Art and Performance

Suzanne Lacy Spaces Between Sharon Irish 2010 Spring

The first in-depth exploration of the dynamic work of this radical artist

Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring

Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums

Imagined Museums Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco Katarzyna Pieprzak 2010 Spring

What happens when national museums fall apart?

Drawing on Art Duchamp and Company Dalia Judovitz 2010 Spring

How Duchamp and his collaborators creatively challenged the meaning of art and authorship

Modernism after Wagner Juliet Koss 2009 Fall

The first critical history of Wagner’s concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk and its impact on European modernism

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art Cecilia Novero 2009 Fall

Reveals the multiple intersections of the European avant-garde with food

String, Felt, Thread The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art Elissa Auther 2009 Fall

A beautifully illustrated history of the use of fiber in the American art world in the postwar era

Capturing the Criminal Image From Mug Shot to Surveillance Society Jonathan Finn 2009 Fall

What do contemporary police procedures tell us about criminality?

Malaquias Montoya Terezita Romo 2011 Spring

The first major book on the influential Chicano painter and printmaker

Further on, Nothing Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre Michal Kobialka 2009 Spring

A new encounter with the work of a master of avant-garde theatre

The Dada Cyborg Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin Matthew Biro 2009 Spring

Finding the cyborg in early twentieth-century German art

Celia Alvarez Muñoz Roberto Tejada 2009 Fall

Considers the work of this provocative and pioneering Chicana multimedia artist

Art and the End of Apartheid John Peffer 2009 Spring

The first book to fully explore cosmopolitan modern art by black South Africans under apartheid

Yolanda López 2009 Fall

The first book-length exploration of the prominent Mexican American visual artist’s career

Seeing Witness Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony Jane Blocker 2009 Spring

Unearthing the meaning of witnessing in contemporary art and politics

University of Minnesota Press