Art and Performance

Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art Screens Viewing Media Installation Art Kate Mondloch 2010 Spring
Investigates how viewers experience screen-based art in museums
Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company 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 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 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 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 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 Malaquias Montoya Terezita Romo 2011 Spring
The first major book on the influential Chicano painter and printmaker
Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre 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 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 Celia Alvarez Muñoz Roberto Tejada 2009 Fall
Considers the work of this provocative and pioneering Chicana multimedia artist
Art and the End of Apartheid 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 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 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 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 The Disciplinary Frame Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning John Tagg 2008 Fall
How do photographs gain their meaning and power?