Suggestions for Reviews 2023
Book and Exhibition Review Suggestions
Book and exhibition review proposals will refer to books published in 2024 and exhibitions ideally either still open at the time or one month prior to the journal's publication (October 2024). Accepted reviews should be between 800-1,000 words in length and must be finished by 12th August 2024.
Book review proposals should include: author’s/editor’s name, complete title of book (with a colon between the main title and the subtitle), place of publication, publisher, date of publication, total number of pages (including all front matter and illustrations that do not carry page numbers), number of illustrations (black and white and colour), price, as well as a short description (300 words max) on the text’s significant contribution to its field and/or why a review of the book is necessary.
Exhibition review proposals should include: title of the exhibition, location, exhibition dates, curators’ names, and a short description (300 words max) on the exhibition’s significant contribution to its field and/or why a review of it is necessary.
This list is only a starting point, and the Aspectus Team would be happy to receive proposals for reviews of books not listed here.
Books
Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories: Narrating the Past for the Present and Future
Edited by Kerstin Barndt, and Stephan Jaeger, published 4th March 2024, ISBN: 978-3110787443
John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities
By Bruce Boucher, published 11th June 2024, ISBN: 978-0300275698
Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe
By Elizabeth Campbell, published 1st Sept. 2023, ISBN: 978-0190051983
The Radical Print
By Esther Chadwick, published 25th June 2024, ISBN: 978-1913107437
Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture
By Alice Eden, published 17th April 2024, ISBN: 978-1138489806
Jan Massys: Renaissance Painter of Flemish Female Beauty
By Maria Clelia Galassi, published April 2024, ISBN: 978-2503607207
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830
Edited by Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman, published March 2024, ISBN: 978-1108844772
Architecture of Anxiety: Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture
By Heba Mostafa, published 20th March 2024, ISBN: 978-9004677777
Giants in the Medieval City
By Assaf Pinkus, published April 2024, ISBN: 978-2503607689
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography
By Jeff Rosen, published 20th March 2024, ISBN: 978-9004677777
Visualizing Christ’s Miracles in Late Byzantium
By Maria Alessia Rossi. published May 2024, ISBN: 978-1009387620
Art as Demonstration: A Revolutionary Recasting of Knowledge
By Sven Spieker, published 6th February 2024, ISBN: 978-0262048712
The Mirror of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture
By Genevieve Warwick, published 5th May 2024, ISBN: 978-1009448802
Exhibitions
An Irish Impressionist: Lavery on Location
National Galleries of Scotland | 20th July - 27th October | Edinburgh
Artemisia in Birmingham/Jesse Jones: Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon
Ikon Gallery | 10th May - 8th September | Birmingham
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice/Rising Tides
Towner Eastbourne | 9th May - 15th September | Eastbourne
Hamid Zénati
Nottingham Contemporary | 25th May - 8th September | Nottingham
Igshaan Adams
The Hepworth, Wakefield | 22nd June - 3rd November | Wakefield
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s
Royal Academy | 29th June - 13th October | London
Leilah Babirye: Obumu (Unity)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park | 23rd March - 8th September | Wakefield
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520-1920
Tate Britain | 16th May - 13th October | London
Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body
Fitzwilliam Museum | 19th July - 3rd November | Cambridge
Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King
Wallace Collection | 10th April - 20th October | London
Truth to Nature: Constable in Bristol
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery | 9th May - 1st September | Bristol
Turner: Art, Industry & Nostalgia
Laing Art Gallery | 10th May - 7th September | Newcastle