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Critical Theory/Gender Studies/Visual Studies

All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.

The AMICO Library. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 1999. CD-ROM

Artibus et Historiae No. 35, 1997: Festschrift for Carolyn Kolb. Cracow: IRSA, 1996. 208 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Cloth (3900731543)

Katalog der deutschsprachigen Illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters: Band 3, Lieferung 1. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1997. 104 pp.; 59 b/w ills. Paper $21.62 (3769609190)

Katalog der deutschsprachigen Illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters: Band 3, Lieferung 2. Munich: C.H. Beck, 1997. 110 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $21.62 (3769609301)

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. College Art Association, 2011.

SMK Art Journal 2003-2004. Copenhagen: Statens Museum for Kunst, 2004. 160 pp.; many color ills. Paper $28.00 (8790096595)

Abbott, Brett, ed. Edward Weston's Book of Nudes. Exh. cat. Los Angeles and Tucson: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2007. 96 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780892369034)

Aberth, Susan L. Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art. Lund Humphries, 160 pp.; 95 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. $60.00 (0853319081)

Abt, Jeffrey. A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts 1882 to 2000. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000. 315 pp.; 0 color ills.; 27 b/w ills.; 0 ills. Cloth $29.95 (0814328415)

Ackerman, James S., and Wolfgang Jung, eds. Conventions of Architectural Drawing: Representation and Misrepresentation. Harvard University Press, 1999. 271 pp. Paper $10.00 (0935617507)

Ackerman, James. Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts. MIT Press, 2000. 288 pp.; 131 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (0262011867)

Acton, Mary. Learning to Look at Paintings, 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 336 pp.; 30 color ills.; 82 b/w ills. Paper $27.95 (9780415435185)

Adams, Annmarie, and Peta Tancred. ‘Designing Women,’ Gender and the Architectural Profession. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 190 pp. Cloth $50.00 (0802044174)

Adams, Steven, and Anna Gruetzner Robins. Gendering Landscape Art. Rutgers University Press, 2000. 272 pp.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $28.00 (0813529751)

Adams, Laurie Schneider. A History of Western Art, Fourth Edition. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2003. 615 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills. Paper $78.75 (0072997680)

Adams, Laurie Schneider. The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction, Second Edition. Boulder: Westview Press, 2010. 312 pp.; 8 color ills.; 100 b/w ills. Paper $36.00 (9780813344508)

Adams, Pat. Zabriskie: Fifty Years. Ruder Finn Press, 2003. 208 pp.; 200 color ills.; 200 b/w ills. Cloth $50.00 (1932646159)

Adamson, Glenn. The Craft Reader. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010. 672 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Paper $39.95 (9781847883032)

Adamson, Glenn. Thinking Through Craft. Oxford and London: Berg Publishers and Victoria and Albert Museum, 2007. 224 pp.; 16 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9781845206475)

Addiss, Stephen. Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodojin (1865–1944). Trans. Jonathan Chaves. Columbia University Press, 1999. 174 pp.; some b/w ills. Cloth $27.50 (023111656X)

Ades, Dawn, ed. The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology. University of Chicago Press and Tate Britain, 2005. 320 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0226006980)

Aguirre, Robert D. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. 296 pp.; 29 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0816645000)

Albala, Mitchell. Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice. New York: Watson-Guptill, 2009. 192 pp.; many color ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780823032204)

Alberro, Alexander, and Blake Stimson, eds. Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. 510 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (9780262013161)

Alberro, Alexander, and Patricia Norvell, eds. Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, and Weiner by Patricia Norvell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 162 pp.; 39 b/w ills. Paper $19.95 (0520220110)

Alberti, Leon Battista. Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition. Ed. Rocco Sinisgalli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 240 pp.; many b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781107000629)

Aldama, Frederick Luis. Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 400 pp. Cloth $50.00 (9780292717985)

Alexenberg, Mel, ed. Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture. Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2010. 192 pp.; 20 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9781841501918)

Allen, Traudi. Homesickness: Nationalism in Australian Visual Culture. South Yarra, Victoria, Australia: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 230 pp.; many color ills. Paper $60.00 (9781921394010)

Allison, Henry E. Kant’s Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Cloth $69.95 (0521791545)

Allmer, Patricia, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds. Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2007. 247 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills. Paper $24.50 (9789058675927)

Alloway, Lawrence. Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic. Ed. Richard Kalina. Routledge, 2005. 328 pp.; 12 b/w ills. (0415391679)

Amaki, Amalia K., and Andrea D. Barnwell. Hale Woodruff, Nancy Elizabeth, Prophet, and the Academy. Exh. cat. Atlanta, Ga.: Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, 2007. 144 pp.; 92 color ills.; 29 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (9780295986937)

Amariglio, Jack, Joseph W. Childers, and Stephen E. Cullenberg, eds. Sublime Economy: On the Intersection of Art and Economics. New York: Routledge, 2009. 336 pp.; 16 b/w ills. Cloth $180.00 (9780415771917)

