Book Reviews

Abstract

Yve-Alain Bois, Painting as Model, reviewed by Arthur C. Danto

Erika Doss, Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism, reviewed by James G. Rogers, Jr.

Daniel Wheeler, Art since Mid-Century; Katherine Hoffman, Explorations, reviewed by Deborah Rosenthal

Brian W. Dippie, Catlin and His Contemporaries; Ronald Fields, Abby Williams Hill and the Lure of the West; Chris Bruce et al., Myth of the West; William Truettner, ed., The West as America, reviewed by Martha Kingsbury

James A. Leith, Space and Revolution, reviewed by Richard Cleary

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Notes on contributors

Arthur C. Danto

ARTHUR C. DANTO is Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, and art critic for The Nation.

James G. Rogers

JAMES G. ROGERS, JR., assistant professor of art history at Florida Southern College, is working on a book and interactive video disk on Benton's mural A Social History of Missouri.

Deborah Rosenthal

DEBORAH ROSENTHAL is a painter who shows at Bowery Gallery in New York. An associate professor of art at Rider College, she writes for the New Criterion among other publications.

Martha Kingsbury

MARTHA KINGSBURY has published on late-nineteenth-and mid-twentieth-century American art. Her most recent book is George Tsutakawa, 1990. She teaches at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Richard Cleary

RICHARD CLEARY is associate professor in the Department of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University. His book on the places royales of Louis XIV and Louis XV is forthcoming (Architectural History Foundation).