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Decorative Arts/Textiles/Design History

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Aaltonen, Susanna. Sisustaminen on kuin käsialaa: Carin Bryggman ja Lasse Ollinkari sisustusarkkitehdin ammatissa 1940– ja 1950–luvulla. Taidehistoriallisia tutkimuksia, vol. 40. Helsinki, Finland: Tiedekirja, 2011. 313 pp.; Many b/w ills. Paper €28.00 (9789525533125)

Abrams, Janet, and Peter Hall, eds. Else/where: Mapping. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2005. 320 pp.; many color ills. Paper $49.95 (0972969624)

Adams, Noel, John Cherry, and James Robinson, eds. Good Impressions: Image and Authority in Medieval Seals. London: British Museum Press, 2008. 143 pp.; 0 ills. Paper $0.00 (9780861591688)

Adams, Henry. Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design. Exh. cat. University of Washington Press in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. 192 pp.; 176 color ills. $40.00 (064071762X)

Adamson, Glenn. The Craft Reader. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010. 672 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781847883032)

Addis, Bill. Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering and Construction. London: Phaidon, 2007. 608 pp.; 300 color ills.; 500 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780714841465)

Alfoldy, Sandra, and Janice Helland. Craft, Space and Interior Design, 1855–2005. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008. 244 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754657064)

Allen, Gloria Seaman. A Maryland Sampling: Girlhood Embroidery, 1738–1860. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2007. 384 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780938420989)

Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris. Basics Design: Design Thinking. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411177)

Ames, Kenneth L., ed. American Christmas Cards: 1900–1960. Exh. cat. New York: Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, 2011. 320 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300176872)

Anker, Peder. From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 216 pp.; 7 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780807135518)

Annicchiarico, Silvana. 100 Objects of Italian Design: Permanent Collection of Italian Design, La Triennale di Milano. Roma: Gangemi Editore, 2007. 211 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $50.00 (9788849213195)

Antonelli, Paola. Safe: Design Takes On Risk. Museum of Modern Art, 2004. 216 pp.; 325 color ills. Paper (0870705806)

Appelbaum, Barbara. Conservation Treatment Methodology. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007. 486 pp. Paper £19.99 (9780750682749)

Arscott, Caroline. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2008. 260 pp.; 122 ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300140934)

Attfield, Judy. Wild Things: The Material Culture of Everyday Life. Berg Publishers in association with New York University Press, 1999. 224 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $22.50 (1859733697)

Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds. Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 304 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774920)

Baer, Eva. Islamic Ornament. New York University Press, 1997. 288 pp.; some color ills.; some b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0814713297)

Bagnoli, Alessandro. Duccio: At the Origins of Sienese Painting. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2002. 539 pp.; 300 ills. €48.00 (8882154831)

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art of Colonial Latin America. New York: Phaidon, 2004. 448 pp.; 240 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0714841579)

Baines, Phil. Penguin By Design: A Cover Story 1935–2005. Penguin Books, 2004. 256 pp.; many color ills. Paper (0141024232)

Baird, Daryl E. The Extruder Book. Westerville: The American Ceramic Society, 1999. 282 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills.; 0 ills. Cloth $38.00 (1574980734)

Banks, Anne J. An Overview of Design in Context from Prehistory to 2000 A.D.. Philadelphia: XLibris, 2004. 74 pp.; many color ills. Paper $25.99 (141345657X)

Barquist, David L. Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York. Yale University Press, 2000. 336 pp.; 160 color ills.; 135 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300090579)

Barter, Judith A., ed. Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 208 pp.; 196 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300141139)

Bartman, Elizabeth. Portraits of Livia: Imaging the Imperial Woman in Augustan Rome. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 242 pp.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521583942)

Baumgarten, Linda. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in association with Yale University Press, 2001. 256 pp.; 355 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300095805)

Baumgarten, Linda. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series. Williamsburg, VA and New Haven: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Yale University Press, 2012. 280 pp.; 355 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780300181074)

Bédard, Jean-François. Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672–1742). Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011. 286 pp.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9781611490084)

Becker, Lawrence, and Christine Kondoleon, eds. The Arts of Antioch: Art Historical and Scientific Approaches to Roman Mosaics and a Catalogue of the Worcester Art Museum Antioch Collection. Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press, 2004. 360 pp.; 188 color ills.; 237 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0691122326)

Bell, Robert, ed. Ballets Russes: The Art of Costume. Exh. cat. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2011. 264 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $49.95 (9780642541574)

Bell, Susan Groag. The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies: Christine de Pizan’s Renaissance Legacy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 271 pp.; 8 color ills.; 17 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520234103)

Bennett, Shelley M., and Carolyn Sargentson, eds. French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington. San Marino, Calif. and New Haven: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 560 pp.; 250 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300135947)

Berlo, Janet Catherine. Quilting Lessons: Notes from the Scrap Bag of a Writer and Quilter. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 145 pp.; 4 b/w ills. Cloth $20.00 (0803213182)

Billington, James, Lidia Iovleva, and Robert Rosenblum. Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004. 426 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth

Bjerre, Henrik. Frames: State of the Art. Exh. cat. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2008. 248 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth DKK 299.00 (9788792023117)

Blakesley, Rosalind. The Arts and Crafts Movement. London: Phaidon, 2006. 272 pp.; 250 color ills. Cloth $69.95 (9780714838496)

Blaszyck, Regina Lee. Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 380 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0801861934)

Bloom, Jonathan M. The Minbar from Kutubiyya Mosque. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Ediciones El Viso and Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco, 1997. 124 pp.; 80 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth (0300086377)

Blum, Dilys E. Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2011. 202 pp.; 182 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169584)

Boele, Vincent, ed. Morocco: 5000 Years of Culture. Exh. cat. Burlington, Vt.: Lund Humphries, 2004. 208 pp.; 216 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (0853319162)

Bogle, Michael. Barbara Heath: Jeweler to the Lost. Exh. cat. Melbourne: Queensland Art Gallery, 2004. 86 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. (187650997X)

Bohan, Peter, and Philip Hammerslough. Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1840. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2008. 316 pp.; 648 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780819568489)

Bolton, Andrew. AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 160 pp.; 81 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780300117851)

Bolton, Andrew. Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2008. 160 pp.; 285 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300136708)

Bourque, Bruce J., and Laureen A. LaBar. Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume. Exh. cat. Augusta and Seattle: Maine State Museum in association with University of Washington, 2009. 192 pp.; 104 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780295988702)

Bowe, Stephen, and Peter Richmond. Selling Shaker: The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (1846310091)

Bowers, John. Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 128 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780471292241)

Bowers, John. Introduction to Two-Dimensional Design: Understanding Form and Function, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. 160 pp.; 200 ills. Paper $45.00 (9780470163757)

Braches, Ernst. Ernst Braches: Dutch Art Nouveau and Book Design, 1892–1903. Trans. David Rodger. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant, 2009. 316 pp.; 500 ills. Cloth € 95.00 (9789076452609)

Bremer-David, Christina, Mimi Hellmann, Katie Scott, and Mary D. Sheriff. Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. 222 pp.; 115 color ills.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780892369638)

Breward, Christopher, David Gilbert, and Jenny Lister, eds. Swinging Sixties. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 128 pp.; 70 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9781851774845)

Brewster, Karen, and Melissa Shafer. Fundamentals of Theatrical Design. New York: Allworth Press, 2011. 256 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9781581158496)

Brown, Joshua. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 384 pp.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $49.95 (0520231031)

Brown, Claudia. Weaving China’s Past: The Amy S. Clague Collection of Chinese Textiles. Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999. 160 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $29.95 (0910407398)

Burks, Jean M., ed. Shaker Design: Out of This World. Exh. cat. New York, Shelburne, Vt., and New Haven: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture and Shelburne Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 320 pp.; 180 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780300137286)

Buszek, Maria Elena, ed. Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. 308 pp.; Few color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822347620)

Callahan, Ashley, ed. Decorative Arts in Georgia: Historic Sites, Historic Contexts. Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts. Athens, Ga.: 2007. 160 pp.; 49 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780915977666)

Callahan, Ashley, ed. Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts. Proceedings from the Second Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2004. 176 pp.; 29 color ills.; 83 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0915977567)

Callahan, Ashley. Modern Threads: Fashion and Art by Mariska Karasz. Exh. cat. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2007. 128 pp.; many color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780915977611)

Campbell, Caroline. Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence: The Courtauld Wedding Chests. Exh. cat. London: Paul Holberton and The Courtauld Gallery, 2008. Paper £ 20.00 (9781903470916)

Campbell, Thomas P., ed. Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor. Exh. cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 592 pp.; 175 color ills.; 169 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300124071)

Campbell, Thomas P., and Elizabeth A. H. Cleland, eds. Tapestry in the Baroque: New Aspects of Production and Patronage. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 368 pp.; 243 ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300155143)

Cano Cuesta, Marina. Catálogo de medallas españolas. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2004. 456 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper (8484800857)

Cavallo, Sandra, and Silvia Evangelisti, eds. Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 314 pp.; 27 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754656470)

Cavallo, Adolfo Salvatore. The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2004. 128 pp.; 77 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0300106300)

Chapman, Jonathan. Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy. Sterling, Virginia: Earthscan, 2004. 211 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (1844071812)

Chihuly, Dale. Chihuly’s Pendletons and Their Influence on His Work. Portland Press, 1999. 254 pp.; 188 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (1576840158)

