Reviews online August-October, 2006

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ABRAMOWICZ, JANET. Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Reviewed by Jennie Hirsh.

ELKIN, KRISTIN LOHSE, AND FIONA HEALY. A House of Art: Rubens as Collector. Antwerp: Rubenshuis and Rubenianum, 2004. Reviewed by Zirka Z. Filipczak.

BERGER, MARTIN A. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Reviewed by John Ott.

BIKKER, JONATHAN. Willem Drost: A Rembrandt Pupil in Amsterdam and Venice. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Reviewed by Catherine B. Scallen.

CARPENTER, JOHN T. Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005. Reviewed by Miriam Wattles.

CASSIDY, DONNA M. Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, in association with University Press of New England, 2005. Reviewed by Marcia Brennan.

CERASI, MAURICE, EMILIANO BUGATTI, AND SABRINA D'AGOSTIONO. The Istanbul Divanyolu: A Case Study in Ottoman Urbanity and Architecture. Wurzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2004. Reviewed by Ipek Tureli.

CODELL, JULIE F. The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Reviewed by David Getsy.

DE HAMEL, CHRISTOPHER. The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: The British Library, 2005. Reviewed by Nina Rowe.

ELLIOTT, JEANNETTE SHAMBAUGH, WITH DAVID SHAMBAUGH. The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Reviewed by Lisa Claypool.

EVANS, R. TRIPP. Romancing the Maya: Mexican Antiquity in the American Imagination, 1820-1915. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. Reviewed by Barbara E. Mundy.

FISHER, JAY MCKEAN, WILLIAM R. JOHNSTON, KIMBERLY SCHENCK, AND CHERYL K. SNAY. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, in association with the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum, 2004. Reviewed by N. Mishoe Brennecke.

FRICK COLLECTION. Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss Master. Exh. review. Reviewed by Sarah R. Cohen.

FRICK COLLECTION. Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice. Exh. review. Reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen.

HOCKLEY, ALLEN. The Prints of Isoda Koryusai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth-Century Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003. Reviewed by Matthi Forrer.

HOLSCHER, TONIO. The Language of Images in Roman Art. Trans. Anthony Snodgrass and Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Lauren Hackworth Petersen.

JAFFE, DAVID, AND ELIZABETH MCGRATH. Rubens: A Master in the Making. London: National Gallery, 2005. Reviewed by Zirka Z. Filipczak.

JENKINS-MADINA, MARILYN. Raqqa Revisited: Ceramics of Ayyubid Syria. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006. Reviewed by Marcus Milwright.

JONES, CAROLINE A. Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Reviewed by Daniel A. Siedell.

KAMINISHI, IKUMI. Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006. Reviewed by Gail F. Chin.

KOLFIN, ELMER. The Young Gentry at Play: Northern Netherlandish Scenes of Merry Companies, 1610-1645. Trans. Michael Hoyle. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2005. Reviewed by David A. Levine.

KOSLIN, DESIREE G., AND JANET E. SNYDER, EDS. Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images. New York: Palgrave, 2002. Reviewed by Stephen M. Wagner.

LORTIE, ANDRE, ED. The 60s: Montreal Thinks Big. Montreal; Toronto; Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Architecture and Douglas and McIntyre, 2004. Reviewed by Mary Lou Lobsinger.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon. Exh. review. Reviewed by Meredith Davis.

NAYROLLES, JEAN. L'invention de l'art roman a l'epoque moderne (XVIIIe-XIXe siecles). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005. Reviewed by Janet T. Marquardt.

OAKLEY, JOHN H. Picturing Death in Classical Athens: The Evidence of the White Lekythoi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Reviewed by Wendy E. Closterman.

SAAB, A. JOAN. For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Reviewed by Ellen Wiley Todd.

SANDQVIST, TOM. Dada East: The Romanians of the Cabaret Voltaire. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. Reviewed by Matthew S. Witkovsky.

SCHAPIRO, MEYER. The Language of Forms: Lectures on Insular Manuscript Art. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 2005. Reviewed by Carol Neuman de Vegvar.