Susan E. Cahan. Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. xvi+344pp.; 93 black-and-white and 20 color illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 166-168
Author(s):  
Fath Davis Ruffins
Keyword(s):  
Black Power ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Duke University

Selected recent Exhibition Catalogues

1978 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Beth Houghton ◽  
Anthony Burton ◽  
Anthony Coulson
Keyword(s):  
Art Museum ◽  
Black And White

The MUSEE DES BEAUX-ARTS, RENNES drew on the resources of the French national collections for L’Art Maniériste: formes et symboles, 1520-1620, (6th January - 15th March 1978) which contained 232 exhibits (chiefly paintings, prints and drawings — mostly illustrated in the catalogue). Arranged thematically, e.g. ‘La Maniera’, ‘Le Luxe et La Fete’, ‘Les Dieux chez les Hommes’, etc., the catalogue also contains maps, tables and bibliographies.Based solely on its own collection is Five centuries of master graphics in the collection of the St. Louis Art Museum, 1977 — 78 published by that Museum in 1977. The 188 p. catalogue contains 85 illustrations (all black and white) documenting a collection covering works by artists from Dürer to Johns.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-130
Author(s):  
Andrew Barnfield ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
African City ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Duke University ◽  
And Migration ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Being Lighter Than Air Derek P. McCormack, Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 304 pp., 34 illustrations, $27.95 (paperback) Challenging Landscapes of Confinement Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn, Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists and Policy-makers (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2017), 352 pp. £81 (hardback). “Bottleneck” in Dakar: From Metaphor to Anthropological Analytical Tool Caroline Melly, Bottleneck: Moving, Building, and Belonging in An African City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 224 pp., 11 halftones, $30 (paperback). Migratory Trajectories, Affective Attachments, and Sexual-Economic Exchanges Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez, eds., Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 248 pp., $120 (hardback). Engineering Nineteenth-Century Transport Innovations Maxwell Lay, The Harnessing of Power: How 19th Century Transport Innovators Transformed the Way the World Operates (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2018), 374 pp., £64.99 (hardback). The Politics of Mobility in Postcolonial Kenya Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 31 halftones, $30 (paperback). A Sense of What Commuting Takes David Bissell, Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018), 272 pp., 6 illustrations, $32 (paperback). Vanishing Point? The City after the Car Venkat Sumantran, Charles Fine and David Gonsalvez, Faster, Smarter, Greener: Th e Future of the Car and Urban Mobility (Massachusetts: Th e MIT Press), 326 pp, $29.95 Troubling the “View from Above” Caren Kaplan, Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 298pp., 24 color plates. Hardcover: $77, Paper $25. Mobility, Mobilization, and Cooptation Claudio Sopranzetti, Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), xiv + 328 pp., $85.00 (hardback), $29.95 (paperback). No Exit: The Persistent Legacies of Mobility Choices in Houston Kyle Shelton, Power Moves: Transportation, Politics, and Development in Houston (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017), 302 pp., 24 black-and-white illustrations, $29.95 (paperback)

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa E. Ficek ◽  
Shanshan Lan ◽  
Walter Gam Nkwi ◽  
Sarah Walker ◽  
Paula Soto Villagrán
Keyword(s):  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
City Space ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Science Technology And Innovation ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Decentering the State in Automobility RegimesKurt Beck, Gabriel Klaeger, and Michael Stasik, eds., The Making of an African Road (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 278 pp., 34 illustrations, $78 (paperback) Understanding Globalization from Below in ChinaGordon Mathews, with Linessa Dan Lin and Yang Yang, The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 256 pp., $27.50 (paperback) Rethinking Mobility and Innovation: African PerspectivesClapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, ed., What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017), 256 pp., 25 black-and-white illustrations, $36 (paperback) When Is a Crisis Not a Crisis? The Illegalization of Mobility in EuropeNicholas De Genova, ed., The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), 376 pp., $27.95 (paperback) City, Mobility, and Insecurity: A Mobile Ethnography of BeirutKristin V. Monroe, The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), 204 pp., 7 photographs, $27.95 (paperback)

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