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Art Rebels: Race, Class, and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin ScorsesePAUL LOPESIn this compelling book, Lopes tells the story of how a pair of talented and outspoken art rebels defied prevailing conventions in Postwar America to elevate American jazz and film to unimagined critical heights. During the Heroic Age of American Art—where creative independence and the unrelenting pressures of success were constantly at odds—Davis and Scorsese became influential figures with such modern classics as Kind of Blue and Raging Bull. Their careers also reflected the conflicting ideals and contentious debates over avant-garde and independent art during this period. This is an unforgettable portrait of two iconic artists who exemplified the complex interplay of the quest for artistic autonomy and the expression of social identity during the Heroic Age of American Art.

Hbk | 216pp | 9780691159492 | 2019.05 Princeton University Press A$56.99 | NZ$66 | USA

The Peace That Never Was: A History of The League of NationsRUTH HENIGNinety years ago, the League of Nations convened for the first time, hoping to create a safeguard against destructive, world-wide war by settling disputes through diplomacy. This book looks at how the League was conceptualized and explores the multifaceted body that emerged. This new form for diplomacy was used in ensuing years to counter territorial ambitions and restrict armaments, as well as to discuss human rights and refugee issues. The League’s failure to prevent World War II, however, would lead to its dissolution and the subsequent creation of the United Nations. As we face new forms of global crisis, this timely book asks if the UN’s fate could be ascertained by reading the history of its predecessor.Makers of the Modern World.

Pbk | 280pp | 9781910376782 | 2019.06 Haus Publishing | A$49.99 | NZ$56.99 203x127mm | USA

Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the MediaNICHOLAS DIAKOPOULOS Amid the push for self-driving cars and the roboticization of industrial economies, automation has proven one of the biggest news stories of our time. Yet the wide-scale automation of the news itself has largely escaped attention. In this lively exposé of that rapidly shifting terrain, Nicholas Diakopoulos focuses on the people who tell the stories—increasingly with the help of computer algorithms that are fundamentally changing the creation, dissemination, and reception of the news.“Diakopoulos provides deep discussion of the theory and practice of journalism automation, grounded in significant research and interviews with leading practitioners. The result is a trailblazing book full of information that has not appeared anywhere else.”—Jonathan Stray, Columbia Journalism School

Hbk | 304pp | 9780674976986 | 2019.05 Harvard University Press | A$58.99 | NZ$68 210x140mm | UK

Statelessness: A Modern HistoryMIRA L. SIEGELBERGToday over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or asylum seekers. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-contested legal category of statelessness generated novel visions of cosmopolitan political and legal authority before empowering the sovereign territorial state as the fundamental source of citizen rights and protection. Mira Siegelberg’s innovative history weaves together ideas about law and politics, rights and citizenship, with the intimate plight of stateless persons, to explore how and why statelessness compelled a new understanding of the international order in the twentieth century and beyond.

Hbk | 330pp | 9780674976313 | 2019.05 Harvard University Press | A$69 | NZ$79 235x156mm | UK

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ANTHROPOLOGYThe Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary RussiaANYA BERNSTEINThe Future of Immortality profiles a diverse cast of characters, from the owners of a small cryonics outfit to scientists inaugurating the field of biogerontology, from grassroots neurotech enthusiasts to believers in the Cosmist ideas of the Russian Orthodox thinker Nikolai Fedorov. Bernstein puts their debates and polemics in the context of a long history of immortalist thought in Russia, from Fedorov in the nineteenth century through the experiments of Soviet scientists to today, with global implications that reach to Silicon Valley and beyond. Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology.“With extraordinary ethnographic detail and theoretical depth, this remarkable book tells the story of the Russian immortalists―champions of life extension and universal immortality. By positioning them within a rich history of Russian thought on the questions of life, death, and ethics, and vis-à-vis current debates in anthropology and science studies, it demonstrates that what is at stake is a biopolitical remaking of the relationship between body and mind, biology and technology, and the very status of the human. It is a must-read!”―Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

Pbk | 240pp | 9780691182612 | 2019.05 Princeton University Press A$44.99 | NZ$51.99 | USA

ARCHITECTURECollett-Zarzycki: The Tailored HomeDOMINIC BRADBURYRichly illustrated with beautiful photographs and drawings, Collett-Zarzycki: The Tailored Home provides a thoughtful and comprehensive account of how this atelier has built an extraordinary portfolio of residential work over the last 30 years. From London town houses to Tuscan retreats to new build vacation homes on the French Riviera, Collett-Zarzycki’s work encompasses architecture, interiors and landscape design, with an emphasis on refined spaces, crafted materials and bespoke furniture. This rare capacity to span the entire spectrum of design has given rise to homes of great cohesion and charm, as well as originality and individuality. 150 colour illustrations.

Hbk | 160pp | 9781848222922 | 2019.06 Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd A$99.99 | NZ$115 | 270x249mm | UK

Danish Architecture and Society: From Absolute Monarchy to the Welfare StateNAN DAHLKILDDanish Architecture and Society offers a fascinating architectural history of the institutions and public buildings that have helped shape the everyday lives of Danes since the eighteenth century. The book charts the emergence and development as well as the grandeur and ultimate demise of these institutions, tracing the underlying—and changing—architectural and societal ideals that have been influential in terms of design, organization, and furnishing. 169 color plates and 36 halftones.

