In Their Own Words

From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul is the first and only book on the life and art of the grandfather of science-fiction illustration. The book is edited with an introduction by Stephen D. Korshak and a preface by Arthur C. Clarke.

Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror challenges the conventional arguments on both sides of the debate over war powers, especially in the context of the ongoing war on terror. Advocates of a strong Congress focus on the need for legislative control over the power to deploy troops into combat; supporters of vigorous presidential power argue that the president's constitutional role as commander in chief of the armed forces means that the president can take any action deemed vital to the war effort. Using constitutional theory, case law, and political precedent, Restoring the Balance advances a novel understanding of the power to declare war, arguing that although the president has broad inherent constitutional powers to deploy U.S. armed forces into combat abroad without specific authorization from Congress, absent such authorization the president is more limited when trying to take actions that affect the legal status of persons within the United States itself.

Contrary to 20th-century criticism that cast them as misguided dabblers, English virtuosi in the 17th and early 18th centuries were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts, and sincere curiosity about the natural world. Reestablishing their broad historical significance, The English Virtuoso situates this polymathic group at the rich intersection of the period's art, medicine, and antiquarianism.

At the heart of this wide-ranging study lies the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, which from its founding in 1660 served as the major professional organization for London's leading physicians, many of them prominent virtuosi. Author Craig Ashley Hanson reveals that a vital art audience emerged from the Royal Society--whose members assembled many of the period's most important nonaristocratic collections--a century before most accounts date the establishment of an institutional base for the arts in England. Unearthing the fascinating stories of an impressive cast of characters, Hanson establishes a new foundation for understanding both the relationship between British art and science and the artistic accomplishments of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

This is the first book to introduce young people, ages 10 to 100, to author and activist Jane Jacobs. Her now-classic 1961 book helped people value their cities, called for an end to the wrecking ball of "urban renewal," and ultimately changed the world. In words, vintage photos, and illustrations, Genius of Common Sense follows Jacobs from her childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through her groundbreaking work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and her involvement in battles to save the very New York City neighborhoods she wrote about.

This young-adult book serves as a valuable introduction for readers of all ages to the life and work of Jane Jacobs. Even those familiar with this remarkable woman will find information and images never published before.

A Japanese geisha, a Middle Eastern caravan, a Hungarian "Gypsy" fiddler, Carmen flinging a rose at Don José --portrayals of people and places that are considered exotic have been ubiquitous from 1700 to today in opera, Broadway musicals, instrumental music, film scores, or jazz and popular song. Often these portrayals are highly stereotypical but also powerful, indelible, and touching--or troubling. Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections surveys the vast and varied repertoire of Western musical works that evoke exotic locales. It relates trends in musical exoticism to other trends in music, such as program music and avant-garde experimentation, as well as to broader historical developments such as nationalism and empire. Author Ralph P. Locke outlines major trends in exotic depiction from the Baroque era onward and illustrates these trends through close study of numerous exotic works, including operas by Handel and Rameau, Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca," Madama Butterfly and West Side Story.

The Early Image of Black Baseball, 1870-1890 examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the popular press. From contemporary postbellum articles, illustrations, photographs, and woodcuts, a unique image of the black athlete emerges, one that was not always positive but was nonetheless central to understanding the evolving black image in American culture. Chapters cover press depictions of championship games, specific teams and athletes, and the fans and culture surrounding black baseball.

An engagingly personal guidebook to more than 80 art museums, Art Museums PLUS: Cultural Excursions in New England brings to light the wealth of small and large art museums in the six New England states. In addition to nuts-and-bolts information, it also offers the reader informed and intimate introductions to the museums and their histories, holdings, traditions, and architecture, as well as the relationship to their town or city. Each entry concludes with a "PLUS" section, which enriches a visit by pointing to other cultural sites nearby, such as historically or aesthetically significant buildings and institutions, historic districts, and parks and gardens; it proposes walks and hikes or mentions relevant books and movies and contains 48 illustrations and six maps.

For most of the 20th century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded
Romanticism. In this study, Lauren S. Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of 19th-century Romantic practices--literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic--and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of 20th-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within 19th-century Romanticism.

Holocaust Wall Hangings combines reproductions of a series of unique, multimedia artworks about the Holocaust, with analytical essays about these works written by three noted scholars, each from a different perspective: the Holocaust and Holocaust art, art history, and Jewish art. Judith Weinshall Liberman's vision of the Holocaust is represented by 45 full-color reproductions of her Holocaust wall hangings. These are followed by a detailed catalogue (notes, with smaller black-and-white versions of the wall hangings) discussing both the historical background and the art pertaining to each piece. The artist's approach is clarified in an essay entitled "How I Create Them," in which she takes the reader step by step through the process of creating her wall hangings.

More than a home reference, Chinese Style: Living in Beauty and Prosperity offers timely cultural and historical insights into a society that has been hidden behind the veil of antiquity for centuries. Discover how classical Chinese furniture fulfills form and function with various pieces, such as the official's armchair; how elements of Western-style furniture design such as the Chippendale chair, cabriole leg, and tapered cabinet, have their genesis in centuries-old Chinese furniture design; and how subtleties of Chinese design symbols on everyday lifestyle items from ceramics to embroidery and furniture wordlessly convey heartfelt aspirations for peace and prosperity.

Japanese Style: Designing with Nature's Beauty examines why Americans are fascinated with organic design-build that the Japanese have been espousing for centuries. Adept at compact living and refined elegance and rustic simplicity, the Japanese just know how to do more, with less. This book includes how eco-friendly building--with natural materials such as wood, clay, straw, and stone--heals body and spirit; how Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture is rooted in Japanese design principles; and how verandas and gardens--in utilizing outside space as vibrant, living space--lend credence to American patio-courtyard lifestyle sensibilities. Color photos illustrate the timeless Zen aesthetic, e.g., in complementing modernism.

A book on the work of the illustrator J. Allen St. John concentrating on the artist's full-color fantasy, science-fiction, and adventure paintings for novels and pulp magazines by famous authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jack WIlliamson, Robert E. Howard, and more. St. John is the original, grand illustrator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars (now in major motion-picture development by Pixar), and others. His illustrations inspired generations of later artists including Roy G. Krenkel, Jeffrey Jones, and Frank Frazetta. Also featured are essays by renowned science-fiction author Jack Williamson, Danton Burroughs, and Lin Carter, and illustrators Vincent Di Fate and Frank Frazetta.

In his book on left-hand violin technique, Maestro Ruggiero Ricci addresses common problems in shifting by advocating the study of the glissando technique. He asserts that re-incorporating this technique will not only aid violinists in developing a better-trained ear, but also provide them with "shortcuts" to playing some of Paganini's most difficult passages.

Ricci introduces and compares old and new systems of playing to provide a context for the glissando system. He outlines a series of glissando scales that provides the student with a blueprint for developing additional glissando scales in other keys. He offers exercises designed to increase flexibility, ear training, coordination, and crawling technique and has included a DVD in which he demonstrates various bowing techniques.

The Jew In the Art of the Italian Renaissance explores the politics of tolerance in the Italian courts through representations of the Jew in early modern painting and sculpture. Although Renaissance princes often favored Jewish settlement in their territories and supported civic policies of toleration, the art of the period reveals how symbolic violence targeted against local Jews entered into everyday life. The book examines the principalities of Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara and contrasts them to republican Florence and imperial Trent to determine how the Renaissance term "tollerare" acquired local meanings and how the dynamics of tolerance inevitably were linked to civic identity.

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-18th-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic. Just as architects of 18th-century follies pretend to have discovered "authentic" ruins, novelists within the culture of sensibility also build purposely fragmented texts and disguise their authorship, invoking highly artificial means of simulating nature. The cultural pursuit of human ruin, however, leads to hypocritical and sadistic extremes that put an end to the characteristic ambivalence of sensibility and its unusual structures.

Hotter Than That is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in royal courts and on battlefields, and ultimately to its stunning appropriation by great jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Wynton Marsalis. The book also looks at how trumpets have been manufactured over the centuries and at the price that artists have paid for devoting their bodies and souls to this most demanding of instruments. In the course of tracing the trumpet's evolution both as an instrument and as the primary vehicle for jazz in America, Krin Gabbard also meditates on its importance for black male sexuality and its continuing reappropriation by white culture.

Chacón worked with the University of Montana's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library K. Ross Toole Archives and the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula to create the first complete biography of Albert John Gibson, Missoula County's best-known and most beloved architect. Photographs from the museum and architectural drawings from the library's archives, as well as other materials from public and private collections, have been brought together for a rich portrayal of Gibson's life and his impact on Montana towns. The Original Man's catalog of Gibson's buildings includes recent discoveries and materials from unpublished archival material, documents, drawings and photographs from the architect's life.

From the 1880s to the 1910s, Gibson defined great architecture in Western Montana and Northern Idaho. He reshaped the Western town from a rustic accumulation of buildings to a rational and civilized space and was an integral figure in the development of architecture, urbanism and society. His meteoric rise as an architect/builder in the 1890s was remarkable, given that he had no professional training in the field. A self-made individual, he designed and built a broad range of buildings, from modest, private homes to grand residences and significant civic structures. Gibson's legacy and work have endured for more than a century and include the first five buildings on the UM campus in Missoula, the Daly Mansion near Hamilton, and the Ravalli and Missoula county courthouses.

Gibson's other great passion was automobile travel. He and his wife Maud set many records and earned a reputation as two of Montana's automotive pioneers. Their lives ended tragically in an automobile accident on New Year's Eve, 1927.

Music Makes the Nation is an intellectual and cultural history of one of the most striking phenomena in all of 19th-century culture--namely, the interaction of nationalism and music. The nation-building movements that swept across Europe in that century nearly all found some of their most influential and lasting expressions through the art of nationalist composers who took an active part in those movements. Centering on the careers of Richard Wagner in Germany, Bedrich Smetana in the Czech lands, and Edvard Grieg in Norway, the book tells the political, intellectual, and artistic story of how some of the greatest musical works of the time helped create national cultures.

Bob Scriver (1914-1999) was a bronze sculptor of Western subjects. Born and raised on the Blackfeet Reservation, his career parallels and illustrates the explosion of interest in this genre. Especially noted for his series on the Blackfeet and for his powerful rodeo series, his nearly 1,000 works include many animals and a small cluster of religious works around the death of his daughter.

In the Sixties Mary Strachan Scriver helped to build his bronze foundry and was his third wife. This biography is organized around the steps of casting a bronze by the Roman block method.

Introduction is by Brian Dippie.

During the New Deal, thousands of unemployed men and women found jobs painting workers onto Works Progress Administration (WPA) canvases. But did they identify with that army of working-class people who inhabited their 1930s art? What interconnections did their government-sponsored cultural production really have with the trade unions, strikes, protests, and despondent apple sellers of the Great Depression?
Labor's Canvas answers such question by employing both a labor- and an art-historical approach to the body language of class.

The Constitution as Treaty addresses U.S. constitutional interpretation from a novel, yet originalist perspective: the U.S. Constitution is a treaty. As a treaty, the Constitution must be construed in conformity with the United States' international legal obligations. This book specifically examines how federal courts are international courts and as international courts, how they can directly apply international law and construe federal law in conformity with international law. Most importantly, The Constitution as Treaty demonstrates that the federal courts' authority to review the constitutionality of federal and state law is based on international law.

Castaldi presents an innovative overview of African performance practices, art, and ideology in her study of Negritude and the National Ballet of Senegal. Combining ethnography, dance theory, and personal descriptions, Castaldi takes us on a journey from frontstage to backstage in the arena of African dance. Her book is a "must read" for students of African popular culture and scholars of performance in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The debates emerging from her important research will be of great significance in many fields.

