Books Received
JVC regularly receives books for review from leading international publishers. Listed below are those that we have received most recently.
If you are interested in reviewing any of these books please contact the Reviews Editor directly: mark [dot] little [at] tvu [dot] ac [dot] uk. Please include, where appropriate, a copy of your CV and a brief statement of why you would like to review the book requested.
Books will normally be available for review for two months from the date of receipt.
Roy Harris, The Great Debate About Art (Prickly Paradigm Press, Chicago, June 2o10)
This short text examines the impact of the doctrine of “art for arts sake”.
Cecilia Novero, Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art (Minnesota, June 2010)
This book discusses the relationship between the embodied experience of food, its sensations and consumption and the theoretical foundations of the European avant-garde. [IN REVIEW]
A. Bryant & G.Pollock, Digital and Other Virtualities: renegotiating the image (I.B.Tauris, June 2010)
A collection of key texts on the subject by writers such as Willemen, Massumi, Rifkin and Weber.
M.J. Jacob & M. Grabner, the studio reader: On the Space of Artists (Chicago, June 2010)
A collection reflecting on the relationship of art and the artist to studio practices; includes Schneeman, Baldessari, Nauman, Buren and Jones.
Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes (Chicago, June 2010)
A comprehensive study of some aspects of unofficial Soviet art focussed around the work of Ilya Kabakov.
Richard Grusin, Premediation: affect and mediality after 9/11 (Palgrave Macmillan, June 2010)
A discussion of the use of the media as a pre-emptive technology in the global security arsenal.
Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (Chicago, July 2010)
An exhaustive account of the scope and complexity of American practices of memorial building.
Peter Muir, Shimon Attie’s Writing on the Wall: History, Memory, Aesthetics (Ashgate, August 2010)
Loss and forgetting are the central ideas engaged here through a meditation on Attie’s affecting installations and the body of theory emerging from Benjamins work on the concept of history.
Charlene Regester, African American Actresses: The struggle for visibility 1900-1960 (Indiana University Press, August 2010)
Through a series of biographically oriented chapters the author explores racial politics, notions of stardom and identity across the period.
David Brody, Visualising American Empire: Orientalism & Imperialism in the Philippines (Chicago August 2010)
An exploration of the role of visual culture in the operations of empire in the Philippines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
