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Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies

All titles added within the past twelve months.

Abbott, Brett, ed. Edward Weston's Book of Nudes. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Tucson: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2007. 96 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892369034)

Adamson, Glenn. Thinking Through Craft. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 224 pp.; 8 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $0.00 (1845206479)

Allmer, Patricia, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds. Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2007. 247 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $24.50 (9789058675927)

Amaki, Amalia K., and Andrea D. Barnwell. Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth, Prophet, and the Academy. Exh. cat. Atlanta, Ga.: Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 144 pp.; 92 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295986937)

Angier, Roswell. Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography. Worthing, UK: AVA Publishing, 2007. 224 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper £29.95 (9782940373376)

Antliff, Mark. Avante-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 376 pp.; 67 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822340348)

Arceneaux, Edgar. The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid. Chicago: WhiteWalls and Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007. 96 pp.; 74 color ills. Paper $20.00 (0945323115)

Armstrong, Elizabeth, Johanna Burton, and Dave Hickey. Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone. Exh. cat. Newport Beach, Calif.: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007. 192 pp.; 100 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (3791338218)

Aruz, Joan, Ann Farkas, and Elisabetta Valtz Fino, eds. The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 29 color ills.; 149 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300124033)

Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds. Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 304 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774920)

Bachner, Evan. Men of WWII: Fighting Men At Ease. 2007. 160 pp.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $42.00 (0810992876)

Badea-Paun, Gabriel. The Society Portrait from David to Warhol. New York: The Vendome Press, 2007. 224 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780865651838)

Baetens, Jan, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds. Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: Around Allan Sekula's Photography. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2006. 207 pp. Paper $22.50 (9789058675637)

Barlow, Jeremy. The Cat and the Fiddle: Images of Musical Humour from the Middle Ages to Modern Times. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2007. 120 pp.; 60 color ills. Paper $20.00 (1851243003)

Barrett, Terry. Why is that Art? Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 272 pp.; 26 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780195167429)

Barriault, Anne B. Selections from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 376 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780917046827)

Baskins, Cristelle, and Lisa Rosenthal, eds. Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. 316 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754657606)

Becker, Howard. Telling About Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 304 pp.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $15.00 (9780226041263)

Behrendt, Kurt A. The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York and New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 128 pp.; 90 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780300120271)

Behrstock, Barry. The Way of the Artist: Reflections on Creativity and the Life, Home, Art, and Collections of Richard Marquis. Exh. cat. Fullerton: California State University, Fullerton, 2007. 192 pp.; 158 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (978095314700)

Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 496 pp.; 300 color ills.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780500238370)

Bell, Roanne, and Mark Sinclair. Pictures and Words: New Comic Art and Narrative Illustration. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005. 144 pp.; 300 color ills. Paper $26.95 (9780300111460)

Benjamin, Walter. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938-1940. Eds. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Harvard University Press, 2006. 496 pp. Paperback (0674022297)

Bevilacqua, Mario, Heather Hyde Minor, and Fabio Barry, eds. The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G.B. Piranesi. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 280 pp.; 163 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780472115846)

Bieze, Michael. Booker T. Washington and the Art of Self-Representation. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. 304 pp.; 4 color ills.; 81 b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (9781433100109)

Boehm, Barbara Drake, and Jiri Fajt, eds. Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. New Haven and New York: Yale University Press in association with Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. 384 pp. Hardback $65.00 (9780300111385)

Boldrick, Stacy, and Richard Clay, eds. Iconoclasm: Contested Objects, Contested Terms. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. 314 pp.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754654216)

Braida, Antonella, and Luisa Calè. Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. 244 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754658962)

Brandstätter, Christian, ed. Vienna 1900: Art, Life & Culture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 400 pp.; 400 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780865651753)

Brettell, Richard R., and Joachim Pissarro. Manet to Matisse: Impressionist Masters from the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection. Exh. cat. Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007. 144 pp.; 74 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $35.95 (9780942614350)

Bricker Balken, Debra. Tate Movements in Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 80 pp. Paper $16.50 (9781854373069)

