Archives (2020-)

Vol. 49, no. 1 (2024) RACAR at 50 | RACAR à 50 ans​

Editors' Note | Mot de la rédaction​

UAAC Awards | Prix de l'AAUC

Mitchell B. Frank | RACAR at 50: A Brief History | RACAR à 50 ans : une brève histoire

Articles

• C. Cody Barteet | Recovering the Lost Histories of the Meredith Family’s Tiffany Windows at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ontario​
• Camila de Oliveira Savoi​ and Nicholas Chare | Beyond First Impressions: Looking Anew at the Art of Georgina de Albuquerque​
• Zoë Tousignant​ | Le projet Disraeli : ideaux et limites de la photographie en collectivité

2023 UAAC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award | Prix Pour le meilleur essai par un doctorant ou une doctorante au congrès 2023 de l’AAUC

• Raphaël Ouellet​ | From Forms to Form: Micro-Art Histories of Bureaucracy and the Practice of Bureaucratic Everyday Life​

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Polemics | Polémiques
Guest editors | Rédactrices invitées : Susan Cahill & Erin Morton

• Susan Cahill & Erin Morton | On Burnout and Recovery: Academic Life, Lately
• Kristy A. Holmes | "Apologies in Advance for My Kids": Parenting and Academia during the COVID-19 Pandemi
• Triny Finlay | Quiz: Based on Your Relationship with Your Campus Office, What Level of Burnout Have You Achieved?
• Dia Da Costa | Resisting Burnout: Confronting White Love in a Brahmin Mirror
• Mél Hogan | Nothing right. Nothing left.

Reviews | Recensions

• Marjorie Charbonneau | Susanna Caviglia, History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV
  
• Madeline Collins | Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, Silvia Forni, eds., Making History: Visual Arts & Blackness in Canada
  
• Anne Dymond | Diana Nemiroff, Women at the Helm: How Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson Changed the National Gallery of Canada
  
• Laura Ryan | Stephanie Springgay, Feltness: Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies​
  
• Migueltzinta Solis | Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton, eds., Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing 

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Vol. 48, no. 2 (2023) The Sources of Research-Creation: Historical and Multiple Perspectives | Aux sources de la recherche création : perspectives historique et multiple​
Guest editors | Rédactrices invitées : Isabelle Pichet & Cynthia Hammond

Editors' Note | Mot de la rédaction​
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Isabelle Pichet & Cynthia Hammond | Introduction (English) | Introduction (français)

Articles​

• Tara Allen-Flanagan | “Photographs of Lightning”: The Intersection of Research and Creation in Leo Daft’s Photographs of Electric Sparks
• Alison Ariss | Journeys, Merged Objects, and Public Art: Situating Practices of Salish Weaving as Research-Creation
• Marco Deyasi | How to Use Colonial Discourse Against Colonialism: Strategies of Research-Creation in French Symbolist Art, ca. 1890​
• Chantal Lapeyre | Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets, de Jean-Georges Noverre : Un plaidoyer pour la « recherche-création » au XVIIIè siècle ?
• Virginie LaSalle | D’une pratique incarnée de l’espace architecturé à une dynamique de l’intériorité : autour de l’ingénierie domestique et d’une féminisation de l’emprise sur l’espace domestique
• Treva Michelle Legassie | From John Cage to the Outdoor School: Activating the “Minor” through Mycological Forays
• Édith-Anne Pageot | Trouble dans le positivisme, la création en tant que recherche : le cas de La zona del silencio 

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Interviews | Entrevues

• Branka Kopecki | Un croisement de regards 

Practices | Pratiques

• Saskia Hanselaar, Louise Hervé et Clovis Maillet​ | Les Dormeuses et les Méditateurs de l’Antique : (se) penser et performer autour de 1800 

Reviews | Recensions

• Marjorie Charbonneau | Susanna Caviglia, History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV 
• Madeline Collins | Julie Crooks, Dominique Fontaine, Silvia Forni, eds., Making History: Visual Arts & Blackness in Canada 
• Anne Dymond | Diana Nemiroff, Women at the Helm: How Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson Changed the National Gallery of Canada 
• Laura Ryan | Stephanie Springgay, Feltness: Research-Creation, Socially Engaged Art, and Affective Pedagogies 
• Migueltzinta Solis | Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton, eds., Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing 

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Vol. 48, no. 1 (2023) 

