New Book by Dana Claxton, The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates Dana Claxton, Head and Professor, for the launch of her new book: The Sioux Project – Tatanka Oyate (co-published by Information Office and the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina Saskatchewan).
New Book by Professor Erin Silver, Suzy Lake: Life & Work
Erin Silver, Assistant Professor at the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory releases her new book, Suzy Lake: Life & Work.
First Book by Jillian Lerner: Graphic Culture
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates faculty member Jillian Lerner on the publication of her first book; Graphic Culture: Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 (McGill-Queens University Press). Jillian is an alumna (BA 1998) and long-time sessional lecturer in the department. This exploration of print culture traces changing conditions of […]
Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Her Work in the Foucault Archive at the BnF
“Unexpectedly and as it turned out, fortuitously, Foucault continued to occupy me …” Catherine M. Soussloff’s Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) is now available in stores and online! While Professor Soussloff was completing final edits on the book last year, she made some discoveries in the Foucault archive at the Bibliothèque Nationale de […]
Dana Claxton Shortlisted for bpNichol Chapbook Award
Congratulations to Professor Dana Claxton on the nomination of her chapbook The Patient Storm (above/ground press) for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. We look forward to announcement of the winner on November 18! The prize, awarded annually since 1985, goes to the author of the best poetry chapbook—in the estimation of the judges—published in Canada in […]
Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 from University of Minnesota Press
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the forthcoming release of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press), a timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge. Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect […]
First Book by Professor Jaleh Mansoor: Marshall Plan Modernism
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates Professor Jaleh Mansoor on the publication of her first book, Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia (Duke University Press). The book expands upon ideas Mansoor first explored in her PhD dissertation at Columbia University, under the guidance of Benjamin Buchloh […]
Release of Foucault on the Arts and Letters, Catherine M. Soussloff, ed.
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the publication of her new book, Foucault on the Arts and Letters, a collection of twelve essays addressing Foucault’s thought and its impact on thinking about the visual arts, literature, and aesthetic discourse in the twenty-first century. The edited volume grew out of a conference jointly sponsored by […]
Postcard to Moscow
by John O’Brian Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University Press 2010 In a very smart essay, John O’Brian launches from a postcard in a familiar photograph by Robert Frank (“Hoover Damn, Nevada, 1955”) to a discussion of atomic explosion imagery on American postcards from the Cold War era. Like the other essays in the book, O’Brian’s offering […]
Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the Cold War
John O’Brian Co-Authored with Jeremy Borsos 2011 Atomic postcards played an important role in disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan and link the multilayered […]