Art and Performance

Celia Alvarez Muñoz Celia Alvarez Muñoz Roberto Tejada 2009 Fall
Considers the work of this provocative and pioneering Chicana multimedia artist
Art and the End of Apartheid Art and the End of Apartheid John Peffer 2009 Spring
The first book to fully explore cosmopolitan modern art by black South Africans under apartheid
Yolanda López Yolanda López 2009 Fall
The first book-length exploration of the prominent Mexican American visual artist’s career
Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Seeing Witness Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Jane Blocker 2009 Spring
Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politics
National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment National Camera Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment Roberto Tejada 2009 Spring
Challenges conventional habits of discussing image, identity, and photography
The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning The Disciplinary Frame Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning John Tagg 2008 Fall
How do photographs gain their meaning and power?
Feminist Art and the Maternal Feminist Art and the Maternal Andrea Liss 2008 Fall
A highly engaging, taboo-breaking study of feminist contemporary art
Everyone Had Cameras: Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 Everyone Had Cameras Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 Richard Steven Street 2008 Fall
The relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives
Street Scenes: Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Street Scenes Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Esther Romeyn 2008 Fall
Negotiates the complex relationship between modern urban culture and immigrant identity
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan 2008 Fall
The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery
Migrations of Gesture Migrations of Gesture Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, Editors 2008 Spring
The cultural significance of gesture as a human expression
Masterpiece Photographs of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Masterpiece Photographs of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Christian A. Peterson 2008 Fall
An exquisite selection of photographic works from this important collection
The Philosophy of Art The Philosophy of Art F.W.J. Schelling Douglas W. Stott, Editor 1989 Spring
The first English translation of a classic text in aesthetics based on the precepts of German Idealism. Schelling systematically treats various forms of art-including music, painting, sculpture, narrative, and poetry-to present a philosophical disclosure of the idea or essence of art itself, an essence that transcends the actual work in history.
Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring
How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories The People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2007 Fall
Addresses the Indian, absent and present, in modern dance studies