Reviews

Bruce Elder. Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect. Film and Media Studies Series. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018. 591 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-77112-245-0.

Reviewed by Jennifer Boivin (University of Sudbury) Published on H-SHERA (April, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)

Éva Forgács. Hungarian Art: Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement. Los Angeles: Dopplehouse Press, 2016. 303 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-9970034-1-3.

Reviewed by Beata Hock (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa-GWZO) Published on H-SHERA (March, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)

Steven Seegel. Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. xv + 346 pp. Illustrations. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-43849-8.

Reviewed by John McCannon (Southern New Hampshire University) Published on H-SHERA (February, 2019) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (University of Calgary)

Graham H. Roberts. Consumer Culture, Branding and Identity in the New Russia: From Five-Year Plan to 4x4. Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research Series. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016. 312 pp. $170.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-72240-7.

Reviewed by Alla Myzelev (University of New York at Geneseo) Published on H-SHERA (December, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)

Rosalind P. Blakesley. The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1881. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Illustrations. xiii + 365 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-18437-2.

Reviewed by Ludmila Piters-Hofmann (Jacobs University Bremen) Published on H-SHERA (October, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)

Louise Hardiman, Nicola Kozicharow, eds. Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2017. Illustrations. 447 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78374-339-1; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78374-338-4.

Reviewed by Ingrid Nordgaard (Yale University) Published on H-SHERA (October, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)

Marcin Moskalewicz, Wojciech Przybylski, eds. Understanding Central Europe. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies Series. New York: Routledge, 2018. 610 pp. $215.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-415-79159-5.

Reviewed by Denisa Tomkova (University of Aberdeen) Published on H-SHERA (September, 2018) Commissioned by Hanna Chuchvaha (Independent scholar/Alberta College of Art + Design)