Art and Performance

The Matrixial Borderspace Bracha Ettinger 2005 Fall

A groundbreaking intertwining of the philosophy of art and psychoanalytic theory

Modern Dance, Negro Dance Race in Motion Susan Manning 2006 Fall

Integrates the histories of black and white dance in modern America

Herschel V. Jones The Imprint of a Great Collector Lisa Dickinson Michaux, Marla J. Kinney and Jane Immler Satkowski Karen Jacobson, Editor 2006 Spring

A richly illustrated guide to one of the most significant collections of prints in America, including luminaries Rembrandt, Dürer, Whistler, and Cassatt

Money in the Bank The Katherine Kierland Herberger Collection Corine Wegener and Karal Ann Marling 2006 Spring

A comprehensive illustrated guide to American toy banks

Ether The Nothing That Connects Everything Joe Milutis 2005 Fall

Diagrams the interconnections among cosmic consciousness, hermetic avant-gardes, and technological progress

The Aesthetics of Disengagement Contemporary Art and Depression Christine Ross 2005 Spring

Reveals how artists engage the scientific notion of depression

Sex Objects Art and the Dialectics of Desire Jennifer Doyle 2006 Spring

Complicates the role sex plays in art—from the scandalous to the absurd

American Exposures Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century Louis Kaplan 2005 Fall

A fascinating analysis of how photographers image and imagine American communities

Metonymy in Contemporary Art A New Paradigm Denise Green 2005 Fall

A critical look at the contemporary art world from a global perspective

The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2005 Fall

Exquisite photographs of rural Maine by this remarkable American artist.

Pictorial Nominalism On Marcel Duchamp’s Passage from Painting to the Readymade Thierry De Duve 2005 Fall

Reveals the invention of the readymade as a critical point in contemporary art

Earth-Mapping Artists Reshaping Landscape Edward S. Casey 2005 Spring

Re-envisions the earth in innovative painterly, sculptural, and architectural forms

Shooting from the Hip Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America Patricia Vettel-Becker 2005 Spring

Visually traces the portrayal of the American male

Carnal Art Orlan’s Refacing C. Jill O’Bryan 2004 Fall

An in-depth exploration of the surgical performances of the artist Orlan

Sowing Empire Landscape and Colonization Jill H. Casid 2004 Fall

Identifies the cultivation and landscaping of colonies as one of the primary ways imperial nations justified their empires

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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