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
- Assembly by Design The United Nations and Its Global Interior Olga Touloumi 2024 Spring
- How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy
- Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty Louise Siddons 2024 Spring
- What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change?
- Chris Marker Early Film Writings Chris Marker 2024 Spring
- Formative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
- Interactive Cinema The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation Marina Hassapopoulou 2024 Spring
- Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship
- Microbial Resolution Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes Gloria Chan-Sook Kim 2024 Spring
- Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails
- Stardust Cinematic Archives at the End of the World Hannah Goodwin 2024 Spring
- An exploration of the fundamental bond between cinema and the cosmos
- The Flesh of Animation Bodily Sensations in Film and Digital Media Sandra Annett 2024 Spring
- How animation can reconnect us with bodily experiences
- Tove Jansson Life, Art, Words Boel Westin 2024 Spring
- An in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
- Architecture against Democracy Histories of the Nationalist International Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman, Editors 2024 Spring
- Examining architecture’s foundational role in the repression of democracy
- The Harlequin Eaters From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France Janet Beizer 2024 Spring
- How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history
- Grace & Grit A History of Ballet in Minnesota Georgia Finnegan 2022 Fall
- A complete history of ballet in Minnesota by a professional dancer and creative force in the Twin Cities artistic community
- Anime's Knowledge Cultures Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 2024 Spring
- Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures
- Producing Sovereignty The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada Karrmen Crey 2024 Spring
- Exploring how Indigenous media has flourished across Canada from the 1990s to the present
- Solar Adobe Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture Albert Narath 2024 Spring
- How a centuries-old architectural tradition reemerged as a potential solution to the political and environmental crises of the 1970s
- On the Appearance of the World A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture Mark Foster Gage 2024 Spring
- How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment?
- Horror in Architecture The Reanimated Edition Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing 2023 Fall
- A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
- Dreaming Our Futures Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky, Editors 2023 Fall
- A beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters
- This Is Not My World Art and Public Space in Socialist Zagreb Adair Rounthwaite 2024 Spring
- A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private
- Livestreaming An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter EL Putnam 2024 Spring
- An inquiry into how livestreaming can help us meaningfully connect
- Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon Race-Making and Resistance in Fascist Italy Lorenzo Fabbri 2023 Fall
- A deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance
- What We Teach When We Teach DH Digital Humanities in the Classroom Brian Croxall and Diane K. Jakacki, Editors 2023 Fall
- Exploring how DH shapes and is in turn shaped by the classroom
- Queer Networks Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art Miriam Kienle 2023 Fall
- How the queer correspondence art of Ray Johnson disrupted art world conventions and anticipated today’s highly networked culture
- The Switch An Off and On History of Digital Humans Jason Puskar 2023 Fall
- From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
- Estado Vegetal Performance and Plant-Thinking Giovanni Aloi, Editor 2023 Fall
- Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene
- The New American War Film Robert Burgoyne 2023 Fall
- A look at how post-9/11 cinema captures the new face of war in the twenty-first century
- In Visible Archives Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s Margaret Galvan 2023 Fall
- Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities
- The Affect Lab The History and Limits of Measuring Emotion Grant Bollmer 2023 Fall
- Examines how our understanding of emotion is shaped by the devices we use to measure it
- Asians on Demand Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism Feng-Mei Heberer 2023 Fall
- Does media representation advance racial justice?
- The Shape of Utopia The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America Irene Cheng 2023 Fall
- How nineteenth-century social reformers devised a new set of radical blueprints for society
- Fantasies of Precision American Modern Art, 1908–1947 Ashley Lazevnick 2023 Spring
- Redefining the artistic movement that helped shape American modernism
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Comic Self Toward Dispossession Timothy C. Campbell and Grant Farred 2023 Spring
- A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself
- Subsurface Karen Pinkus 2023 Spring
- A bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth’s layers and policy of the present
- 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
- 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
- The Birth of Computer Vision James E. Dobson 2023 Spring
- A revealing genealogy of image-recognition techniques and technologies
- The Frankfurt School in Exile Thomas Wheatland 2023 Spring
- An examination of the influence of German intellectuals on postwar American thought
- The Environmental Unconscious Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton Steven Swarbrick 2023 Spring
- Bringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis
- 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
- 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
- The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring
- A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall
- The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
- 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
- The Mandorla Letters for the hopeful Nicole Mitchell Gantt 2022 Fall
- Afrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Iron Curtain Journals January–May 1965 Allen Ginsberg 2022 Fall
- The first of three in a series of Ginsberg’s unpublished travel journals
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Owls Are Not What They Seem Artist as Ethologist Arnaud Gerspacher 2022 Fall
- Toward a posthumanist art and ethology
- 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
- Side Affects On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Hil Malatino 2022 Spring
- How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing
- What If? Twenty-Two Scenarios in Search of Images Vilém Flusser 2022 Spring
- An imagination of possibilities, of miscalculations, of futures off-kilter
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Animal Revolution Ron Broglio 2022 Spring
- Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2022 Spring
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
- Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
- 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
- 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
- Cut/Copy/Paste Fragments from the History of Bookwork Whitney Trettien 2021 Fall
- How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
- 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
- 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
- Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
- The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall
- A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
- Anime's Identity Performativity and Form beyond Japan 2021 Fall
- A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism
- Young-Girls in Echoland #Theorizing Tiqqun Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson 2022 Spring
- Who’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Louis Sullivan’s Idea Tim Samuelson 2021 Fall
- A visual compendium revealing the philosophy and life of America’s renowned architect