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Books reviewed in this article: Serge Lemoine (ed), From Puvis de Chavannes to Marisse and Picasso: Towards Modern Art Jill Lloyd and Magdalena M. Moeller (eds), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Dresden and Berlin Years Debra Bricker Balken, Richard Lubar et al. The Park Avenue Cubists: The Work of Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw Margaret F. Macdonald (ed) Whistler's Mother: An American Icon Margaret F. Macdonald, Susan Grace Galassi and Aileen Ribeiro, with Patricia de Montfort, Whistler, Women and Fashion Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick, Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe E. David Bomford (ed), Art in the Making: Underdrawings in Renaissance Paintings Michael Auping, Philip Guston Retrospective Ann Sumner and Greg Smith (eds), Thomas Jones (1742–1803): An Artist Rediscovered Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood (eds), Art Deco 1910–1939 Christopher Riopelle, Xavier Bray and Charlotte Gere, A Brush with Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches Hughie O'Donoghue, Painting, Memory, Myth Chris Stolwijk et al (eds), Vincent's Choice: Van Gogh's Musée Imaginaire Peter Noever (ed), Dagobert Peche and Wiener Werkstätte [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: Roger Benjamin and David Prochaska, Renoir and Algeria Kara Walker, Ian Berry, Derby English, Vivian Patterson, Mark Reinhardt (eds), Narratives of a Negress Victor Buchli (ed), The Material Culture Reader S. B. Kennedy, Paul Henry Sabine Rewald, Caspar David Friedrich: Moonwatchers Philip Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of the City of London Harold Koda, Goddess: The Classical Mode David Brenneman, Mary Morton, Caroline Mathieu, Marc Bassou, Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay Yannick Guégan, Trompe l'Oeil Panels and Panoramas: Decorative Images for Artists and Architects Robin Guild, The Victorian House Book [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this section are: Marcia Hall, Michelangelo: The Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Diane Bilbey with Marjorie Trusted, British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victorial and Albert Museum Desiderius Lenz et al., The Aesthetic of Beuron and Other Writings Gino Severini, From Cubism to Classicism Albert Gleizes, Painting and its Laws Hans Belting, Hieronymus Bosch. Garden of Earthly Delights Peter Trippi, J W Waterhouse Louise Tythacott, Surrealism and the Exotic Lynn Gamwell, Exploring the Invisible Art, Science, and the Spritual Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Singer Sargent Portraits of thre 1890s. Complete Paintings Volume II Adrian W. B. Randolph, Engaging Symbols: Gender, Politics and Public Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence Michael Levey (ed), The Burlington Magazine: A Centenary Anthology Dario Gamboni, Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeteminancy in Modern Art Amelia Jones, Feminism and Visual Culture Reader Nicholas Mirzoeff, The Visual Culture Reader, Second Edition Pavel Florensky, Beyond Vision. Essays on the Perception of Art Oliver Grau, Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion Marjorie Susan Venit, Monumental Tombs of Ancient Alexandria: The Theater of the Dead Edward Lucie-Smith, American Realism Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt (ed), Velazquez's Las Meninas [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this section are: Lewis Kachur, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Nicholas Vaughan Hart, Nicholas Hawksmoor – Rebuiding Ancient Wonders Nicola Coldstream, Medieval Architecture Nancy L. Troy, Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden, Verity Wilson, Dress in Detail from Around the World [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this section are: Anthony Julius Transgressions: The Offences of Art Andrew Hemingway Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926–1956 Griselda Pollock Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life and Death Jeryldene M Wood (ed) The Cambridge Guide to Piero Della Francesca Rebecca Bailey Bedell The Anatomy of Nature: Geology and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1875 Greg Smith The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist: Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760–1824 Marianne Roland Michel, Peter C Sutton and Carolyn Rose Rebbert The Floral Art of Pierre-Koseph Redouté George Brookshaw Pomona Britannica: The Complete Plates Oleg Grabar Mostly Miniatures: An Introduction to Persian Painting Valerie Gonzalez Beauty and Islam: Aesthetics in Islamic Art and Culture Mirella Ricciardi African Visions: The Diary of an African Photographer Jean-Baptiste Bacquart The Tribal Arts of Africa Elizabeth Cameron Art of the Lega Peter Davies Bratby Elizabeth Pilliod Pontormo Bronzino Allori. A Genealogy of Florentine Art Andrew Wilton Five Centuries of British Painting from Holbein to Hodgkin William Vaughan Gainsborough Adrian Hicken Apollinaire, Cubism and Orphism Guillaume Apollinaire The Cubist Painters Felix Thürlemann Robert Campin David Bindman Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Elizabeth Mansfield (ed) Art History and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline Kenneth McConkey Memory and Desire: Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: Guido Jansen and Peter C Sutton (eds), Michael Sweerts (1618–1664) Nadine M Orenstein (ed), Peter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints Janis A Tomlinson, Goya: Images of Women Ekkehard Mai and Kurt Wettengl (eds), Wettstreit der Künst. Malerei und Skulptur von Dürer bis Daumier Robert Kudielka with Bridget Riley, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation Annette Dixon (ed), Women who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons in Renaissance and Baroque Art Stephanie Rachum and John Gage, Masters of Colour: Derain to Kandinsky Masterpieces from the Merzbacher Collection [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this article: David Peters Corbett, Ysanne Holt and Fiona Russell (eds), The Geographies of Englishness Landscape and the National Past 1880–1940 Janetta Rebold Benton, Art of the Middle Ages Stephen James Newton, Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality Olga Raggio, The Gubbio Studiolo and its Conservation. Vol 1, Frederico da Montefeltro’s Palace at Gubbio and its Studiolo Antione M Wilmering, The Gubbio Studiolo and its Conservation. Vol 2, Italian Renaissance Intarsia and the Conservation of the Gubbio and its Studiolo Julian Spalding, The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections Robert Rosenblum, On American Modern Art: Selected Essays by Robert Rosenblum Kalman Bland, The Artless Jew: Medieval and Modern Affirmations and Denials of the Visual Mary Bergstein, The Sculpture of Nanni di Banco Claudia Giannini (ed), Installations, Mattress Factory, 1990–1999 John MacGregor, Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal David Hockney (ed), Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters William Griswold and Jennifer Tonkovich, Pierre Matisse and His Artists Stephen Silson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology TG Rosenthal, Sidney Nolan Pamela J Belanger (ed), Capturing Nureyev: James Wyeth Paints the Dancer Susan Stronge, Painting for the Mughal Emperor: The Art of the Book 1560–1660 Erika Langmuir, Still Life Pocket Guide Susan Lambert, Prints: Art and Techniques Anna Jackson, The V & A Guide to Period Styles 400 Years of British Art and Design Renee Price (ed), New Worlds: German and Austrian Art 1890–1940 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: David Alan Brown (ed), Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s Ginerva de’Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women Darrell Sewell, Thomas Eakins Thomas Tolley, Painting the Cannon’s Roar: Music, the Visual Arts and the Rise of an Attentive Public in the Age of Haydn Seymour Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings and Etchings Marilyn R Brown (ed), Picturing Children. Constructions of Childhoos Between Rousseau and Freud Bernard D Frischer and Iain Gordon Brown (eds), Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace’s Villa Pauline Croft (ed), Patronage, Culture and Power, the Early Cecils 1558–1612. Studies in British Art 8 Tom Henry and Laurence B Kantor, Luca Signorelli: The Complete Paintings Barry Reay, Watching Hannah: Sex, Horror and Bodily De–formation in Victorian England R Ferguson, M Darling, F McKee and N Spector, Douglas Gordon Debra Bricker Balken, Philip Guston’s Poor Richard Margaret Timmers (ed), Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection Debra N Mancoff, Van Gogh’s Flowers Debra N Mancoff, Sunflowers Douglas W Druick, Peter Kort Zegers and Others, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South Constance M Lewallen, Joe Brainard A Retrospective John Ashbery and Joe Brainard, The Vermont Notebook Joe Brainard, I Remember Jerzy Miziolek (ed), Falsifications in Polish Collections and Abroad Andrew Graham–Dixon, Howard Hodgkin Dickran Tashjian, A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant–Garde 1920–1950 Paul Binski, Medieval Death John Hutchinson, E H Gombrich, Lela B Njatin and W J T Mitchell, Antony Gormley John Klein, Matisse Portraits Anne Wilkes Tucker, Lisa Hostetler and Kathleen V Jameson, Louis Faurer Herve Chandes, William Eggleston Val Williams, Martin Parr Russell Bowman and Franz Schulze, Building a Masterpiece: Milwaukee Art Museum Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam Donald Albrecht, Robert Schonfeld and Lindsay Stamm Shapiro, Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle Dianne H Pilgrim, Malcolm Holzman and Ian McCarg, Russel Wright: Good Design is for Everyone — In his own Words J Fiona Ragheb (ed), Frank Gehry, Architect [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Richard Woodfield, (ed) Art History as Cultural History: Warburg’s Projects James Putnam, Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium Ron M Brown, The Art of Suicide Bernard Samuels, Ben Hartley Delia Gaze, (ed) Concise Dictionary of Women Artists Hilary Robinson, (ed) Feminism — Art — Theory: An Anthology 1968–2000 David H Solkin, (ed)Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780–1836 Marcia Brennan, Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics Rosie Millard, The Tastemakers: UK Art Now Matthew Collings, Art Crazy Nation: The Post-Blimey! Art World Robyn Asleson, Albert Moore Jonathan Safran Foer, (ed) A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell Andrew Lambirth, Ken Kiff Lynne Green, W Barns-Graham A Studio Life Ann Thomas, No Man’s Land The Photography of Lynne Cohen Elizabeth Edwards, Raw Histories. Photographs, Anthropology and Museums Stuart Hall and Mark Sealy, (eds) Different Mirka Benes and Dianne Harris, (eds) Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France Paul Edwards and Katherine Swift, Pergolas, Arbours and Arches Ivor Noel Hume, If These Pots Could Talk Howard Coutts, The Art of Ceramics: European Ceramic Design 1500–1830 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, (eds) A Companion to the City Christopher Woodward, In Ruins [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: James Bettley (ed), The Art of the Book from Medieval Manuscript to Graphic Novel Alan Bartram, Five Hundred Years of Book Design John Higgitt, The Murthly Hours: Devotion, Literacy and Luxury in Paris, England and The Gaelic West Ketil Bjørnstad, trans by Torbjørn Støerud and Hal Sutcliffe, The Story of Edvard Munch Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder, Gabo on Gabo Pawel Wyczynski et al. (eds), Grafika Polska, 1918–1939: Ze Zbiorów Biblioteka Polskiej W Montrealu – Estampes Polonaise 1918–: Du Fonds Iconographique de la Bibliothéque Polonaise du Montréal – Polish Prints, 1918–: From the Collection of the Polish Library in Montreal Robert P. Welsh, Piet Mondrian. Catalogue Raisonné I: Catalogue Raisonné of the Naturalist Works (Until Early 1911) Joop M. Joosten, 2: Catalogue Raisonné of the Work of 1911–1944 Harry Cooper and Ron Spronk, Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings Debra N. Mancoff (ed), John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Hans Belting, The Invisible Masterpiece Mary Beard and John Henderson, Classical Art: From Greece to Rome Lewis Kachur, Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations Maud Lavin, Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design Peter Davies, After Trewyn: St Ives Sculptors since Hepworth Mark A. Chhetham, Kant, Art, and Art History Robert Hobbs, Milton Avery: The Late Paintings Beth S. Wright (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix Jean K. Cadogan, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Artist and Artisan Karen Ingham, Death's Witness Marenka Gabeler, Posing Patricia A. Motron, Hybrid Modernities Architecture and Representation at