New Art Books
Compiled by Raymond J. Steiner
ART TIMES Jan/ Feb 2010
ABBEVILLE PRESS: Renoir by Anne Distel. 400 pp.; 11 ½ x 13 ½; 300 Color Illus.; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index of works by Renoir reproduced; Index of Names. $135.00 Slipcased Hardcover. *****
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill (Ed.) Michael Snodin. 356 pp.; 10 1/8 x 12 1/8; 300 Color Illus.; Appendices; Select Bibliography; Index. $85.00 Hardcover. ****
Mrs. Delany & Her Circle by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts. 416 pp.; 10 x 11 ¾; 310 Illus., 300 in Color; Appends; Bibliography; Concordance; Index. $75.00 Hardcover. *****
American Modernism at The Art Institute of Chicago:From World War I to 1955 by Judith A. Barter, 368 pp.; 9 7/8 x 12 ¼; 389 Illus., 325 in Color; Index. $75.00 Hardcover. ****
TheArts of Africa at The Dallas Museum of Art (Ed.) Roslyn Adele Walker. 321 pp.; 9 3/8 x 12 ¼; 222 Color Illus.; Map; Peoples of Africa; Abbreviated References and Selected Bibliography; Index. $75.00 Hardcover. *****
The Woodcut in Fifteenth-Century Europe (Ed.) Peter Parshall. 352 pp.; 9 ¼ x 11 3/8; 125 Duotones, 123 Color Illus.; Index. $70.00 Hardcover. *****
Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156—1868 (Ed.) Morihiro Ogawa. 356 pp.; 9 x 12; 363 Illus., 246 in Color; Appendices; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. ****
The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700 by Xavier Bray. 208 pp.; 9 ¼ x 12; Biographies of the Artists; Bibliography; Index. List of Lenders. $65.00 Hardcover. Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World (Ed.) Ronda Kasl. 400 pp.; 9 7/8 x 12 7/8; 150 Illus., 125 in Color; Bibliography; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait (Eds.) William W. Fitzhugh, et al. 328 pp.; 8 x 10 ½; 342 Illus., 272 in Color; Bibliography; Index. $55.00 Softcover. ****
Alias Man Ray by Mason Klein. 256 pp.; 8 ½ x 11 ¼; 246 Illus., 192 in Color; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index. $50.00 Hardcover. ***
Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago (Ed.) Judith A. Barter. 208 pp.; 9 3/8 x 12 ¼; 196 Color Illus.; Illustrated Checklist; Selected Bibliography; Index of Artists. $45.00 Hardcover. ****
The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary: The Story of a Byzantine Book by John Lowden. 14pp.; 8 ½ x 11; 102 Illus., 100 in Color; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. $30.00 Hardcover. *****
Kienholz: “The Hoerengracht by Colin Wiggins and Annemarie de Wildt. 56 pp.; 9 ¾ x 10 ½; 40 Color Illus.; Further Reading. $15.00 Softcover. *
Duccio to Leonardo: Renaissance Painting 1250-1500 by Simona Di Nepi. 72 pp.; 9 x 10 5/8; 80 Color Illus. $15.00 Softcover. *****
PHAIDON PRESS, INC.: Painting Today by Tony Godfrey. 448 pp.; 10 ¼ x 11 ¾; 550 Illus., 540 in Color; Artists’ Biographies; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Index. $75.00 Hardcover. *****
Marlene Dumas by Dominic van den Boogerd, et al. 240 pp.; 10 1/8 x 11 5/8; Chronology; Bibliography. $69.95 Hardcover. **
PRESTEL: Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection by Rudolf Leopold. 304 pp.; 9 ½ x 11 ¾; 135 Color Illus.; Bibliography; Exhibitions; Index of Names. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Venice in the Age of Canaletto by Alexandra Libby and Stanton Thomas. 224 pp.; 9 x 11; 100 Color Illus.; Map; Bibliography. $60.00 Hardcover. *****
FRESCO FINE ART PUBLICATIONS: Frammenti della Vita: The Art and Writings of Jefferson D. Rubin (Ed.) Marian Granfield. 144 pp.; 10 x 11 1/8; 75 Color Illus.; References to Images. $60.00 Hardcover. *****
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art by Alicia Volk. 328 pp.; 7 ¼ x 9 7/8; 115 B/W & Color Illus.; Notes; Further Reading; List of Illustrations; Index. $49.95 ***
Learning Mind: Experience into Art (Eds.) Mary Jane Jacob and Jacqueline Baas. 296 pp.; 7 5/8 x 9 ¾; 73 Illus., 67 in Color; List of Illustrations; Index. $45.00 Hardcover. *****
WATSON-GUPTILL: Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice by Mitchell Albala. 192 pp.; 9 3/8 x 11 3/8; Color Illus.; Glossary; Resources; Index. $35.00 Hardcover. *****
ITBOOKS: The Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer and Jon Naar. (Un-numbered) pp.; Color Illus. $19.99 Softcover. *