Art and Performance

The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right The Nazi Perpetrator Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right Paul B. Jaskot 2012 Fall
A fundamental reevaluation of how the Nazi past shaped postwar German art and architecture
Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime 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 Rafael Ferrer Deborah Cullen 2012 Spring
The first major account of the celebrated Puerto Rican artist
Denise Green: An Artist’s Odyssey 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Surface Encounters Thinking with Animals and Art Ron Broglio 2011 Fall
Developing a phenomenology of the animal other through contemporary art
remixthebook remixthebook Mark Amerika 2011 Fall
A model of contemporary remixing and a groundbreaking reflection on digital media
The First Panoramas: Visions of British Imperialism 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 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 To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art Rachel Weiss 2010 Fall
The definitive critical history of the new Cuban art