Reviews online: - August-November 2003

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BAUMGARTEN, LINDA. What Clothes Reveal: The Language of Clothing in Colonial and Federal America. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in association with Yale University Press, 2002. Reviewed by SUSAN RATHER.

BOZDOGAN, SIBEL. Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. Reviewed by BERND NICOLAI.

BROWN, JOSHUA. Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed by SARAH BURNS.

CASSIDY-WELCH, MEGAN. Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings: Thirteenth-Century English Cistercian Monasteries. Turnhout: Brepols, 2001. Reviewed by NANCY WU.

CAVINESS, MADELINE H. Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Reviewed by CATHLEEN A. FLECK.

CRANSTON, JODI. The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed by JOANNA WOODS-MARSDEN.

CORLEY, BRIGITTE. Painting and Patronage in Cologne, 1300-1500. Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2000. Reviewed by DAVID S. AREFORD.

COX, JULIAN, AND COLIN FORD, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JOANNE LUKITSH AND PHILIPPA WRIGHT. Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, in association with the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, 2003. Reviewed by GEOFFREY BATCHEN.

DANTO, ARTHUR C. The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art. Chicago: Open Court, 2003. Reviewed by PRISCILLA PATON.

EDGERTON, SAMUEL, AND JORGE PEREZ DE LARA. Theaters of Conversion: Religious Architecture and Indian Artisans in Colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Reviewed by ELLEN T. BAIRD.

FERGUSSON, PETER, AND STUART HARRISON. Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Reviewed by NANCY WU.

FORD, COLIN. Julia Margaret Cameron: A Critical Biography. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. Reviewed by GEOFFREY BATCHEN.

GOFFEN, RONA. Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Reviewed by MICHAEL AMY.

HARDGRAVE, ROBERT L., JR. Boats of Bengal: Eighteenth Century Portraits by Balthazar Solvyns. New Delhi: Manohar, 2001. Reviewed by JULIE F. CODELL.

HAXTHAUSEN, CHARLES W., ED. The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, in association with Yale University Press, 2002. Reviewed by DANIEL SIEDELL.

HEMINGWAY, ANDREW. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Reviewed by KAREN A. BEAROR.

JORDAN, ALYGE A. Visualizing Kingship in the Windows of the Sainte-Chapelle. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Reviewed by DONNA L. SADLER.

KAGAN, RICHARD L., WITH THE COLLABORATION OF FERNANDO MARIAS. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Reviewed by DANA LEIBSOHN.

KALAVREZOU, IOLI, ED. Byzantine Women and Their World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, in association with Yale University Press, 2003. Reviewed by ANTHONY CUTLER.

KINDER, TERRYL N. Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, in association with William B. Eerdmans, 2002. Reviewed by NANCY WU.

LEOSHKO, JANICE. Sacred Traces: British Explorations of Buddhism in South Asia. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2003. Reviewed by PIKA GHOSH.

MACK, ROSAMOND E. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed by EVA R. HOFFMAN.

MACKIE, GILLIAN. Early Christian Chapels in the West: Decoration, Function, and Patronage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Reviewed by STEPHEN J. LUCEY.

NEER, RICHARD T. Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Reviewed by SUSAN B. MATHESON.

NEILS, JENIFER. The Parthenon Frieze. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Reviewed by JUDITH M. BARRINGER.

NEWSOME, ELIZABETH A. Trees of Paradise and Pillars of the World: The Serial Stela Cycle of "18-Rabbit-God K," King of Copan. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Reviewed by ANDREA STONE.

NOEL, WILLIAM, AND DANIEL WEISS, EDS. The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. London: Third Millennium, in association with the Walters Art Museum, 2002. Reviewed by M. CECILIA GAPOSCHKIN.