Art History Publication Initiative Books

The Art History Publication Initiative includes a total of fifty-four books from the four partner presses. Please check back soon for information about our new partnership with Fulcrum, which will provide a permanent home for some of the books and accompanying materials.

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A Fashionable Century

Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing Rachel Silberstein
  • 2020
  • 296 pages
  • 92 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

What the Emperor Built

Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming Aurelia Campbell
  • 2020
  • 240 pages
  • 109 illus., 58 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Embodying Relation

Art Photography in Mali Allison Moore
  • 2020
  • 376 pages
  • 102 illus., 6 x 9
  • $28.95 paper
  • $104.95 cloth
  • $28.95 ebook

Disordering the Establishment

Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981 Lily Woodruff
  • 2020
  • 336 pages
  • 98 illus., 17 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $28.95 paper
  • $104.95 cloth
  • $28.95 ebook

Africobra

Experimental Art toward a School of Thought Wadsworth A. Jarrell
  • 2020
  • 320 pages
  • 89 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $29.95 paper
  • $109.95 cloth
  • $29.95 ebook

Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting

Molly Warnock
  • 2020
  • 280 pages
  • 130 illus., 41 in color, 9 x 9.5 in.
  • $89.95 cloth
  • $89.95 ebook

Historic Real Estate

Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States Whitney Martinko
  • 2020
  • 328 pages
  • 42 illus., 11 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $39.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Yumeji Modern

Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan Nozomi Naoi
  • 2020
  • 300 pages
  • 112 illus., 36 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Where Dragon Veins Meet

The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe Stephen Whiteman
  • 2020
  • 292 pages
  • 113 color illus., 21 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy

Lei Xue
  • 2019
  • 240 pages
  • 83 illus., 8 in color, 2 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

The Politics of Taste

Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics Ana María Reyes
  • 2019
  • 328 pages
  • 105 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $27.95 paper
  • $104.95 cloth
  • $27.95 ebook

Insurgent Aesthetics

Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War Ronak K. Kapadia
  • 2019
  • 352 pages
  • 96 illus., 26 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $28.95 paper
  • $104.95 cloth
  • $28.95 ebook

The Nature of the Page

Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England Joshua Calhoun
  • 2019
  • 288 pages
  • 30 illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $55.00 cloth
  • $55.00 ebook

Climate Change and the Art of Devotion

Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 Sugata Ray
  • 2019
  • 272 pages
  • 114 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Empire of Style

Silk and Fashion in Tang China BuYun Chen
  • 2019
  • 288 pages
  • 119 illus., 96 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Represented

The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship Brenna Wynn Greer
  • 2019
  • 336 pages
  • 61 illus., 6 x 9 in.
  • $34.95 cloth
  • $34.95 ebook

Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains

Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas Nachiket Chanchani
  • 2019
  • 280 pages
  • 111 illus., 80 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Bloodflowers

Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Photography, and the 1980s W. Ian Bourland
  • 2019
  • 336 pages
  • 92 illus., 6 x 9 in.
  • $26.95 paper
  • $99.95 cloth
  • $26.95 ebook

Shifting Grounds

Landscape in Contemporary Native American Art Kate Morris
  • 2019
  • 208 pages
  • 46 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $50.00 cloth
  • $50.00 ebook

Medieval Art in Motion

The Inventory and Gift Giving of Queen Clémence de Hongrie Mariah Proctor-Tiffany
  • 2019
  • 232 pages
  • 63 illus., 28 in color, 8 x 10 in.
  • $89.95 cloth
  • $89.95 ebook

Surrealism at Play

Susan Laxton
  • 2019
  • 384 pages
  • 170 illus., including 16-page color insert, 7 x 10 in.
  • $27.95 paper
  • $104.95 cloth
  • $27.95 ebook

Creating the Universe

Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism Eric Huntington
  • 2018
  • 304 pages
  • 154 illus., 118 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Proud Raven, Panting Wolf

Carving Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks Emily L. Moore
  • 2018
  • 288 pages
  • 105 illus., 19 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $39.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Flowering Plums and Curio Cabinets

The Culture of Objects in Late Chosŏn Korean Art Sunglim Kim
  • 2018
  • 304 pages
  • 99 illus., 80 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

The Icon and the Square

Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival Maria Taroutina
  • 2018
  • 288 pages
  • 116 illus., 51 in color, 9 x 10 in.
  • $89.95 cloth
  • $89.95 ebook

The Commerce of Vision

Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Peter John Brownlee
  • 2018
  • 264 pages
  • 101 illus., 8 in color, 7 x 10 in.
  • $45.00 cloth
  • $45.00 ebook

City of Saints

Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages Maya Maskarinec
  • 2018
  • 336 pages
  • 33 illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $55.00 cloth
  • $55.00 ebook

Posthumous Images

Contemporary Art and Memory Politics in Post–Civil War Lebanon Chad Elias
  • 2018
  • 288 pages
  • 71 color illustrations
  • $25.95 paper
  • $99.95 cloth

