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Robert Irwin: A Conditional ArtMATTHEW SIMMS • This handsome, richly illustrated volume

is the first book devoted to an in-depth investigation of the entirety of Irwin’s career, tracing the development of Irwin’s ambitions from his earliest canvases to his most recent light installations.

• Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including the artist’s library and his published and unpublished writings, Matthew Simms surveys the full scope of Irwin’s creative output, the reception of his work, and its multiple aesthetic and historical contexts.

• In the resulting thorough yet accessible account, essential for scholars of post-war American art, conditional art emerges as a continual source of renewed aesthetic perception. 100 color and 150 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 360pp | 9780300173833 | 2016.07 Yale University Press | A$107 | NZ$124 267x216mm | UK

Marie–AntoinetteHELENE DELALEX, ALEXANDRE MARAL AND NICOLAS MILOVANOVIC • An intimate glimpse into the public and

private world of one of history’s most famous - and infamous - queens.

• In this gorgeously illustrated volume, the authors find a fresh and nuanced approach to Marie-Antoinette’s much-told story through the objects and locations that made up the fabric of her world.

• The exquisite objects that populated Marie-Antoinette’s rarefied surroundings - beautiful gowns, gilt-mounted furniture, chinoiserie porcelains, and opulent tableware - are depicted.

• But so too are possessions representing her personal pursuits and private world, including her sewing kit, her harp, her children’s toys, and even the simple cotton chemise she wore as a condemned prisoner. 225 color illustrations.

Hbk | 216pp | 9781606064832 | 2016.07 Getty Publications | A$76 | NZ$88 250x150mm | UK

Women of Abstract ExpressionismJOAN MARTER

• Women of Abstract Expressionism is a long-overdue survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists.

• Lavishly illustrated with 144 full-color plates, the book features biographies of more than forty artists, offering a glimpse into the lives and work of these accomplished women.

• Essays by noted scholars explore the techniques, trials, and legacies of women in Abstract Expressionism and consider topics such as the art culture of San Francisco and metonymy as an artistic trope.

• This groundbreaking book reveals the richness of the careers of these artists and offers scholarly and general audiences important new insight into their work.

Hbk | 208pp | 9780300208429 | 2016.07 Denver Art Museum | A$102 | NZ$118 305x254mm | UK

Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van DyckANNE ROBBINS • Sets out to explore how and why the

history of ownership influences our view of both the artist and the work.

• The technical secrets which only an actual painting can reveal will be explored, as well as the painter’s painting as an endless source of motifs, poses and subject-matter.

• Robbins also examines how painters acquired the paintings of their desire – whether through auction, dealerships, gift or exchange.

• How they cared for pictures – storing them, displaying them, and in some cases, flaunting them for self-promotion – will also be explained.

• Ultimately, Robbins shows the ways a painter’s ‘gaze’ (an attraction to a painting’s form and visual power, rather than its historical interest) can determine a particular approach and range of collecting – and how this connects with personal artistic preoccupations at a precise moment in time. 70 color illustrations.

Pbk | 96pp | 9781857096118 | 2016.05 National Gallery London | A$34.95 | NZ$39.95 273x229mm | UK

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ARCHITECTUREMakina/Madina: On Cultural Heritage and Urban Development in the Historic City of FezAZIZA CHAOUNI AND HASHIM SARKISHow can a cultural event help ameliorate the conditions of a historic city? Through a series of essays by urban historians, economists, and designers, Makina/Medina examines the potential impact of cultural events on the revitalization of historic cities. The aim of this volume is to explore how the urban design set up for a cultural event could help improve access and legibility in this medieval city and to positively affect its economic and social development. The book also includes a series of hypothetical design projects for the Makina Square by Harvard Graduate School of Design students. 60 color illustrations and 10 halftones.

Pbk | 160pp | 9781934510193 | 2016.07 Harvard University Press A$47.95 | NZ$54.95 USA

ARTWilliam Merritt Chase: A Modern MasterELSA SMITHGALL, ERICA HIRSHLER, KATHERINE BOURGUIGNON, GIOVANNA GINEX AND JOHN DAVISThe history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America’s influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide range of subjects in oil and pastel, including figures, landscapes, urban park scenes, interiors, and portraits. Five essays by prominent scholars of American art offer new insights into Chase’s multi-faceted artistic practice and his position in the international cultural climate at the turn of the 20th century. This book provides a landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art. 215 color illustrations.

Hbk | 248pp | 9780300206265 | 2016.07 The Phillips Collection | A$93 | NZ$108 279x241mm | UK

Journeys from Xanadu: Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper CollectionMADHUVANTI GHOSEThis book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects from across Asia offer a material record of vanishing cultures. The objects were used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment, and in religious practice. They also represent a broad spectrum of cultures: the majority come from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. 300 color illustrations.

Hbk | 272pp | 9780300214840 | 2016.07 Art Institute of Chicago | A$104 | NZ$121 305x241mm | UK

The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection of Contemporary ArtCARLOS BASUALDO AND ANNA MECUGNIThis beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly and Jasper Johns, exceptional pieces by major British and German artists, and important works of outdoor sculpture, large-scale photography, and video art. All of these works, plus some 70 more from Keith and Katherine Sachs’s personal collection, are discussed in detail and beautifully illustrated. 220 color illustrations.

Hbk | 264pp | 9780300215236 | 2016.07 Philadelphia Museum Distribution A$83 | NZ$96 305x254mm | UK

Alice Neel: RetrospectiveJEREMY LEWISON AND SUSANNA PETTERSSONThis insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel’s (1900-1984) celebrated paintings of people, still life, and cityscapes. Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cezanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works. Neel is renowned for her visual acuity and psychological depth, and her portraits and nude paintings of friends, family, strangers, and prominent cultural figures alike convey an incredibly consistent intimacy regardless of the relationship to her subject. 130 color illustrations.

Hbk | 224pp | 9780300220070 | 2016.07 Mercatorfonds | A$82 | NZ$95 292x241mm | UK

Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective AssociationANASTASIA AUKEMANThe Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. The artists who counted themselves among the Rat Bastards - which included Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Wally Hedrick, Michael McClure, and Manuel Neri - exhibited a unique fusion of radicalism, provocation, and community. Geographically isolated from a viable art market and refusing to conform to institutional expectations, they animated broader social and artistic discussions through their work and became a transformative part of American culture over time. Anastasia Aukeman presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle, a colorful cultural milieu that intersected with the broader Beat scene.

Hbk | 336pp | 9780520289451 | 2016.06 University of California Press | A$86 | NZ$99 254x178mm | USA

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Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late AntiquityTHELMA THOMASThe textiles selected for the exhibition Designing Identity at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World present an aesthetic of vibrant colors, fine materials, technical virtuosity of professional production, and variations on designs that display personal identity in the clothing of men, women, and children, as well as hopes for prosperity and protection in the textile furnishings of households. Prized for their artistry since the earliest discoveries beginning at the turn of the nineteenth century, such textiles were eagerly collected by designers, artists, scholars, museums, and captains of industry. This exhibition catalogue explores the parallel histories of ancient textile production and consumption, and the modern business of collecting Late Antique textiles. 120 color illustrations.

Pbk | 152pp | 9780691169422 | 2016.03 Princeton University Press | A$56.95 | NZ$64 229x152mm | USA

The Artist and His Critic Stripped Bare – The Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp and Robert LebelPAUL FRANKLINRobert Lebel, French art critic and collector, was instrumental in rendering Marcel Duchamp’s often hermetic life, art, and ideas accessible to a wider public across Europe and the United States, principally with his 1959 publication Sur Marcel Duchamp, the first monograph and catalogue raisonne devoted to the artist. Duchamp was a willing partner in the book’s creation. In fact, his active participation in both its conception and layout was so substantial that the book is considered part of the artist’s oeuvre. But the project took six years to complete. The trials, tribulations, quarrels, and machinations that plagued the production, publication, and publicity of Sur Marcel Duchamp are the focus of this correspondence between two lifelong friends.


The Invention of the American Art Museum: From Craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870-1930KATHLEEN CURRANThis groundbreaking work recounts the fascinating story of the invention of the modern American art museum, starting with its roots in the 1870s in the craft museum type, which was based on London’s South Kensington (now the Victoria and Albert) Museum. At the turn of the twentieth century, American planners grew enthusiastic about a new type of museum and presentation that was developed in Northern Europe, particularly in Germany, Switzerland, and Scandinavia. Called Kulturgeschichte (cultural history) museums, they were evocative displays of regional history. Leading institutions, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, adopted and developed crucial aspects of the Kulturgeschichte model. By the 1930s, such museum plans and exhibition techniques had become standard practice at museums across the country. 119 color illustrations.

Hbk | 256pp | 9781606064788 | 2016.07 Getty Publications | A$87 | NZ$101 250x150mm | UK

Hans HofmannDAWN ROGALAThis gorgeously illustrated book examines the practice and materials of a prominent Abstract Expressionist. The career of the German-American painter and educator Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) describes the arc of artistic modernism from pre-World War I Munich and Paris to mid-twentieth-century Greenwich Village. His career also traces the transatlantic engagement of modern painting with the materials of its own making, a relationship that is perhaps still not completely understood. In these interrelated narratives, Hofmann is a central protagonist, providing a vital link between nineteenth- and twentieth-century art practice and between European and American modernism. This richly illustrated book, the fourth in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Artist’s Materials series, presents a thorough examination of Hofmann’s late-career materials. 50 color and 40 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 140pp | 9781606064870 | 2016.07 Getty Publications | A$57.95 | NZ$67 250x150mm | UK

Embodied Spirits – Gope Boards from the Papuan GulfVIRGINIA–LEE WEBB, THOMAS SCHULTZE–WESTRUM AND ROBERT WELSCHIn Papua New Guinea, “spirit boards,” also known as “gope,” were carved from wood by important men of an extended family or clan. Made from discarded canoes and usually decorated with carved and painted designs on one side, these boards vary greatly in style. At the turn of the 20th century, when most of the boards featured here were collected, men lived apart from women and uninitiated boys; their houses had designated areas or shrines created to display items, such as spirit boards, that indicated personal status and clan identity. Embodied Spirits is the first book devoted exclusively to spirit boards. Full-page photographs illustrate the boards of each region, and historical photographs show them in situ. The book also includes original essays by two noted scholars of Papuan Gulf art.


The Creative Growth BookTOM DI MARIAThe Creative Growth Book celebrates the first 40 years of the titular Oakland, California, art center for people with disabilities. As the world’s oldest and largest center of its kind, Creative Growth Art Center’s history mirrors the evolution of a growing disability rights movement and the increased interest in self-taught art. This visual history looks at the center’s start and how its artists evolved from being seen as people with disabilities to outsider artists and, increasingly, as acclaimed contemporary artists and at its current international design, museum, and fashion partnerships. 220 color illustrations.

Pbk | 176pp | 9788874397266 | 2016.03 Yale University Press | A$65 | NZ$75 250x150mm | UK

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BIOGRAPHYA Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson BonaparteALEXANDRA DEUTSCHAlexandra Deutsch literally “unpacks” Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity. In addition to letters and portraits, Deutsch found bits of the story in previously overlooked objects in the vast Bonaparte family collections.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780996594431 | 2016.03 The Maryland Historical Society | A$68 | NZ$78 229x152mm | USA

Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly ConversationALAN WIEDERStuds Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention – and respect – to “ordinary” human beings of all classes and colors, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder’s Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man.

Pbk | 304pp | 9781583675939 | 2016.07 Monthly Review Press | A$39.95 | NZ$46.95 229x152mm | USA

COMMUNICATION AND MEDIAReporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First CenturyZAHERA HARBHow do the media cover the Middle East? Through a detailed country-by-country approach, this book provides detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab World. Each chapter provides an overview of the country in question, including the political context, relationship to international politics and the key features that are most frequently covered in Western media. The authors explore how the media can be used to serve particular political agendas on both a regional and international level. They also consider the changes to the media landscape following the growth of digital and social media, showing how access to the media is no longer restricted to state or elite actors.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781784532727 | 2016.06 I.B. Tauris | A$46.95 | NZ$53.95 216x138mm | UK

FILM AND TELEVISIONFast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic ArtsHOLLY WILLISCinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the twentieth century, is being reconfigured by new media in the twenty-first. Terms such as “worldbuilding,” “virtual reality,” and “transmedia” introduce new methods for constructing a screenplay and experiencing and sharing a story. Similarly, 3D cinematography, hypercinema, and visual effects require different modes for composing an image, and virtual technology, motion capture, and previsualization completely rearrange the traditional flow of cinematic production. What does this mean for telling stories? Fast Forward answers this question by investigating a full range of contemporary creative practices dedicated to the future of mediated storytelling and by connecting with a new generation of filmmakers, screenwriters, technologists, media artists, and designers to discover how they work now, and toward what end. 24 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 224pp | 9780231178938 | 2016.07 Wallflower Press | A$57.95 | NZ$67 229x152mm | USA

Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual PleasureHELEN WHEATLEYIn terms of visual impact, television has long been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led, dull to look at and consumed by a distracted audience. Today, it is tempting to see the rise of HD and 3D as ushering in a new era of spectacular television. Yet since its earliest days, the medium has embraced spectacular content. Looking at lifestyle and makeover shows, costume dramas, televised sport, travel shows and ambitious natural history series, Helen Wheatley answers the questions: what is televisual pleasure, and how has television defined its own brand of spectacular aesthetics? At a time when the distinctions between television and cinema seem to be collapsing, this book fundamentally reconsiders what television is, putting questions of visual pleasure at the heart of its analysis.

Pbk | 288pp | 9781780767376 | 2016.06 I.B. Tauris | A$44.95 | NZ$51.95 216x134mm | UK

Drone Age Cinema: Action Film and Sensory AssaultSTEEN CHRISTIANSENAction cinema is entering the drone age. At a time when technological advances are transforming cultures and supporting new automated military techniques, action films engage the senses and in doing so allow viewers to embody combat roles. This book argues that through film the viewer adapts to an ‘ecology of fear’, one that reflects global panic at the near-constant threat of conflict and violence. Often overwhelming in its audiovisual assault, action cinema attempts to overpower our bodies with its own through force and intensity. Chapters investigate new modes of cinematic experience through in-depth case studies of Iron Man, Avatar and the Jason Bourne trilogy, through to The Hurt Locker and Mad Max: Fury Road. 32 pages of color plates.

Hbk | 288pp | 9781784536404 | 2016.06 I.B. Tauris | A$139 | NZ$159 UK

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HISTORYThe Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia (New in Paperback)RACHEL MAIRSIn the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual communities as much Greek as they were indigenous. To explore the lives and identities of the inhabitants of the Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, Rachel Mairs marshals a variety of evidence, from archaeology, to coins, to documentary and historical texts. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the only extensively excavated Hellenistic period urban site in Central Asia, Mairs explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves. Significant and original, The Hellenistic Far East will highlight Bactrian studies as an important part of our understanding of the ancient world.

Pbk | 256pp | 9780520292468 | 2016.07 University of California Press | A$61 | NZ$71 229x152mm | USA

Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century (New in Paperback)KONRAD JARAUSCHA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity, prosperity, and promise. Konrad Jarausch describes how the European nations emerged from the nineteenth century with high hopes for continued material progress and proud of their imperial command over the globe, only to become embroiled in the bloodshed of World War I, which brought an end to their optimism and gave rise to competing democratic, communist, and fascist ideologies.

Pbk | 888pp | 9780691173078 | 2016.07 Princeton University Press | A$72 | NZ$83 216x140mm | USA

Muslims and Jews in France: History of a Conflict (New in Paperback)MAUD MANDELThis book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization.

Pbk | 272pp | 9780691173504 | 2016.07 Princeton University Press | A$49.95 | NZ$57.95 235x155mm | USA

Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War (New in Paperback)GREGORY DOMBERAs the most populous country in Eastern Europe as well as the birthplace of the largest anticommunist dissident movement, Poland is crucial in understanding the end of the Cold War. During the 1980s, both the United States and the Soviet Union vied for influence over Poland’s politically tumultuous steps toward democratic revolution. In this groundbreaking history, Gregory F. Domber examines American policy toward Poland and its promotion of moderate voices within the opposition, while simultaneously addressing the Soviet and European influences on Poland’s revolution in 1989.

Pbk | 416pp | 9781469629810 | 2016.07 The University of North Carolina Press A$59.95 | NZ$69 235x155mm | USA

The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History (New in Paperback)AUSTIN JERSILDIn 1950 the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets. Jersild zeros in on the ground-level experiences of the socialist bloc advisers in China, who were involved in everything from the development of university curricula, the exploration for oil, and railway construction to piano lessons. Their goal was to reproduce a Chinese administrative elite in their own image that could serve as a valuable ally in the Soviet bloc’s struggle against the United States.


Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands (New in Paperback)SULMAAN KHANIn 1959, the Dalai Lama fled Lhasa, leaving the People’s Republic of China with a crisis on its Tibetan frontier. Sulmaan Wasif Khan tells the story of the PRC’s response to that crisis and, in doing so, brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters: Chinese diplomats appalled by sky burials, Guomindang spies working with Tibetans in Nepal, traders carrying salt across the Himalayas, and Tibetan Muslims rioting in Lhasa.


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Ancient People of the AndesMICHAEL MALPASSIn Ancient People of the Andes, Michael A. Malpass describes the prehistory of western South America from initial colonization to the Spanish Conquest. All the major cultures of this region, from the Moche to the Inkas, receive thoughtful treatment, from their emergence to their demise or evolution. No South American culture that lived prior to the arrival of Europeans developed a writing system, making archaeology the only way we know about most of the prehispanic societies of the Andes. The earliest Spaniards on the continent provided first-person accounts of the latest of those societies, and, as descendants of the Inkas became literate, they too became a source of information. Both ethnohistory and archaeology have limitations in what they can tell us, but when we are able to use them together they are complementary ways to access knowledge of these fascinating cultures. 8 page colour insert, 60 halftones, 43 line figures, 14 maps, 3 tables and 2 charts.

Pbk | 312pp | 9781501700002 | 2016.07 Cornell University Press | A$66 | NZ$77 245x216mm | USA

Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and RomeALEXANDRA SOFRONIEWDaily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could have a deep personal and spiritual meaning. Roman houses were often filled with images of gods. Gods and goddesses were represented in mythological paintings on walls and in decorative mosaics on floors, in bronze and marble sculptures, on ornate silver dining vessels, and on lowly clay oil lamps that lit dark rooms. Showcasing the collections in the Getty Villa, this book s emphasis on the spiritual beliefs and practices of individuals promises to make the works of Greek and Roman art more accessible to readers.

Hbk | 160pp | 9781606064566 | 2016.02 Yale University Press | A$51.95 | NZ$58.95 236x186mm | UK

LITERARY CRITICISM AND HISTORY Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (New in Paperback)JENNIFER SCAPPETTONEAs a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clichés, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice’s labyrinthine premodern form and temporality, whereas others aspire to modernize by “killing the moonlight” of Venice, in the Futurists’ notorious phrase. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. 61 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 464pp | 9780231164337 | 2016.07 Columbia University Press | A$65 | NZ$75 235x156mm | USA

Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms’ Folk and Fairy Tales (New in Paperback)JACK ZIPESIn Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world—the fairy tale. Zipes looks at the transformation of the Grimms’ tales into children’s literature, the Americanization of the tales, the “Grimm” aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales’ utopian impulses. He shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk tale collecting that continue through the current era.


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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (New in Paperback)PAULA RABINOWITZ‘There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes.’ - a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951). American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how it brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred social mobility, and helped fashion new identities by introducing readers to books by and about gays and lesbians, African Americans, and other marginalized groups. Drawing on extensive original research, Paula Rabinowitz unearths the far-reaching political, social, and aesthetic impact of the pulps between the late 1930s and early 1960s.

Pbk | 408pp | 9780691173382 | 2016.07 Princeton University Press | A$49.95 | NZ$57.95 216x140mm | USA

LITERATUREAn Account of the Life of Mr Richard SavageSAMUEL JOHNSONThe Life of Mr Richard Savage was the first important book by an unknown Grub Street hack, Samuel Johnson, who would later become the most celebrated British writer of the late 1700s. Richard Savage (1697-1743) was a poet, playwright, and satirist who claimed to be the illegitimate son of a late earl and to have been denied his inheritance and viciously persecuted by his mother. He was urbane, charming, a brilliant conversationalist, but also irresponsible and impulsive. His role in a tavern brawl almost led him to the gallows, though his life was saved by an eleventh-hour pardon by the King. Over time he attracted many supporters, practically all of whom he managed to alienate by the time of his death in a debtors’ prison in Bristol. Johnson, who had been friends with Savage for a little over a year, drew on published documents and his own memories of Savage to produce one of the first great English biographies.

Pbk | 272pp | 9781554811557 | 2016.06 Broadview Press | A$37.95 | NZ$43.95 216x140mm | USA

Sophocles STEPHEN ESPOSITOWho can forget the tragic inevitability of Oedipus’ fate, the implacable determination of bereaved Antigone, or the noble, towering rage of an Ajax wronged? These are but a few of the famous triumphs which earned Sophocles a place alongside Aeschylus and Euripides as one of the three pillars of the tragic canon in the golden age of fifth-century Athenian drama. Only seven of Sophocles 123 plays survive in their entirety, but each one of these has demonstrated an enduring appeal as it continues to captivate theatre-going audiences worldwide. In his agile and informative introduction, Stephen Esposito presents the genius of Sophocles through a perceptive analysis of his extant works: their poetry and production; the cultural and political contexts behind their themes; and the distinctive character of the rich, resonant Sophoclean voice.

Pbk | 192pp | 9781780769608 | 2016.06 I.B. Tauris | A$33.95 | NZ$38.95 UK

MUSICThe Castrato: Reflections on Natures and KindsMARTHA FELDMANThe Castrato is a nuanced exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire foundation of Western classical singing, culminating in bel canto, was birthed from an unlikely and historically unique set of desires, public and private, aesthetic, economic, and political. In Italy, castration for singing was understood through the lens of Catholic blood sacrifice as expressed in idioms of offering and renunciation and, paradoxically, in satire, verbal abuse, and even the symbolism of the castrato’s comic cousin Pulcinella.


PHILOSOPHYFamily Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (New in Paperback)HARRY BRIGHOUSE AND ADAM SWIFTThe family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children’s upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should—and should not—have over their children.


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PHOTOGRAPHYMarcel Gautherot: The MonographMICHEL FRIZOT, SAMUEL TITAN AND JACQUES LEENHARDTMarcel Gautherot (1910–96) was a great master of twentieth-century photography, best known for his documentation in some three-thousand images of the construction of the Brazilian capital city Brasilia from 1958 to 1960. Nevertheless, his work remains relatively little known. Even those who are familiar with his beautiful photographs of the construction of Oscar Niemeyer’s Brasilia may be surprised to learn that he produced such a large and strikingly diverse body of work. This is the first book to look back on Gautherot’s entire career. 200 halftones.

Hbk | 208pp | 9783858817778 | 2016.07 Scheidegger and Spiess | A$92 | NZ$107 279x203mm | USA

RELIGIONBlood: A Critique of Christianity (New in Paperback)GIL ANIDJARBlood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and political thought from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the Bible to Shakespeare and Melville.

Pbk | 464pp | 9780231167215 | 2016.07 Columbia University Press | A$64 | NZ$74 229x152mm | USA

Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Essential TextsBRYN GEFFERT AND THEOFANIS STAVROUTwo leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. This essential, one-of-a-kind work frames, explores, and interprets Eastern Orthodoxy through the use of primary sources and documents. Lively introductions and short narratives that touch on anthropology, art, law, literature, music, politics, women’s studies, and a host of other areas are woven together to provide a coherent and fascinating history of the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition. 48 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 480pp | 9780300196788 | 2016.07 Yale University Press | A$57.95 | NZ$66 235x156mm | UK

A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (New in Paperback)RICHARD PAYNEThe rise of Christianity in Iran depended on the Zoroastrian theory and practice of hierarchical, differentiated inclusion, according to which Christians, Jews, and others occupied legitimate places in Iranian political culture in positions subordinate to the imperial religion. Christians, for their part, positioned themselves in a political culture not of their own making, with recourse to their own ideological and institutional resources, ranging from the writing of saints’ lives to the judicial arbitration of bishops. In placing the social history of East Syrian Christians at the center of the Iranian imperial story, A State of Mixture helps explain the endurance of a culturally diverse empire across four centuries.


SOCIAL SCIENCEAnatomy of Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi War CriminalsJOEL DIMSDALEWhen the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using extensive psychiatric interviews, IQ tests, and Rorschach inkblot tests. Never before nor since has there been such a detailed study of governmental leaders who orchestrated mass killings. Drawing on his decades of experience as a psychiatrist and the dramatic advances within psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience since Nuremberg, Joel E. Dimsdale looks anew at the findings and examines in detail four of the war criminals, Robert Ley, Hermann Goering, Julius Streicher, and Rudolf Hess.

Hbk | 256pp | 9780300213225 | 2016.07 Yale University Press | A$49.95 | NZ$58.95 235x156mm | UK

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