2013 Art catalog collection

Art | Aesthetics

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Pedestrian Modern Shopping and American Architecture, 1925–1956 David Smiley 2013 Spring

How the design of stores and shopping centers shaped modern architecture in the United States

Ricardo Valverde Ramón García 2013 Spring

Tracing the remarkable path of photographer Ricardo Valverde’s art and life

New Architecture on Indigenous Lands Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka 2013 Spring

Tribal architecture gets back to its Native roots—and becomes something new

Against Affective Formalism Matisse, Bergson, Modernism Todd Cronan 2013 Spring

Close examinations of the works of Henri Matisse and Henri Bergson reveal problems of form and agency, expression and affect, representation and reality that are still in effect today

Contemporary Korean Art Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method Joan Kee 2013 Spring

The first in-depth examination in English of twentieth-century Korea’s most important artistic movement

Corridor Media Architectures in American Fiction Kate Marshall 2013 Spring

How neglected architectural spaces act as media in modern American novels

Humanesis Sound and Technological Posthumanism David Cecchetto 2013 Spring

A search for acoustic resonance leads to an important new critique of posthumanist studies

Off the Network Disrupting the Digital World Ulises Ali Mejias 2013 Spring

Critiques how the Internet, social media, and the digital network change users’ understanding of the world

Commemorating and Forgetting Challenges for the New South Africa Martin J. Murray 2013 Spring

Reshaping the past for a livable present through “landscapes of remembrance” composed of art and architecture, museums and memorials

Designing the Creative Child Playthings and Places in Midcentury America Amy F. Ogata 2013 Spring

The construction of the “creative child” as Cold War America’s best hope for the future

Trash Animals How We Live with Nature’s Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, Editors 2013 Spring

From pigeons to prairie dogs, reflections on reviled animals and their place in contemporary life

Hot Spotter’s Report Military Fables of Toxic Waste Shiloh R. Krupar 2013 Spring

How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war

Radiance from Halcyon A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science Paul Eli Ivey 2013 Spring

A revealing history of a surprisingly influential and inventive theosophical utopian community

Cosmic Apprentice Dispatches from the Edges of Science Dorion Sagan 2013 Spring

A renowned writer takes us on an intellectual thrill ride to challenge scientific and philosophical dogma

The Heretical Archive Digital Memory at the End of Film Domietta Torlasco 2013 Spring

Explores how contemporary digital artworks are changing our memories of film and our understanding of the cinematic and psychoanalytic archives

Summa Technologiae Stanisław Lem 2013 Spring

From the acclaimed author of the science fiction novel Solaris, a pre-Dawkins exposition of human and nonhuman life

Speech Begins after Death Michel Foucault Philippe Artières, Editor 2013 Spring

An interview with Michel Foucault on the problems and pleasures of writing—now available for the first time in English

Making Art Panamerican Cultural Policy and the Cold War Claire F. Fox 2013 Spring

A compelling study of cultural policy in the Americas

On Writing with Photography Karen Beckman and Liliane Weissberg, Editors 2013 Spring

An exploration of the relationship between photography and text, from the age of early photography to the contemporary graphic novel

The Cinema and Its Shadow Race and Technology in Early Cinema Alice Maurice 2013 Spring

How race shaped the fundamental formal and technological means of the cinema

Artist Animal Steve Baker 2012 Fall

A provocative exploration of the work of contemporary artists who engage with questions of animal life

House, but No Garden Apartment Living in Bombay’s Suburbs, 1898–1964 Nikhil Rao 2012 Fall

The emergence of apartment living in the suburbs in mid-twentieth-century Bombay

Constitutional Modernism Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 1933–1959 Timothy Hyde 2012 Fall

How architecture, law, and urbanism shaped the premises of civil society in Cuba

Little White Houses How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America Dianne Harris 2012 Fall

How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an exclusionary housing market in the postwar era

Resolutions 3 Global Networks of Video Ming-Yuen S. C and Erika Suderburg, Editors 2012 Fall

Examines the ever-morphing state of video’s deployment in art, culture, and society

From Light to Byte Toward an Ethics of Digital Cinema Markos Hadjioannou 2012 Fall

Explores the question of technological change in cinema

Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall

Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture

At the Borders of Sleep On Liminal Literature Peter Schwenger 2012 Fall

Exploring the fertile connections between creativity and the edges of sleep

Body Drift Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 2012 Fall

Brings three major feminist theorists into critical dialogue for the first time

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage An Enlightenment Problematic Tony C. Brown 2012 Fall

How the exotic constitutes Enlightenment aesthetic theory

Creating the Witness Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Leshu Torchin 2012 Fall

How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime

Mechademia 7 Lines of Sight Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2012 Fall

Tracing the impact of anime and manga’s radical break with Cartesian perspective

Ferocious Reality Documentary according to Werner Herzog Eric Ames 2012 Fall

A look at the illustrious director’s paradoxical relationship with documentary

Picturing the Cosmos Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime Elizabeth A. Kessler 2012 Fall

A revealing look at the Romantic impulse behind the Hubble telescope’s awe-inspiring deep space images

The Nazi Perpetrator Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right Paul B. Jaskot 2012 Fall

A fundamental reevaluation of how the Nazi past shaped postwar German art and architecture

In Search of a New Image of Thought Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism Gregg Lambert 2012 Fall

Following the “image of thought” through the labyrinth of Deleuze’s oeuvre

Love in Vain A Vision of Robert Johnson Alan Greenberg 2012 Fall

The classic, deeply researched study and mythological telling of the life, legend, and enduring mystery of Robert Johnson

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall

Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell

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