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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2026

October 15, 2026 / Madison, WI

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2026

Courtney Berger is joining you in person in Madison, and you can find our table in the exhibit hall. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming titles in art and visual culture below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code ASAP26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through November 26, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from Mare Nostrum Group.

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Cover of Transatlantic Disbelonging features collage-style illustrations of fragmented, grayscale pencil sketches of multiple women's faces, stacked above a shopping cart bookended by two headless figures.
Transatlantic Disbelonging

Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

Bimbola Akinbola

Book

Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

Book

Cover of Promises Beyond Memory features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it.
Promises Beyond Memory

Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America

Vikki Bell

Book

Cover of Forms of Blackness is cream with a painting of a person from the shoulders up wearing a white head wrap. The figure is made using black paint and an impasto technique.
Forms of Blackness

Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World

Cécile Bishop

Book

Cover of Puto: Plays features white fabric with two faces sketched on it in navy blue. The two faces have their eyes closed, noses touching, and tongues entangled as they kiss open mouthed.
Puto

Plays

Ricardo A. Bracho

Book

Cover of Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars is black and features two edited images in yellow and pink hues. The top right image shows a band of skeletons performing. The lower left image shows the Grateful Dead performing.
Touch of Grey, or How the Grateful Dead Became Pop Stars

John Brackett

Book

The cover background is a gradient from marroon to black with four lilac flower-like objects at the edges. Centered is a deconstructed collage like photograph of Edmonia Lewis. The bottom half of the figure is distorted creating a wavy psychedellic e
Moving Stones

About the Art of Edmonia Lewis

Jennifer DeVere Brody

Book

Cover of Content Machines is white with a tablet featuring six colorful digitally drawn images of romance book covers. There are blue thumbs ups and red hearts covering the images.
Content Machines

Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

Sarah Brouillette

Book

Cover of The Future of Totality is a solid grey teal with a photograph of Fredric Jameson standing at a lectern in front of a chalkboard that says ‘IDEOLOGY’.
The Future of Totality

Fredric Jameson and the Prospects of Critical Theory

Nicholas Brown, Maria Elisa Cevasco, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, and Robert T. Tally, editors

Book

Cover of Close Writing is black with a black and white photograph of a couch strewn with folded papers in the upper right. A shadow of a person is centered against the light from a window.
Close Writing

Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller, and Love-in-Pieces

Alice Butler

Book

Cover of Indigenomicon features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in
Indigenomicon

American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

Book

Honorable Mention, 2026 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize, NAISA

Cover of California Futures features the silhouette of a bear with colorful cosmos inside, bold blue-and-white text, and a peach background.
California Futures

Haunted Ecologies, Decolonial Relations

Daniel Lanza Rivers

Book

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Nuyorican and Diasporican Visual Art

A Critical Anthology

Arlene Dávila and Yasmin Ramirez, editors

Book

Cover of Visualizing Latinx shows a model wearing a light grey deconstructed suit. She is standing on a podium with a full-length mirror behind her.
Visualizing Latinx

Creative Practices in Fashion, Film, and Beyond

Arlene Dávila

Book

Cover of Inventing Nadar features a sepia colored old photograph of Paris from above showing a landscape of buildings and a fading horizon. Landmarks such as the “Arc de Triomphe” and “Les Ternes” are marked in a red script.
Inventing Nadar

A History of Photographic Firsts

Emily Doucet

Book

Cover of Reparative Craft features a black and white photo of someone making textile art. At the bottom there are patches of fabric in red, yellow, and dark purple. They are stitched over with overlapping loops. Larger stitches loop across the whole
Reparative Craft

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Textile Artist

Jason Edwards

Book

The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cov
Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression

Jacob Engelberg

Book

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Marfa, Marfa

Rasquachismo and Minimalism in Far West Texas

Josh T Franco

Book

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Doom Patterns

Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence

Maia Gil′Adí

Book

Cover of Still Dangerous! features a photograph of Harmony Hammond wearing a cowboy hat and smiling.
Still Dangerous!

