New Books in Art

Marshall Poe

Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books

Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Visual Arts Arts

Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 53 minutes
Episodes: 969
Years Active: 2010 - 2025

Share to:

Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

In Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Charles Leavitt steps back from the micro-histories focusing more narrowly on, for example, Italian cinema so as to weav…

01:06:21 | Mon 16 Nov 2020

Arlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)

In Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics (Duke UP, 2020), Arlene Dávila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and arti…

01:00:38 | Fri 13 Nov 2020

Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Ch…

01:05:02 | Thu 12 Nov 2020

Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020)

In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. Th…

01:22:15 | Wed 11 Nov 2020

C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Monopoly, Solitaire, football and Minecraft are all games, but for C. Thi Nyugen they are also an art form – specifically, the art form of agency, our capacity to set goals and pursue them. In Games:…

01:07:25 | Tue 10 Nov 2020

Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

What is an art school? In Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020), Dr Silvie Jacobi, a researcher and head of education at London School o…

00:39:48 | Tue 03 Nov 2020

Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)

In Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Harvard University Press, 2020), Sianne Ngai continues her theoretical work of demystifying the vernacular aesthetic categories encou…

01:34:24 | Tue 20 Oct 2020

Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine (University of Toronto Press, 2020) tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists …

00:54:42 | Fri 16 Oct 2020

William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts" (Oxford UP, 2020)

How do we distinguish art from non-art artifacts, and what does cognitive science have to do with it? In Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts (Oxford University Press, 2020), William …

01:04:51 | Mon 12 Oct 2020

Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)

It would be hard to overstate the importance of culture. It teaches us, heals us, rips us apart and puts us back together in new and surprising ways. Given its fundamental importance to the human exp…

00:57:19 | Mon 12 Oct 2020

Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)

In The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes (Columbia UP 2020), Jill Richards radically rewrites our understanding of first-wave feminism by demonstrati…

00:52:06 | Thu 08 Oct 2020

Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. In Swahili Port Cities: The A…

01:27:54 | Mon 05 Oct 2020

Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)

On this episode of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Tamar Herzig, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, the Director of Tel Aviv University’s Morris E Curiel Institute for European …

01:03:53 | Fri 04 Sep 2020

Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War"(Duke UP, 2019)

In Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War (Duke University Press), Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in th…

00:49:21 | Thu 03 Sep 2020

Beth Pickens, "Your Art Will Save Your Life" (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2018)

As a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists. Intimate yet practical, Your …

00:57:22 | Fri 21 Aug 2020

T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)

Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ranulph Glanville. This brilliant, multiple-PhD hol…

01:07:40 | Thu 20 Aug 2020

Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)

In What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire (Duke University Press, 2018), Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human…

00:58:03 | Fri 14 Aug 2020

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Marshall Poe. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.

EachPod