Arts & Humanities Reviews, March 1, 2012 ? Library Journal Reviews

O?Connor, Anne-Marie. The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt?s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer . Knopf. 2012. c.400p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780307265647. $30. FINE ARTS

This is an extraordinary biography, not merely of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of one of Gustav Klimt?s most famous paintings, but also of the work itself and the world of early 20th-century Vienna. The painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) was famous before its record-?breaking purchase in 2006 at $135 million by Ronald S. Lauder for his New York?based Neue Galerie. Through her painstaking research, O?Connor (Washington Post) manages to capture the cultural, historical, and political climate that gave birth to this painting. She describes the anti-Semitism that permeated early 20th-?century Vienna and the role that Jews played (often as outsiders) in that society. Stolen by the Nazis during World War II and renamed The Lady in Gold (to avoid any hint that its subject was Jewish), the painting was at the center of an eight-year battle by Bloch-Bauer?s niece Maria Altmann to regain her family?s legacy. ?VERDICT Although the narrative is somewhat episodic, the history is fascinating. This is an essential title for readers interested in art history, European history, and Judaic studies. Highly recommended.?Herbert E. Shapiro, Lifelong Learning Soc., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton

McLeese, Don. Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. Univ. of Texas. (American Music). Mar. 2012. c.232p. discog. ISBN 9780292723818. pap. $19.95. MUSIC

In spite of Dwight Yoakam?s popularity and impressive ability to cross musical boundaries, no biography has ever before been published. Award-winning music critic McLeese (New York Times Reader: Arts & Culture) fills that gap with this jaunty, affectionate, honest, and compelling book. Drawing on interviews with Yoakam and his friends and fellow musicians, McLeese guides us through Yoakam?s early years in Kentucky and Ohio in the 1970s, where his formative musical influences were country music and the Monkees, to his years in California, where he perfected his musical persona and came roaring out of the L.A. roots-punk circuit and into the national spotlight. McLeese takes us album by album from Yoakam?s firecracker debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986), to his 2007 tribute to his mentor Buck Owens, Dwight Sings Buck. Yoakam emerges from these pages as a hard-working, honest artist, deeply committed to compositions that both preserve the heritage of country music and push its boundaries to carry the music, the tradition, and his listeners into new territories. VERDICT This lovingly crafted and compulsively readable biography is essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing.?Henry L. Carrigan Jr., Evanston, IL

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The following titles are reviewed in the March 1 print issue. Visit our Reviews Center (Beta) for the full reviews.

Arts

Crumb, R. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection. Norton. 2011. illus. ISBN 9780393082784. $27.95. GRAPHIC ARTS

Cuno, James. Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum. Univ. of Chicago. 2012. c.152p. photogs. ISBN 9780226126777. $22. FINE ARTS

Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana. Vol. 2. Marquand, dist. by Yale Univ. 2011. 452p. ed. by Jane Katcher & others. illus. index. ISBN 9780300175806. $95. FINE ARTS

MacCarthy, Fiona. The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination. Harvard Univ. 2012. c.696p. illus. index. ISBN 9780674065796. $35. FINE ARTS

Price, Judith. Lest We Forget: Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewlery and Military Decorations. Taylor. 2011. 160p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781589796867. $29.95. DEC ARTS

Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard. Yale Univ. 2011. 248p. ed. by Elizabeth W. Easton. photogs. index. ISBN 9780300172362. $50. PHOTOG

Sultans of the South: Art of India?s Deccan Courts, 1323?1687. Metropolitan Museum of Art, dist. by Yale Univ. (Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia). 2011. 336p. ed. by Navina Najat Haidar & Marika Sardar. illus. maps. bibliog. ISBN 9780300175875. pap. $50. FINE ARTS

Toynton, Evelyn. Jackson Pollock. Yale Univ. (Icons of America). 2012. c.160p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780300163254. $26. FINE ARTS

West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965?1977. Univ. of Minnesota. 2011. 432p. ed. by Elissa Auther & Adam Lerner. illus. ISBN 9780816677269. pap. $39.95. FINE ARTS

Literature

Dane, Joseph A. What Is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books. Univ. of Notre Dame, dist. by Univ. of Chicago. Mar. 2012. c.288p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780268026097. pap. $30. LIT

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Annotated Emerson. Belknap: Harvard Univ. 2012. c.576p. ed. by David Mikics. illus. ISBN 9780674049239. $35. LIT

Hillan, Sophia. May, Lou & Cass: Jane Austen?s Nieces in Ireland. Blackstaff: Dufour. Apr. 2012. 294p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780856408687. $34.95. LIT

Wise, Benjamin E. William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker. Univ. of North Carolina. Mar. 2012. c.368p. photogs. index. ISBN 9780807835357. $35. LIT

Performing Arts

Caps, John. Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. Univ. of Illinois. (Music in American Life). Mar. 2012. c.312p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780252036736. $29.95. MUSIC

Guy, Buddy with David Ritz. When I Left Home: My Story. Da Capo. May 2012. c.288p. photogs. index. ISBN 9780306819575. $26. MUSIC

Keys, Bobby with Bill Ditenhafer. Every Night?s a Saturday Night: The Rock ?n? Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys. Counterpoint. Mar. 2012. c.272p. photogs. ISBN 9781582437835. $25. MUSIC

Takacs, Stacy. Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America. Univ. of Kansas. (CultureAmerica). Apr. 2012. c.336p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780700618378. $39.95; pap. ISBN 9780700618385. $24.95. TV

Religion

Wills, Garry. Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism. Oxford Univ. Apr. 2012. c.208p. illus. index. ISBN 9780199768516. $21.95. REL

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