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posted by CAA — October 27, 2017
Carolyn Dean reviews The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by Izumi Shimada. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Kelly Presutti discusses Wasteland: A History by Vittoria Di Palma. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Allison Miller reads Beyond the First Emperor’s Mausoleum: New Perspectives on Qin Art edited by Liu Yang. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — October 20, 2017
In addition to the wrap-up below of our caa.reviews content from this week, you might also notice the site got a little update. We made it easier to navigate and balanced the look and feel of the site. More changes are coming soon. Happy reading!
Phil Lee discusses Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method by Joan Kee. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Erin Schoneveld reviews Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images by Chelsea Foxwell. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jessica Locheed visits Degas: A New Vision at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Mio Wakita reads A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography by Luke Gartlan. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — October 13, 2017
Christopher Taylor reviews the exhibition Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael (The Whitworth, University of Manchester, UK, September 30, 2016–May 29, 2017) and its accompanying catalogue, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael and the Image Multiplied, edited by Edward H. Wouk. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Mey-Yen Moriuchi discusses Framing Majismo: Art and Royal Identity in Eighteenth-Century Spain by Tara Zanardi. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Jesse Locker reads Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Zeynep Yürekli reviews The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is and the Architecture of Coexistence by Stephennie Mulder. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — October 10, 2017
Catherine Barth visits Walker Evans: Depth of Field at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which was on view from June 11–September 11, 2016. Read the review at caa.reviews.
Gerhard Lutz reviews Musealisierung mittelalterlicher Kunst: Anlässe, Ansätze, Ansprüche edited by Wolfgang Brückle, Pierre Alain Mariaux, and Daniela Mondini. Read the review at caa.reviews.
Kris Paulsen discusses Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media by Noam M. Elcott. Read the review at caa.reviews.
Stijn Bussels reads French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater by Laura Weigert. Read the review at caa.reviews.
Wendy Bellion reviews The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era by Susan Rather. Read the review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — September 29, 2017
Megan Driscoll discusses SoulStirrers: Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse by H. Ike Okafor-Newsum (Horace Newsum). Read the full review on caa.reviews.
Andrew James Hamilton reviews Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas by Joanne Pillsbury, Patricia Joan Sarro, James Doyle, and Juliet Wiersema. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Andy Campbell visits Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, on view at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin from February 21–May 15, 2016. Read the full review on caa.reviews.
Victoria Reed reviews Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York by Kirsten Swenson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Matthijs Ilsink reads Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life by Joseph Leo Koerner. Read the full review on caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — September 22, 2017
Arden Decker visits Si tiene dudas . . . pregunte: Una exposición retrocolectiva de Mónica Mayer / When in Doubt . . . Ask: A Retrocollective of Mónica Mayer, which was on view at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, from February 6, 2015—July 31, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Maggie Taft discusses Danish Modern: Between Art and Design by Mark Mussari. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Michael D. Carrasco reads Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture: The Unborn, Women, and Creation by Carolyn E. Tate. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Mark Alan Hewitt reviews Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design, edited by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — September 15, 2017
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Sheila Barker reads Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art by Frances Gage. Read the full review at caa.reviews. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Karil J. Kucera discusses A Companion to Chinese Art edited by Martin J. Powers and Katherine R. Tsiang. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Nathan J. Timpano reviews Mona Hatoum, on view at Tate Modern, London, May 4–August 21, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Karen Eileen Overbey discusses Early Medieval Stone Monuments: Materiality, Biography, Landscape edited by Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton, and Meggen Gondek. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Michaël Amy visits Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, October 9, 2015–January 6, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — September 08, 2017
Alessandra Raengo discusses Travel and See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s by Kobena Mercer. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Lisa Newman reviews It’s All Allowed: The Performances of Adrian Howells edited by Deirdre Heddon and Dominic Johnson. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Maria Stavrinaki reads Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield by Sabine T. Kriebel. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — September 01, 2017
Patrick Hajovsky reads Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza: From Primordial Sea to Public Space by Logan Wagner, Hal Box, and Susan Kline Morehead. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Fredo Rivera reviews Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 by Timothy Hyde. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Marnin Young discusses Modernism and Authority: Picasso and His Milieu around 1900 by Charles Palermo. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
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posted by CAA — August 25, 2017
Pascale Rihouet discusses A Feast for the Eyes: Art, Performance, and the Late Medieval Banquet by Christina Normore. Read the full review at caa.reviews.
Morgan Thomas visits Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, which was on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, from February 5–September 18, 2016. Read the full review at caa.reviews. Image credit: Tommy Watson, Wipu Rockhole, 2004. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. © Tommy Watson/Courtesy of Yanda Aboriginal Art.
Heather Madar reviews Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance by Holly S Hurlburt. Read the full review at caa.reviews.