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Dumbarton Oaks Papers 62: Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot; Hardcover November 2008

Lighting in Early Byzantium: Laskarina Bouras; Maria Parani; Paperback November 2008

Harvard Art Museum Handbook: Edited by Stephan Wolohojian; Paperback October 2008

Ad Usum: To Be Used: Edited by José Luis Falconi; Edited by Pedro Reyes; Contributions by Antanas Mockus; Contributions by Alejandro Jodorowsky; Contributions by Augusto Boal; Contributions by Doris Sommer; Contributions by Ute Meta Bauer; Ad Usum is the catalogue of the retrospective exhibit of celebrated Mexican artist Pedro Reyes mounted at the Carpenter Center and organized by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. This is the first volume entirely dedicated to the works of Reyes, who is considered to be one of the most innovative and radical young Mexican artists.; Paperback July 2008

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61: Edited by Alice-Mary Talbot; This latest volume of Dumbarton Oaks Papers focuses in part on literary and historical texts: historicism in Byzantine thought and literature; the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, encompassing the First Crusade and the Armenian diaspora; and a reappraisal of the satirical prose work Mazaris’s Journey to Hades.; Hardcover July 2008

Emancipatory Action: Edited by José Luis Falconi; Edited by Gabriela Rangel; Edited by Nicolau Sevcenko; Paula Trope; Contributions by Paulo Herkenhoff; Contributions by Doris Sommer; This volume is based on the exhibition of Paula Trope at the Americas Society (NYC) made in conjunction with Harvard University's Cultural Agency Initiative. Contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Trope has acquired recent notice for the pin-hole photography she creates together with the "Meninos da Rua" (street children) in Rio de Janeiro, of which she is not really the "author" but its facilitator, instructor, and curator.; Paperback July 2008

Dumbarton Oaks: Edited by Gudrun Bühl; Dumbarton Oaks houses the extraordinary art collection begun by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss. In this book the museum publishes the specialist collections in Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art, along with examples from the Blisses’ superb European collection, for the first time.; Paperback June 2008

Studio Works 12: Edited by Paula Meijerink; Edited by Laura Miller; Edited by Martin Zogran; The aim of Studio Works is to capture the essential character of the design studio experience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Studio Works 12 features outstanding GSD student work from school years 2005–2006 and 2006–2007, along with material documenting exhibitions, research seminars, and thesis projects.; Paperback May 2008

Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy: Edited by Victoria Noorthoorn; Foreword by Susan Segal; Beginning with a Bang! features the shift between the explosive and experimental moment in the Argentine art scene of the 1960s, and the current scene emerging after the extreme crises in Argentina during the last 40 years. The exhibition catalogue brings together a historical section as well as information of performance-based actions and sound and video works by Argentine contemporary artists.; Paperback March 2008

Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum: Edited by Joan Busquets; Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is located on the city’s last undeveloped waterfront property—a nine-acre industrial site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. The park not only brings art outside the museum walls but also brings the park itself into the landscape of the city. This study offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the city and explore some hypotheses about the wider meaning of an urban design project.; Paperback March 2008

Niche: David Edwards; Jay Cantor; Photographs by Daniel Faust; Niche tells the story of an artist who meets a scientist and through the encounter makes a hypothesis: If the artist became a stem cell and then divided into a neuron, would he discover the meaning of intelligence? Edwards and Cantor introduce a new fiction genre—the novel catalogue—to coincide with the opening of the new art and design innovation center in Paris, Le Laboratoire. The novel catalogue fictionalizes the creative process of an exhibition season which opens with the artistic outcome of an experiment between Fabrice Hyber, a French artist, and Robert Langer of MIT.; Paperback March 2008

The Art of Small Things: John Mack; This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity to evoke responses that far exceed their physical dimensions. Mack explores the talismanic, religious, or magical properties with which miniatures are often imbued. Considering a wide range of objects, he examines the use of the miniature form in various cultural contexts.; Hardcover January 2008

The First Emperor: Edited by Jane Portal; Standing guard around the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi, the ranks of a terra-cotta army bear silent witness to the power of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, who unified China in 221 BCE. Six thousand warriors and horses make up the army, while chariots, a military guard, and a command post complete the host. A new look at one of the most spectacular finds in the annals of archaeology, this book also considers its historical and archaeological context, and the extensive research carried out since its discovery in 1974.; Hardcover November 2007