Enfilade

From Cambridge UP:

Nicola Camerlenghi, St Paul’s outside the Walls: A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 350 pages, ISBN: 9781108429511, $125.

This volume examines one of Rome’s most influential churches: the principal basilica dedicated to St Paul. Nicola Camerlenghi traces nearly two thousand years of physical transformations to the church, from before its construction in the fourth century, to its reconstruction following a fire in 1823. By recounting this long history, he restores the building to its rightful place as a central, active participant in epochal political and religious shifts in Rome and across Christendom, as well as a protagonist in western art and architectural history. Camerlenghi also examines how buildings in general trigger memories and anchor meaning, and how and why buildings endure, evolve and remain relevant in cultural contexts far removed from the moment of their inception. At its core, Saint Paul exemplifies the concept of building as process, not product: a process deeply interlinked with religion, institutions, history, cultural memory and the arts. This study also includes state-of-the-art digital reconstructions synthesizing a wealth of historical evidence to visualize and analyze the earlier (now lost) stages of the building’s history, offering glimpses into heretofore unexamined parts of its long, rich life.

Nicola Camerlenghi is Assistant Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. A native of Italy and Switzerland, he has been a fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Swiss Institute in Rome. His collaborative projects in the Digital Humanities have been awarded grants from the Kress Foundation.

C O N T E N T S

1  Paul’s Place in Rome: Tomb, Trophy, and the Basilica of the Constantinian Dynasty, ca. 67–386
2  The Basilica of the Theodosian Dynasty, 386–410
3  The Early Transformations, 410–700
4  A Fortress of Faith during the Heart of the Middle Ages, 700–1050
5  The Advent, Apogee, and End of St Paul’s Golden Age, 1050–1423
6  Rebirth and Modernization, 1423–1655
7  Restoring and Reconstructing St Paul’s during the Long Eighteenth Century, 1655–1823
Epilogue: The Basilica Is Dead, Long Live the Basilica!

Appendix A  Reconciling the Evidence and Making the Model
Appendix B  Carolingian-era Patronage

From ArtBooks.com:

Anna Maria Massinelli, ed., with contributions by Massimo Alfieri, Laura Bianchini, and Ekaterina Yakovleva, Giacomo Raffaelli (1753–1836): Maestro di stile e di mosaico (Florence: Aska, 2018), 376 pages, ISBN: 978-8875422943, €110 / $150.

È un’opera monografica dedicata a un mosaicista romano: Giacomo Raffaelli, erede di una tradizione familiare nella produzione di paste vitree risalente alla metà del XVII secolo. Negli ultimi tre decenni del Settecento il suo studio in San Sebastianello, angolo Piazza di Spagna a Roma, divenne una meta obbligata per i sofisticati tourists d’Oltralpe e per la nobiltà europea che non mancava di acquistare placche, tavoli o gioielli ideati dal caposcuola del mosaico minuto romano. La fama raggiunta gli procurò riconoscimenti prestigiosi e nel 1804, su incarico del governo napoleonico, fondò una scuola di mosaico a Milano. Qui si trattenne fino al 1820 portando a compimento uno dei capolavori nel genere del mosaico minuto: la replica a grandezza naturale dell’ ‘Ultima cena’ di Leonardo da Vinci (Vienna, Minoritenkirche). I testi, corredati da ampi apparati documentari e iconografici esaminano l’intera produzione, a oggi nota. La vasta selezione di immagini a colori illustra mosaici e opere lapidee appartenenti a musei e collezioni private in Europa e negli Stati Uniti.

From Routledge (and now on sale for $120) . . .

Tara Zanardi and Lynda Klich, eds., Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices (New York: Routledge, 2019), 298 pages, ISBN: 978-1138200135, $150.

Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary investigates the pictorial representation of types from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Originating in longstanding visual traditions, including street crier prints and costume albums, these images share certain conventions as they seek to convey knowledge about different peoples. The genre of the type became widespread in the early modern period, developing into a global language of identity. The chapters explore diverse pictorial representations of types, customs, and dress in numerous media, including paintings, prints, postcards, photographs, and garments. Together, they reveal that the activation of typological strategies, including seriality, repetition, appropriation, and subversion has produced a universal and dynamic pictorial language. Typological images highlight the tensions between the local and the international, the specific and the communal, and similarity and difference inherent in the construction of identity. The first full- length study to treat these images as a broader genre, Visual Typologies gives voice to a marginalized form of representation. Together, the chapters debunk the classification of such images as unmediated and authentic representations, offering fresh methodological frameworks to consider their meanings locally and globally, and establishing common ground about the operations of objects that sought to shape, embody, or challenge individual and collective identities.

Tara Zanardi is Associate Professor of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY. Lynda Klich is Assistant Professor of Art History, Hunter College, CUNY.

C O N T E N T S

Contributors
Acknowledgements

Tara Zanardi and Lynda Klich, Introduction to Visual Typologies from the Early Modern to the Contemporary: Local Contexts and Global Practices

Repeating, Borrowing, and Serializing
• Heather A. Hughes, Fashion, Nation, and Morality in English Allegorical Costume Prints, ca. 1620–40
• Sarah E. Buck, Bodies of Work in the Ancien Régime: The Costumes Grotesques by Nicolas I de Larmessin
• Elisabeth Fraser, The Color of the Orient: On Ottoman Costume Albums, European Print Culture, and Cross-Cultural Exchange
• Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, On and off the Tram: Contemporary Types and Customs in Madrid’s Illustrated and Satirical Press, 1874–98

