Michelle Komie Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Michelle Komie on XPublisher @PrincetonUPress, acquiring books in art, architectural, and urban history. Views are my own. (Installation above by @paulalights.)

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750
Jonathan BoberJonathan Bober's A Superb Baroque makes @KnightLAT's list of best books of the year, in outstanding company with @TylerGreenBooks and many others. https://t.co/MZRN9OcuFI
Hardcover, 2020
$80.00Member price:$80.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Hitler's Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway
Despina StratigakosÜnver Rüstem's Ottoman Baroque wins the Alice David Hitchcock Award and Despina Stratigakos's Hitler's Northern Utopia wins the Spiro Kostof Award from @SAH1365! https://t.co/OaRyzzte4g https://t.co/VAIDzKWwI1
Paperback, 2022
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India
Sylvia HoughtelingSylvia Houghteling’s The Art of Cloth in Mughal India wins the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from @caavisual. 🎉🎉 https://t.co/NBh51ExuBy
Hardcover, 2022
$75.00Member price:$75.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect
Eva HagbergAdvance copies are in for this much-anticipated beauty, When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect. Congratulations to @evahagberg! https://t.co/JroUwJHxdb https://t.co/PkACuX6OEt
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History
Edward S. CookeAdvance copies have arrived of Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History, by Ned Cooke. Coming out of decades of teaching the histories of decorative arts and material culture, Cooke offers new paradigms and tools for thinking about works of art. https://t.co/zc4IpG2HoS https://t.co/yGI2iw8oZu
Paperback, 2022
$39.00Member price:$35.10 + Free shipping10% off
Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture
David Young KimDavid Kim's book Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture is a Best Book of 2022. "It is a study I have been longing for. . . . A tour de force analysis."--Yve-Alain Bois https://t.co/rdBULx8Ssm
Hardcover, 2022
$68.00Member price:$68.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites
Sophie LynfordAdvance copies have arrived of Sophie Lynford's book Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites. https://t.co/lcI0ryrXc1 https://t.co/5UAXDh0yTj
Hardcover, 2022
$70.00Member price:$70.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Bénédicte SavoyBénédicte Savoy's book Africa's Struggle for Its Art is equal parts history and imperative. Read an excerpt below. https://t.co/38nnHGM7zF
Paperback, 2024
$22.95Member price:$20.66 + Free shipping10% off
The Postcard Century: 2000 Cards and Their Messages
Tom PhillipsIn 1997, I spent a strange, delightful day driving the British polymath Tom Phillips around southern Illinois, hunting for postcards for his book The Postcard Century. My subsequent interest in his work changed the way I think about books. https://t.co/RjOpunCzub
Out of stock

Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul
Ünver RüstemÜnver Rüstem's Ottoman Baroque wins the Alice David Hitchcock Award and Despina Stratigakos's Hitler's Northern Utopia wins the Spiro Kostof Award from @SAH1365! https://t.co/OaRyzzte4g https://t.co/VAIDzKWwI1
Hardcover, 2019
$75.00Member price:$75.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)