Chicago is a model for a new urban concept-the fusion of architecture and landscape. Seventy sites are explored in this beautifully illustrated and illuminating look at Chicago's way of bringing together buildings and landscape, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into energetic harmony. These green spaces, with their unprecedented melding of art, architecture and ecology, have become far more than places of escape-they are fully integrated into the urban scene, culture-producing parts of the modern city. Packed with maps and recommended tours as well as splendid photos, this is an essential guidebook for day-trippers, lifelong Chicago residents, and professionals in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design.

This magnificent compendium is the first comprehensive exploration of the Arts and Crafts legacy in the Pacific Northwest. It traces the movement from its nineteenth-century English beginnings to its flowering in Washington and Oregon through the 1920s and beyond, weaving into a tale of idealism and devotion everything from iconic masterpieces to recent discoveries. Included are public and private architecture, furniture, pottery and textiles, basketry and the influences of Native American arts, painting, printmaking, photography, graphic arts, and book design. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and period graphics, including rare images published here for the first time, this groundbreaking volume is an authoritative reference, a provocative story, and an irresistible treasure trove for arts and crafts collectors and enthusiasts everywhere.

From the late 1930s to the early 1950s, the Harvard Graduate School of Design played a crucial role in shaping a new modern architecture and the modern city. Architects, planners, teachers, and students from all over the world looked to the new GSD, with its celebrated faculty and curriculum, for the path to modern design. While the school's significance is widely recognized by architectural historians, most studies have concentrated on the Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and his transformation of Harvard's old Beaux-Arts School of Architecture into a "Harvard-Bauhaus," a radically new school with a single outlook. In Inventing American Modernism, Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect these changes alone and, further, that the GSD was not merely an offshoot of the Bauhaus. She offers a crucial missing piece to the story--and to the history of modern architecture--by focusing on Joseph Hudnut, the school's dean and founder.

After heading the architecture school at the University of Virginia, and then at Columbia University, Hudnut created the GSD at Harvard in 1936, before Gropius was appointed, and he headed the school until 1953, the year after Gropius resigned. From the beginning, Hudnut gave the GSD its modern pedagogical direction, and he continued to oversee its curriculum and staffing for the next seventeen years. Although originally an admirer of Gropius's work and theories, Hudnut came to clash with him over the control of the direction of modern architecture and planning in the United States Gropius won the battle, but Pearlman shows that, had the GSD followed the path Hudnut wanted, modern architecture and the modern city might well have been different.

In his role as public intellectual, Hudnut wielded an influence that reached outside the university, distinguished by his encouraging people to participate in the architectural and urbanistic matters that affected their lives. A story involving European modernists such as Marcel Breuer, Martin Wagner, and Christopher Tunnard, as well as a number of other architects, city planners, and landscape architects, this book is more than the study of a single school; it is a look at the origins of modernism at a defining moment in the history of 20th-century architecture.

In 1931 Universal Pictures released Dracula and Frankenstein, two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. Uncanny Bodies argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly. By comparing this audience impression to the first sound horror films, Robert Spadoni makes a case for understanding film viewing as a force that can powerfully shape both the minutest aspects of individual films and the broadest sweep of film production trends, and for seeing aftereffects of the temporary weirdness of sound film deeply etched in the basic character of one of our most enduring film genres.

Essays on the Intersection of Music and Architecture is a collection of nine texts written by international scholars. Most of the essays were originally presented at the interdisciplinary conference Architecture | Music | Acoustics that took place in Toronto, Canada, in June 2006 at Ryerson University. The texts range from historiographical and theoretical explorations of the relations between music and architecture via translations of architectural spaces into music to analytical case studies of architectural spaces for musical performance. The book includes illustrations, author biographies, and an index. Engineer/architect Sven Sterken (Belgium) explores music as an art of space through the work of the architect, engineer, and composer Iannis Xenakis. Architect and designer Kourosh Mavash (Canada) investigates Murray Schafer's Soundscape and its potential for a new pedagogy of architecture. Musician and landscape architect Galia Roe (Israel) examines existing notation systems and then develops a new scoring method for architectural analysis and design as she compares linear sequences in music and space. The ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer Kim Chow-Morris (Canada) chronicles the translation of a Toronto city street into a musical composition that was premiered at the Architecture | Music | Acoustics conference. Architect and professor Jim Lutz (USA) traces the transformations of architecture as instrument--and its inverse, instrument as architecture--through a series of projects that straddle the line between both fields of study. Architect and musician Yu Zhang (China) discovers musical design in the 18th-century architecture of the Altar of Heaven and the Zither Rhythm Studio in Beijing, China. Composer John Sands (USA) considers the societal function of music and architecture through an analysis of Markus Pernthaler's Helmut-List-Halle in Graz, Austria. Architect and musician Garth Ancher (Australia) translates the intangible qualities of Miles Davis' jazz-rock fusion into architecture through his design for a Contemporary School of Music in Launceston, Tasmania. Designer/architecture professor Mikesch Muecke and musicologist/music professor Miriam Zach (USA) trace in their essay the intersection of architecture and music throughout history in the work of architects and musicians, discovering along the way the potential of an interdisciplinary practice to transform both disciplines.

