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Reflections on African and African Diaspora Art
posted by CAA — Apr 29, 2016
Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections
Routledge and CAA are pleased to announce the fourth installment of “Re-Views: Field Editors’ Reflections,” a series of review essays authored by members of caa.reviews Council of Field Editors.
The latest essay, “Reflections on African and African Diaspora Art,” is by Eddie Chambers, associate professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. In the essay, Chambers reflects on his role assigning reviews in the area of African art and African diaspora and discusses the complexities of the relationship between the two.
Recent Book Reviews
David Kertai, The Architecture of Late Assyrian Royal Palaces (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Reviewed by Kiersten Neumann.
Mary Ann Eaverly, Tan Men/Pale Women: Color and Gender in Archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013). Reviewed by Briana C. Jackson.
Recent Exhibition Reviews
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, International Pop (February 18–May 15, 2016). Reviewed by Taylor J. Acosta.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections at the Kunsthistorisches Museum (October 18, 2015–January 17, 2016). Reviewed by Jan Volek.
About the Journal
caa.reviews, an open-access journal, publishes timely scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts, providing peer review for the disciplines served by CAA. Publications and projects reviewed include books, articles, exhibitions, conferences, digital scholarship, and other works as appropriate.