Books by Faculty

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Titlesort descending Author Year
A General Theory of Visual Culture Whitney Davis 2017
A House Divided: American Art since 1955 Anne Wagner 2012
A Material World: Culture, Society, and the Life of Things in Early Anglo-America Margaretta Lovell; George W. Boudreau 2019
A Visitable Past : Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915 Margaretta Lovell 1989
Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War T.J. Clark; Iain Boal; Joseph Matthews; Michael Watts 2005
Aleksandr Rodchenko: Photography in the Time of Stalin Aglaya Glebova 2023
An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Painting: T’ang, Sung, and Yuan James Cahill 1980
Around the Hearth: Caeretan Cylinder-Stamped Braziers Lisa Pieraccini 2002
Art in a Season of Revolution : Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America Margaretta Lovell 2007
Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History, 1890-1980 Peter Selz 1981
Art in the Hellenistic World Andrew Stewart 2014
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond Peter Selz 2006
Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600 Loren Partridge 2009
Art of Renaissance Venice, 1400–1600 Loren Partridge 2015
Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece Andrew Stewart 1997
Arts and Crafts Objects Imogen Hart 2010
Attalos, Athens, and the Akropolis : the Pergamene “Little Barbarians” and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy Andrew Stewart 2004
Attika Andrew Stewart 1979
Awakenings : Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan Gregory Levine; Yukio Lippit 2007
Barbara Chase Riboud: Sculptor Peter Selz 1999
Beautiful Agitation Modern Painting and Politics in Syria Anneka Lenssen 2020
Beyond the Mainstream: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Art Peter Selz 1998
Botero in LA: Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture Peter Selz 2010
Caravaggio’s Pitiful Relics Todd Olson 2014
Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen Julia Bryan-Wilson; Andrea Andersson; Lucy R. Lippard; Macarena Gomez-Barris 2017
Cities of the Etruscans: Caere Lisa Pieraccini; Nancy Thomson de Grummond 2016
Classical Greece and the Birth of Western Art Andrew Stewart 2008
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550–1850 Sugata Ray 2019
Colossal: Engineering Modernity – Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 2012
Consumption, Ritual, Art and Society: Interpretive Approaches and Recent Discoveries of Food and Drink in Etruria (2023) Lisa Pieraccini; Laurel Taylor 2023
Creative Composites: Modernism, Race, and the Stieglitz Circle Lauren Kroiz 2012
Creole. Portraits of France’s Foreign Relations in the Nineteenth Century Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 2022
Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era Lauren Kroiz 2018
Daitokuji : the Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery Gregory Levine 2006
David d’Angers Jacques de Caso 1992
Dimitri Hadzi Peter Selz 1996
Distant Mountains: Chinese Painting Of The Late Ming Dynasty, 1570-1644 James Cahill 1982
Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation, and Freud’s “Wolf Man” Whitney Davis 1996
Ecce fides. Die Statue von Conques, Götzendienst und Bildkultur im Westen Beate Fricke 2007
Eclipse and Revelation, Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts Henrike C. Lange; Tom McLeish 2024
Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China Patricia Berger 2003
Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 2015
Etruria and Anatolia: Material Connections and Artistic Exchange Lisa Pieraccini; Elizabeth P. Baughan 2023
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 2002
Faces of Power : Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics Andrew Stewart 1994
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism T.J. Clark 1999
German Expressionist Painting Peter Selz 1974
Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility (Cambridge, 2023) Henrike C. Lange 2023
Greek Sculpture : an Exploration Andrew Stewart 1990
Hans Burkhardt: Desert Storms Peter Selz 1991
Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368 James Cahill 1976
Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution T.J. Clark 1999
Italienische Zeichnungen 1450-1800 David Klemm; Henrike C. Lange 2008
Jan Brueghel and the Senses of Scale Elizabeth Honig 2016
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire Anne Wagner 1990
