Publications

Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915. Photo by Bruce M. White.

Bard Graduate Center publishes scholarly books and journals that pertain to material culture, design history, and the decorative arts, including exhibition catalogues, the journals West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture and Source: Notes in the History of Art, and the Cultural Histories of the Material World book series. In addition, in 2020, BGC launched a new series of experimental publishing projects, BGCX, which aims to extend the learning period around time-based programming by reflecting the spontaneous alchemy of conversation, performance, and hands-on engagement that occurs in BGC events with artists, makers, scholars, and others.

AWARDS RECEIVED, 2020–22

French Fashion, Women, and the First World War (exhibition catalogue) 2020 50 Books | 50 Covers winner, awarded by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the professional association for design First Prize in the 2020 American Alliance of Museums Publications Category

Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars (exhibition catalogue) Second Prize for the 2020 American Alliance of Museums Publications Category

Eileen Gray (exhibition catalogue) 2022 Society of Architectural Historians Award for Best Exhibition Catalogue 2020 50 Books | 50 Covers winner, awarded by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the professional association for design Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) Architectural Book Award 2020, bestowed in collaboration with the Frankfurt Book Fair

Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 (exhibition catalogue) 2021 Historians of British Art Book Prize for an outstanding multiauthored book on the history of British art, architecture, and visual culture

Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects (Cultural Histories of the Material World) Winner of three National Jewish Book Awards: Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award for History; American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 Award; and Women Studies Barbara Dobkin Award.

PUBLISHED 2020–22 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Eileen Gray Edited by Cloé Pitiot and Nina Stritzler-Levine, 2020

Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 Edited by Susan Weber, with Catherine Arbuthnott, Jo Briggs, Eleanor Hughes, Earl Martin, and Laura Microulis, 2020

Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object? Edited by Peter N. Miller, 2022

Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor Edited by Nina Stritzler-Levine with Arthur C. Danto and Joan Simon

Sixth reprint, 2021

Artek and the Aaltos: Creating a Modern World

Edited by Nina Stritzler-Levine and Timo Reikko

Revised and expanded edition, 2022

BGCX

Ritual and Capital, 2020

An expansive volume that collects an interdisciplinary range of voices and genres that reflect on ritual as a form of resistance against capitalism. The poems, essays, and artworks included in this anthology explore habits and practices formed to subvert, subsist, and survive under the repression of capital.

What Is Research?, 2021 Edited by Peter N. Miller To begin the task of understanding research as a concept and practice, Bard Graduate Center gathered a group of artists, scientists, and humanists—all recipients of MacArthur “genius” grants—for three evenings of a discussion moderated by Peter N. Miller, a MacArthur Fellow in his own right.

CULTURAL HISTORIES OF THE MATERIAL WORLD

The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects By Laura Arnold Leibman Each chapter of The Art of the Jewish Family creates a biography of a single woman through an object, offering a new methodology that looks to material culture to further understand early Jewish American women’s lives and restore their agency as creators of Jewish identity.

The Museum in the Cultural Sciences: Collecting, Displaying, and Interpreting Material Culture in the Twentieth Century Edited by Peter N. Miller, 2021 This book presents the first full English translations of articles by Otto Lauffer on history museums and by Oswald Richter regarding ethnographic museums, which show how sophisticated the discussion of museums and museum display was in the early twentieth century and how much could be gained from revisiting these reflections today.

Conserving Active Matter Edited by Peter N. Miller and Soon Kai Poh, 2022 The effort to conserve things is part of the human struggle with the pervasive activity of matter. For as long as people have made things and kept things, they have cared for them and repaired them. Conserving Active Matter draws together the main lines and interim conclusions of a five-year research project embedded in Cultures of Conservation, a ten-year effort to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world.

Object, Event, Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s

Edited by Hanna B. Hölling (University College London), 2022 Conservators and museums increasingly struggle with conservation issues for works created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning of art, objects, and materiality itself.

Cultural Histories of the Material World Series. Photo by Bruce M. White.