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The Art Book

2008 – 15:1

Articles

Prodigious Enchantments NORBERT LYNTON 3

Can Art be Evil? Portrait of a Nazi Propagandist JOHN A WALKER 5

Process as Communication VICTORIA KELLER 7

Living it Up in Fifteenth-Century Florence: Magnificence, the Medici and the Renaissance Palace GABRIELE NEHER 9

Translating Apples TACITA DEAN 11

ARTISTS' SELF-PORTRAITS FROM THE UFFIZI BY ANTONIO PAOLUCCI ET AL. BRITTA C DWYER 13

PANIC ATTACK! ART IN THE PUNK YEARS BY MARK SLADEN AND ARIELLA YEDGAR (EDS) JOHN A WALKER 14

MUDMAN: THE ODYSSEY OF KIM JONES BY SANDRA Q FIRMIN AND JULIE JOYCE (EDS) DAVID McCARTHY 15

HARRY THUBRON: COLLAGES AND CONSTRUCTIONS 1972-1984 BY NORBERT LYNTON AND JON THOMPSON BETH L WILLIAMSON 16

IKE TAIGA AND TOKUYAMA GYOKURAN: JAPANESE MASTERS OF THE BRUSH BY FELICE FISCHER WITH KYOKO KINOSHITA CRAIG BUNCH 19

BETWEEN WORLDS: VOYAGERS TO BRITAIN 1700-1850 BY JOCELYN HACKFORTH-JONES ET AL. PATRICIA ANDREW 20

SEAMAN SCHEPPS: A CENTURY OF NEW YORK JEWELRY DESIGN BY AMANDA VAILL AND JANET ZAPATA ROBERTA BERNABEI 21

ONCE UPON A TIME WALT DISNEY: THE SOURCES OF INSPIRATION FOR THE DISNEY STUDIOS BY BRUNO GIRVEAU, LELLA SMITH AND PIERRE LAMBERT VICTORIA DE RIJKE 22

CANALETTO IN ENGLAND A VENETIAN ARTIST ABROAD, 1746- 1755 BY CHARLES BEDDINGTON WITH ESSAYS BY BRIAN ALLEN AND FRANCIS RUSSELL SOPHIE BOSTOCK 23

LEONARDO DA VINCI EXPERIENCE, EXPERIMENT AND DESIGN BY MARTIN KEMP GABRIELE NEHER 24

OUDRY'S PAINTED MENAGERIE: PORTRAITS OF EXOTIC ANIMALS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE BY MARY MORTON (ED.) MICHAEL DORSCH 25

Two Saints - Home At Last 27

‘The Call’ Within and Beyond Africa MARION ARNOLD 29

STILL LIFE AND TRADE IN THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE BY JULIE BERGER HOCHSTRASSER LARRY SILVER 31

JAPONISME: THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE ON WESTERN ART SINCE 1858 BY SIEGFRIED WICHMANN MAJELLA MUNRO 32

THE MODERN WEST: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES, 1890-1950 BY EMILY BALLEW NEFF ET AL. HERBERT R HARTEL JR 33

THE MOST ARROGANT MAN IN FRANCE: GUSTAVE COURBET AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDIA CULTURE BY PETRA TEN- DOESSCHATE CHU LOUIS BYRNE 34

BEASTS - FACTUAL AND FANTASTIC BY ELIZABETH MORRISON ELEANOR ROBBINS 35

TECHNOLOGIES OF INTUITION BY JENNIFER FISHER (ED) LEILA McKELLAR 36

PORTRAIT OF A PATRON. THE PATRONAGE AND COLLECTING OF JAMES BRYDGES, 1ST DUKE OF CHANDOS (1674-1744) BY SUSAN JENKINS ROSA SOMERVILLE 37

BERLIN IN THE 20s: ART AND CULTURE 1918-1933 BY RAINER METZGER TRANS. CLARE COSTA DEBORAH ASCHER BARNSTONE 38

EDWARD HOPPER BY CAROL TROYEN, JUDITH A BARTER, ELLIOTT B DAVIES ET AL. JULIAN FREEMAN 39

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURE. THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES BY MEYER SCHAPIRO, EDITED BY LINDA SEIDEL RON BAXTER 40

CAMOUFLAGE BY TIM NEWARK WITH JONATHAN MILLER PATRICIA ANDREW 41

WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIETY BY WHITNEY CHADWICK AND EROTICISM & ART BY ALYCE MAHON ROSEMARY BETTERTON 42

