Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press

Page created by Edwin Dominguez
 
CONTINUE READING
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
Art and Architecture 2021
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
contents
                                                                                                         american                             .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 2

                                                                                                         19th century                                               .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 8

                                                                                                         early modern                                                       .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 14

                                                                                                         medieval                          .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 16

                                                                                                         theory/criticism/
                                                                                                         historiography                                                              .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 22

                                                                                                         new in
T H E PE N N SYLVA N I A              Examination Copy Policy
                                                                                                         paperback                                     .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 26

                                      See http://www.psupress.org/books/exam_copy

                                                                                                         award winners
STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y PR E S S
                                      _requests.html
                                                                                                                                                                                        .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 33
820 N. University Drive               Desk Copy Policy
usb 1, Suite C                        See http://www.psupress.org/books/author
University Park, PA 16802             _resources/course_orders.html
                                      Review Copy Policy
                                                                                                         national
                                                                                                         gallery
t: 814.865.1327
                                      Submit review copy requests via email to
f: 814.863.1408
                                      publicity@press.psu.edu.

                                                                                                         singapore
Toll Free Orders: 800-326-9180        Online
Toll Free Fax: 877-778-2665           Visit us online: http://www.psupress.org                                                                   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 34
                                      Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
www.psupress.org

                                                                                                         index
                                      /PennStateUniversityPress                                                                                                                                                          Cover illustration: Elisabetta Sirani, Timoclea, 1659, detail,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples (su concessione
                                      Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PSUPress                                 .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  . 35   del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali-Museo e Real
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Bosco di Capodimonte). Additional credits: page 2, Loïs
                                      In cooperation with Penn State University Libraries, Penn State                                                                                                                    Mailou Jones, Église Saint Joseph, 1954, detail, Smithsonian
                                      University Press will donate 10 percent of proceeds from all                                                                                                                       American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., bequest of
                                      orders placed directly on its website to help defray the high                                                                                                                      the artist (courtesy Loïs Mailou Jones Pierre-Noël Trust);
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         8, Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise, 1873, detail, Musée
                                      cost of student textbooks.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Marmottan Monet, Paris; 24–25, Peter Apian, celestial
                                      All books published by Penn State University Press are available                                                                                                                   planisphere volvelle, detail, from Astronomicum Caesareum
                                      through bookstores, wholesalers, or directly from the publisher,                                                                                                                   (1540), Typ 520.40.150, Houghton Library, Harvard University,
                                      and are available worldwide, except where noted. Titles,                                                                                                                           Cambridge, Massachusetts (Houghton Library).
                                      publication dates, and prices announced in this catalogue are
                                      subject to change without notice. Most books are available on
                                      popular ebook platforms.

                                      Penn State is an affirmative action, equal opportunity
                                      University. U. Ed. LIB. 21-501
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
art 2021
                                                                                                                                              american
“Books about artist
Loïs Mailou Jones have
been too few, making
VanDiver’s meticulous
study a milestone in art,
women’s, and African
American history.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
                            Designing a New Tradition
                            Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness
                            Rebecca VanDiver

                            In Designing a New Tradition, Rebecca VanDiver       fragmented nature of twentieth-century black
                            presents a fresh perspective on the art and          identity and diasporic experiences. Tracing
                            career of Loïs Mailou Jones. Considering the         Jones’s aesthetic transformations along a
                            importance of Africa for Jones’s work and            biographical arc, VanDiver offers a new frame-
                            examining the broader roles played by class,         work for thinking about the connection between
                            gender, and politics in constructions of African     America and Africa and the role of the African
                            American art histories as a whole, VanDiver          diaspora in the creation of African American
                            makes a convincing case for Jones’s lasting place    artistic identity.
                            in American art history.                                Accessibly written and filled with fascinating
                                VanDiver repositions Jones’s work within the     anecdotes about Jones’s life and career, her
                            canon of American art, situating the artist’s pro-   many acquaintances, and the challenges she
                            duction within the larger cultural and aesthetic     faced as a black woman artist working in the
                            debates of the twentieth century, including mod-     twentieth century, this book makes a singular
                            ernism, abstraction, the Harlem Renaissance,         contribution to a new and expanded art-histori-
                            feminism, Négritude, and Pan-Africanism. In          cal canon.
                            doing so, VanDiver reveals one of Jones’s most
                                                                                 256 pages | 51 color/37 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | October 2020
                            significant contributions to American art: the       isbn 978-0-271-08604-0 | hardcover: $59.95 sh
                            development of a composite black aesthetic that
                            negotiates African, American, and European
                            artistic traditions to reflect the increasingly
                                                                                                                                                3
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           art 2021
                                                                                                         Alexander Gardner is best known for his inno-                                                                     Some of the most breathtaking art in America
                                                                                                         vative photographic history of the Civil War.                                                                     lies behind doors that few ever open. One such

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           american
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                         What is less known is the extent to which he                                                                      masterpiece is The Prophetic Quest, a series
                                                                                                         was involved in the international workers’ rights                                                                 of ten monumental stained glass windows in
                                                                                                         movement. Tying Gardner’s photographic story-                                                                     the Keneseth Israel synagogue, just north of
                                                                                                         telling to his transatlantic reform activities, this                                                              Philadelphia. This informative and exquisitely
                                                                                                         book expands our understanding of Gardner’s                                                                       illustrated volume pulls back the curtain on this
                                                                                                         career and the work of his studio in Washington,                                                                  little-known work of art.
                                                                                                         DC, by situating his photographic production                                                                           Designed by the renowned American artist
                                                                                                         within the era’s discourse on social and political                                                                Jacob Landau, The Prophetic Quest encompasses
                                                                                                         reform.                                                                                                           ten masterful abstract pieces of stained glass
                                                                                                             Drawing on previously unknown primary                                                                         that depict the lives and words of the biblical
                                                                                                         sources and original close readings, Makeda Best                                                                  prophets, each towering nearly twenty-five feet
                                                                                                         reveals how Gardner’s activism in Scotland and                                                                    high and spanning five feet across. Featuring
                                                                                                         photography in the United States shared an ideo-                                                                  essays recounting Landau’s vision, the history
                                                                                                         logical foundation. She reads his Photographic         The Prophetic Quest                                        of his project, and detailed interpretive com-
                                                 Elevate the Masses                                      Sketch Book of the War as a politically moti-
                                                                                                                                                                The Stained Glass Windows of Jacob                         mentary on each window, this book presents
                                                 Alexander Gardner, Photography, and                     vated project, rooted in Gardner’s Chartist                                                                       an immersive experience of Landau’s religious
                                                                                                                                                                Landau, Reform Congregation Keneseth
                                                 Democracy in Nineteenth-Century                         and Owenite beliefs, and illuminates how its                                                                      masterwork. Personal reflections written by art-
                                                                                                                                                                Israel, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
                                                 America                                                 treatment of slavery is primarily concerned with                                                                  ists, art historians, poets, clergy, and congregants
                                                                                                         the harm that the institution posed to the United      David S. Herrstrom and Andrew D.                           about their experience of The Prophetic Quest
                                                 Makeda Best                                                                                                    Scrimgeour
                                                                                                         States’ reputation as a model democracy. Best                                                                     round out the volume with new ways to view and
                                                 “Alexander Gardner’s pathbreaking                       shows how, in his portraiture, Gardner celebrated                                                                 appreciate Landau’s creation.
                                                                                                                                                                “An important contribution to our knowl-
                                                  photography developed from long-term                   Northern labor communities and elevated white                                                                          Gorgeously illustrated, this book sheds light
                                                                                                                                                                 edge and understanding of Jewish life
                                                  commitments to democracy and social                    immigrant workers, despite the industrialization                                                                  on American synagogue art and the history
                                                                                                         that degraded them. She concludes with a dis-
                                                                                                                                                                 in Pennsylvania and religious life more                   of stained glass in America, and it cements
                                                  reform, mixed with shrewd enterprise.                                                                          broadly. The Prophetic Quest brings
                                                                                                         cussion of Gardner’s promotion of an American                                                                     Landau’s reputation as one of the leading
                                                  Makeda Best’s transatlantic biographi-                                                                         attention to hitherto unknown items that
                                                                                                         national infrastructure in which photographers                                                                    American protest artists.
                                                  cal frame shapes stimulating readings of                                                                       themselves carry artistic, historic, and reli-
                                                                                                         and photography played an integral role.                                                                              The volume features essays by the editors as
                                                  enduring images.”                                          Original and compelling, this reconsideration       gious significance.”                                      well as Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Rita Rosen Poley,
                                                 —Thomas J. brown, author of Civil War                   of Gardner’s work expands the contribution of          —Dianne Ashton, author of Hanukkah in                      and Lance J. Sussman, along with additional
                                                 Monuments and the Militarization of America             Civil War photography beyond the immediate             America: A History                                         reflections from fifteen other contributors and
                                                                                                         narrative of the war to comprehend its relation                                                                   the photography of Tom Crane.
                                                                          Also of Interest               to the vigorous international debates about
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           144 pages | 54 color/12 b&w illus. | 8.25 x 11.5 | April 2021
                                                                          Photography and Other          democracy, industrialization, and the rights of
                                                                          Media in the Nineteenth                                                                                                                          isbn 978-0-271-08781-8 | hardcover: $34.95 sh
                                                                                                         citizens. Scholars working at the intersection of                               Also of Interest                  Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Series
                                                                          Century
                                                                                                                                                                                         Hebrew Melodies
                                                                          Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi   photography, cultural history, and social reform
                                                                                                                                                                                         Heinrich Heine, Translated by
                                                                          and Simone Natale
                                                                                                         in the nineteenth century on both sides of the                                  Stephen Mitchell and
                                                                          ISBN 978-0-271-07916-5                                                                                         Jack Prelutsky, Illustrated by
                                                                          paper: $34.95 sh               Atlantic will find Best’s work invaluable to their                              Mark Podwal, Foreword by
                                                                                                         own research.                                                                   Elisheva Carlebach
                                                                                                                                                                                         ISBN 978-0-271-08480-0
                                                                                                                                                                                         hardcover: $20.00 tr
                                                                                                         200 pages | 84 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | October 2020                               Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural
                                                                                                         isbn 978-0-271-08609-5 | hardcover: $64.95 sh                                   Imagination Series

          4                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  5
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          art 2021
                                                                                                   Field Language presents the work of an extraor-                                                               The celebrated Ashcan School artist John Sloan
                                                                                                   dinary couple who together left the rural                                                                     produced a distinctive body of work depicting life

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          american
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                   lifeways of their Mennonite upbringing to go                                                                  on the rooftops of early twentieth-century New
                                                                                                  “into the world” to create forms of modern art                                                                 York City. Designed to accompany the major loan
                                                                                                   that reflected on the places and culture they                                                                 exhibition of the same name organized by the
                                                                                                   came from. Published on the occasion of a                                                                     Palmer Museum of Art, From the Rooftops: John
                                                                                                   retrospective exhibition devoted to the working                                                               Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space examines
                                                                                                   relationship between abstract painter Warren                                                                  the allure of rooftop locales for Sloan as well as
                                                                                                   Rohrer and his wife, poet Jane Turner Rohrer,                                                                 for more than a dozen of his contemporaries.
                                                                                                   this sumptuously illustrated book explores the                                                                    From his early career as an illustrator in
                                                                                                   Rohrers’ painting and poetry in relation to their                                                             Philadelphia to the final years of his life, Sloan
                                                                                                   biographies and to the nature of modernism and                                                                nurtured a fascination with what he called
                                                                                                   modernity.                                                                                                    the “roof life of the metropolis.” Devoted to the
                                                                                                       The artists, poets, and historians contributing                                                           importance of this setting in Sloan’s oeuvre, From
                                                                                                   to this volume present a variety of perspectives
                                                                                                                                                              From the Rooftops                                  the Rooftops features paintings, prints, and photo-
                                                                                                   on the Rohrers, situating their work within the                                                               graphs by Sloan, alongside examples from other
                                                 Field Language                                    context of modernism, the changing agricultural
                                                                                                                                                              John Sloan and the Art of a New
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 notable artists of the time, such as George Ault,
                                                 The Painting and Poetry of Warren                                                                            Urban Space
                                                                                                   landscapes of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,                                                                 William Glackens, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edward
                                                 and Jane Rohrer                                                                                              Adam Thomas
                                                                                                   and the aestheticization of local craft practices.                                                            Hopper, and Reginald Marsh—artists who were
                                                 Edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf,                  Through the work of these two highly original                                                                 likewise enthralled by “the city above the city.” In
                                                 Christopher Reed, and Joyce Henri                                                                            “From the Rooftops is an intelligent,
                                                                                                   and creative artists, Field Language invites read-                                                            this book, art historian Adam Thomas explores
                                                 Robinson                                                                                                      well-written and extensively researched
                                                                                                   ers to consider relationships between global art                                                              the pivotal role that New York City’s rooftops
                                                                                                   movements and local visual cultures, issues of
                                                                                                                                                               catalogue, which happily closes with the          played in Sloan’s thinking about urban space and
                                                                                                   land use, the sustainability of rural communities           author’s sound advice: ‘Sometimes in order        places Sloan’s work within its broader artistic
                                                                                                   and cultures, and our own relationships with                to see differently we must ignore the sign        and cultural context. In his analysis, Thomas
                                                                                                   agricultural landscapes, seasonal change, labor,            that reads “No roof access.”’”                    considers the liminal status of the rooftop and its
                                                                                                   and human need and desire.                                 —Judith Brodie, Print Quarterly                    complexities as both an extension of the domes-
                                                                                                       In addition to the editors, the contributors                                                              tic sphere and an escape from it during a period
                                                                                                   include Christopher Campbell, Steven Z. Levine,                                                               of profound social and architectural transforma-
                                                                                                   Nancy Locke, Sally McMurry, Janneken Smucker,                                                                 tion in New York City.
                                                                                                   William R. Valerio, Jonathan Frederick Walz, and                                                                  Featuring insightful analysis and more than
                                                                                                   Douglas Witmer.                                                                                               eighty full-color illustrations, this catalog will
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 appeal to art historians and art enthusiasts alike.
                                                                                                  248 pages | 128 color illus. | 8.25 x 10.75 | August 2020
                                                                     Also of Interest                                                                                                 Also of Interest
                                                                                                  isbn 978-0-911209-74-7 | paper: $39.95 sh                                                                      96 pages | 86 color illus. | 8.5 x 10.5 | January 2020
                                                                     Shale Play                                                                                                       A Small Radius of Light
                                                                     Poems and Photographs from                                                                                       G. Daniel Massad, A        isbn 978-0-911209-73-0 | paper: $24.95 sh
                                                                     the Fracking Fields                                                                                              Retrospective
                                                                     Julia Spicher Kasdorf and                                                                                        Joyce Henri Robinson and
                                                                     Steven Rubin                                                                                                     G. Daniel Massad
                                                                     ISBN 978-0-271-08093-2                                                                                           ISBN 978-0-911209-72-3
                                                                     hardcover: $24.95 tr                                                                                             paper: $34.95 sh
                                                                     Keystone Books

          6                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 7
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
“This impressive book is

                                                                                                                                                 art 2021
a valuable contribution to
the scholarship on Monet

                                                                                                                                                 19th century
and later nineteenth- and
early twentieth-century
French art and culture
more broadly. By the end
of it, readers will have a far
richer understanding of the
manifold ways that Monet’s
late work intersects with
major artistic, political, and
philosophical currents of          Why Monet Matters
                                   Meanings Among the Lily Pads
the period.”                       James H. Rubin                                     works were considered French cultural trea-
                                                                                      sures. Monet was featured in a propaganda film
—Michelle Foa, author of Georges   Claude Monet’s Water Lilies are widely recog-
                                                                                      in response to German militarism, and he was
Seurat: The Art of Vision          nized as a celebration of nature and a call to
                                                                                      persuaded by Georges Clemenceau to donate
                                   visual experience. The skilled brushwork, vivid
                                                                                      a number of his Water Lilies paintings to the
                                   color, and immersive quality of the paintings
                                                                                      French nation following the Treaty of Versailles.
                                   suspend thoughts of the outside world and its
                                                                                      Taking this into account, Rubin uncovers how the
                                   concerns. And yet, when one realizes that these
                                                                                      theme of floating lily pads could serve political
                                   works were made during a period of social and
                                                                                      ends, exposing relationships between Monet’s
                                   political turmoil—rapid changes of government,
                                                                                      apparently subject-free art and its material
                                   the Dreyfus Affair, and the destruction and
                                                                                      circumstances in the modern world.
                                   devastation of World War I—questions arise
                                                                                          Engagingly written, masterfully argued, and
                                   about the personal, cultural, and historical
                                                                                      featuring more than 150 illustrations, Why Monet
                                   contexts within which they were created. In this
                                                                                      Matters is a major study of an artist who had
                                   book, James H. Rubin explores these conditions
                                                                                      the will and the talent to remain relevant to his
                                   and shows how Monet’s work—said to be a
                                                                                      time without conceding to its fashions. Scholars,
                                   harbinger of abstraction—appeals not only to
                                                                                      students, and those who appreciate Monet and
                                   the eye but also to something deep in modern
                                                                                      Impressionism will value and learn from this
                                   consciousness.
                                                                                      book.
                                      The myth of Impressionism is that it was
                                   reviled and misunderstood, but by the 1890s        392 pages | 78 color/82 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | March 2021
                                                                                      isbn 978-0-271-08620-0 | hardcover: $99.95 sh
                                   Monet was rich by anyone’s standards, and his

                                                                                                                                                   9
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             art 2021
                                                                                                  The United States possesses extraordinary hold-                                                                 In Consuming Painting, Allison Deutsch chal-
                                                                                                  ings of seventeenth-century Flemish paintings.                                                                  lenges the pervasive view that Impressionism

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             19th century
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                  In this pioneering and richly illustrated volume,                                                               was above all about visual experience. Focusing
                                                                                                  twelve scholars and museum curators reveal                                                                      on the language of food and consumption as
                                                                                                  the origins of these collections by examining                                                                   they were used by such prominent critics as
                                                                                                  the American approach to and interest in the                                                                    Baudelaire and Zola, she writes new histories
                                                                                                  collecting of Flemish art over the course of the                                                                for familiar works by Manet, Monet, Caillebotte,
                                                                                                  nineteenth and twentieth centuries.                                                                             and Pissarro and creates fresh possibilities for
                                                                                                      Chronicling in lively detail the roles played by                                                            experiencing and interpreting them.
                                                                                                  individuals in forming private and public collec-                                                                   Examining the culinary metaphors that the
                                                                                                  tions, the essays in this volume illuminate how                                                                 most influential critics used to express their
                                                                                                  and why collectors and museums in the United                                                                    attraction or disgust toward painting, Deutsch
                                                                                                  States embraced the Flemish masters with such                                                                   rethinks French modern-life painting in relation
                                                                                                  enthusiasm. They trace how the taste for specific                                                               to the visceral reactions that these works evoked
                                                 America and the Art of                           genres and the appreciation of certain artists, in           Consuming Painting                                 in their earliest publics. Writers posed viewing

                                                 Flanders                                         particular Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van                 Food and the Feminine in                           as analogous to ingestion and used comparisons
                                                                                                  Dyck, changed over the years, and they explore               Impressionist Paris                                to food to describe the appearance of paint and
                                                 Collecting Paintings by Rubens,
                                                                                                  the historical and cultural motivations behind                                                                  the painter’s process. The food metaphors they
                                                 Van Dyck, and Their Circles                                                                                   Allison Deutsch
                                                                                                  these trends. In doing so, they consider the effect                                                             chose were aligned with specific female types,
                                                 Edited by Esmée Quodbach                         of the great bequests of Flemish paintings to                                                                   such as red meat for sexualized female flesh,
                                                                                                                                                               “Consuming Painting offers an impressive
                                                                                                  American museums and examine the private                                                                        confections for fashionably made-up women,
                                                 “America and the Art of Flanders is yet                                                                        new take on the history of late nine-
                                                                                                  collections of the main tastemakers for Flemish                                                                 and hearty vegetables for agricultural labor-
                                                  another excellent volume in an already                                                                        teenth-century French art, one that makes
                                                                                                  painting, including the Baltimore merchant                                                                      ers. These culinary figures of speech, Deutsch
                                                  impressive series on the history of collect-                                                                  clear for the first time the sensorial range
                                                                                                  Robert Gilmor; John Graver Johnson, the leading                                                                 argues, provide important insights into both the
                                                  ing in the United States. It investigates       corporate lawyer of the Gilded Age; and the
                                                                                                                                                                in the historical reception of modern paint-      fabrication of the feminine and the construction
                                                  the changing interest in Flemish art over       California oil magnate J. Paul Getty. Gorgeously              ing. In her reevaluation and retranslation of     of masculinity in nineteenth-century France.
                                                  time—and what happens when private love         illustrated with almost one hundred represen-                 art criticism, combined with her highly per-      Consuming Painting exposes the social politics at
                                                  of art becomes institutional collecting. It     tative pieces, this important contribution to the             suasive descriptions of a range of paintings,     stake in the deeply gendered metaphors of sense
                                                  also deals with many different American         scholarship on American collecting of Flemish                 Deutsch shows the sustained discourse of          and sensation.
                                                  museum collections as part of a greater         art will interest art lovers and stimulate further            desire and disgust built into the deeply gen-         Original and convincing, Consuming Painting
                                                  national collection. This is rarely done, and   research in the fields of art history and museum              dered metaphorics of painting as culinary         upends traditional narratives of the sensory
                                                                                                  history.                                                      consumption.”                                     reception of modern painting. This trailblazing
                                                  it is great food for thought.”
                                                                                                      In addition to the editor, the contribu-                                                                    book is essential reading for specialists in nine-
                                                 —Peter Hecht, Professor Emeritus of Art                                                                       —Marnin Young, author of Realism in the Age of
                                                                                                  tors include Ronni Baer, Adam Eaker, Lance                   Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time   teenth-century art and criticism, gender studies,
                                                 History, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
                                                                                                  Humphries, George S. Keyes, Margaret R. Laster,                                                                 and modernism.
                                                                                                  Alexandra Libby, Louisa Wood Ruby, Dennis P.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  216 pages | 25 color/33 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | March 2021
                                                                                                  Weller, Arthur K. Wheelock, Marjorie Wieseman,                                                                  isbn 978-0-271-08723-8 | hardcover: $99.95 sh
                                                                                                  and Anne T. Woollett.

                                                                                                  248 pages | 92 color/6 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | October 2020
                                                                                                  isbn 978-0-271-08608-8 | hardcover: $69.95 sh
                                                                                                  The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art
                                                                                                  Collecting in America Series | Co-published with The Frick
                                                                                                  Collection

   10                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          11
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
, l an d sca pe s , a nd soc ieti es buildings, la nd sca p es , a n d soci eti es b u i l d i n
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           art 2021
                                                                                                    Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture,
                                                                                                    1890–1970, documents how architects made
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                    environmental technologies into resources that
                                                                                                    helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic.
                                                                                                    In doing so, it sheds important new light on the
                                                                                                    ways in which mechanical engineering has been
                                                                                                    assimilated into the culture of architecture as
                                                                                                    one facet of its broader modernist project.
                                                                                                        Tracing the development and architectural
                                                                                                    integration of air-conditioning from its origins
                                                                                                    in the late nineteenth century to the advent
                                                                                                    of the environmental movement in the early
                                                                                                    1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorpo-
                                                 Air-Conditioning in Modern                         ration of mechanical systems into modernism’s
                                                 American Architecture,                             discourse of functionality profoundly shaped
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Freedom and the Cage
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Modern Architecture and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Gunnar Asplund’s Gothenburg
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              The Transformation of Public
                                                 1890–1970                                          the work of some of the movement’s leading                                                                                                                   Psychiatry in Central Europe,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 1890–1914
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Architecture in Interwar Europe
                                                                                                    architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan,                                                                                                                                                        Nicholas Adams
                                                 Joseph M. Siry                                                                                                                                                                                                  Leslie Topp                                  288 pages | 152 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | 2014
                                                                                                    Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,                                                                                                                256 pages | 3 color/114 b&w illus./1 map     isbn 978-0-271-05984-6
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              hardcover: $64.95 sh
                                                 “Joseph Siry’s excellent new book makes a          Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the                                                                                                               9 x 10 | 2017 | isbn 978-0-271-07710-9
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 hardcover: $99.95 sh
                                                  convincing case for the inclusion of tech-        modernist ideal of functionality was incom-
                                                  nology and the conditions of architectural        pletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate
                                                                                                    heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting.
                                                  production in our approach to architectural
                                                                                                    Bridging the history of technology and the history
                                                  history. It provides a major new contribu-
                                                                                                    of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s
                                                  tion to our understanding of the field.”
                                                                                                    technical and social history and provides case
                                                 —Dietrich C. neumann, editor of “The Structure     studies of buildings by the master architects who
                                                 of Light”: Richard Kelly and the Illumination of   brought this technology into the conceptual and
                                                 Modern Architecture
                                                                                                    formal project of modernism.
                                                                                                        A monumental work by a renowned expert in
                                                                                                    American modernist architecture, this book asks
                                                                                                    us to see canonical modernist buildings through
                                                                                                    a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be
                                                                                                    especially valuable to scholars and students of
                                                                                                    architecture, modernism, the history of technol-
                                                                                                    ogy, and American history.                                                                                                                                   Making Modern Paris                          Architecture and Statecraft
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Victor Baltard’s Central Markets             Charles of Bourbon’s Naples,
                                                                                                    304 pages | 150 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | February 2021                                                                                                          and the Urban Practice of                    1734–1759
                                                                                                    isbn 978-0-271-08694-1 | hardcover: $139.95 sh                                                                                                               Architecture                                 Robin L. Thomas
                                                                                                    Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies Series                                                                                                                  Christopher Curtis Mead                      248 pages | 120 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | 2013
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              isbn 978-0-271-05639-5
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Winner, 2015 Alice Davis Hitchcock Book
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              hardcover: $93.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Award, Society of Architectural Historians
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 324 pages | 157 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | 2012
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 isbn 978-0-271-05087-4
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 hardcover: $93.95 sh

     12                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     13
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  art 2021
                                                                                                         This groundbreaking book seeks to explain why                                                                   Philip II of Spain was a major patron of the arts,
                                                                                                         women artists were far more numerous, diverse,                                                                  best known for his magnificent palace and royal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  early modern
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                         and successful in early modern Bologna than                                                                     mausoleum at the Monastery of San Lorenzo of
                                                                                                         elsewhere in Italy. They worked as painters,                                                                    El Escorial. However, neither the king’s mon-
                                                                                                         sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers; many                                                                  astery nor his collections fully convey the rich
                                                                                                         obtained public commissions and expanded                                                                        artistic landscape of early modern Iberia. In
                                                                                                         beyond the portrait subjects to which women                                                                     this book, Laura Fernández-González examines
                                                                                                         were traditionally confined. Babette Bohn asks                                                                  Philip’s architectural and artistic projects, placing
                                                                                                         why that was the case in this particular place and                                                              them within the wider context of Europe and the
                                                                                                         at this particular time.                                                                                        transoceanic Iberian dominions.
                                                                                                             Drawing on extensive archival research, Bohn                                                                    Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire
                                                                                                         investigates an astonishing sixty-eight women                                                                   investigates ideas of empire and globalization
                                                 Women Artists, Their Patrons,                           artists, including Elisabetta Sirani and Lavinia           Philip II of Spain and the                           in the art and architecture of the Iberian world
                                                                                                         Fontana. The book identifies and explores the                                                                   during the sixteenth century, a time when the
                                                 and Their Publics in Early                              factors that facilitated their success, including          Architecture of Empire                               Spanish Empire was the largest in the world.
                                                 Modern Bologna                                          local biographers who celebrated women artists             Laura Fernández-González                             Fernández-González illuminates Philip’s use of
                                                 Babette Bohn                                            in new ways, an unusually diverse system of                                                                     building regulations to construct an imperial
                                                                                                         artistic patronage that included citizens from all         “Laura Fernández-González’s attention to             city in Madrid and highlights the importance
                                                 “This book is a monumental contribution to              classes, the impact of Bologna’s venerable uni-             understudied buildings is admirable, as is          of his transformation of the Simancas fortress
                                                  a rapidly growing body of studies on pio-              versity, an abundance of women writers, and the             her characterization of the Spanish Empire          into an archive. She analyzes the refashioning
                                                  neering women artists. It will galvanize this          frequency of self-portraits and signed paintings            as one ‘under construction.’ Philip II of           of his imperial image upon his ascension to the
                                                  field with fresh topics of discussion and a            by many women artists. In tracing the evolution             Spain and the Architecture of Empire makes          Portuguese throne and uses the Hall of Battles
                                                                                                         of Bologna’s female artists from nun-painters to            an important contribution to the study of           in El Escorial as a lens through which to under-
                                                  rich harvest of new archival findings.”
                                                                                                         working professionals, Bohn proposes new attri-             domestic architecture and will certainly put        stand visual culture, history writing, and Philip’s
                                                 —Sheila Barker, Founding Director, Jane
                                                                                                         butions and interpretations of their works, some            the Royal Archive at Simancas on the map            kingly image as it was reflected in the funeral
                                                 Fortune Research Program on Women Artists
                                                                                                         of which are reproduced here for the first time.            of important undertakings by Philip II.”            commemorations mourning his death across
                                                                                                             Featuring original methodological models,                                                                   the Iberian world. Positioning Philip’s art and
                                                                                                                                                                    —Jesús Escobar, author of The Plaza Mayor and
                                                                                                         innovative and historically grounded insights,                                                                  architectural programs within the wider cultural
                                                                                                                                                                    the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
                                                                                                         and new documentation, this book will be a                                                                      context of politics, legislation, religion, and the-
                                                                                                         crucial resource for art historians, historians, and                                                            oretical trends, Fernández-González shows how
                                                                                                         women’s studies scholars and students.                                                                          design and images traveled across the Iberian
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         world and provides a nuanced assessment of
                                                                                                         332 pages | 81 color/60 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | March 2021
                                                                                                         isbn 978-0-271-08696-5 | hardcover: $74.95 sh                                                                   Philip’s role in influencing them.
                                                                         Also of Interest                                                                                                   Also of Interest                 Original and important, this panoramic work
                                                                         Medieval Art in Motion                                                                                             Baroque Seville              will have a lasting impact on Philip II’s artistic
                                                                         The Inventory and Gift Giving                                                                                      Sacred Art in a Century of
                                                                         of Queen Clémence de Hongrie                                                                                       Crisis                       legacy. Art historians and scholars of Iberia and
                                                                         Mariah Proctor-Tiffany                                                                                             Amanda Wunder                sixteenth-century history will especially value
                                                                         ISBN 978-0-271-08112-0                                                                                             ISBN 978-0-271-07664-5       Fernández-González’s research.
                                                                         hardcover: $89.95 sh                                                                                               hardcover: $84.95 sh

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         240 pages | 45 color/42 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | May 2021
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         isbn 978-0-271-08724-5 | hardcover: $94.95 sh

   14                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              15
Art and Architecture 2021 - Penn State University Press
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          art 2021
                                                                                                   Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval phi-                                                              Framed by evocative inscriptions, tumultu-
                                                                                                   losophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum.                                                             ous historical events, and the ambiguities of

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          medieval
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                   Medieval art, according to modern scholars,                                                                 Christian death, Romanesque tomb effigies were
                                                                                                   abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the                                                             the first large-scale figural monuments for the
                                                                                                   fear of empty space—is thus often construed                                                                 departed in European art. In this book, Shirin Fozi
                                                                                                   as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture.                                                         explores these provocative markers of life and
                                                                                                   In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues                                                                  death, establishing early tomb figures as a coher-
                                                                                                   that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with                                                            ent genre that hinged upon histories of failure
                                                                                                   the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively                                                           and frustrated ambition.
                                                                                                   engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and                                                                      In sharp contrast to later recumbent funer-
                                                                                                   erasures.                                                                                                   ary figures, none of the known European tomb
                                                                                                       Exploring complex conversations among                                                                   effigies made before circa 1180 were commis-
                                                 The Absent Image                                  medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics,                                                                  sioned by the people they represented, and all of
                                                                                                   piety, and image-making, Gertsman explains                                                                  the identifiable examples of these tombs were
                                                 Lacunae in Medieval Books
                                                                                                   how nothingness was understood in the medie-              Romanesque Tomb Effigies                          dedicated to individuals whose legacies were
                                                 Elina Gertsman                                    val world and discusses the different forms that                                                            fraught rather than triumphant. Fozi draws on
                                                                                                                                                             Death and Redemption in Medieval
                                                                                                   it takes: void, zero, and described by negation.          Europe, 1000–1200                                 this evidence to argue that Romanesque effigies
                                                 “This is an intellectually ambitious, rig-
                                                                                                   With a special focus on murals and manuscripts,                                                             were created to address social rather than
                                                  orously argued, and erudite book that                                                                      Shirin Fozi
                                                                                                   Gertsman studies these visually varied empty                                                                individual anxieties: they compensated for defeat
                                                  explores visual strategies and their the-        spaces. She considers the concept of nothing-                                                               by converting local losses into an expectation
                                                  oretical underpinnings of ‘empty spaces’                                                                   “This deeply researched and insightful
                                                                                                   ness in concert with the imaginary, investigates                                                            of eternal victory, comforting the embarrassed
                                                  in medieval manuscripts. A must-read                                                                        book fills a significant lacuna in the study
                                                                                                   erasure and how it transforms an image, and                                                                 heirs of those whose histories were marked by
                                                  for scholars of medieval and northern                                                                       of medieval sculpture, portraiture, and
                                                                                                   looks at manuscripts that harbor holes and how                                                              misfortune and offering compensation for the
                                                  Renaissance art and intellectual history.”                                                                  commemoration. It makes a vital contribu-
                                                                                                   they enact meaning for the viewer. Gertsman                                                                 disappointments of the world.
                                                                                                   reveals profoundly inventive approaches to
                                                                                                                                                              tion to the field’s ‘material turn,’ bringing        Featuring numerous examples and engaging
                                                 —Nino Zchomelidse, author of Art, Ritual, and
                                                 Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy         emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from            together monuments in stone, metal, and          the visual, historical, and theological contexts
                                                                                                   ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo         stucco to reveal both their distinctive prop-    that inform them, this groundbreaking work adds
                                                                                                   to figurations of absence as a replacement for             erties and their interconnections. At the        a fresh dimension to the study of monumental
                                                                                                   the invisible forces of conception and death.              same time, Fozi never lets us forget the real    sculpture and the idea of the individual in the
                                                                                                       Innovative and challenging, this book will find        human beings these tombs honored or the          northern European Middle Ages. It will appeal to
                                                                                                   its primary audience with students and scholars            communities that took pride in and com-          scholars of art history and medieval studies.
                                                                                                   of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathe-          fort from these depictions.”                     264 pages | 16 color/80 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | April 2021
                                                                                                   matics. It will be particularly welcomed by those                                                           isbn 978-0-271-08719-1 | hardcover: $89.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                             —Jacqueline E. jung, author of Eloquent Bodies:
                                                                                                   interested in phenomenological and cross-dis-             Movement, Expression, and the Human Figure in
                                                                         Also of Interest          ciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the         Gothic Sculpture
                                                                         Apocalypse Illuminated    later Middle Ages.
                                                                         The Visual Exegesis of
                                                                         Revelation in Medieval
                                                                                                   264 pages | 58 color/62 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | June 2021
                                                                         Illustrated Manuscripts
                                                                                                   isbn 978-0-271-08784-9 | hardcover: $124.95 sh
                                                                         Richard K. Emmerson
                                                                         ISBN 978-0-271-07865-6
                                                                         hardcover: $59.95 sh

   16                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      17
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  art 2021
                                                                                                      The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the                                                            Why does a society seek out images of violence?
                                                                                                      modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified                                                          What can the consumption of violent imagery

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  medieval
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                      walls, towering churches, and winding streets.                                                              teach us about the history of violence and the
                                                                                                      In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M.                                                              ways in which it has been represented and
                                                                                                      Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning                                                             understood? Assaf Pinkus considers these ques-
                                                                                                      and artistic programming worked together to                                                                 tions within the context of what he calls galleries
                                                                                                      form dynamic environments, demonstrating the                                                                of violence, the torment imagery that flourished
                                                                                                      agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping                                                            in German-speaking regions during the four-
                                                                                                      the late medieval city.                                                                                     teenth and fifteenth centuries. Exploring these
                                                                                                          Using altarpieces by the famed medieval                                                                 images and the visceral bodily responses that
                                                                                                      artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones                                                                they produced in their viewers, Pinkus argues
                                                                                                      for her argument, Boivin explores how artwork in                                                            that the new visual discourse on violence was a
                                                                                                      Germany’s preeminent medieval city, Rothenburg                                                              watershed in premodern conceptualizations of
                                                                                                      ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic                                                                selfhood.
                                                 Riemenschneider in                                   ideals. She argues that the numerous artistic            Visual Aggression                                      Images of martyrdom in late medieval
                                                                                                      pieces commissioned by the city’s elected                 Images of Martyrdom in Late Medieval Germany reveal a strikingly brutal parade of pas-
                                                 Rothenburg                                           council over the course of two centuries built                                                              sion: severed heads, split skulls, mutilated organs,
                                                 Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the                                                                         Germany
                                                                                                      upon one another, creating a cohesive structural                                                            extracted fingernails and teeth, and myriad other
                                                 Late Medieval City                                   network that attracted religious pilgrims and fur-
                                                                                                                                                                Assaf Pinkus                                      torments. Stripped from their devotional context
                                                 Katherine M. Boivin                                  thered the theological ideals of the parish church.
                                                                                                                                                               “A suggestive and richly illustrated study of and presented simply as brutal acts, these
                                                                                                      By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s most                                                                portrayals assailed viewers’ bodies and minds
                                                 “Riemenschneider in Rothenburg should                                                                          violence imagery in late medieval German-
                                                                                                      significant architectural and artistic works, such                                                          so violently that they amounted to what Pinkus
                                                  be of great interest to art historians and                                                                    speaking lands. Pinkus meticulously
                                                                                                      as St. James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s                                                                 describes as “visual aggressions.” Addressing
                                                  others. It sheds light on a major figure of         Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Boivin shows how
                                                                                                                                                                collates and catalogues the monumental            contemporary discourses on violence and cruelty,
                                                  the Northern ‘Renaissance’ and also on              the city government employed these works to              ‘galleries of violence’ that are his focus, con- the aesthetics of violence, and the eroticism of
                                                  issues of civic contextualization that are of       establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors,           textualising sculptural cycles of martyrdom the tortured body, Pinkus ties these galleries of
                                                  current interest. The scholarship is thor-          raising Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the        in the Upper and Middle Rhine regions             violence to larger cultural concerns about the
                                                  ough and careful. It is, in short, an excellent     pilgrimage map of Europe.                                 with reference to local histories and cir-        ethics of violence and bodily integrity in the con-
                                                  book.”                                                  Carefully documented and convincingly                 cumstances. Attentive to issues of language, ceptualization of early modern personhood.
                                                                                                      argued, this book sheds important new light on            he also shows how the concept of violence             Innovative and convincing, this study heralds
                                                 —Richard Kieckhefer, author of Theology in
                                                                                                      the history of one of Germany’s major tourist             came to be located within an ethical system.      a fundamental   shift in the scholarly conversa-
                                                 Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to
                                                                                                      destinations. It will be of considerable interest to      The result is a significant contribution to       tion about premodern violence, moving from
                                                 Berkeley
                                                                                                      medieval art historians and scholars working in           our understanding of medieval martyrdom           a focus on the imitatio Christi and the liturgy of
                                                                                                      the fields of cultural and urban history.                                                                   punishment to the notion of violence as a moral
                                                                                                                                                                imagery and the responses it elicits.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  problem in an ethical system. Scholars of medi-
                                                                          Also of Interest            248 pages | 77 color/20 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | May 2021   —Robert Mills, author of Suspended Animation:
                                                                                                      isbn 978-0-271-08778-8 | hardcover: $99.95 sh                                                               eval and early modern art, history, and literature
                                                                          Pygmalion’s Power                                                                     Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture
                                                                          Romanesque Sculpture,                                                                                                                   will welcome and engage with Pinkus’s research
                                                                          the Senses, and Religious
                                                                          Experience                                                                                                                              for years to come.
                                                                          Thomas E. A. Dale
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    216 pages | 50 color/87 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | February 2021
                                                                          ISBN 978-0-271-08345-2
                                                                          hardcover: $99.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    isbn 978-0-271-08379-7 | hardcover: $109.95 sh

   18                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              19
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                art 2021
                                                                                   What does the study of iconography entail for                                                                    In a major departure from previous scholarship,
                                                                                   scholars active today? How does it intersect                                                                     this volume argues that the illustrations in the

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                medieval
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                   with the broad array of methodological and                                                                       famous and widely influential Utrecht Psalter
                                                                                   theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art                                                                manuscript were inspired by a late antique
                                                                                   historians? Should we still dare to use the term                                                                 Hebrew version of Psalms, rather than a Latin,
                                                                                  “iconography” to describe such work?                                                                              Christian version of the text.
                                                                                       The seven essays collected here argue that                                                                       Produced during the early ninth century in
                                                                                   we should. Their authors set out to evaluate the                                                                 a workshop near Reims, France, the Utrecht
                                                                                   continuing relevance of iconographic studies to                                                                  Psalter is illustrated with pen-and-ink draw-
                                                                                   current art-historical scholarship by exploring                                                                  ings in a lively style reminiscent of Hellenistic
                                                                                   the fluidity of iconography itself over broad spans                                                              art. The motifs are largely literal renditions
                                                                                   of time, place, and culture. These wide-ranging                                                                  of words and phrases found in the book of
                                                                                   case studies take a diverse set of approaches as                                                                 Psalms. However, more than three dozen motifs
                                                                                   they track the transformation of medieval images                                                                 cannot be explained by either the Latin text that
                                                 The Lives and Afterlives of       and their meanings along their respective paths,             Hebrew Psalms and                                   accompanies the imagery or the commentaries
                                                                                   exploring how medieval iconographies remained                                                                    of the church fathers. Through a close reading
                                                 Medieval Iconography              stable or changed; how images were reconceived
                                                                                                                                                the Utrecht Psalter                                 of the Hebrew Psalms, Pamela Berger demon-
                                                 Edited by Pamela A. Patton and    in response to new contexts, ideas, or viewer-
                                                                                                                                                Veiled Origins                                      strates that these motifs can be explained only
                                                 Henry D. Schilb                   ships; and how modern thinking about medieval                Pamela Berger                                       by the Hebrew text, the Jewish commentary, or
                                                                                   images—including the application or rejection                                                                    Jewish art. Drawing comparisons between the
                                                                                   of traditional methodologies—has shaped our                                                                     “Hellenistic” style of the Psalter images and the
                                                                                   understanding of what they signify. These essays                                                                 style of late antique Galilean mosaics and using
                                                                                   demonstrate that iconographic work still holds a                                                                 evidence from recent archaeological discoveries,
                                                                                   critical place within the rapidly evolving disci-                                                                Berger argues that the model for those Psalter
                                                                                   pline of art history as well as within the many                                                                  illustrations dependent on the Hebrew text was
                                                                                   other disciplines that increasingly prioritize the                                                               produced in the Galilee.
                                                                                   study of images.                                                                                                     Pioneering and highly persuasive, this book
                                                                                       This inaugural volume in the series Signa:                                                                   resolves outstanding issues surrounding the
                                                                                   Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton                                                                 origins of one of the most extensively studied
                                                                                   University demonstrates the importance of keep-                                                                  illuminated manuscripts. It will be mandatory
                                                                                   ing matters of image and meaning—regardless                                                                      reading for many historians of medieval art and
                                                                                   of whether we use the word “iconography”—at                                                                      literature and for those interested in the Hebrew
                                                                                   the center of modern inquiry into medieval visual                                                                text of the book of Psalms.
                                                                                   culture.
                                                                                                                                                                                                   240 pages | 38 color/52 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | Janaury 2020
                                                                                       In addition to the editors, the contributors to                           Also of Interest                  isbn 978-0-271-08477-0 | hardcover: $135.00 sh
                                                                                   this volume are Kirk Ambrose, Charles Barber,                                 Art of Estrangement
                                                                                                                                                                 Redefining Jews in Reconquest
                                                                                   Catherine Fernandez, Elina Gertsman, Jacqueline                               Spain
                                                                                   E. Jung, Dale Kinney, and D. Fairchild Ruggles.                               Pamela A. Patton
                                                                                                                                                                 ISBN 978-0-271-05383-7
                                                                                  216 pages | 32 color/49 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | February 2021                    hardcover: $82.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                                 Winner, 2014 Eleanor Tufts Book
                                                                                  isbn 978-0-271-08621-7 | hardcover: $84.95 sh                                  Award from American Society for
                                                                                  Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton                        Hispanic Art Historical Studies
                                                                                  University Series

  20                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             21
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            art 2021
                                                                                                       This important critical study of the history of                                                         During the nineteenth century, Albrecht Dürer’s
                                                                                                       public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores                                                          art, piety, and personal character were held up as

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            theory/criticism/historiography
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                       their place in the wider history of European                                                            models to inspire contemporary artists and—it
                                                                                                       museums and collecting, their role as public                                                            was hoped—to return Germany to international
                                                                                                       institutions, and their involvement in the com-                                                         artistic eminence. In this book, Jeffrey Chipps
                                                                                                       plex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire.                                                          Smith explores Dürer’s complex posthumous
                                                                                                           Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow,                                                         reception during the great century of museum
                                                                                                       Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum                                                                building in Europe, with a particular focus on the
                                                                                                       Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution                                                             artist’s role as a creative and moral exemplar for
                                                                                                       of museum culture over the long nineteenth                                                              German artists and museum visitors.
                                                                                                       century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art                                                         In an era when museums were emerging as
                                                                                                       collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery                                                       symbols of civic, regional, and national identity,
                                                                                                       open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria-    Albrecht Dürer and the                            dozens of new national, princely, and civic muse-
                                                                                                       Hungary after the First World War. Drawing on                                                           ums began to feature portraits of Dürer in their
                                                                                                       source materials from across the empire, the          Embodiment of Genius                              elaborate decorative programs embellishing the
                                                                                                       authors reveal how the rise of museums and dis-       Decorating Museums in the Nineteenth              facades, grand staircases, galleries, and cere-
                                                                                                       play was connected to growing tensions between        Century                                           monial spaces. Most of these arose in Germany
                                                 The Museum Age in                                     the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a      Jeffrey Chipps Smith                              and Austria, though examples can be seen as far
                                                 Austria-Hungary                                       cosmopolitan and multinational social, politi-                                                          away as St. Petersburg, Stockholm, London, and
                                                 Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth                 cal, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and,     “While Renaissance studies have taken             New York City. Probing the cultural, political, and
                                                 Century                                               on the other, the rights of national groups and        the international importance of Albrecht         educational aspirations and rivalries of these
                                                                                                       cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate          Dürer as a given for a long time, his role for   museums and their patrons, Smith traces how
                                                 Matthew Rampley, Markian Prokopovych,
                                                                                                       the ways in which museum collecting policies,          the nineteenth-century imagination has           Dürer was painted, sculpted, and prominently
                                                 and Nóra Veszprémi
                                                                                                       practices of display, and architecture engaged         remained mostly a German affair. Smith’s         placed to accommodate the era’s diverse needs
                                                 “This is a highly original study. There is no         with these political agendas and how museums           wide-ranging study will change this.             and aspirations. He investigates what these
                                                  other comparative treatment of the devel-            reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic          Written in vivid, easily accessible prose, the   portraits can tell us about the rise of a distinct
                                                  opment of art museums in the major cities            identity, emerging forms of professional practice,                                                      canon of famous Renaissance and Baroque art-
                                                                                                                                                              book presents the reader with a rich picture
                                                                                                       the production of knowledge, and the changing                                                           ists—addressing the question of why Dürer was
                                                  of the Habsburg monarchy, and only such                                                                     of Dürer’s omnipresence in the museum
                                                                                                       composition of the public sphere.                                                                       so often paired with Raphael, who was consid-
                                                  a study can address effectively the analytic                                                                age across the globe.”
                                                                                                           Original in its approach and sweeping in                                                            ered to embody the greatness of Italian art—and
                                                  questions about the development and                                                                        —Cordula Grewe, author of The Nazarenes:
                                                                                                       scope, this fascinating study of the museum                                                             why, with the rise of German nationalism, Hans
                                                  functions of the art museums in a changing           age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by            Romantic Avant-garde and the Art of the Concept   Holbein the Younger often replaced Raphael as
                                                  public sphere that are raised here.”                 students and scholars interested in the cultural                                                        Dürer’s partner.
                                                 —Gary B. cohen, author of Education and               and art history of Central Europe.                                                                          Accessibly written and comprehensive in
                                                 Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918                                                                                                           scope, this book sheds new light on museum
                                                                                                       304 pages | 47 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | February 2021
                                                                                                       isbn 978-0-271-08710-8 | hardcover: $99.95 sh                                                           building in the nineteenth century and the rise
                                                                                                                                                                                                               of art history as a discipline. It will appeal to spe-
                                                                                                                                                                                                               cialists in nineteenth-century and early modern
                                                                                                                                                                                                               art, the history of museums and collecting, and
                                                                                                                                                                                                               art historiography.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               256 pages | 79 color/64 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | October 2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                               isbn 978-0-271-08594-4 | hardcover: $99.95 sh

