Art and Performance
- Safety Orange Anna Watkins Fisher 2022 Spring
- How fluorescent orange symbolizes the uneven distribution of safety and risk in the neoliberal United States
- The Burden of Representation Essays on Photographies and Histories John Tagg 2021 Fall
- A powerhouse in photographic theory—updated and with a new essay
- 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
- Assuming the Ecosexual Position The Earth as Lover Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens 2021 Spring
- The story of the artistic collaboration between the originators of the ecosex movement, their diverse communities, and the Earth
- Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui 2020 Spring
- In light of current discourses on AI and robotics, what do the various experiences of art contribute to the rethinking of technology today?
- B. J. O. Nordfeldt American Internationalist Gabriel Weisberg, Editor 2021 Spring
- This “painter’s painter” constantly explored the variety of American modernist art, inspired by many locations and artistic styles
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- José Montoya Ella Maria Diaz 2021 Spring
- A generously illustrated account of the life and work of the prominent Chicano artist, educator, and activist
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Arrested Welcome Hospitality in Contemporary Art Irina Aristarkhova 2020 Spring
- Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment