Accessible to a wide range of readers, from artists to commuters to nature lovers and beyond, who wish to expand their understanding of walking.

Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.

A book of poems and painted images.

Explores the potential for a novel philosophy of history to be uncovered by tracing the connections between Giorgio Agamben's work (theoretical practice) and contemporary art (artistic practice).

A visual and narrative memoir of a lifetime's encounters with 112 trendsetters, musicians, politicians, writers, and ordinary people by a noted folklorist-photographer.

Analyzes socially engaged art practices worldwide, linking them to decolonial struggle and critique.

The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.

Presents sculpture, painting, drawings, prints, and photographs from throughout the artist's illustrious career.

Charts underexamined genealogies of minoritarian aesthetic responses to the multiple crises of the long 1970s.

Embraces the problems and solutions posed by the dynamic dance of digital technology with the traditions of craftsmanship and perceived value in jewelry.

Introduces both undergraduate students and general readers to the exploratory mindset and hands-on skills essential to the cultivation of creativity.

Shares the unique story of a Christmas tree farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, where, for over four decades, women artists boldly built a space where they could create community and art together.

Examines the role that images of Palestine played in the construction of prewar Jewish American identity.

A dynamic dialogue of poetry and art that reimagines the ancient, biblical concept of sacrifice.

Explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, and sculpture; examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts, and generations.

A study of the significance of the visual arts in Merleau-Ponty's aesthetics in relation to the work of five artists not known or discussed by him.

Shows how Sawka’s experience as a political refugee, and his working method, which emphasized imagery drawn from memory, resulted in powerful works that speak of and to the universal human condition.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

Combining photography and essay, presents a speculative portrait of a Jewish immigrant living out the end of his days in New York's midcentury mental health system.

Catalog of the first museum exhibition of Leonard Contino, a Brooklyn-born, self-taught abstract artist whose tenacious exploration of pictorial space spanned a fifty-year career.

This book is published by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis, curated by Francesco Guzzetti, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art.

The images and essays in this book explore the nuances of Angela Dufresne’s conceptual as well as material approaches to portraiture.

Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz from February 9–July 14, 2019.

The first book-length study of Trecartin’s artistic genealogy, evolving aesthetics, radical approach to digital and Internet culture, and impact on contemporary art, film, and media.

Illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name, featuring forty portraits that explore the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender and features a new interview with the artist.

Examines Steven Holl’s intricate and distinctive process of making architecture through approximately one hundred models, related sketches and other studies created for nine recent projects.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

Articulates an imaginationist solution to the question of how purely instrumental music can be perceived by a listener as having emotional content.

Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century.

Phenomenological analysis of beauty and art across various aspects of lived experience and culture.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City’s Art Deco treasures.

Presents recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist known for unsettling works that contend with such topics as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, and violence.

The first major exhibition in the United States of chaekgeori painting, including on view for the first time many screens from private collections and various Korean institutions.

Surveys the forty-year career of Carl Walters (1883-1955), a pioneer of modern ceramic art in the United States.

Presents work by Halahmy and eight other contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti.

Showcases the latest trends in art and design, from painting and sculpture to photography, printmaking, and metals.

Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture.

Presents new scholarship, images, and primary sources that explore the art and legacy of a critical yet under-recognized figure in Abstract Expressionism and twentieth-century American art.

Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.

The catalogue for a two-part exhibition that presents more than sixty compelling photographs—including prints by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott—exploring major themes in modern photography, donated by leading photography specialist and dealer Howard Greenberg.

Documents the art and science of three-dimensional abstract artworks created in the 1970s and 1980s by one of the leading innovators of fine art holography.

Documents the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s exhibition of work by Guyana-born contemporary artist Andrew Lyght and provides new scholarship contextualizing Lyght’s work within the history and culture of Guyana and modern art.

Redefines McEntee's place in the history of nineteenth-century American landscape painting.

Serves as a source for the exploration of many dimensions of the human experience in relation to other beings, ranging from machines and blueprints to mollusks and plants.

Interdisciplinary responses to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Documents a volatile and productive moment in the development of film studies.

A one-to-one encounter with Leonardo da Vinci's work on human proportion.

An intimate group portrait of contemporary Hudson Valley writers.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

How a collective of artists, storytellers, and activists exploited the new technology of portable video for creative and political purposes.

A philosophical perspective on the relation between Paul Klee’s art and his thought.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

Contemporary work by artists of color from the Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Explores the significant impact that the metallurgist Dick Polich and his foundry, Tallix, have had on contemporary art.

Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.

Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.

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.

Incisive exploration of the work of Cuban-American artist Alberto Rey.

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.

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.

Explores the tension between an ancient culture’s unbroken artistic tradition and the personality-driven world of contemporary art.

Combining aesthetic and political history, explores the influence of Chinese people and objects on American visual culture.

Contemporary life in Mali is recorded in full color documentary photographs by François Deschamps.

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.

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.

A selection of lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and drawings by Robert Cimbalo.

Surveys the fifty-year career of the avant-garde artist Ushio Shinohara.

Explores the work and philosophy of renowned industrial designer Russel Wright, whose former home in the Hudson Valley—Manitoga—is now a national historic landmark.

An artist’s appreciation of the Collar City, Troy, New York.

This catalogue accompanies the exhibition of the same title, held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, presenting a retrospective view of the seventy-year career of Woodstock painter and draftsman Eugene Ludins.

New perspectives on a century of artistic activity in New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley.

Responses to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.

Explores how Xu Bing and other contemporary Chinese artists use Western ideas within a Chinese cultural discourse.

Offers an ironic, upstate New York take on the Olympics, performance, and the risks and rewards of the creative life.

Collection of essays and art by scholars, artists and activists both in and out of prison that reveal the many dimensions of women’s incarcerated experiences.

A biography of one of America’s neglected grand masters.

Exhibition catalog featuring the work of Milton Avery, an artist who brought the sketch, with its spontaneity, movement, and fleetingness, to the status of a finished painting.

Photographs and essays that explore the interconnections between the private and the public in the work of Andy Warhol.

Pulitzer Prize–winning photographs document a single mother's emotional and financial struggles as her son battles a rare form of childhood cancer.

Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.

Uses image and text to explore boundaries and points of contact between video and photography.

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

A photographic documentary of both sides of the river, from New York Harbor to Albany, updating and reprinting the classic 1910 Panorama of the Hudson.

An overview of the career of Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935), one the foremost American women photographers of the early twentieth century.

A stunning selection of paintings by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John W. Casilear, George Inness, and others, depicting landscapes, historic sites, natural wonders, and waterways of New York State.

The influence of photography and visual culture on the French poet, journalist, and critic.

An overview of an innovative and influential arts organization of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Explores the spiritual vision of Van Gogh’s painting The Night Café.

Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.

Offers a detailed picture of the lives of Cuban Americans through interviews with artists, writers, and philosophers.

The paradoxes of the American decadent movement in the 1890s and 1920s.

Poems, short stories, and other personal reactions to works in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.

Discusses the expression of environmental values in Christian art as it displaced pagan aesthetics from the third century to the Reformation.

Explores the recent print work of Judy Pfaff, one of America’s leading sculptors, printmakers, installation artists, and set designers.

Beautiful landscape photographs of the Helderberg Escaprment in New York State by renowned photographer John Yang.