Pbk | 244pp | 9788763546416 | 2019.06 Museum Tusculanum Press A$100 | NZ$114 | USA

Aldo Rossi and the Spirit of ArchitectureDIANE GHIRARDOThis crucial reassessment of Aldo Rossi’s architecture simultaneously examines his writings, drawings and product design, including the coffee pots and clocks he designed for the Italian firm Alessi. The first Italian to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rossi rejected modernism, seeking instead a form of architecture that could transcend the aesthetic legacy of Fascism in postwar Italy. Rossi was a visionary who did not allow contemporary trends to dominate his thinking. 135 color and 5 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 280pp | 9780300234930 | 2019.05 Yale University Press | A$115 | NZ$130 254x203mm | UK

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Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920–1930ANNA BOKOVThroughout the 1920s and ‘30s, the Higher Art and Technical Studios in Moscow, more commonly known as Vkhutemas, adopted what it called the “objective method” to facilitate instruction on a mass scale. The school was the first to implement mass art and technology education, which was seen as essential to the Soviet Union’s dominant modernist paradigm. With Avant-Garde as Method, architect and historian Anna Bokov explores the nature of art and technology education in the Soviet Union. 260 color plates and 240 halftones.

Hbk | 320pp | 9783038601340 | 2019.06 Park Books | A$101 | NZ$114 267x210mm | USA

Carlo Mollino: Architect and StorytellerNAPOLEONE FERRARI AND MICHELANGELO SABATINOItalian architect and designer Carlo Mollino (1905–73) is known to many for his furniture designs. Although none of Mollino’s designs were mass-produced, they command high prices among collectors of twentieth-century furniture and are part of the collections of major design museums. Others recall Mollino for his large secret stash of erotic Polaroids, taken throughout the 1960s and recovered among his personal effects after his death. The risqué photos have been the subject of several exhibitions and have inspired fashion designers, including Jeremy Scott, who drew on them when creating a recent collection for Moschino. Much less attention has been devoted to Mollino’s contribution to architecture. 220 color plates and 250 halftones.

Hbk | 320pp | 9783038601333 | 2019.06 Park Books | A$199 | NZ$226 311x292mm | USA


Thinking: Prospective Concepts for Architectural DesignMARYLINE ANDERSEN AND EMMANUEL REYThe product of an innovative research project realised in cooperation between three Swiss universities—École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s School of Architecture, the College of Architecture and Technology in Fribourg, and the University of Fribourg—the smart living lab is a research and development centre for the built environment of the future. This high-tech structure also serves as an emblem of the cooperative’s aim to translate academic research into actual buildings. A new series of books entitled Towards 2050 will showcase the ambitious undertaking at various stages. The inaugural volume in the series, Thinking highlights preliminary research from the smart living lab and considers visions for sustainable buildings. Featuring interviews with leading experts, the book lays out the myriad challenges and opportunities the project is likely to face, as well as its considerable potential to drive change. 138 color plates.

Pbk | 192pp | 9783038601319 | 2019.06 Park Books | A$93 | NZ$106 254x178mm | USA

Exploring: Research-driven Building DesignMARYLINE ANDERSEN AND EMMANUEL REYThe follow-up to Thinking, Exploring presents the next phase of research at the smart living lab, which focuses on the various problems that must be solved to satisfy future buildings’ sustainability goals. Given that the building sector is one of the world’s biggest contributors to CO2 emissions and energy consumption, the researchers are seeking strategies to improve energy and carbon performance at the smart living lab, anticipating tight requirements thirty years from now. 144 color plates.

Pbk | 280pp | 9783038601326 | 2019.06 Park Books | A$93 | NZ$106 254x178mm | USA

Eyes That Saw: Architecture after Las VegasSTANISLAUS VON MOOS AND MARTINO STIERLIPublished in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was an almost instant—yet controversial—classic. Born of a design and research studio led by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and graduate student Steven Izenour at the Yale School of Architecture in 1968, its exploration of the signs and urban form of Las Vegas revitalised the architecture discourse of the 1970s and became a key reference for postmodernism in architecture, urban design, visual art, and history more broadly. Five decades after the legendary Las Vegas studio, Eyes that Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas offers a richly illustrated collection of essays investigating the significance of the fieldwork that constituted the basis of Learning from Las Vegas from various perspectives. 125 color plates and 50 halftones.

Pbk | 256pp | 9783858818201 | 2019.06 Scheidegger and Spiess | A$93 | NZ$106 210x140mm | USA

ARTBook of Beasts – The Bestiary in the Medieval WorldELIZABETH MORRISON AND LARISA GROLLEMONDBook of Beasts is a celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary—one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading medieval scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst.

Hbk | 336pp | 9781606065907 | 2019.06 J. Paul Getty Museum | A$90 | NZ$102 250x150mm | UK


Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970MICHELLE WHITE, ISABELLE DERVAUX AND SARAH ROTHENBERGOne of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. This handsomely produced oversize book features three essays that examine these works in relation to Twombly’s oeuvre, contemporaneous explorations of time, the Orpheus myth and a musical composition that Twombly cited as an influence. Large images and details bring us in close to Twombly’s magnificent meditation on time and space. 42 color illustrations.

Hbk | 80pp | 9780300244571 | 2019.05 The Menil Collection | A$79.99 | NZ$89.99 279x356mm | UK

Eileen Hogan: Personal GeographiesELISABETH R. FAIRMAN, EILEEN HOGAN, DUNCAN ROBINSON, RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS AND TODD LONGSTAFFE-GOWANThis visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan’s (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist’s oeuvre—enclosed gardens and portraiture. The book includes images from Hogan’s sketchbooks, her studies, and finished paintings, accompanied by striking photographs of the artist at work. Essays by scholars and Hogan herself trace the artist’s career from her student days at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts through the present. 400 color illustrations.Exhibition: Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies, Yale Center for British Art, 09/05/19–11/08/19.

Hbk | 288pp | 9780300241471 | 2019.05 YC British Art | A$115 | NZ$130 260x210mm | UK

Field Notes on the Visual Arts: Seventy-Five Short EssaysKAREN LANGWhat is the relation of art and history? What is art today? Why does art affect us? In Field Notes on the Visual Arts, seventy-five scholars, curators, and artists traverse chronology and geography to reveal the meanings and dilemmas of art. Organized under the major headings of Anthropomorphism, Appropriation, Contingency, Detail, Materiality, Time, and Tradition, the contributions are written by historians of art, literature, culture, and science, as well as archaeologists, anthropologists, philosophers, curators, and artists. By bringing together voices that are generally separated both inside and outside the academy, Field Notes on the Visual Arts makes clear that the work of art is both meaningful and resistant to meaning.

Pbk | 340pp | 9781783209965 | 2019.06 Intellect Ltd | A$72 | NZ$83 229x178mm | USA

From Fingers to Digits: An Artificial AestheticMARGARET A. BODEN AND ERNEST EDMONDSIn From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognised computer artist, grapple with key questions about the aesthetics of computer art. Other modern technologies—photography and film—have been accepted by critics as ways of doing art. Does the use of computers compromise computer art’s aesthetic credentials in ways that the use of cameras does not? Is writing a computer program equivalent to painting with a brush? 27 black and white photographs and 16 color plates.Leonardo.Ernest Edmonds is an artist who has pioneered the use of computers and computational ideas in his art. He has exhibited in the US, UK, Australia, Russia, China, and many other countries.

Hbk | 384pp | 9780262039628 | 2019.04 The MIT Press | A$96 | NZ$110 229x178mm | USA

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Francois MorelletBEATRICE GROSS AND STEPHEN HOBANThis in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist François Morellet (1926–2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet’s interest in kinetic and optical effects spurred work that engages viewers’ perception and participation, ensuring an element of chance within his predetermined systems and challenging the convention of the artistic genius. This book features new scholarship by an international group of renowned art historians and curators. With striking new photography of the artworks, this is the definitive book on a fascinating, multifaceted artist. 90 color and 20 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 248pp | 9780300245691 | 2019.05 Dia Art Foundation | A$110 | NZ$125 279x216mm | UK

The Life of Animals in Japanese ArtROBERT T. SINGER AND KAWAI MASATOMOFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country’s unique spiritual heritage, rich literary traditions, and currents in popular culture, Japanese artists have long expressed admiration for animals in sculpture, painting, lacquerwork, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and woodblock prints. Real and fantastic creatures are meticulously and beautifully rendered, often with humor and whimsy. This beautiful book celebrates this diverse range of work, from ancient fifth-century clay sculpture to contemporary pieces. 475 color illustrations.Exhibition: The Life of Animals in Japanese Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 05/05/19–28/07/19; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 08/09/19–8/12/19.

Hbk | 384pp | 9780691191164 | 2019.05 Princeton University Press | A$155 | NZ$175 304x228mm | USA

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Lynn Chadwick: A Sculptor on the International StageMICHAEL BIRDA leading modern British sculptor, Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) was celebrated for his abstracted figures of human and animal forms in welded steel and bronze. His work first attracted international attention at the 1952 Venice Biennale. Just four years later he became the youngest artist to be awarded the International Prize for Sculpture, which Alberto Giacometti had been expected to win. The paradox of Chadwick’s long career is that, while his work later fell out of favor in his native Britain, he sustained a strong reputation abroad. The first book to set Chadwick’s work in international context, Lynn Chadwick: A Sculptor on the International Stage sets out to change that. Art historians Michael Bird and Marin R. Sullivan provide new insights into the development of his work. 215 color plates and 15 halftones.

Hbk | 224pp | 9783858818249 | 2019.06 Scheidegger and Spiess | A$156 | NZ$180 298x241mm | USA

Matthew Barney: RedoubtPAMELA FRANKS, GIFFORD PINCHOT, ELISABETH HODERMARSKY, ANDRE LEPECKI AND ARTHUR MIDDLEONMatthew Barney: Redoubt is a comprehensive catalogue of the artist’s newest project, which centers on a two-hour film that creates a complex portrait of the American landscape by layering classical, cosmological, and American myths about humanity’s place in the natural world. The publication comprises hundreds of stills that track the film’s narrative, as well as essays—some lyrical, others more objective—that approach Redoubt through disciplines such as ecology, art history, and dance. 336 color and 9 black and white illustrations.Exhibition: Matthew Barney: Redoubt, Yale University Art Gallery, 01/03/19–07/07/19.

