Review of Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf. Princeton University Press, March 2022. 296 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-691-16638-4 (h/c), $60.00. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166384/gawkers. Reviewed November 2022 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University,…[Read more]

Review of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision by edited by Laura Elisa Pérez and Ann Leimer. Duke University Press, August 2022. ISBN 978-1-4780-1569-7 (pbk), $29.95. https://www.dukeupress.edu/consuelo-jimenez-underwood. Reviewed November 2022 by Tracy Meserve, Librarian, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile…[Read more]

Review of Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art by Patricio del Real. Yale University Press, August 2022. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25456-3 (h/c), $65.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254563/constructing-latin-america/. Reviewed November 2022 by Eric Wolf, Head Librarian, Sotheby’s…[Read more]

Review of Julie Manet: The Impressionist Memory by Marianne Mathieu. Yale University Press, February 2022. 324 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26409-8 (h/c), $55.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264098/julie-manet/. Reviewed November 2022 by Barbara Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse University…[Read more]

Review of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds by Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene. J. Paul Getty Museum, June 2022. 144 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-758-1 (h/c), $29.95. Reviewed November 2022 by Stephanie B. Fletcher, Head of Discovery, Metadata, and Technical Services, Illinois Institute of…[Read more]

Review of Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 380 p. Ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81581-7 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed November 2022 by Caitlin Lenox, Graduate Student, iSchool at University of Wisconsin-Madison, clenox@wisc.edu.

Review of Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The University of Chicago, February 2022. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-80206-0 (h/c), $27.50. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo116106417.html. Reviewed November 2022 by Sarah Mackowski, Acquisitions Assistant, Dumbarton Oaks.

Review of American Unitarian churches: architecture of a democratic religion by Ann Marie Borys. University of Massachusetts Press, February 2022. 192 p. Ill. ISBN 987-1-62534-603-2, $34.95. https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346032/american-unitarian-churches/. Reviewed November 2022 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research and Instruction…[Read more]

The Presidential Task Force on Art Libraries and COVID-19 was established in May 2020, with
the charge “to assess and respond to ARLIS/NA members’ need for data about the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on art information professionals by identifying and compiling existing
sources of information and conducting survey(s) of the membership to fil…[Read more]