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Book review of Joseph E. Yoakum: What I Saw by Kathleen Ash-Milby et al. The Art Institute of Chicago distributed by Yale University Press, July 2021. 252 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25748-9 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Leslie Vega, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Macdonald-Kelce Library, The University of Tampa, lesliemartavega@gmail.com.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged by Hannah Wohl. The University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 232 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-78455-7 (pbk.), $30.00. Reviewed January 2022 byOlivia Piepmeier, Arts & Humanities Librarian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, olivia.piepmeier@umassd.edu.
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Book review of Nuno: Visionary Japanese Textiles by Reiko Sudo and Naomi Pollock. Thames & Hudson Inc, December 2021. 380 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02268-9 (h/c), $75.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lynora Williams, Library Director, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts, lwilliams@nmwa.org.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Under Different Moons: African Art in Conversation by Anthony Alan Shelton with essays by Titilope Salami and Nuno Porto, 2021. 236 p. ill. ISBN 9781773271149 (h/c), $60.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lauren McMullan, Librarian, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, laurenm@kiarts.org.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James K. McAuley. Yale University Press, 2021. 301 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23337-7 (h/c), $30.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Lee Sorensen, Librarian for Visual Studies and Dance, Duke University Libraries, lslilly@duke.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful edited by Seth Feman and Jonathan Frederick Walz. The Columbus Museum in association with Yale University Press, 2021. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25893-6 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Sarah Osborne Bender, Head of Technical Services, National Gallery of Art, s-bender@nga.gov.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things edited by Annie Carlano et al. The Mint Museum in association with D. Giles Limited, February 2022. 96 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-72-3 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Barbara Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse University…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art edited by Robert Cozzolino et al. Minneapolis Institute of Art dist. by University of Chicago Press, August 2021. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-78682-7 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Anna Boutin-Cooper, Research & Visual Arts Librarian, Franklin & Marshall College,…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900 by Margareta Ingrid Christian. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 304 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-76477-1 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Kristan M. Hanson, Digital Managing Editor, Plant Humanities Initiative, Dumbarton Oaks, kmhanson2020@gmail.com.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Meaningful Stuff: Design That Lasts by Jonathan Chapman. Design Thinking, Design Theory. The MIT Press, August 2021. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-262-04572-8 (h/c), $24.95. Reviewed January 2022 by Lauren Haberstock, Director of the Genesis Lab Maker Space and Librarian for Emerging Technologies, Pepperdine University,…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
Book review of Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico by Monica Bravo. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, June 2021. 239p. ill. ISBN 9780300253634 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed January 2022 by Clayton C. Kirking, New York Public Library (retired), ckirking@gmail.com.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathan Keats on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review: Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathan Keats edited by Julie Decker and Alla Efimova. Hirmer Publishers, April 2021. 360 p. ill. ISBN 9783777434278 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Greta Kuriger Suiter, Archivist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gsuiter@mit.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Book review of Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect edited by Romi Crawford. Green Lantern Press (distributed by University of Minnesota Press), May 2021. 312 p. ill. ISBN 9780997416596 (pbk.), $30.00. [PDF & Print]
Reviewed November 2021 by Jenna Dufour, Research Librarian for Visual Arts, University of California Irvine, dufourj@uci.edu. -
Megan Macken deposited Review: Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review: Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by Ginger Nolan. Minnesota University Press, June 2021. 328 p. ill. ISBN 9781517905866 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Lauren Haberstock, Director of the Genesis Lab Maker Space and Academic Center for Excellence and Librarian for Emerging Technologies and…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and Aesthetic on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Book review of Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and Aesthetic by Hentyle Yapp. Duke University Press, April 2021. 288 p. ill. ISBN 9781478011552 (pbk.), $26.95. Reviewed November 2021 by Stephanie Kays, Fine Arts Librarian and liaison for Women’s & Gender Studies, and East Asian Studies, Denison University, kayss@denison.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review: The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance by Anna Watkins Fisher. Duke University Press, October 2020. 304 p. ill. ISBN 9781478009702 (pbk.), $27.95. Reviewed November 2021 by Andrew Wang, Art and Architecture Librarian, University of Oregon, aandrewwangg@gmail.com.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review: Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern edited by Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthaus Stade, Edwin-Scharff-Museum. Hirmer Publishers, July 2021. 160 p. ill. ISBN 9783777436999 (pbk.), $39.95. Reviewed November 2021 by Beverly Mitchell, Assistant Director, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University, bmitchel@smu.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: The Art of Winhold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
Review: The Art of Winhold Reiss: An Immigrant Modernist edited by Marilyn Satin Kushner. D. Giles, September 2021. 192 p. ill. ISBN 9781911282485 (h/c), $49.95. Reviewed November 2021 by Lauren McMullan, Librarian, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, laurenm@kiarts.org.
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