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
Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
The #metoo movement has forced many fans to consider what they should do when they learn that a beloved artist has acted immorally. One natural thought is that fans ought to give up the artworks of i…
01:08:14 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana Gómez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
In this podcast, Lisa Blackmore, Senior Lecture in the School of Philosophy, History and Interdisciplinary Studies Center at the University of Essex, and Liliana Gomez, Professor of Art and Society a…
01:05:35 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Fleur Watson, "The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design (Routledge, 2021) examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predomina…
00:32:30 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
The internet’s potential to perform political miracles has been a source of both hope and disappointment for many grassroots movements. We remember that the Sanders campaign tried to master the meme …
01:01:10 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Virtuality has entered our lives making anything we desire possible. We are, as Gorillaz once sang, in an exciting age where 'the digital won't let [us] go…' Technology has revolutionized music, espe…
01:03:35 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
In When Art Isn’t Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation (Leuven University Press, 2022), Dr. Andrew Shortland and Dr. Patrick Degryse examine how an initially valueless obj…
00:59:36 |
Fri 03 Jun 2022
Realism
William Ghosh talks to Saronik about Realism, and how it can both be subtly conservative and effectively radical, depending on its use. He takes us through realist tactics in texts ranging from V.S. …
00:19:18 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)
Between 1862 and 1866 Gustave Courbet embarked on a series of sensuous landscape paintings that would later inspire the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cézanne. This series has long been neglected in f…
01:06:22 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism
Rima Fujita was born in Tokyo and now resides in Southern California. She graduated from Parsons School of Design with her B.F.A. and has exhibited her work internationally to much acclaim. As a desc…
00:45:29 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire, in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immens…
00:53:04 |
Fri 27 May 2022
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Dr. Christopher Gilbert, Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, has a new book that examines the understanding of American national character and culture through the works of caricatur…
00:43:09 |
Thu 26 May 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon—kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered obscene, blasphemous, or politically deviant in art. Today, censorship can …
01:07:07 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Autotheory
In this episode Kim speaks with Lauren Fournier about autotheory.
Lauren has recently published a book on the subject, titled Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (MIT Press…
00:13:48 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives.
Venus, maiden, wife, mother, monster—women have been bound so long by these …
00:56:56 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li's book Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (Cornell UP, 2022) draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were c…
00:51:24 |
Fri 20 May 2022
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
Through his blog K-Punk, Mark Fisher become one of the cult figures of cultural theory after the economic crash of 2008. One of Fisher’s insights, widely taken up by the online memesphere, was that c…
01:18:14 |
Wed 18 May 2022
Paddy Docherty, "Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin" (Hurst, 2022)
The Benin Bronzes are among the British Museum’s most prized possessions. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once West Afri…
01:15:07 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
A retrospective monograph of Alastair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wider art histories. Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Pe…
00:57:21 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology (Harvard UP, 2021) is a searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenou…
00:48:27 |
Wed 11 May 2022
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
In the past few years, museums of contemporary art have come under a fair deal of scrutiny. Pressures from groups such as Decoloinise This Space or the oxycontin scandal have forced changes to the go…
01:12:23 |
Tue 10 May 2022
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