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Fall 2018 catalog

Our Fall/Winter 2018 catalog is now available! Browse a digital version here.

new & noteworthy

New perspectives on Hispanic art & culture

Surveying the Avant-Garde

Surveying the Avant-Garde

Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines

Lori Cole

“Cole’s provocative, innovative, and deeply researched book reveals the questionnaire to have been a constitutive genre of declaration-by-interrogation across the arts of the Americas.” —Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

Americas Revealed

The Americas Revealed

Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States

edited by Edward J. Sullivan, co-published with The Frick Collection

“This is an entirely new, exciting, and useful contribution to a field that will no doubt welcome it with open arms.”—Lynn Zelevansky, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art

subject/series highlight

Collecting Latin American Art with The Frick

In May 2014, the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection hosted a two-day symposium titled “The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States,” which would form the basis for our newly published collaboration, The Americas Revealed.

upcoming exhibits & events

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JULY PSU Press @ BookFest,
w/ a signing
by Shale Play authors
Julia Spicher Kasdorf
& Steven Rubin
@ 2pm
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JULY 7/16—7/20
64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale,
University of Innsbruck, Austria
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JULY 7/19—7/22
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
annual meeting,
Cleveland, OH

awards & reviews

George Sand

George Sand

Martine Reid, Translated with a foreword by Gretchen van Slyke

“Monstre Sacré”: The Wall Street Journal calls Martine Reid’s George Sand“ a miracle of concision and evenhandedness.”

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Commerce, Technology, and Art

Laura Anne Kalba

Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art by Laura Anne Kalba is the winner of the 2018 Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies.

journals news

Journal of Africana Religions

Call for Papers from the Journal of Africana Religions: James H. Cone and Black Theology in Africana Perspective.

Ecumenica Journal of Performance and Theater

Call for Papers from Ecumenica: India, Religion, and Performance

new from eisenbrauns

Lengthen Your Tent-Cords

“Lengthen Your Tent-Cords”

The Metaphorical World of Israel’s Household in the Book of Isaiah

Brittany Kim

Drawing selectively on the resources of metaphor studies and rhetorical criticism, Kim examines each metaphor separately to determine its rhetorical import and, if possible, to trace its development throughout the book. From the beginning of Isaiah, in which Zion appears as a vulnerable but  . . . (more)

Poor and Rich in James

Poor and Rich in James

A Relevance Theory Approach to James's Use of the Old Testament

Nelson R. Morales

The epistle of James was, for years, a forgotten book in academic circles. In recent decades, however, a renewed focus on early Judaism has generated interest in looking at James with new eyes. In this context, different studies, monographs and commentaries have been written. Poverty and wealth in the epistle . . . (more)

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