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New Books in Art

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Total: 941

Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)

2018/11/21

Pillow of Dreams (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017) is an intensely emotional and inspirational collection of

Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)

2018/11/20

What can the Weimar Republic teach us about how democracies fail? How could the same vibrancy that g

Pedith Pui Chan, “The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Guohua in Republican Shanghai” (Brill, 2017)

2018/11/20

The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Gouhua in Republican S

Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017)

2018/11/16

With the passage of the Secure Fence Act in 2006, the U.S. Congress authorized funding for what has

Dustin Parsons, “Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams” (U Georgia Press, 2018)

2018/11/7

If you open Dustin Parsons’ new book, you’ll find maps, figures, footprints, a floor plan, silhouett

Gary Alan Fine, “Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education” (U Chicago Press, 2018)

2018/10/25

Most people have heard of the Masters of Fine Arts–“MFA”–degree, but few know about the grueling pro

Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

2018/9/24

In Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018),

Denise Y. Ho, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2018/8/27

“In Mao’s China, to curate revolution was to make it material.” Denise Y. Ho’s new book explores thi

Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” (U Washington Press, 2017)

2018/8/8

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2017), Laura Kina and Jan

Simone Wesner, “Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

2018/8/3

Why is the artist’s voice missing from cultural policy? In Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Caree

Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)

2018/8/2

Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read,

Jo Weldon, “Fierce: The History of Leopard Print” (Harper Design, 2018)

2018/7/31

Leopard print has a long history, as Jo Weldon shares in her new book, Fierce: The History of Leopar

Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson, “Quilts and Health” (Indiana UP, 2017)

2018/7/25

In Quilts and Health (Indiana University Press, 2017), Marsha MacDowell and her colleagues examine t

madison moore, “Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric” (Yale UP, 2018)

2018/7/23

Did you catch that look? The theory of fabulousness is on the move. In his new book, Fabulous: the R

Stacey Pierson, “Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: The Burlington Fine Arts Club” (Routledge, 2017)

2018/7/11

In her latest book, Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: The B

Pamela Potter, “Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts” (U California Press, 2016)

2018/6/27

In her new book, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Perfor