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Entries in In Review (34)
In Review: August 25–31, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle:
• Frida's Bed, Slavenka Drakulic, Christina P. Zoric trans. (Penguin)
Boston Globe:
• The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Edward Dolnick (Harper)
CAA Reviews:*
• The Anthropology of Art: A Reader, Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins, eds. (Blackwell)
The Guardian:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Penguin)
The New York Sun:
• The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren, Jonathan Lopez (Harcourt)
• The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Edward Dolnick (Harper)
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In Review: August 18–24, 2008
Frieze:
• Art Power, Boris Groys (MIT Press)
St. Petersburg Times:
• The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America, Tom Buk-Swienty, Annette Buk-Swienty, trans. (W.W. Norton)
CAA Reviews:*
• Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan, Kim Brandt (Duke University Press)
• Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005, Patricia J. Graham (University of Hawai'i Press)
• Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan, Elizabeth Lillehoj, ed. (Floating World Editions)
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In Review: August 11–17, 2008
Chicago Tribune:
• Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin, Lisa Thaler (Midmarch Arts)
• Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, Cynthia Saltzman (Viking)
CAA Reviews:*
• Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science, Lorraine Daston, ed. (Zone Books)
• Titian Remade: Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art, Maria H. Loh (Getty Research Institute)
London Review of Books (vol. 30, no. 16):*
• The Bellini Card, Jason Goodwin (Faber & Faber)
• The Bellini Madonna, Elizabeth Lowry (Quercus)
New York Review of Books (vol. 55, no. 13):
• Rembrandt's Jews, Steven Nadler (University of Chicago Press)
The Times Literary Supplement:
• Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of Memory, Peter Read (University of California Press)
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In Review: June 16–22, 2008
New York Times:
• The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Edward Dolnick (Harper)
The Bookreporter.com
• Stealing Athena, Karen Essex (Doubleday)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
• Artworld Metaphysics, Robert Kraut (Oxford University Press) via Bookforum.com
The Guardian:
• Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, Andrew Graham-Dixon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
In Review: May 26–June 15, 2008
Portland Oregonian:
• Cezanne's Quarry, Barbara Pope (Pegasus)
Seattle Times:
• Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus, Gregory Gibson (Harcourt)
The New York Sun:
• Let's See: Writings on Art from The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl (Thames & Hudson)
Frieze:
• The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things, George Kubler (Yale University Press) Cited by Adrian Piper in Frieze's Ideal Syllabus.
CAA Reviews: *
• Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome, Jeannine Diddle Uzzi (Cambridge University Press)
• The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America, Charmaine A. Nelson (University of Minnesota Press)
• Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio’s Visual Rhetoric and the Passion Cycle at La Brigue, Véronique Plesch (University of Notre Dame Press)
• Abstraction and the Holocaust, Mark Godfrey (Yale University Press)
• Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens, Lisa Rosenthal (Cambridge University Press)
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In Review: May 19–25, 2008
New York Times:
• Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom (The New Press)
Boston Globe:
• A Curious Earth, Gerard Woodward (W.W. Norton)
CAA Reviews:*
• Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations, Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, eds. (Duke University Press)
Bookforum (June/July/Aug 2008):
• Art Power, Boris Groys (MIT Press)
• Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, Maggie Nelson (University of Iowa Press)
The Art Newspaper:
• Harald Szeemann: Exhibition Maker, Hans-Joachim Müller, (Hatje Cantz)
• Harald Szeemann: Individual Methodology, Florence Derieux ed. (JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag)
via The Art History Newsletter
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In Review: May 5–11, 2008
Chicago Sun Times:
• Hubert's Freaks: The Rare-Book Dealer, the Times Square Talker, and the Lost Photos of Diane Arbus, Gregory GIbson (Harcourt)
CAA Reviews:*
• Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde, Allan Antliff (University of Chicago Press)
New York Review of Books (vol. 55, no. 9):
• Bathers, Bodies, Beauty: The Visceral Eye, Linda Nochlin (Harvard University Press)
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In Review: April 28–May 4, 2008
Bookreporter.com:
• The Forgery of Venus, Michael Gruber (William Morrow)
CAA Reviews:*
• Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn, Margaret Dikovitskaya (MIT Press)
