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College Art Association 2026

February 18, 2026 / Chicago, IL

We look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the Press in person at the 2026 CAA conference!

Ken Wissoker is joining you in person in Chicago, and you can find us at booth 323 in the exhibit hall. Check out highlights of new and forthcoming art and visual culture titles below, or browse our complete list in the field here.

Use coupon code CAA26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website through April 1, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

To set up a meeting with one of our editors, or to submit your book manuscript, consult our Prospective Authors page.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics cover image
Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics

Argentine Art in the Sixties

Andrea Giunta

Book

Winner of the 2026 Distinguished Feminist Award, CAA

Cover of After Caliban features a sculpted chocolate bust by Janine Antoni. The bust has stylized facial features; the nose has been purposefully worn down to mimic erosion. The bust is lit dramatically, casting a strong shadow.
After Caliban

Caribbean Art in a Global Imaginary

Erica Moiah James

Book

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Mavericks of Style

The Seventies in Color

Uri McMillan

Book

My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio cover image
My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio

Writings and Interviews, 1983–2024

Nayland Blake

Book

Cover of Toward a Selected Writings, Volume 1 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, wearing a dark suit and patterned shirt, with a calm expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 1

Toward a New African Art Discourse

Okwui Enwezor

Book

Cover of Selected Writings, Volume 2 features a close-up photograph of Okwui Enwezor, dressed in a dark suit and white shirt, with a neutral expression.
Selected Writings, Volume 2

Curating the Postcolonial Condition

Okwui Enwezor

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

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

Book

Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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

Knowing as Moving cover image
Knowing as Moving

Perception, Memory, and Place

Susan Leigh Foster

Book

Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction cover image
Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction

A Counterhistory

Jaleh Mansoor

Book

The Personality of Power cover image
The Personality of Power

A Theory of Fascism for Anti-fascist Life

Brian Massumi

Book

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Postwar Revisited

A Global Art History

Okwui Enwezor and Atreyee Gupta, editors

Book

The title is in large white and yellow letters against a background featuring the Puerto Rican flag colors. An illustration of Bad Bunny wearing a yellow outfit and a large straw hat, holding a microphone with yellow lightning bolts emanating from it
P FKN R

How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance

Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Book

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Negative Originals

Race and Early Photography in Colombia

Juanita Solano Roa

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 The Absent Stone features a photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone.
The Absent Stone

Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft

Sandra Rozental

Book

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Performances of Spiral Time

Leda Maria Martins

Book

Cover of Rhetorics of Value features two photographs. The photograph on the left depicts a young Black girl inspecting a sign, while the one on the right shows a Black woman reading some informational literature.
Rhetorics of Value

Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond

Corinne A. Kratz

Book

The Aesthetic Character of Blackness cover image
The Aesthetic Character of Blackness

Sounds Like Us

Jemma DeCristo

Book

What Had Happened Was cover image
What Had Happened Was

Therí Alyce Pickens

Book

Inhabitants of the Deep cover image
Inhabitants of the Deep

The Blueness of Blackness

Jonathan Howard

Book

Alive in the Sound cover image
Alive in the Sound

Black Music as Counterhistory

Ronald Radano

Book

The Human in Bits cover image
The Human in Bits

Graphical Computers, Black Abstractions

Kris Cohen

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 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

Rwanda′s Genocide Heritage cover image
Rwanda′s Genocide Heritage

Between Justice and Sovereignty

Delia Duong Ba Wendel

Book

From Forest to Steppe cover image
From Forest to Steppe

The Russian Art of Building in Wood

William Craft Brumfield

Book

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Architecture and the Right to Heal

Resettler Nationalism in the Aftermath of Conflict and Disaster

Esra Akcan

Book

Cover of Mediating Modernisms features a thin black line at the top, with a tan block below it. The bottom 3/4 of the book is orange. An untitled abstract multicolor painting by Jacques Zigoma is central to the cover.
Mediating Modernisms

Indigenous Artists, Modernist Mediators, Global Networks

Ruth B. Phillips and Norman Vorano, editors

Book

Speculative Relations cover image
Speculative Relations

Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Joseph M. Pierce

Book

Cover of The Witch Studies Reader features a grainy, gray illustration of a forest against a black background on the top half of the cover, with its vertical mirror image on the bottom half.
The Witch Studies Reader

Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward, editors

Book

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Fear of a Dead White Planet

More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Kosek, Jake, and M. Murphy

Book

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These Survivals

Autobiography of an Extinction

Lynne Huffer

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

The cover is solid orange red with a rectangular cut out centered right that displays part of a cinema section of a newspaper. The media shows photographs of films and blurbs as well as showtimes.
Curating Deviance

Programming the Queer Film Canon

Marc Francis

Book

Queer Traffic cover image
Queer Traffic

Sex, Panic, Free Trade

Jennifer Tyburczy

Book

A Thousand Paper Cuts cover image
A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

Book

Cover of DeepAesthetics features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.
DeepAesthetics

Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning

Anna Munster

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Winner of the 2026 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, SCMS

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Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Neda Atanasoski and Nassim Parvin, editors

Book

Informatics of Domination cover image
Informatics of Domination

Zach Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee, editors

Book

The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

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 design of Concrete Colonialism is minimalist with a black background covering about 80% of the space. There is a fragment of a black-and-white image resembling a torn document or film negative, showing a neoclassical building and handwritten no
Concrete Colonialism

Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Diana Jean S. Martinez

Book

Dyeing with the Earth cover image
Dyeing with the Earth

Textiles, Tradition, and Sustainability in Contemporary Japan

Charlotte Linton

Book

Cover of The Goddess in the Mirror depicts a woman applying makeup to another woman in front of a large round mirror. The scene captures both the women directly and their reflections.
The Goddess in the Mirror

An Anthropology of Beauty

Tulasi Srinivas

Book

Cover of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy features a skyline with trees and the outline of a large industrial looking object against a grainy dark blue night sky. The black object has two red orbs on it evoking eyes.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

Daisuke Miyao

Book

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Archives of Asian Art

Sarah E. Fraser, editor

Journal

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Nka

Journal of Contemporary African Art

Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, editors

Journal

TAP cover image
Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

LBK cover image
liquid blackness

journal of aesthetics and black studies

Alessandra Raengo and Lauren McLeod Cramer, editors

Journal

Open-Access Publication

Maroon cover with Theater title and image of stage scene featuring person in pig mask and multiple screens with similar masks
Theaters of Post-Truth

Journal Issue

Cover of Monsoon showing a blue and green seascape with a collage of figures on a tilting boat and text about crossing the Indian Ocean.
Crossing the Indian Ocean

The Oceanic Flow of Cultures and Ideas

Journal Issue

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Critical AI

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, editor

Journal

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Camera Obscura

Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Lalitha Gopalan, Lynne Joyrich, Homay King, Bliss Cua Lim, Constance Penley, Tess Takahashi, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis, editors

Journal

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Cultural Politics

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

Journal

ENV cover image
Environmental Humanities

Marianna R. Dudley and Colin Hoag, editors

Journal

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the minnesota review

a journal of creative and critical writing

Janell Watson, editor

Journal

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Public Culture

Vyjayanthi Rao and Erica Robles-Anderson, editors

Journal

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Small Axe

A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

David Scott, editor

Journal

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Social Text

Jonathan Beller and Amber Jamilla Musser, editors

Journal