Broude, Norma, and Mary D. Garrard. Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators. Exh. cat. Washington, DC: American University Museum, 2007. 64 pp.; 43 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $10.00 (1879383659)

Brzyski, Anna, ed. Partisan Canons. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 376 pp.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822341062)

Bukdahl, Lars. Art and Science: Architecture's and Art's Site-Specific Projects. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 2006. 118 pp.; Many color ills. Paper €11.00 (8779450466)

Cahn, Stephen M., and Aaron Meskin, eds. Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology. Malden, MA, Oxford, U.K., and Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Blackwell, 2007. 684 pp. Paper $55.00 (9781405154352)

Campany, David, ed. The Cinematic. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press and Whitechapel, 2007. 222 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780262532884)

van Campen, Cretien. The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 188 pp.; 15 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262220811)

Falconi, José Luis, and Gabriela Rangel, eds. A Principality of Its Own: 40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society. Cambridge, Mass. and New York: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in association with Americas Society, 2007. 304 pp. Paper (1879128314)

Clarke, Michael. Verbalising the Visual: Translating Art and Design into Words. Lausanne: AVA Publishing, 2007. 208 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $49.95 (9782940373017)

Cocroft, Wayne D., Danielle Devlin, John Schofield, and Roger J. C. Thomas. War Art: Murals and Graffiti—Military Life, Power, and Subversion. York, UK: Council for British Archaeology, 2007. 147 pp.; 70 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (1902771567)

Conrad, Peter. Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007. 592 pp.; 161 ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780500513569)

Cooke, Miriam. Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 208 pp.; 13 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (9780822340355)

Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought? The Traditional View of Art; Revised Edition with Previously Unpublished Author's Notes. Bloomington, Ind.: World Wisdom, 2007. 280 pp.; 4 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9781933316345)

Couch, N.C. Christopher, and Stephen Weiner. The Will Eisner Companion. DC Comics, 2006. 176 pp. Paperback $12.99 (9781401204235)

Crown, Carol, and Charles Russell, eds. Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. 308 pp.; 32 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (1578069165 )

Curran, Brian. The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 428 pp.; 14 color ills.; 105 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226128938)

Cusset, François. French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 408 pp. Cloth $75.00 (9780816647323)

Danziger, Danny. Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2007. 277 pp.; 0 ills. Cloth $27.95 (9780670038619)

Davis, Mary E. Erik Satie. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 192 pp.; 30 ills. Paper $16.95 (1861893213)

Dean, Tacita, and Jeremy Millar. Place. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005. 208 pp.; 238 color ills.; 35 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780500930076)

Dickens, Emma, ed. The Da Vinci Notebooks. New York: Arcade Publishing, 2006. 224 pp.; 79 ills. Cloth $14.95 (9781559707992)

Dickey, Stephanie S. Rembrandt Face to Face. Exh. cat. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006. 76 pp.; 4 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (9780936260839)

Dobrenko, Evgeny. Political Economy of Socialist Realism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 408 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9780300122800)

Donahue, Jesse, and Erik Trump. Political Animals: Public Art in American Zoos and Aquariums. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. 224 pp. Cloth $65.00 (9780739111208)

D’Souza, Aruna, and Tom McDonough, eds. The Invisible Flâneuse? Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006. 185 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780719067846)

van Eck, Caroline. Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 240 pp.; few b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780521844352)

Eco, Umberto, ed. On Ugliness. New York: Rizzoli, 2007. 456 pp.; 300 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780847829866)

Elkins, James, ed. Visual Practices Across the University. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2007. 304 pp.; 229 color ills. €34.90 (9783770543731)

Elliot, Virgil. Traditional Oil Painting: Advanced Techniques and Concepts from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2007. 224 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823030668)

Ellis, Donald, Steven Clay Brown, Bill Holm, Allan Hoover, Sarah Milroy, and William White. Tsimshian Treasures: The Remarkable Journey of the Dundas Collection. Exh. cat. Ontario, Vancouver, and Seattle: Donald Ellis Gallery, Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group, and University of Washington Press, 2007. 176 pp.; 60 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780295987385)

