Publications
Non-fiction • The Poetics of Perspective (Cornell University Press, 1994) • The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing (Simon and Schuster, 1996) • Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing (Penn State Press, 1997) • On Pictures and the Words That Fail Them (Cambridge University Press, 1998) • Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity (Routledge, 1999) • Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (Routledge, 2001) • Why Art Cannot Be Taught: A Handbook for Art Students (University of Illinois Press, 2001) • Stories of Art (Routledge, 2002) • Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction (Routledge, 2003) • What Happened to Art Criticism? (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003) • On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2004) • Master Narratives and Their Discontents (Routledge, 2005) • Six Stories from the End of Representation (Stanford University Press, 2008) • Art Critiques: A Guide (New Academia, 2011; 2nd ed., 2012; 3rd ed., 2014) • What Photography Is (Routledge, 2012) • The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing: North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives (De Gruyter, 2020) As editor • Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art (New Academia, 2009; 2nd ed., 2014) Five Strange Languages • Book 1: Stories, Like Illnesses (forthcoming) • Book 2: A Short Introduction to Anneliese (The Unnamed Press, 2025) • Book 3: Weak in Comparison to Dreams (The Unnamed Press, 2023) • Book 4: Ghosts Are (forthcoming) • Book 5: An Inventory of the Dead (forthcoming) ==References==