Staging Place
• Eugenia Paulicelli, Venice: City of Fashion and Power in Giacomo Franco’s Habiti d’huomini et donne venetiane, ca. 1610
• Yu-chih Lai, Costuming the Empire: A Study on the Production of Tributary Paintings at the Qianlong Court in Eighteenth-Century China
• Denise Birkhofer, Enrique Díaz’s Parade of Progress: Toward a Streamlined Mexican Future

Performing the Documentary
• Emily Kathryn Morgan, ‘True Types of the London Poor’: Street Life in London’s Transitional Typology
• Maya Jiménez, The Myth of the Baiana in Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photography
• Lynda Klich, Circulating lo mexicano in Mauricio Yáñez’s Postcards
• Deborah Dorotinsky, It Is Written in Their Faces: Seri Women and Facial Painting in Photography

Materials of Typologies
• Natalia Majluf, Fashioning a Nation: Military Dress in Peruvian Independence, 1821–22
• Tara Zanardi, From Global Traveler to Costumbrista Motif: The Mantón de Manila and the Appropriation of the Exotic
• Victoria L. Rovine, Cloth, Clothing, and Colonial Power: France and West Africa at the Expositions
• Charlene K. Lau, Against ‘Fashion-Time’: Bernhard Willhelm, Regional Folk Dress, and the Contemporary

Unmasking Stereotypes
• Ashley Bruckbauer, Ambassadors à la turc: Assimilation and Dissimulation in Eighteenth-Century Images of French-Ottoman Diplomacy
• Leyla Belkaïd-Neri, The Transmediterranean Routes of Fashion: Between Material Expression and Artistic Representation
• Teresa Eckmann, Julio Galán and the Type: Fashioning a ‘Border’ Aesthetic

From Columbia UP:

Julia Kristeva, The Enchanted Clock: A Novel, translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018), 336 pages, ISBN: 978-0231180467, $30 / £24.

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until the year 9999. Passemant’s clock brings the nature of time into sharp focus in Julia Kristeva’s intricate, poetic novel The Enchanted Clock.

Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Île de Ré; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her out of the water. They become lovers. While Theo wonders if he is descended from the clockmaker Passemant, Nivi’s son Stan, who suffers from occasional comas, develops a passion for the remarkable clock at Versailles. Soon Nivi is fixated on its maker. But then the clock is stolen, and when a young writer for Nivi’s magazine mysteriously dies, the clock is found near his body. The Enchanted Clock combines past and present, jumping back and forth between points of view and across eras from eighteenth-century Versailles to the present day. Its stylistically inventive narrative voices bring both immediacy and depth to our understanding of consciousness. Nivi’s life resembles her creator’s in many respects, coloring Kristeva’s customary erudition with autobiographical poignancy. Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time. It is one of the most illuminating works of one of France’s great writers and thinkers.

Julia Kristeva is professor emerita of linguistics at the Université de Paris VII and author of many acclaimed works and novels. Her Columbia University Press books include Murder in Byzantium: A Novel (2005); Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (2014); and, with Philippe Sollers, Marriage as a Fine Art (2016).

Armine Kotin Mortimer is professor emerita of French literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her contributions to French culture were recognized with the Palmes académiques distinction in 2009. She is the translator of two books by Philippe Sollers.

From Columbia UP:

Ori Sela, China’s Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2018), 328 pages, ISBN: 978-0231183826, $65 / £50.

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to shape both individual and collective identities, and its rise to prominence consequently deeply affected contemporaneous political, social, and cultural agendas.

Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin (1728–1804), one of the most distinguished scholars of the Qing dynasty, to tell this story. China’s Philological Turn traces scholars’ social networks and the production of knowledge, considering the texts they studied along with their reading practices and the assumptions about knowledge, facts, and truth that came with them. The book considers fundamental issues of eighteenth-century intellectual life: the tension between antiquity’s elevated status and the question of what antiquity actually was; the status of scientific knowledge, especially astronomy, mathematics, and calendrical studies; and the relationship between learned debates and cultural anxieties, especially scholars’ self-characterization and collective identity. Sela brings to light manuscripts, biographies, letters, handwritten notes, epitaphs, and more to highlight the creativity and openness of his subjects. A pioneering book in the cultural history of intellectuals across disciplinary boundaries, China’s Philological Turn reconstructs the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.

Ori Sela is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University.

C O N T E N T S

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Way and Its Crossroads

Part I | The Way of Man: Scholarly Networks and the Social History of Scholarship
1  Learning to Be a Scholar
2  Official Scholars and the Growing Philologists’ Networks
3  Private Scholars, Private Academies, and the Community of Knowledge

Part II | The Way of Antiquity: Searching for the True Way in the Past
4  The Way of Ancient Learning: Philology, Antiquity, and Ru Identity
5  Philology and the Message of the Sages: The Classics and the Four Books
6  Historical Philology: Navigating the Sources

Part III | The Way of Heaven and Earth: The Mandate of Scholarship and the Search for Order
7  Astronomy, Mathematics, and Calendar: Historical Perspective
8  Ancient Learning Encounters Western Learning: Scientific Knowledge and Its Cultural Baggage
9  Fate, Ritual, and Ordering All Under Heaven

Conclusion: The Consequences of the Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Turns

Appendix A: Selections from Qian Daxin’s 1754 Palace Examination Answer
Appendix B: Major Shuowen and Erya Studies of the Qian-Jia Period (and Related Works)
Appendix C: Qian Daxin’s Letter to Dai Zhen
Appendix D: Questions and Answers About Astronomy
Appendix E: Essay on the Value of Pi Π
Appendix F: Qian Daxin’s Writings on Mathematics, Astronomy, and Divination
Appendix G: On Saṃsāra
Appendix H: Sources for the Works of Qian Daxin

Note on Abbreviations and Citations
Notes
Selected Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Titles
Index