Ambrose, Gavin, and Paul Harris. Basics Design: Design Thinking. Lausanne, Switzerland: AVA Publishing, 2010. 184 pp.; 200 color ills. Paper $29.95 (9782940411177)

Amerika, Mark. remixthebook. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. 336 pp. Paper $19.95 (9780816676156)

Ames, Eric. Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. 376 pp.; 14 color ills.; 71 b/w ills. Paper $35.00 (9780295988337)

Ames-Lewis, Francis, and Mary Rodgers, eds. Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art. Ashgate, 1997. 257 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $84.95 (1859284256)

Amore, Anthony M., and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 272 pp.; 14 b/w ills. Cloth $25.00 (9780230108530)

Andersen, Wayne. Cézanne and the Eternal Feminine. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 266 pp.; 109 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (052183726X)

Anderson, Patrick. So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance. Perverse Modernities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. 208 pp. Paper $21.95 (9780822348283)

Andrew, Dudley, ed. Opening Bazin: Postwar Film Theory and its Afterlife. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 384 pp.; Few b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780199733897)

Andrews, Malcolm. Landscape and Western Art. Oxford University Press, 1999. 248 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills. Paper $17.95 (0192842331)

Anger, Jenny. Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 342 pp.; 8 color ills.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $85.00 (0521822505)

Angier, Roswell. Train Your Gaze: A Practical and Theoretical Introduction to Portrait Photography. Worthing, UK: AVA Publishing, 2007. 224 pp.; 250 color ills. Paper £29.95 (9782940373376)

Antin, David. Radical Coherency: Selected Essays on Art and Literature 1966 to 2005. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 369 pp. Paper $25.00 (9780226020976)

Antliff, Mark. Avante-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 376 pp.; 67 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822340348)

Antoine, Élisabeth. Art From the Court of Burgundy: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364-1419. Exh. cat. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2004. 368 pp.; 320 color ills.; 44 b/w ills. Paper $55.00 (2711848647)

Anton, Saul. Warhol’s Dream. Zurich and Dijon: JRP|Ringier in association with Les presses du réel, 2006. 160 pp.; 1 b/w ills. Paper $22.00 (9782840662006)

Apel, Dora. Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 256 pp.; 6 color ills.; 63 b/w ills. Paper $28.95 (0813530490)

Arceneaux, Edgar. The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid. Chicago: WhiteWalls and Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007. 96 pp.; 74 color ills. Paper $20.00 (0945323115)

Archer-Shaw, Petrine. Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture. Thames and Hudson, 1999. 200 pp.; 124 b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (0500281351)

Armstrong, Nancy. Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism. Harvard University Press, 1999. 338 pp. Cloth $29.95 (0674299302)

Armstrong, Elizabeth, Johanna Burton, and Dave Hickey. Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone. Exh. cat. Newport Beach, Calif.: Orange County Museum of Art, 2007. 192 pp.; 100 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (3791338218)

Arscott, Caroline, and Katie Scott, eds. Manifestations of Venus: Art and Sexuality. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. 233 pp.; 74 b/w ills. Cloth $74.95 (0719055210)

Arthurs, Alberta, and Glenn Wallach, eds. Crossroads: Art and Religion in American Life. The New Press, 2000. 304 pp.; 7 color ills. Cloth $25.00 (1565846605)

Aruz, Joan. The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes. Yale University Press, 1999. 320 pp.; 280 color ills.; 55 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (0300085109)

Aruz, Joan, Ann Farkas, and Elisabetta Valtz Fino, eds. The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Perspectives on the Steppe Nomads of the Ancient World. Exh. cat. New York and New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 29 color ills.; 149 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (9780300124033)

Asch, Florine. My Italian Sketchbook. Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2002. 144 pp.; 100 color ills.; 100 ills. Cloth $24.95 (2080111477)

Ascott, Roy, ed. Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large. Bristol and Portland: Intellect Books, 1999. 204 pp. Cloth $44.95 (1841500410)

Ascott, Roy. Reframing Consciousness. Exeter, UK and Portland: International Specialized Book Services, 1998. 314 pp. Cloth $49.95 (1841500135)

Ashbery, John, and Joe Brainard. The Vermont Notebook: Poetry by John Ashbery; Drawings by Joe Brainard. 2000. 108 pp.; 50 b/w ills. Paper $15.95 (1887123598)

Asselin, Olivier, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross, eds. Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. 438 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $34.95 (9780773533905)

Asselin, Olivier, Johanne Lamoureux, and Christine Ross. Precarious Visualities: New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 448 pp.; 51 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (9780773533851)

Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back in Copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011. 232 pp. Paper $17.00 (9780226032281)

Aydemir, Murat. Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 384 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $24.95 (9780816648672)

Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds. Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2006. 304 pp.; 260 color ills. Cloth $85.00 (9781851774920)

Azoulay, Ariella. The Civil Contract of Photography. Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 2008. 574 pp.; 10 color ills.; 101 b/w ills. Cloth $38.95 (9781890951887)

Azoulay, Ariella. Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy. MIT Press, 2000. 303 pp.; 45 b/w ills. Cloth $34.95 (0262011824)

Ôe, Kenzaburo. On Politics and Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 50 pp. Paper $5.00 (1881865185)

Østermark-Johansen, Lene. Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture. British Art: Global Contexts. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 402 pp.; 20 color ills.; 89 b/w ills. Cloth $125.95 (9781409405849)

Baas, Jacquelynn, and Mary Jane Jacob, eds. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 264 pp.; 121 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0520243463)

Bacci, Francesca, and David Melcher, eds. Art and the Senses. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 622 pp.; 14 color ills.; Many b/w ills. Cloth $139.95 (9780199230600)

Bacci, Michele. Lo spazio dell’anima: Vita di una chiesa medievale. Roma-Bari, Italy: Editori Laterza, 2004. 286 pp.; 20 color ills. Cloth (8842077143)

Bachner, Evan. Men of WWII: Fighting Men At Ease. 2007. 160 pp.; 160 b/w ills. Cloth $42.00 (0810992876)

Badea-Paun, Gabriel. The Society Portrait from David to Warhol. New York: The Vendome Press, 2007. 224 pp.; 200 color ills. Cloth $75.00 (9780865651838)

Baert, Barbara, ed. Fluid Flesh: The Body, Religion and the Visal Arts. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2009. 160 pp.; 20 ills. Paper $39.50 (9789058677167)

Baetens, Roland. Brepols: Drukkers en uitgevers 1796-1996. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 1995. 350 pp.; 8 color ills.; 140 b/w ills. Cloth $46.65 (9056220098)

Baetens, Jan, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds. Critical Realism in Contemporary Art: Around Allan Sekula's Photography. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2006. 207 pp. Paper $22.50 (9789058675637)

Bahrani, Zainab. Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. Routledge, 2000. 234 pp.; 44 b/w ills. Cloth $75.00 (0415218306)

Baigell, Renee, and Matthew Baigell. Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures: Women Artists in Ost-Soviet Russia, Estonia, and Latvia, The First Decade. Rutgers University Press in association with The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, 2000. 171 pp.; 32 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0813529468)

Bailey, Gauvin. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America 1542–1773. University of Toronto Press, 1998. 310 pp. Cloth (0802046886)

Baird, Karen L. Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. 160 pp. Cloth $42.00 (9780838641842)

Baker, Malcolm. Figured in Marble: The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture. J. Paul Getty Museum, 1999. 192 pp.; 100 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0892366060)

Bal, Mieke, and Norman Bryson. Looking In: The Art of Viewing. G + B Arts International, 2000. 240 pp.; 26 b/w ills. Paper $24.00 (9057011123)

Bal, Mieke. Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. 280 pp.; Few color ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780226035789)

Bal, Mieke, ed. Quoting Caravaggio. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 320 pp.; 62 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $40.00 (0226035565)

Bal, Mieke. Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History. University of California Press, 2000. 321 pp.; 65 color ills.; 24 b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (0226035573)

Bal, Mieke. Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition. Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 498 pp.; many b/w ills. Paper $65.00 (9085551919)

Bala, Iwan. Certain Welsh Artists: Custodial Aesthetics in Contemporary Welsh Art. Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, 1998. 200 pp. Cloth $54.95 (1854112511)

Balcells, Albert, ed. Història de la historiografia catalana. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2003. 315 pp. Paper (8472837653)

Balducci, Temma, Heather Belnap Jensen, and Pamela J. Warner, eds. Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789–1914. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 259 pp.; 25 color ills.; Few b/w ills. Cloth $119.95 (9780754667841)

Baldwin, Frederick C., Martha L. Keber, and Holly Koons McCullough. Freedom's March: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in Savannah by Frederick C. Baldwin. Savannah, Ga.: Telfair Museum of Art, 2008. 112 pp. Hardback $34.95 (9780933075085)

Baldwin, Gordon, and Martin Jürgens. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms Revised Edition. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. 104 pp.; 61 color ills.; 23 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (9780892369713)

Balken, Debra Bricker. After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest. Intro. Jeff Fleming. Exh. cat. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2009. 208 pp.; 100 color ills.; 25 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (9780300135862)

Banta, Melissa. A Curious & Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. 204 pp.; 73 color ills.; 15 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (0877457247)

Barasch, Moshe. Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought. Routledge, 2000. 195 pp.; 28 b/w ills. Paper $23.00 (0415927439)

Barasch, Moshe. Theories of Art: 1 From Plato to Winckelmann. Routledge, 1999. 433 pp. Paper $25.00 (0415926254)

Barasch, Moshe. Theories of Art: 2. Routledge, 1999. 433 pp. Paper $25.00 (0415926262)

Barasch, Moshe. Theories of Art: 3 From Impressionism to Kandinsky. Routledge, 1999. 399 pp. Paper $25.00 (0415926270)