Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Performance Studies
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2010

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Albu, Cristina, “Mirror Affect: Collective Spectatorship in Contemporary Installation Art” (Pittsburgh, T. Smith)

Dees, Janet, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Performance Art as Art History” (Delaware, A.Gibson)

Ming, Leta, “Curating as Performance: Tom Marioni and the Museum of Conceptual Art, 1968–1979” (USC, R. Meyer)

Myers, Cerise, “The Visible Posthuman: Envisioning Agency for the Cybernetic Self in Digital Culture” (Minnesota, J. Blocker)

Oh, Gyung Eun, “Music and Time: Relation of Nam June Paik’s Early Works to Video Art” (Rutgers, A. Zervigón)

Pezolet, Nicola, “Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates on the ‘Synthesis of the Arts’ in France, 1944–1962” (MIT, C. Jones)

Stanek, Damon, “Seeing the Light: A History of the Projected Image in the Gallery (1963–Present)” (CUNY, C. Bishop)

Weil, Harry Jacob, “The Ghost of Performance Art Past: Re-performance in 20th-Century and Contemporary Art” (Stony Brook University, Z. Patterson)