Collection: College Art Association 2023

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the College Art Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.

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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

MUSEUM STUDIES // LITERATURE

Picturing the Postcard A New Media Crisis at the Turn of the Century Monica Cure 2018 Fall: The first full-length study of a once revolutionary visual and linguistic medium
Pictures of Longing Photography and the Norwegian–American Migration Sigrid Lien 2018 Fall: Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
Bad Environmentalism Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age Nicole Seymour 2018 Fall: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom
The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall: A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
Histories of the Transgender Child Julian Gill-Peterson 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children
Enduring Images A Future History of New Left Cinema Morgan Adamson 2018 Fall: An integrated look at the political films of the 1960s and ’70s and how the New Left transformed cinema
The Robotic Imaginary The Human and the Price of Dehumanized Labor Jennifer Rhee 2018 Fall: Tracing the connections between human-like robots and AI at the site of dehumanization and exploited labor
The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History of the Science Fiction Film Trace Reddell 2018 Fall: A groundbreaking approach to sound in sci-fi films offers new ways of construing both sonic innovation and science fiction cinema
Scenarios II Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Fata Morgana; Heart of Glass Werner Herzog 2018 Fall: The second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable films
Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall: The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
Pattern Discrimination Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Florian Cramer and Hito Steyerl 2019 Spring: How do “human” prejudices reemerge in algorithmic cultures allegedly devised to be blind to them?
Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall: A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
Survival of the Fireflies Georges Didi-Huberman 2018 Fall: Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism
Critical Mass Social Documentary in France from the Silent Era to the New Wave Steven Ungar 2018 Fall: Thirty-five years of nonfiction films offer a unique lens on twentieth-century French social issues
Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring: A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design
Language and Reality Vilém Flusser 2017 Fall: The first book by this astounding philosopher asserts that the universe, knowledge, truth, and reality are linguistic aspects
Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring: A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
The Undocumented Everyday Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility Rebecca M. Schreiber 2018 Spring: Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation
The Anime Ecology A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media Thomas Lamarre 2018 Spring: A major work destined to change how scholars and students look at television and animation
Judith F. Baca Anna Indych-López 2018 Spring: Behind the fascinating public artist’s practice of collaboration
Archaeologies of Touch Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing David Parisi 2018 Spring: A material history of haptics technology that raises new questions about the relationship between touch and media
Four Metaphors of Modernism From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Jenny Anger 2018 Spring: Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art
Movement, Action, Image, Montage Sergei Eisenstein and the Cinema in Crisis Luka Arsenjuk 2018 Spring: A major new study of Sergei Eisenstein delivers fresh, in-depth analyses of the iconic filmmaker’s body of work
The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring: Changing how we look at and think about the color grey
A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring: How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies
Modernism as Memory Building Identity in the Federal Republic of Germany Kathleen James-Chakraborty 2017 Fall: Reexamining architecture and memory in postwar Berlin
Making Things and Drawing Boundaries Experiments in the Digital Humanities Jentery Sayers, Editor 2017 Fall: A major new look at why art, digitization, and design are vital to “making” in the humanities
Superhumanity Design of the Self Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anton Vidokle and Mark Wigley, Editors 2018 Spring: A wide-ranging and challenging exploration of design and how it engages with the self
Black on Both Sides A Racial History of Trans Identity C. Riley Snorton 2017 Fall: Uncovering the overlapping histories of blackness and trans identity from the nineteenth century to the present day
Building Access Universal Design and the Politics of Disability Aimi Hamraie 2017 Fall: Rich with archival images, the first critical history of the Universal Design movement
Scenarios Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo Werner Herzog 2017 Fall: The first in a series: Urtexts of the quintessential early films of Werner Herzog
Brouhaha Worlds of the Contemporary Lionel Ruffel 2017 Spring: A rigorous inquiry into the question of the “contemporary” in an era of hypermediation and globalization
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
Of Walking in Ice Munich–Paris, 23 November—14 December 1974 Werner Herzog 2015 Spring: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s remarkable account of his journey on foot from Munich to Paris
Scenes of Projection Recasting the Enlightenment Subject Jill H. Casid 2014 Fall: Explores the psychic, affective, and material powers of projection
Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall: The world as we know it has already come to an end
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
String, Felt, Thread The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Elissa Auther 2009 Fall: A beautifully illustrated history of the use of fiber in the American art world in the postwar era