ARLIS Colleagues,
In December, 2006, ARLIS NA REVIEWS premiered
<http://www.arlisna.org/resources/reviews/index.html>. Reviews will be
posted 6x/year.
As its editor, I am readying a forthcoming "column" and am looking for
reviewers for 10 specific titles. If you have an interest in writing a
review and specific expertise in the topics addressed in the following
books, I ask that you contact me (see specifics that follow this list):
THE ARCHITECTURE OF AFTERMATH by Terry Smith (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, November 2006), 280 p. [architecture, post 9/11]
THE ARCHIVE edited by Charles Merewether (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,
February 2007), 208 p.[anthology of key writings on "the archive"]
BALENCIAGA AND HIS LEGACY edited by Myra Walker (New Haven: Yale
University Press, January 2007), 162 p. [study of the designer's work in
essays and photos]
BEAUTIFUL/UGLY: AFRICAN AND DIASPORA AESTHETICS edited by Sarah Nuttall
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, February 2007), 416 p. [examination
of beauty as it relates to ugliness]
CLAES OLDENBURG COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN: SCULPTURE BY THE WAY (New York:
Rizzoli, March 2007, 250 p.[in-depth look at 20-year collaboration]
EHON: THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK IN JAPAN by Roger Keyes (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, with New York Public Library, December
2006), 320 p. [examination of 'ehon' tradition]
FASHION AND FANCY: DRESS AND MEANING IN REMBRANDT'S PAINTINGS by Marieke
de Winkel (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, December 2006), 480
p. [neglected area of Rembrandt research]
JAMES "ATHENIAN" STUART: THE REDISCOVERY OF ANTIQUITY by Susan Weber
Soros (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with The Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts January 2007), 672 p.
[international team of scholars present Stuart's achievements]
JOHN CURRIN by Norman Bryson, Dave Eggers, and Allison Gingeras (New
York: Rizzoli, in association with Gagosian Gallery, December 2006), 400
p. [monograph on this leading, contemporary figurative painter
THE MODERNIST TEXTILE: EUROPE AND AMERICA 1890-1940 by Virginia Gardner
Troy (Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2006), 192 p. [role of textile
design, production, and collections in this period]
Review Particulars:
1. Review length: 400 words
2. Review deadline: Friday, March 2, 2007
3. To express interest: Send me an email ([log in to unmask]) with the
following information:
a) title of the book
b) your name, position title, library affiliation
c) your email address
d) your mailing address (the address to which the book can be
mailed--home or work; be sure to include a street address)
e) your areas of subject expertise
f) do you wish to be a regular reviewer?
g) have you experience as a reviewer?
I look forward to hearing from you.
--
Joan Stahl
Review Editor, ARLIS NA Reviews
Branch Manager, Art & Architecture Libraries
University of Maryland
2213 Art-Sociology Building
College Park, MD 20742
Tel.: 301-405-9065
Fax: 301-314-9725
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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