Art and Performance

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.

Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring

How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”

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

Looking for Asian America An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie Wing Young Huie 2007 Fall

Stunning and personal photographs of Asian America today—from a renowned artist

The Color of Stone Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America Charmaine A. Nelson 2007 Spring

How do we “see” race when the color of skin is stone

Gronk Max Benavidez 2007 Spring

The first major book devoted to the influential Chicano artist

Images of Bliss Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning Murat Aydemir 2007 Spring

From Holbein to hard-core porn, a critical exploration of male orgasm in Western culture

Clement Greenberg, Late Writings Clement Greenberg Robert C. Morgan, Editor 2007 Spring

A publishing event: culminating works by a major figure in art history, collected here for the first time!

The Scar of Visibility Medical Performances and Contemporary Art Petra Kuppers 2006 Fall

Grapples with the limits of medicine and the mysteries of human bodies in contemporary art and culture

Too Beautiful to Picture Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis Elizabeth C. Mansfield 2006 Fall

An intriguing look at imitation in Western art from antiquity to the present

Collectivism after Modernism The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Editors 2006 Fall

Analyzes collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present

Sheer Presence The Veil in Manet’s Paris Marni Reva Kessler 2006 Fall

Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France

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

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