Department of Art History

Painting as a Way of Life: Philosophy and Practice in French Art, 1620-1660.

Charles Ray: Adam and Eve

Giuliano da Sangallo e e le arti, with Sabine Frommel and Alessandro Nova

The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece 

Seeing Race Before Race (with Noémie Ndiaye)

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica

Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art

Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology.

Viaggio nel Nord: Studi di cultura visiva in onore di Alessandro Nova, with Hana Gründler and Mandy Richter

Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America 

Building with Paper. The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings, eds. D. Donetti and C. Rachele

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)

Bisa Butler: Portraits

Francesco da Sangallo e l'identità dell'architettura toscana

“Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta,” in Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta 

First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago

希腊世界的艺术与考古. 

Vessels: The Object as Container

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century

Davidson and His Interlocutors

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE

Conditions of Visibility

Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

Among Others: Blackness at MoMA

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)

To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror

Ellsworth Kelly, Color Panels for a Large Wall

Architecture and Dystopia

Il'ia i Emiliia Kabakovy

On Art: Ilya Kabakov

Scale & the Incas

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Τέχνη & αρχαιολογία του ελληνίκου κόσμου. Περ. 2500 – περ. 150 π.Χ. Μια νέα ιστορία.

Comparativism in Art History

Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (with Elizabeth Horodowich), Cambridge University Press, 2017

The Ark of Civilization

1971: A Year in the Life of Color

Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory

The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

Art History and Emergency

Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence 

Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli

The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs

The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition 

Making Modern Japanese-Style Painting: Kano Hogai and the Search for Images

«Di molte figure adornato»: L’Orlando furioso nei cicli pittorici fra Cinque e Seicento. Milano: Officina Libraria, 2015.

The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo

En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I

Contemporary Chinese Art

Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture,

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 

Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum (Laura Giles and Claire Van Cleave), Yale University Press, 2014

Kunst und Archäologie der griechischen Welt: Von den Anfängen bis zum Hellenismus

The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak

Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Capital Culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience

Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century

Sabine Moritz: Limbo 2013

Seeing Through Race

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE

Seeing Madness, Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture

Vision and Communism

Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Éfficacité/Efficacity: How to Do Things with Words and Images?

Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present

Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi

Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)

A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

Wonder, Image, & Cosmos in Medieval Islam

Saints: Faith at the Borders

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes

Critical Terms for Media Studies

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Gerhard Richter: Early Work 1951-1972

Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era

Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art

Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color

Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships

Looking and Listening in 19th Century France (With Anne Leonard)

Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age 

The Writing of Modern Life: the Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940 

The Late Derrida

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

Severan Culture

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text 

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space

Neo Rauch: Renegaten

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties

Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz 

The Name of the Game: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance

Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E.

Landscape and Power

Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Joseph Beuys

Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting

Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages;  

Wols Photographs

Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago

Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450

Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller

Rural Scenes and National Representation, Britain 1815-1850 

The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume II

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume I

Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture

Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity

Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions

D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film

Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais De Justice in Second Empire Paris

Art and the Public Sphere

Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America

The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art

The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883

Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

Hildegard Auer: A Yearning for Art

Munch: His Life and Work

Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder

On Narrative

The Language of Images

Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry

Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum

The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790-1860

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine