Review of Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory edited by Stiftung Humboldt Forum Im Berliner Schloss. Hirmer Publishers distributed by the University of Chicago Press, September 2021. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3363-9 (h/c), $36.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning & Visual Resources Librarian, University…[Read more]

Review of Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss by Devrim Bayar et al. Yale University Press, July 2021. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25770-0 (pbk.), $45.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist, University of California, Merced, jshiroma@ucmerced.edu.

Review of Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski. Yale University Press, April 2022. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26022-9 (h/c), $44.90. Reviewed July 2022 by Freyja T. Catton, Writer and Artist, Wordeater Consulting, wordeaterconsulting@gmail.com.

Review of Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting edited by David Saunders. J. Paul Getty Museum, January 2022. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-734-5 (h/c), $70.00.
Reviewed July 2022 by Karina Wilhelm, Manager, User Services, ASU Design and the Arts Library, karina.wilhelm@asu.edu.com.

Review of Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall. The Pennsylvania State University Press, February 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-09060-3 (h/c), 109.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Shira Loev Eller, Art & Design Librarian, George Washington University, sfl@gwu.edu.

Review of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape by Daniel Kaven. Birkhäuser, February 2022. 456 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-0356-2438-0 (h/c), $69.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Amy Trendler, Architecture Librarian, Ball State University, aetrendler@bsu.edu.

Review of Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection edited by Pi Li. Thames & Hudson Inc, January 2021. 544 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02434-8 (h/c), $85.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Carol Ng-He, Digital Collections Curator, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, cnghe@uchicago.edu.

Review of Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Amy Miller Dehan. Cincinnati Art Museum in association with D Giles Limited, February 2022. 128 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-56-3 (h/c), $49.95.
Reviewed July 2022 by Sara Mautino, Librarian, Oklahoma State University School of Architecture – Cunningham Architecture Library, Oklahoma State…[Read more]

Review of Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation by Matthew Biro. University of Minnesota Press, March 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-0463-0 (pbk.), $39.95. Reviewed July 2022 by Deborah Ultan, Arts & Design Librarian, University of Minnesota, ultan004@umn.edu.