ARLIS/NA Reviews

The latest in art publishing, reviewed by art information professionals and published on a bimonthly basis.

ARLIS/NA Reviews: September 2023

Posted September 21, 2023 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the September issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Beauty of the Hebrew Letter by Izzy Pludwinski

Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face by Julia Bryan-Wilson

Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection edited by Julie Aronson et al

Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters edited by Aimee Ng et al

Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century by Christopher Y. Lew

Magyar Modern – Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933 edited by Ralf Burmeister et al

Tender Spirit, a Vital Form: Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan edited by Howard Oransky

Alfredo Boulton: Looking at Venezuela, 1928-1978 edited by Idurre Alonso

Hersilia’s Sisters: Jacques-Louis David, Women, and the Emergence of Civil Society in Post-Revolution France by Norman Bryson

Andrey Rublev: The Artist and His World by Robin Milner-Gulland

ARLIS/NA Reviews: July 2023

Posted July 24, 2023 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the July issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang

Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s by Claudia Calirman

Not-Forgetting: Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of Mastery by Rosalyn Deutsche

From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture by Barbara Sjoholm

Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch by Robert Wiesenberger and Raphael Koeing

Rediscovering Black Portraiture by Peter Brathwaite et al

Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez by David Pullins et al

The Sassoons by Esther da Costa Meyer and Claudia J. Nahson

Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser

Chryssa & New York by Michelle White et al

The Other Kabul: Remains of the Garden by Susann Wintsch et al

One Site-One Space-One Work: 30 Years of Art Projects in the Stommeln Synagogue by Synagoge Stommeln—Stadt Pulheim

ARLIS/NA Reviews: May 2023

Posted May 17, 2023 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the May issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

StreetLife: The Street in Art from Kirchner to Streuli edited by Astrid Ihle et al.

Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi’s Image Making by Ying-chen Peng

Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès by Sarah Herring and Emma Capron

Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America by Maggie Taft

Forever Saul Leiter by Otake Akiko et al.

Design for the New World: From Human Design to Planet Design by Ida Engholm

No Existe Un Mundo Poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria edited by Marcela Guerrero

Aleksandr Rodchenko and Photography in Times of Stalin by Aglaya K. Glebova

Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s by Mindell Dubansky

ARLIS/NA Reviews: March 2023

Posted March 13, 2023 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the March issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Looking up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi by Hafthor Yngvason

Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic by Lisa E. Bloom

Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations: Chicago to Guantánamo edited by Aaron Hughes et al

Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China edited by Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung

Encounters in Video Art in Latin America edited by Elena Shtromberg et al

Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now edited by Mika Yoshitake and Doryun Chong

African Modernism in America edited by Perrin M. Lathrop

The Story of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski

Renaissance Secrets: A Lifetime Working with Wall Paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, and Others at the Vatican by Maurizio De Luca and Jason Cardone.

The Tudors Art and Majesty in Renaissance England by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker

ARLIS/NA Reviews: January 2023

Posted January 24, 2023 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the January issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

A Revolution on Canvas: the Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1 830 by Paris A. Spies-Gans

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 edited by Makeda Best

Eye Dreaming: Photographs by Anthony Barboza by Anthony Barboza, Aaron Bryant, Mazie M Harris, and Hilton Als

Time of One’s Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art by Catherine Grant

Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 by Diane Wolfthal

Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences by Alla Vronskaya

What They Saw: Historical Photobooks by Women, 1843-1999 by Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich

From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Practical Knowledge in the Early Modern World by Pamela H. Smith

Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds edited by Gaëtane Verna

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962 edited by Debra Bricker Balken and Lynn Gumpert

Temple of Fame and Friendship: Portraits, Music, and History in the C.P.E. Bach Circle by Annette Richards

Códice Maya de México: Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas edited by Andrew Turner et al

ARLIS/NA Reviews: November 2022

Posted November 15, 2022 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the November issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Bridget Alsdorf

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Art, Weaving, Vision by edited by Laura Elisa Pérez and Ann Leimer

Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art by Bert Winther-Tamaki

American Unitarian churches: architecture of a democratic religion by Ann Marie Borys

Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art by Patricio del Real

Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker

The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds by Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene

Julie Manet: The Impressionist Memory by Marianne Mathieu

ARLIS/NA Reviews: September 2022

Posted September 20, 2022 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the September issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Review: Nicolás de Jesús: A Mexican Artist for Global Justice edited by Patrice Giasson

Review: Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe by Emma Ridgway and Vibece Salthe

Review: 20th Century Indian Art by Partha Mitter et al.

Review: Pierre Bonnard: Beyond Vision by Lucy Whelan

Review: Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents by Stephanie L. Herdrich et al.

Review: An Incomplete Archive of Activist: The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation edited by Anjuli Nanda Diamond

Review: How Art Can Change Your Life by Susie Ho dge

Review: The Candy Store: Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a Kick by Scott A. Shield and Mariah Carmen Briel

Review: The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844 by Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Review: In the Mind’s Eye: Landscapes of Cuba / La Mirada de Quien Contempla: Paisajes de Cuba by Amy Galpin

ARLIS/NA Reviews: July 2022

Posted July 19, 2022 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the July issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Terrible Beauty: Elephant, Human, Ivory edited by Stiftung Humboldt Forum

Chinese Art Since 1970: The M+ Sigg Collection edited by Pi Li

Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting edited by David Saunders

Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall

Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation by Matthew Biro

Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Amy Miller Dehan

Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape by Daniel Kaven

Jacqueline de Jong: The Ultimate Kiss by Devrim Bayar et al.

Nonconformers: A New History of Self-Taught Artists by Lisa Slominski

ARLIS/NA Reviews: May 2022

Posted May 25, 2022 by Megan Macken

We’re excited to announce the May issue of ARLIS/NA Reviews. Follow the links from each book cover or title below to read the reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.