Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
Doing Democracy
Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Yemoja
Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.
What We Want Is Free, Second Edition
Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.
Mary Reid Kelley
Celebrates the first exhibition devoted to the finely crafted and researched costumes, objects, and drawings that Mary Reid Kelley creates for her visually and intellectually stimulating videos made in collaboration with Patrick Kelley.
Life Streams
Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.
Along His Own Lines
The first scholarly exhibition catalogue of the work of Eugene Speicher (1883-1962), one of the foremost American realists of his generation, who was closely associated with George Bellows, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, and Rockwell Kent.
The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art
Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.
Endtimes?
A groundbreaking study of ten difficult years in the life of America's most important newspaper.
Lost in Transition
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
Being, Time, Bios
A psychoanalytic theory of biopolitics.
Youth Peacebuilding
Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.
Hollywood's New Yorker
A fresh look at the director’s career.
Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness
Using insights from Integral Theory, describes how the improvisational methods of jazz can inform education and other fields.
Anonymous
Explores the tension between an ancient culture’s unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.
Native Recognition
Offers a new interpretation of the century-long relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.
Aesthetics of the Virtual
Reconfigures classic aesthetic concepts in relation to the novelty introduced by virtual bodies.
Music, Cosmology, and the Politics of Harmony in Early China
Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China.
Collecting Objects / Excluding People
Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.
Malian Portrait Photography
This catalogue introduces readers to Malian photographers Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta and others whose images visualize an influential form of post-colonial African identity.
Photo-Rapide
Contemporary life in Mali is recorded in full color documentary photographs by François Deschamps.
Fields of Vision
Offers a far-reaching survey of the latest trends in art and design by twenty-eight faculty members of the art department of the State University of New York at New Paltz.
The Graphic Art of Robert Cimbalo
A selection of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and drawings by Robert Cimbalo.
The Structures of Love
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Body as Evidence
Analyzes how race and gender intersect in the rhetoric and imagery of popular culture in the early twenty-first century
Shinohara Pops!
Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.