No comments about Italian Renaissance Ceramics.

1 comments about Morocco: Jews and Art in a Muslim Land.

1. Beautifully produced, absorbing and moving documentation of a distinctive subgroup of Moroccan society that has now vanished forever from that country. Magnificent photographs. An illumination for those who are are unaware of this rich chapter in Jewish history.

No comments about The Prado Museum.

No comments about Exhibits for the Small Museum: A Handbook (American Association for State and Local History Book Series).

2 comments about Mark Tansey.

1. 
   The quality of the reproductions was not high enough for an art book



2. This is an attractive catalogue of an exhibition of seven recent paintings by Mark Tansey that traveled between Kleve and Stuttgart. Aimed at a German audience, the book's primary text is in German but with English translation in smaller type in the "footnote space" (on first glance I thought the whole book was German). The text, in whatever language, pales beside the beautiful reproductions of these monochrome paintings: these are some of Tansey's newer work that involve anamorphic images. (Illustrations of some earlier paintings are also inlcuded with the essays.) Almost as interesting to me were the "studies" for these paintings, reworked collages that show something of Tansey's working methods. I do wish the book had some text about these studies and also wish there were some explanation for the early collages featured as frontispiece and "appendix" to the volume. Instead, we get a listing of all exhibitions, group and solo, that Mark Tansey has been involved with; I know this is a convention of these books, but more information about the works in the volume in this space would have been better... I do wonder about the relationship between this book and the catalogue of Tansey's 2004 Gagosian Gallery exhibition (which I haven't seen) since the authors are the same--are there more pictures in the Gagosian book? Anyway, this is not the big retrospective volume that all red-blooded Tansey fans really want, but is a nice publication of some recent work and well worth buying.

1 comments about What Students Need to Know: Graduate Training in Museum Studies.

1. I bought this book and read it in less than 45 minutes. It vaguely answered the questions that the author proposed. I was left with more questions than before I read it. However, this book did have some good information if you have absolutely no idea about museum studies. If you are thinking of building a career in the field than get a book that will escort you into the profession you desire, as this book will not.

No comments about Borrowed Light. Tracey Emin.

1 comments about Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection.

1. Even from the very cover this book has taken the right approach!
   Where countless others have tried to give insights to an array of
   Native subjects and materials, this one overwhelmingly succeeds
   setting new standards. The depth of study and the richly detailed photographs make this a masterpiece!!!!

1 comments about Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd.

1. Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design, is a well put together book, and a rare find in modern furnishing circles. A great review of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd's collection, which as one can see by the list, is stunning. The pictures of the pieces in the collection though are the catch all. Full page photographs, beautiful type, well laid out, and a great collection at one's finger tips, I personally couldn't ask for more, except perhaps the actual pieces of furniture in the collection. If you love Modernist furniture, go with this one!

2 comments about Rock of Ages, Sands of Time: Paintings by Barbara Page, Text by Warren Allmon.

1. I've always been interested in paleontology and fossils, and in my wildest dreams I never hoped for a book as wonderful as this one. Barbara Page has created three-dimensional panels that track the evolution of life on earth, and this book reproduces them so superbly that the two-dimensional surfaces of the pages almost become three dimensional. Fossil ammonites and trilobites, fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals emerge from the panels to illustrate the history of life in an entirely new way. Here a fragment of a wing, there a piece of dinosaur jaw, just as the fossils emerge from rock. The full color printing is gorgeous, and the text is terrific--not overwhelming but supporting the marvelous art. If you know of any amateur of professional fossil fan, this is THE gift book of the year! It cannot disappoint. Wow!



2. Impeccably designed and magnificently printed, this book offers the reader a remarkable opportunity to view Barbara Page's important work in another venue before final installation at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York.

   It is rare to experience a combination of intelligent and informative prose as that of Rosamund Wolff Purcell and Warren Allmon with such truly breathtaking art as the work of Barbara Page in one edition. This book celebrates what those of us in publishing know to be true--there will ALWAYS be a hunger for beautiful and important books on ink-printed pages.