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Ultra Materials Ultra Materials: How Materials Innovation is Changing the World / George M. Beylerian and Andrew Dent.--ISBN-13: 978-0-500-51382-8
Reviewed by: Karen DeWitt
Looking at Laughter Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture, 100 B.C ? A.D. 250 / John R. Clarke.--ISBN 978-0-520-23733-9
Reviewed by: Hannah Bennett
The Origins of American Photography The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839-1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Keith F. Davis.--ISBN-13:978-0-300-12286-2
Reviewed by: Kathy Ritter
Graphic Design: A New History Graphic Design: A New History / Stephen J. Eskilson.--ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12011-0
Reviewed by: Richard McElroy
Take Your Time Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson / Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn.--ISBN-13: 978-0-500-09340-5
Reviewed by: Julie Mellby
Mary Heilmann Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me / Terry R. Myers.--ISBN-13: 978-1-84638-031-0
Reviewed by: Alicia Ackerman
Antonio Mancini Antonio Mancini: Nineteenth-Century Italian Master / Ulrich W. Hiesinger.--ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12220-6
Reviewed by: Kim Collins
Signs of Life Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond / Edited by Eduardo Kac.--ISBN-13: 978-0-262-11293-2
Reviewed by: Mo Dawley
What Makes a Great Exhibition? What Makes a Great Exhibition? / Edited by Paula Marincola.--ISBN-13:978-0-9708346-1-4
Reviewed by: Natalia J Lonchyna
The Triumph of Modernism The Triumph of Modernism: India?s Artists and the Avant-Garde 1922-1947 / Partha Mitter.--ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-318-5
Reviewed by:
Chicana Art Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities / Laura E. Perez.--ISBN-13:978-0-8223-3868-0
Reviewed by: Laura Graveline
Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence / Patricia Lee Rubin.--ISBN-13:978-0-300-12342-5
Reviewed by: Tamara Fultz
The Life and The Work The Life and The Work: Art and Biography / Edited by Charles G. Salas.--ISBN-13: 978-0-89236-823-5
Reviewed by: Heather Gendron
Claim to the Country Claim to the Country: The Archive of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd / Edited by Pipa Skotnes.--ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-1778-2
Reviewed by: Jeffrey Weidman


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January 2008

Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution / Organized by Cornelia Butler.--ISBN-13 978-0-914357-99-5
Reviewed by: Terrie L. Wilson

Julie Mehretu: Black City / Lawrence Chua, Sophie Rabinowitz, et. al.--ISBN-13: 978-3-775718-63-9
Reviewed by: Yvette Cortes

The Art and Architecture of Mesopotamia / Edited by Giovanni Curatola.--ISBN-13:978-0-7892-0921-4
Reviewed by: Lamia Doumato

The Art and Architecture of Persia / Giovanni Curtola and Gianroberto Scarcia.--ISBN-13: 978-0-7892-0920-7
Reviewed by: Lamia Doumato

MediaArtHistories / Edited by Oliver Grau.--ISBN-13: 978-0-262-07279-3
Reviewed by: Tracy Bergstrom

The Architecture of Parking / Simon Henley.--ISBN-13: 978-0-500-34237-4
Reviewed by: Patricia L. Price

Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age / Julie Berger Hochstrasser.--ISBN-13: 978-0-300-100338-9
Reviewed by: Linda Duychak

Archive Styles: Photographs & Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 / Robin Kelsey--ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24935-6
Reviewed by: Paula Wolfe

Brandscapes: Architecture in the Experience Economy / Anna Klingmann.--ISBN-13: 978-0-262-113031-16-41532-1
Reviewed by: Boyd Childress

Art Market Research: A Guide to Methods and Sources / Tom McNulty.--ISBN: 0-7864-2372-2
Reviewed by: Louise Greene

Jean-Michel Basquiat 1981: The Studio of the Street / Curated by Glenn O?Brien and Diego Cortez.--ISBN-13: 978-88-8158-625-7
Reviewed by: Tom McNulty

November 2007

The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu.--ISBN 978-0-691-12679-1
Reviewed by: Amy S. Schwarz

Digital Performance: A History Of New Media In Theater, Dance, Performance Art, And Installation / Steve Dixon.--ISBN 978-0-8223-3926
Reviewed by: Mo Dawley

Steven Holl: Architecture Spoken / Steven Holl.--ISBN 0-8478-2920-0
Reviewed by: Ann Keith Kennedy

Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art / Kajri Jain.--ISBN 978-0-8223-3926-7
Reviewed by: Dan Lipcan

Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan / Gregory Levine and Yukio Lippit.--ISBN 978-0-300-11964-0
Reviewed by: Craig Bunch

Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design / Christopher Long.--ISBN 978-0-300-12102-5
Reviewed by: Marc Gartler

From Cameroon to Paris : Mousgoum Architecture In & Out of Africa / Steve Nelson.--ISBN 978-0-226-57183-6
Reviewed by: Karen Mason

The Look of Reading: Book, Painting, Text / Garrett Stewart--ISBN 0-226-77394-9
Reviewed by: John Hagood

Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love / Organized by Philippe Vergne.--ISBN 978-0-935640-86-1
Reviewed by: Aprille C. Nace

July 2007

John Currin / Norman Bryson, David Eggers, and Allison Gingeras.--ISBN 0-8478-265-4
Reviewed by: Amanda Gluibizzi

Fashion and Fancy: Dress and Meaning in Rembrandt's Paintings / Marieke de Winkel.--ISBN 90-5356-917-0
Reviewed by: Natalia Lonchyna

Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way / Co-edited by Ida Gianelli and Marcella Beccaria.--ISBN 8-7624-870-6
Reviewed by: Amy Lucker

Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan / Roger S. Keyes.--ISBN 0-295-98624-7 (cl., alk. paper)
Reviewed by: Julie Mellby

The Archive / Edited by Charles Merewether.--(Documents of contemporary art series).--ISBN 0-262-63338-8 (pa., alk. paper)
Reviewed by: Rachel Chatalbash

Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics / Edited by Sarah Nuttall.--ISBN 0-8223-3918-8 (pa., alk. paper)
Reviewed by: Megan Macken

The Architecture of Aftermath / Terry Smith.--ISBN 0-226-76469-9 (pa., alk. paper)
Reviewed by: Samantha Slade

James "Athenian" Stuart, 1713-1788: The Rediscovery of Antiquity / Edited by Susan Weber Soros.--ISBN 0-300-11713-2
Reviewed by: Lee Sorensen

The Modernist Textile: Europe and America, 1890-1940 / Virginia Gardner Troy.--ISBN 0-85331-900-6
Reviewed by: Nina K. Stephenson

Balenciaga and his Legacy / Edited by Myra Walker.--ISBN 0-300-12153-9
Reviewed by: Deirdre Donohue

February/March 2007

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes / Richard Andrews and John Beardsley.--ISBN 0-300-12120-2
Reviewed by: Ann Armstrong

Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property / Susan M. Bielstein.--ISBN 0-226-04637-0
Reviewed by: Tom McNulty

Tracing Eisenman: Complete Works / Edited by Cynthia Davidson.--ISBN 0-8478-2889
Reviewed by: Anne Simmons

When We Were Young: New Perspective on the Art of the Child / Edited by Jonathan Fineberg.--ISBN 0-520-25042-7 (cl., alk. pa.); ISBN 0-520-25043-5 (pa., alk. paper)
Reviewed by: Jennifer Benedetto Beals

East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe / Edited by IRWIN.--ISBN 1-84638-005-7
Reviewed by: Ruth Wallach

Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor / Edited by Nina Stritzler-Levine.--ISBN 0-300-116785-3
Reviewed by: Louise Greene

Versions and Inversions: Perspectives on Avant-Garde in Latin America / Edited by Héctor Olea and Maria Carmen Ramírez.--ISBN 0-300-11652-7
Reviewed by: Beverly Mitchell

Photographs: Archival Care and Management / Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler and Diane Vogt-O'Connor, with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell & Kit Peterson.--ISBN 1-931666-17-2
Reviewed by: Martha R. Mahard

October/November 2006

Palestinian Art / Gannit Ankori.--ISBN 1-86189-259-4
Reviewed by: Judy Dyki

The World of Ancient Art / John Boardman.--ISBN 0-500-23827-8
Reviewed by: Anne Marie Lane

Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries / David Carrier.--ISBN 0-8233-3694-4
Reviewed by: Dr. Jeffrey Weidman

The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing / T.J. Clark.--ISBN 0-300-11726-4
Reviewed by: John Hagood

The Early Modern Painter-Etcher / Edited by Michael Cole.--ISBN 0-271-02905-6
Reviewed by: Kellie Cannon

Karen LaMonte: Absence Adorned / Arthur C. Danto and Juli Cho Bailer.--ISBN 0-9726649-1-2
Reviewed by: Aprille C. Nace

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth-Century American Lithography / Jay T. Last.--ISBN 0-914589-11-3
Reviewed by: Dan Lipcan

Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw.--(Jacob Lawrence series on American artists).--ISBN 0-295-98571-2
Reviewed by: Raquel V. Cogell

Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary / Michael Sullivan.--ISBN 978-0-520-24449-8
Reviewed by: Tang Li

Art of the Digital Age / Bruce Wands.--ISBN-13 978-0-500-23817-2; ISBN-10 0-500-23817-0
Reviewed by: Judy Dyki

Art Documentation / Vol. 25, No. 1

Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today / Jacquelynn Baas.--ISBN 0-520-24208-4
Reviewed by: Ed Teague

The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People / Edited by Mieke Bal.--ISBN 0-226-03581-6
Reviewed by: Rachel Mendez

Figurative Art in Medieval Islam and the Riddle of Bihzâd of Herât (1465-1535) / Michael Barry.--ISBN 2-0803-0421-6
Reviewed by: Kathryn Phillips

Arts of Africa: 7000 Years of African Art / Edited by Ezio Bassani.--ISBN 88-7624-284-8
and
Arts of Africa: The Contemporary Collection of Jean Pigozzi / Edited by André Magnin.--ISBN 88-7624-296-1
Reviewed by: Patricia T. Thompson

Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism / Edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard.--ISBN 0-520-24251-3
Reviewed by: Emily Yedinak

Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty / Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly.--ISBN 0-520-24554-7
Reviewed by: Tom Riedel

Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classic and Contemporary Letterforms / Cees W. de Jong, Alston Purvis, Friedrich Friedl.--ISBN 0-500-51229-9
Reviewed by: Rebecca Kranz Friedman

The Visual Mind II / Michele Emmer.--ISBN 0-262-05076-5
Reviewed by: David Austin

Crusader Art in the Holy Land. From the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291 / Jaroslav Folda.--ISBN 0-521-83583-6
Reviewed by: Lamia Doumato

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence / Edited by David Franklin.--ISBN 0-88884-804-8
Reviewed by: Rina Vecchiola

Public Art by the Book / Edited by Barbara Goldstein.--ISBN 0-295-98521-6
Reviewed by: Claire Eike

The Rhetoric of Perspective: Realism and Illusionism in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting / Hanneke Grootenboer.--ISBN 0-226-30968-1
Reviewed by: John Hagood

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of Public Space / Wu Hung.--ISBN 0-226-36078-4
Reviewed by: Daniela Yew

The Iconic Building / Charles Jencks.--ISBN 0-8478-2756-9
Reviewed by: Ann Keith Kennedy

Mysterious Spirits, Strange Beasts, Earthly Delights: Early Chinese Art from the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Collection / Donald Jenkins and Jay Xu.--ISBN 1-883124-18-2
Reviewed by: Alessia Zanin-Yost

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands / Eric Kjellgren and Carol S. Ivory.--ISBN 0-300-10712-9
Reviewed by: Danuta Zwierciadlowski

The Origins of Medieval Architecture / Charles B. McClendon.--ISBN 0-300-10688-2
Reviewed by: Patricia Kosco Cossard

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images / W. J. T. Mitchell--ISBN: 0-226-53245-3
Reviewed by: Paula Wolfe

The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories / Edited by Roberta Moudry.--ISBN 0-521-62421-5
and
Skyscrapers: Structure and Design / Matthew Wells.--ISBN 0-300-10679-3
Reviewed by: Boyd Childress

The Business of Art: Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley.--ISBN 0-300-10438-3
Reviewed by: Tom McNulty

Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art / Esther Pasztory.--ISBN 0-292-76597-5
Reviewed by: Richard McElroy

Modernism in American Silver: 20th Century Design / Jewel Stern.--ISBN 0-300-10927-X
Reviewed by: Karen DeWitt

Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist / Produced by Chris Maybach and Paul Gardner.-- DVD: 32 min.--ISBN 821029000105
Reviewed by: Joan Stahl

Museum Planet: Venice / Museum Planet.--1 DVD-ROM.--ISBN 0-9742670-2-3
Reviewed by: Joan Stahl

The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome / Alison Wright.--ISBN 0-300-10625-4
Reviewed by: Terrie L. Wilson

Art Documentation / Vol. 24, No. 2

Slideshow / Darsie Alexander.--ISBN 0-271-02541-7
Reviewed by: Gregory P. J. Most

Architecture & Arts 1900/2004: A Century of Creative Projects in Building, Design, Cinema, Painting, Photography, and Sculpture / Edited by Germano Celant.--ISBN 88-7624-009-8
Reviewed by: Shannon Van Kirk

Designing for the Homeless: Architecture That Works / Sam Davis.--ISBN 0-520-23525-8
Reviewed by: Alan Michelson

George Inness and the Science of Landscape / Rachael Ziady DeLue.--ISBN 0-226-14229-9
Reviewed by: Kraig Binkowski

Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism / Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin Buchloh.--ISBN 0-500-23818-9
Reviewed by: Tom Riedel

The Snow Show / Edited by Lance Fung.--ISBN 0-500-23819-7
Reviewed by: Joan Stahl

Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique / Edited by Ellen G. Landau.--ISBN 0-300-10613-0
Reviewed by: Jennifer Benedetto Beals

Guide to the Literature of Art History 2 / Edited by Max Marmor and Alex Ross.--ISBN 0-8389-0878-0
Reviewed by: Joan Stahl

Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture / Edited by Takashi Murakami.--ISBN 0-300-10285-2
Reviewed by: Adele Marley

Gehry Draws / Edited by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette.--ISBN 0-262-18241-6
Reviewed by: Erika Dowell

Grounds for Review: The Garden Festival in Urban Planning and Design / Andrew C. Theokas.--ISBN 0-85323-539-2
Reviewed by: David Austin

Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works / Alexander Tzonis.--ISBN 0-8478-2641-4
Reviewed by: Paul Glassman

Publications Received (subject to later review)

Art Documentation / Vol. 24, No. 1

Index to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Catalogues of Art / Index des Catalogues d'Art Parus au Canada au XIXe Siècle / Jonathan Franklin.--ISBN 0-88884-786-6
Reviewed By: Kathy Zimon

The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th-17th Centuries: Papers / Edited by Manuel João Ramos with Isabel Boavida.--ISBN 0-7546-5037-5
Reviewed By: Patricia J. Thompson

The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution / Pamela H. Smith.--ISBN 0-226-76399-4
Reviewed By: Thomas J. Tobin

Great Private Collections of Imperial Russia / Oleg Neverov.--ISBN 0-86565-225-2
Reviewed By: Kristen Regina

Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony / Edited by Nancy Green.--ISBN 0-9646-0420-5
Reviewed By: Shannon Van Kirk

Prosthetic Gods / Hal Foster.--ISBN 0-262-06242-9
Reviewed By: John Hagood

Franz Kline, 1910-1962 / Edited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.--ISBN 88-7624-141-8
Reviewed By: Jennifer Benedetto Beals

Face to Face: The Art of Portrait / Paul Ardenne and, Élisabeth Nora.--ISBN 2-0803-0462-3
Reviewed By: Martha Mahard

Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation / Leo Rubinfien, Sandra S. Phillips, and John W. Dower, with a preface by Daido Moraiyama.--ISBN 0-300-10604-1
Reviewed By: Deirdre Donohue

Art Works: Autobiography / Barbara Steiner and Jun Yang.--ISBN 0-500-93005-8
Reviewed By: Sandra Cowan

