Art and Performance

Biology in the Grid Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life Phillip Thurtle 2018 Fall

How grids paved the way for our biological understanding of organisms

Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism Michael Tymkiw 2018 Spring

A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design

Judith F. Baca Anna Indych-López 2018 Spring

Behind the fascinating public artist’s practice of collaboration

Four Metaphors of Modernism From Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme Jenny Anger 2018 Spring

Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art

The Truth Is Always Grey A History of Modernist Painting Frances Guerin 2018 Spring

Changing how we look at and think about the color grey

A Capsule Aesthetic Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art Kate Mondloch 2018 Spring

How new media art informed by feminism yields important and original insights about interacting with technologies

Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture Andreas Marks 2017 Fall

It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself—with a twenty-first century attitude

Body Modern Fritz Kahn, Scientific Illustration, and the Homuncular Subject Michael Sappol 2017 Spring

An imaginative exploration of how Fritz Kahn’s popular scientific illustrations visualized and performed industrial modernity

Asking the Audience Participatory Art in 1980s New York Adair Rounthwaite 2017 Spring

How participatory art enabled collaboration between institutions and politicized artists in 1980s New York

The Stakes of Exposure Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art Namiko Kunimoto 2017 Spring

The first major English-language study of Japan’s most important postwar artists

Mirror Affect Seeing Self, Observing Others in Contemporary Art Cristina Albu 2016 Fall

Examining reflective art and its impact on how we see ourselves and fellow spectators

The Art of Cooking Martha Rosler 2016 Fall

A crucial unpublished art historical document

René Magritte Selected Writings René Magritte 2016 Fall

An indispensable literary complement to the paintings of René Magritte—the first collected in a single volume

Repainting the Walls of Lunda Information Colonialism and Angolan Art Delinda Collier 2016 Spring

Untangles, yet complicates, a tale of African art from rural dwelling to the World Wide Web

Becoming Past History in Contemporary Art Jane Blocker 2015 Fall

A brilliantly argued call for the presence of time and history in art today

University of Minnesota Press