UAAC Awards

Articles​

• Jon Davies | The Word Made Flesh: On John Bentley Mays’s “Miracles of Emanuel Jaques”
• Rhiannon Vogl | Wave / Lengths in Lucy Lippard’s I See / You Mean
• 2021 UAAC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award 
• ​Georgia Phillips-Amos | A Threatening Presence: Monumentality and Embodiment in Regina José Galindo’s Aparición

Polemics/Polémiques
Guest editor/Rédactrice invitée : Heather Braiden

• Heather Braiden | Studio Problématique: Teaching and learning optimism in landscape architecture studios across Canada
• Heather Braiden and Daniel Roehr | Daniel Roehr and Stephanie Braconnier’s Multisensory Garden
• Marcella Eaton | On Design for Rural Communities
• Zannah Matson | Designing a Future Otherwise: Optimism for Post-Extractive Site Rehabilitation
• ​Nicole Valois | Designer l’optimisme : atelier de projet

Practices/Pratiques

• Michelle Gewurtz | Facing Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore

Reviews/Recensions

• Christine Conley | General Idea, National Gallery of Canada
• Stephanie Dickey | Angela Vanhaelen, The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
• Mirra-Margarita Ianeva | Boris Groys, Philosophy of Care
• Bernard Lamarche | Gilles Lapointe et Louise Vigneault (dir.), François-Marc Gagnon et l’art au Québec
• Karla McManus | Colleen Skidmore, Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940
• Valeria Téllez Niemeyer | Josianne Poirier, Montréal fantasmagorique
• Charles Reeve | David Wojnarowicz, In the Shadow of Forward Motion; Jon Davies, ed., More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writing
• Itay Sapir | Erin Benay, Italy by Way of India: Translating Art and Devotion in the Early Modern World ​

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Vol. 47, no. 2 (2022) salt. For the preservation of Black diasporic visual histories | salt. Pour la préservation des récits historiques visuels des diasporas noires
Guest editors | Rédactrices invitées : Pamela Edmonds, Joana Joachim

Mot de la rédaction

Pamela Edmonds & Joana Joachim | Introduction (english) (français)

Articles​

• Cécilia Bracmort | Africa is the Future : un film de Nicolas Premier
• Simone Cambridge | “It has just begun”: Strawcraft in Bahamian Visual Culture
• Mark V. Campbell | More Life — Beyond the Archival & the Algorithmic
• David C. Hart | Spoken Softly with Mama: Memory, Monuments, and Black Women’s Spaces in Cuba

Interview/Entrevue

• Jacob Gallagher-Ross | How We Became What We Are: Deanna Bowen’s Forensic Gaze​
  
  

Practices/Pratiques

• Sylvia D. Hamilton | Uncoupling the Archives: Fragments from a Memory Journal
• Charlotte Henay | The House that Rosette Built
• Didier Morelli | Artist Profile: Kamissa Ma Koïta

Thematic Reviews/Recensions thématiques

• Ra'anaa Yaminah Brown | As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic: Selections from the Wedge Collection
• Jenny Burman | Blackity, Artexte
• Lillian O’Brien Davis | Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery of Ontario 
• Yaniya Lee | Jan Wade: Soul Power, Vancouver Art Gallery 
• Letticia Cosbert Miller | Tina M. Campt, A Black Gaze 
• Raven Spiratos | Stan Douglas: Revealing Narratives, Phi Foundation 

Reviews/Recensions

• Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere | Martha Langford and Johanne Sloane, eds., Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City 
• Stephanie S. Dickey | Anuradha Gobin, Picturing Punishment: The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic 
• Roxanne Mallet | Elsa Guyot, Rejouer l’histoire. Le Moyen Âge dans les musées du Québec 
• ​Ozayr Saloojee | Tammy Gaber, Beyond the Divide: a Century of Canadian Mosque Design 

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Vol. 47, no. 1 (2022) 

Editors' Note
UAAC Recognition Award and Lifetime Achievement Award​

Articles​

• Valérie Bienvenue | (Re)Voir le Marché aux chevaux : l’éthique animalière de Rosa Bonheur
• Béatrice Denis | Représenter Austerlitz : le système icono-textuel napoléonien 
• ​Louise Vigneault | Se souvenir du féminicide de l'École Polytechnique (1989). Traverser l'espace, recomposer le passé 

2021 UAAC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award 

• Erika Kindsfather | From Activism to Artistic Practice: (Re)imagining Indigenous Women’s Labour Activism in Contemporary Art 
  
