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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

Migrations of Gesture Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, Editors 2008 Spring

The cultural significance of gesture as a human expression

Masterpiece Photographs of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell Christian A. Peterson 2008 Fall

An exquisite selection of photographic works from this important collection

The Philosophy of Art F.W.J. Schelling Douglas W. Stott, Editor 1989 Spring

The first English translation of a classic text in aesthetics based on the precepts of German Idealism. Schelling systematically treats various forms of art-including music, painting, sculpture, narrative, and poetry-to present a philosophical disclosure of the idea or essence of art itself, an essence that transcends the actual work in history.