The Luristan Bronzes
New York: Iranian Institute, 1940. Pamphlet. Green stapled wraps with black lettering; 19 pp, bw illustrations. At head of title: The Persian Exhibition, New York, 1940. Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-19). More
Museum Exhibitions - Middle Eastern
Monumental Islamic Calligraphy From India
Villa Park, Illinois: Islamic Foundation, 1985. Softcover. Brown wraps with illustration on front cover and white lettering, 144 pp, illustrated in bw. A travelling exhibition of estampages and photographs of calligraphic inscriptions on Islamic monuments of the Sultanate and Mughai periods (ca 1150-1750. Lent by the Archaeological Survey of India..... More
Here and Elsewhere
New York: New Museum, 2014. Paperback. Glossy BW-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 279 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "This catalogue, accompanying the New Museum exhibition Here and Elsewhere, presents the work of over 45 artists who share roots in the Arab world and a critical sensibility with regard to images and..... More
Common Grounds
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2015. Paperback. Color-illustrated wraps with white lettering. 143 pp. Color illustrations. Text in German. Catalog of the exhibition held at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, February 12 - May 17, 2015. More
As Is: Arte Israeliana Contemporanea
Rome: Gangemi, 2008. Hardcover. White boards, color illustrated with black lettering, 239 pages (some folded), richly illustrated in bw and color. Essays in Italian and English. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy, Dec. 16, 2008-Jan. 31, 2009. Includes bibliographical references. More
The Temple of Hibis in El Khargeh Oasis. Part III. The Decoration.
New York: Metropolian Museum of Art, 1953. One of 300 copies. Folio. Oversized brown and light-brown folio with mounted brown title cards lettered in black; stapled book of xii, 36 pp.; 80 plates. This is part of the series entitled, "Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition, Volume..... More
A Guide to an Exhibition of Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination
New York: Metropolian Museum of Art, 1933. Softcover. tan, glued wrappers w/ black illustration & light orange tiling. 53 pgs w/ a section of 39 bw plates. Exhibition held October 9 - January 7, 1933-1934. More
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261 - 1557)
New York / New Haven, Connecticut: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2004. Softcover. Blue cloth over boards; Color illustrated dj. xxii, 658 pp.; 800+ color and bw plates and figures. A sequel to the landmark catalogue The Glory of Byzantium, this magnificent book features work from the..... More
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261 - 1557)
New York / New Haven, Connecticut: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards; Color illustrated dj. xxii, 658 pp.; 800+ color and bw plates and figures. A sequel to the landmark catalogue The Glory of Byzantium, this magnificent book features work from the..... More
The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India
San Francisco, California: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2012. Hardcover. No dj, illustrated boards. 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color). "The Matter Within: New Contemporary Art of India, October 15, 2011-January 29, 2012. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA"--Colophon./ Includes selected bibliographical references (pages 122-123). Contents..... More
The Rumors of the World: Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015. Paperback. White softcover with color-illustration and black text. 240 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Portraits. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: I Must First Apologise ..." held at Villa Arson, Nice, France, July 6-October 13, 2014; HOME, Manchester, UK, September 11-November..... More
Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. Hardcover. Aqua cloth boards with gilt stamped spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with blue and black lettering. xi, 247 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "What follows in these pages is the chronicle of ceramic objects unearthed in Raqqa in the first quarter of..... More
Sanatci ve Zamani / Artists in Their Time
Istanbul: Istanbul Modern, 2015. Softcover. Colorful card wraps with red/black lettering on red/yellow spine. 319 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Catalogue of 193 works by 109 artists from the collection of the Istanbul Modern Muvesi/Museum. Published in Turkish and English, the collection catalogue for “Artists in Their Time”..... More
The Gift Tradition in Islamic Art = Taq l d al-ihd f al-fun n al-Isl m yah
Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2012. Softcover. Maroon & color illus. wraps, 153 pp., color illus. Text is in English and Arabic. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition. "The offering of Gifts - state, religious and personal - is a practice..... More
In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art
Los Angeles: LACMA, 2018. Hardcover. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'In The Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 6-September 9, 2018"--Colophon. Text in English, with a poem in Farsi. More
Other Rooms, Other Voices: Contemporary Art from the FRAC Collections
Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 2006. Softcover. White wraps with black and blue illustrations, black lettering in English and Hebrew, unpaginated (46), illustrated in color and bw. Text in Hebrew and English in parallel columns. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Summer-Fall, 2006. More
Pages of Perfection: Islamic Painting and Calligraphy from the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
1995. Softcover. Red wraps. 339 pp. 96 mostly color plates. Written by Yuri A. Petrosyan, Oleg F. Akimushkin, Anas B. Khalidov, and Efim A. Rezvan, with essays by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stephano Carboni. More
Trésors de l'Islam : Musée Rath, 25 juin - 27 octobre 1985, Genève
Londres: P. Wilson, 1985. Softcover. Soft cover, illustrated wrap, foil lettering. 400 pp : color illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-397) and index. In conjuction with exhibition June 25 - October 27, 1985. More
Zwischen Zonen: Kunstlerinnen aus dem arabisch-persischen Raum = Suspended Territories: Artists from the Middle East and North Africa
Dortmund, Germany: Verlag Kettler, 2017. Softcover. Color-illustrated wraps, black lettering. Approx [180] pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. Catalogue of the exhibition held June 24-September 24, 2017. Parallel text in German and English. More
Schätze aus der Türkei = Türkiye'nin Tarihi Zenginlikleri - Treasures from Turkey
Leiden: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / Künsterlhaus GMBH. nd. Hardcover. Siena & color illus. glossy boards, 246 pp., many color illus. Text is in German, Turkish, and English. Issued in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of artifacts from civilizations once occupying Anatolia, now present-day Turkey. The lightly annotated and fully illustrated..... More
Prints from the Jerusalem Print Workshop and the Gottesman Etching Center, Kibbutz Cabri
Tefen, Israel: ha-Muze on ha-patua, 2013. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 251 pages : color illustrations. Text in Hebrew and English. Catalog of an exhibition that took place Oct. 2013-May 2014 at the Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park./ Introduction by Ruti Ofek./ Includes bibliographical references. More
Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder: Grief Hunters
Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2011. Softcover. Gold stapled wraps with black lettering. Photographic end papers. 55 pp. with bw and color images throughout. Catalogue from the exhibition of September to December 2011. Works by 19 artists, the majority from Israel with a few from Europe and..... More
40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing
The Brooklyn Museum / Cultural and Scientific Relations Division, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, [1988]. Softcover. Glossy navy stapled wraps, [100 pp.], color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1989 series of exhibitions on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Israel. With an introductory essay by Gil Goldfine. Each of..... More
Hatshepsut, from Queen to Pharoah
New York / New Haven: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2005. Paperback. Blue and black glossy photo-illustrated wraps with white lettering; xv, 339 pp.; rcolor frontispiece, profusely interested in color. From the Hardcover DJ: Essays by leading Egyptologists. An important investigation into the impact of Hatshepsut's reign..... More
