Art and Performance
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Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring
- A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring
- An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
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The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art Peggy Wang 2021 Spring
- A revelatory reclaiming of five iconic Chinese artists and their place in art history
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José Montoya Ella Maria Diaz 2021 Spring
- A generously illustrated account of the life and work of the prominent Chicano artist, educator, and activist
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Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring
- A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory
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Documents of Doubt The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art Heather Diack 2020 Spring
- A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art
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Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring
- Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment
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Piotr Szyhalski We Are Working All the Time! Diane Mullin, Editor 2020 Spring
- The first comprehensive study of this innovative and interactive multimedia artist
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Harriet Bart Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection Laura Wertheim Joseph, Editor 2019 Fall
- A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist
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Museums Inside Out Artist Collaborations and New Exhibition Ecologies Mark W. Rectanus 2020 Spring
- An ambitious study of what it means to be a museum in the twenty-first century
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Asemic The Art of Writing Peter Schwenger 2019 Fall
- The first critical study of writing without language
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Schizogenesis The Art of Rosemarie Trockel Katherine Guinness 2019 Fall
- A deep analysis of an enigmatic artist whose oeuvre opens new spaces for understanding feminism, the body, and identity
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Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World Michael Gaudio 2019 Fall
- A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly “silent” images