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
Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
Lisa Heschong's book Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture (Routledge, 2021) examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window…
00:25:33 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the photography culture grew during the Civil War, a…
01:23:10 |
Wed 21 Jul 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums, plaques, or mon…
00:49:09 |
Fri 16 Jul 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
In this episode, Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Israel, discusses his new book Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem to Rome—and Back, published in Brill’s Religious …
00:31:09 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their…
01:05:45 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time,…
01:04:53 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across the United States. Over this time, the design of co…
00:34:24 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the m…
01:07:03 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc (Routledge, 2021) puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as …
00:54:24 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (2020). It's one of the more fascinating books I've en…
00:46:53 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
Federico Fellini’s distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern, renowned …
00:44:18 |
Mon 05 Jul 2021
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
Today on the podcast, Ruth Mazo Karras, the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin talks about her new book, Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middl…
00:59:45 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford UP, 2020) offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel from the mid-twentieth century to the turn of the twe…
00:53:50 |
Fri 02 Jul 2021
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures (Routledge, 2021) examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its implications for design. It explores how modernity and…
00:44:40 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square started Egypt's chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in western criticism of art and culture's role in the…
00:59:29 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)
What is the future for the museum? In The Museum as a Space of Social Care (Routledge, 2020), Nuala Morse, a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, rethinks the museum by foregrou…
00:41:49 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Samuel Smiles, "The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2020)
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a highly personal final vision that ra…
01:00:55 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019)
Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s taught at Yale University for more than 20 years, cofoun…
00:34:58 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Erin Duncan O’Neill (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University) about Emery’s recent book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asi…
00:59:48 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation or engagement department. It is nothing short of orth…
01:04:19 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
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