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Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies

Howard Morphy and Morgan Perkins, eds.
The Anthropology of Art: A Reader
Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 566 pp.; 239 b/w ills. Paper $49.95 (9781405105620)
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August 26, 2008
Lorraine Daston, ed.
Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
New York: Zone Books, 2004. 456 pp.; 8 color ills.; 73 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (1890951439)
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August 13, 2008
Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, eds.
Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 304 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780816644629)
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July 16, 2008
James Elkins, ed.
Is Art History Global?
New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 472 pp. Paper $27.95 (9780415977852)
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July 15, 2008
Charlene Villaseñor Black
Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 272 pp.; 8 color ills.; 84 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0691096317)
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July 9, 2008
Alice T. Friedman
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)
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June 17, 2008
Charmaine A. Nelson
The Color of Stone: Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 272 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9870816646517)
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June 4, 2008
Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, eds.
Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. 632 pp.; 70 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780822338949)
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May 21, 2008
Deborah Rothschild, ed.
Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Exh. cat. Williamstown and Berkeley: Williams College Museum of Art in association with University of California Press, 2007. 244 pp.; 70 color ills.; 145 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520252400)

Exhibition schedule: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, July 8–November 11, 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, February 26–May 4, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, June 8–September 15, 2008

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May 14, 2008
Margaret Dikovitskaya
Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn
MIT Press, 2006. 344 pp.; 57 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780262541886)
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April 29, 2008
Okwui Enwezor
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)

Exhibition schedule: International Center of Photography, New York, January 18–May 4, 2008

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April 23, 2008
Gary M. Radke, ed.
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Exh. cat. Atlanta and New Haven: High Museum of Art Atlanta in association with Yale University Press, 2007. 184 pp.; 269 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300126150)

Exhibition schedule: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 28–July 15, 2007; Art Institute of Chicago, July 28–October 13, 2007; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 30, 2007–January 13, 2008; Seattle Art Museum, January 26–April 6, 2008

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April 8, 2008
John Peacock
The Look of Van Dyck: The Self-Portrait with a Sunflower and the Vision of the Painter
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006. 320 pp.; 4 color ills.; 72 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (0754607194)
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March 26, 2008
Kathleen Pyne
Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle
Exh. cat. Berkeley, Santa Fe, and Atlanta: University of California Press, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and High Museum of Art Atlanta, 2007. 378 pp.; 97 color ills.; 69 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780520241893)

Exhibition schedule: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, September 21, 2007–January 13, 2008; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 9–May 4, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, May 24–September 28, 2008

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March 25, 2008
Edward van Voolen
My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture
Munich: Prestel, 2006. 192 pp.; 200 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9783791333625)
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March 19, 2008
Norma Broude 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)

Exhibition schedule: American University Museum, Washington, DC, November 6, 2007–January 27, 2008

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March 19, 2008
Adam Sharr
Heidegger's Hut
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. 139 pp.; 53 ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780262195515)
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March 5, 2008
Anne Friedberg
The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 448 pp.; 113 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262062527)
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February 27, 2008
Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin, eds.
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art
Exh. cat. New York: Brooklyn Museum and Merrell Publishers, 2007. 304 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $39.95 (087273157X)

Exhibition schedule: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 23–July 1, 2007; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, September 19–December 9, 2007

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Shulamit Reinharz, ed.
Tiger by the Tail! Women Artists of India Transforming Culture
Waltham, MA: Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, 2007. 125 pp.; 91 color ills. Paper $35.00 (9780979809408)

Exhibition schedule: Kniznick Gallery, Women’s Studies Research Center; and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, October 2–December 14, 2007; Mabel Douglass Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, January 15–July 31, 2008; Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, August 23–October 27, 2008; Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC, January 24–March 29, 2009; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, June 27–October 11, 2009

February 26, 2008
Laura Mulvey
Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image
London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 216 pp.; 37 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9781861892638)
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February 6, 2008
Ella Shohat
Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 409 pp.; 60 b/w ills. Paper (0822337711)
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January 24, 2008
Jean A. Givens
Observation and Image-Making in Gothic Art
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 256 pp.; 8 color ills.; 63 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780521830317)
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January 4, 2008
Griselda Pollock, ed.
Psychoanalysis and the Image: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006. 247 pp.; 26 b/w ills. Paper $36.95 (1405134615)
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December 20, 2007
Sara Doris
Pop Art and the Contest over American Culture
New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 312 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780521836586)
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December 19, 2007
Stephen F. Eisenman
The Abu Ghraib Effect
London: Reaktion Books, 2007. 142 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $19.95 (1861893094)
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December 18, 2007
Lisa E. Bloom
Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity
New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 194 pp.; 66 b/w ills. Cloth $105.00 (9780415232203)
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December 13, 2007
Aruna D’Souza 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)
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November 28, 2007
Elizabeth Rodini
The Ivory Tower and the Crystal Palace: Universities, Museums, and the Potential of Public Art History
College Art Association, 2007
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November 27, 2007
Alexander Nehamas
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 208 pp.; 13 color ills.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (0691095213)
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October 30, 2007
Manfredo Tafuri
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects
Trans. Daniel Sherer. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with Harvard Design School, 2006. 568 pp.; 166 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0300111584)
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Andrew Leach
Manfredo Tafuri: Choosing History
Ghent: A&S/books, 2007. 332 pp. Paper € 22.00 (9789076714301)
October 29, 2007
Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ed.
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in association with MIT Press, 2007. 512 pp.; 475 color ills. Cloth $59.95 (9780914357995)

