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Putting the Art Back in Art History
Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.
Princeton University Press
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Taking Cuteness Seriously
In The Power of Cute Simon May posits that "cute" is a modern-day iteration of the Renaissance archetype of the monstrous.
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The Layered Nature of Artifice in a Book About a 16th-Century Naturalist
Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known animal world.
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A Close Look at the Art of Genji
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion serves as a thorough introduction to a work of great literary and art-historical importance.
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The Regal, Bloody, and Fiery History of the Color Red
Michel Pastoureau's new book tackles the complicated history of the color red, from regal hue of kings to scandalous shade of harlots.
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Reader’s Diary: John Mullan’s ‘Anonymity’
In case you were wondering, no, it was not by oversight that I didn’t bother to mention, when writing last week about Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the recent brouhaha about the violation of Ferrante’s privacy.
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Whither Art? David Joselit's Digital Art Problem
Is it still possible to imagine a book purporting to be about the circulation of images and art within the saturated global network that never mentions the existence of net art and digital art?