Books written by Johanna Burton

  • Take it Or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology
    Take it Or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology

    " Focusing on American artists who emerged from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, the book highlights dynamic practices in a variety of media: fromperformance to photography; video to installation; painting to writing.

  • Mary Heilmann: To be Someone

    Mary Heilmann: To be Someone

  • Mel Bochner: Language, 1966-2006
    Mel Bochner: Language, 1966-2006

    This fascinating book provides for the first time an overview of Bochner's language-based works from the past 40 years, including previously unpublished images and projects.

  • Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun
    Leslie Hewitt: Sudden Glare of the Sun

    This is the first monograph to date dedicated to the work of artist Leslie Hewitt.

  • Anish Kapoor

    Anish Kapoor (né en 1954) est l'une des figures majeures de l'art contemporain. Il est l'auteur de sculptures exposées dans des lieux publics partout dans le monde, telles CLOUD GATE...

  • Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives : Princeton University Art Museum
    Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives : Princeton University Art Museum

    Announcing the new Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series:Princeton University Art Museum Monographs is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Beautifully designed and produced, these...

  • Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker
    Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker

    These texts attest to Tucker’s tireless pursuit of questions related to difference, marginalization, access, and ethics, illuminating her significant impact on contemporary art discourse in her own time and demonstrating her lasting ...

  • Marilyn Minter
    Marilyn Minter

    Interviews by Mary Heilmann, Matthew Higgs. Text by Joanna Burton.

  • Cindy Sherman
    Cindy Sherman

    A collection of critical essays on Cindy Sherman, this text discusses Sherman's almost three-decade-long career, from her debut in the black-and-white 'Untitled Film Stills' through her colour photographs using back-projection, prosthetic ...

  • This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s
    This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s

    'This will have been: art, love & politics in the 1980s' covers the period from 1979 to 1992. During this era, the political sphere was dominated by the ideas of...

  • Troy Brauntuch
    Troy Brauntuch

    A member of the so-called "Pictures Generation," Troy Brauntuch (born 1954) makes appropriated works that, by removing or adding context, can, on one hand, empty out culturally charged icons, and...

  • Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
    Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility

    Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality.

  • Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good
    Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good

    This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects—some previously published and some newly commissioned—to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape.

  • In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas
    In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas

    A career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer Joan Jonas (1936- ) that covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures