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]

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.

Book review of Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Christa Noel Robbins. University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 256 p. Ill. ISBN 9780226752952 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University, heather.saunders@acadiau.ca.

Book review of Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal Art. The Guggenheim Panza Collection Initiative edited by Francesca Esmay, Ted Mann, and Jeffrey Weiss. The Guggenheim Museum (distributed by D.A.P.), June 2021. 324 p. ill. ISBN 9780892075560 (h/c), $55.00. Reviewed September 2021 by Jaimie D. Donnelly, Librarian, Georgian Court University,…[Read more]

Book review of The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato. Yale University Press, August 2021. 324 p. ill. ISBN 9781606067260 (h/c), $70.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Colleen Farry, Assistant Professor, University of Scranton, colleen.farry@scranton.edu.

Book review of We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long: Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection by Heinz R. Böhme. Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2020. 271 p. col. ill. ISBN 9783777433899 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed September 2021 by Philip Dombowsky, Archivist, National Gallery of Canada, pdombowsky@gallery.ca.

Book review of The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles by Susanna Phillips Newbury. University of Minnesota Press, April 2021. 304 p. ill. ISBN 9781517903183 (pbk.), $35.00. Reviewed September 2021 by Barbara Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

Book review of Still Life: Contemporary Painters by Amber Creswell Bell. Thames & Hudson, November 2021. 272 p. ill. ISBN 9781760762025 (h/c/), $40.00. Reviewed September 2021 by Lindsey Reno, Acquisitions Librarian/Liaison, University of New Orleans, Earl K. Long Library, lreno@uno.edu.

Book review of Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts edited by Nancy Marie Mithlo. University of New Mexico Press, October 2020. 296 p. ill. ISBN 9780826362094 (pbk.), $39.95. Reviewed September 2021 by Sara Quimby, Library Director, Institute of American Indian Arts Library, sara.quimby@iaia.edu.

Book review of How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age by Andy Grundberg. Yale University Press, April 2021. 296 p. Ill. ISBN 9780300234107 (h/c), $40.00. Reviewed September 2021 by Amy Lucker, Retired, New York University, luckeramy@gmail.com.