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Adair Rounthwaite, “Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York” (U. Minnesota Press, 2017)
47 mins; May 23, 2017
Discussion with George White, President of Up With Paper/Jumping Jack Press (Bologna Book Fair, 2017)
14 mins; May 23, 2017
Amy Elkins, “Black is the Day, Black is the Night” (Self Published, 2016)
47 mins; May 22, 2017
Matteo Faglia, “Pop-Up Show: The Magic Inside Books” (Bologna Children’s Book Fair Exhibition, 2017)
23 mins; May 21, 2017
Dorothy Ko, “The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China” (U. of Washington Press, 2017)
65 hours 30 mins; May 18, 2017
Mark Alice Durant, “27 Contexts – An Anecdotal History in Photography” (Saint Lucy Books, 2017)
41 mins; April 26, 2017
Benjamin Fondane, “Existential Monday” (NYRB Classics, 2016)
72 hours 15 mins; April 07, 2017
Ruth Beckford and Careth Reid, “The Picture Man: From the Collection of Bay Area Photographer E. F. Joseph” (Arcadia, 2017)
19 mins; March 30, 2017
Andrew Causey, “Drawn to See: Drawing as Ethnographic Method” (U. Toronto Press, 2016)
56 mins; March 27, 2017
Karl Baden, “The Americans by Car” (Retroactive Press, 2016)
76 hours 12 mins; March 25, 2017
Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)
32 mins; March 19, 2017
Damion Searls, “The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing” (Crown, 2017)
56 mins; March 07, 2017
Paul LeValley, “Art Follows Nature: A Worldwide History of the Nude” (Edition One Books, 2016)
41 mins; March 07, 2017
Elana Shapira, “Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siecle Vienna” (Brandeis UP, 2016)
47 mins; March 02, 2017
Daniel Magaziner, “The Art of Life in South Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2016)
56 mins; February 17, 2017
Daniel W. Coburn, “The Hereditary Estate” (Kehrer Verlag, 2015)
49 mins; February 13, 2017
David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
60 hours 36 mins; January 03, 2017
Leon Borensztein, “Sharon” (Kehrer Verlag, 2016)
45 mins; December 23, 2016
Amy Von Lintel, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Watercolors, 1916-1918” (Radius, 2016)
45 mins; December 17, 2016
Paul Benneworth et al., “The Impact and Future of Arts and Humanities Research” (Palgrave, 2016)
44 mins; December 13, 2016
Amani Willett, “Amani Willett: Disquiet” (Damiani Factory, 2013)
43 mins; December 10, 2016
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Enduring Truths: Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
38 mins; November 29, 2016
Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, “The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World” (Thames and Hudson, 2016)
64 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2016
Federica Goffi, “Time Matter(s): Invention and Reimagination in Built Conservation” (Routledge, 2013)
52 mins; November 23, 2016
Byrd Williams, “Proof: Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family” (U. of North Texas Press, 2016)
50 mins; November 19, 2016
Kirsty Sedgman, “Locating the Audience: How People Found Value in National Theatre Wales” (Intellect Books 2016)
41 mins; November 19, 2016
Paul C. Taylor, “Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics” (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
66 hours 8 mins; November 15, 2016
Robert Brain, “The Pulse of Modernism: Physiological Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (U. of Washington Press, 2015)
68 hours 55 mins; November 12, 2016
April Dammann, “Corita Kent: Art and Soul: The Biography” (Angel City Press, 2015)
43 mins; October 21, 2016
Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
49 mins; October 18, 2016
Stevphen Shukaitis, “The Composition of Movements to Come: Aesthetics and Cultural Labor after the Avant-Garde” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
39 mins; October 05, 2016
Robert Herman, “The New Yorkers” (Proof Positive Press, 2015)
53 mins; September 30, 2016
E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
55 mins; September 21, 2016
Jade Doskow, “Lost Utopias” (Black Dog Publishing, 2016)
56 mins; September 21, 2016
Alfred S. Posamentier and Robert Geretschlager, “The Circle: A Mathematical Exploration Beyond the Line” (Prometheus Books, 2016)
55 mins; September 11, 2016
Miki Kratsman with Ariella Azoulay, “The Resolution of the Suspect” (Radius Books, 2016)
50 mins; August 30, 2016
Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
64 hours 21 mins; August 24, 2016
Silvia Jonas, “Ineffability and Its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable in Art, Religion, and Philosophy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
73 hours 44 mins; August 15, 2016
Morgan Pitelka, “Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)
68 hours 43 mins; August 10, 2016
Rachel Price, “Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture and the Future of the Island” (Verso, 2015)
47 mins; August 02, 2016
Paul Roquet, “Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
73 hours 13 mins; July 31, 2016
Diana L. Linden, “Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jewish Identity in the American Scene” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
29 mins; July 28, 2016
Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)
46 mins; July 21, 2016
Kevin Bubriski, “Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos por Vida, ’81-’83” (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016)
41 mins; July 10, 2016
Brent Walker, “The Hidden South–Come Home” (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2016)
49 mins; July 01, 2016
Sandow Birk, “American Qur’an” (Liveright, 2015)
54 mins; June 15, 2016
John Brian King, “Nude Reagan” (Spurl Editions, 2016)
47 mins; June 13, 2016
Ken Light, “Whats Going On? 1969 -1974” (Lighted Square Media, 2015)
46 mins; May 20, 2016
Stern, et al., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee” (Penn State UP, 2015)
61 hours 32 mins; April 20, 2016
Pamela D. Winfield, “Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment” (Oxford UP, 2013)
42 mins; March 29, 2016
Tahneer Oksman, “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” (Columbia UP, 2016)
29 mins; March 24, 2016
Eubanks, Abel and Chen, eds., “Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1.2: Collecting Asias” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
65 hours 12 mins; March 18, 2016
Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
53 mins; March 14, 2016
Krista A. Thompson, “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice” (Duke UP, 2015)
44 mins; March 04, 2016
Kishwar Rizvi, “The Transnational Mosque: Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East” (UNC Press, 2015)
30 mins; February 08, 2016
David Wright, “Understanding Cultural Taste: Sensation, Skill and Sensibility,” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
38 mins; February 03, 2016
George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)
55 mins; January 22, 2016
Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History” (Princeton UP, 2015)
59 mins; January 05, 2016
Roberta Wue, “Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late 19th-Century Shanghai” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
65 hours 10 mins; December 11, 2015
Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, “To Defend the Revolution is to Defend Culture: The Cultural Policy of The Cuban Revolution” (PM Press, 2015)
41 mins; December 01, 2015
Megan Prelinger, “Inside the Machine: Art and Invention in the Electronic Age” (Norton, 2015)
69 hours 25 mins; November 19, 2015
Ping Foong, “The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court” (Harvard UP, 2015)
68 hours 47 mins; November 09, 2015
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, “Performing Policy” (Palgrave, 2014)
59 mins; October 20, 2015
Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)
59 mins; September 30, 2015
Darren Middleton, “Rastafari and the Arts: An Introduction” (Routledge, 2015)
61 hours 6 mins; August 31, 2015
Derek Sayer, “Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History” (Princeton UP 2013)
71 hours 9 mins; July 24, 2015
Jonathan M. Reynolds, “Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
69 hours 8 mins; July 24, 2015
Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)
67 hours 36 mins; June 12, 2015
Meryle Secrest, “Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography” (Knopf, 2014)
33 mins; June 02, 2015
Greg Barnhisel, “Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy” (Columbia UP, 2015)
59 mins; June 02, 2015
Magda Romanska, “The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor” (Anthem Press, 2014)
54 mins; June 02, 2015
John Sharp, “Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art” (MIT Press, 2015)
39 mins; June 01, 2015
Winnie Won Yin Wong, "Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
66 hours 52 mins; May 26, 2015
Ritu G. Khanduri, “Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
34 mins; April 20, 2015
Melissa Dabakis, “A Sisterhood of Sculptors: American Artists in Nineteenth-Century Rome (Penn State UP, 2014)
67 hours 18 mins; April 20, 2015
Kristina Kleutghen, “Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
73 hours 16 mins; February 20, 2015
Ann C. Pizzorusso, “Tweeting Da Vinci” (Da Vinci Press, 2014)
68 hours 56 mins; February 18, 2015
Jen Harvie, “Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism” (Palgrave, 2013)
40 mins; February 09, 2015
Steven Shaviro, “The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
63 hours 8 mins; January 16, 2015
Gene Luen Yang, “Boxers & Saints” (First Second, 2013)
67 hours 36 mins; January 08, 2015
Daniel Margocsy, “Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age” (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
70 hours 10 mins; December 09, 2014
Carolyn L. Kane, “Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art, and Aesthetics after Code” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
65 hours 6 mins; December 03, 2014
Joan Kee, “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method” (University of Minnesota Press, 2013)
68 hours 37 mins; November 07, 2014
Catherine W. Bishir, ‘Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900’ (UNC Press, 2013)
68 hours 33 mins; October 28, 2014
Lara Jaishree Netting, “A Perpetual Fire: John C. Ferguson and His Quest for Chinese Art and Culture” (Hong Kong UP, 2013)
64 hours 33 mins; September 11, 2014
James Nisbet, “Ecologies, Environments, and Energy Systems in Art of the 1960s and 1970s” (MIT Press, 2014)
58 mins; September 10, 2014
Craig Clunas, “Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)
76 hours 48 mins; July 02, 2014
Omar W. Nasim, “Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
69 hours 24 mins; June 02, 2014
Matthew C. Hunter, “Wicked Intelligence” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
73 hours 35 mins; March 23, 2014
Eli Maor and Eugen Jost, “Beautiful Geometry” (Princeton UP, 2014)
51 mins; February 11, 2014
Brian Jay Jones, “Jim Henson: The Biography” (Ballantine Books, 2013)
59 mins; December 06, 2013
Daniel Sherman, "French Primitivism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1975" (U Chicago Press, 2011)
58 mins; December 05, 2013
Christine Yano, “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the Pacific” (Duke UP, 2013)
68 hours 29 mins; August 28, 2013
Pauline Turner Strong, “American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries” (Paradigm Publishers, 2012)
44 mins; August 20, 2013
Jonathan Hay, “Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
69 hours 38 mins; August 19, 2013
Anne-Marie O’Connor, “The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” (Knopf, 2012)
61 hours 48 mins; July 12, 2013
Amanda MacKenzie Stuart, “Empress of Fashion: Diana Vreeland, A Life”
44 mins; June 26, 2013
Kathryn Livingston, “Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend” (Wiley, 2012)
54 mins; June 02, 2013
William Marotti, “Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan” (Duke UP, 2013)
75 hours 9 mins; May 22, 2013
Ian Condry, “The Soul of Anime” (Duke UP, 2013)
71 hours 13 mins; April 30, 2013
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