Donald Preziosi Professor of Art History UCLA 405 Hilgard Avenue 100 Dodd Hall Los Angeles CA 90095-1417 preziosi@humnet.ucla.edu

Publications

LABRYS (Charlton Press, New Haven), 1970)

Architecture, Language, and Meaning (Mouton, The Hague), 1979

The Semiotics of the Built Environment (Indiana Univ Press, Bloomington & London), 1979

Minoan Architectural Design (Mouton, Berlin), 1983

Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science (Yale University Press, New Haven & London), 1989

The Ottoman City & Its Parts: Urban Structure & Social Order, Irene Bierman, Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj & Donald Preziosi, eds.1992; [Co-Editor and two introductory essays]

The Art of Art History : A Critical Anthology (edited,with two essays & ten introductory essays; Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1998)

Aegean Art and Architecture (with Louise Hitchcock; Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 1999)

Brain of the Earth's Body: Museums & the Fabrication of Modernity (Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis & London, 1999)

Seeing Through Art History (Amsterdam, 1999): anthology of essays, with an introduction and critical commentary by Johanne Lamoureux)

Articles
(selected; since 1985)

"Semiotics, Art History & Materialism" (Anthropologika 7, 1985)

"That Obscure Object of Desire: The Art of Art History" (boundary 2, 13, 1985)

"The Multimodality of Communicative Events" (Frontiers in Semiotics, 1986)

"Reckoning with the World: Figure, Text & Trace in the Built Environment (American Journal of Semiotics 4.1, 1986)

"Between Power & Desire: The Margins of the City" (Glyph Textual Studies, 1986)

"Structure as Power: The Mechanisms of Urban Meaning" (Espaces et Societies, 1986)

"Rewriting an Urban Text: The Ottomanization of Cretan Cities" (in C.Redman,ed., Mediaeval Archaeology, 1988)

"La Vi(ll)e en Rose: Reading Jameson Mapping Space" (Strategies1, 1988)

"Oublier la Citta" (Strategies 3, 1990)

"The Question of Art History" (Critical Inquiry 18.2, 1991)

"Picturing the City" (Architecture California14.1, 1992)

"Art History, Museology, & the Framing of Modernity (in C.Keledjian, ed., Parallel Visions [LACMA catalogue], 1992)

"Seeing Through Art History" (in Shumway, Sylvan & Messer-Davidow, eds., Knowledges: Historical & Critical Studies in Disciplinarity, 1993)

"Modernity Again: The Museum as Trompe-L'Oeil" (in P.Brunette & D.Wills, eds., Deconstruction & the Visual Arts: Art, Media, Architecture, 1993)

"Introduction: Institutionalizing Art History: the Early Discipline in the US" (in Hugh-Smyth & Lukehart,eds., The Early Years of Art History in the United States, 1994)

"Museology and Museography" (The Art Bulletin, Mar 1995)**

"In the Temple of Entelechy: Museums as Evidentiary Artifacts" (in G.Wright, ed., The Formation of National Collections of Art & Archaeology, National Gallery of Art Studies in the History of Art 52, 1996)

"The Knossos Unexplorede Mansion and the Villa-Annex Complex" (w. L.Hitchcock) (in R.Haegg, ed., The Functions of the Minoan Villa; Stockholm, 1997)

"Brain of the Earth's Body" (in P.Duro, ed., The Rhetoric of the Frame, Cambridge Univ Press, 1996)

"Collecting/Museums" (in R. Shiff & R. Nelson, eds., Critical Terms in Art History, Univ of Chicago Press, 1996)

"Art History, Museums, Collecting," Museum Anthropology Vol. 20, No. 2, Summer 1996 [1997]

'Museums' essay entry, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, ed. Michael Kelly (Oxford Univ Press, 1998)

"Performing Modernity: The Art of Art History," in A. Jones & A. Stephenson, eds., Performing the Body / Performing the Text (London, Routledge, 1998)

"Art History's Art and the Art of History," in A.W.Balkema & H. Slager, eds., The Archive of Development, (Volume 13 of Lier en Boog, [Series of Philosophy of Art and Art Theory]; Amsterdam, 1998).

"A Tale of Two Carpets," in Visio Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1998

"Avoiding Museocannibalism," in A.Pedrosa, ed., Antropofagia e Historias de Cannibalismos, Exhibition Catalogue of the XXIV Bienal de Sao Paolo (Sao Paolo, Brasil, 1998)

"Archaeology as Museology: (Re)Writing the Minoan Past," in Y. Hamilakis, ed., Writings and Readings of the Minoan Past (Routledge, 1999)

"No Art, No History," in E. Mansfield, ed., Art History and Its Institutions (Routledge, 1999)

"Benjamin Through the Museum," in A.Coles, ed., The Optic of Walter Benjamin, special issue of the journal De-, Dis-, Ex- ,Vol. 3 (London, Routledge, 1999)

Reviews

"Putting Up (with) Meaning," review of J.Onians, Bearers of Meaning, The Oxford Art Review, 1990)

Exhibition Texts

**full text of Art Bulletin article 'Museology and Museography' (March 1995) reformatted as text of the Exhibition "IN:VISIBLE" by Anthony Gorny, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, May 24 - August 5, 1995

Interviews
-Print
Object/Image/Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work (Getty Press; transcription of interviews w. DP & 11 other art historians in US & Europe, 1988) INTERVIEW / PORTIONS OF BOOK

-Television
Interviewed by Danish State Television, Cophenhagen, on the subjects of 'Postmodern Culture(s)' (Nov 1989) and ''The End(s) of Art History,' (Nov 1990)

Interviewed by BBC-TV London Evening News, June 95, regarding the impact of the J Paul Getty Center for the History of Art & the Humanities (opening late 1997 in Los Angeles) on the cultural life of the city and nation, along with Getty Museum Director John Walsh

Art Criticism

Los Angeles Times ,Counterpunch Column, 13 May 1996, "Sexual Politics an Important Show" - response to 2 May 1996 L.A.Times review by C. Knight (text censored by paper)

Full (uncensored) text of the above disseminated by request to the Feminist Art History Listserv, fah@bbw.mediamasters.com, 20 May 1996
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