Review of Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki. University of Minnesota Press, June 2022. 312 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-5179-1190-4 $34.95. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/tsuchi. Reviewed November 2022 by John Hosford, Art Librarian, Scholes Library, Alfred University, hosford@alfred.edu

Review of Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf. Princeton University Press, March 2022. 296 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-691-16638-4 (h/c), $60.00. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166384/gawkers. Reviewed November 2022 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University,…[Read more]

Review of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision by edited by Laura Elisa Pérez and Ann Leimer. Duke University Press, August 2022. ISBN 978-1-4780-1569-7 (pbk), $29.95. https://www.dukeupress.edu/consuelo-jimenez-underwood. Reviewed November 2022 by Tracy Meserve, Librarian, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile…[Read more]

Review of Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art by Patricio del Real. Yale University Press, August 2022. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25456-3 (h/c), $65.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254563/constructing-latin-america/. Reviewed November 2022 by Eric Wolf, Head Librarian, Sotheby’s…[Read more]

Review of Julie Manet: The Impressionist Memory by Marianne Mathieu. Yale University Press, February 2022. 324 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26409-8 (h/c), $55.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264098/julie-manet/. Reviewed November 2022 by Barbara Opar, Librarian for Architecture and French Language and Literature, Syracuse University…[Read more]

Review of The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds by Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene. J. Paul Getty Museum, June 2022. 144 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-758-1 (h/c), $29.95. Reviewed November 2022 by Stephanie B. Fletcher, Head of Discovery, Metadata, and Technical Services, Illinois Institute of…[Read more]

Review of Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker. The University of Chicago Press, 2022. 380 p. Ill. ISBN 978-0-226-81581-7 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed November 2022 by Caitlin Lenox, Graduate Student, iSchool at University of Wisconsin-Madison, clenox@wisc.edu.

Review of Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. The University of Chicago, February 2022. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-80206-0 (h/c), $27.50. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo116106417.html. Reviewed November 2022 by Sarah Mackowski, Acquisitions Assistant, Dumbarton Oaks.

Review of American Unitarian churches: architecture of a democratic religion by Ann Marie Borys. University of Massachusetts Press, February 2022. 192 p. Ill. ISBN 987-1-62534-603-2, $34.95. https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346032/american-unitarian-churches/. Reviewed November 2022 by Virginia Seymour, Head Librarian of Research and Instruction…[Read more]

Book review of Nicolás de Jesús: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice by Felipe Ehrenberg et al. Edited by Nicolás de Jesús and Patrice Giasson. Hirmer, May 2022. 175 p. Illus. ISBN: 978-3-7774-3844-3 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Alfonso Huerta, Circulation Coordinator, ArtCenter College of Design, alfonso.huerta@artcenter.edu.

Book review of An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation by Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation et al. Edited by Anjuli Nanda Diamond. Hirmer, May 2022. 228 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3756-9 (h/c), $50.00. 2 vols. Reviewed September 2022 by Avi N Woontner, Public and Technical Services Librarian, Institute of…[Read more]

Book review of 20th Century Indian Art edited by Partha Mitter et al. Thames & Hudson Inc, April 2022. 744 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02332-7 (h/c), $125.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of Pierre Bonnard: Beyond Vision by Lucy Whelan. Yale University Press, May 2022. 232 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-25886-8 (h/c), $60.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Jerrold Shiroma, University Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, University of California, Merced Library, jshiroma@ucmerced.edu.

Book review of Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe by Emma Ridgway, and Vibece Salthe. Thames & Hudson Inc, July 2022. 192 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02542-0 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Stephanie Kays, Fine Arts Librarian and liaison for Women’s & Gender Studies and East Asian Studies, Denison University, kayss@denison.edu.

Book rview of The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick by Scott A. Shields, and Mariah Carmen Briel. Hirmer, May 2022. 135 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3839-9 $40.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Victoria DeBlasio, M.A., SLIS Candidate, Independent Scholar, deblasiv@simmons.edu.

Book review of Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2022. 199 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-747-8 (h/c), $50.00. Reviewed September 2022 by Jordan Gorzalski, Research & Instruction Librarian, SCAD, jgorzalski@scad.edu.

Book review of In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba / Paisajes de Cuba by Amy Galpin. Giles, October 2022. 136 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-913875-18-3 (h/c), $45.00. https://gilesltd.com/product/in-minds-eye-la-mirada-de-quien-contempla. Reviewed September 2022 by Nicole Shibata, Metadata Librarian, California State University Northridge Library, n…[Read more]

Review of How Art Can Change Your Life by Susie Hodge. Thames & Hudson Inc, September 2022. 192 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02493-5 (pbk.), $19.95. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/how-art-can-change-your-life-softcover. Reviewed September 2022 by Jill Chisnell, Art & Design Librarian, Carnegie Mellon University, jillianc@cmu.edu.

Review of The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 by Byron Ellsworth Hamann. Getty Research Institute, August 2022. 328 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-775-8 (h/c), $60.00.…[Read more]

Review of Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory edited by Stiftung Humboldt Forum Im Berliner Schloss. Hirmer Publishers distributed by the University of Chicago Press, September 2021. 200 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3363-9 (h/c), $36.00. Reviewed July 2022 by Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning & Visual Resources Librarian, University…[Read more]