  

Polemics/Polémiques
Guest editor/Rédactrice invitée : Gül Kale

• Gül Kale | Challenges and opportunities: Teaching, studying, and curating Islamic art and architecture in Canada
• Fahmida Suleman | A Gallery of the Islamic World vs. a Gallery of the Middle East
• Ruba Kana’an | Reflections on Teaching with Online Museum Collection
• Marcus Milwright | The Destruction of Art
• Saygin Salgirli | Multi-Culturalism and Islamicate Arts 

Practices/Pratiques

• Heather Anderson and Irene Gammel | The Baroness Elsa Project 

Reviews/Recensions

• Thomas Golsenne | Ileana Parvu, Jean-Marie Bolay, Bénédicte le Pimpec, Valérie Mavridorakis, dir., Faire, faire faire, ne pas faire. Entretiens sur la production de l’art contemporain
• Itay Sapir | Clélia Nau, Feuillages : l’art et les puissances du végétal
• Megan A. Smetzer | Rachelle Dickenson, Greg A. Hill, Christine Lalonde, eds., Àbadakone/Continuous Fire/ Feu continuel 
• Devon Smither | Lianne McTavish, Voluntary Detours: Small-town and Rural Museums in Alberta 
• Andrea Terry | Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw, eds., Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c. 1780-1980 
• Anne-Élisabeth Vallée | Andréanne Roy, Jacques Des Rochers et Yseult Riopelle, dir., Riopelle : À la rencontre des territoires nordiques et des cultures autochtones 

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46, no. 2 (2021) "Revised Commemoration" in Public Art: What Future for the Monument? | État des lieux de la « commémoration corrigée » en art public : Quel avenir pour le monument ?
Guest editors | Rédactrices invitées : Analays Alvarez Hernandez, Marie-Blanche Fourcade

​Editors' Note
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Analays Alvarez Hernandez and Marie-Blanche Fourcade | Introduction

Articles

I. APPROACHING THE MONUMENT

• Ina Belcheva | Palimpsestes mémoriels : démantèlements et résurgences de deux monuments en Bulgarie postsocialiste
• Raino Isto | “Weak Monumentality”: Contemporary Art, Reparative Action, and Postsocialist Conditions
• Nina Sanadze | PORTFOLIO

 
II. COMMEMORATION 2.0: UPDATES 

• Adrian Anagnost | Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment: Site, Time, Embodiment

COMMENTARY

• Analays Alvarez Hernandez | The Life and Death of the Monument in the Era of Social Networks: New Communities of Memory

PRACTICES

• Brandon Vickerd | Monumental Remix: Subverting the Monument in Canada’s Public Spaces
• Noémie McComber | PORTFOLIO

​III. MORAL RIGHTS AND PUBLIC ART: AN ASSESSMENT

• François Le Moine | La loi, la statue et l’artiste : L’apport du droit moral aux débats sur la commémoration

 
Thematic Reviews

• Cameron Cartiere | Sierra Rooney, Jennifer Wingate, and Harriet F. Senie, eds., Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy 
•  Rodrigo D’Alcântara | Ana Lucia Araujo, Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past 
• Julie Deschepper | Federico Bellentani, The Meanings of the Built Environment: A Semiotic and Geographical Approach to Monuments in the Post-Soviet Era 
•  Felicia F. Leu | Fred Evans, Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy: An Essay in Political Aesthetics 
•  Varda Nisar | Sabine Marschall, ed., Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement: Migrants and Monuments 
•  Laurent Vernet | Entrepreneurs du commun, Monuments aux victimes de la liberté; Paul M. Faber et Ken Lum (dir.), Monument Lab. Creative Speculations for Philadelphia 

 
Reviews

• Katrie Chagnon | Giovanna Zapperi, Carla Lonzi : un art de la vie. Critique d’art et féminisme en Italie
•  Adrienne L. Childs | Rebecca VanDiver, Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness 
•  Mitchell B. Frank | Nina Amstutz, Capar David Friedrich: Nature and the Self 
•  Margaryta Golovchenko | Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo, Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism 
•  Catherine Harding | Livia Stoenescu, ed., The Interaction of Art and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art
•  Didier Morelli | Lesley Johnstone and Monika Kin Gagnon, In Search of Expo 67 
•  Georgia Phillips-Amos | Heather Diack, Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art 
•  Marie-Lise Poirier | Charlotte Guichard, La griffe du peintre. La valeur de l’art (1730-1820) 
•  Itay Sapir | Péter Bokody et Alexander Nagel (eds.), Renaissance Metapainting 
• ​Andrea Terry | Shelley Hornstein, Architectural Tourism: Site-Seeing, Itineraries and Cultural Heritage 

