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Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today
By Tamara Préaud

Winner of the 2025 American Ceramic Circle Book Award

A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France’s famous Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory. Sèvres Extraordinaire! brings to light the production of sculpture at Sèvres over the 280 years of the institution’s existence—from the first attempts at soft-paste porcelain to the revolutionary decision to skip the glaze application, producing a matte white evocative of marble.

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(Re)Dressing American Fashion: Wear as Witness
Edited by Emma McClendon and Lauren Downing Peters

A revelatory new approach to understanding fashion in America that focuses on the stories told by worn, imperfect, and ordinary clothes.

Expanding the history of American fashion, this volume highlights garments that carry material traces of everyday wearers’ bodies, such as stains, rips, tears, mending, and signs of hand-craftsmanship.

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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s
Edited by Nathan Schlanger
Translated by Nils F. Schott

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly one of the most acclaimed figures of twentieth-century anthropology and archaeology. In France, his intellectual importance rivals that of the Claude Lévi-Strauss, yet Leroi-Gourhan’s major contributions are almost entirely unknown in the Anglophone world. This collection seeks to change that.

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