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I thought that the following list of recent books from the MIT Press might interest ARLIS readers. I've included a short description of each book, as well as a link to the Press website where more information on each book can be found. Thanks! David New Material as New Media Marion Boulton Stroud foreword by Anne d'Harnoncourt http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP20030262194899 Over the past twenty-five years The Fabric Workshop and Museum, an experimental arts laboratory in Philadelphia, has evolved into an influential contemporary art museum with a significant permanent collection, collaborating with artists to redefine the boundaries of fabric and other innovative materials including rubber, industrial felt, fiberglass, horse hair, hog intestine, and plastic as artistic media. This book, which accompanies a twenty-five-year retrospective exhibition from the collection, highlights more than fifty artists' projects. 10 3/4 x 13, 328 pp., 270 illus., 268 color, cloth, ISBN 0-262-19489-9 Kara Walker Narratives of a Negress edited by Ian Berry, Darby English, Vivian Patterson, and Mark Reinhardt with essays by Darby English, Mark Reinhardt, Anne M. Wagner, and Michele Wallace http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP2003026202540X Kara Walker (b. 1969) has emerged as one of her generation's most important artists. Best known for her provocative black paper cutout silhouettes, she confronts stereotypes, sex, violence, and power relationships through Civil War-era parodies, narratives, and a mastery of craft and installation. This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Williams College Museum of Art, presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work, beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation, Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994). 11 1/2 x 8 1/2, 208 pp., 122 illus., 94 color, cloth, ISBN 0-262-02540-X Veil Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP20030262523485 No single item of clothing has had greater influence on Western images of Middle Eastern and North African women than the veil. The fascination of Western writers, artists, and photographers with the veil reflects the voyeuristic nature of our interest in what is strange and "other." Veil, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the Institute of International Visual Arts in London, explores the representation of the veil in contemporary visual arts. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4, 192 pp., 75 illus., 35 color, paper, ISBN 0-262-52348-5 Not for sale in Europe Foul Perfection Essays and Criticism Mike Kelley edited by John C. Welchman http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP20030262112701 The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. 8 x 9, 272 pp., 34 illus., paper ISBN 0-262-61178-3, cloth ISBN 0-262-11270-1 Robert Smithson Learning from New Jersey and Elsewhere Ann Reynolds http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SP20030262182270 Robert Smithson (1938-1973) produced his best-known work during the 1960s and early 1970s, a period in which the boundaries of the art world and the objectives of art-making were questioned perhaps more consistently and thoroughly than any time before or since. In this book, Ann Reynolds elucidates the complexity of Smithson's work and thought by placing them in their historical context, a context greatly enhanced by the vast archival materials that Smithson's widow, Nancy Holt, donated to the Archives of American Art in 1987. The archive provides Reynolds with the remnants of Smithson's working life--magazines, postcards from other artists, notebooks, and perhaps most important, his library--from which she reconstructs the physical and conceptual world that Smithson inhabited. Reynolds explores the relation of Smithson's art-making, thinking about art-making, writing, and interaction with other artists to the articulated ideology and discreet assumptions that determined the parameters of artistic practice of the time. 8 x 9, 328 pp., 91 illus., 10 color, cloth, ISBN 0-262-18227-0 David Weininger Associate Publicist MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617.253.2079 617.253.1709 fax [log in to unmask] __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]