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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
Dancing Parkinson's and Queering Science with John Noel Viaña
34 mins; May 14, 2024
Karen Pechilis et al. ed., "Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
45 mins; May 09, 2024
Salar Mameni, "Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2023)
66 hours 59 mins; May 05, 2024
Nadine A. Sinno, "A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut" (U Texas Press, 2024)
35 mins; May 02, 2024
Justin OâConnor, "Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common" (Manchester UP, 2024)
59 mins; May 01, 2024
Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021)
64 hours 22 mins; April 29, 2024
Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration
50 mins; April 25, 2024
Danielle Taschereau Mamers, "Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing: Documentation, Administration, and the Interventions of Indigenous Art" (Fordham UP, 2023)
48 mins; April 23, 2024
Nathanial Gardner, "The Study of Photography in Latin America: Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
41 mins; April 18, 2024
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
60 hours 26 mins; April 16, 2024
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
63 hours 8 mins; April 14, 2024
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
60 hours 37 mins; April 12, 2024
Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
39 mins; April 11, 2024
Enactivism, Embodiment, and the Gorier Stuff with Marilyn Stendera
33 mins; April 07, 2024
Oliver Wunsch, "A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France" (Penn State UP, 2024)
52 mins; March 31, 2024
Aleksandar BoskoviÄ and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
80 hours 15 mins; March 29, 2024
Chia-ling Yang, "Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
81 hours 18 mins; March 27, 2024
Jehanne Dubrow, "Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity" (U New Mexico Press, 2023)
24 mins; March 24, 2024
Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat, "Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
50 mins; March 17, 2024
Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
48 mins; March 17, 2024
Gavin Butt, "No Machos Or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk" (Duke UP, 2022)
48 mins; March 13, 2024
Xin Gu, "Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist Critique and Social Networks in the Cultural Industries" (Routledge, 2023)
49 mins; March 11, 2024
Jon Robson, "Aesthetic Testimony: An Optimistic Approach" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 2 mins; March 10, 2024
Carmen Fracchia, "'Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700" (Oxford UP, 2019)
79 hours 45 mins; March 08, 2024
Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
52 mins; March 06, 2024
Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
59 mins; March 04, 2024
Alvita Akiboh, "Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
47 mins; March 03, 2024
Mai Corlin, "The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
51 mins; February 26, 2024
T. Corey Brennan, "The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol" (Oxford UP, 2022)
49 mins; February 21, 2024
Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss, "The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France" (Getty, 2022)
48 mins; February 17, 2024
Ed Simon, "Relic" (Bloomsbury. 2024)
48 mins; February 15, 2024
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21 mins; February 15, 2024
Ana Lucia Araujo, "The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
44 mins; February 11, 2024
Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; February 10, 2024
Dustin Kiskaddon, "Blood and Lightening: On Becoming a Tattooer" (Stanford UP, 2023)
49 mins; February 04, 2024
Sabina Andron, "Urban Surfaces, Graffiti, and the Right to the City" (Routledge, 2024)
61 hours 59 mins; February 04, 2024
William L. Bird, "In the Arms of Saguaros: Iconography of the Giant Cactus" (U Arizona Press, 2023)
48 mins; February 03, 2024
Alex Burchmore, "New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art" (U California Press, 2023)
58 mins; February 02, 2024
Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
49 mins; January 22, 2024
Emma Gleadhill, "Taking Travel Home: The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830" (Manchester UP, 2022)
62 hours 24 mins; January 16, 2024
Ofer Ashkenazi, "Anti-Heimat Cinema: The Jewish Invention of the German Landscape" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
63 hours 47 mins; January 09, 2024
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy"Â (Oxford UP, 2018)
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, "The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
52 mins; January 05, 2024
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
35 mins; January 04, 2024
Robert R. Janes, "Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat" (Routledge, 2023)
57 mins; January 02, 2024
Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
42 mins; December 30, 2023
Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
62 hours 45 mins; December 26, 2023
Ran Oron, "He Could See a Bird Outside if He Looked Through His Window" (Persimmon Books, 2023)
36 mins; December 24, 2023
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
37 mins; December 19, 2023
Nettrice R. Gaskins, "Techno-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation: Culturally Relevant Making Inside and Outside of the Classroom" (MIT Press, 2021)
22 mins; December 13, 2023
Genealogies of Modernity Episode 5: Picturing Race in Colonial Mexico
60 hours 5 mins; December 09, 2023
Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
67 hours 35 mins; December 08, 2023
Amy Matthewson, "Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era" (Routledge, 2022)
35 mins; December 06, 2023
Monica Huerta, "The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism" (NYU Press, 2023)
73 hours 57 mins; December 04, 2023
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
51 mins; December 01, 2023
Vid Simoniti, "Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto" (Yale UP, 2023)
58 mins; November 29, 2023
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 28, 2023
Peter Bellerby, "The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
39 mins; November 27, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
45 mins; November 25, 2023
Kai Jun Chen, "Porcelain for the Emperor: Manufacture and Technocracy in Qing China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
67 hours 17 mins; November 13, 2023
Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
81 hours 55 mins; November 09, 2023
Valerie Kivelson et al., "Picturing Russian Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 07, 2023
Peter Nelson, "Computer Games As Landscape Art" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
36 mins; November 06, 2023
Ed Simon, "Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology" (Cernunnos, 2023)
39 mins; November 05, 2023
Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
55 mins; November 04, 2023
"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
52 mins; November 02, 2023
Henrik FĂŒrst and Erik Nylander, "The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk High Schools" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
38 mins; October 30, 2023
Chet Van Duzer, "Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps" (Brill, 2023)
41 mins; October 29, 2023
Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
53 mins; October 29, 2023
Pat Thomson and Christine Hall, "Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life" (Routledge, 2023)
45 mins; October 28, 2023
Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
73 hours 32 mins; October 28, 2023
Valerie Werder, "Thieves: A Novel" (Fence Books, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; October 27, 2023
Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
75 hours 37 mins; October 27, 2023
Diana Kamin, "Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy" (MIT Press, 2023)
54 mins; October 25, 2023
Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)
30 mins; October 22, 2023
Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
77 hours 11 mins; October 21, 2023
Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, "Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future" (Stanford UP, 2023)
42 mins; October 11, 2023
Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
63 hours 33 mins; October 06, 2023
Visibility
16 mins; October 06, 2023
Katrin Nahidi, "The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
65 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 26, 2023
Antony Kalashnikov, "Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time" (Cornell UP, 2023)
59 mins; September 23, 2023
Alba Griffin, "Reading the Walls of Bogota: Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
76 hours 44 mins; September 22, 2023
Margaret Galvan, "In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
52 mins; September 16, 2023
Bryan Rennie, "An Ethology of Religion and Art: Belief as Behavior" (Routledge, 2020)
68 hours 54 mins; September 16, 2023
Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson, "The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression" (Leuven UP, 2021)
26 mins; September 13, 2023
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32 mins; September 12, 2023
Marc Bonners, "Open World Structures: Architecture, Urban and Natural landscape in the Computer Game" (BĂŒchner-Verlag, 2023)
45 mins; September 07, 2023
Caveh Zahedi, "Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi" (Factory 25, 2015)
27 mins; September 06, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
52 mins; September 06, 2023
Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
53 mins; September 05, 2023
Elise Herrala, "Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia" (Routledge, 2021)
51 mins; September 03, 2023
John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
61 hours 28 mins; September 03, 2023
Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
55 mins; September 02, 2023
Hamid Keshmirshekan, "The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
78 hours 33 mins; August 30, 2023
Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)