Fine Arts in Special Collections

This book explores the relationships between artistic production and cultures of conflict in the United States. With emphasis on ideas of shifting national identities, the book covers art from the First World War to present.

This seminal work offers feminist analysis of gothic and Victorian literature written by women, and establishes several different ways of reading women's creative writing.

This book describes the history of American fine art printmaking since its revival in 1910, and the women artists who played major roles in the movement.

This book is a study of the print collections in the National Gallery of Scotland, focusing on the diversity of techniques and approaches to printmaking.

This book teaches how to read contemporary performance art, providing key terminology and concepts, as well as explanations and guidance into the seminal theories of reading performance art.

Centering on the relationsho[s between art and political transformation, this book explores the function of art as cultural critique, and the artworks that have tried to address legacies of oppression and exclusion.

This book, which accompanied a major contemporary art exhibition, explores the realities, fantasies, and myths of the South from a wide range of perspectives in contemporary art. The book covers artwork from the 1950s to present, and contains essays by Kara Walker, Trevor Schoonmaker, Diego Camposeco, and more.