Pbk | 368pp | 9780300243277 | 2019.05 Yale University Art Gallery | A$71 | NZ$81 244x165mm | UK


The Mercantile Effect: Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th CenturiesSUSSAN BABAIE AND MELANIE GIBSONThis lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching “mercantile effect” and its impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread ideas, tastes, and technologies across western Asia as never before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains were transported both east and west. 170 color plates. “This elegant volume edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson is a pioneer effort. . . superbly illustrated and kaleidoscopically examined.”—Newsletter of the Oriental Ceramic Society

Pbk | 144pp | 9781909942301 | 2019.05 University of Chicago Press | A$76 | NZ$86 254x241mm | USA

What is Contemporary Art?ALEXANDER GARCIA DUTTMANNArt today is often practiced in perfect conformity with the neoliberal zeitgeist, often even denying its own radical potential. What is Contemporary Art? lucidly examines the relationship between art and politics in our time. Addressing the heart of the political-aesthetic debate, Alexander Garcia Düttmann shows how the radicality of contemporary art actually serves to strengthen today’s political ideologies, ultimately frustrating rather than propelling real social change as a result. 8 halftones.

Pbk | 104pp | 9783035801453 | 2019.06 Diaphanes | A$33.99 | NZ$37.99 169x110mm | USA

Gothic Sculpture: Eloquence, Craft, and MaterialsPAUL BINSKIIn this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wide variety of stone and wood sculpture from such places as Wells, Westminster, Compostela, Reims, Chartres, and Naumberg. He argues that medieval sculpture not only conveyed information but also created experiences for the subjects who formed its audience. Exploring the imagery of growth, change, and decay, as well as the powers of fear and pleasure, Binski allows us to use the language and ideas of the Middle Ages in the close reading of artifacts. 100 color illustrations.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780300241433 | 2019.05 Paul Mellon Centre BA | A$89.99 | NZ$99.99 254x190mm | UK

BIOGRAPHYThe Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy ShiltsANDREW E. STONERAs the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became America’s most recognised voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success emerged from a relentless work ethic and strong belief in the power of journalism to help mainstream society understand not just the rising tide of HIV/AIDS but gay culture and liberation. Filled with new insights and fascinating detail, The Journalist of Castro Street reveals the historic work and passionate humanity of the legendary investigative reporter and author. 19 black and white illustrations.

Pbk | 304pp | 9780252084263 | 2019.05 University of Illinois Press | A$49.99 | NZ$59.99 234x155mm | USA

Kierkegaard’s Muse: The Mystery of Regine OlsenJOAKIM GARFFKierkegaard’s Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822–1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancée of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, is a moving portrait of a long romantic fever that had momentous literary consequences. Drawing on more than one hundred previously unknown letters by Regine that acclaimed Kierkegaard biographer Joakim Garff discovered by chance, the book tells the story of Kierkegaard and Regine’s mysterious relationship more fully and vividly than ever before, shedding new light on her influence on his life and writings. 48 black and white illustrations.


CULTURAL STUDIESMaterialities of Sex in a Time of HIV: The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides ANNETTE-CARINA VAN DER ZAAGMaterialities of Sex in a Time of HIV is written on the cusp of feminist theory of materiality and the analysis of an object at the heart of various sex/gender manifestations—the vaginal microbicide. Vaginal microbicides are female-initiated HIV prevention methods (currently tested in clinical trials) designed as creams, rings, gels and sponges that women can insert vaginally before having sex to protect themselves against HIV infection. The microbicide is developed as a tool for women’s empowerment in the HIV epidemic, but what happens to feminist ideals when they materialise through biomedical practice?

Pbk | 208pp | 9781783488421 | 2019.03 Rowman & Littlefield International A$64.99 | NZ$74.99 | 229x152mm | USA

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Of Time and Lamentation: Reflections on TransienceRAYMOND TALLISRaymond Tallis explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. A bold, original, and thought-provoking work, Of Time and Lamentation is for anyone who has puzzled over the nature of becoming, wondered whether time is inseparable from change, whether time is punctuate or continuous, or even whether time itself is real. The culmination of some twenty years of thinking, writing and wondering about (and within) time, with characteristic fearlessness, Tallis seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics.

Pbk | 736pp | 9781788211741 | 2019.04 Agenda Publishing Ltd | A$53.99 | NZ$61 234x156mm | UK

Raymond Williams: Cultural AnalystJIM MCGUIGANRaymond Williams was a towering figure in twentieth-century intellectual life. Though he is primarily thought of as a literary scholar, his work crossed disciplinary boundaries, and he made groundbreaking contributions to numerous fields, most notably, social and cultural theory. This book focuses in particular on the formation and application of his cultural-materialist methodology to society and politics. Addressing aspects of Williams’s work that have startlingly direct relevance to the prospects for socialism and progressive change in the 21st century, Jim McGuigan analyses Williams’s often complicated work in a clear, accessible fashion, making connections across key concepts and delivering the perfect introduction for people first grappling with Williams’s thought.

Pbk | 200pp | 9781789380477 | 2019.06 Intellect Ltd | A$56.99 | NZ$66 229x178mm | USA

DANCEThe Moiseyev Dance Company: Dancing Diplomats ANTHONY SHAYIn this book, Anthony Shay examines the history of the Moiseyev Dance Company and the life and works of its renowned choreographer and founder, Igor Moiseyev. Founded in Moscow in 1937 amid a mass Soviet Union campaign of political repression, Moiseyev’s theatrical dance troupe came to be an international force, transforming the folk traditions of the Soviet Union into a vital diplomatic tool that helped usher in a new era of cultural exchange. The author explores the company through multiple lenses of spectacle, Russian nationalism, and the Cultural Cold War to analyze its history and its enduring contributions to dance and global culture. 10 color plates.


