No comments about Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris.

2 comments about Under the Spell of the Moon: Art for Children from the World's Great Illustrators.

1. This book is a must for anyone who has an affinity for the moon or who has children who love the moon. It's the perfect transition from "Goodnight, Moon" to stories from around the world with different connotations of the moon and with amazing illustrations. Definitely a book to grow with.



2. I have just purchased this book for a friend of mine. We met at art college and both went into illustration. We both have small children so have given up on the illustation for a while. I choose this book to inspire her to maybe write her own childrens stories oneday. The book itself is very good, full of beautiful illustrations and verse. Something you can dabble in from time to time or spend hours immersing yourself in the diverse nature of the illustrations.

2 comments about Cut & Assemble a Nutcracker Ballet Toy Theater: A Complete Production in Full Color (Models & Toys).

1. This book is just all you need to play a toy theater ballet. It's another Tom Tierney great work. The best way to enter in the wonderful world of toy theater and a unexcusable piece in your collection. The book have proscenium, stage, courtains, characters and a synopsis of The Nutcracker. It's a "cut & assemble" set, very easy to build and... very fun to play! Highly recomended!



2. I had this when I was a little girl....I am so happy that it is still being published! Highly recommended for children or adults who enjoy "The Nutcracker Suite" ballet. Beautiful artistry, and hours of fun for your child's creative side.

1 comments about The Indianized States of Southeast Asia.

1. This remains the seminal work of its kind in the field and continues to be assigned by University professors around the world for use in Southeast Asian studies. Translated from Coedes native French, the book gives a clear and conscise history of the Indianization process that occured throughout South-East Asia in the first thousand years A.D. . Coedes is able to transcend the mist of time and make these civilizations come to life. He was amoung the first of the western historians to realize that the Indianization process was not one of a dominant Indian culture supplanting an inferior Southeast Asian culture, but of two great cultures amalgamating into a vibrant new form. Coedes takes us through the magnificent ruins of the Angkorian empire, in the jungles of Cambodia, and makes the ruins speak to the modern reader. He shows how every part of these cities were emersed in religous symbolism and splendor. This book is valuable for both the general and student reader. For any one interested in the history,art or religion of Southeast Asia this book is a must read.

2 comments about So the Story Goes: Photographs by Tina Barney, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, and Larry Sultan (Art Institute of Chicago).

1. I am not sure about the book cause I bought it for my brother who lives in Floida.



2. This exhibit was excellent and this book is a wonderful summary of the show. A great collection of some of the world's best contemporary photographers for a great price!!!

3 comments about The Fake: Forgery and Its Place in Art.

1. This survey of the circumstances of forgery and its place in the art world examines the ethics and art of the fake, from the implications of forged items to their existence in and impact upon the contemporary art world. The Fake blends history, ethical concerns and artistic examination in a delicate weave of unique insights.



2. it combines great scholarship, entertaining story-telling and an innovative theoretical approach. Radnoti's book is a jewel in contemporary art history as it is also an original statement about the vicissitudes of our postmodern condition.



3. What is wrong with a fake? Is it wrong at all? The discussion of these questions leads Radnoti to the re-examination of the main aesthetic and conceptual implications of the autonomous art of modernity (originality, novelty, tradition, canon), to their crisis and transformations in the practice of contemporary art. This is one of the most original and interesting books in art theory published in the last decade.

No comments about Drawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression.

1 comments about An American Lens: Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession.

1. Beginning as the 19th century ended, Alfred Stieglitz was an innovator in photography, and by the first decade of the 20th century, he was in active dialogue with the major innovations in painting. At his New York gallery called 291, Stieglitz offered the first American exhibitions of Matisse and Toulose-Lautrec, and Picasso's first one man show anywhere. In the pages of his Camera Work periodical, he was one of the first to print Gertrude Stein.
   
   Stieglitz is of course linked to the great American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe, whose work he exhibited before he'd met her, but with whom he had a long and storied romantic relationship. But Stieglitz was the link between European modernists (not just the Paris school, but Italian futurists like Gino Severini, and the Dadaists and Surrealists throughout Europe) and other American artists (Marsden Hartley, John Marin), writers (William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane) and photographers (Paul Strand.) Actors, architects---except perhaps for Charlie Chaplin and early Hollywood filmmakers, there is hardly a significant American in any art who isn't mentioned in this book about Stieglitz.
   
   Bochner's book is subtitled "Scenes from..." and that's accurate. Though it's roughly chronological, there is no central narrative, but there are lots of great stories and observations, both historical and critical. It begins with a riveting description of 1890s New York and the labor strife of the period, provides fascinating context to the famous Armory Show of 1913 which introduced European modernism to New York and America, and spends considerable time with Stieglitz and O'Keeffe.
   
   Bochner can adroitly slip in the deconstructionist code words and semiotic aside, but despite that, he is an engaging writer. There is of course a lot about photography (that's the focus of the Successionist movement in the title) but he also lavishes teasing pages on the tortured courtship of poet William Carlos Williams and poet/artist Mina Loy, including their husband-and-wife roles in a Provincetown Players production, enduring catcalls during rehearsals from Eugene O'Neill for the shyness of their stage kisses.
   
   I'm sure Bochner is a fine scholar and critic, but he also has that indispensable talent of storytellers: he gets us interested in what fascinates him through what he chooses to describe and narrate. So out of this collection of anecdotes, observations, critiques, forgotten or obscure historical moments that seem formed as responses to unknown interlocutors, emerges an entertaining book and, by the way, an absorbing and gallant portrait of the life and times and undervalued accomplishments of Alfred Stieglitz.

1 comments about Music: A Pictorial Archive of Woodcuts and Engravings (Dover Pictorial Archive Series).

1. As a student teacher, I've been looking all over for resources to use in my future classrooms, and yesterday my friend and I came upon this excellent collection of illustrations. This is a wonderful selection of musical clip-art, ranging from serious pieces (such as composer profiles) to the very comical (such as the cat piano..erm, you'd have to see that one to do it justice!:-)).

   I would recommend this book to any music educator who would like to spice up programs, announcements, and assignments!

   Michael Clark clar9097@students.sou.edu

No comments about Hardstones: The Gilbert Collection.