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Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies

All titles added within the past twelve months. For a list of book titles in this category 1998 to the present, click here.


Feeling Photography .
Munk Centre for International Studies .
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario .
October 16–17, 2009.
College Art Association, 2010.

Framing Innocence: A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response. New York: New Press, 2010. Cloth $25.95 (9781595585516)

Searching for Art's New Publics. University of Chicago Press, 2010. 50 color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9781841503110)

Adams, Laurie Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction, Second Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2010. 312 pp.; 8 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Paper $36.00 (9780813344508)

Adamson, Glenn. The Craft Reader. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010. 672 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781847883032)

Albala, Mitchell. Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 192 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823032204)

Alberro, Alexander, and Blake Stimson, eds. Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 510 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780262013161)

Alexenberg, Mel, ed. Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture. Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2010. 192 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781841501918)

Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris. Basics Design: Design Thinking. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411177)

Asselin, Olivier, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross. Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 448 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780773533851)

Baert, Barbara, ed. Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visal Arts. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2009. 160 pp.; 20 ills. Paper $39.50 (9789058677167)

Baird, Karen L. Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 160 pp. Cloth $42.00 (9780838641842)

Baldwin, Frederick C., Martha L. Keber, and Holly Koons McCullough. Freedom's March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah by Frederick C. Baldwin. Savannah, Ga.: Telfair Museum of Art, 2008. 112 pp. Hardback $34.95 (9780933075085)

Baldwin, Gordon, and Martin Jürgens. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms Revised Edition. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 104 pp.; 61 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9780892369713)

Barolsky, Paul. A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Cloth $49.95 (9780271036755 )

Batchen, Geoffrey, ed. Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's "Camera Lucida." Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $29.95 (97802620135253)

Bell, Julian. Mirror of the World: A New History of Art. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 496 pp.; 267 color ills.; 105 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780500287545)

Berry, Ian, ed. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, 2010. 272 pp.; 120 color ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780262013550)

Bhatia, Neeraj, and Jurgen Mayer H., eds. Arium: Weather and Architecture. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9783775725408)

Bois, Yve-Alain, ed. Gabriel Orozco. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 214 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9780262513012)

Bond, Henry. Lacan at the Scene. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 233 pp.; 79 b/w ills. Cloth $24.94 (9780262013420)

Bordowitz, Gregg. Volition. New York: Printed Matter, 2010. 142 pp. Paper $22.00 (9780894390425 )

Braddock, Alan C., and Christoph Irmscher, eds. A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2010. 304 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780817355517)

Brainerd, Andrew W. On Connoisseurship and Reason in the Authentication of Art. Chicago: Prologue Press, 2010. 616 pp.; 153 color ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780978927011)

Brewer, John. The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780195396904)

Brougher, Kerry, Philippe Vergne, Klaus Ottmann, Kaira M. Cabañas, and Andria Hickey. Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers. Exh. cat. New York: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden/Walker Art Center, 2010. 120 color ills.; 175 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780935640946)

Buckley, Brad, and John Conomos, eds. Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The Artist, the PhD and the Academy. Nova Scotia: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2010. 234 pp. Paper $25.00 (9780919616493)

Caduff, Corina, Fiona Siegenthaler, and Tan Wächli, eds. Art and Artistic Research. Zurich Yearbook of the Arts 2009, vol. 6. Ed. Hans-Peter Schwarz Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010. 320 pp.; 30 color ills.; 120 b/w ills. Cloth $49.00 (9783858812933)

Candlin, Fiona, and Raiford Guins, eds. The Object Reader. New York: Routledge, 2010. 576 pp. Paper $39.95 (9780415452304)

Carey, John. What Good Are the Arts? New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 0 color ills.; 0 b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (9780199735976)

Centeno, Silvia A., ed. Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology. Vol. 1. Edited by Nancy Grubb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 115 color ills.; 60 b/w ills. Paper $50.00 (9780300151602)

Conn, Steven. Do Museums Still Need Objects? Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. 296 pp.; 34 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780812241907)

Coutts, Glenn, and Timo Jokela, eds. Art, Community and Environment: Educational Perspectives. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2010. 304 pp.; 128 color ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781841501895)

Cowling, Elizabeth, and Richard Kendall. Picasso Looks at Degas. Exh. cat. Williamstown, MA and Barcelona: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Museu Picasso, 2010. 310 color ills.; 9 b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300134124)

Crowther, Paul. Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame). Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. 264 pp.; 26 ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780804762144)

Daichendt, G. James. Artist-Teacher: A Philosophy for Creating and Teaching. Bristol, U.K. and Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Intellect, 2010. 12 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781841503134)

Davies, Jane, and Jane Davies. Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 144 pp.; many color ills. Paper $19.95 (0823099512)

de Bruin-Derakhshani, Fariba, and Barbara Murray, eds. Culture and the Human Body: Prince Claus Awards 2008. Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. vol. 12. Amsterdam: Prince Claus Fund, 2010. 152 pp.; Many color ills. Paper (9789076162140)

de Vries, Joyce. Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances: Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World, edited by Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 322 pp.; 82 b/w ills. Cloth $124.95 (9780754667513)

Derrida, Jacques. Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-François Bonhomme. Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2010. 88 pp.; 34 b/w ills. Paper $17.00 (9780823232062)

DeVereaux, Constance. “Arts Management: Sociological Inquiries.” .
European Sociological Association .
University of Lisbon, Portugal .
September 2–5, 2009.
College Art Association, 2010.

DiThomas, Christine, ed. Signs of the Apocalypse/ Rapture. Chicago: Front Forty Press, 2008. 284 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780977868964)

Doherty, Tiarna, and Anne T. Woollett. Looking at Paintings: A Guide to Technical Terms Revised Edition. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 100 pp.; 71 color ills.; 7 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9780898369720)

Dudley, Sandra, ed. Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations. New York: Routledge, 2010. 312 pp. Paper $44.95 (9780415492188)

Dvořák, Robert Regis. Selling Art 101: The art of creative selling. Nevada City, CA: ArtNetwork, 2009. 190 pp. Paper $19.95 (9780940899964)

Elkins, James, Alice Kim, and Zhivka Valiavicharska, eds. Art and Globalization. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 1 ills. Cloth $85.00 (9780271037165)

Engelbrecht, Lloyd C. Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism. 2 vols. Cincinnati: Flying Trapeze Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Paper $422.47 (9780615323664)

Falk, John H. Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press, 2009. 224 pp. Paper $29.95 (9781598741636)

Finn, Jonathan. Capturing the Criminal Image: From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 184 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $22.50 (9780819950705)

Fiss, Karen. Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France. University of Chicago Press, 2010. 296 pp.; 95 b/w ills. Paper $37.50 (9780226252018)

Freeman-Zachery, Ricë. Creative Time and Space: Making Room for Making Art. Cincinnati, OH: North Light Books, 2009. 144 pp.; many color ills. Paper $22.99 (9781600613227)

Gérin, Annie, and James S. McLean, eds. Public Art in Canada: Critical Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780802095688)

Gessert, George. Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2010. 233 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $24.95 (9780262014144)

Godfrey, Tony, ed. Understanding Art Objects: Thinking Through the Eye. Burlington, VT: Lund Humphries, 2009. 176 pp.; 20 color ills.; 65 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (9781848220164)

Golding, Viv. Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 246 pp. Cloth $99.95 (9780754646914)

Goode, Patrick, ed. The Oxford Companion to Architecture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Cloth $295.00 (9780198605683)

Graham, Beryl, and Sarah Cook. Rethinking Curating: Art after New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 354 pp.; 68 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (9780262013888)

Griffel, Lois. Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2010. 144 pp.; 170 color ills. Paper $24.95 (9780823095193)

Grudin, Robert. Design and Truth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 216 pp.; 8 color ills.; 5 b/w ills. Cloth $26.00 (9780300161403)

Harries, Karsten. Art Matters: A Critical Commentary on Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art”. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol. 57. New York: Springer, 2010. 204 pp. Cloth $139.00 (9781402099885)

Harrison, Charles. An Introduction to Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 320 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780300109153)

Hell, Julia, and Andreas Schonle, eds. Ruins of Modernity. Politics, History, and Culture. Edited by George Steinmetz and Julia Adams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Paper $25.95 (9780822344742)

Henare, Amiria. Museums, Anthropology, and Imperial Exchange. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 344 pp.; 47 b/w ills. Paper $43.00 (9780521100748)

Henderson, Lara. The Space in Between. Philadelphia: Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, 2010. $70.00

Houghton, James. Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009. 184 pp.; 172 color ills.; 12 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300154245)

Hughes, Amanda M., and Carolyn H. Wook. A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith, and Museum Culture. Chapel Hill, NC: Ackland Art Museum, 2009. 245 pp.; 80 color ills. Paper $30.00 (9780974365633)

Iliescu, Sanda, ed. The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. 302 pp.; 102 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9780813927602)

Jacob, Mary Jane, and Jacquelynn Baas, eds. Learning Mind: Experience into Art. Chicago and Berkeley: School of the Art Institute of Chicago in association with University of California Press, 2010. 296 pp.; 67 color ills.; 6 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780520260764)

Jacob, Mary Jane, and Michelle Grabner, eds. The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 69 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780226389615)

Jacobs, Robert, ed. Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb. AsiaWorld. Ed. Mark Selden. Lanham, MD: 2010. 290 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $32.95 (9780739135570)

Janes, Robert R. Museums in a Troubled World: Renewal, Irrelevance or Collapse? Museum Meanings. New York: Routledge, 2010. 208 pp. Paper $41.95 (9780415463010)

Jones, Jan Lloyd, and Julian Lamb, eds. Art and Authenticity. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010. 0 color ills.; 0 b/w ills. Cloth $44.00 (9781921509131)

Jones, Amelia, ed. The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Second Edition. In Sight, vol. 4. Edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff. New York: Routledge, 2010. 700 pp.; Many b/w ills. Paper $44.96 (9780415543705)

Joselit, David. Feedback: Television against Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 51 b/w ills. Paper $14.95 (9780262514026)

Jullien, François. The Great Image Has No Form, or On the Nonobject through Painting. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 7 color ills. Cloth $48.00 (9780226415397)

Kangas, Matthew. Relocations: Selected Art Essays and Interviews. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 2010. 480 pp.; Many b/w ills. Paper $28.00 (9781877675690)

Karpeles, Eric. Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to "In Search of Lost Time." New York: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 352 pp.; 196 color ills.; 10 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780500238547)

King, William Davies. Collections of Nothing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 176 pp.; 11 b/w ills. Paper $13.00 (9780226347019)

Kittler, Friedrich. Optical Media. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2010. 332 pp. Paper $26.95 (9780745640914)

Klonk, Charlotte. Spaces of Experience: Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to 2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 244 pp.; 20 color ills.; 110 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780300151961)

Knafo, Danielle. In Her Own Words: Women's Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010. 201 pp.; 22 color ills.; 48 b/w ills. Cloth $62.50 (9780838642108)

Koss, Juliet. Modernism after Wagner. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 392 pp.; 14 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Paper $29.50 (978-0-8166-5159-7)

Langmuir, Erika. Allegory. A Closer Look. Edited by Felicity Luard and Nicola Coldstream. London: National Gallery, London, 2010. Many color ills. Paper $22.25 (9781857094855)

Langmuir, Erika. Angels. A Closer Look. Edited by Felicity Luard and Nicola Coldstream. London: National Gallery, London, 2010. Many color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094848)

Leonard, Joanne, and Lucy Lippard. Being in Pictures: An Intimate Photo Memoir. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 212 pp. Cloth $35.00 (9780472114023)

Levine, Nina, and David Lee Miller, eds. A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr. and the Arts of Interpretation. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009. 336 pp.; 8 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780823230303)

Lukács, Gabriella. Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. 7 b/w ills. Paper $22.95 (9780822348245)

Lyotard, Jean-François. Karel Appel: A Gesture of Colour. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 25 color ills. Cloth €39.50 (9789058677563)

MacKenzie, John M. Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2010. 272 pp.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth £60.00 (9780719080227)

Madoff, Steven Henry, ed. Art School: Propositions for the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 268 pp.; several b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780262134934)

Margolis, Joseph. The Cultural Space of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism. Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Ed. Lydia Goehr, Gregg M. Horowitz, and Nöel Carroll. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 232 pp. Cloth $24.50 (9780231147286)

Marks, Laura U. Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 31 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $37.95 (9780262014212)

Marmor, Michael F., and James G. Ravin. The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art. New York: Abrams, 2010. 224 pp.; 175 color ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780810948495)

Müller, Ulrike. Bauhaus Women. Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2009. 152 pp. Cloth $39.95 (9782080301208)

McAndrew, Clare, ed. Fine Art and High Finance: Expert Advice on the Economics of Ownership. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2010. 288 pp. Cloth $39.95 (9781576603338)

McElheny, Josiah. The Light Club: On Paul Scheerbart's "The Light Club of Batavia." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 8 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780226514574)

Meyer, Mati. An Obscure Portrait: Imaging Women's Reality in Byzantine Art. London: Pindar Press, 2010. 432 pp.; 258 ills. Cloth £150.00 (1904597327)

Miller, Sandra. Constantin Brancusi. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. 38 b/w ills. Paper $16.95 (9781861896520 )

Miller, Monica L. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. 408 pp.; 42 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822346036)

Molderings, Herbert. Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance: Art as Experiment. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Many b/w ills. Cloth $27.50 (9780231147620)

Monk, Philip. Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins: Project for a New American Century. Exh. cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2010. 63 pp.; 38 color ills. Cloth $24.00 (9780921972556)

Mould, Philip. The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures. New York: Viking, 2010. Cloth $26.95 (9780670021857)

Nagel, Alexander, and Christopher S. Wood. Anachronic Renaissance. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2010. 456 pp.; 115 ills. Cloth $39.95 (9781935408024 )

Nagel, Alexander, and Lorenzo Pericolo, eds. Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2010. 81 b/w ills. Cloth $114.95 (9780754664932)

Neill, Alex, and Aaron Ridley, eds. Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2010. 504 pp. Paper $39.95 (9780415424516)

Nelson, Charmaine A. Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art. Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora. Edited by Fassil Demissie. New York: Routledge, 2010. Cloth $95.00 (9780415871167)

North, Michael, ed. Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 1400–1900. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 216 pp.; 35 b/w ills. Cloth $114.95 (9780754669371)

Oakland Museum of California. The Marvelous Museum: Orphans, Curiosities and Treasures; A Mark Dion Project. Exh. cat. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2010. 128 pp.; 114 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780811874519)

O´Malley, Therese. Keywords in American Landscape Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 106 color ills.; 881 b/w ills. Cloth $125.00 (9780300101744)

Petherbridge, Deanna. The Primacy of Drawing: Histories and Theories of Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Many color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300126464)

Phipps, Elena. Cochineal Red: The Art History of a Color. New Haven: Yale University Press and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010. 75 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $14.95 (9780300155136)

Polsky, Richard. I sold Andy Warhol: (too soon). Other Press, 2009. 288 pp. Cloth $23.95 (9781590513378)

Präkel, David. Basics Photography: Exposure. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411054)

Prochaska, David, and Jordana Mendelson, eds. Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 256 pp.; 89 color ills.; 107 b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (9780271035284)

Prodger, Phillip. Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp.; 7 color ills.; 106 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780195150315)

Risatti, Howard. A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. 352 pp.; 44 ills. Cloth $42.95 (9780807831359)

Rosen, Aaron. Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj. London: Legenda, 2009. 200 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $89.50 (9781906540548)

