New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

The Metropolitan Cathedral
Mdina
by Aloysius Deguara, photography by Daniel Cilia
The cathedral church is the mother church of all the churches of Malta.
Since Norman times, the cathedral has been the see of the bishop. Since
the beginning of the nineteenth century and following the French occupation,
the cathedral chapter started to fulfill its duties both in the
cathedral in Mdina and in the co-cathedral of St John’s in Valletta, the
former conventual church of the Order of St John.
48p, illus, paperback, 9789993271727, $12.00, Midsea Books,
December 2008, Insight Heritage Guides.
The Making of Malta
by Reuben Grima, photography by Daniel Cilia
A journey into Malta’s checkered history through the seven basic elements
that make Malta what it is: sea, rock, water, food, faith, war,
and celebration. The author and photographer narrate each of these
elements, transforming every chapter into an explosion of verve and
color depicting the Maltese way of life, its culture, traditions, and
gastronomy. This book is a fresh approach to the island’s history.
352p, illus, Midsea Books, December 2008.
paperback, 9789993272052, $70.00; hardback, 9789993272045, $90.00
Aura d’Europa
Attraverso la fotografia fra Ottocento e Novecento
by Giovanni Fanelli and Barbara Mazza
This series of photographs documents daily life in Europe over the
course of the 19th and 20th centuries. It offers a kaleidoscopic vision
of the ways in which rural and urban people experienced life,
worked, loved, fought or died, while also considering how photographers
captured and interpreted those aspects of people’s lives.
304p, col illus, hardback, 9788859605423, $75.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, October 2009, Attraverso la fotografia 4.
Firenze segreta
Curiosità, fatti divertenti, notizie interessanti, aneddoti e verità
nascoste sui più grandi artisti e monumenti di Firenze antica
by Giuliano Cenci
This work presents anecdotes and interesting stories about little-known aspects of
Florentine artists and monuments, including the sculpture of Giotto’s dog on the bell
tower, England’s unpaid debt to Florence, and many other curiosities. Italian text.
192p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788856300147, $20.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa,
December 2008, Toscani super DOC 3.
travel & photography
Antartide
Perdersi e ritrovarsi alla fine del mondo
by Tito Barbini
Tito Barbini delivers a poetic and introspective account
(in Italian) of his relationship with Antarctica, where
nature and the landscape exist on their own terms and
have come to inhabit the author’s soul.
176p, col illus, paperback, 9788859603337, $15.00(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008, Libro verità 14.
Da Praga 1983–1988
Immagini di una topografia letteraria
by Francesco Jappelli
These 72 photographs depict an unseen and unconventional
Prague as it was between 1983 and 1988, characterized
by both splendor and abandon, coming out
of the hardships of the war and the Soviet invasion of
1968. Each picture tells its own story, accompanied by
texts and literary citations intertwined with Prague’s old
neighborhoods. Urban and literary topography combine
to evoke the poetry that Prague inspires and the places
that the pictures themselves represent. Italian text.
184p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859604631, $39.50(s),
Edizioni Polistampa, December 2008.
George Tatge
Presenze. Paesaggi italiani – Presences. Italian Landscapes
edited by Walter Guadagnini
George Tatge’s photographs re-vision the objects he selects and that selection, the
photographer’s syntax, is at once classical and idiosyncratic, their often hieratic compositional
order ruptured by surprise. Tatge, like so many Americans over a hundred
years before him, has been seduced by Italy as subject. Italian and English text.
112p, b/w illus, paperback, 9788859604099, $40.00(s), Edizioni Polistampa,
December 2008.
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