DESIGNInventing Boston: Design, Production, and Consumption, 1680–1720EDWARD COOKEDuring the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Boston was both a colonial capital and the third most important port in the British empire, trailing only London and Bristol. Boston was also an independent entity that pursued its own interests and articulated its own identity while selectively appropriating British culture and fashion. This revelatory book examines period dwellings, gravestones, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and silver, revealing through material culture how the inhabitants of Boston were colonial, provincial, metropolitan, and global, all at the same time. 120 color and 80 black and white illustrations.Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Hbk | 232pp | 9780300232110 | 2019.05 Yale University Press | A$99.99 | NZ$115 267x229mm | UK

Value Sensitive Design: Shaping Technology with Moral ImaginationBATYA FRIEDMAN AND DAVID G. HENDRYIn Value Sensitive Design, Batya Friedman and David Hendry describe how both moral and technical imagination can be brought to bear on the design of technology. With value sensitive design, under development for more than two decades, Friedman and Hendry bring together theory, methods, and applications for a design process that engages human values at every stage. After presenting the theoretical foundations of value sensitive design, which lead to a deep rethinking of technical design, Friedman and Hendry explain seventeen methods, including stakeholder analysis, value scenarios, and multilifespan timelines. 71 black and white photographs.

Hbk | 248pp | 9780262039536 | 2019.04 The MIT Press | A$74 | NZ$86 229x152mm | USA

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FILMBritpop Cinema: From Trainspotting to This is EnglandMATT GLASBYThe Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music. Beginning with Shallow Grave, hitting its stride with Trainspotting, and going global with The Full Monty, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shaun of the Dead, and This Is England, Britpop cinema pushed boundaries, paid Hollywood no heed, and placed the United Kingdom all too briefly at the center of the movie universe. Featuring exclusive interviews with key players such as Simon Pegg, Irvine Welsh, Michael Winterbottom and Edgar Wright, Britpop Cinema combines eyewitness accounts, close analysis, and social history to celebrate a golden age for UK film.

Pbk | 230pp | 9781783209873 | 2019.06 Intellect Ltd | A$46.99 | NZ$53.99 229x178mm | USA

From Melies to New Media: Spectral Projections WENDY HASLEMFrom Méliès to New Media is an exploration of the presence and importance of film history in digital culture. The author demonstrates that new media forms are not only indebted to, but firmly embedded within the traditions and conventions of early film culture. This book presents a comparative examination of pre-cinema and new media: early film experiments with contemporary music videos; silent films and their digital restorations; German Expressionist film and post-noir cinema; French Gothic film and the contemporary digital remake; and more. Using a media archaeology approach, Wendy Haslem envisages the potential of new discoveries that foreground forgotten or marginalized contributions to film history. 15 halftones.


Preston Sturges - End of a Legend: The Last Years of Hollywood’s First Writer-DirectorNICK SMEDLEY AND TOM STURGESFew directors of the 1930s and ‘40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich and endorsements from Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Shelton, and James L. Brooks, this book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges’s whole oeuvre, closing with a detailed study of his life, developed from new primary sources, from 1949 until his death in 1959. Nick Smedley details the many unfinished projects of Sturges’s last decade, including films, plays, TV series, and his autobiography.


Subject to Reality: Women and Documentary FilmSHILYH WARRENRevolutionary thinking around gender and race merged with new film technologies to usher in a wave of women’s documentaries in the 1970s. Driven by the various promises of second-wave feminism, activist filmmakers believed authentic stories about women would bring more people into an imminent revolution. Yet their films soon faded into obscurity. Shilyh Warren reopens this understudied period and links it to a neglected era of women’s filmmaking that took place from 1920 to 1940, another key period of thinking around documentary, race, and gender. 17 black and white photographs.Women & Film History International.

Pbk | 200pp | 9780252084348 | 2019.05 University of Illinois Press | A$47.99 | NZ$54.99 228x152mm | USA

HISTORYAmerican Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the PresentPHILIP GORSKIWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision of the Hebrew prophets and the Western political heritage of civic republicanism. In this eye-opening book, Gorski shows why this civil religious tradition is now in peril—and with it the American experiment.


Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen LovejoyWILLIAM F. MOORE AND JANE ANN MOORE Few expected politician Abraham Lincoln and Congregational minister Owen Lovejoy to be friends when they met in 1854. One was a cautious lawyer who deplored abolitionists’ flouting of the law, the other an outspoken antislavery activist who captained a stop on the Underground Railroad. Yet the two built a relationship that, in Lincoln’s words, “was one of increasing respect and esteem.”In Collaborators for Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and Owen Lovejoy, the authors examine the thorny issue of the pragmatism typically ascribed to Lincoln versus the radicalism of Lovejoy, and the role each played in ending slavery. Exploring the men’s politics, personal traits, and religious convictions, the book traces their separate paths in life as well as their frequent interactions.

Pbk | 216pp | 9780252083556 | 2019.05 University of Illinois Press | A$53.99 | NZ$61 234x155mm | USA

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Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval EuropeADRIANO PROSPERIThe public execution of criminals has been a common practice ever since ancient times. In this wide-ranging investigation of the death penalty in Europe from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, noted Italian historian Adriano Prosperi identifies a crucial period when legal concepts of vengeance and justice merged with Christian beliefs in repentance and forgiveness. Over time, as the practice of Christian comfort spread across Europe, it offered political authorities an opportunity to legitimize the death penalty and encode into law the right to kill and exact vengeance. But the contradictions created by Christianity’s central role in executions did not dissipate, and squaring the emotions and values surrounding state-sanctioned executions was not simple, then or now. 15 color and 11 black and white photos.

