning publication. . . . Amneus uses
dressmaking as a central theme to merge key issues in the areas of social and labor history during a time of
cultural transformation in America. The result is a scholarly work that documents gender roles, equal
rights, artisanship, and entrepreneurship."--Michigan Historical Review

Dressmaking, considered a natural extension of women’s proper work in the home, was a common and
lucrative employment for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It afforded creative
expression, prestige in the community, and even the possibility of financial independence. Yet as
entrepreneurs, dressmakers faced unique business pressures, and with the advent of department stores and
widespread mass production of women’s clothing, most were forced out of business.

Coinciding with the exhibition Cynthia Amnéus organized for the Cincinnati Art Museum, this work
examines the nineteenth-century ideology of women’s separate sphere, the early feminist movement,
women in the workplace, and dressmakers as artisans and professionals. More than 140 stunning custom-
made garments, historical photographs, and dressmakers’ labels document the superb artistic and technical
skill of the women who produced fashionable dress in Cincinnati from 1877 to 1922.

Bracketing Amnéus’s incisive study are essays by Anne Bissonnette on the eccentric tea gown, Marla
Miller on the pitfalls of researching women’s cultural work, and Shirley Teresa Wajda on the dressmakers’
wealthy clientele. In all, A Separate Sphere offers a careful look into the lives of women struggling with
ideological boundaries. Chronicling choices made by and imposed on both working-class women and their
affluent counterparts, it reveals how these women managed to enhance their prescribed sphere for
themselves and for the community at large.

TITLE : ART : Histories, Theories and Exceptions
AUTHOR : Adam Geczy
£12.99 - Paperback
ISBN 9781845203207

Our understanding of art has undergone several major upheavals in the last thirty years: postmodernism and
mass media began the process of disruption in the 1980s; the explosion in the use and presence of digital
technologies since the 1990s has radically altered the way art is created, perceived and made available; the
recent reconceptualising of art as part of 'visual culture' has torn art theory from its roots in art history and
placed it in the context of anthropological, cultural and media theory.

Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions confronts these different ideas by examining a range of different
approaches to art - as ritual, as a form of diagrammatic writing, as a symptom of a

cultural moment, as a commodity, and as an agent of change.

Art: Histories, Theories and Exceptions explores what art – in its broadest sense, from Aboriginal work to
the Western art market, from the role of museums to new media interactivity, from art as mainstream
production and consumption to radical work which challenges our beliefs - means today.

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TITLE : The Latin American Fashion Reader
AUTHOR : Regina A. Root
PUB : BERG
£17.99 - Paperback
March 2005 - 320pp
ISBN 9781859738931

Latin American fashion's recent gain in popularity can be seen most obviously in mass-market ranges
throughout the industrialized West. From the tango-inspired dress of Argentina and guerrilla chic in
downtown Buenos Aires to swimwear on Copacabana Beach and the rainbow that adorns Mayan women,
Latin America has long been a source of inspiration for designers throughout the world. Until now,
however, the pivotal role played by dress in this region has surprisingly been overlooked.

This book is a long overdue assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. The authors
examine the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from
fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the
guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals. This book also considers fashion icons such as Frida Kahlo and Eva
Peron, women who have been worshipped and transformed into marketable symbols of exoticism
and passion, as well as the key role that dress played in their rise to celebrity on the international stage.

Providing a first and definitive overview of Latin American fashion, this book is essential reading for
anyone interested in Latin American cultural studies or fashion history.

Winner of the 2006 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, awarded by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American
Studies

TITLE : Monet
AUTHOR : Matthias Arnold
PUB : HAUS PUB
£10.99 – PB
Feburary 2006
1-904950-35-3

Claude Monet (1840-1926) gave the title of Impressionism to the school of art he created together with
Manet, Renoir, Pissaro, Caillebotte and Sisley. Despite the fact that he left numerous autobiographical
notes about himself, which together with other contemporary sources, paint the picture of a strong yet
contradictory character, Monet the man has remained hidden behind the work of the artist. .

TITLE : The French Collection : French
Nineteenth-Century Paintings in Dutch
Public Collections
AUTHOR : Aukje Vergeest
PUB : AMSTERDAM U PRESS
€ 24,50 – paperback
2000 - 384 pages
978 90 5356 452 3

'What's happening right now in Paris?' This must have been the question that preoccupied many a 19th-
century art dealer and artist. For the modern artist who wanted to make it in that period, Paris was no doubt
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the place to be. And it's from here that considerable amounts of French art managed to find its way, via art
dealers and other means, into the private homes of Dutch collectors. Some of them assembled renowned
collections. And, eventually, a part of these art treasures ended up in national museums, by gift or bequest.
The museums, for their part, supplemented these collections with their own acquisitions.

Now for the first time, the total sum of 19th-century French paintings held in Dutch public collections is
brought into coherent focus. The French Collection opens with an essay which vividly sketches the art
world in Holland during this period. In the catalogue section of The French Collection we find all of the
over 1000 paintings listed alphabetically by the artist's name. Clear and comprehensive entries of every
work include the technical data, the provenance of the work, the literature and the exhibitions. Furthermore,
each painting is represented with a black and white photo.

This reference book will certainly help open up the Dutch collections nationwide and worldwide; therefore
it earns a permanent place in the libraries of art institutions, museum, art historians, collectors and art
lovers.

TITLE : Building the New World:
Studies in the Modern Architecture of
Latin America, 1930-1960
AUTHOR : Valerie Fraser
PUB : VERSO
£17.00 - Paper
Feb – 2001 - 256 pages
1 85984 307 7

Brasília, Caracas, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro … cities synonymous with some of the most innovative and
progressive architecture of the past century. The period between 1930 and 1960 in particular saw a
dramatic upsurge in Latin American modern architecture as the various governments strove to make public
their modernising intentions. After 1960, however, the year in which Brasília was inaugurated, economic
growth in the region slowed and the modernist project faltered. The English-speaking world, which had
previously admired Latin American buildings, began to write them out of the history of twentieth-century
architecture. Building the New World attempts to redress the balance. It surveys the most important
examples of state-funded modernism in Latin America during a period of almost unimaginable optimism,
when politicians and architects such as Pani, Costa, Reidy and Niemeyer sought ways, literally, to build
their societies out of underdevelopment

TITLE : Fashion Foundations : Early Writings on Fashion and Dress
AUTHOR : Kim K. P. Johnson & Susan J. Torntore & Joanne B. Eicher
PUB : BERG
£15.99 - Paperback
June 2003 - 176pp
ISBN 9781859736197

Although it can be difficult to think of fashion in anything other than a contemporary context, as a concept
it is hardly new. Costume historians trace the birth of fashion back to the thirteenth century and writings on
fashion date back as early as the sixteenth century when Michel de Montaigne pondered its origins, thereby
setting in motion a chain of inquiry that has continued to intrigue writers for centuries. This key text
reprints classic fashion writings, all of which have had a profound if perhaps untrumpeted impact on our
understanding and approach to modern day dress - from the psychology of clothes through to collective
fashion trends. Why do we wear clothes? What do they say about our self-awareness and body image? How
can we 'fashion' new identities through what we wear? Seminal fashion statements by Montaigne, William
Hazlitt, Herbert Spencer, Thorstein B. Veblen, Adam Smith, Herbert Blumer, and Georg Simmel answer
these questions and many more. Full of vital fashion treasures that have often been ignored, this book fills a
major gap in the history of the discipline and will serve as an essential teaching text for years to come
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