Department of Art History

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

Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens

Houses to Die In and Other Essays on Art

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

Inventing Indigenism: Francisco Laso's Image of Modern Peru

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

Bisa Butler: Portraits

Francesco da Sangallo e l'identità dell'architettura toscana

“Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta,” in Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020).

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

Candice Lin, A Hard White Body

Romantic Scraps: Cutouts, Collages, and Inkblots

Vessels: The Object as Container

...and other such stories

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

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

Samson Young: Silver moon or golden star, which will you buy of me?

Conditions of Visibility

Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology

Among Others: Blackness at MoMA

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Wu Hung)

Kleine Welt

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

Ellsworth Kelly, Color Panels for a Large Wall

Pope. L: CAMPAIGN

The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome

Il'ia i Emiliia Kabakovy

Architecture and Dystopia

On Art: Ilya Kabakov

Kapwani Kiwanga: Structural Adjustments

Machines à penser

China and England: the Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Scale & the Incas

Comparativism in Art History

UrbanLab Bowling 

Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi

"Zhang Peili: Record. Repeat." Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, March 2017

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 

The Documenta 14 Reader

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

Classicisms

The Other Transatlantyk: Op & Kinetic Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1950-1970

The Ark of Civilization

The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 

Picasso|Encounters (with Marilyn McCully) 

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

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

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence 

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures

Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China

Art History and Emergency

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

Co-Editor (with Joseph Thompson) Seen and Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross

Editor, Hurricane Waves: Clifford Ross

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition 

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

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

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

Machine Age Modernism: Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

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

En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I

Contemporary Chinese Art

Lancia and De Virgilio: At the Center 

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

Editor. José Gil de Castro, pintor de libertadores. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2014.

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 

The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture

Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture,

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

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

With Luis Eduardo Wuffarden. Sabogal. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2013.

Editor, The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark

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

Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A

The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art 

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

Seeing Madness, Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture

 Editor, Innovation, Tradition, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art

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

Vision and Communism

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

The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900

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

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

Saints: Faith at the Borders

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

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

Editor. Luis Montero. ‘Los funerales de Atahualpa’. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2011.

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents

Critical Terms for Media Studies

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

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

Gerhard Richter: Early Work 1951-1972

Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking

Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era

Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art

Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships

Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth 

Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color

Looking and Listening in 19th Century France

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

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age 

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

The Late Derrida

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text 

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

Severan Culture

Hans Schabus: Deserted Conquest (exh. cat.)

Barry X. Ball (exh. cat.)

Pattern and Person: Ornament, Society, and Self in Classical China

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

The Spiritual Landscapes of Adrienne Farb, 1980-2006

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation

Life After Death: New Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection (with Mark Coetzee, exh. cat.)

Editor. Los incas, reyes del Perú. Lima: Banco de Crédito del Perú, 2005.

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

Neo Rauch: Renegaten

Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz 

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties

Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress

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

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

Joseph Beuys

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

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

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China

Wols Photographs

Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages;  

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

Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago

Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting

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

Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller

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

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

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

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

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

Art and the Public Sphere

Art and Political Expression in Early China

Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America

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

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

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

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