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Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History

Sarah D. Coffin, Gail S. Davidson, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, and Ellen Lupton
Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008
Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Assouline, 2008. 272 pp.; 380+ color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780910503914)

Exhibition schedule: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, March 7–July 6, 2008

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August 6, 2008
Deborah Rothschild, ed.
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Exh. cat. Williamstown and Berkeley: Williams College Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 2007. 244 pp.; 70 color ills.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520252400)

Exhibition schedule: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, July 8–November 11, 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, February 26–May 4, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 8–September 15, 2008

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May 14, 2008
Thomas P. Campbell, ed.
Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor
Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 592 pp.; 175 color ills.; 169 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124071)

Exhibition schedule: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 16, 2007–January 6, 2008; Palacio Real, Madrid, March 6–June 1, 2008

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February 27, 2008
Ashley Callahan, ed.
Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts. Proceedings from the Second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2005. 176 pp.; 29 color ills.; 83 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0915977567)
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January 29, 2008
Kathleen James-Chakraborty, ed.
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 246 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816646883)
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John V. Maciuika
Before the Bauhaus: Architecture, Politics, and the German State, 1890–1920
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 386 pp.; 129 b/w ills. Cloth $91.00 (9780521790048)
January 23, 2008
Allessandra Russo
El realismo circular: Tierras, espacios y paisajes de la cartografía novohispana, siglos XVI y XVII
México City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2005. 250 pp.; 351 ills. Paper $36.00 (9703209831)
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December 20, 2006
Wayne Craven
Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
Columbia University Press, 2005. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)
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November 7, 2006
Meyer Shapiro
The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art
Intro. Jane E. Rosenthal. The Morgan Library and Museum, 2005. 212 pp.; 43 color ills.; 134 b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (0875981402)
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October 10, 2006
Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder, eds.
Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 288 pp.; 27 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0312293771)
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September 12, 2006
Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott and David Shambaugh
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures
University of Washington Press, 2005. 192 pp.; 45 b/w ills. (0295985224)
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September 11, 2006
Yevgenia Petrova, ed.
Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance
St. Petersburg: Palace Editions, State Russian Museum, 2005. 152 pp.; 155 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth (0967845130)

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, June 4–September 14, 2005; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, October 8–December 31, 2005; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, February 25–June 11, 2006

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June 8, 2006
Judith B. Tankard
Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement: Reality and Imagination
Harry N. Abrams, 2004. 224 pp.; 148 color ills.; 19 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (0810949652)
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May 29, 2006
Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Art of Colonial Latin America
Phaidon Press, 2005. 448 pp.; 240 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0714841579)
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March 1, 2006
Katharine Lochnan
Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot
Yale University Press, 1999. 280 pp.; 25 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $70.00 (0300081847)
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Nancy Marshall and Malcolm Warner
James Tissot: Victorian Life, Modern Love
Yale University Press, 1999. 216 pp.; 93 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300081731)
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, September 22–November 28,1999; Musée National de Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec City, December 15, 1999–March 12, 2000; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, March 25–July 2, 2000.
 
April 4, 2003
Amelia Peck and Carol Irish
Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1876–1900
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 2001. 288 pp.; 80 color ills.; 108 b/w ills. $45.00 (0300090811)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 9, 2001-January 6, 2002

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October 4, 2002
Eli Wilner, ed.
The Gilded Edge: The Art of the Frame
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. 204 pp.; 175 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (081182070x)
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September 26, 2002
Mary Rogers, ed.
Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art
Cambridge University Press, 2000. 241 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Cloth $84.95 (0754600211)
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June 11, 2002
Lisa Zeitz
Tizian, Teurer Freund: Tizian und Federico Gonzaga; Kunstpatronage in Mantua im 16. Jahrhundert
Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2000. 256 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Cloth (3932526372)
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Diane H. Bodart
Tiziano e Federico Il Gonzaga: Storia di un rapporto di committenza
Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 1998. 400 pp.; 49 b/w ills. Paper (8883192559)
February 13, 2002
Lisa Zeitz
Tizian, Teurer Freund: Tizian und Federico Gonzaga; Kunstpatronage in Mantua im 16. Jahrhundert
Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2000. 256 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Cloth (3932526372)
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February 13, 2002
Susan Weber Soros
E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 1999. 430 pp. (0300080093)
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Susan Weber Soros
The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin
Yale University Press, 2000. 300 pp.; 240 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0300081596)
May 7, 2001
George Michell and Mark Zebrowski
The New Cambridge History of India: Architecture and Art in the Deccan Sultanates, I
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 298 pp.; 16 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521563216)
July 11, 2000
Calvin B. Kendall
The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions
University of Toronto Press, 1998. 401 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0802042627)
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April 18, 2000
Richard Hill
Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics
Yale University Press, 1999. 288 pp.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $30.00 (0300079486)
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March 31, 2000
Mojmir Frinta
Punched Decoration on Late Medieval and Miniature Painting
Prague: Maxdorf, 556 pp. (8085800942)
March 30, 2000
Peter Wollen
Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion
Berkeley: University of California Press in association with The Hayward Gallery, 1999. 120 pp.; 99 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (1853321834)
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March 27, 2000
John Maeda
Design By Numbers
MIT Press, 1999. 250 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (0262133547)
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November 3, 1999
Peter McNair, Robert Joseph, and Bruce Greenville, eds.
Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast
Seattle and Vancouver: University of Washington Press in association with Vancouver Art Gallery and Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group, 1998. 192 pp. Paper $30.00 (0295977094)
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October 13, 1999
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 240 pp.; 20 color ills.; 104 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0824820819)
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September 3, 1999
Richard Cleary
The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancient Régime
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 300 pp.; 12 color ills.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521572681)
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August 26, 1999
Elizabeth Bartman
Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome
Cambridge University Press, 1998. 242 pp.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521583942)
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July 27, 1999
Reindeer Company
The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western")
The Reindeer Company, 1998. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00
May 13, 1999
Jonathan M. Bloom
The Minbar from Kutubiyya Mosque
Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Ediciones El Viso and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco, 1998. 124 pp.; 80 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. (0300086377)
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April 22, 1999
Linda Merrill
The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography
Yale University Press in association with Smithsonian Institution, 1998. 408 pp.; 105 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300076118)
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March 16, 1999