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
FAQs Do I need to read all the books to understand this one? You can read each book by itself. They are entirely independent of each other. Each is different, with its own style, mood, and stories. Not to be rude, but then why read more than one? Five Strange Languages is […]