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.

Review: Chryssa & New York by Michelle White et al. Dia Art Foundation and The Menil Collection, May 2023. 184 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-27198-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Scott R. Davis, Substitute Visual & Performing Arts Librarian, Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York, scott.davis@qc.cuny.edu.

Book review of One Site-One Space-One Work: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue edited by Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim. Hirmer Publishers, March 2023. 333 p. ill. ISBN978-3-7774-3787-3 (h/c), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023, Morgan Yanni, Reference and Collection Development Graduate Assistant, Pratt Institute, myanni@pratt.edu.

Book review of Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez by David Pullins et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2023. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-756-0 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Keli Rylance, Head Librarian, Richardson Memorial Library, Saint Louis Art Museum, keli.rylance@slam.org.

Book review of Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery by Rosalyn Deutsche. The University of Chicago Press, December 2022. 304 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81960-0 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed July 2023 by Annie Sollinger, Visual Archivist, UMass Amherst, annies@library.umass.edu.

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]