Art Works: Money / Katy Siegel and Paul Mattick.--ISBN 0-500-93004-X
Reviewed By: Sandra Cowan

Space: Japanese Design Solutions For Compact Living / Michael Freeman.--ISBN 0-7893-1065-1
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

Orlan: Carnal Art / Bernard Blistène, Regis Durand, Julian Agazagoitia, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Laurent le Bon, and Caroline Cros.--ISBN 2-0803-0431-3
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

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Art Documentation / Vol. 20, No. 1

MATERIALS & TECHNIQUES IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS: AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY / Lucy Trench, ed.
Reviewed By: Paula Frosch

EDEN BY DESIGN: THE 1930 OLMSTED BARTHOLOMEW PLAN FOR THE LOS ANGELES REGION / Greg Hise and William Deverell.
Reviewed By: Ruth Wallach

THE ARTIST & THE GARDEN / Roy Strong.
Reviewed By: Sheila Klos

MICROMOSAICS / Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel.
Reviewed By: Thomas Jacoby

SPLENDORS OF ISLAM: ARCHITECTURE, DECORATION, AND DESIGN / Dominique Clévenot.
Reviewed By: Janine J. Henri

AMAZONS IN THE DRAWING ROOM: THE ART OF ROMAINE BROOKS / Whitney Chadwick.
\ Reviewed By: Edith L. Crowe

CARNIVALESQUE / Timothy Hyman and Roger Malbert.
Reviewed By: Tom Riedel

TATE MODERN: THE HANDBOOK / Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson, eds.
Reviewed By: Margaret Boylan

ROBERT INDIANA: FIGURES OF SPEECH / Susan Elizabeth Ryan.
Reviewed By: Laura Schwartz

PEEK: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE KINSEY INSTITUTE / Essays by Carol Squiers and Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro.
Reviewed By: Barbara Polowy

WEB TEACHING GUIDE: A PRACTICAL APPPROACH TO CREATING WEB SITES / Sarah Horton.
Reviewed By: Tom Greives

A HIKER'S GUIDE TO ART OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES / Lisa Christensen.
and
A HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ART OF LAWREN HARRIS / Lisa Christensen.
Reviewed By: Kathy E. Zimon

EARLY ART AND ARTISTS IN WEST VIRGINIA: AN INTRODUCTION AND BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY / John A. Cuthbert.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

PLASTICS: COLLECTING AND CONSERVING / Anita Quye and Colin Williamson, eds.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NATIVE AMERICAN JEWELRY: A GUIDE TO HISTORY, PEOPLE, AND TERMS / Paula A. Baxter, with Allison Bird-Romero.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

Art Documentation / Vol. 19, No. 2

AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS ON DISC / Lynn Moody Igoe and James Igoe, eds.
Reviewed By: Amanda Bowen

DUTCH PRINTER?S DEVICES 15TH?17TH CENTURY / P. van Huisstede and J.P.J. Brandhorst.
Reviewed By: Murtha Baca

THE ARTISTS OF THE WORLD: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX A-Z / K. G. Saur.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

DICTIONARY OF TEXAS ARTISTS, 1800-1945 / Compiled by Paula L. Grauer and Michael R. Grauer.
and
TEXAS PAINTERS, SCULPTORS & GRAPHIC ARTISTS: A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS IN TEXAS BEFORE 1942 / John and Deborah Powers.
Reviewed By: Laura Schwartz

ART OF ANCIENT SPECTACLE / Bettina Bergmann and Christine Kondoleon, eds.
Reviewed By: Stephanie Sigala

IMAGING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL BIBLE / John Williams, ed.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato

MOSAICS OF THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD / Katherine M.D. Dunbabin.
Reviewed By: Thomas Jacoby

RUSSIAN PAINTING: FROM THE XVIIIth UNTIL THE XXth CENTURY / Peter Leek.
Reviewed By: Natalia Lonchyna

SENECA RAY STODDARD: TRANSFORMING THE ADIRONDACK WILDERNESS IN TEXT AND IMAGE / Jeffrey L. Horrell.
Reviewed By: Nina K. Stephenson

FAIRFIELD PORTER: A LIFE IN ART / Justin Spring.
Reviewed By: Jeffrey Weidman

DALI'S OPTICAL ILLUSIONS / Dawn Ades, ed.
Reviewed By: Anne Marie Lane

ANTONAKOS / Irving Sandler.
Reviewed By: Jenny Tobias

READING THE CONTEMPORARY: AFRICAN ART FROM THEORY TO THE MARKETPLACE / Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, eds.
Reviewed By: Janet L. Stanley

ORIGINS OF ARCHITECTURAL PLEASURE / Grant Hildebrand.
Reviewed By: Janine J. Henri

FROM CRAFT TO PROFESSION: THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA / Mary N. Woods.
Reviewed By: Deborah Barlow Smedstad

THE ARCHITECTURE OF O'NEIL FORD: CELEBRATING PLACE / David Dillon.
and
TEXAS HOUSES; BUILT BY THE BOOK: THE USE OF PUBLISHED DESIGNS, 1850-1925 / Margaret Culbertson.
Reviewed By: Ruth Wallach

THE SECULAR FURNITURE OF E. W. GODWIN WITH CATALOGUE RAISONNE / Susan Weber Soros.
Reviewed By: Stephen H. Van Dyk

SEEING THROUGH PAINTINGS: PHYSICAL EXAMINATION IN ART HISTORICAL STUDIES / Andrea Kirsh and Rustin S. Levenson.
Reviewed By: Louise Greene

THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM: A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND EXHIBITION CHRONOLOGY, 1852-1996 / Compiled by Elizabeth James.
Reviewed By: Diana Cooper

ARTISTS IN CANADA: A UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES / Cyndie Campbell and Sylvie Roy.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICIES FOR LIBRARIES & VISUAL COLLECTIONS IN THE ARTS / Compiled by Ann Baird Whiteside, Pamela Born, and Adeane Alpert Bregman.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

DRAPETOMANIA, A DISEASE CALLED FREEDOM: AN EXHIBITION OF 18th-, 19th-, AND EARLY 20th- CENTURY MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE IN THE AMERICAS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DERRICK JOSHUA BEARD / Curated by James A. Findlay.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

Art Documentation / Vol. 19, No. 1

WHO WAS WHO IN AMERICAN ART, 1564-1975, 400 YEARS OF ARTISTS IN AMERICA / Peter Hastings Falk, ed.
Reviewed By: Amanda Bowen

INDEX TO NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN ART PERIODICALS / Mary Morris Schmidt.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

BIOGRAPHISCHES HANDBUCH DEUTSCHSPRACHIGER KUNSTHISTORIKER IM EXIL / Ulrike Wendland.
and
METZLER KUNSTHISTORIKER LEXIKON: ZWEIHUNDERT PORTRÄTS DEUTSCHPRACHIGER AUTORTEN AUS VIER JAHRHUNDERTEN / Peter Betthausen, Peter H. Feist, Christiane Fork.
Reviewed By: Lee Sorenson

ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOREPRODUCTIONS: A MANUAL FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CARE / Eléonore Kissel and Erin Vigneau.
Reviewed By: Ann Lally

LEONARD'S PRICE INDEX OF LATIN AMERICAN ART AT AUCTION / Susan Theran.
Reviewed By: Peter Stern

NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN ART: A TOPICAL DICTIONARY / Terry W. Strieter.
Reviewed By: Laura Schwartz

DICTIONARY OF BIRD ARTISTS OF THE WORLD / Christine E. Jackson.
Reviewed By: Karen O'Connell

FALIZE: A DYNASTY OF JEWELERS / Katherine Purcell.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato

PICTORIAL NARRATIVE IN ANCIENT GREEK ART / Mark D. Stansbury-O'Donnell.
Reviewed By: Thomas Jacoby

THE BALTIMORE ROWHOUSE / Mary Ellen Hayward and Charles Belfoure.
Reviewed By: Paul Glassman

NEW YORK 1880: ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN THE GILDED AGE / Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman.
Reviewed By: David Austin

MAROON ARTS: CULTURAL VITALITY IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA / Sally Price and Richard Price.
Reviewed By: Patricia T. Thompson

TUPPERWARE: THE PROMISE OF PLASTIC IN 1950s AMERICA / Alison J. Clarke.
Reviewed By: Gregory P. J. Most

HOLLIS SIGLER'S BREAST CANCER JOURNAL / Hollis Sigler with texts by Susan M. Love and James Yood.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

Art Documentation / Vol. 18, No. 2

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AESTHETICS / Michael Kelly, ed.
Reviewed By: Tom Riedel

ART 20: THE THAMES AND HUDSON MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARY OF MODERN ART
Reviewed By: Linda Tompkins-Baldwin

ART THEORISTS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
Reviewed By: David Austin

THE DUNBIER SYSTEM & ENCompass 22,000 ARTIST DIRECTORY, Version 2.0.1 / Roger Dunbier
Reviewed By: Barbara Q. Prior

ART OF KOSOVO: THE SACRED LAND / Gojko Suboti.
Reviewed By: Thomas J. Jacoby

SCENES IN A LIBRARY: READING THE PHOTOGRAPH IN THE BOOK, 1843-1875 / Carol Armstrong.
Reviewed By: Julie Mellby

THE SPRINGBOARD IN THE POND: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF THE SWIMMING POOL / Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen.
Reviewed By: Paul Glassman

ACADEMIES, MUSEUMS AND CANONS OF ART / Gill Perry and Colin Cunningham, eds.
and
THE CHANGING STATUS OF THE ARTIST / Emma Barker, Nick Webb, and Kim Woods, eds.
Reviewed By: Edith L. Crowe

ART SUBJECTS: MAKING ARTISTS IN THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY / Howard Singerman.
Reviewed By: Laura Schwartz

WEB STYLE GUIDE: BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPALS FOR CREATING WEB SITES / Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton.
Reviewed By: Lee Sorensen

POSSESSIONS: INDIGENOUS ART, COLONIAL CULTURE / Nicholas Thomas.
and
UNPACKING CULTURE: ART AND COMMODITY IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL WORLDS / Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner, eds.
Reviewed By: Patricia T. Thompson

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHIVAL ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION / Michael J. Fox and Peter L. Wilkerson.
and
INTRODUCTION TO IMAGING / Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant.
and
INTRODUCTION TO METADATA: PATHWAYS TO DIGITAL INFORMATION / Murtha Baca, ed.
and
INTRODUCTION TO VOCABULARIES: ENHANCING ACCESS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION / Elisa Lansi.
Reviewed By: Judy Dyki

THE CRAFTS IN BRITAIN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / Tanya Harrod.
Reviewed By: Kari E. Horowicz

RENAISSANCE SELF-PORTRAITURE: THE VISUAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY AND THE SOCIAL STATUS OF THE ARTIST / Joanna Woods.
Reviewed By: Lee Robinson

