art + art history

Book Reviews

• Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
  - using artists and writers as guides to travel
• Alit Djajasoebrata: Shadow Theatre in Java
  The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
• Hal Fischer: Mongolia: Museum Highlights*
  Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
• Christine Guth: Art of Edo Japan*
  The Artist and the City 1615-1868
• Robert Irwin: Islamic Art*
  Art, Architecture and the Literary World
• Fiona Kerlogue: Batik*
  Design, Style and History
• Maureen Korp: Sacred Art of the Earth
  Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
• Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red*
  - murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
• Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information**
  - the classic work on statistical graphics
• Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance**
  - art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
• JoAnn Wypijewski: Painting by Numbers
  Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art

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