New Art Books
By Raymond J. Steiner
ART TIMES July/ August 2010
ABBEVILLE PRESS: Caravaggio (Second Edition) by John T. Spike. 272 pp.; 11x13; 170 Illus., 150 in Color; Notes; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index. $95.00 Hardcover.*****
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed by Paula Murphy. 320 pp.; 9 x 11 3/8; 310 Illus., 60 in Color; Notes; Bibliography; Index. $85.00 Hardcover. *****
Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters by Richard Spear and Philip Sohm. 400 pp.; 8 5/8 x 11 1/8; 150 Illus., 30 in Color; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on the Authors; Index. $85.00 Hardcover. *****
The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910 (Eds.) Morna O’Neill and Michael Hatt. 336 pp.; 7 3/8 x 10 ¼; 86 Illus., 57 in Color; Notes; Index. $65.00 Hardcover ****
Picasso Looks at Degas by Elizabeth Cowling and Richard Kendall. 352 pp.; 9 ¾ x 11 ¾; 350 Color Illus.; Notes; Works Cited; Checklist of Exhibition; Index. $65.00 Hardcover. *****
Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Gary Tinterow and Susan Alyson Stein. 376 pp.; 9 3/8 x 12 ¼; 663 Illus., 340 in Color; Bibliography; Index. $60.00 Hardcover *****
Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection by Laurence Kanter and John Marciari. 192 pp.; 9 3/8 x 12 ¼; 145 Illus., 97 in Color; Appendix; Index. $55.00 Hardcover. *****
In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe by Diane Wolfthal. 224 pp.; 7 x 10; 100 Illus., 30 in Color; Notes; Works Cited; Index. *****
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection: Correggio to Tiepolo by Linda Wolk-Simon and Carmen C. Bambach. 268 pp.; 9 3/8 x 11 3/8; 244 Illus., 82 in Color; Note; Bibliography; Index. $50.00 Hardcover. *****
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 by Sandra S. Phillips et al. 256 pp.; 9 ¾ x 12 1/8; 230 Color Illus.; List of Plates; Catalogue of Exhibition. 50.00 Hardcover. ***
Art for All: British Posters for Transport (Ed.) Teri J. Edelstein. 280 pp.; 9 ¾ x 12 ¼; 330 Color Illus.; Checklist; Selected Readings; Index. $50.00 Hardcover. ***
The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger. 272 pp.; 8 3/8 x 10 3/8; 257 Illus., 228 in Color; Biographical Notes; Bibliography; Index. $40.00 Hardcover. ****
Vienna Circa 1780, An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered by Wolfram Koeppe. 124 pp.; 8 7/8 x 11 ¼; 121 Illus, 120 in Color; Checklist; Bibliography; Index. $35.00 Hardcover. ***
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam by Ladan Akbarnia w/Francesca Leoni. 160 pp.; 9 x 12; 50 Color Illus.; Selected Bibliography; Index. $25.00 Softcover. ***
Hogarth to Turner: British Painting by Louise Govier. I72 pp.; 9 1/8 x 10 5/8; 80 Color Illus. $15.00 Softcover. ****
A Closer Look: Angels / A Closer Look: Allegory (Two ((2)) Volumes) by Erika Langmuir. 96 pp.; 5 7/8 x 8 ¼; 90 Color Illus.; Further Reading. $15.00 (Each) Softcover. ****
Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color by Elena Phipps. 48 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; 77 Illus., 75 in Color; Bibliography. $14.95 Softcover. *****
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fenceby Brian O’Doherty. 178 pp.; 10 x 12; 110 Illus., 60 in Color; List of Illustrations. $49.95 Hardcover. *****
Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works by David Kaufmann. 128 pp.; 5 ½ x 8 ¼; 10 Color Illus.; Notes; Index. $24.95 Softcover. **
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS: Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Church in Jamaica by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Katherine Manthorne. 72 pp.; 9 7/8 x 9 7/8; Color Illus.; List of Works in Exhibition. $24.95 Hardcover. *****
THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS: Henry Walters and Bernard Berenson: Collector and Connoisseur by Stanley Mazaroff. 248 pp.; 6 x 9; 32 Illus., 14 in Color; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index. $40.00 Hardcover. *****
THE CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP/WATSON GUPTILL: Botanical Drawing in Color: A Basic Guide to Mastering Realistic Form and Naturalistic Color by Wendy Hollender. 144 pp.; 8 ½ x 11; Color Illus.; Sources; Index. $24.99 Softcover. *****