artscape Editorial Department | Catalog & Books | October 2026 [Upcoming Publications]
artscape's editorial team introduces eight upcoming exhibition catalogs and art and design books slated for release in October 2026.Summary
The artscape editorial department presents eight upcoming exhibition catalogs and art- and design-related books scheduled for publication between September and October 2026. The lineup spans a wide range of fields. It includes "Save Michelangelo's Dome," a nonfiction account of the mathematicians and pope who rescued the dome of St. Peter's Basilica from collapse (by Wayne Kalayjian, translated by Junichiro Higaeya, Kajima Publishing); "Weaving the History of Images: 1. French Art from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era," an introductory volume based on a popular University of Tokyo lecture course on art history (by Hiromi Matsui, University of Tokyo Press); "Archaeology Day by Day," which reconsiders archaeological practice from an anthropological perspective (edited by Yasuyuki Yoshida, John Artl, and Akira Matsuda, Ibunsha); "Toward an Anthropology of the Screen," a study of the screen's dual functions of exposure and concealment from cave paintings to smartphones (by Mauro Carbone and Graziano Lingua, translated by Koto Kondo and Izumi Nishimura, Suiseisha); "The Aesthetics of Dance," a modern and contemporary history of dance from the Renaissance to today examined through culture, thought, economics, and technology (by Satoru Kimura, Film Art); "Expressive Figures," tracing 4,000 years of art and design through the achievements of great figures (by Yukimasa Matsuda, Sayusha); and "When Collecting Becomes Art," which considers collecting and archiving through interviews with Mitsuo Yutani, who amassed over 500,000 folk tools and sundries (by Hiroyuki Hattori, Akita Sakigake Shimpo).
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