Review of Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki. University of Minnesota Press, June 2022. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4 $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tsuchi. Reviewed November 2022 by John Hosford, Art Librarian, Scholes Library, Alfred University, hosford@alfred.edu

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]

Review: According to those responsible for this collection, the goal of this digitization project was to “make the most important political satire magazines of the last century available in full.” With backing from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), they did so in 2014, resulting in the site under review. It offers a full run of the Ger…[Read more]

Review: The UK-based Penguin Publishing Group was originally founded in 1935 by Sir Allen Lane, who wanted a brand of affordable, yet attractive paperback books that could be “bought as easily and casually as a packet of cigarettes” (Penguin.com, “Our Story”).  Since then, the Penguin imprint has become an icon known among other things for its…[Read more]

Review: Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) is an open access database that aggregates metadata and images of instruments from over 240 museums located on three different continents. The MIMO project, funded by the European Commission, ran from 2009 to 2011, but new museums have joined as recently as 2019. In its initial project phase, the…[Read more]

Review: Akademie Schloss Solitude is a public-law foundation that promotes artists and scientists through an international, transdisciplinary residency program. The Akademie Schloss Solitude website provides access to publications and residency projects. Online publications that can be freely accessed via web browser include Solitude Journal,…[Read more]

Review: Long overdue, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America was the title of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in spring 2021, complemented by the online course Reimagining Blackness and Architecture, organized and taught by Sean Anderson, the Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA and A…[Read more]

Review: By initiating “a national database of information, documents, photographs, and personal stories about the public works made possible by the New Deal,” The Living New Deal is building a comprehensive registry of projects completed between 1933 and 1942. Currently, over 17,000 entries represent “hundreds of thousands” of public works,…[Read more]