ROMPress catalogue 2014/2015_v6.indd
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ROMPress catalogue 2014/2015_v6.indd
BACK LIST: ROM FIELD GUIDE TO FISHES OF ONTARIO ROM FIELD GUIDE TO BUTTERFLIES OF ONTARIO Peter W. Hall, Colin D. Jones, Antonia Guidotti, and Brad Hubley $29.99 Softcover / ISBN: 978-0-88854-497-1 512 pp., 4.5 x 8 in. Erling Holm, Nick Mandrak, and Mary Burridge $29.99 Softcover / ISBN: 978-0-88854-459-9 464 pp., 4.5 x 8 in. 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ES ER ON PET TI D. J DOT IN GUI COL NIA O T LEy AN HUb D bRA -27 14-05 10:31 PM 9 9.9 S. $2 9/U. $29.9 .ca rom.on final BOO_ POMPEII: IN THE SHADOW OF THE VOLCANO By Paul Denis & Kate Cooper Nearly 2000 years ago—in Year 79—Mount Vesuvius, a long dormant volcano in southern Italy, erupted with tremendous force. Within 24 hours, Pompeii vanished in a rain of ash, falling debris, mud, and poisonous gaseous blasts, remaining hidden for nearly 1700 years until archaeological excavations uncovered it nearly intact. With its eruption, the volcano transformed a relatively minor Roman city into one of the most famous sites in the world. Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano is an exhibition guide that focuses on the people living in the city, revealing the fragility of life in the face of natural disaster. Pompeii and its fate are explored through six distinct sections that examine the .indd may26 cover_ 1 chronology of the disaster, from bustling city life to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, as well as its devastating toll and aftermath. The Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano exhibition is organized in partnership by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with The Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Naples and The Archaeological Depositories of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae. Paul Denis is Assistant Curator of the Greek, Etruscan, Roman, and Byzantine collections at the Royal Ontario Museum. ANCIENT ROME, HISTORY, ART 80 pp., 500 colour illus., 8 x 5.5 in. $5 softcover / ISBN 978-0-88854-509-1 June 2015 SALES Ampersand Inc. Toronto Office 321 Carlaw Avenue, Suite 213 Toronto, Ontario M4M 2S1 T: 416-703-0666 1.866.736.5620 F: 416-703-4745 1.866.849.3819 Richmond BC Office 2440 Viking Way Richmond, BC V6V 1N2 T: 604-448-7111 1.800.561.8583 F: 604-448-7118 1.888.323.7118 ROM CONTACT ORDERS University of Toronto Press 5201 Dufferin Street Toronto, ON M3H 5T8 T: 416.667.7791 1.800.565.9523 F: 416.667.7832 1.800.221.9985 utpbook@utpress.utoronto.ca EDI orders through Pubnet: SAN 151134 Outside Canada, all prices are in US dollars. ROM PRESS CATALOGUE publications@rom.on.ca For a complete catalogue of Royal Ontario Museum Press books, please visit the ROM website at www.rom.on.ca Spring/Summer 2015 THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC: A PAINTED HISTORY FROM THE NORTHERN MIXTECA and reach that few scholars possess the tools to understand its message and context. The contributors to this volume are among that select few. Edited by Arni Brownstone With contributions by Nicholas Johnson and Bas van Doesburg Foreword by Elizabeth Hill Boone Arni Brownstone is Assistant Curator at the Royal Ontario Museum and author of War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum. Nicholas Johnson is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum and former associate editor of artscanada, a national magazine of the visual arts in Toronto. Bas van Doesburg is author of several books and articles on pictographic texts from the Oaxaca area, including Codices Cuicatecos: Porfirio Diaz y Fernandez Leal. Elizabeth Hill Boone is author of numerous Mesoamerican studies, including Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs. The first book to explore fully the Lienzo of Tlapiltepec. For centuries, indigenous rulers of Mesoamerica commissioned elaborate pictorial histories to maintain their claims to power, land, and privilege—a practice they continued under Spanish authority after the conquest. The Lienzo of Tlapiltepec is one such history. An intricate pictographic document on cotton cloth measuring 156 by 66.5 inches, the lienzo was produced by an Indian painter-scribe of great skill in the sixteenth century in the northern Mixteca, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, and depicts events dating from the eleventh century to the early years of the Spanish colony. Housed since 1919 in the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada, the lienzo is a work of such complexity LATIN AMERICA, ART 216 pp., 98 colour illus., 8.5 x 11 in. $50.00 hardcover / ISBN 978-0-88854-503-9 $34.95 softcover / ISBN 978-0-88854-504-6 February 2015 NZO THE LIE TEPEC PIL OF TLA History from d A Painte n Mixteca er th the Nor THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC February 2015 Edited by wnstone and Bas van Doesburg Arni Bro nson s Joh by Nichola ributions one With cont th Hill Bo by Elizabe Foreword AFRICA IN THE MARKET Edited by Silvia Forni and Christopher Steiner While many publications focus on the aesthetics and symbolism of African art, few explore the historical dynamics and exchanges that have informed the way people in Africa have created, preserved, collected, and sold their artworks