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Ashmolean Museum

Cy Twombly

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Welcome to a new edition of Desiderata, a special-alert service from Worldwide Books that aims to bring to your attention special new and forthcoming publications that may not be suitable for automatic inclusion in our approval-plan program (due to subject matter, special format, limited availability or price), but that nonetheless are likely to be of interest to many libraries. We will also periodically highlight noteworthy new approval-plan selections that may not be widely available through other sources.

European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum

The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford has announced the publication of a massive three-volume catalogue that will document its holdings of medieval and Renaissance sculpture, one of the finest such collections in the world. Similar in format to the 2009 catalogue of the Museum's European gold and silver pieces (Worldwide 72247), the lavishly illustrated catalogue will showcase more than 500 works dating from the start of the 13th century to the mid-1500s.

Volume 1 will be dedicated to bronzes and other metal sculptures, while Volume 2 will document works in stone, clay, ivory, bone and wood. Volume 3 will focus on the Ashmolean's collection of plaquettes, small relief sculptures generally cast in bronze. Totaling some 1,200 pages, the set will weigh approximately 20 lbs.

The release date in the U.K. for this magnificent publication is September 1, 2014. Due to the set's limited print run, the publisher had not made arrangements for the title to be distributed in North America through regular commercial channels. However, in close cooperation with the Ashmolean Museum, Worldwide Books is now arranging a pre-publication order to import copies into the U.S., and libraries interested in acquiring this title through Worldwide are asked to please submit their orders to us by August 22nd to take advantage of the cost savings we will realize by arranging a bulk shipment immediately upon release. Worldwide's price for the three-volume set will be $795.

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM.

Jeremy Warren.

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, 2014

Three volumes: Vol. 1 (Sculptures in Metal): 344 pp.; Vol. 2 (Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood): 372 pp.; Vol. 3 (Plaquettes): 452 pp.

31 x 25 cm.

ISBN 9781854442314

Hardcover

In English.

$795.00

Worldwide 79946

From the publisher's description:

"The collection was built up over four centuries from the dawn of English art collecting through to the Victorian period, which saw the arrival of one of the world's great collections of Renaissance bronzes and other sculpture assembled by the scholar-connoisseur C.D.E. Fortnum, as well as further gifts and occasional purchases to the present day."

"This comprehensive three-volume set is the definitive compendium of the collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum and is indispensable both for the specialist and the general reader."

Cy Twombly

Schirmer/Mosel has recently released Volume 3 of the catalogue raisonné devoted to Cy Twombly's drawings, and Volume 4 is due to be released this fall:

CY TWOMBLY: DRAWINGS -- CAT. RAIS. VOL. 3, 1961-1963.

Ed. by Nicola Del Roscio.

Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2013. Published in association with Schirmer/Mosel, Munich. Distributed by Prestel-Verlag Munich.

216 pp. with 297 col. ills.

35 x 26 cm.

ISBN 9783829604871

Hardcover

In English

$195.00x

Worldwide 78977

CY TWOMBLY: DRAWINGS -- CAT. RAIS. VOL. 4, 1964-1969.

Ed. by Nicola Del Roscio.

Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2014. Published in association with Schirmer/Mosel, Munich. Distributed by Prestel-Verlag, Munich.

208 pp. with 286 col. ills.

35 x 25 cm.

ISBN 9783829604888

Hardcover

In English

$195.00x

Worldwide 79895

Details on the fifth and final volume of the drawings have not yet been announced. However, Worldwide welcomes series standing orders, and we can schedule to supply the final volume to interested libraries once the title becomes available.

Schirmer/Mosel has also issued catalogues raisonnés on other aspects of Twombly's oeuvre, with titles devoted to his paintings and photographs.

The sixth and final volume of the catalogue raisonné on Twombly's paintings is due to be released in October:

CY TWOMBLY: CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE PAINTINGS -- VOL. VI, 2008-2011.

Ed. by Heiner Bastian.

Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 2014. Distributed in the U.S.A. by Prestel Publishing, New York.

192 pp. with 50 col. ills.

30 x 27 cm.

ISBN 9783829606882

Hardcover

Bilingual in English and German.

$298.00x

Worldwide 162182

Note: Volumes 1, 2 and 4 of the painting were released in the late 1990s but remain in print and can still be supplied by Worldwide as special-order items; Volume 3 appears to be out of print; Volume 5 was released in 2009 (see Worldwide 132504).

Volumes documenting Twombly's photographic oeuvre include:

Worldwide 116137 Worldwide 132496 Worldwide 74602 Worldwide 149834

Of related interest is the forthcoming title The Essential Cy Twombly (Worldwide 812010) as well as Cy Twombly Gallery: The Menil Collection Houston (Worldwide 77835).

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