Kingdom of the Sun: Indian Court and Village Art from the Princely State of Mewar Joanna Williams 2007
Long Strange Journey: On Modern Zen, Zen Art, and Other Predicaments Gregory Levine 2017
Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life Anne Wagner; T.J. Clark 2014
Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art Whitney Davis 1992
Material Christianity: Western Religion and the Agency of Things Henrike C. Lange 2020
Max Beckmann Peter Selz 1964
Michelangelo: The Last Judgment – A Glorious Restoration Loren Partridge 2000
Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Rome Loren Partridge 1996
Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents Anneka Lenssen; Sarah Rogers; Nada Shabout 2018
Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century Peter Selz 1999
Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture Anne Wagner 2005
Nathan Oliveira Peter Selz 2002
Pacing the World: Construction in the Sculpture of David Rabinowitch Whitney Davis 1997
Painting and the Market in Early Modern Antwerp Elizabeth Honig 1999
Painting the Inhabited Landscape Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America Margaretta Lovell 2023
Peter Selz Interviews Mitchell Johnson Peter Selz; Mitchell Johnson 2009
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica T.J. Clark 2013
Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China James Cahill 2010
Picturing Death 1200–1600 Henrike C. Lange 2020
Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism, and the Politics of Style Todd Olson 2002
Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond Whitney Davis 2010
Rembrandt’s Enterprise: The Studio and the Market Svetlana Alpers 1995
Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis Whitney Davis 1996
Robert Colescott: Troubled Goods- A Ten Year Survey (1997-2007) Peter Selz; Robert Colescott 2008
Roof Life Svetlana Alpers 2013
Sacred Founders: Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome through Early Byzantium Diliana Angelova 2015
Sam Francis Peter Selz 1982
Skopas of Paros Andrew Stewart 1977
Skopas of Paros and his world : proceedings of the third International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades, Paroikia, Paros, 11-14 June 2010 Andrew Stewart 2010
The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in France, 1848-1851 T.J. Clark 1999
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century Svetlana Alpers 1984
The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy Henrike C. Lange 2020
The Art of the Renaissance in Rome 1400-1600 Loren Partridge 2005
The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art Whitney Davis 1990
The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) James Cahill 1982
The Drawing Speaks: Theophile Bra, Works 1826-1855 = Le Dessin Parle : Theophile Bra, Oeuvres 1826-1855 Jacques de Caso; Andre Bigotte 1997
the Imagined New Zamansele Nsele; Anthony Bogues; Leora Farber 2023
The Lyric Journey: Poetic Painting in China and Japan (Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures) James Cahill 1996
The Making of Rubens Svetlana Alpers 1996
The Painter’s Practice: How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (Bampton Lectures in America) James Cahill 1994
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers T.J. Clark 1999
The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC – AD 300 Christopher Hallett 2011
The Roman Vergil and the Origins of Medieval Book Design David H. Wright 2002
The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing T.J. Clark 2008
The Two-Headed Deer Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa Joanna Williams 1996
The Vatican Vergil: A Masterpiece of Late Antique Art David H. Wright 1993
The Vexations of Art: Vélazquez and Others Svetlana Alpers 2007
The Work of Jean Dubuffet Peter Selz 1962
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art Peter Selz; Kristine Stiles 2012
Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe Anne Wagner 1996
Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence Svetlana Alpers; Michael Baxandall 1996
Venice : the American View, 1860-1920 Margaretta Lovell 1984
Visuality and Virtuality: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective Whitney Davis 2017
Von Leonardo Bis Piranesi: Italienische Zeichnungen Von 1450 Bis 1800 Aus Dem Kupferstichkabinett Der Hamburger Kunsthalle Henrike C. Lange; David Klemm 2008
Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence Sugata Ray; Venugopal Maddipati 2019
William Morris: The Sanford and Helen Berger Collection Margaretta Lovell; Anthony Bliss 1984