Art Documentation / Vol. 18, No. 1

ART INFORMATION AND THE INTERNET: HOW TO FIND IT, HOW TO USE IT / Lois Swan Jones.
Reviewed By: Lyn Korenic

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE ICONOGRAPHY: THEMES DEPICTED IN ART / Helene E. Roberts, ed.
Reviewed By: Amanda Bowen

THE ART OF BEING YOU / Gianni Versace.
and
GIANNI VERSACE / Richard Martin.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato

DELIVERING VIEWS: DISTANT CULTURES IN EARLY POSTCARDS / Christraud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds.
Reviewed By: Patricia T. Thompson

JEWISH ICONS: ART AND SOCIETY IN MODERN EUROPE / Richard I. Cohen.
Reviewed By: Jane Levy

ARTS OF KOREA / Judith Smith, ed.
Reviewed By: Marilyn R. Healey

EARLY NETHERLANDISH CARVED ALTARPIECES, 1380-1550: MEDIEVAL TASTES AND MASS MARKETING / Lynn F. Jacobs.
Reviewed By: Thomas J. Jacoby

IMAGING THE ARCTIC / J. C. H. King and Henrietta Lidchi, eds.
Reviewed By: Julie Mellby

TABO: A LAMP FOR THE KINGDOM / Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter.
Reviewed By: Janine Jacqueline Henri

EDWARD BURNE-JONES: VICTORIAN ARTIST-DREAMER / Stephen Wildman and John Christian.
Reviewed By: Kaia Stavig Esau

Art Documentation / Vol. 17, No. 2

PHOTOGRAPHERS ENCYCLOPAEDIA INTERNATIONAL / Michele and Michel Auer.
Reviewed By: Peter Blank

THE BUSINESS OF WATERCOLOUR: A GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVES OF THE ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY / Simon Fenwick and Greg Smith.
Reviewed By: Becky Simmons

A ARTE NO BRASIL: DOS PRIMORDIOS AO SÉCULO VINTEÉ: UMA BIBLIOGRAFIA SELETA, ANOTADA / ART IN BRAZIL FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO MODERN TIMES: A SELECTED, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY / José Neistein.
Reviewed By: Clayton Kirking

BEYOND ART: PLEISTOCENE IMAGE AND SYMBOL / Margaret W. Conkey, Olga Soffer, Deborah Stratmann, and Nina G. Jablonski, eds.
and
JOURNEY THROUGH THE ICE AGE / Paul Bahn.
Reviewed By: Nancy Mactague

ICONS: THE FASCINATION AND THE REALITY / Konrad Onasch and AnneMarie Schnieper.
Reviewed By: Anne Marie Lane

THE SCHOLAR IN HIS STUDY: OWNERSHIP AND EXPERIENCE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY / Dora Thornton.
Reviewed By: Kathryn Jackson

THE PANORAMA: HISTORY OF A MASS MEDIUM / Stephan Oettermann.
Reviewed By: Margaret Welch

INVISIBLE COLORS: A VISUAL HISTORY OF TITLES / John C. Welchman.
Reviewed By: Howard Smith

A MARBLE QUARRY: THE JAMES H. RICAU COLLECTION OF SCULPTURE AT THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM OF ART / H. Nicholas B. Clark.
Reviewed By: Tom McNulty

THE JEWELS OF LALIQUE / Yvonne Brunhammer, ed.
Reviewed By: Kaia Stavig Esau

THOMAS EAKINS REDISCOVERED / Kathleen A. Foster.
Reviewed By: Tom Riedel

REAL FANTASIES: EDWARD STEICHEN'S ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY / Patricia Johnston.
Reviewed By: James H. Carmin

IMAGE AND MEMORY: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM LATIN AMERICA, 1866-1994 / Wendy Watriss and Lois Parkinson Zamora, eds.
Reviewed By: Timothy Troy

ECO-TECH: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY / Catherine Slessor.
Reviewed By: Ann Lally

TECHNO TEXTILES / Sarah E. Braddock and Marie O'Mahony.
Reviewed By: Hikmet Dogu

AMERICAN WINDSOR FURNITURE: SPECIALIZED FORMS / Nancy Goyne Evans.
Reviewed By: Jean Hines

FORMLESS: A USER'S GUIDE / Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss.
Reviewed By: Robin Ptacheck

BOB VERSCHUEREN: WIND PAINTINGS AND VEGETABLE INSTALLATIONS / Essays by Astrid Mania and Lida von Mengden.
Reviewed By: Barry Stahl

ARTMARC SOURCEBOOK: CATALOGING ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND THEIR VISUAL IMAGES / Linda McRae and Lynda S. White, eds.
Reviewed By: Margaret N. Webster

Art Documentation / Vol. 17, No. 1

WASHINGTON ALLSTON, SECRET SOCIETIES AND THE ALCHEMY OF ANGLO-AMERCAN PAINTING / David Bjelajac.
Reviewed By: Floyd M. Zula

ARTWORDS: A GLOSSARY OF CONTEMPORARY ART THEORY / Thomas Patin and Jennifer McLerran.
Reviewed By: Carrie Marsh

BURNING WITH DESIRE: THE CONCEPTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY / Geoffrey Batchen.
Reviewed By: Timothy Troy

THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHINESE PAINTING / Richard Barnhart, James Cahill, Nie Chongzheng, Wu Hung, Lang Shaojun, and Yang Yin.
Reviewed By: Lily Kecskes

CHARLES CORREA / Kenneth Frampton and Charles Correa.
Reviewed By: Ann Lally

PHOTOGRAPHERS ON DISC / George Eastman House.
Reviewed By: Nina Stephenson

GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 1870-1970 / Klaus Honnef, Rolf Sachsse, and Karin Thomas.
Reviewed By: Nina Stephenson

THE ORIGINS OF GRAPHIC DESIGN IN AMERICA, 1870-1920 / Ellen Mazur Thomson.
Reviewed By: Julie Mellby

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERIOR DESIGN / Joanna Banham, ed.
Reviewed By: Stephen H. Van Dyk

MULTIMEDIA GRAPHICS: THE BEST OF GLOBAL HYPERDESIGN / Willem Velthoven and Jorinde Seijdel, eds.
Reviewed By: Jenny Tobias

NUNS AS ARTISTS: THE VISUAL CULTURE OF A MEDIEVAL CONVENT / Jeffrey F. Hamburger.
Reviewed By: Ray Anne Lockard

PARIS: A GUIDE TO ARCHIVAL SOURCES FOR AMERICAN ART HISTORY / Susan Grant.
Reviewed By: Amanda Bowen

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SHADOW / Victor I. Stoichita.
Reviewed By: David Austin

THE DESTRUCTION OF ART: ICONOCLASM AND VANDALISM SINCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION / Dario Gamboni.
Reviewed By: Liesel Nolan

SURVEYING THE FIRST DECADE: VIDEO ART AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES / Curated by Chris Hill.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

AVANT-GARDE ART IN RUSSIA, 1920-1930 / Yevgeny Kovtun.
and
MIKHAIL VROUBEL / Mikhail Guerman.
Reviewed By: Natalia Lonchyna

DICTIONARY OF WOMEN ARTISTS / Delia Gaze, ed.
Reviewed By: Sheila Klos

FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC, and THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Web sites
Reviewed By: Sam Duncan

Art Documentation / July 1997

DUTCH ART: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA / Edited by Sheila D. Muller.
Reviewed By: Katherine Haskins

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SOURCEBOOK: A GUIDE TO RESOURCES ON THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE UNITED STATES / Diana Volgelson.
Reviewed By: Barry Stahl

ARCHITECTURE SOURCEBOOK: A GUIDE TO RESOURCES ON THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE / by Kathryn M. Wayne.
Reviewed By: Paul Glassman

THE GLORY OF BYZANTIUM: ART AND CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE BYZANTINE ERA A. D. 843-1261 / Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, eds.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato

BLACK ART AND CULTURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY / Richard J. Powell.
Reviewed By: Deborah Kempe

LCEASY 2.0 FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH / Produced by Mary L. Kish, based on materials developed by J. E. Bowen.
Reviewed By: Peggy Keeran

SOMEHOW A PAST: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARSDEN HARTLEY / Susan Elizabeth Ryan, ed.
Reviewed By: Hikmet Dogu

CELLBLOCK VISIONS: PRISON ART IN AMERICA / Patricia Kornfeld.
Reviewed By: Linda Tompkins-Baldwin

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / National Museum of American Art.
Reviewed By: Milan R. Hughston

LES BOIS D'ÉBÉNISTERIE DANS LE MOBILIER FRANÇAIS / Jacqueline Viaux-Locquin.
Reviewed By: Amy Gale

VIDEOS ON ART: A RESOURCE GUIDE TO FILMS AND VIDEOS AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE FROM THE ROLAND COLLECTION
and
THE ROLAND COLLECTION FILMS AND VIDEOS ON ART: ON-LINE RESOURCE GUIDE / Anthony Roland.
Reviewed By: Gina Kaiser

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO CHRISTIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE / Peter and Linda Murray.
Reviewed By: Thomas J. Jacoby

METALWORK IN EARLY AMERICA: COPPER AND ITS ALLOYS FROM THE WINTERTHUR COLLECTION / Donald L. Fennimore.
Reviewd By: Richard J. Wattenmaker

PAINTING PLACE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DAVID B. MILNE / David B. Silcox.
Reviewed By: Kathy Zimon

AMERICAN ART COLONIES 1850-1930: A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO AMERICA'S ORIGINAL ART COLONIES AND THEIR ARTISTS / Steve Shipp.
Reviewed By: Joan Stahl

VERSAILLES: THE HISTORY OF THE GARDENS AND THEIR SCULPTURE / Stéphane Pincas.
Reviewed By: Kathryn A. Jackson

ARTLOOK : THE CDROM SHOWCASE OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ART.
Reviewed By: Tom Riedel

PHOTOGRAPHS IN INK / Curated by David A. Hanson and Sidney Tillim.
Reviewed By: Julie Mellby

MBUTI DESIGN: PAINTINGS BY PYGMY WOMEN OF THE ITURI FOREST / Georges Meurant and Robert Farris Thompson.
Reviewed By: Patricia T. Thompson

Art Documentation / January 1997

DICTIONARY OF ART / Jane Turner, ed.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato, Gregory P. J. Most, Martin R. Kalfatovic, Lily Kecskes, Anita Carrico

GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT, PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS' EDITION / Direct Imagination.
Reviewed By: Jenny Tobias

RED WING ART POTTERY, INCLUDING POTTERY MADE FOR RUMRILL / Ray Reiss.
Reviewed By: Carrie Marsh

THE STONE AND THE THREAD: ANDEAN ROOTS OF ABSTRACT ART / Cèsar Paternosto.
Reviewed By: Anne Marie Lane

AN ARCHITECTURAL LIFE: MEMOIRS AND MEMORIES OF CHARLES W. MOORE / Kevin P. Keim, ed.
Reviewed By: Floyd M. Zula

MOSHE SAFDIE: BUILDINGS AND PROJECTS, 1967-1992 / Irena Zantovska Murray, ed.
Reviewed By: Paul Glassman

A FLIGHT WITH FAME: THE LIFE AND ART OF FREDERICK MACMONNIES / Mary Smart.
Reviewed By: Patricia Siska

TAPESTRIES OF HOPE, THREADS OF LOVE: THE ARPILLERA MOVEMENT IN CHILE, 1974-1994 / Marjorie Agosìn.
Reviewed By: Ann Lally

INK, PAPER, METAL, WOOD: PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS AT CROWN POINT PRESS / Kathan Brown.
Reviewed By: Laura Schwartz

see: A journal of visual culture (vol. 2:1, 1996) / Andy Grundberg, ed.
Reviewed By: Tim Troy

TRANS>arts.cultures.media, vol. 1, number 1 (1995) / Sandra Antelo-Suarez, ed.
Reviewed By: Stephanie Moye

THE WORLD OF TRIBAL ARTS
Reviewed By: Ann Leslie Jones

Art Documentation / July 1996

LEONARD'S COMBINED PRICE INDEX OF ART AUCTIONS / Auction Index, Inc.
Reviewed By: Milan R. Houston

BHA CD-ROM, RILA CD-ROM, RAA CD-ROM / Various.
Reviewed By: Barbara Q. Prior

THEORIES AND DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART: A SOURCEBOOK OF ARTISTS' WRITINGS / Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, eds.
Reviewed By: Kari E. Horowicz

CLASSICAL BRONZES: THE ART AND CRAFT OF GREEK AND ROMAN STATUARY / Carol C. Mattusch.
Reviewed By: Stephanie C. Sigala

SALVATOR ROSA: HIS LIFE AND TIMES / Jonathan Scott.
Reviewed By: Katherine Haskins

ART HISTORY THROUGH THE CAMERA'S LENS / Helene E. Roberts, ed.
Reviewed By: Amanda Bowen

ORNAMENT: A SOCIAL HISTORY SINCE 1450 / Michael Snodin & Maurice Howard.
Reviewed By: Gregory P. J. Most

ICONS OF AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM: THE ART OF WARNER SALLMAN / David Morgan, ed.
Reviewed By: Tom Riedel

CINEMA AND PAINTING: HOW ART IS USED IN FILM / Angela Dalle Vacche.
Reviewed By: Ophelia Georgiev Roop

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL QUILT / Deborah Blincoe, John Forrest.
Reviewed By: Neville Thompson

INSIDE THE VISIBLE: AN ELLIPTICAL TRAVERSE OF 20TH CENTURY ART IN, OF, AND FROM THE FEMININE / M. Catherine de Zegher, ed.
Reviewed By: Maureen Grove Turman

THE MURALS OF REVOLUTIONARY NICARAGUA, 1979-1992 / David Kunzle.
Reviewed By: Lee Robinson

AN EVERYDAY MODERNISM: THE HOUSES OF WILLIAM WURSTER / Marc Treib, ed.
Reviewed By: Ann Lally

Art Documentation / May 1996

WORLD OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN / Francisco Asensio Cerver.
Reviewed By: Sheila Klos

THE NATIONAL GALLERY COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE / Compiled by Christopher Baker and Tom Henry.
Reviewed By: David L. Austin

THE BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF NATIVE AMERICAN PAINTERS / Patrick D. Lester.
Reviewed By: Edith L. Crowe

CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS / Dawn E. Reno.
Reviewed By: Edith L. Crowe

ARTISTS' BOOKS: THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, 1963-1995 / Stephen Bury.
Reviewed By: Kristine Markovich

ART AND THE ROMAN VIEWER: THE TRANSFORMATION OF ART FROM THE PAGAN WORLD TO CHRISTIANITY / Jas Elsner.
Reviewed By: Thomas Jacoby

INDEPENDENT SPIRITS: WOMEN PAINTERS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1890-1945 / Patricia Trenton, ed.
Reviewed By: Liesel Nolan

SURREALISM IN EXILE AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL / Martica Sawin, ed.
Reviewed By: Timothy Shipe

DISTANT RELATIONS: CHICANO, IRISH AND MEXICAN ART AND CRITICAL WRITING / Trisha Ziff, ed.
Reviewed By: Jonathan Yorba

FEDERAL ART AND NATIONAL CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY IN NEW DEAL AMERICA / Jonathan Harris.
Reviewed By: Martin R. Kalfatovic

LOOKING HIGH AND LOW: ART AND CULTURAL IDENTITY / Brenda Jo Bright and Liza Bakewell, eds.
Reviewed By: Pat Flanagan

PLAYING WITH THE EDGE: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE / Arthur C. Danto.
Reviewed By: Nina Stephenson

IN PERFECT HARMONY: PICTURE AND FRAME 1850-1920 / Eva Mendgen et al.
Reviewed By: Natalia J. Lonchyna

JEWELRY IN AMERICA / Martha Gandy Fales.
Reviewed By: Lamia Doumato

THE NEW TYPOGRAPHY: A HANDBOOK FOR MODERN DESIGNERS / Jan Tschichold.
Reviewed By: Anne Marie Lane

SLIDE COLLECTION MANAGEMENT IN LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION UNITS / Glyn Sutcliffe.
Reviewed By: Jenni Rodda


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