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Art and Architecture 2023
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medieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
early modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
19th century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
20th century/
contemporary . . . . . . . . . 20
photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
american . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
recently
released . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
new in
paperback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
award winners . . . . . . . 36
national Image credits: Cover illustration: Aelbert Jansz
van der Schoor, Still Life with Skulls, ca. 1650, detail.
gallery
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Additional credits: page 3,
detail of Holy Cross Chapel, Karlštejn Castle (photo:
Profimedia.CZ a.s. / Alamy Stock Photo); page 6, detail
singapore
of Peter of Spain’s Tractatus, 1472–74, London, Wellcome
Library, MS 55, fol. 202v (photo: Wellcome Collection);
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 page 15, detail of Théodore Chassériau, The Two Sisters,
or Portrait of Mesdemoiselles C., 1843, Musée du Louvre,
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Paris (photo: Erich Lessing /Art Resource, NY); page 23,
detail of Giacomo Caneva, Costume Study of Six Models
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Posed as a Family, ca. 1855, McGuigan Collection; pages
32–33, detail of Claude Monet, Pink Water Lilies, 1919,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the
most highly valued works of art in the European
medieval
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Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones
prompted sophisticated reflections on the
power of nature and the experience of miner-
alized beings. Beyond a visual regime that put
a premium on brilliant materiality, how can we
account for the ubiquity of gems in medieval
thought?
In The Mineral and the Visual, art historian
Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles,
cultural meanings, and active agency of pre-
cious stones in secular medieval art. Exploring
the layered roles played by gems in aesthetic, “Reading The Mineral
The Mineral and the Visual ideological, intellectual, and economic practices,
Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Buettner focuses on three significant catego-
and the Visual made me
Culture ries of art: the jeweled crown, the pictorialized feel like a student again,
Brigitte Buettner lapidary, and the illustrated travel account. The
global gem trade brought coveted jewels from filled with curiosity and
“Buettner weaves together scintillating the Indies to goldsmiths’ workshops in Paris,
description, meticulous scholarship, and fashionable bodies in London, and the crowns
excitement. This book is
current theory to create an unrivaled pic- of kings across Europe, and Buettner shows that rich, interesting, complex,
ture of her subject. She makes the case that Europe’s literal and metaphorical enrichment
gems are the apex of materials: substances was predicated on the importation of gems and refreshing.”
that are active, global, exotic (and paradisa- ideas from Byzantium, the Islamic world, Persia,
and India. —elina gertsman, author of The
ical), kingly, and in all ways powerful.”
Original, transhistorical, and cross-disci- Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval
—Cynthia Hahn, author of Strange Beauty:
plinary, The Mineral and the Visual engages
Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, Books
important methodological questions about the
400-circa 1204
work of culture in its material dimension. It will
be especially useful to scholars and students
interested in medieval art history, material cul-
ture, and medieval history.
Also of Interest 272 pages | 35 color/55 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | Sept. 2022
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Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
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Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline?
Rather than provide a definitive answer to this
medieval
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question, this book defines the parameters of
the debate and proposes ways of thinking about
what it would mean to engage seriously with
the field’s political and intellectual genealogies,
hierarchies, and forms of exclusion.
In this volume, scholars of art, history, and
literature address the entanglements, past Destroyed—Disappeared—
and present, among the academic discipline of Lost—Never Were
Byzantine Studies and the practice and legacies Edited by Beate Fricke and
Aden Kumler
of European colonialism. Starting with the prem-
“Both as a whole and as individual
ise that Byzantium and the field of Byzantine essays, the contents of Destroyed—
studies are simultaneously colonial and colo- Disappeared—Lost—Never Were
nized, the chapters address topics ranging from contribute significantly to various
urgent scholarly conversations in
the material basis of philological scholarship
art history today. Highly original and
and its uses in modern politics to the colonial written by experts in their respective
plunder of art and its consequences for curatorial fields, each of the book’s chapters
Is Byzantine Studies a practice in the present. The book concludes with focuses on serious lacunae in the
medieval discipline, unpacking them
a bibliography that serves as a foundation for a
Colonialist Discipline? coherent and systematic critical historiography.
in creative ways in relation to both
primary and secondary materials.
Toward a Critical Historiography Bringing together insights from scholars working Between them, these exciting essays
offer novel readings of previously
Edited by Benjamin Anderson and in different disciplines, regions, and institutions, untreated objects, important revisions
Mirela Ivanova Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? urges to existing historical and theoretical
practitioners to reckon with the discipline’s colo- narratives, and original critiques of
“This dynamic, multivocal volume has nialist, imperialist, and white supremacist history.
received historiographies.”
the potential to reshape not only the In addition to the editors, the contribu-
—Jack Hartnell, author of Medieval
Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle
field of Byzantine studies but also tors to this volume include Andrea Myers Ages
larger movements within the human- Achi, Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Bahattin 168 pages | 19 b&w illus. | 5.5 x 8.5 | 2022
ities, with outstanding contributions by Bayram, Averil Cameron, Stephanie R. Caruso, ICMA Books | Viewpoints Series
isbn 978-0-271-09328-4
Aschenbrenner and Ransohoff, Achi, and Şebnem Dönbekci, Hugh G. Jeffery, Anthony paper: $18.95/£16.95/€19.95 sh
Williams. Anderson and Ivanova’s work— Kaldellis, Matthew Kinloch, Nicholas Matheou,
particularly its willingness to engage with Maria Mavroudi, Zeynep Olgun, Arietta
critical race and decolonial studies—will Papaconstantinou, Jake Ransohoff, Alexandra
appeal to Byzantinists as well as those Vukovich, Elizabeth Dospel Williams, and Arielle
Winnik.
engaged in global medieval studies and
adjacent fields, especially Ethiopian and 208 pages | 18 b&w illus. | 5.5 x 8.5 | June 2023
Islamic studies.” isbn 978-0-271-09526-4
paper: $24.95/£21.95/€25.95 sh
—Suzanne Conklin akbari, author of Idols in ICMA Books | Viewpoints Series | Copublished with The
the East: European Representations of Islam and the International Center of Medieval Art
Orient, 1100-1450
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This volume assesses how current approaches to
iconology and iconography break new ground in
“Iconography Beyond
medieval
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understanding the signification and reception of
the Crossroads is a very medieval images, both in their own time and in
the modern world.
useful contribution to Framed by critical essays that apply explicitly
historiographical and sociopolitical perspectives
current scholarship and
to key moments in the evolution of the field, the
a distinguished follower volume’s case studies focus on how iconographic
meaning is shaped by factors such as medieval
in the line of excellent modes of dialectical thought, the problem of
representing time, the movement of the viewer
volumes produced by in space, the fragmentation and injury of both
Index conferences of the image and subject, and the complex strategy
of comparing distant cultural paradigms. The
past. This volume, with its contributions are linked by a commitment to
Iconography Beyond the understanding how medieval images made
coherent methodological
Crossroads meaning; to highlighting the heuristic value of
emphasis, is an especially Image, Meaning, and Method in new perspectives and methods in exploring
Medieval Art the work of the image in both the Middle Ages
worthy successor to its and our own time; and to recognizing how
Edited by Pamela A. Patton and subtle entanglements between scholarship and
important predecessor, Catherine A. Fernandez
society can provoke mutual and unexpected
transformations in both. Collectively, the essays
Iconography at the
demonstrate the expansiveness, flexibility, and
Crossroads.” dynamism of iconographic studies as a scholarly
field that is still heartily engaged in the challenge
—william diebold, author of Word of its own remaking.
and Image: An Introduction to Early Along with the volume editors, the contrib-
utors include Madeline H. Caviness, Beatrice
Medieval Art
Kitzinger, Aden Kumler, Christopher R. Lakey,
Glenn Peers, Jennifer Purtle, and Elizabeth Sears.
240 pages | 37 color/46 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | May 2022
Also of Interest isbn 978-0-271-09056-6
The Lives and Afterlives of hardcover: $104.95/£90.95/€106.95 sh
Medieval Iconography Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton
Edited by Pamela A. Patton and University Series | Copublished with The Index of
Henry D. Schilb Medieval Art at Princeton University
2021 | Signa: Papers of the Index
of Medieval Art at Princeton
University Series
ISBN 978-0-271-08621-7
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ADAM JASIENSKI
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Early modern central Africa comes to life in In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam
an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and
early modern
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drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, cultural significance of a crucial image type in the
veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, com- early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait.
posed between 1650 and 1750 for the training Across early modern Spain and Latin America,
of future missionaries. These “practical guides” people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true”
PRAYING TO
present the intricacies of the natural, social, and effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were
religious environment of seventeenth- and eigh- repainted as devotional objects, and even to
PORTRAITS
teenth-century west-central Africa and outline images of living sitters depicted as holy figures.
Images on a Mission in Early the primarily visual catechization methods the Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image
friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission types within their historical context. He shows
Modern Kongo and Angola
Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this that rather than being harbingers of secular
Cécile Fromont overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits
attention. were privileged sites for mediating an individu-
“Fromont’s attention to the archive’s mate- This beautifully illustrated book includes Praying to Portraits al’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition
riality and her vibrantly close reading full-color reproductions of all the images in the Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises,
of a large, unique body of sources are atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related the Early Modern Hispanic World poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demon-
compelling. Images on a Mission in Early material gathered from collections and archives strates that portraiture was at the very center of
Adam Jasienski
Modern Kongo and Angola reveals a much around the world. Taking a bold new approach broader debates about the status of images in
broader Capuchin visual genre than to the study of early modern global interactions, “This brilliantly original book illuminates Spain and its colonies.
previously known, one that contains a dis- art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how Highly original and persuasive, Praying to
the relationship, long debated by scholars,
tinctive approach to Africans (borne out of visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, Portraits profoundly revises our understanding
between portraiture and religious images
though European in form and crafstmanship, of early modern portraiture. It will intrigue art
Capuchins’ experiences in central Africa) in early modern Spain and its empire.
emerged not from a single perspective but rather historians across geographical boundaries, and
and to representing missionary experi- Throughout, Jasienski engages an impres-
from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models it will also find an audience among scholars of
ences, and it significantly extends the visual sively wide range of texts, whether writings
a fresh way to think about images created across architecture, history, and religion in the early
archive for early modern European-African cultures, highlighting the formative role that cul- on naturalism in portraiture, treatises on modern Hispanic world.
interactions.” tural encounter itself played in their conception, God-given royal power, or Inquisitorial
232 pages | 50 color/15 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | May 2023
—Surekha Davies, author of Renaissance execution, and modes of operation. condemnations of idolatrous devotion to isbn 978-0-271-09344-4
Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Centering Africa and Africans, and with rami- portraits. Praying to Portraits is a book hardcover: $119.95/£103.95/€122.95 sh
Worlds, Maps and Monsters fications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial of great interpretive breadth and depth,
history profoundly transforms our understanding and it makes a major contribution to our
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of the early modern world. It will be of substan- understanding of the visual culture of the
Staging Habla de Negros
Staging Radical Performances of the tial interest to specialists in early modern studies, Spanish world.”
Habla African Diaspora in Early
de
Modern Spain art history, and religion.
Negros
—Tanya J. tiffany, author of Diego Velázquez’s
Nicholas R. Jones Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-
336 pages | 126 color/52 b&w illus./1 map | 10 x 9
2020 | ISBN 978-0-271-08347-6
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Aug. 2022 | isbn 978-0-271-09218-8 Century Seville
Iberian Encounter and Exchange, hardcover: $109.95/£94.95/€111.95 sh
475–1755 Series
Radical Performances of
the African Diaspora
in Early Modern Spain
NICHOLAS R. JONES
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SKEPTICISM’S
As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of In seventeenth-century northern Europe, as the
internet culture, virality provides a critical vocab- Aristotelian foundations of scientia were rocked
early modern
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ulary for addressing questions raised by the by observation, experiment, confessional strife,
global mobility and reproduction of early modern and political pressure, natural philosophers
artworks. This book uses the concept of virality PICTURES came to rely on the printed image to fortify their
to study artworks’ role in the uneven processes epistemologies—and none more so than René
of early modern globalization. Descartes. In Skepticism’s Pictures, historian of
Drawing from archival research in Asia, science Melissa Lo chronicles the visual idioms
Figuring
Europe, and the Americas, Stephanie Porras Descartes’s that made, sustained, revised, and resisted
Natural
traces the trajectories of two interrelated objects Philosophy Descartes’s new philosophy.
made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century: Drawing on moon maps, political cartoons,
Gerónimo Nadal’s Evangelicae historiae imagines, student notebooks, treatises on practical
an illustrated devotional text published and MELISSA LO mathematics, and other sources, Lo argues that
promoted by the Society of Jesus, and a singular Descartes transformed natural philosophy with
The First Viral Images composition by Maerten de Vos, St. Michael the the introduction of a new graphic language that
Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Archangel. Both were reproduced and adapted inspired a wide range of pictorial responses
across the early modern world in the seven- shaped by religious affiliation, political com-
Early Modern Globe
teenth century. Porras examines how and why
Skepticism’s Pictures mitment, and cultural convention. She begins
Stephanie Porras these objects traveled and were adopted as Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy by historicizing the graphic vocabularies of
models by Spanish and Latin American painters, Melissa Lo Decartes’s Essais and Principia philosophiae and
“Briskly argued, this engaging volume tells
Chinese printmakers, Mughal miniaturists, and goes on to analyze the religious and civic vola-
a story of dispersive transmission and “Lo gives us a fresh and lively framework
Filipino ivory carvers. Reassessing the creative tility of Descartes’s thought, which compelled
‘distributed agency,’ focusing on the forms for understanding anew both Descartes’s
labor underpinning the production of a diverse defenders (such as Jacques Rohault and Wolferd
and functions of the multiple versions array of copies, citations, and reproductions, work in his time and the emergence of Senguerd) to reconfigure his pictures according
of St. Michael the Archangel produced in Porras uses virality to elucidate the interstices a Cartesianism fit for other purposes. to their local visual cultures—and stimulated
Antwerp, Spain, Peru, New Spain, and the of the agency of individual artists or patrons, Skepticism’s Pictures is an important inter- enemies (such as Gabriel Daniel) to unravel
Philippines between the 1580s and ca. 1700. powerful gatekeepers and social networks, and vention in several current historical and Descartes’s visual logic with devastating irony. In
Porras’s account is theoretically engaged— economic, political, and religious infrastructures. philosophical debates.” the epilogue, Lo explains why nineteenth-
as witness her rejection of paradigms of In doing so, she tests and contests several ana- century French philosophers divorced
—Harold J. cook, author of The Young
‘translation,’ ‘hybridization,’ or ‘circula- lytical models that have dominated art-historical Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War Descartes’s thought from his pictures, creating a
tion’—and her argument, precisely because scholarship of the global early modern period, modern image of reason and a version of philos-
she anchors it in a specific image and its putting pressure on notions of copying, agency, ophy absent visuality.
afterlife, is entirely convincing.” context, and viewership. Also of Interest Lively and accessible, Skepticism’s Pictures will
Vital and engaging, The First Viral Images Disharmony of the appeal to historians of early modern European
—Walter Melion, author of The Meditative Art: Spheres
sheds new light on how artworks, as agents of The Europe of Holbein’s science, philosophy, art, and culture and to art
Studies in the Northern Devotional Print, 1550–1625 Ambassadors
globalization, navigated and contributed to the historians interested in histories that give images
Jennifer Nelson
emerging and intertwined global infrastructures DISHARMONY their argumentative power.
of the SPHERES 2021, Historians of British Art
of Catholicism, commerce, and colonialism. The europe of holbein’s
Book Prize Museum
Ambassadors 240 pages | 70 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | May 2023
2020 | isbn 978-0-271-08341-4 isbn 978-0-271-09482-3
200 pages | 27 color/61 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | Feb. 2023
Jennifer nelson
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VIOLENCE
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AND THE GENESIS
OF THE ANATOMICAL Nothing excited early modern anatomists more Italian court culture of the fifteenth century was
IMAGE than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, a golden age, gleaming with dazzling princes,
early modern
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Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to splendid surfaces, and luminous images that
feel life itself through the membranes of a heart separated the lords from the (literally) lacklus-
belonging to a man who had just been executed, ter masses. In Brilliant Bodies, Timothy McCall
a comment that appears near the woodcut of describes and interprets the Renaissance glitte-
a person being dissected while still hanging rati—gorgeously dressed and adorned men—to
from the gallows. In this highly original book, reveal how charismatic bodies, in the palazzo
Rose Marie San Juan confronts the question and the piazza, seduced audiences and material-
of violence in the making of the early modern ized power.
Rose Marie San Juan anatomical image. Fifteenth-century Italian courts put men on
Engaging the ways in which power operated display. Here, men were peacocks, attracting
in early modern anatomical images in Europe Brilliant Bodies attention with scintillating brocades, shining
and, to a lesser extent, its colonies, San Juan armor, sparkling jewels, and glistening swords,
Fashioning Courtly Men in Early
Violence and the Genesis of examines literal violence upon bodies in a range
Renaissance Italy
spurs, and sequins. McCall’s investigation of
of civic, religious, pedagogical, and “exploratory” these spectacular masculinities challenges
the Anatomical Image contexts. She then works through the question of Timothy McCall widely held assumptions about appropriate male
Rose Marie San Juan how bodies were thought to be constituted—sys- display and adornment. Interpreting surviving
“Specialists have long awaited the publica-
temic or piecemeal, singular or collective—and objects, visual representations in a wide range
“It is a rare thing to discover a book that is tion of [McCall’s] book, which will turn
how gender determined this question of con- of media, and a diverse array of primary textual
both engaging and profound. Violence and stitution. In confronting the issue of violence in
into an instant classic in the field.” sources, McCall argues that Renaissance
the Genesis of the Anatomical Image will the making of the anatomical image, San Juan —Ulinka Rublack, Journal of Design History masculine dress was a political phenomenon
change the way scholars approach early explores not only how violence transformed the that fashioned power and patriarchal authority.
modern anatomical images, for, although body into a powerful and troubling double but Brilliant Bodies describes and recontextualizes
the issue of violence has never been out of also how this kind of body permeated attempts the technical construction and cultural meanings
sight, no scholar has attempted anything to produce knowledge about the world at large. of attire, casts a critical eye toward the complex
like this sustained meditation on the Provocative and challenging, this book will be and entangled relations between bodies and
problem. This book should be consulted by of significant interest to scholars across fields in clothing, and explores the negotiations among
anyone interested in the early modern body, early modern studies, including art history and makers, wearers, and materials.
not to mention anatomy, medicine, art, and visual culture, science, and medicine. This groundbreaking study of masculinity
makes an important intervention in the history of
religion.” 238 pages | 26 color/54 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | Jan. 2023
isbn 978-0-271-09335-2 male ornamentation and fashion by examining a
—Christian K. kleinbub, author of
hardcover: $119.95/£103.95/€122.95 sh period when the public display of splendid men
Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies
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not only supported but also constituted authority.
Playful Pictures It will appeal to specialists in art history and
Art, Leisure, and Entertainment
in the Venetian Renaissance
fashion history as well as scholars working at the
Home intersections of gender and politics in quattro-
Chriscinda Henry cento Italy.
Art, Leisure,
and Entertainment
in the Venetian
2021 | ISBN 978-0-271-08911-9
Playful
Renaissance Home
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Pictures isbn 978-0-271-09060-3
ChrisCinda henry
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Darcy GrimalDo GriGsby
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This book addresses the unique and profound
indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to
19th century
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white, black, and mixed-race persons born in
French colonies during the nineteenth century.
“Creole” implies that the geography of one’s
Creole
birth determines identity in ways that super-
sede race, language, nation, and social status.
Paradoxically, the very capaciousness of the term
Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations engendered a perpetual search for visual signs
During the Long Nineteenth Century
of racial difference as well as a pretense to blind-
ness about the intermingling of races in Creole
society. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby reconstructs the
Creole search for visual signs of racial difference among
people whose genealogies were often repressed.
Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations
She explores French representations of Creole
During the Long Nineteenth Century
subjects and representations by Creole artists
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby in France, the Caribbean, and the Americas. To
do justice to the complexity of Creole iden-
tity, Grigsby interrogates the myriad ways in
which people defined themselves in relation to
others. With close attention to the differences “Creole is revelatory. This
between Afro-Creole and Euro-Creole cultures
book will be important for
and persons, Grigsby examines figures such as
Théodore Chassériau, Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, the field of art history, and
Alexandre Dumas père, Édouard Manet, Edgar
Degas, the models Joseph and Laure, Josephine it will set a new standard
Bonaparte, Jeanne Duval, and Adah Isaacs
Menken.
for research and analysis
Based on extensive archival research, Creole is in nineteenth-century
an original and important examination of colonial
identity. This essential study will be welcomed French art, where it will be
by specialists in nineteenth-century art history,
French cultural history, the history of race, and
canonical.”
transatlantic history more generally.
—nancy locke, author of Manet and
Also of Interest 368 pages | 120 color/84 b&w illus. | 9 x 10 | Dec. 2022
CONTRABAND GUIDES
Contraband Guides the Family Romance
Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era
isbn 978-0-271-09154-9
Race, Transatlantic Culture,
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paul h . d. kapl an
and the Arts in the Civil War
Era
Paul H. D. Kaplan
2020 | ISBN 978-0-271-08385-8
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Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the
late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcen-
19th century
P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
tury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation
reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery.
Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained
largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to “see
smell” and inspiring some artists to picture scent
in order to better know and control it. This book
recovers the substantive role of the olfactory in
Smell in Art, 1850–1914
Pre-Raphaelite art and Aestheticism.
Christina Bradstreet examines the
The Powers of iconography and symbolism of scent in nine-
Sound and Song in
teenth-century art and visual culture. Fragrant
Early Modern Paris c h ri s t i na b ra d s t reet
N I C H O L A S H A M M O N D
imagery in the work of John Everett Millais,
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Simeon Solomon, George
Frederic Watts, Edward Burne-Jones, and others
Scented Visions set the trend for the preoccupation with scent
that informed swaths of British, European, and
Smell in Art, 1850-1914
American art and design. Bradstreet’s rich
Christina Bradstreet analyses of paintings, perfume posters, and
The Powers of Sound The Sculpted Ear Objects of Vision A Sensory History other works of visual culture demonstrate how
and Song in Early Aurality and Statuary in Making Sense of What Manifesto “The first study of its kind, Christina artworks mirrored the “period nose” and inter-
Modern Paris the West We See Mark M. Smith Bradstreet’s Scented Visions documents sected with the most clamorous debates of the
Nicholas Hammond Ryan McCormack A. Joan Saab “Mark M. Smith’s masterful in stunning detail the important role of day, including evolution, civilization, race, urban
“The profound originality “Within the field of “Well researched, command of sensory
of this book by Nicholas historical sound studies, beautifully written, and history is everywhere scent in nineteenth-century art. Tracing a morality, mental health, faith, and the “woman
Hammond is to be Ryan McCormack claims fascinatingly presented, on display in this timely, myriad of scent motifs that emerge across question.”
applauded.” a forceful voice. He finds Objects of Vision offers insightful manifesto.
a wide array of art styles and movements, Beautifully illustrated and grounded in current
—Delphine Denis, his own well-reasoned way the visual studies field a Conveying complex ideas
between studies of sound historical reading of case with enviable simplicity, A Bradstreet’s book makes a powerful contri- practices in sensory history, Scented Visions
Université Paris-Sorbonne
as a physical phenome- studies with and around Sensory History Manifesto is bution to our understanding of the cultural presents both fresh readings of major works of
216 pages | 10 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 non and studies of ‘aural objects and artifacts from both an essential guide to
2021 | isbn 978-0-271-08472-5 contexts of smell and history, particu- art and a deeper understanding of the cultural
pb: $32.95/£28.95/€33.95 sh culture.’” the Renaissance to the the field and a compel-
history of nineteenth-century scent.
—Bruce R. Smith, author of present.” ling argument for its larly in this visual discipline in which we
The Acoustic World of Early —Lisa Cartwright, coauthor transformation.”
assume it must be marginalized. Upending 290 pages | 42 color/32 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | Sept. 2022
Modern England: Attending of Practices of Looking: An —Peter Denney, coeditor of isbn 978-0-271-09251-5
to the O-Factor Introduction to Visual Culture Sound, Space and Civility in
assumptions about what constitutes the
hardcover: $119.95/£103.95/€122.95 sh
224 pages | 6 x 9 | 2021 166 pages | 31 color/13 b&w illus.
the British World, 1700–1850 visual, Bradstreet offers a powerful model Perspectives on Sensory History Series
isbn 978-0-271-08693-4 7 x 10 | 2021 128 pages | 5 x 8 | 2021 for what it means to ‘see’ smell in our
pb: $32.95/£28.95/€33.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-08811-2 isbn 978-0-271-09018-4
pb: $29.95/£25.95/€30.95 sh pb: $21.95/£18.95/€22.95 sh archives of the past.”
—Holly Dugan, author of The Ephemeral History
of Perfume: Scent and Sense in Early Modern
England
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M E T A
P RE C IO U S
Deniz Türker
This book tells the story of Yıldız Palace in With its incorporation into architecture on a
Istanbul, the last and largest imperial residential grand scale during the long nineteenth century,
19th century
P E N N STAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S
complex of the Ottoman Empire. Today, the steel forever changed the way we perceive
the accidental palace palace is physically fragmented and has been and inhabit buildings. In this book, Peter H.
The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
all but erased from Istanbul’s urban memory. Christensen shows that even as architects and
At its peak, however, Yıldız was a global city in German Steel, engineers were harnessing steel’s incredible
Modernity,
miniature and the center of the empire’s vast properties, steel itself was busy transforming the
and Ecology
bureaucratic apparatus. natural world.
PE T
Following
d i n g s , landscapes, and societies 12 buildings, lands c a pe s , a n d s o ci e ti e s 12 bui ld i n g s , la n d s ca pe s , a n d so c ie t ie s 1 0 b ua chronological
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CH
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modernist material—not for the heroic struc-
developed from a rural estate of the queen SEN tural innovations it facilitated but for a deeper
mothers into the heart of Ottoman government. understanding of the role it played in the steady
Nominally, the palace may have belonged to the change of the earth. Focusing on the formative
The Accidental Palace rarefied realm of the Ottoman elite, but as Deniz years of the architectural steel economy and
The Making of Yıldız in Nineteenth-
Century Istanbul
Türker reveals, the development of the site was Precious Metal on the corporate history of German steel titans
profoundly connected to Istanbul’s urban history German Steel, Modernity, and Ecology Krupp and Thyssen, Christensen investigates
Deniz Türker and to changing conceptions of empire, absolut- the ecological interrelationship of artificial and
ism, diplomacy, reform, and the public. Türker
Peter H. Christensen natural habitats, mediated by steel. He traces
“Through the prism of architecture and explores these connections, framing Yıldız Palace steel through six distinct phases: birth, formation,
“Precious Metal tells a very engaging tale
landscape, The Accidental Palace offers a and its grounds not only as a hermetic expression display, dispersal, construction, and return. By
with broad implications across a number of
rich ethnography of power and culture in of imperial identity but also as a product of an following the life of steel from the collection of
disciplines, including environmental his-
the age of Ottoman reform, as well as a increasingly globalized consumer culture, defined raw minerals to the distribution and disposal of
tory, architectural history, German history
unique window on the expansion of global- by access to a vast number of goods and services finished products, Christensen challenges the
across geographical boundaries. and culture, and geography. It is likely to traditional narrative that steel was simply the
ized consumerism.”
Drawn from archival research conducted in serve as a key text across many disciplines primary material responsible for architectural
—Mercedes Volait, author of Antique Dealing
Yıldız’s imperial library, The Accidental Palace pro- and at all levels of a university curriculum.” modernism.
and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus, 1850–
1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture vides important insights into a decisive moment —Kathleen James-Chakraborty, author of Based on the premise that building materi-
and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform in the palace’s architectural and landscape Modernism as Memory: Building Identity in the als are as much a part of the natural world as
history and demonstrates how Yıldız was inextri- Federal Republic of Germany they are of a building, this groundbreaking book
cably tied to ideas of sovereignty, visibility, taste, rewrites an important chapter of architectural
and self-fashioning. It will appeal to specialists in history. It will be welcomed by specialists in
the art, architecture, politics, and culture of nine- architectural history, nineteenth-century studies,
teenth-century Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. environmental history, German studies, modern-
ist studies, and the Anthropocene.
272 pages | 25 color/73 b&w illus./4 maps | 9 x 10
May 2023 | isbn 978-0-271-09391-8 248 pages | 89 b&w illus. | 8 x 10 | July 2022
hardcover: $114.95/£99.95/€116.95 sh isbn 978-0-271-09231-7
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COLD WAR IN THE WHITE CUBE
art 2023
In 1959, the very year the Cuban Revolution This groundbreaking book examines how the
amplified Cold War tensions in the Americas, notion of “the object” was transformed in
20th century/contemporary
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museumgoers in the United States witnessed Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid
a sudden surge in major exhibitions of Latin social, economic, and environmental change.
American art. Surveying the 1960s boom of such Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-
exhibits, this book documents how art produced garde, Japanese artists and intellectuals of the
U.S. EXHIBITIONS OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, 1959–1968
in regions considered susceptible to commu- 1960s formulated an aesthetics of disaffection
nist influence was staged on U.S. soil for U.S. Fragment, through which they sought to address the stale-
audiences. mate of political and aesthetic representation.
DELIA SOLOMONS
Held in high-profile venues such as the
Image, and Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz draws from psy-
Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Art Center, Absence in choanalytic theories of melancholia to examine
MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago, the the implications of such an approach, tracing a
Cold War in the White Cube exhibitions of the 1960s Latin American art
1960s Japan genealogy of disaffection within modernist dis-
U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art, boom did not define a single stylistic trend or
Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz
course. By examining the discursive practices of
1959-1968 the art of a single nation but rather attempted artists working across a wide range of media, and
Delia Solomons to frame Latin America as a unified whole for through a close analysis of artwork, philosophical
U.S. audiences. Delia Solomons calls attention Fragment, Image, and debates, artist theories, and critical accounts,
“Exciting and exemplary scholarship. . . . to disruptive artworks that rebelled against the Absence in 1960s Japan Adriasola Muñoz shows how negativity became
Highly sophisticated in its methodology, curatorial frames purporting to hold them and an efficacious means of addressing politics as a
clear in its language and exposition, fair in Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz
reveals these exhibitions to be complex con- source for the creative act of undoing.
its conclusions, and committed overall to tact zones in which competing voices collided. “Effectively applying psychoanalysis and In examining ideas of the object advanced by
uncovering new knowledge, Cold War in Ultimately, through multiple means—includ- artists and intellectuals both in writing and as
other theoretical approaches, Adriasola
the White Cube is a model of progressive ing choosing to exclude artworks with readily part of their artwork, this book brings discus-
Muñoz explores the melancholy and
scholarship.” decipherable political messages and evading sions in critical art history to bear on the study of
estrangement experienced by a diverse
references to contemporary inter-American art in Japan. It will be of interest to art historians
—Leonard Folgarait, author of Painting 1909: selection of artists and critics active in
frictions—the U.S. curators who organized these specializing in modernism, the international
Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Henri Bergson,
shows crafted projections of Pan-American Japan in the 1960s. This book dovetails avant-garde, Japanese art, and the history of
Comics, Albert Einstein, and Anarchy
partnership and harmony, with the United States nicely with a rich and growing English- photography.
as leader, interpreter, and good neighbor, during language literature on the art of Japan in
262 pages | 16 color/48 b&w illus. | 7 x 9.5 | Jan. 2023
an era of brutal U.S. interference across the the late 1950s and 1960s by authors such as isbn 978-0-271-09290-4
Americas. Marotti, Tiempo, Tomii, Kunimoto, and hardcover: $104.95/£90.95/€106.95 sh
Theoretically sophisticated and highly original, Refiguring Modernism Series
Prichard.”
this survey of Cold War–era Latin American art —Jonathan Reynolds, author of Allegories of
exhibits sheds light on the midcentury history of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography
Catherine Walworth
Also of Interest major U.S. art museums and makes an important and Architecture
Soviet Salvage contribution to the fields of museum studies, art
Imperial Debris, Revolutionary
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Reuse, and Russian history, and Latin American modernist art.
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Refiguring Modernism Series
20 21IN LIGHT OF ROME
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Early Photogr aph y in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871
John F. McGuigan Jr.
Frank H. Goodyear III
This comprehensive study of Rome’s contribu-
tion to the early history of photography traces
photography
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the medium’s rise from a fledgling science to a
dynamic form of artistic expression that forever
changed the way we perceive the Eternal City.
The authors examine the diverse trans-
national group of photographers who thrived in
the cosmopolitan art center of Rome—and the
pivotal role they played in the refinement and
technical development of the nascent medium
in the nineteenth century. The book ranges from
the earliest pioneers—the French daguerreotyp-
ist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and the
Welsh calotypist Calvert Richard Jones—to the
In Light of Rome work of the Roman School of Photography and its
Early Photography in the Capital of successors, among them James Anderson and
the Art World, 1842–1871 Robert Macpherson of Britain; Frédéric Flachéron,
John F. McGuigan Jr. and Firmin Eugène Le Dien, and Gustave Le Gray of
Frank H. Goodyear III France; and Giacomo Caneva, Adriano de Bonis,
and Pietro Dovizielli of Italy.
Foreword by Maria Francesca Bonetti Lavishly illustrated with 112 plates, many never
before published, by nearly fifty practitioners,
this volume expands our understanding of the
place of Rome in early photography. An exhi-
bition with the same title, which opened at the
Bowdoin College Museum of Art in December
2022, accompanies this study.
272 pages | 135 color illus./1 map | 9 x 11 | Feb. 2023
isbn 978-0-271-09488-5
hardcover: $69.95/£60.95/€71.95 sh
Copublished with Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Also of Interest
Edited by
N IC OL ETTA L E O N A R D I Photography and Other
Media in the Nineteenth
& SIMON E NATA LE
Century
Edited by Nicoletta Leonardi
and Simone Natale
2019 | ISBN 978-0-271-07916-5
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& Ot h e r M e d i a
in the Nineteenth Century
22 23Storied The Guitar
Ma rga r et ta Ma r kle Lovell
psupress.org
Strings in American Art
art 2023
Explore the guitar as visual subject, enduring The impulse in much nineteenth-century
symbol, and storyteller’s companion. American painting and culture was to describe
american
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Strummed everywhere from parlors and front nature as a wilderness on which the young
porches to protest rallies and rock arenas, the nation might freely inscribe its future: the
guitar also appears far and wide in American United States as a virgin land—that is, unplowed,
art. Its depictions enable artists and their human unfenced, and unpainted. Insofar as it exhibited
subjects to address topics that otherwise go PA I N T I N G evidence of a past, its traces pointed to a geo-
untold or undertold. Experience paintings, sculp- logic or cosmic past, not a human one. The work
TH E IN H A BITED
ture, works on paper, and music in a multimedia of the New England artist Fitz H. Lane, however,
presentation that unpacks the guitar’s cultural L A N DSCA PE was decidedly different.
significance, illuminating matters of class, gender, FITZ H. LANE and the Global Reach of Antebellum America
In this important study, Margaretta Markle
Leo G. Mazow
race, ethnicity, and identity. Lovell singles out the more modestly scaled,
Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art is explicitly inhabited landscapes of Fitz H. Lane
the catalogue of its namesake exhibition, the and investigates the patrons who supported
Storied Strings first to explore the instrument’s symbolism in Painting the Inhabited his career, with an eye to understanding how
The Guitar in American Art American art from the early nineteenth century Landscape New Englanders thought about their land, their
Leo G. Mazow to the present day. Chapters cover how the guitar Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of economy, their history, and their links with
has been depicted in American art through the widely disparate global communities. Lane’s
Antebellum America
With contributions by Philip J. Deloria lenses of race, gender, cultural storytelling, aes- works depict nature as productive and allied in
and Jayson Dobney thetics, politics, guitars, and cold hard cash.
Margaretta Markle Lovell partnership with humans to create a sustainable,
Featuring 273 full-color illustrations selected balanced political economy. What emerges from
“Painting the Inhabited Landscape is by far
from the exhibition, Storied Strings tells the this close look at Lane’s New England is a picture
the most insightful study of Lane and his
absorbing story of how guitars figure promi- not of a “virgin wilderness” but of a land deeply
art to date. Margaretta Markle Lovell’s
nently into the visual stories Americans tell resonant with its former uses—and a human
themselves about themselves—their histories,
close examination of Lane’s life and art history that incorporates, rather than excludes,
identities, and aspirations. and the historical contexts within which Native Americans as shapers of land and as
he worked represents not only a quantum agents in that history.
264 pages | 273 color illus. | 9 x 12 | Nov. 2022
isbn 978-1-934351-22-2
leap for our understanding of Lane and his Calling attention to unexplored dimensions
hardcover: $40.00/£34.95/€40.95 sh world but also a new standard of scholar- of nineteenth-century painting, Painting the
Distributed by Penn State University Press for Virginia ship for the field of American art.” Inhabited Landscape is a major intervention in
Museum of Fine Arts
—Alan Wallach, author of Exhibiting the scholarship on American art of the period,
Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the examining how that body of work commented on
United States American culture and informs our understanding
of canon formation.
Also of Interest 352 pages | 84 color/80 b&w illus. | 9 x 11 | Apr. 2023
Thomas Hart Benton and
isbn 978-0-271-09278-2
the American Sound
hardcover: $94.95/£81.95/€96.95 sh
Leo G. Mazow
Winner, 2013 Charles C.
Eldredge Prize for Distinguished
Scholarship in American Art
awarded by The Smithsonian
American Art Museum
Thomas Hart Benton
Leo G. Mazow and the American Sound 2012 | ISBN 978-0-271-05083-6
hc: $109.95/£94.95/€111.95 sh
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This book examines the involvement of African Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies
African American artists in the New Deal art programs of and scandals that inspired the first generation of
american
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the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed American caricaturists to share news and opin-
American by the uniqueness of Black experience rather ions with their audiences in shockingly radical
O P P O R T U N I T Y, A C C E S S , A N D C O M M U N I T Y
than individual artists’ works, Mary Ann Calo ways. Complementing studies on British and
Artists and makes the case that the revolutionary vision of
these federal art projects is best understood in
European printmaking, this book is a survey and
catalogue of all known American political cari-
the New Deal the context of access to opportunity, mediated
by the reality of racial segregation.
catures created in the country’s transformative
early years, as the nation sought to define itself
Art Programs Focusing primarily on the Federal Art Project
(FAP) of the Works Progress Administration
in relation to European models of governance
and artistry.
(WPA), Calo documents African American Allison Stagg examines printed caricatures
artists’ participation in community art centers that mocked events reported in newspapers and
MARY ANN CALO in Harlem and Chicago as well as lesser-known politicians in the United States’ fledgling govern-
EPILOGUE BY JACQUELINE FRANCIS
initiatives in the South. She examines the internal ment, reactions captured in the personal papers
workings of the Harlem Artists’ Guild, the Guild’s of the politicians being satirized, and the lives of
activities during the 1930s, and its alliances with the artists who satirized them. Stagg’s work fills
Prints of a New Kind
African American Artists and other groups, such as the Artists’ Union and the
Political Caricature in the United States,
a large gap in early American scholarship, one
National Negro Congress. Calo also explores that has escaped thorough art-historical atten-
the New Deal Art Programs African American artists’ representation in the 1789–1828 tion because of the rarity of extant images and
Opportunity, Access, and Community exhibitions sponsored by WPA administrators Allison M. Stagg the lack of understanding of how these images fit
Mary Ann Calo and the critical reception of their work. In doing into their political context.
