Collection: College Art Association 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.

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ART HISTORY // ARCHITECTURE // VISUAL CULTURE // DESIGN

THEORY // PHILOSOPHY // ENVIRONMENT // MEDIA AND FILM

DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE // MUSIC // PHOTOGRAPHY

MUSEUM STUDIES // LITERATURE

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
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
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?
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
Letters from Tove Tove Jansson 2021 Fall: A virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Curiosity and Power The Politics of Inquiry Perry Zurn 2021 Spring: A trailblazing exploration of the political stakes of curiosity
The Digital Black Atlantic Roopika Risam and Kelly Baker Josephs, Editors 2021 Spring: Exploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies
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
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
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
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
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
The Materiality of Architecture Antoine Picon 2020 Fall: A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall: A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring: The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring: Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
Documents of Doubt The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack 2020 Spring: A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art
Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring: Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment
Piotr Szyhalski We Are Working All the Time! Diane Mullin, Editor 2020 Spring: The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist
Bring That Beat Back How Sampling Built Hip-Hop Nate Patrin 2020 Spring: How sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring: The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn The Wisdom of Children’s Literature Jonathan Cott 2020 Spring: Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors—now in a new edition
The Metabolist Imagination Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction William O. Gardner 2020 Spring: Japan’s postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
Curiosity Studies A New Ecology of Knowledge Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar, Editors 2020 Spring: The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique field
Elizabeth Scheu Close A Life in Modern Architecture Jane King Hession 2020 Spring: An in-depth account of the life and career of Minnesota’s first modern architect
Clocking Out The Machinery of Life in 1960s Italian Cinema Karen Pinkus 2020 Spring: An original reflection on Italy’s postwar boom considers potentials for resistance in today’s neoliberal (dis)order
Perpetual Motion Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common Harmony Bench 2020 Spring: A new exploration of how digital media assert the relevance of dance in a wired world
Postcinematic Vision The Coevolution of Moving-Image Media and the Spectator Roger F. Cook 2020 Spring: A study of how film has continually intervened in our sense of perception, with far-ranging insights into the current state of lived experience
Harriet Bart Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection Laura Wertheim Joseph, Editor 2019 Fall: A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist
Happiness by Design Modernism and Media in the Eames Era Justus Nieland 2019 Spring: A cultural history of modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames
Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring: An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
Curating as Ethics Jean-Paul Martinon 2020 Spring: A new ethics for the global practice of curating
Design Technics Archaeologies of Architectural Practice Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Editors 2019 Fall: Leading scholars historicize and theorize technology’s role in architectural design
The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall: How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
Furious Feminisms Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road Alexis L. Boylan, Anna Mae Duane, Michael Gill and Barbara Gurr 2020 Spring: A provocative peek into this complicated film as a space for subversion, activism, and imaginative power
The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring: A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall: The first critical study of writing without language
Playing Nature Ecology in Video Games Alenda Y. Chang 2019 Fall: A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall: A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall: A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring: Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall: A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images
Scenarios III Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; Cobra Verde Werner Herzog 2019 Fall: For the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works
Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall: A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
Spoiler Alert A Critical Guide Aaron Jaffe 2020 Spring: All of this information at our fingertips—and we might not need any of it
Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring: Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
Variations on Media Thinking Siegfried Zielinski 2019 Fall: A diverse, enriching volume of media analysis from a pioneering thinker in the field
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony Ben Nicholson and Michelangelo Sabatino, Editors 2019 Spring: A close examination of an iconic small town that gives boundless insights into architecture, landscape, preservation, and philanthropy
Sensations of History Animation and New Media Art James J. Hodge 2019 Fall: A phenomenological investigation into new media artwork and its relationship to history
Vital Forms Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life Jennifer Johung 2019 Fall: Shows how the intersection of biotech, art, and architecture are transforming the world we live in
Organize Timon Beyes, Reinhold Martin and Lisa Conrad 2019 Fall: A pioneering systematic inquiry into—and mapping of—the field of media and organization
Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring: A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation Jonathan Beecher Field 2019 Fall: Tracing the erosion of democratic norms in the US and the conditions that make it possible
How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys 2019 Fall: An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies
The Eloquent Screen A Rhetoric of Film Gilberto Perez 2019 Spring: A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move us
Burgers in Blackface Anti-Black Restaurants Then and Now Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2019 Fall: A powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding
Philosophy of New Music Theodor W. Adorno Robert Hullot-Kentor, Editor 2019 Fall: An indispensable key to Adorno’s influential oeuvre—now in paperback
Archives Andrew Lison, Marcel Mars, Tomislav Medak and Rick Prelinger 2019 Fall: How digital networks and services bring the issues of archives out of the realm of institutions and into the lives of everyday users
Playing with the Book Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader Hannah Field 2019 Spring: A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts
Architectures of the Unforeseen Essays in the Occurrent Arts Brian Massumi 2019 Spring: A beautifully written study of three pioneering artists, entwining their work and our understanding of creativity
Anti-Electra The Radical Totem of the Girl Elisabeth von Samsonow 2019 Spring: A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”
Break Up the Anthropocene Steve Mentz 2019 Fall: Takes the singular eco-catastrophic “Age of Man” and redefines this epoch
Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism Arne De Boever 2019 Fall: Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, Editors 2019 Spring: The latest installment of a digital humanities bellwether
The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring: A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
Remain Ioana B. Jucan, Jussi Parikka and Rebecca Schneider 2019 Spring: Engaging with remains and remainders of media cultures
Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
Living on Campus An Architectural History of the American Dormitory Carla Yanni 2019 Spring
Bad Film Histories Ethnography and the Early Archive Katherine Groo 2019 Spring: A daring, deep investigation into ethnographic cinema that challenges standard ways of writing film history and breaks important new ground in understanding archives
Zoological Surrealism The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé James Leo Cahill 2019 Spring: An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé
Unapologetic Beauty Joanna Frueh 2019 Spring: A startlingly powerful collaboration reimagines female beauty
Markets Armin Beverungen, Philip Mirowski, Edward Nik-Khah and Jens Schröter 2019 Spring: A media theory of markets
The Tomb of the Artisan God On Plato’s Timaeus Serge Margel 2019 Spring: A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida
The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring: A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall: How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Bodies of Information Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont, Editors 2018 Fall: A wide-ranging, interconnected anthology presents a diversity of feminist contributions to digital humanities
Graphic Assembly Montage, Media, and Experimental Architecture in the 1960s Craig Buckley 2018 Fall: An innovative look at the contribution of montage to twentieth-century architecture
DIA-LOGOS Ramon Llull's Method of Thought and Artistic Practice Amador Vega, Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski, Editors 2018 Fall: The life and work of the outstanding Catalan-Majorcan philosopher, logician, and mystic Ramon Llull continues to fascinate thinkers, artists, and scholars worldwide
Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall: A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture
Chromographia American Literature and the Modernization of Color Nicholas Gaskill 2018 Fall: The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930
The Poem Electric Technology and the American Lyric Seth Perlow 2018 Fall: An enlightening examination of the relationship between poetry and the information technologies increasingly used to read and write it