Emison, Patricia. The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2008. 120 pp.; 14 ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780271033051)

Enwezor, Okwui. Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. New York and Göttingen: International Center of Photography and Steidl, 2008. 224 pp.; 185 ills. Paper $45.00 (978385216229)

Evans, Mark. The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 144 pp.; 150 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781851774678)

Faherty, Duncan. Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858. Lebanon, N.H.: University of New Hampshire Press, 2007. 268 pp.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (1584656557)

Feeser, Andrea. Waikīkī: A History of Forgetting & Remembering. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. 200 pp.; 122 ills. Cloth $29.00 (9780824829797)

Fields, Jill. An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 392 pp.; 71 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (9780520252615)

Fillin-Yeh, Susan, and Robert E. Moore. Susan Fillin-Yeh and Robert E. Moore Respond to Christopher Reed on Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture. College Art Association, 2004.

Finkelstein, Haim. The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2007. 340 pp.; 41 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (9780754661160)

Flanagan, Mary, and Austin Booth, eds. re:skin. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007. 356 pp.; 70 ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780262062602)

Fleck, Robert, Beate Soentgen, and Arthur C. Danto. Peter Fischli & David Weiss. London: Phaidon Press, 2005. 160 pp.; 120 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9780714843230)

Fontanel, Béatrice. Daily Life in Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 204 pp.; 96 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780810955370)

Foss, Brian. War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 264 pp.; 35 color ills.; 175 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300108903)

Friedman, Alice T. Women and the Making of the Modern House. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 242 pp.; 30 color ills.; 110 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780300117899)

Gamboni, Dario. The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 416 pp.; 151 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (1861893167)

Gamboni, Dario. Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art. London: Reaktion Books, 2008. 304 pp.; 44 color ills.; 157 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9781861891136)

Gamwell, Lynn. Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 344 pp. Paperback $35.00 (9780691121123)

Ganz, Nicholas. Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 232 pp.; 1000 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780810957473)

Gerstein, Alexandra, ed. Display and Displacement: Sculpture and the Pedestal from Renaissance to Post-Modern. London: Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art and Paul Holberton Publishing, 2007. 160 pp.; 50 ills. Cloth $65.00 (9781903470305)

Gerstel, Sharon E. J., ed. Thresholds of the Sacred. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2007. 245 pp.; 165 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0884023117)

Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 432 pp.; 22 color ills.; 41 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822338932)

Givens, Jean A., Karen M. Reeds, and Alain Touwaide, eds. Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. 300 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $99.00 (9780754652960)

Gombrich, Ernst. The Story of Art: Pocket Edition. New York: Phaidon Press, 2006. 1064 pp.; 335 color ills.; 56 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0714847038)

Gombrich, E. H. The Preference for the Primitive: Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art. London: Phaidon Press, 2006. 324 pp.; 12 color ills.; 230 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780714846323)

Grams, Diane, and Berry Farrell, eds. Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts. Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008. 256 pp.; 19 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780813542171)

Greenhalgh, Paul. The Modern Ideal: The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 272 pp.; 150 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9781851774692)

Grody, Steve. Graffiti L.A.: Street Styles and Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 304 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9780810992986)

Groebner, Valentin. Who Are You? Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe. Trans. Mark Kyburz and John Peck. New York: Zone Books, 2007. 349 pp. Cloth $30.00 (9781890951726)

Groys, Boris. Art Power. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. 187 pp. Cloth $22.95 (9780262072922)

Grunenberg, Christoph, ed. Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 240 pp. Paper $35.00 (9781854375957)

Grunitzky, Claude, and Steven Psyllos. Ten Years of Trace. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 296 pp.; 300 ills. Paper $39.95 (9781861543004)

Halkes, Petra. Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 270 pp.; 16 color ills.; 36 b/w ills. Cloth £32.00 (9780802038944)

Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (2nd Edition). Intro. Kenneth Clark. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2008. 400 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Paper $42.00 (9780813343938)

Hamilton, Richard. Painting by Numbers. London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 2007. 60 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $30.00 (9780500976630)

Hammond, Anna, ed. Object Lessons. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007. 97 pp.; 10 b/w ills. Paper $16.00 (9780894679674)

Hapke, Laura. Labor’s Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. 270 pp. Cloth $69.99 (9781847184153)

Hargraves, Matthew. Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. Exh. cat. New Haven and Richmond: Yale Center for British Art and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 232 pp.; 118 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300116588)

Hargrove, June, and Neil McWilliam, eds. Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870–1914. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005. 336 pp.; 17 color ills.; 144 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300107555)

Harries, Martin. Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship. New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. 192 pp.; 9 color ills.; 22 b/w ills. Paper $24.00 (9780823227341)

Harris, Dianne, and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds. Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. 336 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $26.95 (9780822959595)

Heartney, Eleanor, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. New York: Prestel, 2007. 320 pp.; 220 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (3791337327)

Heller-Roazen, Daniel. The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation. New York: Zone Books, 2007. 386 pp. Cloth $33.00 (9781890951764)

Herbert, James D. Our Distance from God: Studies of the Divine and Mundane in Western Art and Music. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2008. 220 pp. Cloth $60.00 (9780520252134)

Herwitz, Daniel, and Michael Kelly, eds. Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 256 pp. Cloth $45.00 (9780231137966)

Hignite, Todd. In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 320 pp. Paper $19.95 (9780300133875)

Hille, Nicola, and Monika E. Müller. Zeiten-Sprünge: Aspekte von Raum und Zeit in der Kunst vom Mitterlalter bis Gegenwart. Regensburg, Germany: Schnell and Steiner, 2007. 352 pp. Paper €49.90 (9783795419547)

Hochstrasser, Julie Berger. Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 30 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300100389)

Impelluso, Lucia. Gardens in Art. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. 384 pp.; 400 color ills. Paper $24.95 (0892368853)

Inglot, Joanna. WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota. Minneapolis: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, 2007. 160 pp.; 50 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780816650831)

Iversen, Margaret. Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007. 208 pp.; 24 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780271029719)

Ivey, Bill. Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. 368 pp.; 11 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780520241121)

Janfamiily. Janfamily: Plans for Other Days. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 224 pp.; 500 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781861542892)

Johannesson, Lena, Uno Eliasson, Paul Hallberg, and Birger Karlsson, eds. Images in Arts and Sciences: Selected Papers from a Conference Held by the Royal Society of Arts in Sciences in Göteborg, 13–14 October, 2004. Göteborg, Sweden: Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007. SEK 250.00 (9789185252688)

Juncosa, Enrique, ed. Writers on Howard Hodgkin. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 208 pp.; 20 color ills. Cloth $27.50 (9781854376749)

Kalof, Linda. Looking at Animals in Human History. London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 240 pp.; 12 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9781861893345)

Kammen, Michael. Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture. New York: Vintage, 2007. 480 pp. Paper $16.95 (9781400034642 )

Kangas, Matthew. Camille Patha: Geography of Desire. Salem, Ore.: Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2006. 142 pp.; 130 color ills.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (1930957564)

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield. African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington, IN and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. 408 pp.; 16 color ills.; 63 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780253219220)

Kellein, Thomas. The Dream of Fluxus: George Maciunas; An Artist's Biography. London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 2007. 172 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780500976654)

Kimball, Roger, and Hilton Kramer, eds. Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. 500 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9781566637060)

Kivelson, Valerie A., and Joan Neuberger, eds. Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 336 pp.; 48 color ills.; 116 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300119619)

Klar, Alexander. Surreal People. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007. 96 pp. Cloth $27.50 (9781851775033)

Koja, Stephan, ed. Gustav Klimt: The Beethoven Frieze and the Controversy Over the Freedom of Art. New York: Prestel, 2007. 208 pp.; 216 ills. Cloth $65.00 (3791337572)

Kotz, Liz. Words to Be Looked at: Language in 1960s Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 344 pp.; 72 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (9780262113083)

Largier, Niklaus. In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal.