Art/Archi./Photo. 86 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. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 87 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. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 88 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 Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 89 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 Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 90 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. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 91 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 Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 92 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. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 93 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. Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 94 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 Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected] Art/Archi./Photo. 95 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 Seagull Bookstore Pvt. Ltd. 31A, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 ☎ – (033) 2476 5865 or 69 email – [email protected]