REVIEWS

Below is a selection of past book reviews.

Art Since 1900

Richard Noble reviews Art Since 1900 by Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin HD Buchloch.
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Shades of Black

Eddie Chambers reviews Shades of Black edited by David A Bailey, Ian Baucom and Sonia Boyce.
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Andrea Fraser

Sarah Thornton reviews Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser edited by Alexander Alberro.
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The Dirt on Philosophy of Art

Jonathan Harris (art historian) disagrees with Nigel Warburton's (philosopher of art) writings on art as found in The Art Question.
'Warburton may know otherwise, but the accessible, reasonable tone of his essay works to disguise the messiness of how artefact X or artist Y got eventually, or not, to be taken seriously in/by the art world. I am afraid that this is a grudge I have with philosophy as a discipline and as a way of looking at the world. It is too self-satisfied, apart from anything else. Look at the hole in the New York ground. It can't be explained philosophically. Philosophy is inadequate. The hole in the ground may be art, but so what?'
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Rambling

Paul Claydon reviews Wanderlust: A history of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.
'Even when compared with the more radical or egalitarian strains of their European or American cousins, the English walker encapsulates the necessary elements that make up the passive but political act of walking.'
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