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Vol. 46, no. 1 (2021)

UAAC / AAUC Recognition Award and Lifetime Achievement Award

Articles​

• Marie-Maxime de Andrade | Omer Parent : artiste-décorateur
• Robin Lynch | Man Scans : The Matter of Expertise in Art and Technology Histories
• Jessica Santone | The Feminist Consciousness Raising Circle as Pedagogical Form in Suzanne Lacy and Julia London’s Freeze Frame (1982)
• Devon Smither | Duration and Unfinish in Pegi Nicol MacLeod’s Self-Portraits
• Marnin Young | Impressionism and Imperialism in Maurice Cullen’s African River

​​2020 UAAC/AAUC Conference Graduate Student Essay Award 

• Marie Ferron-Desautels | Satire et sociabilité au coeur de la pratique caricaturale de Lady Dalhousie (1786-1839) : vers une histoire des femmes caricaturistes britanniques

​Reviews/Recensions

• Siobhan Angus | John O’Brian, The Bomb in the Wilderness: Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada; Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian, eds., Through Post-Atomic Eyes
• Alena Buis | Rosemary Shipton, ed., Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons 
• Nicholas Chare | Anthony White, Italian Modern Art in the Age of Fascism 
• Nicole Elizabeth Cook | Jacquelyn N. Coutré, with Piet Bakker, Janet M. Brooke, and Stephanie S. Dickey, Leiden circa 1630: Rembrandt Emerges 
• Nikolas Drosos | Bojana Videkanić, Nonaligned Modernism : Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945–1985 
• Ray Ellenwood | François-Marc Gagnon, Jean Paul Riopelle and the Automatiste Movement 
• Gregg French | M. Elizabeth Boone, “The Spanish Element in Our Nationality” : Spain and America at the World’s Fairs and Centennial Celebrations, 1876–1915
• Katie Oates | Lori Pauli, ed., Oscar G. Rejlander: Artist Photographer 
• Maryse Ouellet | Emmanuel Alloa, Partages de la perspective  
• ​Marie-Lise Poirier | Jillian Lerner, Graphic Culture. Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830–1848 
• Charles Reeve | Phillip Spectre, Richard Hamilton: Introspective 
• Catherine Stuer | Anthony W. Lee, The Global Flows of Early Scottish Photography: Encounters in Scotland, Canada, and China
• Andrea Terry | Natalie Alvarez, Claudette Lauzon, and Keren Zaiontz, eds., Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance Actions in the Americas​​​​

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Vol. 45, no. 2 (2020) Approaching Home : New Perspectives on the Domestic Interior ​| Vers la maison : nouvelles perspectives sur l’intérieur domestique
Guest editors | Rédactrice et rédacteur invité·es​ : Erin J. Campbell, Olivier Vallerand

Editors' Note

Erin J. Campbell and Olivier Vallerand | Introduction

Articles

I – COMMUNITY

• Linda Stone-Ferrier | Glimpses, Glances and Gossip: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings of Domestic Interiors on Their Neighbourhood’s Doorstep
• Angela Andersen and Can Gündüz | Sweeping the Meydan: Home and Religious Ceremony Amongst the Alevis ​

II – NATION BUILDING

• Francesco Freddolini | (Re)imagining Asian Rulers in Athanasius Kircher’s China Illustrata: The Agency of Interiors
• ​Magdalena Milosz | Simulated Domesticities: Settings for Colonial Assimilation in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
• Mitchell B. Frank | Max Liebermann: Assimilation and Belonging

III – CURATED DOMESTICITIES

• Katherine Dennis | PRACTICES  – Reflections on One Story Among Many: Memories of the Future III (2018) 
• Marie-Ève Marchand | Exposer l’intérieur domestique : le cas de la salle Boucher de la Frick Collection 
• Katherine Lapierre | PRACTICES – L’Outsider et le potentiel évolutif de l’image de la maison 