Rush, Michael. The Rose Art Museum At Brandeis. New York: Abrams, 2009. 288 pp.; 205 color ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780810955745)

Sandell, Richard, Jocelyn Dodd, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, eds. Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum. New York: Routledge, 2010. 304 pp. Paper $42.95 (9780415494731)

Sartwell, Crispin. Political Aesthetics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. none color ills.; none b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780801448904)

Schor, Mira. A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 336 pp.; 53 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780822346029)

Sheriff, Mary D. Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Cloth $35.00 (9780807833667)

Silverman, Kaja. Flesh of My Flesh. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 304 pp.; 80 ills. Paper $21.95 (9780804762083)

Silverman, Lois H. The Social Work of Museums. New York: Routledge, 2010. 208 pp. Paper $44.95 (9780415775212)

Sleeper-Smith, Susan, ed. Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. 374 pp.; 14 ills. Paper $35.00 (9780803219489)

Steinbach, Haim. OBJECT. Paris: Three Star Books, 2010. 64 pp. Cloth

Stephenson, Jonathan. Paint with the Impressionists: A Step-by-Step Guide to their Methods and Materials for Today's Artists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 160 pp.; 362 color ills.; 38 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780500288788)

Stephenson, Jonathan. Paint with the Watercolor Masters: A Step-by-Step Guide to Materials and Techniques for Today's Artists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 160 pp.; 304 color ills.; 20 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (9780500288795)

Stern, Robert A. M. Architecture on the Edge of Postmodernism: Collected Essays, 1964–1988. Ed. Cynthia Davidson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 216 pp.; 93 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780300153972)

Sturgis, Alexander. Faces. A Closer Look. Edited by Felicity Luard and Nicola Coldstream. London: National Gallery Company, 2010. 96 pp.; 100 color ills. Paper $15.00 (9781857094640)

Tàpies, Antoni. A Personal Memoir: Fragments for an Autobiography. Trans. Josep Miquel Sobrer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 430 pp.; 32 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780253352891)

Theriault, Kim S. Rethinking Arshile Gorky. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 24 color ills.; 80 b/w ills. Paper $45.00 (9780271036465)

Thompson, Don. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 272 pp.; 8 color ills. Cloth $26.00 (9780230610224)

Throsby, David. The Economics of Cultural Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 292 pp. Cloth $85.00 (9780521868259)

Trumble, Angus. The Finger: A Handbook. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 320 pp.; 216 b/w ills. Cloth $28.00 (9780374154981)

Vakkari, Johanna, ed. Towards a Science of Art History: J.J. Tikkanen and Art Historical Scholarship in Europe. Vol. 38. Series: Studies in Art History. Helsinki: Society of Art History, 2009. 176 pp.; 20 color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper (9789525533101)

van Maanen, Hans. How to Study Art Worlds: On the Societal Functioning of Aesthetic Values. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. Cloth £34.50 (9789089641526)

Veneciano, Jorge Daniel, and Rhonda K. Garelick, eds. Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2010. Many color ills. Paper $44.95 (9780803234758)

Wall, Anthony, ed. Words and Images: A French Rendez-vous. Trans. Anthony Wall. Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2010. 10 color ills.; 38 b/w ills. Cloth CAD $34.95 (9781552382592)

Willis, Deborah, ed. Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot." Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. 288 pp.; 42 b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9781439902059)

Winkelman, Edward. How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. New York: Allworth Press, 2009. 256 pp. Paper $24.95 (9781581156645)

Wintle, Michael. The Image of Europe: Visualizing Europe in Cartography and Iconography throughout the Ages. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, vol. 44. Edited by Alan R. H. Baker, Richard Dennis, Deryck Holdsworth. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 526 pp.; 33 color ills.; 147 b/w ills. Cloth GPB 65.00 (9780521886345)

Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word. New York: Picador, 2008. 128 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $14.00 (9780312427580)

Zimmerman, Philip. Sanctus Sonorensis
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