Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

Publications

Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica
University of Texas Press
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2023

Divine Inspiration in Byzantium: Notions of Authenticity in Art and Theology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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2022

Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America 
Yale University Press
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2022

Building with Paper. The Materiality of Renaissance Architectural Drawings, eds. D. Donetti and C. Rachele
Brepols
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2021

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)
University of Chicago Press
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2021

Francesco da Sangallo e l'identità dell'architettura toscana
Officina Libraria (Milano)
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2020

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

First Class: Teaching Chinese Art History at Harvard University and the University of Chicago
Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
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2020

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
Zone Books
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2019

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500–c. 150 BCE
Second Edition. London and New York: Thames and Hudson
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2019

Conditions of Visibility
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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2019

Pindar, Song, and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology
Co-authored with Leslie Kurke. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
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2019

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art
Edited with Alejandro Anreus and Robin Greeley, Wiley-Blackwell
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2019

The Allure of Matter: Material Art from China (with Orianna Cacchione)
Smart Museum of Art/University of Chicago Press
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May 2019

Architecture and Dystopia
edited by D. Donetti. Barcelona/New York: Actar Publishers
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2019

Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now
Edited with Robert Cozzolino, University of Chicago Press
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2018

Giuliano da Sangallo: Disegni degli Uffizi
eds. D. Donetti, M. Faietti, S. Frommel. Giunti Editore
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2017

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology and the Social 
(eds. Ina Blom, Trond Lundemo, Eivind Røssaak), Amsterdam University Press
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2017

The Ark of Civilization
Editor with Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, Oxford University Press
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2017

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Editor with Jesús Hernandez Lobato, Oxford University Press
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2017

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

Ugliness: The Non-Beautiful in Art and Theory
I.B. Tauris
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2016

The Autobiography of Video. The Life and Times of a Memory Technology
New York: Sternberg Press
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2016

Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China
University of Chicago Press
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2016

The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life
Penn State University Press
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2016

Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures
With Bethany Wiggin, Northwestern University Press
,
2011

Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence 
Penn State University Press
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2016

Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The University of Virginia Press
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2015

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
University of Chicago Press
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2015

Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
Oxford University Press
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2015

The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs
University of Chicago Press
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2015

«Di molte figure adornato»: L’Orlando furioso nei cicli pittorici fra Cinque e Seicento. Milano: Officina Libraria, 2015.
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Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition 
edited and translated with Mechtild Widrich, Bloomsbury
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1853/ 2015

The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
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2015

The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
University of North Carolina Press
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2014

En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I
Co-authored with Teri Edelstein. The University of Chicago Press
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2014

Contemporary Chinese Art
Thames & Hudson
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2014

Building a Sacred Mountain: The Buddhist Architecture of China's Mount Wutai
University of Washington Press
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2014

Raoul Hausmann et Les Avant-Gardes 
Les Presses du réel
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2014

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

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture,

Editor with Michel Meyer, Cambridge University Press
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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
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2013

Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience
University of Chicago Press
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2013

The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
University of Chicago Press
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2013

Capital Culture : J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
The University of Chicago Press
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2013

Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century
Northwestern University Press
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2013

A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
Princeton University Press
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2012

Art & Archaeology of the Greek World: A New History, c. 2500 - c. 150 BCE
First Edition. Thames and Hudson
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2012

Vision and Communism
Editor with Robert Bird, Christopher Heuer, Tumelo Mosaka and Stephanie Smith, The New Press
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2011

Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England
Yale University Press
,
2011

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

Editor with Janet Huskinson, De Gruyter
,
2011

Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present
University of Chicago Press
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2011

A Field Guide to a New Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide
The University of Chicago Press
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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
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2011

Bild und Text im Mittelalter (Sensus, 2)
Edited with Barbara Schellewald. Cologne: Böhlau
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2011

Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents
Duke University Press
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2010

The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes
University of Chicago Press
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2010

Reinventing the Past: Archaism and Antiquarianism in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
University of Chicago Press
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2010

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 (With Anne Leonard)
University of Chicago Press
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2008

The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age 
The University of Chicago Press
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2008

Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
Yale University 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
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2008

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images
The University of Chicago Press
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2007

Severan Culture
Editor with Stephen Harrison and Simon Swain, Cambridge University Press
,
2007

Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text 
Princeton University Press
,
2007

On the Style Site: Art, Sociality and Media Culture
Sternberg Press
,
2007

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images
University of Chicago Press
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2006

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation
University of Chicago Press
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2005

Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
University of Chicago Press
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2005

Die Illustrierten Homilien des Johannes Chrysostomos in Byzanz 
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
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2004

Chicago Apartments: A Century of Lakefront Luxury
Acanthus Press
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2004

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties
Pordenone
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2004

The Name of the Game: Ray Johnson's Postal Performance
Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Stedelijk Museum Sittard
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2003

Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: The Craft of Democracy, ca. 530-460 B.C.E.
Cambridge University Press
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2002

Confronting Identities in German Art: Myths, Reactions, Reflections
The University of Chicago Press
,
2002

Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
University of Chicago Press
,
2001

Stress and Resilience: The Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem
With L. Mullings, New York: Kluwar
,
2001

The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity
British Film Institute
,
2000

Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
University of Chicago Press
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2000

Building Lives: Constructing Rites and Passages;  
Yale University Press
,
1999

Legends in Limestone: Lazarus, Gislebertus, and the Cathedral of Autun
University of Chicago Press
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1999

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
University of Chicago Press
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1998

Embodying Ambiguity: Androgyny and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Keller
Wayne State University Press
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1998

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450
Oxford University Press
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1998

Rural Scenes and National Representation, Britain 1815-1850 
Princeton University Press
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1997

The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting
University of Chicago Press
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1996

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume II
Cambridge University Press
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1996

The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language Volume I
Cambridge University Press
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1996

Pissarro, Neo-Impressionism, and the Spaces of the Avant-Garde
University of Chicago Press
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1996

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
University of Chicago Press
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1995

Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture
Stanford University Press
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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

Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity
Cambridge University Press
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1995

Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education
The MIT Press
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1994

D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film
University of Illinois Press
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1994

In the Theater of Criminal Justice: The Palais De Justice in Second Empire Paris
Princeton University Press
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1993

Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America
The University of Chicago Press
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1990

The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art
Stanford University Press
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1989

Kilowatts and Crisis: Hydroelectric Power and Social Dislocation in Eastern Panama
Boulder, CO: Westview Press
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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

Hildegard Auer: A Yearning for Art
Rizzoli International Publications
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1987

Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry
Princeton University Press
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1978

Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum
The University of Chicago
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1975

The Artist in American Society: The Formative Years, 1790-1860
The University of Chicago Press
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1966, 1982

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
The MIT Press
,
1991