Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — Audubon as Artist: A New Look at The Birds of AmericaRoberta J. M. Olson. “John James Audubon (1785–1851), artist, naturalist, and creator of the celebrated The Birds of America, is widely...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — Deaths of Artists: From the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of ArtJim Moske. “Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange old scrapbooks packed with newspaper obituaries of...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — EscherMark Veldhuysen (Ed.) and Federico Giudiceandrea (Ed.). “The Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher first visited Italy in the 1920s before...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Definitive Collector's EditionAndreas Marks. “Utagawa Hiroshige's unique landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), first published in the...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — Illustration, Narrative and The Suffragette: An Illustrative EnquiryMireille Fauchon. “Through an investigation of the Holloway prison writings of the suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — Irving Penn: CentennialMaria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L. Rosenheim. “Irving Penn (1917–2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the...
Apr 29NEW IN PRINT — The Art of the Literary PosterAllison Rudnick. “Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual...
Apr 2BOOK REVIEWS — Archive Everything: Mapping the EverydayGabriella Giannachi. The MIT Press, 2016. We often think of archives as repositories of objects belonging to the past, but in Archive...