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| BORN OF FIRE : The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya [Charles S King] Regarded as one of the great masters of Pueblo ceramics, Margaret Tafoya (1904-2001) is known for her trademark large black polished ceramics, decoraded with traditional imagery of rain clouds, water serpents, bear paws, and other symbols. An award-winning artist, she was recipient of the Lifetime Acheivement Award from the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, and a National Heritage Fellowship. { 168pp, June 2008; HB, £36.50, 0890135096:9780890135099 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| LANDSCAPE AS WORLD PICTURE : Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images [Jacob Wamberg] This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. Its point of departure is a hitherto unexplored development pattern that characterises landscape representation from Paleolithic cave paintings through to 19th century modernity. Through a structuralist comparison between this pattern and three additional fields of analysis -- self consciousness, socially determined perception of nature, and world picture -- a fascinating insight into culture's macro-historic organisation is extrapolated. Not least it is argued controversially that culture at a certain level of observation is marked by a directional evolution. The gradual accentuation of a viewpoint found in landscape images can, in this way, be read as a sign of how self consciousness -- the notion of an 'I' detached from nature -- develops. And, in the raw rocky terrain and vividly coloured skies that are introduced in ancient and medieval landscape images, there is testimony of how cosmos splits into a chaotic Mother Earth and an indestructible masculine sky. Finally, the book demonstrates that the landscape images' incorporation or exclusion of traces of cultivation (e.g. fields, roads, hedges), is dependent on what the powers-that-be think about physical work. { ca900pp, June 2008; HB, £45.95, 8779342329:9788779342323 , Aarhus University Press } |
| MUNCH'S IBSEN : A Painter's Visions of a Playwright [Joan Templeton] This is the first comprehensive scholarly and critical account of the relation between the two great Norwegian modernists Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on Norwegian social and cultural history, Munch's extensive unpublished writings, and the interlocking careers of Munch and Ibsen, Joan Templeton demonstrates Ibsen's primordial importance for Munch as a pioneering modernist voice. Munch made more than 400 illustrations of Ibsen's plays, one of the greatest homages a painter ever made to a writer. In addition to locating these illustrations in Munch's life and work as a whole, Templeton also studies them as depictions of Ibsen's plays. { 192pp, 175x255mm, June 2008; HB, £16.00, 8763507927:9788763507929 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| POTTERY OF ZUNI PUEBLO [Dwight P Lanmon] The authors examine fine and rare exmaples of pots -- many of which are from private collections -- in terms of forms and esigns from the ancient antecedents of Zuni pottery to the contemporary work being produced today. The definitive treatment of the extraordinarily popular Zuni Pueblo's long and complex ceramic tradition, this book sets the gold standard and will be an indispensable reference for researchers, collectors, native arts enthusiasts, archaeologists, and visitors to the Southwest. { 616pp, June 2008; HB, £120.99, 0890135088:9780890135082 , Museum of New Mexico Press } |
| TREASURY COLLECTION AT ROSENBORG CASTLE -- 3 VOLUME SET : Royal Heritage & Collecting in Denmark-Norway, 1500-1900 [Jorgen Hein] Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen is among the 10 best princely treasures of Europe. It has been preserved in its natural surroundings and about 95% of the more than 1000 objects have survived. The first volume tells the history of the collection and ends with an art historical summary of its contents. This account builds partly upon hitherto unknown evidence, for example travel diaries from foreign archives. The finds offer a new picture of royal political propaganda and of the making of Danish national identity. The last two volumes contain a catalogue raisonne. Each object is listed with an extract of the proper inventories, an illustrated description with reference to parallels abroad, and a bibliography. { 1720pp, February 2009; HB, £190.00, 8763501317:9788763501316 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |