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Irina D. Costache. The Art of Understanding Art (Beijing: Publishing House of Electronics Industry, 2015).

Myroslava M. Mudrak and Tetiana Rudenko, ed. Staging the Ukrainian Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s (New York: Ukrainian Museum, 2015).

Valérie Rousseau, ed. Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet (New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2015).

Andrew Jay Svedlow. Thirty Works of Art Every Student Should Know (Dubuques, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2015).

Dora Apel. Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2015).

Matthew Baigell. Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880–1940 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin, and Rebecca Peabody, eds. Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2015).

Douglas Brine. Pious Memories: The Wall-Mounted Memorial in the Burgundian Netherlands (Boston: Brill, 2015).

Jaroslav Folda. Byzantine Art and Italian Panel Painting: The Virgin and Child “Hodegetria” and the Art of Chrysography (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Gabrielle Jennings, ed. Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

David McCarthy. American Artists against War, 1935–2010 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

Julia I. Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell. From Giotto to Botticelli: The Artistic Patronage of the Humiliati in Florence (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015).

Edward J. Olszewski. Dynamics of Architecture in Late Baroque Rome: Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni at the Cancelleria (Berlin: De Gruyter Open, 2015).

Jordana Moore Saggese. Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

Steven Zahavi Schwartz, ed. Seeking Engagement: The Art of Richard Kamler (Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing, 2015).

Ruth Weisberg. Ruth Weisberg: Reflections through Time (Los Angeles: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, 2015).

Patricia Blessing. Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rūm, 1240–1330 (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Amy Bryzgel. Miervaldis Polis (Riga, Latvia: Neputns, 2015).

Karen L. Carter and Susan Waller, eds. Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914: Strangers in Paradise (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015).

Elizabeth Cronin. Heimat Photography in Austria: A Politicized Vision of Peasants and Skiers (Salzburg: Fotohof edition, 2015).

John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain, eds. A Companion to American Art (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

Jane DeBevoise. Between State and Market: Chinese Contemporary Art in the Post-Mao Era (Boston: Brill 2014).

Wayne Franits. Vermeer (New York: Phaidon, 2015).

Ruth E. Iskin. The Poster:Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860s–1900s (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2015).

Sonal Khullar. Worldly Affiliations: Artistic Practice, National Identity, and Modernism in India, 1930–1990 (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

Peggy Levitt. Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015).

Lisa Pon. A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Jules David Prown and Karen Denavit. Louis I. Kahn in Conversation: Interviews with John W. Cook and Heinrich Klotz, 1969–70 (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, in association with Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, and the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania, 2015).

Jauneth Skinner. The Way of the Cross (Jacksonville, AL: Quiet Crow Press, 2015).

Krista Thompson. Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).

Jennifer Wild. The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900–1923 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015).

David Bethune. Wynwood: Street Art of Miami (Miami: Bethune, 2015).

Maria F. P. Saffiotti Dale, ed. European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions (Madison, WI: Chazen Museum of Art, in association with the American Numismatic Society, 2014).

Dario Gamboni. Paul Gauguin: The Mysterious Centre of Thought (London: Reaktion, 2014).

Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky. Chinese Religious Art (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014).

Sarah Krawcheck. Extreme Dessert Makeovers: Gluten Free and Beyond (Createspace.com, 2014).

Victor Margolin. World History of Design, 2 vols. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Maureen Meister. Arts and Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2014).

Kristel Smentek. Mariette and the Science of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Donna Gustafson. George Segal in Black and White: Photographs by Donald Lokuta (New Brunswick, NJ: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 2015).

Andrew D. Hottle. Shirley Gorelick (1924–2000): Painter of Humanist Realism (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014).

Carol E. Mayer. A Discerning Eye: The Walter C. Koerner Collection of European Ceramics (Vancouver: Figure 1, 2015).

Tanya Sheehan and Andrés Mario Zervigón, eds. Photography and Its Origins (New York: Routledge, 2015).

Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. and Melissa Renn. American Paintings at Harvard, Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2014).

Julia Tulovsky. Oleg Vassiliev: Space and Light (New Brunswick, NJ: Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 2014).

Nino Zchomelidse. Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014).

Amy Brandt. Interplay: Neo-Geo Neo-Conceptual Art of the 1980s (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014).

Kathryn Brown, ed. Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014).

Emily Pugh. Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014).

Anne Markham Schulz. The Sculpture of Tullio Lombardo (Turnhout, Belgium: Harvey Miller, 2014).

Laura Auricchio. The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014).

Liana De Girolami Cheney, ed. Agnolo Bronzino: The Muse of Florence (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2014).

James Elkins, ed. Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2014).

Philip Goldswain, Nicole Sully, and William M. Taylor, eds. Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transition (Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2014).

Andrew D. Hottle. The Art of the Sister Chapel: Exemplary Women, Visionary Creators, and Feminist Collaboration (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Karen Kurczynski. The Art and Politics of Asger Jorn: The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Margaret McCann, ed. The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture (New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2014).

Ronald R. Bernier. The Unspeakable Art of Bill Viola: A Visual Theology (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014).

Rosalind P. Blakesley and Margaret Samu, eds. From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014).

Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard. Introducing Feminist Art History (Amazon ebook, 2014).

Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, eds. The Photographer’s Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas (New York: Aperture, 2014).

Penny Howell Jolly. Picturing the “Pregnant” Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430–1550: Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Bibiana K. Obler. Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).

Todd P. Olson. Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).

Jeongho Park. Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face (New York: Frick Collection, 2014).

Conrad Rudolph. The Mystic Ark: Hugh of Saint Victor, Art, and Thought in the Twelfth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Judith Zilczer. A Way of Living: The Art of Willem de Kooning (New York: Phaidon, 2014).

Samantha Baskind. Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014).

Kate Bonansinga. Curating at the Edge: Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014).

Deborah Jenner and Malou L’Héritier, eds. Espace mondialisation (Paris: l’Harmattan, 2013).

Edward J. Olszewski. Parmigiano’s “Madonna of the Long Neck”: A Grace beyond the Reach of Art (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2014).

John Ott. Manufacturing the Modern Patron in Victorian California: Cultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital, and Social Authority (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014).

Donald Preziosi. Art, Religion, Amnesia: The Enchantments of Credulity (New York: Routledge, 2013).

David Levi Strauss. Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photography (New York: Aperture, 2014).

Katharine P. Burnett. Dimensions of Originality: Essays on Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Theory and Criticism (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2013).

Klara Kemp-Welch. Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956–1989 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).

Andreas Marks. Kunisada’s Tōkaidō: Riddles in Japanese Woodblock Prints (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2013).

Griselda Pollock and Max Silvermann, eds. Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).

Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich, eds. Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory (London: I. B. Tauris, 2013).

D. N. Rodowick. Elegy for Theory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014).

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi. Object and Apparition: Envisioning the Christian Divine in the Colonial Andes (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013).