Recent Publications

Book

Art / Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2009

Articles and reviews

2016 “You Should…Play: Depression Quest,” April 16, 2016. UConn Humanities Institute

2018 “Joe Deal.” New biographical entry, Grove Dictionary of Art / Oxford Art Online. Peer-reviewed 2016 update edited by Judith Rodenbeck. NY: Oxford University Press, 2016

2015 “Eclipsing Aestheticism: Western Landscape Photography After Ansel Adams,” Miranda: Review pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone (Miranda.revues.org), “Expressions of Environment,” 10:2015 (juin) 2015. <https://miranda.revues.org/6920>

2015 REVIEW: Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Rachel Sailor, CAA.Reviews January 22, 2015.

2012 “Performance Art: History,” long essay expanded and updated, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2014, 5:98-109.

2012 “Ansel Adams e il West, in teoria” (translation of “Ansel Adams and the West, in Theory”), Ácoma: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Nord-Americani, n. 3 (Summer 2012), 163-74.

2009 “Gendered Ghosts in the Globalized Machine: Coco Fusco and Prema Murthy.” n. paradoxa: international feminist art journal, Vol. 23 (January 2009), 79-86.

2009 “Benjamin, Atget, and the ‘Readymade’ Politics of Postmodern Photography Studies.” In Photography: Theoretical Snapshots, ed. Jonathan Long, Andrea Noble, and Edward Welch. London: Routledge, 2008 (New York: Routledge, 2009), 112-24.

Exhibition Essays + Ephemera

2013 Richard Misrach, Storm Clouds, San Jacincto Mountains from the Desert Cantos Series, c.1983, ”Seen in Context: The Samuel and Ann Charters Collection of Classic American Photographs, William Benton Museum of Art, October-December 2013

2013 Ralph Steiner, Auto Fender and Tire, 1929,” Seen in Context: The Samuel and Ann Charters Collection of Classic American Photographs, William Benton Museum of Art, October-December 2013

2004 “Masculinity and The Male Body,” Male Body Image in Photography, Contemporary Art Galleries, “Masculinity and The Male Body,” Male Body Image in Photography, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs/Stamford, September-October, 2004

2004 “Marina Abramovic’s Memento Mori,” exhibition catalog essay for Count On Us, world premiere of photographic works by Marina Abramovic, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, 26 February-21 March 2004

1998 “How far is far from Vietnam?” primary essay for the exhibition catalog for Surf Vietnam by Simon Leung, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California, June-August 1998