In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism, and the Invention of Collage

Shortlisted for the 1993 Mitchell Prize

"This book will become the standard reference on the topic of collage and marks a key moment in the evolution of Cubist criticism. Every student of twentieth-century art should read it."—Yve-Alain Bois, Harvard University

"An important addition to the study of collage and is recommended to advanced students of modern art."—Choice

"Full of stimulating insights."—Andrew Lambirth, Royal Academy Magazine

Futurism: An Anthology

“The definitive anthology of Futurist writings and artworks available in English, indeed in any language.  Framed by Lawrence Rainey’s excellent introduction and  its comprehensive bio-bibliographical notes, il Futurismo emerges here as what it surely was: the founding avant-garde movement of the twentieth-century.” — Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture

Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor

"Marketing Maximilian is an excellent study of the first ruler to exploit print for verbal and visual propaganda and an appropriately triumphant example of what can be achieved when, allowing the risk of anachronism, modern perspectives are applied to past problems."--Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement

"Silver's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the political culture of late medieval and early modern Europe."--Joachim Whaley, H-Net Reviews

Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis

“[A] fascinating study of the place of the car crash in cinema. . . . Although the book is written as a contribution to ongoing academic debates within film studies, the author’s observations and arguments should nonetheless be interesting to film lovers.”—Victor P. Corona, PopMatters

“Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis is exhaustively researched and argued with clarity. Blending cinema and media studies with a hard-edged critique of the capitalist machine, this book is both entertaining and enlightening.”—Simon Sellars, Media International Australia

The Acoustic Mirror

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1988

1988 Jay Leyda Prize Finalist

“ . . . a vitally new understanding that takes us from the terms of the representation of sexual difference to an anatomy of female subjectivity which will be widely influential.” —Stephen Heath

“An original work likely to have significant impact on all those with an interest in the vibrant intersection of feminism, film theory, and psychoanalysis . . . ” —Naomi Schor

“ . . . powerfully argued study . . . impressive . . . ” —Choice

Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism

Co-Winner of the 2010 Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association

"In Inventing Futurism, art historian Christine Poggi describes how the Futurist movement's raw passion for technology was moulded by the atmosphere of political foreboding of the times. . . . The visions and concerns of the Futurists, Poggi tells us in this . . . always illuminating study, emerged out of the uncertainty and confusion produced by modernity."--Ziauddin Sardar, Nature

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty

'By offering [a] new approach to the constructions of identity, to the roles of gender, sexuality and celebrity in the Edo period, Davis here makes a significant contribution to the field in showing us the constructed nature of "the spectacle of beauty" . . . her publishers have done her proud. Reaktion Books are always beautifully designed and this one, with its full-colour illustrations from all the Utamaro series, its art paper and its elegant binding is one of the best.' – The Japan Times 

John Henry Haynes: A Photographer and Archaeologist in the Ottoman Empire 1881–1900

Virtually unknown today, John Henry Haynes (1849–1910) is the father of American archaeological photography. His photographic odyssey took him from Athens to Istanbul, across Anatolia, and ultimately to Mesopotamia. In a landmark study that includes many images never published before, Robert Ousterhout assesses his unique blend of artistry and documentation.