On art and books and reading books on art (the thoughts of Hol publisher Greg Albers)

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Tuesday
Aug262008

In Review: August 18–24, 2008

Frieze:
• Art Power, Boris Groys (MIT Press)

St. Petersburg Times:
• The Other Half: The Life of Jacob Riis and the World of Immigrant America, Tom Buk-Swienty, Annette Buk-Swienty, trans. (W.W. Norton)

CAA Reviews:*
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan, Kim Brandt (Duke University Press)
• Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005, Patricia J. Graham (University of Hawai'i Press)
• Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan, Elizabeth Lillehoj, ed. (Floating World Editions)

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