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World Art

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

Beddington, Charles. Venice: Canaletto and his Rivals. Exh. cat. London: National Gallery, London, 2011. 192 pp.; 130 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781857094183)

Berger, Harry Jr. Caterpillage: Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still-Life Painting. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. 116 pp.; 9 color ills.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823233137)

Bleichmar, Daniela, and Peter C. Mancall, eds. Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2011. 368 pp.; 12 color ills.; 65 b/w ills.; 77 ills. Cloth $49.95 (9780812243055)

Bomford, David. A Closer Look: Conservation of Paintings. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 96 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094411)

Bomford, David, and Ashok Roy. A Closer Look: Colour. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 96 pp.; 90 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094428)

Carpenter, Edmund, ed. Upside Down: Arctic Realities. Exh. cat. Houston: Menil Collection, 2011. 232 pp.; 132 color ills.; 62 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9780300169386)

Carrier, David. A World Art History and Its Objects. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 200 pp.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780271034140)

Cuadriello, Jaime. The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala: Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico. Trans. Christopher J. Follett. Austin: University of Texas, 2011. 400 pp.; 12 color ills.; 77 b/w ills.; 89 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780292723603)

Eckmann, Teresa. Neo-Mexicanism: Mexican Figurative Painting and Patronage in the 1980s. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 109 color ills.; 7 b/w ills.; 116 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780826347428)

Febbraro, Flavio, and Burkhard Schwetje. How to Read World History in Art. New York: Abrams, 2010. 400 pp. Paper $35.00 (9780810996830)

Glendinning, Nigel, and Hilary Macartney, eds. Spanish Art: In Britain and Ireland, 1750–1920. Woodbridge, UK: Tamesis, 2011. 307 pp.; 17 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $90.00 (9781855662230)

Glusker, Susannah Joel, ed. Avant-Garde Art and Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner's Journals of the Roaring Twenties. 2 vols. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 901 pp.; 597 ills. Cloth $125.00 (978092721845)

Govier, Louise. One Hundred Great Paintings. London: National Gallery, 2010. 216 pp.; 110 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781857094930)

Ice, Joyce, ed. On Collecting: From Private to Public, Featuring Folk and Tribal Art from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection. Santa Fe: Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, 2009. 160 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780295988887)

Jackson, David P. The Nepalese Legacy in Tibetan Painting. Exh. cat. New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2010. 288 pp.; 190 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780977213184)

Johns, Catherine. Dogs: History, Myth, Art. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. 208 pp.; 210 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780674030930)

Johnson, Dorothy. David Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology. Capel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 260 pp.; 12 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.; 112 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780807834510)

Kaufmann, Vincent. Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry. Trans. Robert Bononno. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 368 pp.; 17 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (9780816644568)

Kester, Grant H. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 320 pp.; 15 color ills.; 14 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822349877)

Kramer, Jennifer. Kesu': The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer. Toronto, Vancouver, and Seattle: Douglas and McIntyre, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and University of Washington Press, 2012. 160 pp.; 68 color ills.; 33 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780295991443)

Leibsohn, Dana, and Barbara E. Mundy. Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520–1820. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010. 300 ills. DVD $39.95 (9780292723139)

Macaya, Alber, Perico Pastor, Joan Vallès, Macarena de la Vega, Imma Boj, Enric Miró, Estela Rodríguez, and Alfred Porres Pla Pla. El museu i l’educació per a la diversitat cultural de les arts. Tarragona: Museu d’Art Modern de la Diputació de Tarragona, 2009. 164 pp.; many color ills. Paper $0.00

Paletz, David L., ed. Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect It. Media and Power. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2010. 240 pp.; 12 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9781594514654)

Preziosi, Donald. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 624 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780199229840)

Rasmussen, Mikkel Bolt, and Jacob Wamberg, eds. Totalitarian Art and Modernity. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2011. 359 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $64.00 (9788779345607)

Richardson, Craig. Scottish Art Since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 215 pp.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754661245)

Scharfstein, Ben-AMi. Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 558 pp.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780226736099)

Singh, J. P. Globalized Arts: The Entertainment Economy and Cultural Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 240 pp. Cloth $39.50 (9780231147187)

Starzecka, Dorota C., Roger Neich, and Mick Pendergrast. The Maori Collections of the British Museum. London: British Museum, 2010. 168 pp.; Many color ills. Cloth $150.00 (9780714125947)

Thompson, Chris. Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2011. 352 pp.; 37 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9780816653553)

Villard de Borchgrave, Alexandra. Heavenly Order: Twenty Five Meditations of Wisdom and Harmony. New York: Glitterati Inc., 2009. 96 pp.; 100 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780980155709)

Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 544 pp.; 25 color ills.; 87 b/w ills.; 112 ills. Paper $27.50 (9780300169843)

Winter, Tomáš. Lovesick Exoticism: The Collection of Non-European Ethnic Art of Adolf Hoffmeister. Opera Minora Historie Artium, Vol. 4. Prague: Artefactum, 2010. 165 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper (9788086890302)

Zavala, Adriana. Mexico Beyond its Revolution. Exh. cat. Medford, MA: Tufts University Art Gallery, 2010. 112 pp.; Many color ills. Paper $21.95 (9781880593080)