the 1931 Colonial Exposition, Paris Richard Hollis, Graphic Design: A Concise History [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Dale Kent, Cosimo De’Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron’s Oeuvre Konrad Eisenbichler (ed), The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimi I De’Medici Marie Turbow Lampard, John Bowlt and Wendy Salmond (eds), The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov, 1874–1971: A Russian Sculptor and his Times Anna Gruetzner Robins, Walter Sickert. The Complete Writings on Art J B Trapp, E H Gombrich: A Bibliography Werner Hoffmann, Caspar David Friedrich Elizabeth Cropper and Charles Dempsey, Nicholas Poussin: Friendship and the Love of Painting Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Art of the Modern Age Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger Beat Wyss, Hegel’s Art History and the Critique of Modernity James Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties Anne Rorimer, New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality Carter Ratcliff, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965–1975 Nigel Llewellyn, Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England Vivian B Mann, Jewish Texts on the Visual Arts Margaret F MacDonald, Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice Charles Michener and Verlyn Klinkenborg, Stone Roberts: Paintings and Drawings (Revised Edition) Philippa Scott, Turkish Delights Gloria Groom, Beyond the Easel, Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930 Mitchell B Merback, The Thief, the Cross and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe David Bindman, William Blake, the Complete Illuminated Books Morris Eaves (ed), William Blake, the Early Illuminated Books: The Illuminated Books, Volume 3 Robin Hamlyn and Michael Phillips (eds), William Blake Steven Watson and Catherine Morris (eds), An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride Filippo Pedrocco and M A Chiari Chiari Moretto, Titian: The Complete Paintings Patricia Railing (ed), For the Voice Michael Rush, New Media in Late 20th Century Art Sue Roe, Gwen John: A Life John MacKenzie (ed), The Victorian Vision Peter Paret, German Encounters with Modernism, 1840–1945 Peter Burke, Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence Ernst Beyeler and others, Andy Warhol: Series and Singles Paul Schimmel and others, Public Offerings Barbara Head Millstein (ed), Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers Liz Wells, Kate Newton and Catherine Fehily, Shifting Horizons: Women’s Landscape Photography Now P Kirkham, Women Designers in the USA 1900–2000: Diversity and Difference Mark Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Fernande Olivier, Loving Picasso: The Private Journal of Fernande Olivier Michael Desmond and Carlo Pedretti, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Codex Leicester – Notebook of a Genius Andrew Lambirth, George Rowlett from the River to the Sea Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring Victoria de Rijke, Lene Østermark-Johansen and Helen Thomas, Nose Book: Representations of the Nose in Literature and Art Mark Wallinger and Mary Warnock, Art for All? Their Policies and Our Culture Patricia Butler, Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: A Continuing History Bette Talvacchia, Taking Positions. On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture Peter Davies, Denis Bowen [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this section are: Tom Phillips, The Postcard Century: 2000 Cards and their Messages James Aulich and John Lynch, (eds) Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R B Kitaj Rose-Marie Hagen and Rainer Hagen, What Great Paintings Say: Old Masters in Detail Louisa Buck, Moving Targets 2: A Users Guide to British Art Shows Clive Caseaux, (ed) The Continental Aesthetics Reader Alisa Kwitney, Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed in this section: Pam Lee, Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, (eds) Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology Michael Newman and Jon Bird, (eds) Rewriting Conceptual Art Debra Pincus, The Tombs of the Doges of Venice Alastair Smart. John Ingamells, (ed) Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of his Painting Simon Schama, Rembrandt's Eyes Jane Turner, (ed) Encyclopedia of American Art Before 1914 Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society Ann Dumas, Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy and Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums Linda Seidel, Legends in Limestone — Lazarus, Gislebertus and the Cathedral of Autun Ed and introduced by Patricia Railing, Malevich on Suprematism, Six Essays: 1915–1926 Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts Kent Emery Jr and Joseph Wawrykow, (eds) Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans John Drury, Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and their Meanings Helen de Borchgrave, A Journey into Christian Art Jed Perl, Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis Anthony Blunt. Revised by Richard Beresford, Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 Brian Fallon with accompanying text by Breon O'Casey, Breon O'Casey Jon Schueler. Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, (eds) The Sound of Sleat — A Painter's Life Catherine Johnston, Helmut Börsch-Supan, Helmut R. Leppien, Kasper Monrad, Baltic Light: Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany Megan Holmes, Fra Filippo Lippi: The Carmelite Painter Essay and introduction by Vincent Katz, Life is Paradise — The Portraits of Francesco Clemente Lisa Dennison and Others, Clemente Photographs by Luca Babini. Essay by Rene Ricard, Francesco Clemente — A Portrait James R. Mellow, Walker Evans Maria Morris Hamburg, Walker Evans Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company Eugenia Parry, Crime Album Stories: Paris 1886–1902 Robert A Sobieszek, ‘Ghost in the Shell’. Photography and the Human Soul 1850–2000: Essays on Camera Portraiture Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, The Sixties Anthony Alofsin, (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond Commentaries by Frank O Gehry. Mildred Friedman (ed). Essay by Michael Sorkin, Gehry Talks: Architecture & Process [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the books "Francis Bacon in the 1950s," by Michael Peppiatt and "Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real," edited by Armin Zweite and Maria Müller.

The article reviews the book "Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg," by Alice Goldfarb Marquis.

The article reviews the book "The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984," edited by Marvin J. Taylor.

Reviews the book "Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art," edited by Jonathan Harris.

Books reviewed in this article: Richard Cork, Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s Richard Cork, New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s Richard Cork, Breaking Down The Barriers: Art in the 1990s Richard Cork, Annus Mirabilis? Art in the Year 2000 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the books "An Artist Against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938," by Peter Paret and "Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective," edited by Julie Ault.

Books reviewed in this article: Martin Harrison, Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties Douglas Dreishpoon, Alan Trachtenberg et al., The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from The New York Times Photo Archives [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Artworld," by Marcia Tucker.

The article reviews the book "Glenn Brown," edited by Francesco Bonami and Laurence Sillars.

The article reviews the book "The Pictures Generation 1974-1984," by Douglas Eklund.

The article reviews the book, "Van Gogh & the Colours of the Night," by Sjraar van Heughten.

The article reviews the book "James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics and History in the1960s" by Michael Lobel.

The article reviews the book "Stuart Sutcliffe: A Retrospective," edited by Matthew H. Clough and Colin Fallows.

The article reviews the book "The Great Bratby: A Portrait of John Bratby Ra," by Maurice Yacowar.

The article reviews the book "Lichtenstein: Girls," by Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Dorothy Lichtenstein and Richard Prince.

The article reviews the book "Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective," by Elizabeth A. T. Smith.

The article reviews the book "HORNSEY 1968: THE ART SCHOOL REVOLUTION," by Lisa Tickner.

The article reviews the book "VISION ON: FILM, TELEVISION AND THE ARTS IN BRITAIN," by John Wyver.

The article reviews the book "Vincent Van Gogh and Expressionism," by Jill Lloyd.

The article reviews the book "The Symbolism of Paul Gauguin: Erotica, Exotica, and the Great Dilemmas of Hunanity," by Henri Dorra.