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Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023

What Was Contemporary Art?

19 mins; August 04, 2023

Why Photography Matters

12 mins; August 03, 2023

Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)

47 mins; August 02, 2023

Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

36 mins; August 01, 2023

Ben Highmore, "In Good Taste: How Britain's Middle Classes Found Their Style" (Manchester UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 31, 2023

Tom Young, "Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2023)

56 mins; July 29, 2023

Nina Lager Vestberg, "Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization" (MIT Press, 2023)

50 mins; July 26, 2023

Brigitte Buettner, "The Mineral and the Visual: Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2022)

60 hours 30 mins; July 23, 2023

Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)

36 mins; July 20, 2023

Brahma Prakash, "Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India" (LeftWord, 2023)

54 mins; July 19, 2023

Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)

65 hours 45 mins; July 11, 2023

Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

31 mins; July 10, 2023

Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)

53 mins; July 10, 2023

Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)

53 mins; July 09, 2023

Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)

58 mins; July 03, 2023

Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)

80 hours 18 mins; July 02, 2023

Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

18 mins; July 01, 2023

Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding

14 mins; July 01, 2023

Deirdre Bair on Artist Saul Steinberg

46 mins; July 01, 2023

Yael Rice, "The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court" (U Washington Press, 2023)

56 mins; June 30, 2023

Marie Arleth Skov, "Punk Art History: Artworks from the European No Future Generation" (Intellect, 2023)

37 mins; June 30, 2023

TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara

17 mins; June 29, 2023

Rebecca Whiteley, "Birth Figures: Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

38 mins; June 26, 2023

The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital

15 mins; June 20, 2023

Works of Game: On the Aesthetics of Games and Art

14 mins; June 19, 2023

Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)

65 hours 29 mins; June 16, 2023

Deborah Stevenson, "Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Value, Work and the Social" (Edward Elgar, 2023)

44 mins; June 16, 2023

Michael B. Gill, "A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art" (Princeton UP, 2022)

67 hours 44 mins; June 14, 2023

Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022)

61 hours 56 mins; June 13, 2023

Arturo Rodríguez Morató and Alvaro Santana-Acuña, "Sociology of the Arts in Action: New Perspectives on Creation, Production, and Reception" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

63 hours 44 mins; June 11, 2023

Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)

48 mins; June 10, 2023

Celia Fisher, "The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

55 mins; June 04, 2023

Monika Raesch, "Abbas Kiarostami: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)

45 mins; June 04, 2023

Lance Esplund, "The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art" (Basic, 2018)

61 hours 59 mins; June 04, 2023

Art Auctions and Data Science

38 mins; June 04, 2023

Gender and Equality in Art and Exploration

13 mins; June 03, 2023

A Slow Burning Fire: The Rise of the New Art Practice in Yugoslavia

51 mins; May 29, 2023

Lisa McCormick, "The Cultural Sociology of Art and Music: New Directions and New Discoveries" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

45 mins; May 28, 2023

Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

58 mins; May 26, 2023

Publishing in Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

55 mins; May 26, 2023

The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain

41 mins; May 24, 2023

Jonathan Adeyemi, "Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets: Trending in the Margins" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)

35 mins; May 21, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

48 mins; May 20, 2023

Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully

57 mins; May 19, 2023

Full Version: Lauren Fournier and McKenzie Wark on Autotheory

95 hours 28 mins; May 19, 2023

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism

44 mins; May 18, 2023

Pamela M. Lee, "Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present" (MIT Press, 2020)

71 hours 24 mins; May 16, 2023

Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida, "Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 19 mins; May 13, 2023

Andrew R. Casper, "An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

56 mins; May 11, 2023

Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)

31 mins; May 10, 2023

Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value

25 mins; May 10, 2023

Barbara Penner et al., "Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects" (Reaktion Books, 2021)

62 hours 27 mins; May 08, 2023

5.3 “It’s on the Illabus”

45 mins; May 04, 2023

John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2023

Craig Leonard, "Uncommon Sense: Aesthetics after Marcuse" (MIT Press, 2022)

54 mins; April 29, 2023

Computer Graphics

17 mins; April 27, 2023

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

32 mins; April 26, 2023

Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

37 mins; April 25, 2023

Catherine Grant, "A Time of One's Own: Histories of Feminism in Contemporary Art" (Duke UP, 2022)

57 mins; April 22, 2023

Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)

52 mins; April 20, 2023

Barbara Sjoholm, "From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

58 mins; April 19, 2023

Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

58 mins; April 13, 2023

John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)

52 mins; April 12, 2023

Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)

64 hours 21 mins; April 12, 2023

Daniel Neofetou, "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

69 hours 38 mins; April 09, 2023

Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)

42 mins; April 08, 2023

Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

42 mins; April 08, 2023

Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

55 mins; April 05, 2023

Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

73 hours 58 mins; April 04, 2023

Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)

78 hours 16 mins; April 03, 2023

Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

43 mins; April 02, 2023

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

111 hours 4 mins; March 31, 2023

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)

61 hours 43 mins; March 27, 2023

Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)

60 hours 41 mins; March 26, 2023

Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)

55 mins; March 24, 2023

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

29 mins; March 24, 2023

Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis

35 mins; March 23, 2023

David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

67 hours 50 mins; March 22, 2023

Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

59 mins; March 20, 2023

Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)

68 hours 24 mins; March 19, 2023

John Miller, "The Philosophy of Tattoos" (British Library, 2021)

52 mins; March 19, 2023

Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)

26 mins; March 19, 2023

The Sharing of Sound Art

37 mins; March 18, 2023

Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

30 mins; March 17, 2023

Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)

58 mins; March 17, 2023

Jan Harrison's “Animal Tongues”

25 mins; March 09, 2023

Elina Gertsman and Barbara H. Rosenwein, "The Middle Ages in 50 Objects" (Cambridge UP, 2018)

69 hours 16 mins; March 08, 2023

Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)

54 mins; March 03, 2023

Dave Colangelo, "The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media" (Amsterdam UP, 2019)

24 mins; February 28, 2023

Frances Howard, "Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs: How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference" (Policy Press, 2022)

40 mins; February 27, 2023

Jonathan Homrighausen, "Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: The Song of Songs, and The Saint Johns Bible" (Liturgical Press, 2022)

44 mins; February 25, 2023

Alexandra Chiriac, "Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest" (de Gruyter, 2022)

66 hours 34 mins; February 25, 2023

Seeing Truth in Photographs

42 mins; February 23, 2023

Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson, "Failures in Cultural Participation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

66 hours 38 mins; February 20, 2023

Why Should Cultural Heritage Be Protected?

29 mins; February 19, 2023

Jacob Birken, "Video Games: Digital Image Cultures" (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 2022)

92 hours 33 mins; February 18, 2023

Lesly Deschler Canossi and Zoraida Lopez-Diago, "Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing" (Leuven UP, 2022)

49 mins; February 12, 2023

Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)

47 mins; February 11, 2023

Michael Murawski, "Museums as Agents of Change: A Guide to Becoming a Changemaker" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021)

45 mins; February 07, 2023

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