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Reading Sideways

Reading Sideways

Dana Seitler

Dana Seitler

Reading Sideways explores the role various art forms played in American literary fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality at the turn of the century. Each chapter takes a different art form as its object: sculpture, portraiture, homecraft, and opera, which appear in the major works of the period central to questions of gender, race, and sexuality, including those by Henry James, Davis, Willa Cather, Du Bois, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

ISBN: 9780823282616

The Color of the Moon

The Color of the Moon

Laura L. Vookles, Bartholomew F. Bland, Hudson River Museum, Stella Paul, Ted Barrow, Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

Hudson River Museum

Edited by Laura L. Vookles and Bartholomew F. Bland

Contributor(s): Stella Paul, Ted Barrow and Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

The moon—its face, color, and power—threads through the tapestry of American landscape painting, holding timeless allure for artists and beloved by viewers of paintings everywhere. The Hudson...

ISBN: 9780823280971

Saint Marks

Jonathan Goldberg

Jonathan Goldberg

Saint Marks is a study based on the multiple representations of St. Mark, with a focus on Venetian Renaissance paintings and the gospel attributed to him, and theoretical work by philosophers and art historians who consider the afterlives of art works and our attachments to them. The life studied in this book is a materiality that exceeds human mortality.

ISBN: 9780823282074

Delirious Naples

Delirious Naples

Pellegrino D'Acierno, Stanislao G. Pugliese, Theresa Aiello, B. Amore, Andrea Baldi, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Joseph Connors, Rose DeAngelis, Erri de Luca, John Domini, Simona Frasca, Jonathan Galassi, Fred Gardaphe, Patrizia La Trecchia, Ilaria Marchesi, Simone Marchesi, Nick Napoli, Salvatore Napolitano, Jason Pine, Joseph Rescigno, Gabriella Romani, Gioia Timpanelli, Terrence Ward, Robert Zweig, Valerio Caprara, Francesco Durante, Gregory Pell, Charles Sant'Elia

Edited by Pellegrino D'Acierno and Stanislao G. Pugliese

Contributor(s): Theresa Aiello, B. Amore, Andrea Baldi, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Joseph Connors, Rose DeAngelis, Erri de Luca, John Domini, Simona Frasca, Jonathan Galassi, Fred Gardaphe, Patrizia La Trecchia, Ilaria Marchesi, Simone Marchesi, Nick Napoli, Salvatore Napolitano, Jason Pine, Joseph Rescigno, Gabriella Romani, Gioia Timpanelli, Terrence Ward, Robert Zweig, Valerio Caprara, Francesco Durante, Gregory Pell and Charles Sant'Elia

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.

ISBN: 9780823279999

Napoli/New York/Hollywood

Napoli/New York/Hollywood

Giuliana Muscio

Giuliana Muscio

Napoli/New York/Hollywood investigates the work of Italian immigrant performers and the impact of the traditions of the Italian stage within the history of Hollywood cinema and of American media from 1895 to today.

ISBN: 9780823279388

The Blind Man

Robert Desjarlais

Robert Desjarlais

The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while...

ISBN: 9780823281114

Mapping Memory

Kaitlin M. Murphy

Kaitlin M. Murphy

Interweaves visual and performance theory with memory and affect studies to develop the theory of memory mapping, defined as the visual process of representing the affective, sensorial, polyvocal, and temporally layered relationship between past and present, anchored within the specificities of place.

ISBN: 9780823282531

Experiments in Exile

Experiments in Exile

Laura Harris

Laura Harris

A comparative analysis of the radical aesthetic and social experiments undertaken by two exile intellectuals who studied and attempted to carry forward the radical dissidence of the aesthetic and social practices they encountered in the predominantly black slums of Trinidad and Brazil.

ISBN: 9780823279791

Portrait

Jean-Luc Nancy, Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks, Jeffrey S. Librett

Jean-Luc Nancy

Translated by Sarah Clift and Simon Sparks

Suspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.

ISBN: 9780823279951

Classical New York

Classical New York

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter, Jared Simard

Edited by Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Matthew McGowan

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Matthew McGowan, Elizabeth Bartman, Maryl B. Gensheimer, Francis Morrone, Margaret Malamud, Allyson McDavid, Jon Ritter and Jared Simard

This book examines the reception and appropriation of Classical (Greco-Roman) Art and Architecture in New York from 1830–1940, including Pennsylvania Station, Rockefeller Center, the Gould Memorial Library, the proposed Civic Center (Foley Square), Federal Hall, as well as on the use of inscriptions in New York’s art and architecture.

ISBN: 9780823281022

Last Things

Jacques Khalip

Jacques Khalip

Last Things explores lastness as a formal structure in romantic and post-romantic literature and art as something other than either a privation or a conclusion. It touches on the unthinkable dimensions of our life and world, and reads the fate of romanticism as a limit of the human.

ISBN: 9780823279555

Left Bank of the Hudson

Left Bank of the Hudson

David J. Goodwin

David J. Goodwin

In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the...

ISBN: 9780823278039

Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible

Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible

Dalia Judovitz

Dalia Judovitz

This interdisciplinary study explores George de La Tour’s (1593-1652) enigmatic representations of light, vision and the visible in order to question the nature of painting and its religious, artistic and conceptual aspects. Challenging the familiarity of vision, it proposes a spiritual understanding of painting and its engagements with the world.

ISBN: 9780823277445

The Hawthorn Archive

The Hawthorn Archive

Avery F. Gordon

Avery F. Gordon

Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the Black Radical Tradition.

ISBN: 9780823276325

The Possibility of a World

The Possibility of a World

Jean-Luc Nancy, Pierre-Philippe Jandin, Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain

Jean-Luc Nancy and Pierre-Philippe Jandin

Translated by Travis Holloway and Flor Méchain

Jean-Luc Nancy discusses his life’s work with Pierre-Philippe Jandin. As Nancy looks back on his philosophical texts, he thinks anew about democracy, community, jouissance, love, Christianity, and the arts.

ISBN: 9780823275410

The Insistence of Art

The Insistence of Art

Paul A. Kottman

Edited by Paul A. Kottman

The essays in The Insistence of Art suggest ways in which the artworks and practices of the early modern period show the essentiality of aesthetic experience for philosophical reflection, and in particular for the rise of aesthetics as a philosophical discipline, while also showing art’s need for philosophy.

ISBN: 9780823275809

Lady Liberty

Joan Marans Dim, Antonio Masi, Joseph Berger

What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric...

ISBN: 9780823285334

Breaking Resemblance

Breaking Resemblance

Alena Alexandrova

Alena Alexandrova

The book explores the complex relationship between contemporary art and religion. It focuses on the ways artists re-appropriate religious motifs as a means to reflect critically on our desire to believe in images, on the history of seeing them, and on their double power – iconic and political.

ISBN: 9780823274475

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

Andrew Hui

Andrew Hui

The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity.

ISBN: 9780823274314

Fugitive Testimony

Fugitive Testimony

Janet Neary

Janet Neary

Fugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists’ use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints.

ISBN: 9780823272907

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism

Jacques Khalip, Forest Pyle

Edited by Jacques Khalip and Forest Pyle

This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin’s concept of the historical constellation, a concept which puts “contemporary” as well as “Romanticism” in play as period designations and critical paradigms. The book regards Romanticism as a thought experiment that poses questions for our own “now” time.

ISBN: 9780823271047

Renaissance Posthumanism

Renaissance Posthumanism

Joseph Campana, Scott Maisano

Edited by Joseph Campana and Scott Maisano

Renaissance Posthumanism brings together two historical periods—“Renaissance” signifying a rebirth of the ancient and “Posthumanism” a death of the modern—to ponder each through the possibilities of the other. This collection rethinks the humanities under the auspices of the posthumanities of the posthumanities under the auspices of Renaissance humanism.

ISBN: 9780823269563

Sensible Life

Emanuele Coccia, Scott Alan Stuart, Kevin Attell

Emanuele Coccia

Translated by Scott Alan Stuart

This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.

ISBN: 9780823267422

Aesthetics of Negativity

Aesthetics of Negativity

William S. Allen

William S. Allen

A rigorous and many-layered study of the works of Blanchot and Adorno in terms of the relation between negativity and autonomy in the work of art with particular reference to literature, which yields a thinking of materiality in language as an ambiguous force of critique and innovation.

ISBN: 9780823269280

Apocalypse-Cinema

Apocalypse-Cinema

Peter Szendy, Will Bishop, Samuel Weber

Peter Szendy

Translated by Will Bishop

By analyzing many films, by drawing on the philosophy of Lyotard, Nancy, and Derrida, this book suggest that in the apocalyptic genre, cinema is at work on its limit. Apocalypse-cinema is both the end of the world and the end of the film, the consummation and the (self)consumption of cinema.

ISBN: 9780823264810