The Harmony Hammond Reader

Harmony Hammond

Book

Cover of Art as Sanctuary is white with a light blue gradient featuring a piece of art showing Africana aesthetics. The art features the face of a woman in blue with a cowrie shell drawn on her forehead.
Art as Sanctuary

Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

Michael D. Harris

Book

Cover of Transplanetary Americas has text in a retro sci-fi font in bright greenish yellow and an image of 2 people beneath Leo Vilareal's artwork Star Ceiling.
Transplanetary Americas

Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination

Robb Hernández

Book

Cover of My Father, the Messiah features a warm, reddish-orange overlay on a blurred photograph of a child reaching down to touch a man lying on the ground. The title is in a large white serif font across the center.
My Father, the Messiah

A Memoir

Gil Z. Hochberg

Book

Cover of Racial Beings shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type.
Racial Beings

Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms

Michelle N. Huang

Book

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These Survivals

Autobiography of an Extinction

Lynne Huffer

Book

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Captive Ecologies

The Environmental Afterlives of Slavery

Jennifer C. James

Book

Cover of Good Vibes Only features warped, ripple-like shapes made of colorful gradients on a dark background.
Good Vibes Only

Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation

Robin James

Book

Cover of Out of Sync is bright red with oversized layered blue, yellow, green, and orange lettering, technical illustrations of ventriloquist-dummy mechanisms, and black line drawings of a ventriloquist and puppet.
Out of Sync

Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok

Sarah Rebecca Kessler

Book

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We See with the Skin

On Zora Neale Hurston's Methodology

Kheshti, Roshanak

Book

On the right side of the cover Spoiled, a dramatic photograph shows a woman with her head tilted back. A long stream of honey pours into the woman's open mouth from above. Intense lighting highlights the woman's features.
Spoiled

Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

Summer Kim Lee

Book

Cover of Wild Tongue features a vibrant collage of various objects with a large pink mouth at the center against a black background with white and yellow distressed text. 
Wild Tongue

A Borderlands Mixtape

Jonathan Leal

Book

Cover of Breaking the World features the Pillars of Creation, a star forming region in the galaxy, in orange and warm hues against a brilliant star-filled sky.
Breaking the World

Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction

Justin L. Mann

Book

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Between Shadows and Noise

Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined

Amber Jamilla Musser

Book

Cover of Private Subjects features layered family photographs against a colorful textured background. One photograh is in black-and-white in a gold frame, while the other is in color with a white border.
Private Subjects

Family Photography in South Africa and the Right to Opacity

John Peffer

Book

Cover of Inside the Body of Black Feminism features a piece of art made with paint and oil pastels. There is a black figure against a deep red circle which is outlined in multiple colors.
Inside the Body of Black Feminism

Science, Race, Culture

Samantha Pinto

Book

Cover of When Home Is a Photograph features a silver iridescent couch on a hardwood floor surrounded by a gallery wall of framed artwork and photographs on a white wall. The art is arranged by color to create a rainbow.
When Home Is a Photograph

Blackness and Belonging in the World

Leigh Raiford

Book

Cover of The Afric-American Picture Gallery has a wall of framed historical portraits atop grass against a floral wallpaper, with tables on each side.
The Afric-American Picture Gallery

William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art

Britt Rusert

Book

Cover of Alfredo Jaar is white with black tree branches in the foreground. A silver cage sits amidst the white ground in a grey circle.
Alfredo Jaar

Decolonial Time and the Aesthetics of the Unfinished

Florencia San Martín

Book

Cover of Torn is black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye.
Torn

Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence

Anna M. Moncada Storti

Book

Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font.
Melodrama as Provocateur

Linda Williams

Book

Cover of Sonorous Passages features a sculpture of three black ceramic torsos expanding vertically, linked by bead-like orbs of glossy black and gold leaf. 
Sonorous Passages

Black Maternal Soundings and the Liberation Imaginary

Meina Yates-Richard

Book

Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images.
Archives of the Anthropocene

Visual Grammars of Deep Time

Yuriko Furuhata

Book

Cover of Cisgender is a teal blue with navy blue loops and curls tangled across it. They have the texture of brush strokes.
Cisgender

Disorienting a Category

Perry Zurn

Book

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Archives of Asian Art

Sarah E. Fraser, editor

Journal

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boundary 2

an international journal of literature and culture

Arne De Boever, Kara Keeling, and Christian Thorne, editors

Journal

Critical AI cover image
Critical AI

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, editor

Journal

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Cultural Politics

Ryan Bishop, Mark Featherstone, Eva Haifa Giraud, and Tania Roy, editors

Journal

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differences

A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

Elizabeth Weed, Ellen Rooney, Denise Davis, and Elizabeth A. Wilson, editors

Journal

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liquid blackness

journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

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Nka

Journal of Contemporary African Art

Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, editors

Journal

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Public Culture

Brian T. Edwards and Vyjayanthi Rao, editors

Journal

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Qui Parle

Critical Humanities and Social Sciences

Editorial Board of Qui Parle, editor

Journal

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Small Axe

A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

David Scott, editor

Journal

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Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan and Thy Phu, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

Cover of Theater
Theater

Tom Sellar, editor

Journal