Omar W. Nasim. The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021. Illustrations. 279 pp. $60.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-04553-7.
Reviewed by Sarah Pickman (Yale University) Published on H-Material-Culture (May, 2022) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57254
Tom Cubbin. Soviet Critical Design: Senezh Studio and the Communist Surround. Cultural Histories of Design Series. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019. Illustrations. 248 pp. $117.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-02197-6; $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-02199-0.Yulia Karpova. Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s. Studies in Design and Material Culture Series. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020. Illustrations. 248 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5261-3987-0.
Hinda Mandell, ed.
Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats.
American Association for State and Local History Series. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. Illustrations. xv + 339 pp.
$68.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5381-1839-9; $44.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5381-1840-5. 
Sun-Young Park.
Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris.
Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. Illustrations. xi + 372 pp.
$49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8229-4528-4.
Diane Waggoner.
Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Illustrations. xv + 264 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-19318-2.
Reviewed by Jennifer Green-Lewis (George Washington University) Published on H-Material-Culture (July, 2021) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Edward Town, Angela McShane, eds.
Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800.
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2020. 518 pp.
$65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-25410-5.
Reviewed by Alexandra M. Macdonald (College of William & Mary) Published on H-Material-Culture (July, 2021) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Jessica D. Jenkins.
Exploring Women's Suffrage through 50 Historic Treasures.
AASLH Exploring America's Historic Treasures series. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. xxxvi + 305 pp.
$36.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5381-1279-3.
Reviewed by Mariah R. Gruner (Boston University) Published on H-Material-Culture (April, 2021) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Margaret S. Graves. Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 352 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-069591-0.
Reviewed by Alexander Brey (Wellesley College) Published on H-Material-Culture (April, 2021) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56280
Karen Patterson, ed.
Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Illustrations. 304 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-66483-5.
Reviewed by Erica Warren (Art Institute of Chicago) Published on H-Material-Culture (December, 2020) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Joris Mercelis.
Beyond Bakelite: Leo Baekeland and the Business of Science and Invention.
Lemelson Center Studies in Invention and Innovation Series. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020. 378 pp.
$55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-53869-5.
Kimberly S. Alexander. Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2018. 248 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4214-2584-9.
Reviewed by Shoshana Resnikoff (The Wolfsonian–FIU) Published on H-Material-Culture (September, 2020) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54417
Alys X. George.
The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Illustrations. 328 pp.
$45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-66998-4.
Reviewed by Megan Brandow-Faller (City University of New York (Kingsborough)) Published on H-Material-Culture (September, 2020) Commissioned by Colin Fanning (Bard Graduate Center)
Elena Osokina. Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941. Edited by Kate Transchel. New York: Routledge, 2015. 288 pp. $47.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-56324-905-1.
Reviewed by Alexey Golubev (University of British Columbia, Department of History) Published on H-Material-Culture (June, 2016) Commissioned by Marieke Hendriksen
Matthias Krings. African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media. African Expressive Cultures Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Illustrations. 328 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01625-6; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-01629-4.
Reviewed by Jodie Marshall (Michigan State University - African Studies Center) Published on H-Material-Culture (April, 2016) Commissioned by Marieke Hendriksen
Diane Sabenacio Nititham, Rebecca Boyd, eds. Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture: Movements in Irish Landscapes. Studies in Migration and Diaspora Series. Burlinton: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014. Illustrations. 260 pp. $114.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4724-2510-2; $114.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4724-2509-6.
Reviewed by Kristin Condotta Lee (Tulane University) Published on H-Material-Culture (October, 2015) Commissioned by Marieke Hendriksen