to local and foreign patrons. The book addresses key issues of market trends, the transformation in taste and aesthetics in relation to changing historical conditions, and the role of artisans, traders, and collectors in mediating knowledge and value in the international art market. WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST March 2015 The book is richly illustrated and introduces to the public the artwork in the Amrad African Art collection at the Royal Ontario Museum. The collection contains a wide range of mostly 20th-century pieces that illustrate the creative achievements and cultural meanings of art objects produced and/or collected at a time of great international expansion of the market for African art. Silvia Forni is Curator of Anthropology at the Royal Ontario Museum. Among her recent publications are chapters in the edited volumes Rethinking the workshop: Work and Agency in African art (Indiana 2013) and African art, AFRICA IN THE MARKET Interview, Narrative (Indiana 2013), and essays in the journals African Arts and Critical Interventions. Christopher Steiner is Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and Anthropology and Director of Museum Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of the award-winning book African art in Transit (Cambridge, 1994) and coeditor with Ruth B. Phillips of the volume Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds (University of California Press, 1999). AFRICAN ART, ART HISTORY 416 pp., 220 colour illus., 9 x 12 in. $49.99 softcover / ISBN 978-0-88854-506-0 May 2015 ____________________________ May 2015 WANDERINGS OF AN ARTIST AMONG THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA By Paul Kane Introduction by Kenneth R. Lister Canadian artist, Paul Kane (1810–1871), journeyed between Toronto and the Pacific coast in the late 1840s to illustrate the “manners and customs” of indigenous peoples and “to represent the scenery of an almost unknown country.” The narrative of the artist’s years of travel was published in 1859 and it enjoyed immediate recognition by audiences hungry for information about North America’s Aboriginal peoples. To Kane’s disappointment though, the book was limited to twenty-one images and fell short of his desire for a fullyillustrated account. Although undoubtedly pleased with the book’s positive reception, for Kane it represented an unfulfilled dream and lead to his longing for a future edition with “a much more extensive series of illustrations.” The Royal Ontario Museum edition of Wanderings of an Artist will bring together for the first time Kane’s narrative with the complete complement of images he painted to illustrate his story and experiences. A Canadian travel-literature classic, Kane captured a country that was on the cusp of change. 156 years on, this edition will realize the artist’s ambition and provide readers with the full and complete illustrated account of Kane’s travels during the final years of the fur-trade period. Kenneth R. Lister is Assistant Curator of Ethnology at the Royal Ontario Museum and author of Paul Kane /the Artist/: Wilderness to Studio. He is also the general editor of the recently published The First Brush: Paul Kane and Infrared Reflectography. CANADIAN ART, HISTORY 512 pp., 99 colour illus., 5.5 x 8.6 in. $39.99 hardcover / ISBN 978-0-88854-507-7 June 2015 MEXICO: CULTURE AND CLOTHING By Chloë Sayer Foreword by Alexandra Palmer Visually spectacular rebozos (rectangular shawls worn by women) and sarapes (richly patterned wool overgarments worn by men), rose to prominence during the nineteenth century and were indicators of status. Costly rebozos, often woven from imported silk on the backstrap loom, displayed areas of fine embroidery and/or patterning achieved with tie-dyed warp threads. Sarape-weavers in town such as Saltillo used wool and the European-style treadle-loom to create tapestry-patterned cloth with an opening for the head: interlocking geometric motifs, which incorporated concentric diamonds and medallions, played games with the retina. Today the rebozo and the sarape are seen as symbols of mexicanidad (Mexican identity). Clothing in many regions of Mexico results from a fusion over time of pre-Conquest and European-inspired textile MEXICO: CULTURE AND CLOTHING May 2015 technology (fibres, dyestuffs, spinning and weaving methods). Garment-styles and designmotifs also reflect the fusion that has taken place over the last 500 years. This catalogue covers the evolution of male and female clothing within the cultural context of various Mexican communities. Chloë Sayer is a world authority on Mexican material culture; she brings to the study her 40 years of field research in Mexico, unique contextual photographs, and extensive publication record. Alexandra Palmer is the Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Costume Senior Curator and Chair of the Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles & Costume at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is the author of award-winning books, Couture & Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s (2001) and Dior: A New Look, A New Enterprise 1947-1957 (2009). LATIN AMERICA, TEXTILES & COSTUME, ART, HISTORY $39.99 Softcover/ ISBN 978-0-88854-508-4 208 pp., 110 colour illus., 9 x 12 in. May 2015