Theory for Art History Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal

"Located outside the often spectral interiors of historicity, Emerling's Theory for Art History demands our attention with an exquisite rendering of art and image making. His is as much a spatial reckoning with the labor, manifestation, and reception of art history as it is a deliberation on how we construct the temporal. With each chapter, we are fortunate to lose ourselves among these pages as they extend meaning, promise epistemic entanglements, and signify our own disciplinary un-becoming."

Sean Anderson, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

"A lucid and profoundly hopeful inquiry into the possibilities for art history and critical theory by one of the most brilliant of the emerging generation of art historians."

Donald Preziosi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA