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Picturing the Cosmos Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime Elizabeth A. Kessler 2012 Fall

A revealing look at the Romantic impulse behind the Hubble telescope’s awe-inspiring deep space images

Rafael Ferrer Deborah Cullen 2012 Spring

The first major account of the celebrated Puerto Rican artist

Denise Green An Artist’s Odyssey Denise Green 2012 Spring

Reflecting on an internationally recognized Australian American artist and writer

Afterimage of Empire Photography in Nineteenth-Century India Zahid R. Chaudhary 2012 Spring

How the colonial photograph revolutionized the very nature of perception

Diane Arbus’s 1960s Auguries of Experience Frederick Gross 2012 Spring

Looking past the myth of Diane Arbus to the depth of her achievement within the artistic, intellectual, and social currents of the 1960s

West of Center Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 Elissa Auther and Adam Lerner, Editors 2011 Fall

Recovering the art and lifestyle of the counterculture in the American West in the 1960s and ’70s

Replacing Home From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art Jennifer Johung 2011 Fall

How constructions of home in contemporary art reveal new ways of staying in place

The Perfect Foil François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting Elizabeth C. Mansfield 2011 Fall

The life and works of a profoundly influential painter of Revolutionary-era France, brought out of the shadow of his outsize contemporary, Jacques-Louis David

The Insect and the Image Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 Janice Neri 2011 Fall

How the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce

Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art Ron Broglio 2011 Fall

Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art

remixthebook Mark Amerika 2011 Fall

A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media

The First Panoramas Visions of British Imperialism Denise Blake Oleksijczuk 2011 Spring

Exploring the 360-degree panorama: the late eighteenth-century origins of immersive visual spectacle

Sister Arts The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes Lisa L. Moore 2011 Spring

How eighteenth-century artists created works that expressed their desire for other women

To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art Rachel Weiss 2010 Fall

The definitive critical history of the new Cuban art

Felt Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama Chris Thompson 2011 Spring

What happens when nothing happens?

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