Hbk | 560pp | 9780674659841 | 2019.06 Belknap Press | A$83 | NZ$94 235x156mm | UK

The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe: A HistoryRITA CHINIn 2010, the leaders of Germany, Britain, and France each declared that multiculturalism had failed in their countries. Over the past decade, a growing consensus in Europe has voiced similar decrees. But what do these ominous proclamations, from across the political spectrum, mean? Looking at the touchstones of European multiculturalism, from the urgent need for laborers after World War II to the question of French girls wearing headscarves to school, The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe examines the historical development of multiculturalism on the Continent. “Lucidly written and resourcefully argued, [this book] is a superb example of a scholarly intervention in a public debate dominated by unexamined prejudice.”―Pankaj Mishra, New York Times Book Review


Daemons and Spirits in Ancient EgyptCAROLYN GRAVES- BROWNThis book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt, daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’, and the closely related spirits of the dead. Few books deal accessibly with less familiar entities—daemons such as Ammut the Devourer, She Who Embraces, and the serpopard—which are here introduced to a new readership. 16 color plates and 50 halftones. “A devilishly good read intended for scholars and enthusiasts alike, Daemons and Spirits showcases the impressive holdings of the Egypt Centre. . . . It is beautifully illustrated and meticulously researched.”—Ellen Morris, Columbia University

Pbk | 288pp | 9781786832887 | 2019.02 University of Wales Press | A$96 | NZ$111 241x178mm | USA

Decolonization: A Short HistoryJAN C. JANSEN AND JURGEN OSTERHAMMELThe end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. Decolonization: A Short History takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history. “For those looking for a compact and lucid account of why decolonization occurred, and what it meant, this is the place to start.”―Krishan Kumar, Times Literary Supplement


Korean Treasures: Volume 2: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford UniversityMINH CHUNGMany important and valuable rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of specialist knowledge in this area, many of these items were largely neglected at first. Following on the publication of the first volume of these forgotten treasures, this book assembles further unique and important Korean antiquities. 120 colour illustrations.

Hbk | 176pp | 9781851245260 | 2019.05 Bodleian Library | A$79.99 | NZ$89.99 250x210mm | UK

The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de SiècleCOURTENAY RAIAIn a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, tasked itself with finding scientific evidence for phenomena science had all but denied. The point was not to refute physical explanation, but to give it pause, turning its attention away from nature’s routines toward its more mysterious intervals. Psychical research was a fully academic discipline concerned only with mental (as opposed to supernatural) phenomena. The New Prometheans opens a window onto an important historical moment, a time when the Victorians attempted to draw the mystical into modern science and bring modern and sacred knowledge into a new concordance. 4 halftones.

Pbk | 440pp | 9780226635354 | 2019.05 University of Chicago Press | A$72 | NZ$82 229x152mm | USA

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Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed AmericaDAVID A. HOLLINGERBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. David Hollinger reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. 32 black and white illustrations. “Elegant and original. . . . Hollinger’s book is a comprehensive history of American Protestant missionaries abroad, but it is also the more important story of how a religious and cultural movement overcame its own provincialism.”―John Kaag, Wall Street Journal


Remembrance of Things Present: The Invention of the Time Capsule NICK YABLONTime capsules may seem trivial and useless to historians, but, as Nick Yablon shows in this new book, they offer crucial insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, and their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of the time capsule to the Gilded Age, when the growing volatility of cities prompted doubts about how, if at all, the period would be remembered. Yablon details how Americans from all walks of life constructed prospective memories of their present by contributing not just written testimony but also sources that professional historians and archivists still considered illegitimate, such as material artifacts, photographs, phonograph records, and films. 63 halftones.

Hbk | 384pp | 9780226574134 | 2019.05 University of Chicago Press | A$87 | NZ$100 229x152mm | USA

Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight ConversationsALEXANDER BEVILACQUA AND FREDERIC CLARKIf the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the history of science, the reception of classical antiquity, book history, global philology, and the study of material culture. The eight practitioners interviewed here specialize in the study of the early modern period (c. 1400–1800), for the last forty years a crucial laboratory for testing new methods in intellectual history.

Pbk | 224pp | 9780226601205 | 2019.03 University of Chicago Press | A$56.99 | NZ$66 228x152mm | USA

JOURNALISMWorlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures Around the GlobeTHOMAS HANITZSCH, FOLKER HANUSCH, JYOTIKA RAMAPRASAD AND ARNOLD S. DE BEERHow do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work. Challenging assumptions of a universal definition or concept of journalism, the book maps a world populated by a rich diversity of journalistic cultures. 29 black and white figures.Reuters Institute Global Journalism.

Pbk | 384pp | 9780231186438 | 2019.05 Columbia University Press | A$70 | NZ$80 229x152mm | USA

LITERATUREAt Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the PresentMARIA DIBATTISTA AND DEBORAH EPSTEIN NORDIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women’s writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new, emancipatory narratives.


