Recommended reading for prospective graduate students
 

Ancient mediterranean art and architecture

Books and articles

S. Aro, "Art and Architecture," The Luwians, ed. Craig Melchert. Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. 68, ( Leiden: Brill, 2003) pp. 281-337.

E. Csapo and M. Miller, “Democracy, Empire, and Art: Toward a Politics of Time and Narrative,” D. Boedeker and K. Raaflaub, eds., Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth Century Athens (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998) pp. 87-126.

C. Brian Rose, "The Parthians in Augustan Rome," American Journal of Archaeology109 (2005) pp. 21-75.

Andrew Stewart, “Narrative and Allusion in the Hellenistic Baroque,” Narrative and Event in Ancient Art, ed. P. Holliday ( Cambridge 1993) pp. 130-174.

Eleanor Leach, The Social Life of Painting in Rome and on the Bay of Naples (Cambridge 2004)

Margaret C. Miller, Athens and Persia in the fifth century B. C.: A Study in Cultural Receptivity ( Cambridge 1997).

Richard Neer, Style and Politics in Athenian Vase Painting: the craft of democracy (Cambridge 2002)

Paul Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: the Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1995)

Journals

Antike Kunst

Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres

Notizie degli scavi di antichità

Chinese art

Books and articles

Bai, Qianshen. Fu Shan’s World: The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Asia Center and Harvard University Press, 2003.

Chang, K.C. Art, Myth, and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China. Harvard UP, 1983.

Clapp, Anne DeCoursey. The Painting of T’ang Yin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Clunas, Craig. Elegant Debts: the Social Art of Wen Zhengming, 1470-1559. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.

________. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China. Duke University Press, 1996.

Erickson, Britta. On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West. Stanford: Cantor Arts Center, 2005.

Gao Minglu. Inside Out: New Chinese Art. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Asia Society Galleries; University of California Press, 1998.

Ho, Wai-kam, ed. The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang, 1555-1636. 2 vols. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1992.

Li Chu-tsing, and James C.Y. Watt, eds. The Chinese Scholar's Studio: Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period: an exhibition from the Shanghai Museum. New York: Thames and Hudson. Published in Association with the Asia Society Galleries, 1987.

Liscomb, Kathlyn. Learning from Mt. Hua: a Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory. Cambridge, 1993.

Little, Stephen, ed. Taoism and the Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Marsha Weidner, ed. Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas in association with University of Hawaii Press, 1994.

McNair, Amy. "Su Shih's Copy of the Letter on the Controversy over Seating Protocol," Archives of Asian Art, XLIII/1990, pp. 38-48.

Powers, Martin J. “Character (Ch'i) and Gesture (Shih) in Early Chinese Art and Criticism," in Proceedings from the International Colloquium on Chinese Art History: Painting and Calligraphy, Part 2, Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1991, pp. 909-931.

________. Art and Political Expression in Early China. Yale UP, 1991.

Rawson, Jessica ed., Mysteries of Ancient China: New Discoveries from the Early Dynasties. NY: George Braziller, 1996.

Vinograd, Richard Ellis. Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

American art

Books

David Bjelajac, American Art: A Cultural History ( Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000)

Barbara Groseclose, Nineteenth-Century American Art ( New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

Mary Ann Calo, ed., Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings (New York: Westview Press, 1998)

Journals

American Art

American Art Journal

Winterthur Portfolio

Art and gender

Books and articles

Mary Louise Roberts, “True Womanhood Revisited,” Journal of Women’s History, 14:1 (2002), 150-55.

Michael Camille, “Editor’s Introduction, Objects of Desire,” Art History, 24:2 (April 2001) 163-68.

Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, eds., Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).

Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995).

Christopher Reed, ed., Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture (London: Thames & Hudson, 1996).

Griselda Pollock, Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories (London: Routledge, 1999).

Joan Wallach Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,"
American Historical Review, 91 (Dec. 1986), 1053-75.

Katharine Martinez and Kenneth Ames, eds., The Material Culture of Gender, (Winterthur, Delaware: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum: 1997).

Leora Auslander, Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996).

Clarissa Campbell Orr, ed., Women in the Victorian Art World, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995).

Kathleen D. McCarthy, Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

Bonnie Kime Scott, ed., The Gender of Modernism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick, ed., 1915, The Cultural Moment: The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art & the New Theatre in America, (Rutgers UP: 1991).

Whitney Chadwick and Tirza True Latimer, ed., The Modern Woman Revisited, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003).

Museum studies

Books

Bettina Messias Carbonell, ed., Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts ( London: Blackwell, 2004)

McClellan, Andrew, ed., Art and Its Publics ( London: Blackwell, 2003)

Carol Duncan, Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums (London and New York: Routledge, 1995)

Journals

Journal of the History of Collections ( Oxford University Press)

Museum International (UNESCO)

Museum News (American Association of Museums)

Islamic art and architecture

Books and articles

Nezar AlSayyad, Irene A. Bierman, Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2005).

Catherine B. Asher. The New Cambridge History of India: I:4: Architecture of Mughal India (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Irene A. Bierman et al., eds. The Ottoman City and its Parts: Urban Structure and Social Order (New Rochelle, NY: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 1991).

Sheila S. Blair, and Jonathan M. Bloom, The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).

Sibel Bozdogan, Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001).

Zeynep Çelik, “Le Corbusier, Orientalism, Colonialism,” Assemblage 17 (April 1992): 58-77.

Jean-Louis Cohen and Monique Eleb, Casablanca : colonial myths and architectural ventures (New York: Monacelli Press, 2002).

K.A.C. Creswell, A Short Account of Early Muslim Architecture, Rev. James Allen (Scolar Press, 1989).

Jerrilyn Dodds, ed. Al-Andalus: The arts of Islamic Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992).

Richard Ettinghausen, Oleg Grabar, Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).

Grabar, Oleg. The Formation of Islamic Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1973. (Reprinted 1988).

John Hoag, Islamic Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1975).

Robert Irwin, Islamic Art in Context (New York: Abrams, 1997).

Linda Komaroff and Stefano Carboni, eds. The Legacy of Genghis Khan: courtly art and culture in western Asia, 1256-1353 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002).

Thomas Lentz, and Glenn Lowry. Timur and the Princely Vision: Persian Art and Culture in the Fifteenth Century (Washington, DC, 1989).

B. Metcalf, ed., Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996).

Gülru Necipoglu, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (London: Reaktion, 2005)

Allen F. Roberts, et al., A saint in the city: Sufi arts of urban Senegal (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2003).

Susan Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)

Journals

Ars Orientalis

Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World

International Journal of Middle East Studies

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics. 43 Spring 2003. Special issue: Islamic Arts, edited by Oleg Grabar

Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée

Late modern architecture and urbanism

Books

Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Réjean Legault, eds., Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000

Heynan, Hilde, Architecture and Modernity: a critique, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999

Kate Nesbitt, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997

Joan Ockman, ed., Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology, New York: Columbia / Rizzoli, 1993

Simon Parker, Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: encountering the city, New York: Routledge, 2004

Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2002

Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995

Journals

ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly

Art History

Design Book Review

Grey Room

Journal of Architecture

Journal of Architectural Education

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Contemporary art and critical theory

Books and articles

Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1991)

Max Horkheimer, “Traditional and Critical Theory,” Critical Theory (New York: Continuum, 1995)

Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984)

T.J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes From the History of Modernism (New Haven: Yale UP, 1999)

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000)

Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000)

Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996)

Journals

New Left Review

Critical Inquiry

Modernism/Modernity

Artforum

October

Theory and Event

 

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