Book review by Marcia Resnick: As It Is or Could Be by Frank H. Goodyear III et al. Yale University Press, March 2022. 208 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25465-5 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed May 2022 by Claire Payne, Web Services and Data Librarian, Stony Brook University, claire.payne@stonybrook.edu.

Book review of Paul Nash: Designer and Illustrator by James King. Lund Humphries Publishers, January 2022. 216 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-84822-445-2 (h/c), $59.99. Reviewed May 2022 by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, University of California, Merced Library, jshiroma@ucmerced.edu.

Book review of Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond by Patrick Mauriès. Thames & Hudson Inc, March 2022. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-09407-5 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed May 2022 by Lindsay King, Associate Director for Access and Research Services, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University, lindsay.king@yale.edu.

Book review of Reconstructing the Garrick, Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece edited by John Vinci et al. Alphawood Foundation Chicago distributed by University of Minnesota Press, October 2021. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1280-2 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed May 2022 by Keli Rylance, Head Librarian, Richardson Memorial Library, Saint Louis Art M…[Read more]

Book review of Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home by Chriscinda Henry. The Pennsylvania State University Press, January 2022. 280 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-08911-9 (h/c), $104.95. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08911-9.html. Reviewed May 2022 by Annalise Welte, Reference Librarian,…[Read more]

Book review: Consuming Painting: Food and the Feminine in Impressionist Paris by Allison Deutsch. The Pennsylvania State University Press, February 2021. 216 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-08723-8 (h/c), $94.95. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08723-8.html. Reviewed May 2022 Carling Spinney, Reference Assistant, Queen’s University L…[Read more]

Book review: Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing edited by Martin Brückner et al. University of Minnesota Press, October 2021. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1089-1 (pbk.), $30.00. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/modelwork. Reviewed May 2022 Michele Jennings, Art Librarian, Ohio University Libraries, mljennin@ohio.edu.

Book review of Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West edited by Betsy Fahlman et al. Hirmer, November 2021. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3753-8 (h/c), $40.00. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-88-3/landscapes_of_extraction-2190/. Reviewed January 2022 by Dai Newman, Catalog and Instruction Librarian, Columbus College of…[Read more]

Book review: Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche, edited by Victoria I. Lyall, and Terezita Romo. Yale University Press, March 2022. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25898-1 (h/c), $50.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300258981/traitor-survivor-icon. Reviewed May 2022 by Clayton C. Kirking, New York Public Library, Retired,…[Read more]

Book review of Florine Stettheimer: A Biography by Barbara J. Bloemink, and Florine Stettheimer. Hirmer, February 2022. 435 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3834-4 (h/c), $29.95. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-3-3/florine_stettheimer-2235/. Reviewed May 2022 by Vada Komistra, Library Technician, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C.,…[Read more]

PAST DUE: Report and Recommendations of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office Civic Memory Working Group is the culmination of 18 months of discussions on how to think about existing and future civic memory projects. The 40-member group included historians, artists, architects, curators, designers, civic leaders, cultural leaders, and Indigenous elders a…[Read more]

Museum digital initiatives during the Coronavirus Pandemic (https://digitalmuseums.at) is an Austrian-based research project by Dr. Chira Zuanni on the impact of COVID-19 on museums and their digital strategies. The homepage presents a map of museum digital initiatives around the world. The digital initiatives are categorized by type: contemporary…[Read more]

A sample of editorial movement, stored in the Cuban National Fine Arts Museum, of the artists Alfredo Sosabravo, Osneldo García and Lesbia Vent Dumois is presented. These bibliographical documents allow the study of their works. In content analysis and processing of their artistic files, a chronological classification is necessary, by documentary…[Read more]

People of Craft (https://peopleofcraft.com) is billed as a “showcase” of creatives of color in the fields of design, illustration, photography, writing, web development and other adjacent fields. The landing page is vibrantly colorful, with each artist represented by a hero image of their own choosing. The simple interface allows users to bro…[Read more]

In creating an oral history collection documenting the stories of those impacted by the Chimney Tops 2 Wildfires, efforts were made to make these stories accessible to a wide audience and representative of the communities affected by the disaster. The University of Tennessee Libraries’ recent implementation of the International Image…[Read more]

This presentation shares efforts to digitise glass plate negatives as part of the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. It provides examples of projects and individual records and also mentions the use of Zooniverse for crowdsourcing metadata. It was given as part of the “Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in…[Read more]

This lightning talk shared experiences with designing and implementing an asynchronous co-curricular visual literacy program. The interactive tutorial introduced students to fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons images and included an active learning component where students created their own fun and lighthearted memes using new visual…[Read more]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Fluxus co-founder Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) used concrete as an actual material for his unique body of work, including the Betonbuch [Concrete Book]. Vostell’s Concrete Book is a concrete slab in the shape of a book, measuring 34x25x4.5 cm, weighing about 9 kg (20 pounds) that is believed to encapsulate a copy of…[Read more]

The Library Company of Philadelphia is an independent research library that supports the study of American history through its collection of rare books and graphic materials. Founded by Benjamin Franklin as a subscription library in 1731, The Library Company serves a varied constituency and is well respected for its exhibitions, public…[Read more]