Art and Performance

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.

Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring

How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2007 Fall

Addresses the Indian, absent and present, in modern dance studies

Looking for Asian America An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie Wing Young Huie 2007 Fall

Stunning and personal photographs of Asian America today—from a renowned artist

The Color of Stone Sculpting the Black Female Subject in Nineteenth-Century America Charmaine A. Nelson 2007 Spring

How do we “see” race when the color of skin is stone

Gronk Max Benavidez 2007 Spring

The first major book devoted to the influential Chicano artist

Images of Bliss Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning Murat Aydemir 2007 Spring

From Holbein to hard-core porn, a critical exploration of male orgasm in Western culture

Clement Greenberg, Late Writings Clement Greenberg Robert C. Morgan, Editor 2007 Spring

A publishing event: culminating works by a major figure in art history, collected here for the first time!

The Scar of Visibility Medical Performances and Contemporary Art Petra Kuppers 2006 Fall

Grapples with the limits of medicine and the mysteries of human bodies in contemporary art and culture

Too Beautiful to Picture Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis Elizabeth C. Mansfield 2006 Fall

An intriguing look at imitation in Western art from antiquity to the present

Collectivism after Modernism The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Blake Stimson and Gregory Sholette, Editors 2006 Fall

Analyzes collective artistic practice from the Cold War to the global present

Sheer Presence The Veil in Manet’s Paris Marni Reva Kessler 2006 Fall

Examines the cultural and aesthetic significance of the veil in nineteenth-century France

Cabinet of Curiosities Mark Dion and the University as Installation Colleen J. Sheehy, Editor 2006 Fall

Mark Dion digs into the University of Minnesota

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