Collection: College Art Association 2023
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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Press's virtual presence at the 2023 annual meeting of the College Art Association. All books below are 40% off using code MNCAA23. Code expires April 1, 2023.
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Suzaan Boettger, author of Inside the Spiral, will present "Dark Sister: Robert Smithson’s Images of Feminized Masculinities" as chair of the session "Mix Masters: Disguised Allusions to Blended Gender and Intersexuality in Modern Art" at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, February 16 in the Hilton Midtown, Gibson Suite.
BROWSE BOOKS:
ART HISTORY // ARCHITECTURE // VISUAL CULTURE // DESIGN
THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // ENVIRONMENT // MEDIA AND FILM
DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE // MUSIC // PHOTOGRAPHY
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Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring
- Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
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Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2023 Spring
- A cutting-edge view of the digital humanities at a time of global pandemic, catastrophe, and uncertainty
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Nothing Permanent Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan 2023 Spring
- A critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
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Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring
- A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
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Operational Images From the Visual to the Invisual Jussi Parikka 2023 Spring
- An in-depth look into the transformation of visual culture and digital aesthetics
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Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What’s Next William G. Franklin, Editor 2023 Spring
- A richly illustrated and personal presentation of the lives and careers of twelve Latin American artists in Minnesota
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Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring
- A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
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The Comic Self Toward Dispossession Timothy C. Campbell and Grant Farred 2023 Spring
- A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself
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Subsurface Karen Pinkus 2023 Spring
- A bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth’s layers and policy of the present
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Inside the Spiral The Passions of Robert Smithson Suzaan Boettger 2023 Spring
- An expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson’s life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations
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Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring
- A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
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The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
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The Frankfurt School in Exile Thomas Wheatland 2023 Spring
- An examination of the influence of German intellectuals on postwar American thought
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The Environmental Unconscious Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton Steven Swarbrick 2023 Spring
- Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
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Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
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From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Spring
- A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
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The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring
- A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
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Chinese Film Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age Jason McGrath 2022 Fall
- A tour de force chronicling the development of realism in Chinese cinema
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The New Real Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji Jonathan E. Abel 2022 Fall
- Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together
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A Theory of Assembly From Museums to Memes Kyle Parry 2022 Fall
- A vital reckoning with how we understand the basic categories of cultural expression in the digital era
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form Arlene Burke-Morgan & Clarence Morgan Howard Oransky, Editor 2023 Spring
- A beautifully illustrated review of the deeply connected lives and careers of this prominent Minneapolis African American artist-couple
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Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall
- The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
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Italian Political Cinema Figures of the Long ’68 Mauro Resmini 2022 Fall
- An exploration of how film has made legible the Italian long ’68 as a moment of crisis and transition
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The Mandorla Letters for the hopeful Nicole Mitchell Gantt 2022 Fall
- Afrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
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Endless Intervals Cinema, Psychology, and Semiotechnics around 1900 Jeffrey West Kirkwood 2022 Fall
- Revealing cinema’s place in the coevolution of media technology and the human
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Arte Programmata Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy Lindsay Caplan 2022 Fall
- Tracing the evolution of the Italian avant-garde’s pioneering experiments with art and technology and their subversion of freedom and control
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By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2022 Fall
- The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
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Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
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South American Journals January–July 1960 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America
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The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- An autobiographical journey through America in the turbulent 1960s—the essential backstory to Ginsberg’s National Book Award–winning volume of poetry
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Architecture of Life Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences Alla Vronskaya 2022 Spring
- Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences
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On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
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Architecture and Objects Graham Harman 2022 Spring
- Thinking through object-oriented ontology—and the work of architects such as Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid—to explore new concepts of the relationship between form and function
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Viral Cultures Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS Marika Cifor 2022 Spring
- Delves deep into the archives that keep the history and work of AIDS activism alive
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Game Animals, Video Games, and Humanity Thomas R.J. Tyler 2022 Spring
- A playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other
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Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring
- An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history
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Mediating Alzheimer’s Cognition and Personhood Scott Selberg 2022 Spring
- An exploration of the representational culture of Alzheimer’s disease and how media technologies shape our ideas of cognition and aging
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom BrownMark 2022 Spring
- From the young Black teenager who built a bass guitar in woodshop to the musician building a solo career with Motown Records—Prince’s bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom
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The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
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The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
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The Lab Book Situated Practices in Media Studies Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson and Jussi Parikka 2021 Fall
- An important new approach to the study of laboratories, presenting a practical method for understanding labs in all walks of life
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Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
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What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
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Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring
- Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter
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Cinema Illuminating Reality Media Philosophy through Buddhism Victor Fan 2022 Spring
- A new critical approach to cinema and media based on Buddhism as a philosophical discourse
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Cosplay The Fictional Mode of Existence Frenchy Lunning 2022 Spring
- An exploration of cosplay and its relationship with the realms of its global fandom, performance, and the modes of fictional existence
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Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Robert Heinecken and the Art of Appropriation Matthew Biro 2022 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of the artist Robert Heinecken and his critical views on the culture of mass media
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Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
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The Poetics of Cruising Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr 2022 Spring
- A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
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Technics Improvised Activating Touch in Global Media Art Timothy Murray 2022 Spring
- Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures
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Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall
- How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
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Art and Posthumanism Essays, Encounters, Conversations Cary Wolfe 2021 Fall
- A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world
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People, Practice, Power Digital Humanities outside the Center Anne B. McGrail, Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier, Editors 2021 Fall
- An illuminating volume of critical essays charting the diverse territory of digital humanities scholarship
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The Digital Is Kid Stuff Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy 2021 Fall
- How popular debates about the so-called digital generation mediate anxieties about labor and life in twenty-first-century America
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Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
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Life in Plastic Artistic Responses to Petromodernity Caren Irr, Editor 2021 Fall
- A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age
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The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
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Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
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The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall
- A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
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Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
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Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
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How We Became Sensorimotor Movement, Measurement, Sensation Mark Paterson 2021 Fall
- An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge of the body’s inner senses
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Modelwork The Material Culture of Making and Knowing Martin Brückner, Sandy Isenstadt and Sarah Wasserman, Editors 2021 Fall
- How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be
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Reconstructing the Garrick Adler & Sullivan’s Lost Masterpiece John Vinci, Editor 2021 Fall
- A beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated biography of one of Chicago’s greatest lost buildings
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Envisioning Evil “The Nazi Drawings” by Mauricio Lasansky Rachel McGarry 2021 Fall
- The definitive study of this powerful series of drawings by the influential artist
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Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall
- A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect
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The Editor Function Literary Publishing in Postwar America Abram Foley 2021 Fall
- Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary history
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
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Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui 2020 Spring
- In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?
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Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall
- An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design
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Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall
- A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
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The Rhythm of Images Cinema beyond Measure Domietta Torlasco 2021 Spring
- A rigorous and imaginative inquiry into rhythm’s vital importance for film and the moving image
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The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring
- On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
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B. J. O. Nordfeldt American Internationalist Gabriel Weisberg, Editor 2021 Spring
- This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles
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The Filing Cabinet A Vertical History of Information Craig Robertson 2021 Spring
- The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information
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Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring
- A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
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Really Fake Alexandra Juhasz, Ganaele Langlois and Nishant Shah 2020 Fall
- More important than flagging things “really fake” is to understand why they are dismissed as fake
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
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The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring
- Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
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Cosmic Trip Rock Concerts at the Minneapolis Labor Temple 1969-1970 Christian A. Peterson 2021 Fall
- A trip through Minneapolis rock concert history framed through psychedelic poster art
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Deep Mediations Thinking Space in Cinema and Digital Cultures Karen Beckman and Jeff Scheible, Editors 2021 Spring
- The preoccupation with “depth” and its relevance to cinema and media studies
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Clang Jacques Derrida 2020 Fall
- A new translation of Derrida’s groundbreaking juxtaposition of Hegel and Genet, forcing two incompatible discourses into dialogue with each other
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Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring
- An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
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Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class Catherine Liu 2021 Spring
- A denunciation of the credentialed elite class that serves capitalism while insisting on its own progressive heroism
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The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall
- A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2021 Spring
- A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history
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Timescales Thinking across Ecological Temporalities Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff and Patricia Eunji Kim, Editors 2020 Fall
- Humanists, scientists, and artists collaborate to address the disjunctive temporalities of ecological crisis
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Ends of Cinema Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Editors 2020 Fall
- Leading film and media scholars discuss multiple “ends” in the history of cinema
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Pulses of Abstraction Episodes from a History of Animation Andrew R. Johnston 2020 Fall
- Reshapes the history of abstract animation and its importance to computer imagery and cinema
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How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 Thomas C. Hubka 2020 Spring
- The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes
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Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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Sounds from the Other Side Afro–South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music Elliott H. Powell 2020 Fall
- A sixty-year history of Afro–South Asian musical collaborations
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Capture American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition Antoine Traisnel 2020 Fall
- Reading canonical works of the nineteenth century through the modern transformation of human–animal relations
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Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring
- A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory