New Books in Art
Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 969
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular Brit…
00:35:31 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
The end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western modernity—industrialization, racialization, and capitalism—were quickly …
01:13:57 |
Mon 04 Dec 2023
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanisation th…
00:51:41 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto (Yale UP, 2023) puts forward an account of contemporary art’s political ambitions and potential. Surveying such innovations as evidence-driven a…
00:58:51 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like “pandemic,” a Freudian state of mind like the “Oedipus complex,” or a replica of the Parthenon in a Chinese theme park, ancient Gre…
00:57:22 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Peter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His team of skilled craftspeople make exquisite terrestrial, celestial and planetary glob…
00:39:30 |
Mon 27 Nov 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Should governments fund the arts? In The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Michael Rushton, Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and a Professor a…
00:45:21 |
Sat 25 Nov 2023
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technology in Qing China (University of Washington Press; 2023) looks at the history of court-sponsored porcelain production in Qing China through the work …
01:07:17 |
Mon 13 Nov 2023
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
W. H. Auden once said, “Poetry makes nothing happen.” Auden’s quote has been used for so many purposes, it might be worth remembering what he meant. Auden’s line is importantly from a poem memorializ…
01:21:55 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Picturing Russian Empire (Oxford UP, 2023) appears as Russia’s imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine grinds on. The stakes could not be higher. It follows that grappling with Russia’s imperia…
00:57:34 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Peter Nelson's book Computer Games As Landscape Art (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, …
00:36:44 |
Mon 06 Nov 2023
Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023)
Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable--angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almo…
00:39:49 |
Sun 05 Nov 2023
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Cambridge University Press, 2023). This book offers both a broad diachronic perspective, …
00:55:53 |
Sat 04 Nov 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Theater at Harvard, editor of more than one Norton Anthology, and author of many prizewinning books) fr…
00:52:39 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Henrik Fürst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023), Henrik Fürst, Associate Professor in the Department of Ed…
00:38:57 |
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
In Medievalist Comics and the American Century (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Chris Bishop surveys the medievalist comic, its stories, characters, settings, and themes drawn from the European Middle Ages…
00:53:02 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)
Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Brill, 2023) is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery…
00:41:01 |
Sun 29 Oct 2023
Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
Simon Grennan's book A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers an original new conception of visual storytelling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing…
01:13:32 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)
Why study the arts in school? In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (Routledge, 2023), Pat Thomson, Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham and Christine Hall, E…
00:45:41 |
Sat 28 Oct 2023
Valerie Werder, "Thieves: A Novel" (Fence Books, 2023)
Thieves (Fence Books, 2023) is an autofictional account of a gallery girl named Valerie – an art worker in the big city, a product of an American childhood in a small place where she learned to value…
01:05:36 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
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