Dear colleagues,

Please see below for a list of titles available for review in Visual Studies journal - please feel free to circulate this list among your suitably qualified colleagues and doctoral students.

If you or qualified colleagues wish to receive one (or more) of these books for purposes of writing a review, please contact me, Gary Bratchford ([log in to unmask]) and provide the following information:

- name and affiliation;
- your best book-mailing address;
- the book(s) you wish to review;
- 2-3 sentences describing your qualifications and/or reasons for wanting to review the selected title (e.g. your previous scholarship, current interests, publications and the like). PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOOK THIS POINT.

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS THREAD – Please send a NEW EMAIL with the TITLE of the book you want in the header. Direct reposes to listserv emails get lost due to volume and your email will be overlooked.  


Individual book review lengths (500-750 words / 1000-1250 words) will be assigned when a reviewer is accepted for an assignment. Longer reviews of thematic texts or critical reflections on a published series may be commissioned. Please contact me concerning this.  
Reviews will be due in for 25 August 2019.

Please note: Potential reviewers should not be disappointed if their first choice is unavailable. Generally, requests to review a book outnumber available books, and requests are not evenly distributed across the entire list. If you do not hear from me, please wait until the next round of books becomes available – as is often the case, I receive an overwhelming amount of interest, though I do endeavour to acknowledge each request. 

Books will be posted the coming weeks – I am on leave between 15 – 30th April 

With kind regards,
Gary
Book Review Editor, Visual Studies
 

Batch 1 (8 books)
East & South Asia and Latin America
Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010 –Duke Press - Kelly and Kester (eds) https://www.dukeupress.edu/collective-situations

Portraits of the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900-1950 – Pittsburgh Press – Jorge Coronado https://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36736
Abject Performances: Aesthetic strategies in Latin Cultural Production – Duke Press – Leticia Alvarado https://www.dukeupress.edu/abject-performances
Kam Woman Artisans of China - Marie Anne Lee - Cambridge Scholars Press - http://www.cambridgescholars.com/kam-women-artisans-of-china
Chinese Surplus - Larissa Henrich - Duke Press - https://www.dukeupress.edu/chinese-surplus
The End of Japanese Cinema: Industrial Genres, National Times and Media Ecologies – Duke Press – Alexander Zahlten https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-end-of-japanese-cinema
Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan – Routledge – Luke Gartlan & Roberta Wue (Eds) https://www.routledge.com/Portraiture-and-Early-Studio-Photography-in-China-and-Japan/Gartlan-Wue/p/book/9781472484383
Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia – Nebraska – Gabriela Zamorono Villarreal - http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803296879/
 
Batch 2 – 9 books 
Critical Mass: Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the new wave - Steven Unger – Minnesota Press
Architectures of Revolt: The cinematic City Circa 1968 = Mark Shiel (eds) – Temple Press
Stolen Life- Fred Moten – Duke Press
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of elemental Development – Derek P McCormack – Duke Press
The Universal Machine – Fred Moten – Duke Press
Death of the Artist: Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities – Nicola McCartney – Temple Press
Paris and the Cliché of History: The city and Photographs 1860-1970 – Catherine E Clark – Oxford Press
The Meaning of the Circus: The Communicative Experience of the Cult, Art and Awe – Paul Bouissac – Bloomsbury Press
Paik’s Virtual archive: Time, Change and Materiality in Media Art – Hanna B Holling – Uni Of California Press

Batch 3 – 9 books
Object Lessons: Zofia Rydet’s Sociological Record – Krzysztof Pijarski (eds) Museum of modern Art, Warsaw Press
August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text, and Theatre –Schroeder, Stenport & Szalczer (eds) – Bloomsbury Press
Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art and Lawrence Carroll – David Carrier – Bloomsbury Press
 How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change – Allan DeSouza – Duke Press 
Photography and Sport – Mike O’Mahony (Exposures) – Reaktion Books
New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Art Thoery – Dara Waldron – Bloomsbury Press 
None Like Us – Blackness, Belonging, aesthetic Life – Stephen Best – Duke 
Understanding Media Semiotics (Second Edition) – Marcel Danesi – Bloomsbury 
The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock – Guy St-Denis - University of Calgary Press 
Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses - Hans-Georg Moller & Andrew Whitehead (Eds) - Bloomsbury
 
Batch 4
The poetics of Digital Media – Paul Frosh – Polity
Coal Cultures: Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities – Derrick Price – Bloomsbury
Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive – Christina Riggs
The Social Semiotics of Tattoos: Skin and Self – Chris William Martin – Bloomsbury advances in Semiotics
Censoring Art: silencing the Artwork – Rosisin Kennedy & Riann Coulter (eds) – I.B. Tauris
 CrossMappings on Visual Culture – Elisabeth Bronfen – I.B. Tauris
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics – Florian Cova & Sebastien Rehault – Bloomsbury
 Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Film, New Media and the late twentieth Century – James Tweedie – Oxford Press
Gans Constructivism: Aesthetic Theory for an Embedded Modernism – Kristin Romberg
Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics – Frances Richards – University of California Press

Batch 5
Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art: Beyond the Clock – Kate Brettkelly-Chambers – Intellect
Filthy Matrix: Modernism & The Media of Obscenity – Chris Foster – Oxford Press
Hollywood by Hollywood: The Back Studio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies – Oxford Press
The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American theatre Architecture – Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life - Phillip Thurtle – Minnesota Press
Constructing Imperial Berlin: Photography and the Metropolis = Miriam Paeslack – Minnesota Press

BATCH 6
The Art of Armenia: An Introduction – Christina Maranci – Oxford University Press
Ornamentalism – Anne Anlin Cheng – Oxford University Press
Catastrophizing:  Materialism and the Making of Disaster – Greard Passannate – Chicago Press
Graphic Assembly: Montage, Media and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s – Craig Buckley – Minnesota Press
What are Exhibitions For? An Anthropological Approach – Inge Daniels – Bloomsbury Press

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