Art and Performance

Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens Wendy Grossman 2010 Spring

Analyzes modernist photography and the life of objects

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

National Camera Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment Roberto Tejada 2009 Spring

Challenges conventional habits of discussing image, identity, and photography

The Disciplinary Frame Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning John Tagg 2008 Fall

How do photographs gain their meaning and power?

Feminist Art and the Maternal Andrea Liss 2008 Fall

A highly engaging, taboo-breaking study of feminist contemporary art

Everyone Had Cameras Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000 Richard Steven Street 2008 Fall

The relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives

Street Scenes Staging the Self in Immigrant New York, 1880–1924 Esther Romeyn 2008 Fall

Negotiates the complex relationship between modern urban culture and immigrant identity

The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan 2008 Fall

The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery

University of Minnesota Press