Some Words of Jane AustenSTUART M. TAVEJane Austen’s readers continue to find delight in the justness of her moral and psychological discriminations. But for most readers, her values have been a phenomenon more felt than fully apprehended. In this book, Stuart M. Tave identifies and explains a number of the central concepts across Austen’s novels—examining how words like “odd,” “exertion,” and, of course, “sensibility,” hold the key to understanding the Victorian author’s language of moral values. Tracing the force and function of these words from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion, Tave invites us to consider the peculiar and subtle ways in which word choice informs the conduct, moral standing, and self-awareness of Austen’s remarkable characters.

Pbk | 304pp | 9780226633398 | 2019.04 University of Chicago Press A$41.99 | NZ$47.99 | 216x140mm | USA

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Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of DisasterGERARD PASSANNANTEWhen we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism—the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter. As artists, poets, philosophers, and scholars pondered the physical causes and material stuff of the cosmos, they conjured up disasters out of thin air and responded as though to events that were befalling them. Passannante shows how and why the early moderns reached for disaster when they ventured beyond the limits of the sensible. He goes on to explore both the danger and the critical potential of thinking catastrophically in our own time.“With Catastrophizing, Passannante explores how Renaissance thinkers, including Leonardo, Donne, Montaigne, and Shakespeare, responded to sudden, inexplicable manifestations of nature’s powers--‘the action of the mind when it approaches the imperceptible.’ At a moment when the force of natural disasters could not be more sadly relevant, Passannante wisely reminds us that our predicament has an intellectual history--and that the worst responses would be either to succumb to fantasies of mastery or to utter helplessness.”—Susan Stewart, Princeton University

Hbk | 240pp | 9780226612218 | 2019.02 University of Chicago Press A$48.99 | NZ$56.99 | 216x140mm | USA

Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media JACOB EDMONDOur world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the cultural copying of globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Edmond tracks the rise of copy poetry across media from the tape recorder to the computer and through various cultures, languages, and places, reading across aesthetic, linguistic, geopolitical, and media divides. 34 black and white illustrations.Literature Now.Jacob Edmond is associate professor in English at the University of Otago. “Make It the Same rebuts the notion that formal word-games are a decadent first-world hobby. It is an empirically broad, thoughtfully constructed, well-written, timely book about an important subject: a technical “mode of production” prominent in contemporary poetry, with its effects on content and reception.”—Haun Saussy, author of The Ethnography of Rhythm: Orality and Its Technologies

Hbk | 336pp | 9780231190022 | 2019.05 Columbia University Press | A$120 | NZ$137 229x152mm | USA

MUSICAustralian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and CulturesCATHERINE HOADDefining ‘Australian metal’ is a challenge for scene members and researchers alike. Australian metal has long been situated in a complex relationship between local and global trends, where the geographic distance between Australia and metal music’s seemingly traditional centres in the United States and United Kingdom have meant that metal in Australia has been isolated from international scenes. While numerous metal scenes exist throughout the country, ‘Australian metal’ itself, as a style, as a sound, and as a signifier, is a term which cannot be easily defined. This book considers the multiple ways in which ‘Australianness’ has been experienced, imagined, and contested throughout historical periods, within particular subgenres, and across localised metal scenes. In doing so, the collection not only explores what can be meant by Australian metal, but what can be meant by ‘Australian’ more generally. Emerald Studies in Metal Music and Culture.Dr Catherine Hoad is Lecturer in Critical Popular Music Studies in the School of Music and Creative Media Production, Massey University Wellington.

Hbk | 185pp | 9781787691681 | 2019.06 Emerald Publishing Limited | A$119 | NZ$136 229x152mm | UK

PHILOSOPHYAlterity and Criticism: Tracing Time in Modern LiteratureWILIAM MELANEYThis highly original volume offers a unique survey of two literary traditions—Romantic poetry and modern prose—that are not often compared. Engaging in discussions of cultural semiotics and late phenomenology, and providing insights into how modern literature provides one way of assessing the possibility of World Literature for our own time, Alterity and Criticism will be of interest to students and scholars of both literature and philosophy.


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Homo Interpretans: Towards a Transformation of HermeneuticsJOHANN MICHELWhen do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Leading contemporary philosopher Michel, offers an innovative reflection on the human being. The book presents an interdisciplinary study that engages philosophy, sociology and anthropology, offering a systematic analysis of the phenomenon of interpretation.


The Arc of Love: How Our Romantic Lives Change over TimeAARON BEN-ZE’EVIs love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev takes these experiences seriously, but he’s also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love—an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love—sexual passion, novelty, change—as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love—stability, development, calmness.

Hbk | 288pp | 9780226633909 | 2019.05 University of Chicago Press | A$76 | NZ$87 229x152mm | USA

The Habermas-Rawls Debate JAMES GORDON FINLAYSONJürgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling over the merits of each other’s accounts of the shape and meaning of democracy and legitimacy in a contemporary society, they also revealed how great thinkers working in different traditions read—and misread—one another’s work. In this book, James Gordon Finlayson examines the Habermas-Rawls Debate in context and considers its wider implications. “This will certainly be the go-to resource on this debate for anyone studying social or political philosophy in the future. Finlayson is the world’s foremost expert on the Habermas-Rawls exchange. After reading this book, I’m not sure if there is anything left to be said on the topic; it’s all here.”—Joseph Heath, author of Communicative Action and Rational Choice

Pbk | 304pp | 9780231164115 | 2019.04 Columbia University Press | A$68 | NZ$78 229x152mm | USA

The Limits of Tolerance: Enlightenment Values and Religious FanaticismDENIS LACORNEDenis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions: Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? Lacorne defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. Religion, Culture, and Public Life.

