Museum Publications
Josiah McElheny: The Story of Glass
$15.00
Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory.This book, produced in conjunction with McElheny's 1999 exhibition The Story of Glass, presents a survey of his career as well as the new work he produced while an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner. Essays by cultural historian Dave Hickey and Jennifer Gross explore the intersection of history and contemporary experience presented in McElheny's work.
By Josiah McElheny, with Dave Hickey and Jennifer R Gross
65 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1999
Paperback
9.8 x 0.2 x 9.5 inches
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
$15.00
For nearly 100 years, the Gardner Museum has been making of the most beautiful gardens in New England, keeping alive not only an extraordinary array of plant species, but also an excellent tradition of horticulture.
In May 1997, the Museum honored that tradition with the sixth annual interdisciplinary symposium on the subject of garden history, chaired by John Dixon Hunt, the editor of Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. The seven papers comprising this edition of the journal offer insights from across time and space, addressing topics ranging from Chinese garden and Roman domestic space to the femme ornee and the jardin pittoresque.
Edited by John Dixon Hunt
121 pages
Published by Taylor and Francis, 1999
Hardcover
8.5 x 0.3 x 10.5 inches
Titian and Rubens: Power, Politics, and Style
$20.00
Aiming to bring an understanding of the contexts of treasures of the past closer to contemporary concerns, three experts discuss Titian's Europa, Rubens's Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, Rubens's Rape of Europa from the Prado Museum, and Titian's Francesco Maria della Rovere from the Uffizi.By exploring the dynamic relationship between art and power, as well as how both artists manipulated their style to express the political power of their clients—no less a relevant issue today—an important era comes to life for today's readers.
By Hilliard T. Goldfarb, David Freedberg, and Manuela B. Mena Marqués
127 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998
Paperback
8.8 x 0.5 x 12.2 inches
The Artistic Splendor of the Spanish Kingdoms: The Art of Fifteenth-Century Spain
$14.00
From the exhibition The Artistic Splendor of the Spanish Kingdoms: The Art of Fifteenth-Century Spain—on view at the Gardner Museum from January 13 to April 7, 1996—comes this catalog, which explores the flourishing culture in Spain during the fifteenth century as well as the lavishly decorated artworks that were produced during this historic moment.
This catalog features works from Gardner's collection juxtaposed with other pieces of art from the period, on loan from the San Diego Museum of Art, the Williams College Art Museum, the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Harvard University Art Museums, and others.
By Judith Berg Sobre and Lynette M. F. Bosch, with preface by Anne Hawley, former Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
75 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1996
Paperback
13 x 0.4 x 10 inches
Mona Higuchi: Bamboo Echoes
$18.00
Born of Japanese and Korean descent, Mona Higuchi is an American artist whose work speaks quietly of dislocation, identity and history.Her 1996 exhibition, Bamboo Echoes: A New Work by Mona Higuchi Dedicated to the Comfort Woman, blended Higuchi's research on both Isabella Stewart Gardner's Second Chinese Room, which was dismantled in the 1970s, and the Korean Comfort Woman who were forced by the Japanese army into sexual slavery during World War II. The installation drew its viewers in to the gallery through a narrow doorway of form, shape and light. Once there, they began a quiet journey as silent histories were revealed.
This catalog documents Higuchi's work and poignant installation. It includes texts by curator Jill Medvedow and Alice Yun Hai, a leading expert on the history of the Comfort Women.
Organized by Jill S. Medvedow
26 pages
Published by the Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1996
Paperback
8.5 x 7.5 inches
Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth
$8.00
Throughout the millennia, myths of the ancient Greeks, altered, amended, and enriched, have served as touchstones of European civilization.
The exhibition Passionate Acts in Greek Art and Myth explores the theme of myths as expressions of emotion and sentiment in antiquity and later periods.
By Hilliard T. Goldfarb, with forward by Anne Hawley, former Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner
47 pages
Published by the Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1993
Paperback
10.6 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
Oriental and Islamic Art in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
$14.00
A catalog listing and describing the Asian and Islamic art in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.By Yasuko Horioka, Marylin Rhie, and Walter B. Denny, with forward by Rollin van N. Hadley, former Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
135 pages
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1975
Paperback
10.9 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
Raqib Shaw: Ballads of East & West
$39.95
Raqib Shaw is both aesthetically and literally immersed in the paradoxical pulls of culture, history, land and belonging – and the specter of the colonial past. His oeuvre combines references to Western historical works of art, specific locations, and self-portraiture to create subversive fantastical scenes that reflect his own lived experience. He is concerned with the production of beauty; fusing motifs and influences from both Asian and Western traditions. The jewel-like surfaces and dense compositions of his paintings and sculptures evoke both beauty and violence. Shaw's unique technique, where pools of enamel and metallic industrial paint are manipulated to the desired effect with a porcupine quill, throws into relief numerous details within the paintings from flowers and feathers to stone marbling. Every motif is outlined in embossed gold, a technique similar to ‘cloisonné’ found in early Asian pottery, which is a source of inspiration to Shaw.
The Ballads of East and West emerges from the ‘interstices’ of culture interaction and will travel across the U.S., to four museum venues: Frist Art Museum, TN, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, MA, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX and the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, CA. The exhibition is curated by Zehra Jumabhoy, a UK-based art historian, curator and writer specializing in modern and contemporary South Asian art with an interest in theories around decolonization, nationalism and diaspora. She is working with coordinating-curator Pieranna Cavalchini, the Lisa and Tom Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Essay and catalogue entries by Zehra Jumabhoy with foreword by Seth Feman, CEO and Executive Director, Frist Art Museum and Peggy Fogelman, Norma Jean Calderwood Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023
116 pages
Hardcover
10.3 x 8.25 x 0.5 inches
© 2023 Gift at the Gardner.
