Andrzej Szczerski.
Transformation: Art in East-Central Europe after 1989.
Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019. 257 pp.
$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-83-233-4543-5. 
Reviewed by Svitlana Biedarieva (Courtauld Institute of Art) Published on H-SHERA (February, 2021) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Denis Sneguirev, dir. Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet. Brooklyn: Icarus Films, 2019. DVD. 54 mins. $29.98.
Reviewed by Jennifer Boivin (University of Alberta) Published on H-SHERA (February, 2021) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55920
Irena R. Makaryk.
April in Paris: Theatricality, Modernism, and Politics at the 1925 Art Deco Expo.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. Illustrations. 328 pp.
$70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0372-7.
Reviewed by Juliette Milbach (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Published on H-SHERA (November, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Nichola Dobson, Annabelle Honess Roe, Amy Ratelle, Caroline Ruddell, eds.
The Animation Studies Reader.
New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Illustrations. 352 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5013-3260-9; $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5013-3261-6.
Amy Williams Wilson. The Bite, the Breast and the Blood: Why Modern Vampire Stories Suck Us In. Jefferson: McFarland, 2018. x + 253 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4766-3183-7; $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4766-6613-6.
Reviewed by Svitlana (Lana) Krys (MacEwan University) Published on H-SHERA (August, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Maria Bucur. Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. 168 pp. $25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-350-02625-4.
Reviewed by Sergiy Yakovenko (MacEwan University, English Department, Instructor) Published on H-SHERA (July, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Katherine M. H. Reischl.
Photographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. 320 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-2436-7.
Reviewed by Maria Taroutina (Yale-NUS College) Published on H-SHERA (July, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Andrey Shabanov. Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. Illustrations. 280 pp. $108.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5013-3553-2; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5013-3552-5.
Reviewed by Trenton Olsen (Ohio State University) Published on H-SHERA (April, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Klara Kemp-Welch. Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe, 1965–1981. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019. 480 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-262-03830-0.
Reviewed by Denisa Tomkova (University of Aberdeen; Berlin Art Link) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Borislav Chernev. Twilight of Empire: The Brest-Litovsk Conference and the Remaking of East-Central Europe, 1917-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 328 pp. $36.95 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-4875-1334-4; $79.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0149-5; $36.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4875-1335-1.
Reviewed by Lizaveta Kasmach (Independent Scholar) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Myroslav Shkandrij. Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory. Brookline: Academic Studies Press, 2019. Illustrations. 202 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61811-975-9.
Reviewed by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj (University of Alberta) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2020) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Ieva Astahovska, Antra Priede-Krievkalne, eds. Valdis Āboliņš: The Avant-Garde, Mailart, the New Left and Cultural Relations during the Cold War. Riga: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2019. Illustrations. 662 pp. EUR 20 (cloth), ISBN 978-993486294-6.
Reviewed by Amy Bryzgel (Personal Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen) Published on H-SHERA (December, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Eleonory Gilburd. To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2018. ix + 458 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-98071-6.
Reviewed by Juliette Milbach (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Published on H-SHERA (December, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Jonathan Stone. The Institutions of Russian Modernism: Conceptualizing, Publishing, and Reading Symbolism. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2017. 320 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8101-3572-7.
Reviewed by Ingrid Nordgaard (Yale University) Published on H-SHERA (November, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
Maya Balakirsky Katz. Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Illustrations. xi + 289 pp. $37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8135-7662-6; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-7701-2.
Reviewed by Ksenya Gurshtein (Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University) Published on H-SHERA (September, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)