Hbk | 296pp | 9780231187145 | 2019.04 Columbia University Press | A$68 | NZ$78 216x140mm | USA

PhilebusPLATOOne of Plato’s more sophisticated dialogues, Philebus is presented here in a thoroughly-annotated translation informed by recent scholarship. The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. This predominantly ethical theme not only involves an extended psychological and epistemological investigation of topics such as sensation, memory, desire, anticipation, the truth and falsity of pleasures, and types and gradations of knowledge, but also a methodological exposition of dialectic and a metaphysical schema, found nowhere else in the dialogues, that is intended to illuminate the nature of mixture.

Pbk | 200pp | 9781554813735 | 2019.03 Broadview Press | A$32.99 | NZ$37.99 216x140mm | USA

Refugees Now: Rethinking Borders, Hospitality, and CitizenshipKELLY OLIVER, LISA M. MADURA AND SABEEN AHMEDThis important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility.


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Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object RelationsAMY ALLEN AND BRIAN O’CONNORCritical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and other members of this school. Featuring contributions from some of the leading figures working in both of these fields including Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, Noëlle McAfee, Sara Beardsworth, and C. Fred Alford.New Directions in Critical Theory. “The essays in Transitional Subjects explain recent changes in Freudian psychoanalytic theory by investigating the shift toward a contemporary object-relational perspective. The political connections drawn from each paper are powerful, situating critical theory within capitalism and the various political aporias of everyday life.”—Jamieson Webster, author of Conversion Disorder

Pbk | 240pp | 9780231183192 | 2019.05 Columbia University Press | A$58.99 | NZ$67 216x140mm | USA

PHOTOGRAPHYTom Haller – Nuggets: American LandscapesCHRISTIAN SEILERSwiss photographer Tom Haller has gained wide recognition for his work in portraiture and reportage. Less well known, but equally arresting, are the landscapes Haller has produced during his travels throughout the United States over the course of nearly three decades. His photographs of America—of prairies, mountains, roads and the buildings lining them, motels, stadiums, shops, and abandoned cars—display a traveler’s detached, inquisitive, perspective, with Haller directing his gaze at subjects while simultaneously depicting both the promise of these landscapes and the limits to the dreams they inspire. Tom Haller - Nuggets compiles a selection of his American landscapes that reflect the state of the country and the feelings and experiences of its people. 64 color plates.

Hbk | 96pp | 9783858816023 | 2019.03 Scheidegger and Spiess | A$104 | NZ$118 222x279mm | USA

The Critical Eye: Fifteen Pictures to Understand PhotographyLYLE REXERThe Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts—historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic. Lyle Rexer argues that by concentrating on just a few carefully chosen works it is possible to understand the history, development, and contemporary situation of photography. Looking at images by photographers such as Roland Fischer, Myoung Ho Lee, Zanele Muholi, and Ernest Cole, The Critical Eye addresses a wide range of issues involved in photography, from authorial self-consciousness to the role of the audience, and with every chapter it seeks to link the history of photography to current practice. 80 color plates.

Pbk | 180pp | 9781783209842 | 2019.06 Intellect Ltd | A$59.99 | NZ$68 229x229mm | USA


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RELIGIONFaces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to TodayJOHN TOLANIn European culture, Muhammad has been vilified as a heretic, an impostor, and a pagan idol. But these aren’t the only images of the Prophet of Islam that emerge from Western history. Commentators have also portrayed Muhammad as a visionary reformer and an inspirational leader, statesman, and lawgiver. In Faces of Muhammad, John Tolan provides a comprehensive history of these changing, complex, and contradictory visions. Starting from the earliest calls to the faithful to join the Crusades against the “Saracens,” he traces the evolution of Western conceptions of Muhammad through the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and up to the present day. 17 black and white illustrations.

Hbk | 328pp | 9780691167060 | 2019.05 Princeton University Press A$59.99 | NZ$68 | USA

A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian EuropeGIULIANA CHAMEDESAfter the United States entered World War I and the Russian Revolution exploded, the Vatican felt threatened by forces eager to reorganize the European international order and cast the Church out of the public sphere. In response, the papacy partnered with fascist and right-wing states as part of a broader crusade that made use of international law and cultural diplomacy to protect European countries from both liberal and socialist taints.A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals that papal officials opposed Woodrow Wilson’s international liberal agenda by pressing governments to sign concordats assuring state protection of the Church in exchange for support from the masses of Catholic citizens. Following World War II, the Church attempted to mute its role in strengthening fascist states, as it worked to advance its agenda in partnership with Christian Democratic parties and a generation of Cold War warriors. The papal mission came under fire after Vatican II, as Church-state ties weakened and antiliberalism and anticommunism lost their appeal. But—as Giuliana Chamedes shows in her groundbreaking exploration—by this point, the Vatican had already made a lasting mark on Eastern and Western European law, culture, and society. 22 photos.


SOCIOLOGYPaternity: The Elusive Quest for the FatherNARA B. MILANICHFor most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Tracing the scientific quest for the father up to the present, with the advent of seemingly foolproof DNA analysis, Nara Milanich shows that the effort to establish biological truth has not ended the quest for the father. Rather, scientific certainty has revealed the fundamentally social, cultural, and political nature of paternity. 16 photos.



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