What to Read

The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to present What to Read, a listing of recent publications by alumni.

What to Read is updated three times annually in January, May and September. If you are an Institute alum, and would like your recent publication to appear in our listing, please complete a short online form. In the list below, Institute alumni are indicated in bold.

2023

Sarah Bertalan, Co-author, The People's Park, New York: Pointed Leaf Press, 2023

Thomas Crow, Author, The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023

Kenji Kajiya, Author, Emancipated Painting: Color Field Painting and 20th Century American Culture, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2023.

Joan Kee, Author, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity, Oakland: University of California, 2023.

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Author, Male Bodies Unmade: Picturing Queer Selfhood, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023.

Jeffrey Schrader, Author, “Navarrete «el Mudo» y el legado de Plinio el Viejo y Quinto Pedio en San Lorenzo de El Escorial” in Boletín del Museo del Prado, 12-19. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2023.

Sheila Schwartz, Editor, Essays by Leo Steinberg, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018-2023.

Delia Solomons, Author, Cold War in the White Cube: U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art, 1959-68, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023.

Donna Stein, Author, “Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: In Her Words (1985)” in Woman's Art Journal (Spring/Summer; Volume 44, no. 1), 16-25; color plates pp.4-5. New York: Old City Publishing, 2023

Donna Stein, Author, “Lines of Energy in consciousness, images and language of metaphors” in Naput 222+3 My Heart, Your Heart II; Journal of Poetry, Arts and Letters, 232-238. Budapest: Cedrus Art Foundation, 2023.

Ian Wardropper, Co-author, Riccio's Oil Lamp, New York: The Frick Collection, 2023.

Michele Wijegoonaratna, Editor, Whitfield Lovell: Passages, New York: Rizzoli, 2023.

2022

Jennifer Babcock, Author, Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice, Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Carol Bolon, Author, Light of Devotion: Oil Lamps of Kerala, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.

Victoria Jenssen, Author, The Art of Carol Janeway: A Tile & Ceramics Career with Georg Jensen Inc. and Ossip Zadkine in 1940s Manhattan, Altona, Manitoba: Friesen Press, 2022.

Victoria Jenssen, Author, “Designed Tiles: A Silkscreen Studio in New York, NY, 1939-1978” in Tile Heritage: A Review of American Tile History, Volume XI, Number 2 (Summer 2022), 21-37. Healdsburg, CA: Tile Heritage Foundation, 2022 

Rachel Kaplan, Co-author, Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.

Ilona Katzew, Editor
Edward Sullivan, Interviewer / Contributor
Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800, Los Angeles: DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022

Rebecca Lowery, Co-author and Co-editor, Tala Madani: Biscuits, Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and MACK, 2022.

Maggie Popkin and Diana Y. Ng, Editors, Future Thinking in Roman Culture: New Approaches to History, Memory, and Cognition, New York: Routledge, 2022.

Maggie Popkin, Author, Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Tara Prakash, Author, Ancient Egyptian Prisoner Statues: Fragments of the Late Old Kingdom, Columbus: Lockwood Press, 2022.

Jonathan P. Ribner, Author, Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics, New York and London: Routledge, 2022.

Robert Slifkin, Author, Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare's Photographic Work, London: MACK, 2022.

Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Author, Building Santa Maria Novella: Materials, Tradition and Invention in Late Medieval Florence, Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2022.

Donna Stein, Author, Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch, Milan: Skira editore S.p.A., 2022.

2021

Lauren Cannady, Author and Co-editor, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks, Oxford and Liverpool: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021.

Peter De Staebler, Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta, Co-editors, Roman Sculpture in Context, Boston: Archaeological Institute of America, 2021.

Donna Stein, Author, The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art, Milan: Skira, 2021.

Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, Editor
Eleanor Sims, Contributor
Priscilla Soucek, Contributor
Lale Uluc, Contributor
Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection, Florence, Rome: I Tatti , 2021.

Paul Yule, Co-author, The Early Iron Age Metal Hoard from the Al Khawd Area Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2021.

2020

Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Editor, The Oxford Handbook of Early China, New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Yeon Shim Chung, Editor, Korean Art from 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction, London: Phaidon, 2020.

Maura Coughlin, Co- editor, Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth Century Art and Visual Culture, New York: Routledge, 2020.

Marianne Eaton-Krauss, Author, Post-Amarna Period Statues of Amun and His Consorts Mut and Amunet, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2020.

Karen Kurczynski, Author, The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe: Reanimating Art, London: Routledge, 2020.

Bridget Quinn, Author, She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2020.

Michele Wijegoonaratna, Co-author, Bisa Butler: Portraits, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.