Art and Performance

Developing Animals Wildlife and Early American Photography Matthew Brower 2010 Fall

How the emergence of wildlife photography changed the way we think about animals

The Ethics of Earth Art Amanda Boetzkes 2010 Spring

Analyzing the ethical stance of the earth art movement from the 1960s to the present

María Brito Juan A. Martinez 2010 Spring

Exploring the art and personal iconography of the prominent Cuban-born American sculptor and installation artist

Suzanne Lacy Spaces Between Sharon Irish 2010 Spring

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

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

What happens when national museums fall apart?

Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring

Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums

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

University of Minnesota Press