Duke University Press

Duke University Press emphasizes scholarship on modern and contemporary art that focuses on the interconnected but distinct histories of those periods around the globe. Duke publishes influential lists in American, Latin American, East Asian, and South Asian art, with additional strengths in the histories of photography and feminist art.

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Embodying Relation

Art Photography in Mali Allison Moore
  • 2020
  • 376 pages
  • 102 illus., 6 x 9

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.

Africobra

Experimental Art toward a School of Thought Wadsworth A. Jarrell
  • 2020
  • 320 pages
  • 89 color illus., 7 x 10 in.

The Politics of Taste

Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics Ana María Reyes
  • 2019
  • 328 pages
  • 105 color illus., 7 x 10 in.

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.

Bloodflowers

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

Surrealism at Play

Susan Laxton
  • 2019
  • 384 pages
  • 170 illus., including 16-page color insert, 7 x 10 in.

Posthumous Images

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

Art for an Undivided Earth

The American Indian Movement Generation Jessica L. Horton
  • 2017
  • 320 pages
  • 121 illus., 59 in color

Marshall Plan Modernism

Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia Jaleh Mansoor
  • 2016
  • 288 pages
  • 26 illus., 8 in color

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.

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.