Mexican Costumbrismo

Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art Mey-Yen Moriuchi
  • 2018
  • 180 pages
  • 60 illus., 31 in color, 8 x 10 in.
  • $99.95 cloth
  • $99.95 ebook

Animating Empire

Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World Jessica Keating
  • 2018
  • 184 pages
  • 60 illus., 37 in color, 8 x 10 in.
  • $69.95 cloth

The Art of Resistance

Painting by Candlelight in Mao's China Shelley Drake Hawks
  • 2017
  • 304 pages
  • 96 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth
  • $65.00 ebook

Modern Coliseum

Stadiums and American Culture Benjamin D. Lisle
  • 2017
  • 328 pages
  • 76 illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $34.95 cloth
  • $34.95 ebook

Building the Ivory Tower

Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century LaDale C. Winling
  • 2017
  • 264 pages
  • 46 illus., 6 x 9 in.
  • $39.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

The Art of Contact

Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art S. Rebecca Martin
  • 2017
  • 320 pages
  • 59 illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $59.95 cloth
  • $59.95 ebook

Color in the Age of Impressionism

Commerce, Technology, and Art Laura Anne Kalba
  • 2017
  • 288 pages
  • 117 illus., 106 in color, 9 x 9.5 in.
  • $84.95 cloth
  • $84.95 ebook

The Heart of the Mission

Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco Cary Cordova
  • 2017
  • 384 pages
  • 79 illus., 14 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $39.05 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Art for an Undivided Earth

The American Indian Movement Generation Jessica L. Horton
  • 2017
  • 320 pages
  • 121 illus., 59 in color
  • $26.95 paper
  • $99.95 cloth
  • $26.95 ebook

The Noisy Renaissance

Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life Niall Atkinson
  • 2016
  • 280 pages
  • 160 illus., 50 in color, 9 x 10 in.
  • $89.95 cloth

Marshall Plan Modernism

Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia Jaleh Mansoor
  • 2016
  • 288 pages
  • 26 illus., 8 in color
  • $25.95 paper
  • $94.95 cloth
  • $25.95 ebook

Mounting Frustration

The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power Susan E. Cahan
  • 2016
  • 360 pages
  • 113 illus., 20 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $27.95 paper
  • $39.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Toledo Cathedral

Building Histories in Medieval Castile Tom Nickson
  • 2015
  • 324 pages
  • 140 illus., 60 in color, 9 x 10 in.
  • $89.95 cloth
  • $39.95 ebook

Medieval Robots

Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art E. R. Truitt
  • 2015
  • 312 pages
  • 36 color illus., 6 x 9 in.
  • $55.00 cloth
  • $55.00 ebook

Excavating the Afterlife

The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion Guolong Lai
  • 2015
  • 320 pages
  • 81 b/w illus., 14 color plates, 1 map, 7 x 10 in.
  • $65.00 cloth

Disillusioned

Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject Jordan Bear
  • 2015
  • 216 pages
  • 65 duotone illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $34.95 paper
  • $74.95 cloth

Imperial Illusions

Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces Kristina Kleutghen
  • 2015
  • 384 pages
  • 112 color illus., 7 x 10 in.
  • $70.00 cloth
  • $70.00 ebook

Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France

Amy Freund
  • 2014
  • 312 pages
  • 43 color/58 b&w illustrations | 9 x 10
  • $84.95 cloth
  • $14.95 ebook

Building a Sacred Mountain

The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai Wei-Cheng Lin
  • 2014
  • 352 pages
  • 102 illus., 12 in color, 10 maps, 7 x 10 in.
  • $60.00 cloth
  • $60.00 ebook

The Bishop's Utopia

Envisioning Improvement in Colonial Peru Emily Berquist Soule
  • 2014
  • 336 pages
  • 25 illus., 24 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $45.00 cloth
  • $45.00 ebook

Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book

Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem Elizabeth Ross
  • 2014
  • 256 pages
  • 111 illus., 27 in color, 9 x 10 in.
  • $79.95 cloth
  • $14.95 ebook

Art and the Religious Image in El Greco's Italy

​Andrew R. Casper
  • 2014
  • 236 pages
  • 84 illus, 50 in color, 8 x 10 in.
  • $79.95 cloth
  • $14.95 ebook

From a Nation Torn

Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962 Hannah Feldman
  • 2014
  • 328 pages
  • 84 illus., 21 in color, 6 x 9 in.
  • $26.95 paper
  • $99.95 cloth
  • $26.95 ebook

The Politics of the Provisional

Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France Richard Taws
  • 2013
  • 288 pages
  • 90 illus., 24 in color, 9 x 10 in.
  • $34.95 paper
  • $74.95 cloth
  • $14.95 ebook

Chang’an Avenue and the Modernization of Chinese Architecture

Shuishan Yu
  • 2012
  • 344 pages
  • 118 color illus., 7 x 10
  • $60.00 cloth
  • $60.00 ebook

The Camera and the Press

American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype Marcy J. Dinius
  • 2012
  • 320 pages
  • 44 illus., 6 x 9 in.
  • $49.95 cloth
  • $49.95 ebook

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