From the Publisher:
Making History collects the most provocative and insightful essays of Wu Hung, the esteemed scholar and critic of Chinese contemporary art and culture. Written in clear and readable prose, this volume contains detailed analyses of the cultural origins, precedents, influences and aspirations of the most exciting contemporary artists practicing today.
Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
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
The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)
Architecture and Dystopia
Il'ia i Emiliia Kabakovy
Ellsworth Kelly, Color Panels for a Large Wall
Scale & the Incas
Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now
Comparativism in Art History
Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi
Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social
The Ark of Civilization
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
The New World in Early Modern Italy, 1492-1750 (with Elizabeth Horodowich), Cambridge University Press, 2017
Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory
The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China
The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures
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
«Di molte figure adornato»: L’Orlando furioso nei cicli pittorici fra Cinque e Seicento. Milano: Officina Libraria, 2015.
Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition
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
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
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
Sabine Moritz: Limbo 2013
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
Seeing Through Race
Seeing Madness, Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
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
Vision and Communism
Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi
Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present
A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
Saints: Faith at the Borders
Éfficacité/Efficacity: How to Do Things with Words and Images?
Wonder, Image, & Cosmos in Medieval Islam
Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)
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
Elective Affinities: Testing Word and Image Relationships
Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color
Looking and Listening in 19th Century France (With Anne Leonard)
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Writing of Modern Life: the Etching Revival in France, Britain, and the U.S., 1850-1940
The Late Derrida
Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images
Severan Culture
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
Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz
Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury
Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties
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
Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
