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
- 971
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Reframing Disability in Manga (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with di…
00:41:45 |
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Eden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
In the tradition of The Lady in Gold and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the remarkable history behind one of the world's most beloved paintings, Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine More than half a mi…
00:48:29 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)
There has been no greater surge in global fashion trends and expressions of personal style than in the contemporary era of social media fashion influencers. But what constitutes “being in fashion” am…
00:36:37 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, water represented a force that could be harnessed f…
01:06:21 |
Mon 17 Oct 2022
Salim Tamari, "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (U California Press, 2022) is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photogr…
01:15:59 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also have big ambitions that reach as far as the Vatican.…
00:23:30 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the Culture Wars over the legacy…
01:03:08 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Po…
00:36:25 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at…
00:42:48 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)
What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and possibly even the phrase ‘swan song’.
Dr. Natalie Good…
00:51:58 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players su…
00:57:15 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Clémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)
In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, explores possible functions for anthropological museum…
01:13:18 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display.…
00:40:41 |
Mon 03 Oct 2022
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Juliane Noth’s Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Paintings, coming very soon from the Harvard University Asia Center (2022), tracks a relatively short but transformative period in ink paintin…
01:02:34 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing cont…
01:03:40 |
Thu 29 Sep 2022
The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
Greg Marchildon interviews Diana Nemiroff. As a former curator of contemporary and modern art at the National Gallery of Canada and former director of the Carleton University Art Gallery, and an adju…
00:40:35 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, political authoritarianism, colonial legacies, gen…
00:56:49 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Annie-B Parson, "The Choreography of Everyday Life" (Verso, 2022)
Renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson's new book The Choreography of Everyday Life (Verso, 2022) is many things: a pandemic diary, a discourse of Greek tragedy, and a tribute to Parson's many inspira…
01:02:04 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing ‘morality’ or ‘authenticity’. I…
01:04:29 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
Paula Serafini, "Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, And (Post)Extractivism" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
How are art and social justice intertwined? In Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism Paula Serafini, a Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries at Queen Mary U…
00:42:11 |
Thu 22 Sep 2022
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