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More Butch Heroes
ISBN: 9780262049870
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world.
Picturing Aura
A Visual Biography
ISBN: 9780262551748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.
Lalitha Lajmi
ISBN: 9781915609342
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: January 28, 2025
The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.
Time Machines
Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262049184
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
Ines Doujak
Twisted Language
ISBN: 9781915609328
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2024
A close examination of the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises through political and aesthetic strategies.
Magda Stawarska
ISBN: 9781915609298
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
The Visual World of Shadows
ISBN: 9780262550840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system.
Subject Matter
The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
ISBN: 9780262546362
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.
More Butch Heroes
ISBN: 9780262049870
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 29, 2025
The much-anticipated sequel to Butch Heroes, an ingenious retelling of history that combines portraits and texts to recover—and celebrate—queer subjects from around the world.
Picturing Aura
A Visual Biography
ISBN: 9780262551748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 1, 2025
The remarkable history of efforts to visualize the human aura and the lives of its pictures in religion, science, art, and culture.
Lalitha Lajmi
ISBN: 9781915609342
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: January 28, 2025
The first published monograph on the late Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi and her captivating self-portraits.
Time Machines
Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780262049184
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 21, 2025
A riveting exploration of the relationship between art and telegraphy, and its implications for understanding time and history in nineteenth-century France.
Ines Doujak
Twisted Language
ISBN: 9781915609328
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: October 22, 2024
A close examination of the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises through political and aesthetic strategies.
Magda Stawarska
ISBN: 9781915609298
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Pub Date: August 20, 2024
A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys—from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar.
Things That Move
A Hinterland in Architectural History
ISBN: 9780262547505
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 23, 2024
A history of architecture, not as the art of what stays but of what changes and moves.
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Origins, Imitation, Conventions
Representation in the Visual Arts
ISBN: 9780262551519
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 19, 2024
Twelve studies by eminent art historian James S. Ackerman.
The Visual World of Shadows
ISBN: 9780262550840
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 26, 2023
How the perception of shadows, studied by vision scientists and visual artists, reveals the inner workings of the visual system.
Subject Matter
The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
ISBN: 9780262546362
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 28, 2023
A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.