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Trauma and Visuality in Modernity
Essays exploring the role of trauma in modern art.
Visual Cultures of Science
A new collection explores the complex role of visual representation in science.
The Poster
The Poster: Art, Advertising, Design, and Collecting, 1860sÐ1900s is a cultural history that situates the poster at the crossroads of art, design, advertising, and collecting. Though international in scope, the book focuses especially on France and England. Ruth E. Iskin argues that the avant-garde poster and the original art print played an important role in the development of a modernist language of art in the 1890s, as well as in the adaptation of art to an era of mass media. She moreover contends that this new form of visual communication fundamentally redefined relations between word and image: poster designers embedded words within the graphic, rather than using images to illustrate a...
Travels in Intermedia[lity]
The cooperation and collaboration between media, art forms, and cultural studies
Materializing New Media
A significant contribution to investigations of the social and cultural impact of new media and digital technologies
On the Sleeve of the Visual
An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual
No Innocent Bystanders
The changing role of the spectator in contemporary performance art
Technologies of History
Captain Kirk fought Nazis. JFK's assassination is a videogame touchstone. And there's no history like "Drunk History."
Thomas Hirschhorn
Thomas Hirschhorn, a leading installation artist whose work is owned and exhibited by modern art museums throughout Europe and the United States, is known for compelling, often site-specific and interactive environments tackling issues of critical theory, global politics, and consumerism. His work initially engages the viewer through sheer superabundance. Combining found images and texts, bound up in handcrafted constructions of cardboard, foil, and packing tape, the artworks reflect the intellectual scavenging and sensory overload that characterize our own attempts to grapple with the excess of information in daily life. Christina Braun, the first to compile and systematically analyze the extensive source material on this artist's theoretical principles, sheds light on the complicated yet constitutive relations between Hirschhorn's work and theory. Her study, now translated into English, makes a major contribution to the study of contemporary art.
Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus
A groundbreaking analysis of two movements of the historical avant-garde
