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# White Girls and the Global South
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/white-girls-and-the-global-south/
- Published: 2026-03-23T22:00:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-23T22:00:32.000Z
- Description: Happy spring! If you've been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further.
- Author: Lakshmi Rivera Amin
- Tags: Books Newsletter, Newsletter

Happy spring! If you’ve been stuck in a reading slump like me, look no further. We've got a Swedish painter’s gripping portraits of her own aging process, delicious French poster design, a wondrous alchemical manuscript, and more to cure your art book woes this season. Find your next read below, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang’s thoughts on the latest art-world novel to focus on disaffected White women — there's plenty more where that came from — and Nageen Shaikh on the Indian modernist painters who dreamed of international solidarity long before “Global South” became a mainstream term.

*—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor*

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Pao Houa Her’s new catalog, Rothko’s friendship with Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb, and more (edit Shari Flores/**Hyperallergic*)

### [7 Art Books for Your March Reading List](https://hyperallergic.com/7-art-books-for-your-march-reading-list/)

Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more.

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## From Our Critics

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### [Please, No More Disaffected White Girls](https://hyperallergic.com/please-no-more-disaffected-white-girls/)

Anika Jade Levy’s *Flat Earth* is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory — a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people. | Lisa Yin Zhang

*Flat Earth* by Anika Jade Levy (2025) 

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### [Before the “Global South,” Indian Modernists Dreamed of Solidarity](https://hyperallergic.com/before-the-global-south-indian-modernists-dreamed-of-solidarity/)

Historian Atreyee Gupta unravels the threads of catchall terms like “Global South” to trace the connections between Indian painters and anticolonial figures like Frantz Fanon. | Nageen Shaikh

*Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization and the Third World Project in India* (2025) by Atreyee Gupta

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## From the Archive

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Karl Blossfeldt, Allium oreophilum, pink lily leek, flower head (umbel) (courtesy D.A.P.)

### [The Early-20th-Century Photographer Who Magnified the Alien Beauty of Plants](https://hyperallergic.com/karl-blossfeldt-masterworks-photography/)

Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured the sculptural details of plants, from the geometry of a seed pod to the alien curl of a fern. | Allison Meier

### [A Fresh Look at Flowers in Photography](https://hyperallergic.com/flora-photographica-flowers-in-photography/)

Can photographers capture the vitality of flowers compellingly, innovatively, and beautifully? A new book gives a resounding yes. | Lauren Moya Ford

### [A Pioneering Photographer’s Legacy In Algae](https://hyperallergic.com/blue-prints-the-pioneering-photographs-of-anna-atkins/)

In 1843, Anna Atkins created the first book illustrated with photography. It took over a century for her pioneering work to be recognized. | Allison Meier