Art and Performance
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Celia Alvarez Muñoz Roberto Tejada 2009 Fall
- Considers the work of this provocative and pioneering Chicana multimedia artist
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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
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Yolanda López 2009 Fall
- The first book-length exploration of the prominent Mexican American visual artist’s career
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Seeing Witness Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Jane Blocker 2009 Spring
- Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politics
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National Camera Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment Roberto Tejada 2009 Spring
- Challenges conventional habits of discussing image, identity, and photography
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The Disciplinary Frame Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning John Tagg 2008 Fall
- How do photographs gain their meaning and power?
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Feminist Art and the Maternal Andrea Liss 2008 Fall
- A highly engaging, taboo-breaking study of feminist contemporary art
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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
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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
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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
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Migrations of Gesture Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, Editors 2008 Spring
- The cultural significance of gesture as a human expression
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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
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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.
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Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring
- How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”
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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