  22                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           23
psupress.org

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       art 2021
                                                                                                 Advances in technology allow us to see the                                                                    Sound and statuary have had a complicated
                                                                                                 invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell                                                           relationship in Western aesthetic thought since

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       theory/criticism/historiography
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                 mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when                                                                  antiquity. Taking as its focus the sounding
                                                                                                 experience is so intensely mediated by visual                                                                 statue—a type of anthropocentric statue that
                                                                                                 records, the centuries-old realization that knowl-                                                            invites the viewer to imagine sounds the statue
                                                                                                 edge gained through sight is inherently fallible                                                              might make—The Sculpted Ear rethinks this
                                                                                                 takes on troubling new dimensions. This book                                                                  relationship in light of discourses on aurality
                                                                                                 considers the ways in which seeing, over time,                                                                emerging within the field of sound studies. Ryan
                                                                                                 has become the foundation for knowing (or at                                                                  McCormack argues that the sounding statue is
                                                                                                 least for what we think we know).                                                                             best thought of not as an aesthetic object but
                                                                                                    A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and                                                                   as an event heard by people and subsequently
                                                                                                 socially constructed aspects of seeing in order                                                               conceptualized into being through acts of writing
                                                                                                 to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the                                                                and performance.
                                                                                                 Renaissance to the present, demonstrating                                                                         Constructing a history in which hearing plays
                                                                                                 that what we see and how we see it are often                                                                  an integral role in ideas about anthropocentric
                                                                                                 historically situated and culturally constructed.                                                             statuary, McCormack begins with the ancient
                                                                                                 Through a series of linked case studies that                                                                  sculpture of Laocoön, before moving to a discus-
                                                 Objects of Vision                               highlight moments of seeming disconnect                                                                       sion of the early modern automaton known as
                                                 Making Sense of What We See                     between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles,
                                                                                                                                                               The Sculpted Ear                                Tipu’s Tiger and the statue of the Commendatore
                                                 A. Joan Saab                                    spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and                Aurality and Statuary in the West               in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Finally, he examines
                                                                                                 holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates                Ryan McCormack                                  statues of people from the present and the past,
                                                 “Well researched, beautifully written, and      the relationship between “visions” and visuality.                                                             including the singer Josephine Baker, the violinist
                                                  fascinatingly presented, Objects of Vision     This focus on the strange and the wonderful in                “The Sculpted Ear evidences a long and rich     Aleksandar Nikolov, and the actor Bob Newhart—
                                                  offers the visual studies field a historical   understanding changing notions of visions and                  history of sounding and hearing associated     with each case touching on some of the issues
                                                  reading of case studies with and around        visual culture is a compelling entry point into                with the apparently silent art of sculpture.   that have historically plagued the aesthetic
                                                  objects and artifacts from the Renaissance     the increasingly urgent topic of technologically               The book tackles important questions in        viability of the sounding statue. McCormack con-
                                                  to the present. Joan Saab expands the scope    enhanced representations of reality.                           sound studies, musicology, philosophy, and     vincingly demonstrates how sounding statues
                                                  of visual studies to include material and         Accessibly written and thoroughly enlighten-                art history from a fresh perspective. The      served as important precursors and continuing
                                                                                                 ing, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the             case studies to be found in each chapter       contributors to modern ideas about the ontology
                                                  technological forms ranging from spirit
                                                                                                 connections between seeing and knowing that                    provide new, fascinating information to the    of sound, technologies of sound reproduction,
                                                  photography to holograms, and she gives
                                                                                                 will appeal to students and teachers of visual                                                                and performance practices blurring traditional
                                                  timely insight into photographic truth and                                                                    scholar of sound as well as intriguing new
                                                                                                 studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.                                                            divides between music, sculpture, and the other
                                                  the everyday proliferation of images.”                                                                        perspectives on the history of hearing.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                               arts.
                                                                                                 166 pages | 31 color/13 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | November 2020   —James G. mansell, author of The Age of Noise
                                                 —Lisa Cartwright, coauthor of Practices of                                                                                                                        A compelling narrative that illuminates the
                                                                                                 isbn 978-0-271-08810-5 | hardcover: $69.95 sh
                                                 Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture                                                                    in Britain: Hearing Modernity
                                                                                                 Perspectives on Sensory History Series                                                                        stories of individual sculptural objects and the
                                                                                                                                                                                                               audiences that hear them, this book will appeal
                                                                                                                                                                                                               to anyone interested in the connections between
                                                                                                                                                                                                               aurality and statues in the Western world, in
                                                                                                                                                                                                               particular scholars and students of sound studies
                                                                                                                                                                                                               and sensory history.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               224 pages | 6 x 9 | April 2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                               isbn 978-0-271-08692-7 | hardcover: $89.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                                                                               isbn 978-0-271-08693-4 | paper: $32.95 sh | June 2021
  24                                                                                                                                                                                                           Perspectives on Sensory History Series                     25
art 2021
new in
paperback
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical                                                                                           Jules Michelet
psupress.org

                                                                                                              Debates                                                                                                             Writing Art and History in Nineteenth-

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         art 2021
                                                                                                              Art Through a Modern American Mind                                                                                  Century France
                                                                                                              C. Oliver O’Donnell                                                                                                 Michèle Hannoosh

                                                                                                              Winner of the Zentralinstitut für                                                                                   Jules Michelet, one of France’s most influential

