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Mar 10

NEW IN PRINT — Destruction Rites: Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture

Mona Hadler. "In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction - from the demolition derby where makeshift cars...

Mar 10

NEW IN PRINT — Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art

Miriam Kienle. "Once regarded as 'New York’s most famous unknown artist,' Ray Johnson was a highly visible outlier in the art world, his...

Mar 10

NEW IN PRINT — The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts

Christopher de Hamel. "The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are...

Mar 10

NEW IN PRINT — The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft

Peter Bellerby. "Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team...

Feb 12

BOOK REVIEWS — Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation

Brooke Belisle. University of California Press, 2023. How does depth inform the way we see and experience the world, and can it be truly...

Dec 2, 2023

NEW IN PRINT — Shellac in Visual and Sonic Culture: Unsettled Matter

Elodie A. Roy. “This book charts the unsettled media cultures and deep time of shellac, retracing its journey from the visual to the...

Dec 2, 2023

NEW IN PRINT — A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art

Marta McDowell (Editor) and Janet Stiles Tyson (Contributor). “In the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699–c. 1758) found herself penniless,...

Dec 2, 2023

NEW IN PRINT — Trailblazing Women Printmakers

Elena M. Sarni. Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers is a visual history of “one of...

Dec 2, 2023

NEW IN PRINT — The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families

Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer. “Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an...

Dec 2, 2023

NEW IN PRINT — The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic

Elisabeth Gernerd. “From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the...