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Megan Macken deposited Review: The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Review of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker. Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2022. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-692-1 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Andrea Walton, MA, MLS, krw1@nyu.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Review of Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now edited by Doryun Chong and Mika Yoshitake. Thames & Hudson, February 2023. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02585-7 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Michelle Demeter, Head of Undergraduate and Instructional Services, New York University, med15@nyu.edu
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Review of Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi edited by Hafthor Yngvason. Giles, July 2022. 132 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-911282-61-7 (h/c), $44.95. https://gilesltd.com/product/looking-up. Reviewed March 2023 Cory Budden, Reference & Instruction Librarian, University of Maine at Augusta, cory.budden@maine.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations: Chicago to Guantánamo on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Review: Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations: Chicago to Guantánamo edited by Aaron Hughes et al. DePaul Art Museum, 2022. ISBN 978-1-73776-090-0 $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/R/bo175030441.html. Reviewed March 2023 by Sam Regal, Reference and Instruction Librarian, California Institute of the…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Review of Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican by Maurizio De Luca and Jason Cardone. Getty Conservation Institute, February 2023. 140 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-799-4 (pbk.), $35.00.…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Book review of Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China edited by Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung. Yale University Press, September 2022. 340 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26363-3 (h/c), $60.00. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263633/power-and-perspective. Reviewed March 2023 by Lindsey Reno, Acquisitions and Electronic Resources…[Read more]
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Review of Smokehouse Associates by Eric Booker. Yale University Press, December 2022. 258 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26720-4 (h/c), $55.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267204/smokehouse-associates/. Reviewed March 2023 by Kristen J. Owens, Librarian for African American and Black Diaspora Studies, New York University Libraries, Independent…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
Book review of Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics by Lisa E. Bloom. Duke University Press, November 2022. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-2324-1 (pbk.), $27.95. https://dukeupress.edu/climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics. Reviewed March 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza by Anthony Barboza; Aaron Bryant; Mazie M Harris; Hilton Als. J. Paul Getty Museum, October 2022. 184 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-783-3 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed January 2023 by Ian McDermott, Associate Professor and Coordinator of Library Instruction, LaGuardia Community College, City…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 edited by Makeda Best. Harvard Art Museums, November 2021. 262 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26008-3 (pbk), $50.00. https://shop.harvardartmuseums.org/products/devour-the-land-war-and-american-landscape-photography-since-1970. Reviewed January 2023 by Doug Litts, Archives &…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: A Revolution on Canvas: the Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of A Revolution on Canvas: the Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830 by Paris A. Spies-Gans. Yale University Press, July 2022. 384 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-913107-29-1 (h/c), $55.00. Reviewed January 2023 by Laura Graveline, Visual Arts Librarian, Sherman Art Library, Dartmouth College, laura.graveline@dartmouth.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas edited by Andrew Turner et al. Getty Research Institute : J. Paul Getty Museum, November 2022. 96 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-788-8 $24.95. htt…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C.P.E. Bach Circle on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C.P.E. Bach Circle by Annette Richards. University of Chicago Press, September 2022. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-80626-6 (h/c), $55.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo128918277.html. Reviewed January 2023 by Jennifer Castle, Instruction and…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 edited by Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert. Hirmer Publishers, August 2022. 300 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3637-1 (h/c), $55.00.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya. University of Minnesota Press, August 2022. 336 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4529-6714-1 (h/c), $140.00. Reviewed January 2023 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, Savannah College of Art and Design, jgorzalski@scad.edu.
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 by Diane Wolfthal. Yale University Press, July 2022. 272 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-23487-9 (h/c), $45.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234879/household-servants-and-slaves/. Reviewed January 2023 by Allie Scholten, Digital Collections Manager, Visual Resources Center,…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art by Catherine Grant. Duke University Press, September 2022. 232 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1620-5 (pbk.), $25.95. Reviewed January 2023 by Emily Moore, Assistant Curator of the Aramont Library, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, emmoore@loc.gov.
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Book review of Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds edited by Gaëtane Verna. Hirmer, August 2021. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3452-0 (h/c), $57.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo51608339.html. Reviewed January 2023 by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, University of California,…[Read more]
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Megan Macken deposited Review: From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Book review of From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
by Pamela H. Smith. University of Chicago Press, September 2022. 344 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-80027-1 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed January 2023 by Jaime Groetsema, Special Collections Cataloging Coordinator, Spencer Research Library,…[Read more] -
Megan Macken deposited Review: What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 on Humanities Commons 3 years ago
Review of What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich. 10×10 Photobooks, November 2021. 352 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-578-93213-2 (pbk.), $85.00. https://10x10photobooks.org/what-they-saw-historical-photobooks-by-women-publication/. Reviewed January 2023 by Dana Statton Thompson, Research and…[Read more]
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