so, she elucidates the evolving meanings of the “Thoroughly engaging with a well-crafted Featuring 125 images, many published here
Epilogue by Jacqueline Francis terms race, culture, and community in the inter- narrative, Prints of a New Kind is a long- for the first time since their original appearance,
war era. The book concludes with an essay by awaited study filling a significant void and a comprehensive appendix that includes a
“African American Artists and the New Deal Jacqueline Francis on Black art in the early 1940s, in the history of American print culture. checklist of caricature prints with dates, titles,
Art Programs contributes importantly to after the end of the FAP program. Allison Stagg sets the stage for a modern artists, references, and other essential informa-
the literature on New Deal art and race, Presenting essential new archival information and popularized notion of political satire. tion, Prints of a New Kind will be welcomed by
exploring the opportunities and limits the and important insights into the experiences of This elegantly written book, lavishly illus- scholars and students of early American history
art projects created for Black visual artists. Black New Deal artists, this study expands the and art history as well as visual, material, and
trated, places the American tradition of
Drawing on under-researched records, factual record and positions the cumulative print culture.
caricature as separate from its European
especially the Black extension galleries in evidence within the landscape of critical race
origins, with its own merits and history 266 pages | 71 color/54 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | Apr. 2023
the South, Calo shows how the art projects studies. It will be welcomed by art historians and isbn 978-0-271-09332-1
American studies scholars specializing in early
worthy of detailed examination.” hardcover: $109.95/£94.95/€111.95 sh
provided new resources for Black artists
twentieth-century race relations. —Nancy Siegel, author of Along the Juniata:
while maintaining racial discrimination Thomas Cole and the Dissemination of American
and segregation.” 208 pages | 15 b&w illus. | 6 x 9 | May 2023 Landscape Imagery
isbn 978-0-271-09493-9
—Sharon Musher, author of Democratic Art: hardcover: $74.95/£64.95/€76.95 sh
The New Deal’s Influence on American Culture
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Jews of Iran
A Photographic Chronicle
The early modern period opened a new era This book reveals one of the most beautiful and
in the history of dermal marking. Intensifying complicated untold stories of our time.
recently released
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global travel and trade, especially the slave Westerners often imagine Jews in Iran as a
Marking Skin
trade, bought diverse skin-marking practices into captive and oppressed community, alienated
in the Early
Modern World contact as never before. Stigma examines the within their home nation yet restricted from
Edited by distinctive skin cultures and marking methods of leaving it. The reality is much more complex.
Katherine Dauge-Roth
and Craig Koslofsky Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas as they Hassan Sarbakhshian,
Jews of Iran is a photographic journey through
began to circulate and reshape one another in Lior B. Sternfeld,
and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
twenty-first-century Iran, providing a unique
the early modern world. view of the country’s Jewish community in situ-
By highlighting the interwoven histories of ations typically unknown to the Western world.
tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and Photojournalist Hassan Sarbakhshian spent two
beauty marks, and wounds and scars, this Jews of Iran years living among Iran’s Jewish communities,
volume shows that early modern markers of skin A Photographic Chronicle joining them for holidays, family gatherings, and
and readers of marked skin did not think about Hassan Sarbakhshian, Lior B. Sternfeld, travels, and—with the help of fellow journalist
different kinds of cutaneous signs as separate and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh Parvaneh Vahidmanesh—documenting how
from one another. On the contrary, Europeans they lived. Moving beyond the well-known state
described Indigenous tattooing in North America, “The eclectic photographs in this attractive and regional confrontations, the photos that
Stigma Thailand, and the Philippines by referring their coffee-table volume run the gamut from Sarbakhshian took tell a broader story about a
Marking Skin in the Early Modern readers to the tattoos Christian pilgrims received two Jewish carpet merchants working in community of people who live in the figurative
World in Jerusalem or Bethlehem. When explaining the their shop in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to and literal middle. They are Iranian nationals
Edited by Katherine Dauge-Roth devil’s mark on witches, theologians claimed it a group of Jewish boys playing football by birth and by choice, and they are Jews by
and Craig Koslofsky was an inversion of holy marks, such as those of at a Hebrew school. Still other photos religious affiliation. Full loyalty to their country is
baptism or divine stigmata. Stigma investigates expected, even as their ancestral homeland is at
“The authors in this volume focus critically illuminate the diversity of Jewish life in
how early modern people used permanent marks odds with their political homeland. This photo-
on postmodern analyses of race, class, and contemporary Iran.”
on skin to affirm traditional roles and beliefs, and graphic chronicle illuminates the gray zone that
gender for early modern studies and the how they hybridized and transformed skin mark- —Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel they inhabit.
history of the body. As a result, Stigma ing to meet new economic and political demands. Featuring over one hundred full-color photos,
highlights a fresh history of skin that does In addition to the editors, the contributors to contextualized with extensive annotations, and
not center solely on racial identity of the this volume are Xiao Chen, Ana Fonseca Conboy, accompanied by a substantive introduction writ-
time but instead illuminates the changing, Peter S. Erickson, Claire Goldstein, Matthew S. ten by historian Lior B. Sternfeld, Jews of Iran calls
rather than fixed, understandings of skin Hopper, Katrina H. B. Keefer, Mordechay Lewy, into question Western views of this religious
Nicole Nyffenegger, Mairin Odle, and Allison community.
during the early modern era.”
Stedman.
—Andrew Kettler, author of The Smell of 128 pages | 101 color illus./1 map | 8.66 x 8.66 | Sept. 2022
Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World 294 pages | 11 color/40 b&w illus. | 7 x 10 | Mar. 2023 isbn 978-0-271-09264-5
isbn 978-0-271-09442-7 hardcover: $29.95/£25.95/€30.95 tr
hardcover: $119.95/£103.95/€122.95 sh Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination Series
Perspectives on Sensory History Series
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