Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
- 100 Details
- Kenneth Clark
- 100 Details offers Clark's personal responses to details of paintings in the National Gallery in London. The result resembles a walk through a glorious art collection with a critic of astounding eye and intellect at our side.
- Paperback 1990
- Ad Usum: To Be Used
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by Pedro Reyes
- Ad Usum is the catalogue of the retrospective exhibit of celebrated Mexican artist Pedro Reyes mounted at the Carpenter Center and organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. This is the first volume entirely dedicated to the works of Reyes, who is considered to be one of the most innovative and radical young Mexican artists.
- Paperback
- Arab-Byzantine Coins
- Clive Foss
- This illustrated handbook presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century. The historical introduction, which includes descriptions of all the basic types, is followed by a summary catalogue of the recently acquired collection of Arab-Byzantine coins at Dumbarton Oaks.
- Paperback 2009
- The Art of Small Things
- John Mack
- This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.
- Hardcover 2008
- Assyrian Sculpture
- Julian Reade
- For almost three centuries, until 612 B.C., the small kingdom of Assyria dominated the Middle East. The story of those years was recorded in stone on the walls of a succession of royal palaces. These sculptures, offering eyewitness views of a long-lost civilization, were not rediscovered until the nineteenth century.and the finest collection is now preserved at the British Museum. This book is both a richly illustrated history of Assyrian sculpture in general and a guide to the outstanding collections of the British Museum.
- Paperback 1999
- Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy
- Edited by Victoria Noorthoorn
- Foreword by Susan Segal
- Beginning with a Bang! features the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s, and the current scene emerging after the extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years. The exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section as well as information of performance-based actions and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists.
- Paperback 2008
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 6
- John Nesbitt
- Assisted by Cecile Morrisson
- Hardcover 2009
- Chinese Art in Detail
- Carol Michaelson
- Jane Portal
- Drawing on the British Museum's extensive collection, Chinese Art in Detail explores the traditional hierarchy of materials and techniques reaching back as far as the Han Dynasty in the third century B.C. in the history and character of the works under scrutiny, this sumptuously illustrated book conveys an understanding of Chinese art in all its great variety, its simplicities, its complexities, its splendors, and its mysteries of craft and inspiration reaching back to Neolithic times.
- Hardcover 2006
- David to Corot
- Agnes Mongan
- Miriam Stewart
- The Harvard University Art Museums hold one of the world's finest collections of early nineteenth-century drawings; the nearly 500 works reproduced in this catalogue include the most significant groups of drawings outside France by the masters of the age--David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix, and Prud'hon. Although familiar to scholars, the collection has never been the subject of a comprehensive catalogue, and many of the drawings are published here for the first time.
- Hardcover 1996
- Dogs
- Catherine Johns
- The juxtaposition and explanation of images as diverse as Greek pottery, Victorian jewelry, Assyrian sculpture, and Japanese netsuke, illuminates our understanding of the place of dogs in human society around the world. This book explores these cultural expressions and reflections of our deep and long-standing interest in dogs.
- Hardcover 2008
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Edited by Gudrun Bühl
- Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses’ superb European collection, for the first time.
- Paperback 2008
- Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61
- Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot
- This latest volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers focuses in part on literary and historical texts: historicism in Byzantine thought and literature; the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, encompassing the First Crusade and the Armenian diaspora; and a reappraisal of the satirical prose work Mazaris’s Journey to Hades.
- Hardcover 2008
- Dumbarton Oaks Papers 62
- Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot
- This volume begins with a substantial investigation of the murder of several members of the imperial family during the summer of 337, following the death of Constantine. Among others, are two major articles devoted to well-known Byzantine illustrated manuscripts, the ninth-century Sacra Parallela and the fourteenth-century collection of theological works by the emperor John VI Kanta-kouzenos.
- Hardcover 2009
- Early Celtic Art
- Ian M. Stead
- Paperback
- Egyptian Painting
- T. G. H. James
- This book surveys the whole range of Egypian painting, illustrated chiefly by the wealth of material in the British Museum. Jamesexamines the material used by the ancient painters and explains the conventions and methods which governed some great artists, whose work should be valued in its own right as well as for its incomparable record record of Egyptian life 3000 years ago.
