Review: Beauty of the Hebrew Letter by Izzy Pludwinski. Brandeis University Press, May 2023. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-68458-146-7 (pbk.), $50.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research and Instruction, SCAD, vseymour@scad.edu.

Book review of A Tender Spirit, a Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan by Howard Oransky, editor. University of Minnesota Press, February 2023. 168 p. Ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1390-8, $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-tender-spirit-a-vital-form. Reviewed September 2023 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research…[Read more]

Book review of Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France by Norman Bryson. Getty Research Institute, July 2023. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-771-0 $75.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse U…[Read more]

Book review: Magyar Modern: Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933 edited by Ralf Burmeister et al. Hirmer, March 2023. 272 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3904-4 (h/c), $60.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Nadine Speidel, retired from Cuyahoga County Public Library, bunny.nds@gmail.com.

Book review of Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century by Christopher Y. Lew. Edited by Ed Halter et al. Whitney Museum of American Art, April 2023. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26979-6 (h/c), $55.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Shannon Marie Robinson, Head, Architecture + Fine Arts Library, University of Southern California, shannon.robinson@usc.edu.

Book review of Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World by Robin Milner-Gulland. Reaktion Books, distributed by the University of Chicago Press, May 2023. 152 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-78914-680-6 (h/c), $22.50. Reviewed September 2023 by Meg Black, Collection Management Librarian, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, mblack@mcad.edu.

Book review of Curating the Moving Image by Mark Nash. Duke University Press, May 2023. ISBN 978-1-4780-2044-8 (pbk.), $29.95. Reviewed September 2023 by Mackenzie Anne Williams, Art & Architecture Librarian, Cooper Union, mackenzie.williams@cooper.edu.

Review: Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, edited by Aimee Ng et al. The Frick Collection ; in association with D Giles Limited, September 2023. 112 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-913875-39-8 (h/c), $34.95. Reviewed September 2023 by Elias Larralde, Archival Assistant 1, Center for Creative Photography, egl22@arizona.edu.

Book review of Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face by Julia Bryan-Wilson. Yale University Press, 2023. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23670-5 (pbk.), $60.00. 4 vols. Reviewed September 2023 by Andrew Wang, Head Librarian, North Carolina Museum of Art, aandrewwangg@gmail.com.

Book review of Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection, edited by Julie Aronson et al. D Giles Limited, June 2023. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-913875-41-1 (h/c), $35.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Freyja T. Catton, Writer, Wordeater Consulting , freyjacatton@gmail.com.

Book review of Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978, edited by Idurre Alonso. Getty Research Institute, July 2023. 2888 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-819-9 (h/c), $60.00. Reviewed September 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.

The work of the Humanities Commons Implementation Task Force grew out of its predecessor, the Humanities Commons Planning Task Force, which was established in the fall of 2018 and concluded its work in the spring of 2019. The planning group recommended adoption of the Humanities Commons platform in order to provide improvements to society-provided…[Read more]