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         new in paperback
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                              Kunstgeschichte’s 2019 Willibald Sauerländer                                                                        historians and a founder of modern historical
                                                                                                              Award for distinguished research in the history                                                                     practice, was a passionate viewer and relent-
                                                                                                              and practice of art-historical writing                                                                              less interpreter of the visual arts. In this book,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Michèle Hannoosh examines the crucial role that
                                                                                                              Described in the New York Times as the greatest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  art writing played in Michelet’s work and shows
                                                                                                              art historian America ever produced, Meyer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  how it decisively influenced his theory of history
                                                                                                              Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and his view of the practice of the historian.
                                                                                                              famous artists of his generation and a scholar
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     The visual arts were at the very center of
                                                                                                              who engaged in public debate with some of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Michelet’s conception of historiography. He filled
                                                                                                              the major intellectuals of his time. This volume
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  his private notes, public lectures, and printed
                                                                                                              synthesizes his prolific career for the first time,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  books with discussions of artworks, which, for
                                                                                                              demonstrating how Schapiro worked from the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  him, embodied the character of particular histori-
                                                                                                              nexus of artistic and intellectual practice to
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  cal moments. Michelet believed that painting,
                                                                                                              confront some of the twentieth century’s most
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  sculpture, architecture, and engraving bore
                                                                                                              abiding questions.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  witness to histories that frequently went untold;
                                                                                                                  Schapiro was renowned for pioneering inter-
                                                 272 pages | 36 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | November 2020                                                                  248 pages | 31 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | November 2020
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  that they expressed key ideas standing behind
                                                                                                              disciplinary approaches to interpreting visual
                                                 isbn 978-0-271-08465-7 | paper: $29.95 sh                                                                          isbn 978-0-271-08357-5 | paper: $39.95 sh                     events; and that they articulated concepts that
                                                                                                              art. His lengthy formal analyses in the 1920s,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  would come to fruition only later.
                                                                                                              Marxist interpretations in the 1930s, psycho-
                                                 “An important resource on one of art                                                                               “In this book Hannoosh reveals a brilliant                       This groundbreaking reevaluation of
                                                                                                              analytic critiques in the 1950s and 1960s, and
                                                  history’s most brilliant practitioners.”                                                                           mind using art to invent a way of writing                    Michelet’s approach to history elucidates how
                                                                                                              semiotic explorations in the 1970s all helped
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  writing about art provided a model for the histo-
                                                 —D. Pincus, Choice                                           open new avenues for inquiry. Based on archival        history, inspiring the discipline of art his-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  rian’s relation to, and interpretation of, the past,
                                                                                                              research, C. Oliver O’Donnell’s study is struc-        tory itself, inspiring us to continue to build
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  and thus for a new type of historiography—one
                                                                                                              tured chronologically around eight defining            the ‘cathedral of knowledge’ as both metic-
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  that acknowledges and enacts the historian’s
                                                                                                              debates in which Schapiro participated, including      ulous scholarship and profound love of art.”                 own implication in the history he or she tells.
                                                                                                              his dispute with Isaiah Berlin over the life and      —Beth S. wright, Nineteenth-Century Art
                                                                                                              writing of Bernard Berenson, Schapiro’s critique      Worldwide
                                                                                                              of Martin Heidegger’s ekphrastic commen-
                                                                                                              tary on Van Gogh, and his confrontation with
                                                                                                              Claude Lévi-Strauss over the applicability of
                                                                                                              mathematics to the interpretation of visual
                                                                               Also of Interest               art. O’Donnell’s thoughtful analysis of these                                       Also of Interest
                                                                               The Seductions of Darwin       intellectual exchanges not only traces Schapiro’s                                   Art and Form
                                                                               Art, Evolution, Neuroscience                                                                                       From Roger Fry to Global
                                                                                                              philosophical evolution but also relates them to                                    Modernism
                                                                               Matthew Rampley
                                                                               ISBN 978-0-271-07742-0         the development of art history as a discipline, to                                  Sam Rose
                                                                               cloth: $34.95 sh                                                                                                   ISBN 978-0-271-08239-4
                                                                                                              central tensions of artistic modernism, and to                                      paper: $34.95 sh | Refiguring
                                                                                                              modern intellectual history as a whole.                                             Modernism Series

  28                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      29
Disharmony of the Spheres                                                                                           Power and Posterity
psupress.org

                                                                                                             The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors                                                                                 American Art at Philadelphia’s 1876

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        art 2021
                                                                                                             Jennifer Nelson                                                                                                     Centennial Exhibition
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Kimberly Orcutt
                                                                                                             2021 Historians of British Art Book Prize for a
                                                                                                             single-authored book with a subject up to 1600                                                                      A milestone in American cultural history, the

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        new in paperback
  P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was
                                                                                                             Anxious about the threat of Ottoman inva-                                                                           one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended,
                                                                                                             sion and a religious schism that threatened                                                                         and thoroughly documented public experiences
                                                                                                             Christianity from within, sixteenth-century north-                                                                  of the nineteenth century. Power and Posterity illu-
                                                                                                             ern Europeans increasingly saw their world as                                                                       minates how the art featured in the celebration
                                                                                                             disharmonious and full of mutual contradictions.                                                                    informed and reflected national debates over the
                                                                                                             Examining the work of four unusual but influen-                                                                     country’s identity and its role in the world.
                                                                                                             tial northern Europeans as they faced Europe’s                                                                          The Centennial’s fine arts display, which
                                                                                                             changing identity, Jennifer Nelson reveals the                                                                      included both a government-sanctioned
                                                                                                             ways in which these early modern thinkers and                                                                       selection of American works and significant con-
                                                                                                             artists grappled with the problem of cultural,        296 pages | 43 color/41 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | December 2020   tributions from sixteen other countries, spurred
                                                                                                             religious, and cosmological difference in relation    isbn 978-0-271-07837-3 | paper: $39.95 sh
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 a transformation in the American art world.
                                                                                                             to notions of universals and the divine.                                                                            Drawing from official records, published criticism,
                                                                                                                 Focusing on northern Europe during the first      “A richly detailed, satisfying visual, cultural,              guidebooks, poems, and satire, Kimberly Orcutt
                                                 216 pages | 19 color/24 b&w illus.                          half of the sixteenth century, this book proposes
                                                 7 x 10 | December 2020
                                                                                                                                                                    and historical account of American art                       provides a nuanced, in-depth study of the
                                                 isbn 978-0-271-08341-4 | paper: $34.95 sh
                                                                                                             a complementary account of a Renaissance and           at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition                      exhibition. She considers the circumstances of
                                                                                                             Reformation for which epistemology is not so                                                                        the artworks’ creation, the ideological positions
                                                                                                                                                                    of 1876. . . . Power and Posterity makes a
                                                                                                             much destabilized as pluralized. Addressing                                                                         expressed through their installation, and the
                                                 “Nelson brings a refreshing interdisciplinar-                                                                      significant contribution to the understand-
                                                                                                             a wide range of media—including paintings,                                                                          responses of critics, collectors, and the general
                                                  ity to Holbein’s Ambassadors that allows us                                                                       ing of the American art on view at this
                                                                                                             etchings and woodcuts, university curriculum                                                                        public as they evolved from antebellum nation-
                                                  to see it through a theological preoccupa-                 regulations, clocks, sundials, anthologies of
                                                                                                                                                                    signal event of the 19th-century (art) world.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 alism to a postwar cosmopolitanism in which
                                                  tion with difference and discrepancy. The                  proverbs, and astrolabes—Nelson argues that            Highly recommended.”
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 artists and collectors took the international stage.
                                                  happy result is a defamiliarizing of one of                inconsistency, discrepancy, and contingency           —J. Decker, Choice
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Orcutt reveals how the fair democratized the
                                                  the most familiar paintings of Renaissance                 were viewed as fundamental features of worldly                                                                      fine arts, gave art criticism newfound reach and
                                                  Europe.”                                                   existence. Taking as its starting point Hans                                                                        authority, and led art museums to proliferate
                                                 —Michael Gaudio, caa.reviews                                Holbein’s famously complex double portrait                                                                          across the country.
                                                                                                             The Ambassadors, and then examining Philipp                                                                             Deeply researched, thoughtfully written, and
                                                                                                             Melanchthon’s measurement-minded theology                                                                           featuring a mix of more than eighty full-color and
                                                                                                             of science, Georg Hartmann’s modular sundi-                                                                         black-and-white illustrations, this thorough and
                                                                                                             als, and Desiderius Erasmus’s eclectic Adages,                                                                      insightful book will appeal to those interested in
                                                                                                             Disharmony of the Spheres is a sophisticated and                                                                    American culture and history, the art world, and
                                                                                                             challenging reconsideration of sixteenth-century                                                                    world’s fairs and exhibitions in Philadelphia and
                                                                              Also of Interest                                                                                                    Also of Interest
                                                                                                             northern European culture and its discomforts.                                                                      beyond.
                                                                              Animating Empire                                                                                                    “The Spanish Element in
                                                                              Automata, the Holy Roman           Carefully researched and engagingly written,                                     Our Nationality”
                                                                              Empire, and the Early Modern                                                                                        Spain and America at the
                                                                              World
                                                                                                             Disharmony of the Spheres will be of vital interest                                  World’s Fairs and Centennial
                                                                              Jessica Keating                to historians of early modern European art, reli-                                    Celebrations, 1876–1915

                                                                              ISBN 978-0-271-08002-4         gion, science, and culture.                                                          M. Elizabeth Boone
                                                                              hardcover: $69.95 sh                                                                                                ISBN 978-0-271-08331-5
                                                                                                                                                                                                  hardcover: $99.95 sh

  30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      31
You can also read