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]

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.

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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.
Reviewed January 2023 by Barbara Ann Opar, Librarian for Architecture, Syracuse University Libraries, baopar@syr.edu.

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.

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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]