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Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
49 mins; December 30, 2021
Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Publishing, 2020)
73 hours 44 mins; December 29, 2021
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
38 mins; December 22, 2021
Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)
50 mins; December 21, 2021
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
60 hours 11 mins; December 20, 2021
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
66 hours 42 mins; December 16, 2021
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
44 mins; December 15, 2021
Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)
29 mins; December 09, 2021
Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
52 mins; December 08, 2021
Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
53 mins; December 08, 2021
Aldona Jonaitis, "Art of the Northwest Coast," Second Edition (U Washington Press, 2021)
43 mins; December 06, 2021
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
42 mins; December 01, 2021
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
62 hours 14 mins; November 30, 2021
Kim Charnley, "Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
73 hours 29 mins; November 30, 2021
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)
43 mins; November 26, 2021
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
57 mins; November 23, 2021
Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
45 mins; November 16, 2021
Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
69 hours 19 mins; November 16, 2021
Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)
57 mins; November 12, 2021
Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
58 mins; November 11, 2021
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
72 hours 37 mins; November 03, 2021
Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
49 mins; November 02, 2021
Courtney J. Campbell and Allegra Giovine, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)
47 mins; October 28, 2021
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
84 hours 7 mins; October 25, 2021
Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
38 mins; October 22, 2021
Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
44 mins; October 20, 2021
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
77 hours 35 mins; October 19, 2021
David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
74 hours 48 mins; October 18, 2021
Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
57 mins; October 13, 2021
M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
39 mins; October 12, 2021
Christian Parreno, "Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; October 07, 2021
Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)
59 mins; October 06, 2021
Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)
41 mins; October 05, 2021
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
26 mins; October 01, 2021
Art, Irrepressible: Titian, Comics and Hip Hop
130 hours 6 mins; September 29, 2021
Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
49 mins; September 27, 2021
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
93 hours 53 mins; September 22, 2021
Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
59 mins; September 17, 2021
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
35 mins; September 17, 2021
Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
48 mins; September 03, 2021
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; August 31, 2021
Michael Benedikt, "Architecture Beyond Experience" (Applied Research & Design, 2020)
48 mins; August 17, 2021
Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
80 hours 49 mins; August 13, 2021
Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)
57 mins; August 12, 2021
Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
49 mins; August 11, 2021
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
64 hours 33 mins; August 06, 2021
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
71 hours 25 mins; August 04, 2021
Exploring Perspectives on Imagination and Art through the Lens of Contemporary Theory
21 mins; July 28, 2021
Simon Ferdinand, "Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
39 mins; July 27, 2021
Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
25 mins; July 23, 2021
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
83 hours 10 mins; July 21, 2021
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
49 mins; July 16, 2021
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
65 hours 45 mins; July 14, 2021
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
31 mins; July 14, 2021
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)
64 hours 53 mins; July 09, 2021
Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
34 mins; July 07, 2021
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
67 hours 3 mins; July 07, 2021
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
54 mins; July 06, 2021
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
44 mins; July 05, 2021
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
46 mins; July 05, 2021
Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
53 mins; July 02, 2021
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
59 mins; July 02, 2021
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
44 mins; June 30, 2021
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
59 mins; June 29, 2021
Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)
41 mins; June 29, 2021
Samuel Smiles, "The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2020)
60 hours 55 mins; June 18, 2021
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
34 mins; June 17, 2021
Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
59 mins; June 16, 2021
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
64 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2021
Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)
59 mins; June 14, 2021
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
47 mins; June 09, 2021
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
58 mins; June 09, 2021
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
64 hours 2 mins; June 08, 2021
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
55 mins; June 08, 2021
Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
53 mins; June 07, 2021
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
87 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2021
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
60 hours 47 mins; June 04, 2021
Carla Diana, "My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human" (Harvard Business, 2021)
34 mins; June 03, 2021
Marisol D'Andrea, "The Power of Artistic Thinking: Think Like an Artist and Innovate" (CGRN, 2019)
41 mins; June 01, 2021
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
50 mins; May 25, 2021
Nicole Tersigni, "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020)
25 mins; May 20, 2021
Simon Unwin, "Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making" (Routledge, 2020)
41 mins; May 17, 2021
Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
82 hours 38 mins; May 17, 2021
Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)
33 mins; May 14, 2021
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
38 mins; May 13, 2021
Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
63 hours 5 mins; May 11, 2021
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
51 mins; May 11, 2021
Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
63 hours 27 mins; May 10, 2021
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
46 mins; May 06, 2021
Clemena Antonova, "Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon" (Routledge, 2019)
62 hours 31 mins; May 05, 2021
Catherine E. McKinley, "The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
56 mins; April 29, 2021
Danielle Child, "Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
54 mins; April 29, 2021
K. Bunn-Marcuse and A. Jonaitis, "Unsettling Native Art Histories on the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2020)
45 mins; April 27, 2021
R. Armstrong and R. Hughes "The Art of Experiment: Post-Pandemic Knowledge Practices for 21st-Century Architecture and Design" (Routledge, 2020)
75 hours 8 mins; April 19, 2021
W. David O. Taylor, "Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts" (Eerdmans, 2019)
37 mins; April 09, 2021
Reshaping the Lost Wax Casting Technique: The Methods of Medardo Rosso
22 mins; April 07, 2021
Helen Zughaib and Elia Zughaib, "Stories My Father Told Me: Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon" (Cune Press, 2020)
57 mins; April 07, 2021
M. I. Devine, "Warhol's Mother's Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)
46 mins; April 02, 2021
James Elkins and Erna Fiorentini, "Visual Worlds: Looking, Images, Visual Disciplines" (Oxford UP, 2020)
70 hours 50 mins; April 01, 2021
Aaron Tugendhaft, "The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet" (U Chicago Press, 2020)