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Biscuit Art
12 mins; July 04, 2022
Paul Dobryden, "The Hygienic Apparatus: Weimar Cinema and Environmental Disorder" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
55 mins; July 01, 2022
Kuba Szreder, "The ABC of the Projectariat: Living and Working in a Precarious Art World" (Manchester UP, 2021)
74 hours 4 mins; July 01, 2022
Jasmina Tumbas, "I Am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During and After Yugoslav Socialism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
69 hours 17 mins; July 01, 2022
Elena Tajima Creef, "Shadow Traces: Seeing Japanese/American and Ainu Women in Photographic Archives" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
50 mins; June 17, 2022
Lilianne Milgrom, "L' Origine: The Secret Life of the World's Most Erotic Masterpiece" (Girl Friday Books, 2021)
46 mins; June 15, 2022
Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
61 hours 27 mins; June 14, 2022
Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
103 hours 12 mins; June 13, 2022
Yi Gu, "Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting" (Harvard UP, 2021)
59 mins; June 10, 2022
Sherri Irvin, "Immaterial: Rules in Contemporary Art" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 33 mins; June 10, 2022
Hentyle Yapp, "Minor China: Method, Materialisms, and the Aesthetic" (Duke UP, 2021)
72 hours 3 mins; June 09, 2022
Fleur Watson, "The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2021)
32 mins; June 07, 2022
Joshua Citarella, "Politigram and the Post-Left" (Blurb, 2021)
61 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Lisa Blackmore and Liliana GĂłmez, "Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art" (Routledge, 2020)
65 hours 35 mins; June 07, 2022
Andrew Shortland and Patrick Degryse, "When Art Isnât Real: The World's Most Controversial Objects under Investigation" (Leuven UP, 2022)
59 mins; June 03, 2022
Shara Rambarran, "Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
63 hours 35 mins; June 03, 2022
Realism
19 mins; June 02, 2022
On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism
45 mins; May 31, 2022
Amanda Phillips, "Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean" (U California Press, 2021)
53 mins; May 27, 2022
Christopher J. Gilbert, "Caricature and National Character: The United States at War" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
43 mins; May 26, 2022
Farah Nayeri, "Takedown: Art and Power in the Digital Age" (Astra Publishing, 2022)
67 hours 7 mins; May 24, 2022
Catherine McCormack, "Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies" (Norton, 2021)
56 mins; May 23, 2022
Autotheory
13 mins; May 23, 2022
Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
51 mins; May 20, 2022
Mike Watson, "The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do about It" (Zero Books, 2021)
78 hours 14 mins; May 18, 2022
Paddy Docherty, "Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin" (Hurst, 2022)
75 hours 7 mins; May 17, 2022
Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
57 mins; May 16, 2022
Samuel J. Redman, "Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology" (Harvard UP, 2021)
48 mins; May 11, 2022
The Problem with Museums: A Conversation with Georgina Adam and Nizan Shaked
72 hours 23 mins; May 10, 2022
Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
70 hours 41 mins; May 10, 2022
Computational Creativity
20 mins; May 06, 2022
Mimesis
11 mins; May 04, 2022
The Future of Statues: A Conversation with Alex Von Tunzelmann
41 mins; May 03, 2022
Michael Mackenzie, "Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance" (Peter Lang, 2019)
47 mins; May 03, 2022
Paul Geary, "Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants" (Intellect Books, 2022)
68 hours 35 mins; May 02, 2022
What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng
35 mins; April 22, 2022
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
61 hours 36 mins; April 21, 2022
Ayelet Zohar and Alison J. Miller, "The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity" (Routledge, 2021)
52 mins; April 21, 2022
Lisa Reilly, "The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
51 mins; April 20, 2022
Delinda Collier, "Media Primitivism: Technological Art in Africa" (Duke UP, 2020)
55 mins; April 20, 2022
Hilton Judin, "Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital" (Routledge, 2021)
26 mins; April 19, 2022
Charles Dellheim, "Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
104 hours 10 mins; April 19, 2022
Paul R. Deslandes, "The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
55 mins; April 19, 2022
Anadelia Romo, "Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia" (U Texas Press, 2022)
64 hours 7 mins; April 13, 2022
Autonomous Work of Art
13 mins; April 12, 2022
Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
72 hours 1 min; April 12, 2022
David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
72 hours 1 min; April 11, 2022
Manu Pillai, "False Allies: Indiaâs Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma" (Juggernaut, 2021)
48 mins; April 07, 2022
Aura
11 mins; April 04, 2022
Lucy Donkin, "Standing on Holy Ground in the Middle Ages" (Cornell UP, 2022)
68 hours 10 mins; March 31, 2022
Abigail Susik, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" (Manchester UP, 2021)
77 hours 48 mins; March 31, 2022
Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022)
50 mins; March 30, 2022
Hannah Star Rogers, "Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies" (Routledge, 2021))
41 mins; March 30, 2022
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
42 mins; March 29, 2022
Eiren L. Shea, "Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange" (Routledge, 2020)
53 mins; March 25, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
51 mins; March 25, 2022
Elayne Oliphant, "The Privilege of Being Banal: Art, Secularism, and Catholicism in Paris" (UChicago Press, 2021)
54 mins; March 25, 2022
Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
52 mins; March 17, 2022
On Bushi Sculpting, Filmmaking, and "Carving the Divine"
35 mins; March 16, 2022
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
52 mins; March 14, 2022
Nadir Lahiji, "Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou" (Routledge, 2021)
26 mins; March 11, 2022
Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
54 mins; March 09, 2022
Sarah-Neel Smith, "Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey" (U California Press, 2022)
49 mins; March 08, 2022
Edward Tyerman, "Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture" (Columbia UP, 2021)
80 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2022
Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
54 mins; March 07, 2022
Julian Stallabrass, "Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
68 hours 35 mins; March 04, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
41 mins; March 03, 2022
Michael Merrill, "Louis Kahn: The Importance of Drawing" (Lars Muller Publishers, 2020)
25 mins; March 03, 2022
Anneka Lenssen, "Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria" (U California Press, 2020)
63 hours 8 mins; February 28, 2022
Candace M. Keller, "Imaging Culture: Photography in Mali, West Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
82 hours 59 mins; February 28, 2022
Kerry Dean Carso, "Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
22 mins; February 23, 2022
Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)
63 hours 37 mins; February 22, 2022
Keller Easterling, "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" (Verso, 2021)
49 mins; February 17, 2022
Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)
65 hours 55 mins; February 15, 2022
Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
68 hours 42 mins; February 14, 2022
Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
54 mins; February 08, 2022
Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
30 mins; February 07, 2022
Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)
50 mins; February 04, 2022
Simon Critchley, "Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts" (Yale UP, 2021)
65 hours 27 mins; February 03, 2022
Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
60 hours 23 mins; January 28, 2022
Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)
61 hours 2 mins; January 28, 2022
Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)
Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
75 hours 21 mins; January 26, 2022
Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel, "The Middle Ages: A Graphic History" (Icon Books, 2020)
64 hours 22 mins; January 25, 2022
Howard Philips Smith, "A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
33 mins; January 24, 2022
Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
56 mins; January 21, 2022
Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
58 mins; January 21, 2022
Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
20 mins; January 18, 2022
Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)
64 hours 21 mins; January 18, 2022
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
64 hours 16 mins; January 13, 2022
Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
46 mins; January 12, 2022
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
50 mins; January 12, 2022
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
43 mins; January 11, 2022
Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)
57 mins; January 10, 2022
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
26 mins; January 07, 2022
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
22 mins; January 07, 2022
Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)
62 hours 44 mins; January 06, 2022
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
55 mins; January 05, 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)