Cleary, Richard. The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancient Régime. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 300 pp.; 12 color ills.; 194 b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (0521572681)

Coatsworth, Elizabeth, and Michael Pinder. The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith: Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England, it's Practice and Practitioners. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002. 293 pp.; 8 color ills.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $145.00 (0851158838)

Coffin, Sarah D., Gail S. Davidson, Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, and Ellen Lupton. Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730–2008. Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Assouline, 2008. 272 pp.; 380+ color ills. Paper $45.00 (9780910503914)

Cohen, David. The Basics of Throwing: A Practical Approach to Form and Design. London and Philadelphia: A&C Black and University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 144 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $29.95 (978081222041)

Coles, Alex, ed. Design and Art. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press and Whitechapel, 2007. 208 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780262532891)

Company, Reindeer. The Art Historian, 2 Vols., ("Ancient to Medieval" and "Renaissance to Modern and Non-Western"). The Reindeer Company, 1997. 600 ills. CD-ROM $40.00

Conforth, John. Early Georgian Interiors. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2004. 400 pp.; 200 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0300103301)

Coomans, Thomas, and Jan De Maeyer, eds. The Revival of Medieval Illumination: Nineteenth-Century Belgium Manuscripts and Illuminations from a European Perspective. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2006. 336 pp.; Many color ills.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (9789058675910)

Cooper, Wendy A., and Lisa Minardi. Paint, Pattern, and People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725–1850. Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc., 2011. 296 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780912724690)

Corrigan, Gina. Miao Textiles from China. University of Washington Press in association with British Museum Press, 2000. 88 pp.; 100+ color ills. Paper $19.95 (0295981377)

Cox-Rearick, Janet. Giulio Romano, Master Designer. University of Washington Press, 1998. 168 pp. Paper $40.00 (188599821X)

Cramsie, Patrick. The Story of Graphic Design: From the Invention of Writing to the Birth of Digital Design. New York: Abrams, 2010. 352 pp.; 150 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780810972926)

Craven, Wayne. Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 288 pp.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0231133448)

Crawford, Alan. C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 512 pp. Paper $45.00 (9780300109399)

Creagh, Lucy, Helen Kåberg, and Barbara Miller Lane, eds. Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008. 352 pp.; 260 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780870707223)

Crews, Patricia Cox, ed. A Flowering of Quilts. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. 152 pp.; 53 color ills.; 11 b/w ills.; 5 ills. Cloth $35.00 (0803215134)

Crowley, John E. The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 222 pp.; 68 b/w ills. Cloth $42.00 (0801864372)

Cunningham, Joseph. The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven: American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation and Yale University Press, 2008. 304 pp.; 321 color ills.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300139099)

Cunningham, Joseph, and Bruce Barnes. The Jewelry and Metalwork of Marie Zimmerman. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, 2012. 400 pp.; 517 color ills.; 28 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300181142)

Cushing, Stanley, and David B. Dearinger. Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenaeum. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston Athenaeum, 2007. 388 pp.; 164 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 ( 0934552738)

Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. University of Washington Press, 2000. 396 pp.; 71 color ills.; 279 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0295981555)

Dalrymple, Larry. Indian Basketmakers of California and the Great Basin. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, 1999. 88 pp.; 45 color ills.; 45 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0890133379)

Dalrymple, Larry. Indian Basketmakers of the Southwest. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999. 156 pp.; 54 color ills.; 96 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0890133387)

de Guitaut, Caroline. Royal Fabergé. Exh. cat. London: Royal Collection Publications, 2011. 156 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth €12.95 (9781905686377)

de Leeuw-de Monti, Matteo, and Petra Timmer. Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay. Eds. Matilda McQuaid and Susan Brown. Exh. cat. New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2011. 200 pp.; 300 ills. Paper $35.00 (9780910503846)

De Long, David G., ed. Sunnylands: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 192 pp.; 119 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780812241617)

DeJean, Joan. The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2011. 304 pp. Paper $16.00 (9781608192304)

Detweiler, Susan Gray. American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Intro. David L. Barquist. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. 91 pp.; 94 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780300135930)

Diba, Layla S. Turkmen Jewelry: Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf Collection. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. 264 pp.; 265  color ills.; 25  b/w ills. Cloth (9780300124040)

Diehn, Gwen. Real Life Journals: Designing and Using Handmade Books. Live and Learn. Edited by Deborah Morgenthal. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2010. Many color ills. Cloth $24.95 (9781600594922)

Dmitrieva, Olga, and Natalya Abramova, eds. Britannia and Muscovy: English Silver at the Court of the Tsars. Exh. cat. Yale University Press, 2005. 303 pp.; 200 color ills.; 40 b/w ills. (0300116780)

Dodsworth, Simon. The Fundamentals of Interior Design. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 176 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $34.95 (9782940373925)