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Anna Russakoff reviews In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France by Peggy McCracken. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Emma McClendon writes about Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination by Andrew Bolton. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kathryn Brown reviews Degas Danse Dessin: Hommage à Degas avec Paul Valéry, edited by Leïla Jarbouai and Marine Kisiel, and Degas: A Passion for Perfection, edited by Jane Munro. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Clare Kunny writes about Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation by Shari Tishman. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jean K. Cadogan reviews Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy by Diana Bullen Presciutti. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Julia Perratore discusses Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture: Representations from France, c. 1100–1500 by Marian Bleeke. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Eden Osucha writes about The African Burial Ground in New York City: Memory, Spirituality, and Space by Andrea E. Frohne. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Andrew S. Weiner explores The Global Work of Art: World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience by Caroline A. Jones. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Mark Duerksen reviews Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016 by Nnamdi Elleh. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Holly Shaffer writes about Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930–1990 by Sonal Khullar. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kristoffer Neville discusses The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy by Naoko Takahatake. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Gregor Kalas reviews Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, and Spiro Kostof. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Liliana Leopardi writes about Carlo Crivelli et le matérialisme mystique du Quattrocento by Thomas Golsenne. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Paul Baker Prindle discusses Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum, edited by Jane Chin Davidson and Sandra Esslinger. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Erin Reitz looks at Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado: Divine Violence at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Kristopher Driggers reviews Sacred Consumption: Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture by Elizabeth Morán. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Bryant Keith Alexander writes about Question Bridge: Black Males at the Brooklyn Museum, and Question Bridge: Black Males in America, edited by Deborah Willis and Natasha L. Logan. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Ivana Horacek examines Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

David Ehrenpreis discusses The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between by James E. Young. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Sarah Stefana Smith reviews the exhibition Senses of Time: Video- and film-Based Works of Africa. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Claire A. P. Willsdon reviews James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint, Poetry, and Music by Suzanne Singletary. Read the full review at caa.reviews. 

Babatunde Lawal explores A Companion to Modern African Art, edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visoná. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Annika Marie writes about Pollock’s Modernism by Michael Schreyach. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Allison Moore reviews Albino by Ana Palacios. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Jennifer Nelson discusses Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I by Mitchell B. Merback. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Petrona Morrison writes about John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night by Diana Nawi, John Dunkley, David Boxer, Olive Senior, and Nicole Smythe-Johnson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Daria Kostina discusses the 4^th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

John H. P. Semlitsch reviews Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art by Tirza True Latimer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Joanne Allen reviews The Medieval Salento: Art and Identity in Southern Italy by Linda Safran. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Blake Stimson writes about Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, edited by Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Shira Brisman discusses Animating Empire: Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World by Jessica Keating. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Rebecca Corbett explores Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, edited by Dora C. Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort, and Andrew M. Watsky. Read the full review at caa.reviews.

Nicholas Miller writes about Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art by Phoebe Wolfskill. Read the full review at caa.reviews.