INIGO JONES AND THE EUROPEAN CLASSICIST TRADITION BY GILES WORSLEY DAVID HOWARTH 43

ART, ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE LIFE OF OBJECTS: PARIS, c 1925-35 BY JULIA KELLY GEN DOY 44

FANTASY AND FAITH: THE ART OF GUSTAVE DORÉ BY ERIC ZAFRAN (ED.) ANDREW LAMBIRTH 46

COURBET BY LINDA NOCHLIN GRAHAM SHAW 47

MODERN SCULPTURE READER BY JON WOOD, DAVID HULKS AND ALEX POTTS (EDS) JO APPLIN 48

GREAT EXHIBITIONS: LONDON - NEW YORK - PARIS - PHILADELPHIA 1851-1900 BY JONATHAN MEYER HENRY MATTHEWS 49

PORTRAIT. A LIFE OF THOMAS EAKINS BY WILLIAM S MCFEELY SARAH LAWSON 50

MEDIA ART HISTORIES BY OLIVER GRAU (ED.) AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE: A HISTORY OF NEW MEDIA IN THEATER, DANCE, PERFORMANCE ART, AND INSTALLATION BY STEVE DIXON WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY BARRY SMITH CHARLIE GERE 51

MEDIEVAL DRESS AND FASHION BY MARGARET SCOTT SARAH LAWSON 52

THE ALPINE FANTASY OF VICTOR B AND OTHER STORIES BY JEREMY AKERMAN AND EILEEN DALY (EDS) JEFFREY DENNIS 54

Norbert Lynton - An Appreciation GILANE TAWADROS 55

A Chronic Curiosity JULIAN FREEMAN 56

Copyright Between Commerce and Creativity: Art, Photography and the Law NINA LAGER VESTBERG 58

‘Big is Beautiful’ - The Guggenheim Museum at Bilbao SUE WARD 60

THE GARDEN AT BOMARZO: A RENAISSANCE RIDDLE BY JESSIE SHEELER KATIE CAMPBELL 62

PORTMEIRION BY MARK EASTENT, JOOLS HOLLAND, STEPHEN LACEY, ROBIN LLYWELYN, JAN MORRIS AND ALWYN W TURNER TOM HICKS 63

A Photographic Encounter with Britain GUY LANE 64

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: A DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF FIVE OR SIX YEARS ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE BY GIANCARLO AMBROSINO (ED.) AMISH MORRELL 66

‘That Person's Workbook’ or Enquire Within About Everything FRANCES FOLLIN 68

BFI Mediatheque: Welcome to the Great British Film and Television Show SIMON McCALLUM 70

DALI AND FILM BY MATTHEW GALE (ED.) JOHN A WALKER 71

A HISTORY OF ARTISTS' FILM AND VIDEO IN BRITAIN BY DAVID CURTIS SAMANTHA LACKEY 72

OUTDOOR MONUMENTS OF MANHATTAN A HISTORICAL GUIDE BY DIANNE L DURANTE VICTORIA KELLER 74

PANTHÉON DE LA GUERRE: RECONFIGURING A PANORAMA OF THE GREAT WAR BY MARK LEVITCH GRAHAM SHAW 74

MAKING RENAISSANCE ART BY KIM W WOOD BOB BAGGS 75

ART AND WAR BY LAURA BRANDON GRAHAM SHAW 76

WHERE THE SEA MEETS THE LAND: ARTISTS ON THE COAST IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN BY CHRISTIANA PAYNE PATRICIA ANDREW 77

THE CONTINUUM ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ANIMAL SYMBOLISM IN ART BY HOPE B WERNESS VICTORIA DE RIJKE 77

JAMES BOSWELL, UNOFFICIAL WAR ARTIST BY WILLIAM FEAVER GRAHAM SHAW 78

THE CREATION OF COLOR IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE BY SARAH LOWENGARD PATRICIA RAILING 78

HOKUSAI: FIRST MANGA MASTER BY JOCELYN BOUQUILLARD AND CHRISTOPHER MARQUET CHRIS TAYLOR 79

The Art Book

2008 – 15:2

Articles

Pictures of Millais COLIN CRUISE Page 3

The Return of the Radical ANDREW LAMBIRTH Page 6

A Man Out of Time GUY LANE Page 8

Homage to Barcelona LOUIS BYRNE Page 10

EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

TOWARDS A NEW LAOCOON BY PENELOPE CURTIS AND STEPHEN FEEKE (EDS) ROSALIND McKEVER Page 12

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: TRANSFER DRAWINGS FROM THE 1960s BY LEWIS KACHUR AND ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: CARDBOARDS AND RELATED PIECES BY YVE-ALAIN BOIS AND JOSEF HELFENSTEIN WITH CLAIRE ELLIOT JEFFREY DENNIS Page 13

SEDUCED: ART & SEX FROM ANTIQUITY TO NOW BY MARINA WALLACE, MARTIN KEMP, JOANNE BERNSTEIN (EDS) KATIE CAMPBELL Page 14

ART IN AMERICA: 300 YEARS OF INNOVATION BY SUSAN DAVIDSON (ED.) VICTORIA KELLER Page 16

ANDY WARHOL: A CELEBRATION OF LIFE [...] AND DEATH BY KEITH HARTLEY VICTORIA KELLER Page 16

VENICE AND THE ISLAMIC WORLD 828-1797 BY STEFANO CARBONI (ED) PAUL WOOD Page 17

PERPETUAL GLORY: MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC CERAMICS FROM THE HARVEY B PLOTNICK COLLECTION BY OYA PANCAROGLU MATT CAMBRIDGE Page 18

VINCENT VAN GOGH AND EXPRESSIONISM BY JILL LLOYD JOHN A WALKER Page 19

IMPRESSIONISTS BY THE SEA BY JOHN HOUSE AND DAVID HOPKIN MICHAEL DORSCH Page 20

FRANZ MARC THE RETROSPECTIVE BY ANNEGRET HOBERG AND HELMUT FRIEDEL (EDS) PATRICIA RAILING Page 21

SEAN SCULLY: A RETROSPECTIVE BY DANILO ECCHER (ET AL.) ROBERT RADFORD Page 22

DUTCH PAINTINGS IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BY WALTER LEIDTKE ROSA SOMERVILLE Page 23

PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY A PASSION FOR BRITISH ART MASTERPIECES FROM THE YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART BY JOHN BASKETT ET AL. STEPHEN SOMERVILLE Page 24

POETS IN THE LANDSCAPE: THE ROMANTIC SPIRIT IN BRITAIN BY SIMON MARTIN, MARTIN BUTLIN, ROBERT MEYRICK MELANY HUGHES Page 26

DOCUMENTA 12 BY ROGER M BUERGEL, RUTH NOACK ET AL., DOCUMENTA 12 PICTURE BOOK BY ROGER M BUERGEL, RUTH NOACK ET AL., DOCUMENTA 12 MAGAZINE NO. 1-3 READER BY GEORG SCHOLLHAMMER, ROGER M BUERGEL, RUTH NOACK ET AL. AND SCULPTURE PROJECTS MUNSTER 07 BY KASPER KONIG, BRIGITTE FRANZEN, CARINA PLATH ET AL. PAUL BONAVENTURA Page 27

FROM RUSSIA FRENCH AND RUSSIAN MASTER PAINTINGS 1870-1925 FROM MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG PATRICIA RAILING Page 28

FRANCE IN RUSSIA: THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE'S MALMAISON COLLECTION BY FRANK ALTHAUS & MARK SUTCLIFFE (EDS) SUE WALKER Page 29

CALLUM INNES: FROM MEMORY BY FIONA BRADLEY & ELIZABETH MCLEAN (EDS) MATT CAMBRIDGE Page 31

INTERVIEW

Christian Innovators. JEFFREY SPIER TALKS TO JANET TYSON JANET TYSON Page 32

PERSPECTIVES

East Anglian Landscape and Memory CLAIRE WALSH Page 34

REVIEWS

BERNINI'S BIOGRAPHIES: CRITICAL ESSAYS BY MAARTEN DELBEKE, EVONNE LEVY AND STEVEN F OSTROW (EDS) CAROL M RICHARDSON Page 36

IMAGES AND IDENTITY IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE BY PATRICIA LEE RUBIN SAMUEL BIBBY Page 37

ROGER HILTON: THE FIGURED LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT BY ANDREW LAMBIRTH ADRIAN LEWIS Page 38

THE LOOK OF VAN DYCK: THE SELF-PORTRAIT WITH A SUNFLOWER AND THE VISION OF THE PAINTER BY JOHN PEACOCK DAVID HOWARTH Page 39

THE DINNER PARTY FROM CREATION TO PRESERVATION BY JUDY CHICAGO, GLOBAL FEMINISMS. NEW DIRECTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY ART BY MAURA REILLY AND LINDA NOCHLIN (EDS) AND WACK! ART AND THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION BY CORNELIA BUTLER ET AL SUSAN PLATT Page 41

LOCATING RENAISSANCE ART BY CAROL M RICHARDSON AND VIEWING RENAISSANCE ART BY KIM W WOODS, CAROL M RICHARDSON & ANGELIKI LYMBEROPOULOU BOB BAGGS Page 43

SECOND DIASPORIST MANIFESTO BY R B KITAJ JOHN SEARS Page 44

TITIAN REMADE REPETITION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARLY MODERN ITALIAN ART BY MARIA H LOH GABRIELE NEHER Page 45

DYNAMIC SPLENDOR: THE WALL MOSAICS IN THE CATHEDRAL OF EUFRASIUS AT POREC BY ANN TERRY AND HENRY MAGUIRE ROWENA LOVERANCE Page 46

THE PAINTED FACE: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN IN FRANCE, 1814-1914 BY TAMAR GARB MICHAEL DORSCH Page 47

HARMONIA MACROCOSMICA BY ANDREAS CELLARIUS AND ROBERT VAN GENT (ED) PATRICIA RAILING, CAROLINE WALLIS Page 48

THE SYMBOLISM OF PAUL GAUGUIN: EROTICA, EXOTICA, AND THE GREAT DILEMMAS OF HUMANITY BY HENRI DORRA JOHN A WALKER Page 50

BEAUTIFUL UGLY AFRICA AND DIASPORA AESTHETICS BY SARAH NUTTALL (ED.) MARION ARNOLD Page 51

WRITINGS ON ART MARK ROTHKO BY MIGUEL LOPEZ-REMIRO (ED.) ELEANOR ROBBINS Page 52

ICE CREAM BY VARIOUS AUTHORS ROBERT RADFORD Page 53

NORMAN ROCKWELL: THE UNDERSIDE OF INNOCENCE BY RICHARD HALPERN JOHN A WALKER Page 54

ART'S AGENCY AND ART HISTORY BY ROBIN OSBORNE & JEREMY TANNER AND ANTHROPOLOGY, ART AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION BY MARUSKA SVASEK DEBORAH SCHULTZ Page 55

VAN EYCK: THE COMPLETE WORKS BY AMANDA SIMPSON ANNETTE LEZOTTE Page 56

PIERO DI COSIMO VISIONS BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE BY DENNIS GERONIMUS GABRIELE NEHER Page 57

DERRICK GREAVES: FROM KITCHEN-SINK TO SHANGRI-LA BY JAMES HYMAN JOHN WALKER Page 59

PERSPECTIVES

Romanian Art Renaissance TERESA HOWARD Page 60

ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

MODERN: THE MODERN MOVEMENT IN BRITAIN BY ALAN POWERS HENRY MATTHEWS Page 62

THE ARCHITECTURE OF RALPH ADAMS CRAM AND HIS OFFICE BY ETHAN ANTHONY AND BERTRAM GOODHUE: HIS LIFE AND RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE BY ROMY WYLLIE HENRY MATTHEWS Page 63

PHOTOGRAPHY

BERLIN: PORTRAIT OF A CITY BY HANS CHRISTIAN ADAM DEBBIE LEWER Page 64

THE ART OF LEE MILLER BY MARK HAWORTH-BOOTH JULIAN FREEMAN Page 66

ARCHIVE STYLE: PHOTOGRAPHS & ILLUSTRATIONS FOR US SURVEYS, 1850-1890 BY ROBIN KELSEY NINA LAGER VESTBERG Page 68

SCREEN STUDIES

THE SCREEN IN SURREALIST ART AND THOUGHT BY HAIM FINKELSTEIN SAMANTHA LACKEY Page 69

THE GHOSTS OF SONGS: THE FILM ART OF THE BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE, 1982-1998 BY KODWO ESHUN AND ANJALIKA SAGER (EDS.) ALEXANDRA M KOKOLI Page 70

FILM GENRE: FROM ICONOGRAPHY TO IDEOLOGY BY BARRY KEITH GRANT AND SPECTATORSHIP: THE POWER OF LOOKING ON BY MICHELLE AARON CLAIRE ALFREY Page 71

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES IN BRIEF

WHAT MAKES A GREAT EXHIBITION? BY PAULA MARINCOLA (ED.) JULIAN FREEMAN Page 73

THE GREEN MEMORIES OF DESIRE: LEE MILLER, ROLAND PENROSE BY KATHERINE SLUSHER ALANNA FREEMAN Page 73

THE POP ART TRADITION: RESPONDING TO MASS CULTURE BY ERIC SHANES KATIE CAMPBELL Page 74

RAPHAEL BY BETTE TALVACCHIA BOB BAGGS Page 74

THE TOTAL WORK OF ART: FROM BAYREUTH TO CYBERSPACE BY MATTHEW WILSON SMITH VERONICA DAVIES Page 75 PROJECTING MIGRATION TRANSCULTURAL DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE BY ALLAN GROSSMAN AND AINE O'BRIEN (EDS) GEN DOY Page 76

PICASSO: FIRED WITH PASSION BY ROSE WATBAN AND CLARE FINN PATRICIA ANDREW Page 76

WOMEN, ART, AND ARCHITECTURE IN NORTHERN ITALY, 1520-1580: NEGOTIATING POWER BY KATHERINE A McIVER AISLINN LOCONTE Page 77

COSIMO I DE MEDICI AND HIS SELF-REPRESENTATION IN FLORENTINE ART AND CULTURE BY HENK TH VAN VEEN, TRANS ANDREW P MCCORMICK BOB BAGGS Page 77

THE OBJECT OF LABOR ART, CLOTH, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION BY JOAN LIVINGSTONE AND JOHN PLOOF (EDS) GEN DOY Page 78

SPECTACULAR FLIRTATIONS: VIEWING THE ACTRESS IN BRITISH ART AND THEATRE, 1768-1820 BY GILL PERRY VICCY COLTMAN Page 79

The Art Book

2008- 15:3

Articles

Editorial (p 2-2) SUE WARD

Touched with Darkness (p 3-5) ANDREW LAMBIRTH

Digital Art (p 6-7) ANNA BENTKOWSKA KAFFEL

Becoming-Woman: French Eighteenth- Century Genre Painting and Poststructuralism (p 8-9) GUY CALLAN

A Kind of Magic (p 10-11) GIOVANNA COSTANTINI

MAPS: FINDING OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD BY JAMES R AKERMAN AND ROBERT W KARROW JR (EDS) (p 12-12) LARRY SILVER

THE SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME MODERNISM FOR AMERICA BY JENNIFER R GROSS (ED) (p 12-14) PATRICIA RAILING

THE REAL THING: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM CHINA BY SIMON GROOM, KAREN SMITH AND XU ZHEN (p 14-15) MING-HUI CHEN

INSPIRING IMPRESSIONISM: THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THE ART OF THE PAST BY ANN DUMAS (ED.) (p 15-16) IAN CHARNOCK

THE AGE OF ENCHANTMENT: BEARDSLEY, DULAC AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES BY RODNEY ENGEN AND FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS: PORTRAITS OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS FROM THE MARK SAMUELS LASNER COLLECTION BY MARGARET D STETZ (p 16-17) COLIN CRUISE

JOSEPH CORNELL: NAVIGATING THE IMAGINATION BY LYNDA ROSCOE HARTIGAN (p 17-18) CRAIG BUNCH

THE CHANGING FACE OF CHILDHOOD BY MIRJAM NEUMEISTER (ED.) (p 18-19) ROBERT RADFORD

'MY HIGHEST PLEASURES': WILLIAM HUNTER'S ART COLLECTION BY PETER BLACK (ED.) (p 19-20) MATT CAMBRIDGE

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: ART & ROCK 'N'ROLL SINCE 1967 BY DOMINIC MOLON (p 20-21) JULIAN FREEMAN

ANTIQUITY RECOVERED: THE LEGACY OF POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM BY VICTORIA C GARDNER COATES & JON L SEYDL (EDS) (p 21-22) VICCY COLTMAN

OIL PAINTINGS IN PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IN THE GOVERNMENT ART COLLECTION BY ESSAY BY PENNY JOHNSON (p 22-23) ANDREW LAMBIRTH

WILLIAM COBBING: GRADIVA PROJECT BY WILLIAM COBBING ET AL. (p 23-24) BETH L WILLIAMSON

REPRESENTING SLAVERY: ART, ARTEFACTS AND ARCHIVES IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM BY DOUGLAS HAMILTON & ROBERT J BLYTH (EDS) (p 24-26) STEPHEN BURY

JOHN STEZAKER: MARRIAGE BY ESSAY BY CECILIA JÄRDEMAR AND JOHN STEZAKER: MASKS BY ESSAY BY CAOIMHÍN MAC GIOLLA LÉITH (p 26-26) PETER JONES

Familiar Signs in a Distant Land (p 27- 28) PAMELA GERRISH NUNN

AARRGGHH!! IT'S WAR BY DAVID ROACH AND WAR POSTERS WEAPONS OF MASS COMMUNICATION BY JAMES AULICH (p 30-32) JULIAN FREEMAN

VALUE: ART: POLITICS: CRITICISM, MEANING AND INTERPRETATION AFTER POSTMODERNISM BY JONATHAN HARRIS (ED.) (p 32-33) DAVID BRIAN HOWARD

HORNSEY 1968: THE ART SCHOOL REVOLUTION BY LISA TICKNER (p 33-34) JOHN A WALKER

NEO-IMPRESSIONISM AND ANARCHISM IN FIN-DE-SIÉCLE FRANCE: PAINTING, POLITICS AND LANDSCAPE BY ROBYN ROSLAK (p 34-35) ROSALIND McKEVER

WORDS TO BE LOOKED AT: LANGUAGE IN 1960s ART BY LIZ KOTZ (p 35-36) DOMINIC RAHTZ

A LIFE OF PICASSO VOLUME III THE TRIUMPHANT YEARS 1917– 1932 BY JOHN RICHARDSON WITH THE COLLABORATION OF MARYLIN McCULLEY (p 36-37) ROBERT RADFORD

GORDON MATTA-CLARK: 'YOU ARE THE MEASURE' BY ELIZABETH SUSSMAN (ED.) (p 37- 38) JO APPLIN

POP ART AND THE CONTEST OVER AMERICAN CULTURE BY SARA DORIS (p 38-38) JOHN A WALKER

THE GATES OF PARADISE: LORENZO GHIBERTI'S MASTERPIECE BY GARY M RANKE (p 39-40) BOB BAGGS

BOOKS ON FIRE: THE TUMULTUOUS STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREAT LIBRARIES BY LUCIEN X POLASTRON, TRANSLATED BY JON E GRAHAM (p 40-40) VICTORIA DE RIJKE

AFTER THE REVOLUTION: WOMEN WHO TRANSFORMED CONTEMPORARY ART BY ELEANOR HEARTNEY, HELAINE POSNER, NANCY PRINCENTHAL, SUE SCOTT (p 40-42) LOUIS BYRNE

LEONARDO ON FLIGHT BY DOMENICO LAURENZA (p 42-42) ALAN WILLIAMS

ABSTRACTION AND THE HOLOCAUST BY MARK GODFREY (p 42-43) KATIE CAMPBELL

VAN GOGH PAINTINGS. THE MASTERPIECES BY BELINDA THOMPSON (p 44-44) YVES LABERGE

WAR PAINT: ART, WAR, STATE AND IDENTITY IN BRITAIN 1939- 1945 BY BRIAN FOSS (p 44-45) VERONICA DAVIES

MUSEUMS AFTER MODERNISM: STRATEGIES OF ENGAGEMENT BY GRISELDA POLLOCK AND JOYCE ZEMANS (EDS) (p 45-46) AMISH MORRELL

WEIMAR GERMANY: PROMISE AND TRAGEDY BY ERIC D WEITZ (p 46-47) DEBORAH ASHER BARNSTONE

FRENCH PAINTINGS OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE 1848–1886 BY ANNA GREEN (p 47- 48) ROBERT RADFORD

POUSSIN BY CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT (p 48-49) GUY CALLAN

SALVADOR DALI: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMAGE 1925–1930 BY FÈLIX FANÉS (p 49- 50) YVES LABERGE

RENAISSANCE ART RECONSIDERED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PRIMARY SOURCES BY CAROL M RICHARDSON ET AL. (EDS) (p 50- 51) ROSALIND McKEVER

READING BOYISHLY: ROLAND BARTHES, J M BARRIE, JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE, MARCEL PROUST, AND D W WINNICOTT BY CAROL MAVOR (p 51-52) WILLIAM GANIS

NORMAN ADAMS BY NICHOLAS USHERWOOD ET AL. AND DAVID TRESS CHASING SUBLIME LIGHT BY WITH AN ESSAY BY IAN JEFFREY (p 52-54) JULIAN FREEMAN

MEDIEVAL WALL PAINTINGS IN ENGLISH AND WELSH CHURCHES BY ROGER ROSEWELL (p 54-55) PAUL BONAVENTURA

NATIONAL GALLERY TECHNICAL BULLETIN 28 BY ASHOK ROY (ED.) (p 55-56) ALAN WILLIAMS

MONUMENT, MOMENT, AND MEMORY: MONET'S CATHEDRAL IN FIN DE SIECLE FRANCE BY RONALD BERNIER (p 56-57) ADRIAN LEWIS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE AND AFTER BY JOHN C WELCHMAN (ED.) (p 57-58) MATTHEW BOWMAN

PUBLIC SCULPTURE OF SOUTH LONDON BY TERRY CAVANAGH (p 58-58) DENNIS WARDLEWORTH

A Decade of Discovery (p 59-60) ROSALIND McKEVER

Going Dutch in New York : THE MET'S WALTER LIEDTKE TALKS TO DARRELYN GUNZBURG (p 61-62) DARRELYN GUNZBURG

MOROCCO: COURTYARDS AND GARDENS BY ACHVA BENZINBERG STEIN (p 63-63) KATIE CAMPBELL

FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN DESIGN 1951 BY PAUL RENNIE (p 63-64) JULIAN FREEMAN

POWER TO THE PEOPLE: EARLY SOVIET PROPAGANDA POSTERS IN THE ISRAEL MUSEUM, JERUSALEM BY ALEX WARD (ED) (p 64-65) AMY SARGEANT

STRAWBERRY HILL: HORACE WALPOLE'S GOTHIC CASTLE BY JUDITH VISCARDI & ANNA CHALCRAFT (p 65-65) PATRICIA ANDREW

POLAROIDS: MAPPLETHORPE BY SYLVIA WOLF (p 66-67) MICHAEL KAPLAN

THE MEMORY OF PABLO ESCOBAR BY JAMES MOLLISON (p 67-68) GUY LANE

DAVID SEYMOUR (CHIM) BY TOM BECK (p 68-69) YVES LABERGE

AMERICA IN SPACE – NASA'S FIRST FIFTY YEARS BY STEVEN J DICK ET AL. (p 69-70) PAUL BONAVENTURA

Art and Ecology: Art can be Green (p 71-71) FIONA PARRY

THE IMAGE AND THE WITNESS: TRAUMA, MEMORY AND VISUAL CULTURE BY FRANCES GUERIN AND ROGER HALLAS (EDS) (p 72- 73) KATHLEEN MacQUEEN

VISION ON: FILM, TELEVISION AND THE ARTS IN BRITAIN BY JOHN WYVER (p 74-75) JOHN A WALKER

SACRED BOOKS OF THE THREE FAITHS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM (p 76-76) SUSAN MARTIN

HARP ART BY TIM STUART (p 76- 77) SUSAN GRANGE

EDWARD BAWDEN AND HIS CIRCLE BY MALCOLM YORKE (p 77-77) PATRICIA ANDREW

THE BEHOLDER: THE EXPERIENCE OF ART IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE BY THOMAS FRANGENBERG & ROBERT WILLIAMS (EDS) (p 77-78) BOB BAGGS

PRACTICE AS RESEARCH APPROACHES TO CREATIVE ARTS ENQUIRY BY ESTELLE BARRETT AND BARBARA BOLT(EDS) (p 78- 79) GEN DOY

The Art Book Summer 2008 Bestseller Lists (p 80-80) The Art Book THE RETURN OF THE GODS: 2008 – 15:4 NEOCLASSICAL SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN BY MARJORIE TRUSTED Articles (ED.) (p 21-22) BERNARD BARRYTE George Stubbs: The Modern Painter of Life (p 3-4) CRANACH BY BODO BRINKMANN PAUL BONAVENTURA (ED.) (p 22-24) LARRY SILVER Not before time, either (p 5-7) JULIAN FREEMAN JUAN MUNOZ A RETROSPECTIVE BY SHEENA WAGSTAFF (ED.) (p 24- Naked Portraits (p 8-9) 25) VICTORIA KELLER CAITLIN HEFFERNAN

'Art for a city': The Civic and Visual POMPEO BATONI: PRINCE OF Identity of Renaissance Siena Re- PAINTERS IN EIGHTEENTH- examined (p 10-13) CENTURY ROME BY EDGAR GABRIELE NEHER PETERS BOWRON AND PETER BJÖRN KERBER (p 25-26) PERSPECTIVES CAROL M RICHARDSON

Wembley Stadium – Venue of Legends BASELITZ BY NORMAN (p 14-15) ROSENTHAL ET AL. (p 26-26) MIKE DAVIES KATERINA REED-TSOCHA

Loyalty and Emotion (p 16-16) PERSPECTIVES MIKE DAVIES 'Pleasures to be Planned for': Visiting EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUMS AND Compton Verney (p 28-29) GALLERIES VERONICA DAVIES

LOUISE BOURGEOIS BY FRANCES Ben Uri: Hidden and Homeless (p 30- MORRIS (ED.) (p 17-18) 31) MARION ARNOLD DARRELYN GUNZBURG

THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE REVIEWS BY RALPH RUGOFF ET AL. (p 18-20) FRANCIS HALSALL MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD: DIE ZEICHNUNGEN/DRAWINGS/ RENOIR AT THE THEATRE: DESSINS BY MICHAEL ROTH AND LOOKING AT LA LOGE BY ERNST MATTHIAS GRÜNEWALD: VEGELIN VAN CLAERBERGEN & ZEICHNUNGEN UND GEMÄLDE BY BARNABY WRIGHT (EDS) (p 20-21) MICHAEL ROTH, ANTJE-FEE ADRIAN LEWIS KÖLLERMANN ET AL. (p 32-33) ALEXANDER ADAMS MATTHEW BOWMAN

THE CEREMONIAL CITY HISTORY, MELISSA MILLER BY SUSIE KALIL MEMORY AND MYTH IN (p 41-42) RENAISSANCE VENICE BY IAIN JANET STILES TYSON FENLON (p 33-34) GABRIELE NEHER ART HISTORY: THE BASICS BY GRANT POOKE AND DIANA JOANNE TATHAM AND TOM NEWALL (p 42-43) O'SULLIVAN: A CHARMING LINDSEY SHAW-MILLER MEANING, A SOLID MEANING, A STRUGGLING MEANING BY WILL FRANÇOIS DUQUESNOY AND THE BRADLEY AND POLLY STAPLE (p GREEK IDEAL BY ESTELLE LINGO 34-35) (p 43-44) CLAIRE DAVIES CHRISTOPHER MOOCK

MODERN ARAB ART FORMATION WILLIAM CROZIER BY OF ARAB AESTHETICS BY NADA KATHARINE CROUAN, S B SHABOUT AND BELONGING AND KENNEDY, PHILIP VANN (p 44-45) GLOBALISATION CRITICAL PETER DAVIES ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURE BY KAMAL ART POWER BY BORIS GROYS (p BOULLATA (ED.) (p 35-36) 46-46) SUSAN NOYES PLATT JOHN A WALKER

RE-MAKE/RE-MODEL: ART, POP, THE TRIALS OF ART BY DANIEL FASHION AND THE MAKING OF MCCLEAN (ED.) (p 46-48) ROXY MUSIC, 1953–1972 BY HERBERT R HARTEL JR MICHAEL BRACEWELL (p 37-38) KIM TYLER POLITICS, CIVIC IDEALS AND SCULPTURE IN ITALY 1240–1400 COLLECTIVE INVENTIONS: BY BRENDAN CASSIDY (p 48-48) SURREALISM IN BELGIUM BY ELIZABETH FREEMAN PATRICIA ALLMER & HILDE VAN GELDER, EDS. (p 38-39) WOMEN AND PORTRAITS IN ROGER CARDINAL EARLY MODERN EUROPE GENDER, AGENCY, IDENTITY BY REPRESENTING RENAISSANCE ANDREA PEARSON (ED.) (p 48-50) ART c 1500–c 1600 BY CATHERINE LARRY SILVER E KING (p 39-40) LOUIS BYRNE FRIDA KAHLO 'I PAINT MY REALITY' CHRISTINA BURRUS (p UNNATURAL WONDERS: ESSAYS 50-50) FROM THE GAP BETWEEN ART REBECCA HOPKINSON AND LIFE BY ARTHUR C DANTO (p 40-41) THE COMPLETE DREAM OF THE NELSON 1935–1936 BY GEORGE RAREBIT FIEND (1904–1913) BY NELSON AND KURT FORSTER WINSOR MCCAY 'SILAS' WITH (INTRODUCTION) (p 58-59) CONTRIBUTIONS BY ALFREDO DEBORAH ASCHER BARNSTONE CASTELLI & JEREMY TAYLOR. ULRICH MERKL (ED.) (p 51-52) MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE FRANCIS HALSALL POSSIBLE: THE DREAM OF FLYING, THE DREAM OF THE ART OF SELF INVENTION: PARADISE BY GERLINDE IMAGE AND IDENTITY IN SCHULLER & CLAUDIA WEBER (p POPULAR VISUAL CULTURE BY 59-60) JOANNE FINKELSTEIN (p 52-52) ANDREW FINEGOLD ALANNA FREEMAN MAKING THE MODERN GARDEN PERSPECTIVES BY CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY-HOLE (p 60-61) Modest Proposals: Whitney '08 (p 53- KATIE CAMPBELL 54) JEANNINE TANG CRAFT, SPACE AND INTERIOR DESIGN, 1855–2005 BY SANDRA ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ALFOLDY AND JANICE HELLAND (EDS) (p 61-62) LIGHT, AIR AND OPENNESS: GEN DOY MODERN ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN THE WARS BY PAUL DEAD CHILDREN PLAYING: A OVERY (p 55-56) PICTURE BOOK BY STANLEY DEBORAH ASCHER BARNSTONE DONWOOD AND DR TCHOCK (p 62- 62) ULTRA MATERIALS. HOW ROSALIND MCKEVER MATERIALS INNOVATION IS CHANGING THE WORLD BY The Art of Photojournalism : GUY GEORGE M BEYLERIAN AND LANE INTERVIEWS PAOLO ANDREW DENT BRADLEY QUINN PELLEGRIN ABOUT HIS NEW (ED.) AND MANUFACTURING BOOK, AS I WAS DYING (p 63-64) PROCESSES FOR DESIGN GUY LANE PROFESSIONALS BY ROB THOMPSON (p 56-57) PHOTOGRAPHY MARIA KAFEL BENTKOWSKA SHUTTING UP SHOP: THE DECLINE THE WALLED GARDEN BY LESLIE OF THE TRADITIONAL SMALL GEDDES-BROWN (p 57-58) SHOP BY JOHN LONDEI (p 65-66) PATRICIA ANDREW PHIL BAKER

BUILDING A NEW EUROPE: AFRICA BY SEBASTIÃO SALGADO PORTRAITS OF MODERN – TEXT BY MIA COUTO (p 66-68) ARCHITECTS ESSAYS BY GEORGE ROSA SOMERVILLE POP ART IS: hellip MARK FRANCIS SO EXOTIC, SO HOMEMADE (p 76-76) SURREALISM, ENGLISHNESS AND DAVID MCCARTHY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY BY IAN WALKER (p 68-70) IVON HITCHENS BY PETER GUY LANE KHOROCHE (p 76-77) MARION ARNOLD SCREEN STUDIES ART IN EXILE: POLISH PAINTERS DIGITAL STORYTELLING: THE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN BY NARRATIVE POWER OF VISUAL DOUGLAS HALL (p 77-78) EFFECTS IN FILM BY SHILO T VICTORIA KELLER MCCLEAN (p 71-72) PETER DEPIETRO IMPRESSIONIST GIVERNY A COLONY OF ARTISTS, 1885–1915 TASCHEN MOVIE ICONS (SERIES) BY KATHERINE M BOURGUIGNON BY PAUL DUNCAN (ED.), ELVIS (ED) (p 79-79) PRESLEY BY F X FEENEY, FRANK MARION ARNOLD SINATRA BY ALAIN SILVER, ELIZABETH TAYLOR BY JAMES URSINE AND MAE WEST BY JAMES URSINE (p 72-73) CLIVE JOINSON

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES IN BRIEF

HIGHLAND ART FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY: A WINDOW TO THE WEST BY MURDO MACDONALD, JOANNA SODEN, LESLEY LINDSAY AND WILL MACLEAN (EDS) (p 74-74) VICTORIA KELLER

THE HIDDEN SENSE: SYNAESTHESIA IN ART AND SCIENCE BY CRETIEN VAN CAMPEN (p 75-75) SIMON SHAW-MILLER

THE IMPRESSIONISTS AT LEISURE BY PAMELA TODD (p 75-76) ANGELIKI NTOUROU