New Books in Art
Podcast image
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
44 mins; April 23, 2025
Farouk Yahya, "Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts" (Brill, 2015)
31 mins; April 19, 2025
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
39 mins; April 18, 2025
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
66 hours 15 mins; April 11, 2025
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
44 mins; April 09, 2025
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
61 hours 41 mins; April 08, 2025
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications and Lund Humphries, 2025)
45 mins; April 06, 2025
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
68 hours 28 mins; April 01, 2025
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
77 hours 15 mins; March 31, 2025
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
37 mins; March 20, 2025
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
57 mins; March 19, 2025
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
66 hours 31 mins; March 17, 2025
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
40 mins; March 14, 2025
Michael J. Hatch, "Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840" (Penn State UP, 2023)
93 hours 4 mins; March 13, 2025
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
36 mins; March 12, 2025
Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 10, 2025
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
88 hours 42 mins; March 09, 2025
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
42 mins; March 06, 2025
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
57 mins; March 02, 2025
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
104 hours 43 mins; February 26, 2025
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
42 mins; February 11, 2025
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
47 mins; February 11, 2025
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
44 mins; February 10, 2025
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition
44 mins; February 10, 2025
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; February 10, 2025
Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
40 mins; February 10, 2025
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
42 mins; February 07, 2025
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
34 mins; February 04, 2025
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
56 mins; January 29, 2025
Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
77 hours 54 mins; January 25, 2025
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
48 mins; January 19, 2025
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
56 mins; January 13, 2025
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
60 hours 11 mins; January 06, 2025
Fernando DomĂ­nguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
60 hours 42 mins; January 03, 2025
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
83 hours 10 mins; January 02, 2025
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
63 hours 48 mins; January 02, 2025
Rachel Emily Taylor, "Illustration and Heritage" (Bloombury, 2024)
25 mins; December 27, 2024
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
46 mins; December 21, 2024
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
43 mins; December 19, 2024
Aesthetic Conversions
21 mins; December 16, 2024
Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
50 mins; December 14, 2024
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
44 mins; December 13, 2024
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
54 mins; December 09, 2024
Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)
55 mins; December 07, 2024
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
66 hours 12 mins; November 29, 2024
Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
49 mins; November 25, 2024
Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
49 mins; November 17, 2024
Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation with Dalia Nassar
32 mins; November 17, 2024
Risk
20 mins; November 16, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
56 mins; November 16, 2024
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
57 mins; November 12, 2024
R. Murray Schaffer (1933-2021), Part 2
49 mins; November 11, 2024
Non-literary Fiction
14 mins; November 09, 2024
R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), Part 1
37 mins; November 04, 2024
Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)
52 mins; November 02, 2024
On Listening In
39 mins; October 28, 2024
Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction with Lucy Benjamin
33 mins; October 27, 2024
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
40 mins; October 18, 2024
Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
63 hours 9 mins; October 13, 2024
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
76 hours 50 mins; October 12, 2024
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
64 hours 53 mins; October 08, 2024
For Some Odd Reason
37 mins; October 07, 2024
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
56 mins; October 07, 2024
Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
65 hours 4 mins; September 29, 2024
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
61 hours 5 mins; September 26, 2024
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
38 mins; September 21, 2024
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 04, 2024
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
34 mins; September 04, 2024
Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
58 mins; September 03, 2024
What is Radio Art?
43 mins; September 02, 2024
Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
62 hours 18 mins; August 24, 2024
Jennifer Ponce de LeĂłn, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
63 hours 52 mins; August 23, 2024
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
49 mins; August 20, 2024
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 17, 2024
Gold, Silver, and Bronze with Yuri Cath
33 mins; August 12, 2024
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
37 mins; August 11, 2024
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
30 mins; August 08, 2024
Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
54 mins; August 03, 2024
Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
39 mins; July 26, 2024
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
62 hours 32 mins; July 25, 2024
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
56 mins; July 21, 2024
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
65 hours 58 mins; July 20, 2024
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
48 mins; July 19, 2024
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
70 hours 58 mins; July 14, 2024
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
37 mins; July 12, 2024
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
72 hours 26 mins; July 10, 2024
Breathing Together
44 mins; July 08, 2024
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
42 mins; July 05, 2024
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
59 mins; July 02, 2024
Christina M. GarcĂ­a, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
66 hours 34 mins; June 28, 2024
Sean Redmond, "The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness" (Manchester UP, 2024)
52 mins; June 28, 2024
"America: Now and Here": A Lecture by Artist Eric FIschl
56 mins; June 15, 2024
Youngna Kim, "Korean Art Since 1945: Challenges and Changes" (Brill, 2024)
30 mins; June 08, 2024
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
74 hours 26 mins; June 02, 2024
Chris Haufe, "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 18 mins; May 28, 2024
Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024)
72 hours 18 mins; May 26, 2024
Jan Baetens, "Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities by Schuiten and Peeters" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
59 mins; May 26, 2024
Alex Beringer, "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" (Ohio State UP, 2024)
60 hours 46 mins; May 22, 2024
Mirjam Rajner, "Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945" (Brill, 2019)
121 hours 8 mins; May 22, 2024
Jennifer Dorothy Lee, "Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978-1985" (U California Press, 2024)
83 hours 9 mins; May 16, 2024