Do Museums Still Need Objects?–Now Available
10/14/2009
Do Museums Still Need Objects? Steven Conn 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4190-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Arts… READ MORE
Category: Art History
Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law–Now Available
09/21/2009
Tabula Picta: Painting and Writing in Medieval Law Marta Madero. Translated by Monique Dascha Inciarte and Roland David Valayre. Foreword by Roger Chartier 160 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth… READ MORE
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century–Now Available
09/15/2009
The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century Richard Cándida Smith 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4188-4… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Do Museums Still Need Objects?
09/02/2009
In the September podcast historian Steven Conn, author of Do Museums Still Need Objects? talks about how American museums have changed over the twentieth century and what roles these popular… READ MORE
Sarah Schrank Talks about Public Art on Pacifica Radio in LA
07/23/2009
Another Penn Press author hit the public radio airwaves this month. Earlier this week, Sarah Schrank, author of Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles,… READ MORE
When Broadway Was the Runway–Now Available
05/27/2009
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture Marlis Schweitzer 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 47 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4157-0 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE
For the Millions– Now in Paperback
04/29/2009
For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars A. Joan Saab 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 51 illus. Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3818-1 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Recent Awards for Newman and Ruggles
04/28/2009
Penn Press is pleased to share the great news about two recent awards for our authors. Barbara Newman received the Haskins Medal for 2009 from the Medieval Academy of America… READ MORE
Nominate a topic for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
04/16/2009
Work on The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia project begins today with a Civil Partner and Planning Workshop at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The project invites everyone to nominate topics… READ MORE
Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies–Now Available
03/25/2009
Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies: Contestation and Symbolic Landscapes Edited by Marc Howard Ross 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4145-7 |… READ MORE
