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Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
86 hours 8 mins; March 17, 2021
Francoise Bollack, "Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture" (Monacelli Press, 2020)
36 mins; March 12, 2021
J. L. Heilbron, "The Ghost of Galileo: In a Forgotten Painting from the English Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2021)
35 mins; March 10, 2021
Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
31 mins; March 10, 2021
Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2020)
72 hours 4 mins; March 10, 2021
Morton Schoolman, "A Democratic Enlightenment: The Reconciliation Image, Aesthetic Education, Possible Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
74 hours 8 mins; March 04, 2021
J. Jay Garfinkel, "Heirlooms : Memory and Cherished Objects" (One Family Foundation, 2020)
36 mins; March 01, 2021
Fiona Greenland, "Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Raiders, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy" (U of Chicago Press, 2021)
58 mins; February 25, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between: A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
22 mins; February 25, 2021
Luc Sante, "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" (Verse Chorus Press, 2020)
47 mins; February 25, 2021
Enrico Bonadio, "Protecting Art in the Street: A Guide to Copyright in Street Art and Graffiti" (Dokument Forlag, 2020)
39 mins; February 25, 2021
William C. Brumfield, "Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky" (Duke UP, 2020)
63 hours 17 mins; February 15, 2021
Tavia Nyong’o, "Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2028)
53 mins; February 05, 2021
Jonas Staal, "Propaganda Art in the 21st Century" (MIT Press, 2019)
65 hours 14 mins; February 04, 2021
Leigh Claire La Berge, "Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art" (Duke UP, 2019)
61 hours 56 mins; January 28, 2021
GerShun Avilez, "Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
53 mins; January 26, 2021
David C. Lane, "Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change Among Tattoo Workers" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
46 mins; January 19, 2021
Rachel Berenson Perry, "The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light" (Indiana UP, 2019)
34 mins; January 15, 2021
Janis Tomlinson, "Goya: A Portrait of the Artist" (Princeton UP, 2020)
54 mins; January 15, 2021
Rob DeSalle, "A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
64 hours 12 mins; January 13, 2021
Tom Holert, "Knowledge Beside Itself: Contemporary Art's Epistemic Politics" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
47 mins; January 12, 2021
Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
45 mins; December 30, 2020
Robin Mitchell, "VĂ©nus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
63 hours 1 min; December 29, 2020
Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages: A Discussion with Roland Betancourt
68 hours 5 mins; December 15, 2020
Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales, "Painter and Patron: The Maritime Silk Road in the Códice Casanatense" (Abbreviated Press, 2020)
52 mins; November 30, 2020
Philip D. Plowright, "Making Architecture Through Being Human: A Handbook of Design Ideas" (Routledge, 2019)
30 mins; November 27, 2020
Ara H. Merjian, "Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
55 mins; November 18, 2020
Marisa Anne Bass, "Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt" (Princeton UP, 2019)
52 mins; November 17, 2020
Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
66 hours 21 mins; November 16, 2020
Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
83 hours 58 mins; November 16, 2020
Arlene Davila, "Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
60 hours 38 mins; November 13, 2020
Anne Gerritsen, "The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
65 hours 2 mins; November 12, 2020
Stephen H. Whiteman, "Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe" (U Washington Press, 2020)
82 hours 15 mins; November 11, 2020
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
67 hours 25 mins; November 10, 2020
Silvie Jacobi, "Art Schools and Place: Geographies of Emerging Artists and Art Scenes" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
39 mins; November 03, 2020
Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)
94 hours 24 mins; October 20, 2020
Jessica Zychowicz, "Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First Century Ukraine" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
54 mins; October 16, 2020
William P. Seeley, "Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts" (Oxford UP, 2020)
64 hours 51 mins; October 12, 2020
Dave O’Brien, "Culture is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries" (Manchester UP, 2020)
57 mins; October 12, 2020
Jill Richards, "The Fury Archives: Female Citizenship, Human Rights, and the International Avant-Gardes" (Columbia UP, 2020)
52 mins; October 08, 2020
Prita Meier, "Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere" (Indiana UP, 2016)
87 hours 54 mins; October 05, 2020
Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
63 hours 53 mins; September 04, 2020
