Book review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s by Claudia Calirman. Duke University Press, April 2023. 264 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1940-4 (pbk.), $26.95. Reviewed July 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.

Book review of Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch by Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koeing. Yale University Press, April 2023. 104 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26969-7 (pbk.), $25.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French language and literature, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture by Barbara Sjoholm. University of Minnesota Press, March 2023. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1197-3 (h/c), $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/from-lapland-to-sa-pmi. Reviewed July 2023 by Amy Furness, Head, Library & Archives, Art Gallery of O…[Read more]

Book review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. ISBN 978-0-226-82246-4 (h/c), $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo182595907.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Fong Ku, Reference and Learning Services Specialist, Alberta University of the Arts,…[Read more]

Book review of The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden by Susann Wintsch et al. Hirmer, February 2023. 139 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-4033-0 (pbk.), $39.95. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo196843842.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Lenge Hong, Special Collections Cataloger, Morgan Library & Museum, lhong@themorgan.org.

Book review of The Sassoons by Esther da Costa Meyer and Claudia J. Nahson. Yale University Press, May 2023. ISBN 978-0-300-26430-2 (h/c), $60.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264302/the-sassoons/. Reviewed July 2023 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, SCAD, jgorzalski@scad.edu.

Book review of Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang. Duke University Press, November 2022. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1635-9 (pbk.), $25.95. https://dukeupress.edu/surface-relations. Reviewed July 2023 by Shandy Frey, Research and Instruction Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD),…[Read more]

Book review of Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite et al. Getty Publications, May 2023. 168 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-844-1 (h/c), $40.00. https://shop.getty.edur/products/rediscovering-black-portraiture-978-1606068168. Reviewed July 2023 by Andrea Walton, MA/MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.

Our poster engages a collaboration between Library Instruction and Black Studies/English, examining how we used an interdisciplinary pedagogy to create an environment where students understand themselves as contributors to the disciplines. Over the course of four years, the librarian came to the professor’s courses to provide scaffolded library i…[Read more]

In the words of the late scholar, critic, and artist, bell hooks, “though rarely articulated as such, the camera became in black life a political instrument, a way to resist misrepresentation as well as a means by which alternative images could be produced.” Black librarianship and memory work has been integral to preserving the evidence of thi…[Read more]

Many libraries hold rare book collections and they maintain and explore them with special attention, usually by following international standards. Over time, extensive knowledge has been accumulated about these books. However, the intensity of research on these collections can vary. My library’s rare book project presented here is based on the…[Read more]

Book review of Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin by Aglaya K. Glebova. Yale University Press, January 2023. 256 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25403-7 (h/c), $65.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254037/aleksandr-rodchenko/. Reviewed May 2023 by Bridget Nowlin, Director of Library Services, Cornish College of the Arts,…[Read more]

Book review of No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria edited by Marcela Guerrero. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023. 127 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26673-3 $45.00. Reviewed May 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, crosa@calarts.edu.

Review: Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s by Mindell Dubansky and Sidney E. Berger. Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, distributed by Yale University Press, January 2023. 188 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26619-1 (h/c), $65.00. https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2022/pattern-and-flow.…[Read more]

Review: Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design by Ida Engholm. Intellect Books, January 2023. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-78938-715-5 (pbk.), $34.95. Reviewed May 2023 by Lauren Haberstock, Director of the Genesis Lab Maker Space and Librarian for Emerging Technologies and Digital Projects, Pepperdine University,…[Read more]

Review of Forever Saul Leiter by Otake Akiko et al. Thames & Hudson Inc., March 2023. 296 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-29643-1 (pbk.), $27.95. Reviewed May 2023 by Alfonso Huerta, Director, Access & Outreach, ArtCenter College of Design, alfonso.huerta@artcenter.edu.

Book review of Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America by Maggie Taft. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-55032-9 (h/c), $22.50. Reviewed May 2023 by Anina Rossen, Librarian, Academy of the Holy Angels, arossen@holyangels.org.

Review of Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès by Sarah Herring and Emma Capron. Yale University Press, November 2023. 120 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-85709-688-0 (pbk.), $20.00.
Reviewed May 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.