Art History: New Books List

Art + Archive provides an in-depth analysis of the connection between art and the archive at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book examines how the archive emerged in art writing in the mid-1990s and how its subsequent ubiquity can be understood in light of wider social, technological, philosophical and art-historical conditions and concerns.

A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history

In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the present

"This book argues for a radical new approach to thinking about art and creativity in Africa, challenging outdated normative discourses about Africas creative heritage."

How the urban spectator became the archetypal modern viewer and a central subject in late nineteenth-century French art Gawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris represented the seductions, horrors, and banalities of street life through the eyes of curious viewers known as badauds.

Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality--forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures. In this challenging work, a leading authority on new media art examines that curatorial and aesthetic landscape to explore how art resists and rewires the political and economic structures that govern technology.