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Jul 18, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France
Julia Langbein. "This is the first book length study of Salon caricature, a widespread genre of press illustration that flourished in...


Jul 18, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and Desire in the Anatomical Image, 1700-1900
Michael Sappol. "In centuries past, sexual body-parts and same-sex desire were unÂmenÂÂtionables deÂbarred from polite converÂsaÂtion and...


Jul 18, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Ah Ah: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Haleakala & Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks
Ryan Thompson. "Ah! Sorry… Following a trail of regret from the Petrified Forest (the subject of his classic Bad Luck, Hot Rocks) to the...


Jul 18, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
Jeff Rosen. "Julia Margaret Cameron, the celebrated Victorian photographer, was a child of the colonies. Born in 1815 in Calcutta, she...


Jul 18, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — John Soane's Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and His Collection
Bruce Boucher. "Sir John Soane’s architecture has enjoyed a revival of interest over the last seventy years, yet Soane as a collector—the...


Jul 18, 2024
BOOK REVIEWS — Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Diana Kamin. The MIT Press, 2023. Note: I approach this review with experience in stock photography editing and content management, as...


Jun 14, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In
Magdalene Keaney. "Living and working over a century apart, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and American photographer...


Jun 14, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us
Legacy Russell. "In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking Glitch Feminism, explores the 'meme' as mapped...


Jun 14, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Jennifer L. Roberts. "In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and...


Jun 14, 2024
NEW IN PRINT — The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art
Robyne Calvert. "The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art is a monument of international significance in the history of...
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