Reviewable Books

The following books are currently available to review for InVisible Culture. We also welcome reviews of books not on this list. Please email us a proposal to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu if you’d like to review a new or recent title and we will procure a copy from the publisher.

Ashe, Bertram D. and Ilka Saal, eds. Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020.

Ballard, Susan. Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics. London: Routledge, 2021.

Balsom, Erika, and Hila Peleg. Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.

Beil, Kim. Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.

Blaylock, Sara. Parallel Public: Experimental Art in Late East Germany. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.

Bloom, Lisa E. Climate Change, and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Brinkema, Eugenie. Life-Destroying Diagrams. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Dissimilar Similitudes: Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe. Princeton: Zone Books, 2020.

Campt, Tina M. A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021.

Chavez, Christine and Uwe Fleckner ed. Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.

Coleman, Kevin and Daniel James, eds. Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction. London and New York: Verso, 2021.

Collier, Delinda. Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Denson, Shane. Discorrelated Images. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Ferreira da Silva, Denise. Unpayable Debt. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022.

Fuller, Matthew, and Eyal Weizman. Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truths. London: Verso, 2021.

Groys, Boris. Logic of the Collection. Berlin: Sternberg, 2021.

Hochberg, Gil Z. Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Hofrichter, Frima Fox and Midori Yoshimoto, ed. Women, Aging, and Art: A Crosscultural Anthology. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Hubka, Thomas C. How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Jagoda, Patrick. Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design the Age of Gamification. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Johnston, Andrew R. Pulses of Abstraction: Episodes from a History of Animation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Jones, Andrew. Circuit Listening: Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Jones, David Houston. Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics. London: Routledge, 2022.

Kuppers, Petra. Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

Lange, Allison K. Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Lee, Elizabeth L. The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Montez, Ricardo. Keith Haring′s Line: Race and the Performance of Desire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Mukherjee, Rahul. Radiant Infrastructures: Media, Environment, and Cultures of Uncertainty. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Ngai, Sianne. The Cute. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.

Noland, Carrie. Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Papapetros, Spyros. Pre/Architecture. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2022.

Peters, John Durham, Florian Sprenger, and Christina Vagt. Action at a Distance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.

Phillips, Amanda. Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2020.

Phu, Thy. Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Ross, Christine. Art for Coexistence: Unlearning the Way We See Migration. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2022.

Schmidgen, Henning. Horn, or the Counterside of Media. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Schwenkel, Christina. Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Strassler, Karen. Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Torlasco, Domietta. The Rhythm of Images: Cinema beyond Measure. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

Walker, Gavin, ed. The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68. London: Verso, 2020.

Wang, Peggy. The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.