From the publisher:
This is a book about the things people say about images. It is not primarily concerned with specific pictures and the things people say about them, but rather with the way we talk about the idea of imagery, and all its related notions of picturing, imagining, perceiving, likening, and imitating. It is a book about images, therefore, that has no illustrations except for a few schematic diagrams, a book about vision written as if by a blind author for a blind reader. If it contains any insight into real, material pictures, it is the sort that might come to a blind listener, overhearing the conversation the sighted speakers talking about images. My hypothesis is that such a listener might see patterns in these conversations that would be invisible to the sighted participant.
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
Publications
Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
University of Texas Press
,
2023
Grief Made Marble: Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
Yale University Press
,
Forthcoming
Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
,
2022
Building with Paper. The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings, eds. D. Donetti and C. Rachele
Brepols
,
2021
Bisa Butler: Portraits
Yale University Press
,
2020
Francesco da Sangallo e l'identità dell'architettura toscana
Officina Libraria (Milano)
,
2020
“Introduction: Inventing the Nova Reperta,” in Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020).
Northwestern University Press
,
2020
First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago
Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
,
2020
Candice Lin, A Hard White Body
With Lotte Arndt. University of Chicago Press
,
2020
Vessels: The Object as Container
Editor, Oxford University Press
,
2019
...and other such stories
Edited with Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares. Columbia University Press
,
2019
A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Zone Books
,
2019
Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE
Second Edition. London and New York: Thames and Hudson
,
2019
Samson Young: Silver moon or golden star, which will you buy of me?
Smart Museum/University of Chicago
,
September 2019
Conditions of Visibility
Oxford: Oxford University Press
,
2019
Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology
Co-authored with Leslie Kurke. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
,
2019
A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art
Edited with Alejandro Anreus and Robin Greeley, Wiley-Blackwell
,
2019
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Wu Hung)
Smart Museum of Art/University of Chicago Press
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May 2019
Kleine Welt
Neubauer Collegium Publications
,
2019
Ellsworth Kelly, Color Panels for a Large Wall
Matthew Marks Gallery
,
2019
Pope. L: CAMPAIGN
Mousse Publishing
,
2019
The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
The University of Chicago Press
,
2019
Il'ia i Emiliia Kabakovy
Moscow: Breus Foundation
,
2019
Architecture and Dystopia
edited by D. Donetti. Barcelona/New York: Actar Publishers
,
2019
Kapwani Kiwanga: Structural Adjustments
Edited with Gaëtane Verna. University of Chicago Press
,
2018
Machines à penser
Editor, Fondazione Prada, Milan
,
2018
Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now
Edited with Robert Cozzolino, University of Chicago Press
,
2018
Scale & the Incas
Princeton University Press
,
2018
Comparativism in Art History
Editor, Routledge
,
2017
UrbanLab Bowling
with Sarah Dunn, San Francisco: Applied Research and Design AR+D Publishing
,
July 2017
Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi
eds. D. Donetti, M. Faietti, S. Frommel. Giunti Editore
,
2017
Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social
(eds. Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo, Eivind Røssaak), Amsterdam University Press
,
2017
The Documenta 14 Reader
editor Adam Szymczyk & Quinn Latimer, Prestel
,
2017
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Editor with Jesús Hernandez Lobato, Oxford University Press
,
2017
Classicisms
Editor with Larry F. Norman, University of Chicago Press
,
2017
The Other Transatlantyk: Op & Kinetic Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1950-1970
with Marta Dziewanska and Abigail Winograd, Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art
,
2017
The Ark of Civilization
Editor with Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, Oxford University Press
,
2017
The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750
Cambridge University Press
,
2017
Picasso|Encounters (with Marilyn McCully)
Clark Art Institute
,
2017
Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory
I.B. Tauris
,
2016
The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
New York: Sternberg Press
,
2016
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Penn State University Press
,
2016
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Penn State University Press
,
2016
Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures
With Bethany Wiggin, Northwestern University Press
,
2011
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
with Ian Alteveer & Helen Molesworth, Skira Rizzoli
,
2016
Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China
University of Chicago Press
,
2016
Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The University of Virginia Press
,
2015
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
University of Chicago Press
,
2015
Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
Oxford University Press
,
2015
The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
University of Chicago Press
,
2015
Co-Editor (with Joseph Thompson) Seen and Imagined: The World of Clifford Ross
MIT Press and MASS MoCA
,
2015
Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition
edited and translated with Mechtild Widrich, Bloomsbury
,
1853/ 2015
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
,
2015
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
with Naomi Beckwith, University of Chicago Press
,
2015
University of Chicago Press
,
2015
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
,
2015
The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
University of North Carolina Press
,
2014
En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I
Co-authored with Teri Edelstein. The University of Chicago Press
,
2014
Contemporary Chinese Art
Thames & Hudson
,
2014
Lancia and De Virgilio: At the Center
David Bull Publishing
,
2014
Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai
University of Washington Press
,
2014
Editor. José Gil de Castro, pintor de libertadores. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2014.
Museo de Arte de Lima
,
2014
Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes
Les Presses du réel
,
2014
The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture
Routledge
,
2014
Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum
Yale University Press
,
2014
Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture,
Editor with Michel Meyer, Cambridge University Press
,
2014
Kunst und Archäologie der griechischen Welt: Von den Anfängen bis zum Hellenismus
Philipp von Zabern
,
2013
The Spectacle of the Late Maya Court: Reflections on the Murals of Bonampak
with Mary Miller, University of Texas Press
,
2013
Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience
University of Chicago Press
,
2013
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
University of Chicago Press
,
2013
With Luis Eduardo Wuffarden. Sabogal. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2013.
Museo de Arte de Lima
,
2013
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
,
2013
Capital Culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
The University of Chicago Press
,
2013
Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century
Northwestern University Press
,
2013
Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago & DAP
,
2013
The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art
University of Chicago Press
,
2013
Sabine Moritz: Limbo 2013
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
,
2013
Seeing Through Race
Harvard University Press
,
2012
A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Princeton University Press
,
2012
Seeing Madness, Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
Hatje Canz
,
2012
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
,
2012
Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE
First Edition. Thames and Hudson
,
2012
Vision and Communism
Editor with Robert Bird, Christopher Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka and Stephanie Smith, The New Press
,
2011
Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
Yale University Press
,
2011
The Tragic Muse: Art and Emotion, 1700-1900
University of Chicago Press
,
2011
Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)
Edited with Barbara Schellewald. Cologne: Böhlau
,
2011
A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
The University of Chicago Press
,
2011
Wonder, Image, & Cosmos in Medieval Islam
Yale University Press
,
2011
Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi
Editor with Janet Huskinson, De Gruyter
,
2011
Saints: Faith at the Borders
Editor with Françoise Meltzer, University of Chicago Press
,
2011
Éfficacité/Efficacity: How to Do Things with Words and Images?
With Jan Baetens & Véronique Plesch, Rodopi
,
2011
Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present
University of Chicago Press
,
2011
Editor. Luis Montero. ‘Los funerales de Atahualpa’. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2011.
Museo de Arte de Lima
,
2011
Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
Duke University Press
,
2010
Critical Terms for Media Studies
University of Chicago Press
,
2010
The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes
University of Chicago Press
,
2010
Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
University of Chicago Press
,
2010
Gerhard Richter: Early Work 1951-1972
Getty Publications
,
2010
Richard Long: A Line Made By Walking
Afterall Books & The MIT Press
,
2010
Blinky Palermo: Abstraction of an Era
Yale University Press
,
2009
Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art
Blue Kingfisher
,
2009
Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships
With Véronique Plesch & Charlotte Schoell-Glass, Rodopi
,
2009
Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color
with Stephen Houston and colleagues, University of Texas Press
,
2009
Looking and Listening in 19th Century France
University of Chicago Press
,
2008
The Writing of Modern Life: the Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
Editor, The University of Chicago Press
,
2008
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
The University of Chicago Press
,
2008
Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Yale University Press
,
2008
The Late Derrida
University of Chicago Press Journals
,
2007
On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture
Sternberg Press
,
2007
Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text
Princeton University Press
,
2007
Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images
The University of Chicago Press
,
2007
Severan Culture
Editor with Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain, Cambridge University Press
,
2007
Harvard University Asia Center
,
2006
What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
University of Chicago Press
,
2006
The Spiritual Landscapes of Adrienne Farb, 1980-2006
College of Holy Cross
,
2006
Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation
University of Chicago Press
,
2005
Life After Death: New Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection (with Mark Coetzee, exh. cat.)
Miami: Rubell Family Collection
,
2005
Editor. Los incas, reyes del Perú. Lima: Banco de Crédito del Perú, 2005.
Banco de Crédito del Perú
,
2005
Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
University of Chicago Press
,
2005
Neo Rauch: Renegaten
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
,
2005
Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
,
2004
Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury
Acanthus Press
,
2004
Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties
Pordenone
,
2004
Edited with Ian Berry, Vivian Patterson, & Mark Reinhardt, MIT Press
,
2003
The Name of the Game: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance
Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Stedelijk Museum Sittard
,
2003
Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E.
Cambridge University Press
,
2002
Landscape and Power
University of Chicago Press
,
2002, 1994
Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections
The University of Chicago Press
,
2002
Joseph Beuys
Oslo: Gyldendal
,
2001
Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
With L. Mullings, New York: Kluwar
,
2001
Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
University of Chicago Press
,
2001
The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity
British Film Institute
,
2000
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
University of Chicago Press
,
2000
Wols Photographs
Harvard Art Museums
,
1999
Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages;
Yale University Press
,
1999
Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun
University of Chicago Press
,
1999
Looking to Learn: Visual Pedagogy at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago Press
,
1999
Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting
The MIT Press
,
1999
The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
University of Chicago Press
,
1998
Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller
Wayne State University Press
,
1998
Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450
Oxford University Press
,
1998
Rural Scenes and National Representation, Britain 1815-1850
Princeton University Press
,
1997
The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
University of Chicago Press
,
1996
The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume II
Cambridge University Press
,
1996
The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume I
Cambridge University Press
,
1996
Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde
University of Chicago Press
,
1996
Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images
The MIT Press
,
1996
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
University of Chicago Press
,
1995
Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
Stanford University Press
,
1995
Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
Cambridge University Press
,
1995
Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions
with Simon Coleman, British Museum Press and Harvard University Press
,
1995
Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education
The MIT Press
,
1994
D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
University of Illinois Press
,
1994
In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais De Justice in Second Empire Paris
Princeton University Press
,
1993
Art and the Public Sphere
University of Chicago Press Journals
,
1993
Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America
The University of Chicago Press
,
1990
The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art
Stanford University Press
,
1989
Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama
Boulder, CO: Westview Press
,
1989
The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883
co-authored with Robin Sheets and William Veeder, 3 vols., Garland, 1983, and The University of Chicago Press
,
1989
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
University of Chicago Press
,
1987
Hildegard Auer: A Yearning for Art
Rizzoli International Publications
,
1987
Munch: His Life and Work
The University of Chicago Press
,
1984
Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
Harvard University Press
,
1982
On Narrative
University of Chicago Press Journals
,
1981
The Language of Images
University of Chicago Press
,
1980
Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry
Princeton University Press
,
1978
Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum
The University of Chicago
,
1975
The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790-1860
The University of Chicago Press
,
1966, 1982
Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
The MIT Press
,
1991