Department of Art History

Charles Ray: Adam and Eve

The Royal Inca Tunic: A Biography of an Andean Masterpiece 

Seeing Race Before Race (with Noémie Ndiaye)

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.

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

Vessels: The Object as Container

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

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

Architecture and Dystopia

Ellsworth Kelly, Color Panels for a Large Wall

Il'ia i Emiliia Kabakovy

On Art: Ilya Kabakov

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now

Scale & the Incas

Comparativism in Art History

Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi

The Ark of Civilization

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

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 

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

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence 

Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures

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

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

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

Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition 

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

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

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,

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

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 

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

Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century

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

Sabine Moritz: Limbo 2013

Seeing Through Race

Awash in Color: French and Japanese Prints

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

Seeing Madness, Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture

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

Vision and Communism

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

Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)

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

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

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

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

Saints: Faith at the Borders

Wonder, Image, & Cosmos in Medieval Islam

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

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)

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

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

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age 

The Late Derrida

Severan Culture

How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text 

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture

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

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties

Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz 

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury

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

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

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

Joseph Beuys

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

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

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

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

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

Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine