Abstract
Woman in Art: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944, by Griselda Pollock, London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023, 400 pp., 140 col. and b. & w. illus., hardback, £35.
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face, by Julia Bryan-Wilson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, 352 pp., 105 col. and 24 b. & w. illus., paperback, £45.
Both publications reviewed here complicate the monograph: one consists of four slim books contained in single sleeve, the subtitle itemising each standalone volume; the other is a book inside a book, a reprinted art historical classic from 1944 lovingly framed by layers of new academic research in the form of numerous essays. To review these two publications together allows for a comparison of their differently cadenced insistence on re-imagining the form of the scholarly book, and consideration of the impact of this re-imagining on art historical writing and its conventions.
Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face, by Julia Bryan-Wilson, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, 352 pp., 105 col. and 24 b. & w. illus., paperback, £45.
Both publications reviewed here complicate the monograph: one consists of four slim books contained in single sleeve, the subtitle itemising each standalone volume; the other is a book inside a book, a reprinted art historical classic from 1944 lovingly framed by layers of new academic research in the form of numerous essays. To review these two publications together allows for a comparison of their differently cadenced insistence on re-imagining the form of the scholarly book, and consideration of the impact of this re-imagining on art historical writing and its conventions.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 617 |
| Number of pages | 620 |
| Journal | Art History |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 18 2024 |