Greetings! 

 

The co-editors for ARLIS/NA Reviews are seeking reviewers for the March 2024 issue.

 

Please complete the interest form by end of the day, Wednesday, December 20, 2023, if you are interested in reviewing any of the titles below.  You must be able to meet the Monday, February 19, 2024, deadline with a 450-word review.

 

1. Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art by Grant H. Kester. Duke University Press, August 2023. 280 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-2747-8 (pbk.), $27.95. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-sovereign-self.
2. The Book by Design The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention by P.J.M Marks and Stephen Parkin. The University of Chicago Press, November 2023. 288 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-226-82409-3 (H/C), $45.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo208858133.html.
3. Ceramics: An Atlas of Forms by Glenn Barkley. Thames and Hudson, March 2024. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-76076-393-0 (H/C), $65.00. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/ceramics-an-atlas-of-forms-hardcover.
4. Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902-1911 by Diane Reynolds et al. Letterform Archive Books, October 2023. 320 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-73686-331-2 (H/C), $75.00. https://letterformarchive.org/shop/die-flache/.
5. East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Isabelle Tillerot. Getty, January 2024. 272 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-60606-797-0 (pbk.), $70.00. https://shop.getty.edu/products/east-asian-aesthetics-and-the-space-of-painting-in-eighteenth-century-europe-978-1606067970?variant=43667342590144.
6. The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture edited by Radha Dalal Dalal et al. Yale University Press, July 2023. 280 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26749-5 (H/C), $70.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267495/the-environment-and-ecology-in-islamic-art-and-culture/.
7. Kimono Style: The John c. Weber Collection. by Monika Bincsik. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press, June 2022. 176 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-58839-752-2 (pbk.), $35.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9781588397522/kimono-style/.
8. Kinship by Dorothy Moss and Leslie Urena. Hirmer, December 2022. 120 p. ill. ISBN 978-3-7774-3977-8 (H/C), $25.00. https://www.hirmerverlag.de/us/titel-60-60/kinship-2337/.
9. Picture-Work  How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy by Diana Kamin. The MIT Press, November 2023. 324 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-262-54700-0 (pbk.), $50.00. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547000/picture-work/.
10. Saint George Between Empires Image and Encounter in the Medieval East by Heather Badamo. Penn State University, December 2023. 248 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-09522-6 (H/C), $119.95.
11. Scented Visions Smell in Art, 1850–1914 by Christina Bradstreet. Penn State University, September 2022. 290 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-271-09251-5 (pbk.), $34.95. https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09251-5.html.
12. The Trees of the Cross: Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany by Gregory C. Bryda. Yale University Press, June 2023. 224 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-300-26765-5 (H/C), $75.00. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267655/the-trees-of-the-cross/.

 

Megan Macken & Terrie Wilson

ARLIS/NA Reviews co-editors