The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives
Available from the publisher de Gruyter, and on Amazon, etc. This is a book about the often debated, but largely invisible spread of a uniform style of art history, theory, and criticism around the world. I think of this question of writing as the least well theorized problem in the understanding of contemporary art. The diversity […]
Writing with Images and What is Interesting Writing in Art History? (book projects)
These are both online, on separate websites: What is Interesting Writing in Art history? Writing with Images The two projects might end up as books, but for now they are notes for two courses I am teaching at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. What is Interesting Writing in Art History? asks why […]
Visual Worlds
Co-authored with Erna Fiorentini Buy on Amazon. Visual Worlds is a large textbook on the visual world. It’s co-authored with the historian of art and science Erna Fiorentini, and it was published (after nearly six long years of work!) by Oxford University Press in 2020. It’s a full-on North American style textbook, with marginal cross-references, glossary, and online […]
The novel
These days I am concentrating on a work in progress—an experimental novel with images. It’s long and complex: it has photographs, footnotes, multiple columns, graphs, charts, equations, and sheet music. I have been working on it more or less every day since 2008. It’s divided into five volumes. Book 3, Weak in Comparison to Dreams, […]