Thematic Reviews/Recensions thématiques

• Angela Andersen and Can Gündüz | Marco Faini and Alessia Meneghin, eds., Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World
• Eve Baboula | Jenn Cianca, Sacred Ritual, Profane Space: The Roman House as Early Christian Meeting Place 
• Menno Hubregtse | Brian Carter, ed., boundary, sequence, illusion: Ian MacDonald Architect 
• Marie-Paule Macdonald | Lezli Rubin-Kunda, At Home: Talks with Canadian Artists about Place and Practice; Mark Wigley, ed., Cutting Matta-Clark: The Anarchitecture Investigation; Kitty Scott, ed., Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum, exh. cat.
• John Potvin | Oliver Vallerand, Unplanned Visitors: Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Space 
• Colin Ripley | John Potvin and Marie-Ève Marchand, eds., Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices 
• Olivier Vallerand | Francesco Garutti, dir., Nos jours heureux : architecture et bien-être à l’ère du capitalisme émotionnel 

Reviews/Recensions

• Allan Antliff | Anne Dymond, Diversity Counts: Gender, Race and Representation in Canadian Art Galleries 
• Carolyn Butler-Palmer | Solen Roth, Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry 
• Leïla El-Wakil | Ariane Varela Braga, Une théorie universelle au milieu du XIXe siècle. La Grammar of Ornament d’Owen Jones  
• Sally Hickson | Christopher Heuer, Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image 
• Kayoko Ichikawa | Herbert L. Kessler and Richard G. Newhauser, eds., with the assistance of Arthur J. Russel, Optics, Ethics, and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Looking into Peter of Limoges’s Moral Treatise on the Eye 
• Godfre Leung | Ken Lum, Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991–2018 
• Kim Rondeau | Rachel Epp Buller et Charles Reeve (dir.), Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity 
• Catherine Soussloff | Ersy Contogouris, Emma Hamilton and Late Eighteenth-Century European Art: Agency, Performance, and Representation
• David Theodore | Natalie Loveless, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation

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Vol. 45, no. 1 (2020)

UAAC / AAUC Recognition Award and Lifetime Achievement Award​
Prix reconnaissance AAUC / UAAC et Prix pour l’ensemble des réalisations

Articles

• Lamia Balafrej​ | Ligne, sensation et métaphore dans la peinture persane du XVe siècle 
• Serge Chaumier​ | Writing and the Exhibition : The Structures of Museum Revolutions 
• Valeria Téllez Niemeyer | Nuit électrique : atmosphères lumineuses à Montréal au XIXe siècle 
• Sarah Carter | India and the Antiquarian Image : Richard Payne Knight’s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus 

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Polemics/Polémiques
Guest-editors/Rédactrices invitées : Kristy A. Holmes, Andrea Terry, and Lisa Wood

• Kristy A. Holmes, Andrea Terry, and Lisa Wood | “Good Willed Inertia”: Radicalizing the Lazy Academy
• Kristy A. Holmes, Andrea Terry et Lisa Wood | « L’inertie bienveillante » : la radicalisation de l’académie paresseuse​
• ​Noor Bhangu | One-Pot Manifesto or The Day I Made Daal to Feed the Academy 
• Ayumi Goto | On Mobilizing Institutional Good Will : A Response to Ashok Mathur’s Essay, “Complicating Non-Indigeneities and Other Considerations Around Race in the Art and Design University” 
• Carmela Laganse and Taien Ng-Chan (Centre for Margins)  | Radical Decentering 
• Cathy Mattes | Calls to Action for the Lazy Academy 

Reviews/Recensions

• Ada Ackerman | Annie Gérin, Devastation and Laughter : Satire, Power, and Culture in the Early Soviet State, 1920-1930s 
• Amber Berson | Natalie Loveless, ed., New Maternalisms : Redux 
• Alan C. Braddock | Amanda Boetzkes, Plastic Capitalism : Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste 
• Erin J. Campbell | Josephine Jungić, Giuliano de’ Medici : Machiavelli’s Prince in Life and Art 
• Joan Coutu | Mark Salber Phillips and Jordan Bear, eds., What Was History Painting and What Is It Now ? 
• Kathryn Desplanque | Patricia Mainardi, Another World : Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture 
• Derek J.J. Knight | Dan Adler, Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures : Tainted Goods 
• Sarah McLean Knapp | Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman, eds., History of Illustration 
• Victoria Nolte | Asato Ikeda, The Politics of Painting : Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War 
• Alexandra Nordstrom | Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, McCord Museum 
• Matthew Purvis | Andrew Burke, Hinterland Remixed : Media, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s 
• Itay Sapir | Jennifer Nelson, Disharmony of the Spheres : The Europe of Holbein’s Ambassadors ​