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New Books in Art

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Kathryn Livingston, “Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend” (Wiley, 2012)

2013/6/2

It’s rare that a person’s name comes to represent an object, but such is the case with Lilly Pulitze

William Marotti, “Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan” (Duke UP, 2013)

2013/5/22

Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei was prosecuted in the 1960s for producing work that imitated money.

Ian Condry, “The Soul of Anime” (Duke UP, 2013)

2013/4/30

You may come for the Astro Boy or Afro Samurai, but you’ll stay for the innovative ways that Ian Con

Gennifer Weisenfeld, “Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923” (University of California Press, 2012)

2013/3/1

Gennifer Weisenfeld‘s gorgeous and thoughtful new book explores the visual culture that emerged in t

Lois Rudnick, “The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan” (University of New Mexico Press, 2012)

2013/1/29

The art salon is sadly less prevalent in our day than in days past, but it is far from obsolete. In

Janice Neri, “The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)

2012/12/13

Before the sixteenth century, bugs and other creepy-crawlies could be found in the margins of manusc

Daniela Bleichmar, “Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)

2012/11/26

Daniela Bleichmar‘s new book is a story about 12,000 images. In Visible Empire: Botanical Expedition

Shih-Shan Susan Huang, “Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2012)

2012/10/31

Shih-Shan Susan Huang‘s beautiful new book explores visual culture of religious Daoism, focusing on

Jennifer Hall-Witt, “Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880” (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007)

2012/10/16

When I was young I liked to go to bars, especially bars where bands were playing. But when I got the

Ben Cawthra, “Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography in Jazz” (University of Chicago Press, 2011)

2012/9/18

Ben Cawthra‘s Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (University of Chicago, 2011) disc

Miryam Sas, “Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)

2012/8/23

Miryam Sas’ Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Retur

Andrew Field, “Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954” (The Chinese University Press, 2010)

2012/3/7

“To think of Shanghai is to think of its nightlife: the two are synonymous.” From here, Andrew Field

David Ciarlo, “Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany” (Harvard UP, 2011)

2011/11/17

If you’re a native-born American, you’re probably familiar with Aunt Jemima (pancake syrup), Uncle B

Allen Guttmann, “Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2011)

2011/9/12

When I was a kid, I used to pore over an illustrated history of American sports that I had received

Erin Haney, “Exposures: Photography and Africa” (Reaktion Books, 2010)

2011/7/13

In Chapter 3 of Erin Haney’s excellent book Photography and Africa (Reaktion Books, 2010) there are

Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, and Dru Pagliasotti, “Boy’s Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre” (McFarland, 2010)