The prevention and cure of disease and the treatment of injuries were major concerns in ancient Egypt. Poorly understood in Egyptian society, illness informed much of their art. Featuring works from The Metropolitan Museum's collection, this fascinating book examines this relatively unexplored and underappreciated aspect of Egyptian art. It includes two introductory essays on Egyptian medicine, descriptions and photographs of sixty-four objects, and the first color reproduction of the Edwin Smith Papyrus in its entirety, accompanied by a full translation. One of the world's oldest scientific documents, the fifteen-foot-long Smith papyrus (now housed in the New York Academy of Medicine), discusses both practical and magical treatments of wounds and other maladies.

This richly illustrated book of vintage photographs commemorates one of the most memorable episodes in the history of archaeology: the discovery and exploration in 1922 of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (Dynasty 18, ruled ca. 1336-1327 B.C.). These photographs, documenting every stage in the process of discovery, were taken by the renowned archaeological photographer Harry Burton. Burton was a staff member of the Metropolitan Museum Egyptian Expedition when he was "lent" to Howard Carter, the famed excavator of Tutankhamun's tomb.

From the rock-cut steps leading down to the entrance passage, to the opening of the sealed chambers inside, to the first view of the contents of the tomb and the removal of the objects, Burton's beautiful black-and-white photographs show thousands of the richly made and decorated objects found in the tomb. Carefully reproduced from Burton's original prints, the photographs are accompanied by new descriptive text written by two prominent Egyptologists with extensive knowledge of the history of Tutankhamun and the contents of his tomb.

Reston Town Center is a model downtown for the 21st Century. It represents the classic American tradition... the dream of building a better life in a new place. In this regard it is a new prototype.

Filipino Americans, like many ethnic groups in America, are complex and heterogeneous. This book documents how Filipino Americans have grown within the context of political forces, the prevailing social order, rights and responsibilities of individuals, economic well-being, and the American Dream. Lott shows how Filipino Americans have become active participants in the American democracy and why active civic participation is crucial to any emerging ethnic group. Her controversial thesis is that the twenty-first century will not be defined by the color line but by a more basic human relationship--the adult/child connection--because no society can survive without sustained commitment and shared sacrifice by adult men and women for the welfare of future generations.

The modern categories of pictures had their origins in the open art market of 16th-century Antwerp, which also reinforced the "brand name" recognition of certain famously inventive artists, chiefly Bosch and Bruegel.

This book is about Bill and Jean Eckart who were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical era. They designed sets that became part of the performance on stage. Musicals Phantom of the Opera, and Les Miserables are a part of that innovative design.

Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet. In this multidisciplinary look at the practice of art that takes place across a distance--geographical, temporal, or emotional--theorists and practitioners examine the ways that art, activism, and media fundamentally reconfigured each other in experimental networked projects of the 1970s and 1980s. At a Distance traces the history and theory of such experimental art projects as Mail Art, sound and radio art, telematic art, assemblings, and Fluxus.

Biographical entries on African American architects practicing throughout the United States from the Civil War through WW II. 160 illustrated A-Z entries include biographical essays as well as commentary on the work of each architect offering a wealth of information about their lives, their buildings, and the obstacles many had to overcome.