Writings
Painting with Fire: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Photography and the Temporally Evolving Chemical Object (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)
Honorable Mention, 2020-21 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Reviews:
Isis review
Ambix review
Nuncius review
Painting with Fire was featured on ETH Zurich's New Book Forum with Stephan Graf (ETH), Vera Wolff (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, MPI) and Monika Wulz (ETH).
Video? Indeed!
Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize (2015), for best single-author book on a pre-1800 topic; finalist for the 2015 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
Reviews
Art History review
Critical Inquiry review
LSE Review of Books review
Times Higher Education (London) review
Los Angeles Review of Books review
Renaissance Quarterly review
Art Libraries Society of North America review Archives of Natural History review
Journal of British Studies review
Huntington Library Quarterly review
The British Journal for the History of Science review
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences review
Inhaltsverzeichnis NTM review
Interview with Carla Nappi (UBC/host of New Books in Science and Technology Studies) on Wicked Intelligence is podcast here.
The Clever Object (Hoboken: Wiley, 2013); with Francesco Lucchini
Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science (New York and Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2010); with Roman Frigg
Articles and Chapters
"Insurance: Beyond Law?" in “Beyond Copyright: How does Law Impact Art?” colloquium, ed.
Wendy Katz and Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 9, no. 1 (Spring 2023)
"Modeling: A Secret History of Following," in Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice, ed. Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 45-70
Curve, Line, Circle, Slash, Cross: A Diagram of Liquid Intelligence, Grey Room 69 (Fall 2017): 6-23
The Cunning of Sir Sloshua: Reynolds, the Sea, and Risk, Grey Room 69 (Fall 2017): 80-107
Graphic Making, Actuarial Knowing: Transfer and Counter-Transference in Frederic Edwin Church's South American Drawings, West 86th 23, 1 (2016): 56-78
Did Joshua Reynolds Paint his Pictures? The Transatlantic Work of Picturing in an Age of Chymical Reproduction in Picturing, ed. Rachael Z. DeLue (Chicago : Terra Foundation For American Art, 2016), 44-80
Reynolds's Science of Experiment in Practice and Theory, in Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint, ed. Lucy Davis and Mark Hallett (London: Wallace Collection/Paul Holberton Publishing, 2015), 100-111
Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Nice Chymistry’: Action and Accident in the 1770s, The Art Bulletin XCVII, 1 (March 2015): 58-76; winner of the 2016 Arthur Kingsley Porter prize
Mr. Hooke’s Reflecting Box: Modeling the Camera Obscura in the Early Royal Society of London, Huntington Library Quarterly, Special Issue: “Curiously Drawn” 78, 2 (2015): 301-328
Picture, Object, Puzzle, Prompter: Devilish Cleverness in Restoration London, Art History: Special Issue "The Clever Object" 36, 3 (May 2013): 546-567
Experiment, Theory, Representation: Robert Hooke’s Material Models in Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science, ed. Roman Frigg and Matthew Hunter (Springer Verlag, 2010), 193-219
Hooke's Figurations: A Figural Drawing Attributed to Robert Hooke, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 64 (March 2010): 251-260
The Theory of the Impression According to Robert Hooke, in Printed Images in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Interpretation, ed. Michael Hunter (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 167-190 (reviewed here)
Iconoclasm and Consumption; or, Household Management According to Thomas Cromwell in Iconoclasm: Contested Images, Contested Terms, eds. R. Clay and S. Boldrick (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), 51-73
“Time and the Baroque World,” in The Theatrical Baroque, ed. Larry Norman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 48-57
Co-Authored Articles, Chapters and Editions
Nicholas Barbon’s De Febre Ardente: Medico-Philosophical Grounds of Fire Insurance?, Grey Room 95 (Spring 2024): 74-89; co-authored with Mackenzie Zalin
Editors’ Introduction: The Aerial Image, Grey Room 83 (Spring 2021): 6-23; with Emily Doucet and Nicholas Robbins
The Clever Object: Three Pavilions, Three Loggias, and a Planetarium, Art History: Special Issue "The Clever Object" 36, 3 (May 2013): 474-497; with Francesco Lucchini
Introduction: Beyond Mimesis and Convention, in Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science, ed. Roman Frigg and Matthew Hunter (Springer Verlag, 2010), xv-xxx; with Roman Frigg
The Use and Abuse of Things , Volume 12 of Chicago Art Journal (2002); co-edited with Rebecca L. Reynolds
Criticism, Reviews and Interviews
Stephanie O’Rourke, Art, Science and the Body in Early Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21, 3 (Autumn 2022): http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn22/hunter-reviews-art-science-and-the-body-in-early-romanticism-by-stephanie-orourke
Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, ed. Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy, Centaurus 54, 3 (August 2012): 255–257
Folly—The View from Nowhere at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Journal of Modern Craft 3, 3 (November 2010): 365-368
Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science, and the Visual Arts, CAA Reviews (December 2009)
Anne Wilson in London, Chicago Artists’ News XXXV, 2 (February 2008): 8
Best of 2007: London, Chicago Artists’ News XXXV, 1 (January 2008): 8
A Sacrificial Operation: An Interview with Jeremy Biles on Rupturing Beauty, Chicago Art Journal 12 (2002); with Rebecca L. Reynolds
“An Interview with Michael Sorkin,” Chicago Art Journal 11 (2001): 97-103; with Jessen Kelly and Sabine Wieber