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In Review: April 21–27, 2008
The Wall Street Journal:
• Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage, James Cuno (Princeton University Press)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
• Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt, Paul Crowther (Oxford University Press) via Bookforum.com
CAA Reviews:*
• Ingres and His Critics, Andrew Carrington Shelton (Cambridge University Press)
• Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biography of the Artist, Gail Levin (Harmony Books)
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In Review: April 14–20, 2008
Chicago Sun-Times:
• The Forgery of Venus, Michael Gruber (William Morrow)
USA Today:
• The Forgery of Venus, Michael Gruber (William Morrow)
Financial Times:
• Remember Me..., Melvyn Bragg (Sceptre)
CAA Reviews:
• Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Amy McNair (University of Hawai'i Press)
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In Review: April 7–13, 2008
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Doubleday)
In Review: March 24–30, 2008
Art on Paper:
• Searching for SebaldThe Institute of Cultural Inquiry)
Arts Professional (via Demos):
• Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts, Caroline Levine (Wiley-Blackwell)
The New York Times:
• A Curious Earth, Gerard Woodward (W.W. Norton)
CAA Reviews:*
• The Look of Van Dyck: The Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and the Vision of the Painter, John Peacock (Ashgate)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
• Art, Emotion and Ethics, Berys Gaut (Oxford University Press) via Bookforum.com
Bryn Mawr Classical Review:
• Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art, Alexander Nehamas (Princeton University Press) via Bookforum.com
New York Review of Books (vol. 55, no. 6):
• Mosaics as History: The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam, G. W. Bowersock (Harvard University Press)
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In Review: The Art Book (vol. 15, no. 1)
Highlight reviews from the most recent issue of The Art Book:
• Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age, Julie Berger Hochstrasser (Yale University Press)
• The Most Arrogant Man in France: Gustave Courbet and the Nineteenth-Century Media Culture, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu (Princeton University Press)
• Technologies of Intuition, Jennifer Fisher (YYZ Books)
• Romanesque Architectural Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, Meyer Schapiro, Linda Seidel ed. (University of Chicago Press)
• Art, Ethnography and the Life of Objects: Paris, c 1925-35, Julia Kelly (Manchester University Press)
• Courbet, Linda Nochlin (Thames & Hudson)
• Modern Sculpture Reader, Jon Wood, David Hulks and Alex Potts eds. (Henry Moore Institute)
• Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins, William S. McFeely (W. W. Norton)
• Media Art Histories, Oliver Grau ed. (MIT Press)
• Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation, Steve Dixon, Barry Smith cont. (MIT Press)
• The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories, Jeremy Akerman, Eileen Daly eds. (Serpent's Tail)
• David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side, Giancarlo Ambrosino ed. (Semiotext[e])
• Art and War, Laura Brandon (I. B. Tauris)
In Review: March 17–23, 2008
Hartford Courant:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Doubleday)
Houston Chronicle:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Doubleday)
The New York Times:
• The Painter From Shanghai, Jennifer Cody Epstein (W.W. Norton)
CAA Reviews:*
• Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (Duke University Press)
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In Review: Rain Taxi, Spring 2008
A terrific selection of reviews in this season's Rain Taxi (in which Hol has an ad). The reviews aren't online, but you can purchase a print copy for a mere $5. And look for their bonus digital edition, with all new content, to be posted in the next couple weeks.
• The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and Other Stories, Jeremy Akerman, Eileen Daly eds. (Serpent's Tail)
• A Curious Earth, Gerard Woodward (W. W. Norton)
• After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Eleanor Heartney et al. (Prestel)
• The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris, George Baker (MIT Press)
• I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation, Francis Picabia (MIT Press)
• Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison (MIT Press)
In Review: March 10–16, 2008
Bookforum (Apr/May 08):
• Let’s See: Writings on Art from the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl (Thames & Hudson)
• Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West, Erin Hogan (University of Chicago Press)
The Guardian:
• The Haunted Gallery, Lynda Nead (Yale University Press)
In Review: March 3–9, 2008
The Guardian:
• This is Civilisation, Matthew Collings (21 Publishing)
The New York Sun:
• Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, James Stourton (Scala)
In Review: February 25–March 2, 2008
The New York Times:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Doubleday)
The Christian Science Monitor:
• Life Class, Pat Barker (Doubleday)



























