Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone.

Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University/82 pp./$19.95 (sb).

Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhone is a handy paperback catalog-book hybrid published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Vivid reproductions are brilliantly laid out within the text, instantly available for wandering eyes. The book expands upon the exhibition itself, relaying artists' backgrounds, themes, and motivations. It also includes a checklist of works on view and detailed bios of each artist and writer. Street Level embodies what the paintings, collages, photography, performance, and video media of these three young artists create on the canvases of the cities that inspire their work: something familiar but new; it reaches us where we are, with critical commentary, inspiring curatorship and straight-up seeable art.

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The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Zhang Zhen. Duke University Press/464 pp./$94.95 (hb), $26.95 (sb).

Vanishing Beauty: Indigenous Body Art and Decoration, by Bertie and Dos Winkel, text by Berenice Geoffroy-Schneiter. Prestel/352 pp./$85.00 (hb).

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