Exhibition schedule: Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, March 4–July 16, 2007; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, September 21–December 16, 2007; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, February–June 2008; and Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, October 4, 2008–January 18, 2009

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September 25, 2007
Jean-Luc Nancy
The Ground of the Image
New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. 158 pp.; 5 b/w ills. Paper $20.00 (0823225410)
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September 25, 2007
Gavin Butt
Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World, 1948–1963
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 232 pp.; 4 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $21.95 (0822334984)
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September 19, 2007
Stephen Melville
"What Is Research in the Visual Arts? Obsession, Archive, Encounter"
Symposium. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA.
April 27–28, 2007
College Art Association, 2007
August 8, 2007
Midori Yoshimoto
Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists in New York
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 248 pp.; 76 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (0813535212)
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June 27, 2007
Susan M. Bielstein
Permissions, A Survival Guide: Blunt Talk about Art as Intellectual Property
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 144 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Paper (0226046389)
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April 13, 2007
Tim Barringer
Men At Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2005. 392 pp.; 33 color ills.; 113 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (0300103808)
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April 11, 2007
Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire
Other Icons: Art and Power in Byzantine Secular Culture
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 232 pp.; 8 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $49.50 (0691125643)
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April 11, 2007
Geoffrey Batchen
Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance
Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. 140 pp.; 80 color ills. Cloth $29.95 (1568984502)
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January 2, 2007
Gwangju Biennale Foundation
The Sixth Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations
Exh. cat. Seoul: Designhouse Co. in association with Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2006. 650 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper won 25.00 (8970419373)

Exhibition Schedule: Designhouse Co. and Gwanju Biennale Foundation, 2006. Biennale Exhibition Hall, Jungoei Park, Gwangju, Korea, September 8–November 11, 2006

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December 14, 2006
Gülru Necipoglu
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 480 pp.; 250 color ills.; 300 b/w ills. Cloth $99.50 (9780691123264)
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December 3, 2006
Kenneth Gowans and Sheryl E. Reiss, eds.
The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. 461 pp.; 52 b/w ills. Cloth $99.95 (0754606805)
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November 28, 2006
Ilona Katzew
Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 127 color ills.; 143 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300102410)
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November 4, 2006
Larry Silver
Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 392 pp.; 152 b/w ills. Cloth $59.95 (0812238680)
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October 25, 2006
Richard Thomson
The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900
Yale University Press, 2005. 256 pp.; 54 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (0300104650)
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October 14, 2006
Donna M. Cassidy
Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation
Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2005. 416 pp.; 17 color ills.; 150 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (1584654465)
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October 11, 2006
Vanessa R. Schwartz and Jeannene M. Przyblyski, eds.
The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Reader
Routledge, 2004. 432 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (0415308666)
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October 10, 2006
Cécile Whiting
Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 268 pp.; 20 color ills.; 77 b/w ills. Cloth (0520244605)
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September 12, 2006
Martin A. Berger
Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture
Berkeley: University of California Press, 252 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $49.95 (0520244591)
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September 12, 2006
R. Tripp Evans
Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820–1915
Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. 224 pp.; 64 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0292702477)
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September 11, 2006
A. Joan Saab
For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 240 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0812238184)
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September 6, 2006
Caroline Jones
Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 544 pp.; 23 color ills.; 127 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0226409511)
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August 2, 2006
Andrew Schulz
Goya’s Caprichos: Aesthetics, Perception, and the Body
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 255 pp.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00
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July 13, 2006
Ellen Perry
The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome
Cambridge University Press, 2005. 224 pp.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0521831652)
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June 29, 2006
Robert D. Aguirre
Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture
University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 296 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0816645000)
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June 28, 2006
Stephen J. Campbell and Stephen J. Milner, eds.
Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City
Cambridge University Press, 2004. 386 pp.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521826888)
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May 24, 2006
John Paoletti
The Art History Survey Text: More, More . . .?
College Art Association, 2006
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May 19, 2006
Briony Fer
The Infinite Line: Re-Making Art After Modernism
Yale University Press, 2005. 224 pp.; 30 color ills.; 90 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0300104014)
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May 17, 2006
Pamela W. Lee
Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s
MIT Press, 2004. 394 pp.; 67 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (026212260X)
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May 15, 2006
Lianne McTavish
Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France
Burlington, Vt. and Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005. 272 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $89.95 (0754636194)
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March 16, 2006
Oliver Leaman
Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction
Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 211 pp. Paper $0.00 (9780268033699)