"Endless forms": Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts‚ Edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro‚ published by The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and the Yale Center for British Art, in association with Yale University Press‚ 2009. Charles Darwin's revolutionary theories of evolution and naturalization have not only had a profound influence on the fields of biology and natural history, but also provided fertile territory for the creative imagination. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, organized by the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, in association with the Yale Center for British Art, which coincided with the global celebration of the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). The essays in this exceptionally wide-ranging book examine both the profound impact that Darwin's ideas had on European and American artists and the ways in which his theories were influenced by the visual traditions he inherited. In works by artists as diverse as Church, Landseer, Liljefors, Heade, Redon, Cézanne, Lear, Tissot, Rossetti, and Monet, imaginative projections of prehistory to troubled evocations of a life dominated by the struggle for existence, Darwin's sense of the interplay of all living things and his response to the beauties of the natural world proved inspirational. Diana Donald is the former Head of the Department of History of Art and Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. Jane Munro is Senior Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 344 p.; 327 color illustrations‚ ISBN: 9780300148268 To purchase this publication, please contact the Center's Museum Shop at 203 432 2828. Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds‚ Tim Barringer, Gillian Forrester, and Barbaro Martinez Ruiz‚ Yale University Press‚ 2007. Coinciding with the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade, this multi-disciplinary volume chronicles the iconography of sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s. Focusing on the visual and material culture of slavery and emancipation in Jamaica, it offers new perspectives on art, music, and performance in Afro-Jamaican society and on the Jewish diaspora in the Caribbean. Central to the book is Sketches of Character (1837-38)—a remarkable series of lithographs by the Jewish Jamaican artist Isaac Mendes Belisario—the earliest visual representation of the masquerade form Jonkonnu. Innovative scholarship traces the West African roots of Jonkonnu through its evolution in Jamaica and continuing transformation today offers a unique portrait of Jamaican culture at a pivotal historical moment and provides a new model for interpreting the visual culture of empire. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. Gillian Forrester is Curator of Prints and Drawings, Yale Center for British Art. Barbaro Martinez Ruiz is Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Stanford University. This project received generous support The Reed Foundation. AWARDS Winner of the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for museum scholarship Awarded an Honorable Mention from the 2008 American Association of Museums' Publications Design Competition REVIEWS "...this book is unquestionably a triumph. It is the most ambitious volume yet published on Anglophone Caribbean art."—Nicholas Laughlin, The Caribbean Review of Books "...an important landmark in the study of the colonial enterprise as a whole, a monument, certainly, for the study of art in Jamaica, and a strong platform from which to launch any future investigation."—Tim Wilcox, The Art Newspaper "[This catalog] traces the history of Jamaica from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the abolition of slavery on the island in the 1830s. . . . The displays and research yield fascinating stories, not only about art's relation to history but also about the appalling cruelty that humans inflict upon one another." —Benjamin Genocchio, New York Times "A comprehensive overview of 'sugar, slavery, and the topography of Jamaica' the years 1655 through to the beginning of emancipation in the 1840s. Breathtaking in its scope, this oversize, lavishly illustrated volume belongs in all public and institutional librariesImpressive."—Art Times "Impressive. . . . Recommended."—Choice . Yale University Press 2007. 612 p.; 499 color illusrations ‚ ISBN: 9780300116618 To purchase this publication, please contact the Center's Museum Shop at 203 432 2828. Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art‚ By Matthew Hargraves, with an introduction by Scott‚ Copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with Yale University Press‚ 2007. 224 pages, ISBN 9780300116588 Howard Hodgkin, Paintings 1992-2007‚ Edited by Julia Marciari Alexander; with essays by Anthony Lane and Richard Morphet‚ the Yale Center for British Art and the Fitzwilliam Museum in association with Yale University Press‚ 2007. 192 pages/100 color illustrations‚ ISBN 9780300123203 Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool‚ By Elizabeth E. Barker and Alex Kidson‚ published with Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, and Yale Center for British Art in association with the Yale University Press, New Haven and London‚ 2007. 199 pages‚ ISBN 9780300117455   Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art‚ Essays by John Baskett, Jules David Prown, Duncan Robinson, and William Reese, and catalogue entries by the Center's curatorial staff. Copublished with the Royal Academy of Arts, London in association with Yale University Press‚ 2007. 335 Pages, ISBN 9780979037801