- Paperback
- Emancipatory Action
- Edited by José Luis Falconi
- Edited by Gabriela Rangel
- Edited by Nicolau Sevcenko
- Paula Trope
- This volume is based on the exhibition of Paula Trope at the Americas Society (NYC) made in conjunction with Harvard University's Cultural Agency Initiative. Contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Trope has acquired recent notice for the pin-hole photography she creates together with the "Meninos da Rua" (street children) in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is not really the "author" but its facilitator, instructor, and curator.
- Paperback
- Francis Calley Gray and Art Collecting for America
- Marjorie B. Cohn
- Hardcover 1986
- From Egypt to Babylon
- Paul Collins
- For those who believe that globalization is a purely modern phenomenon, this book holds a startling and absorbing lesson. Readers are immersed in a world of exotic empires and states as they waxed and waned and interacted in a period of extraordinary internationalism—all before the rise of the Persian Empire.
- Hardcover 2008
- Harvard Art Museum Handbook
- Edited by Stephan Wolohojian
- With some 280,000 objects, the Harvard Art Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. This first handbook of the collections surveys their full scope, from early-Egyptian bronzes and Chinese ceramics to contemporary paintings and prints.
- Paperback 2008
- The Invention of Photography and its Impact on Learning
- Paperback
- The Lewis & Clark Collection Postcard Book
- Castle McLaughlin
- Photographs by Hillel S. Burger
- The Peabody Museum's Lewis and Clark collection is a set of magnificent objects long thought to be the only surviving ethnographic items acquired by Lewis and Clark during their epic exploration of the American West. This exquisite postcard book contains photographs of eleven of the finest pieces in the collection, interleafed with informative discussions of the objects, their collection histories, and significance. It commemorates the ongoing bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
- Paperback 2005
- Lighting in Early Byzantium
- Laskarina Bouras
- Maria Parani
- This book is the first general survey of lighting in Byzantium. The first part of the book discusses the technology and types of lighting devices and explains their decorative symbolism and social function. The second half illustrates this narrative by drawing on a Dumbarton Oaks exhibition.
- Paperback 2009
- Niche
- David Edwards
- Jay Cantor
- Photographs by Daniel Faust
- Niche tells the story of an artist who meets a scientist and through the encounter makes a hypothesis: If the artist became a stem cell and then divided into a neuron, would he discover the meaning of intelligence? Edwards and Cantor introduce a new fiction genre—the novel catalogue—to coincide with the opening of the new art and design innovation center in Paris, Le Laboratoire. The novel catalogue fictionalizes the creative process of an exhibition season which opens with the artistic outcome of an experiment between Fabrice Hyber, a French artist, and Robert Langer of MIT.
- Paperback 2008
- Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum
- Edited by Joan Busquets
- Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is located on the city’s last undeveloped waterfront property—a nine-acre industrial site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. The park not only brings art outside the museum walls but also brings the park itself into the landscape of the city. This study offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the city and explore some hypotheses about the wider meaning of an urban design project.
- Paperback 2008
- Pacing the World
- Whitney Davis
- This extensively illustrated book is the first full-length study of the Canadian-born sculptor David Rabinowitch. Whitney Davis closely analyzes six groups of works produced by Rabinowitch between 1963 and the present, and explores Rabinowitch's relations to the work of modern painters and sculptors as well as his involvement with the wider history of art.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Roman Britain, Second Edition
- T. W. Potter
- The four centuries during which the Roman presence in Britain rose, flourished, and then declined changed every aspect of life. This revised and updated edition of Roman Britain outlines with clarity and authority this critical period of history, and illustrates it fully with pictures of the surviving objects of the period, largely from the incomparable collections of the British Museum.
- Paperback 1997
- Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
- Edited by Cynthia Hyla Whittaker
- This elegant new book created by a team of leading historians in collaboration with The New York Public Library traces Russia's development from an insular, medieval, liturgical realm centered on Old Muscovy, into a modern, secular, world power embodied in cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. Featuring eight essays and 120 images from the Library's distinguished collections, it is both an engagingly written work and a striking visual object.
- Paperback 2003 / Hardcover 2003
- Studio Works 12
- Edited by Paula Meijerink
- Edited by Laura Miller
- Edited by Martin Zogran
- The aim of Studio Works is to capture the essential character of the design studio experience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Studio Works 12 features outstanding GSD student work from school years 2005–2006 and 2006–2007, along with material documenting exhibitions, research seminars, and thesis projects.
- Paperback 2008
- Traditions of Japanese Art
- Kimiko and John Powers
- Hardcover 1970