Ronak K. Kapadia, "Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War"(Duke UP, 2019)
49 mins; September 03, 2020
Beth Pickens, "Your Art Will Save Your Life" (The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2018)
57 mins; August 21, 2020
T. Fischer and C.M. Herr, "Design Cybernetics: Navigating the New" (Springer, 2019)
67 hours 40 mins; August 20, 2020
Madina Tlostanova, "What Does it Mean to be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire" (Duke UP, 2018)
58 mins; August 14, 2020
Vesna Kittelson, "Lost and Found in America" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
43 mins; August 13, 2020
Karen Patel, "The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
39 mins; August 12, 2020
Nozomi Naoi, "Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Washington Press, 2020)
77 hours 50 mins; August 05, 2020
Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)
53 mins; July 31, 2020
Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason" (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2020)
48 mins; July 30, 2020
Junior Tomlin, "Junior Tomlin: Flyer and Cover Art" (Velocity Press, 2020)
55 mins; July 28, 2020
Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
50 mins; July 24, 2020
Laurie Olin, "Be Seated" (ORO Editions, 2017)
50 mins; July 22, 2020
Angela S. Chiu, "The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
53 mins; July 20, 2020
Laurie Olin, "France Sketchbook" (ORO Editions, 2020)
47 mins; July 15, 2020
Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
56 mins; July 14, 2020
Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" (Henry Holt, 2018)
42 mins; July 10, 2020
Christian Kleinbub, "Michelangelo’s Inner Anatomies" (Penn State UP, 2020)
58 mins; July 07, 2020
A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 3: Eisler vs. the Flat Earth
56 mins; June 23, 2020
Ana MarĂ­a Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz GonzĂĄlez and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
56 mins; June 09, 2020
Anne Godfrey, "Active Landscape Photography: Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture" (Routledge, 2020)
48 mins; June 05, 2020
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
64 hours 53 mins; June 05, 2020
Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" (Laurence King Publishing, 2019)
38 mins; June 04, 2020
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
56 mins; June 03, 2020
Pablo Meninato, "Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp" (Routledge, 2018)
48 mins; June 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art" (U Hawaii Press 2019)
64 hours 19 mins; June 02, 2020
Iva Glisic, "The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930" (NIU Press, 2018)
62 hours 53 mins; May 21, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Ünver RĂŒstem, "Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul" (Princeton UP, 2019)
72 hours 3 mins; April 28, 2020
Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, "Stages: On Dying, Working, and Feeling" (Thick Press, 2020)
51 mins; April 23, 2020
Jacki Apple, "Performance / Media / Art / Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018" (Intellect Books, 2019)
104 hours 16 mins; April 23, 2020
Alex Berke, "Beautiful Symmetry: A Coloring Book about Math" (MIT Press, 2020)
50 mins; April 22, 2020
Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)
60 hours 1 min; April 17, 2020
Mari Coates, "The Pelton Papers" (She Writes Press, 2020)
42 mins; April 13, 2020
Margaret Hillenbrand, "Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2020)
58 mins; April 02, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Elizabeth Goldring, "Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist" (Yale UP, 2019)
60 hours 2 mins; March 11, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Caitlin Frances Bruce, "Painting Publics: Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter" (Temple UP, 2019)
65 hours 39 mins; February 19, 2020
Maria Taroutina, "The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival" (Penn State UP, 2018)
64 hours 7 mins; February 18, 2020
Alex Dika Seggerman, "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary" (UNC Press, 2019)
42 mins; February 04, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Identity Crisis: The Self-Portrait of a Thirteen-Year-Old Van Gogh
14 mins; January 10, 2020
K. B. Berzock, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa" (Princeton UP, 2019)
69 hours 27 mins; December 23, 2019
Jane D. Hatter, "Composing Community in Late Medieval Music: Self-Reference, Pedagogy, and Practice" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
56 mins; December 23, 2019
April Eisman, "Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany" (Camden House, 2018)
57 mins; December 20, 2019
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts" (Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
33 mins; December 13, 2019
Thomas Yarrow, "Architects: Portraits of a Practice" (Cornell UP, 2019)
36 mins; December 12, 2019
Erin Schoneveld, "Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde" (Brill, 2018)
68 hours 39 mins; December 06, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Roland Elliot Brown, "Godless Utopia: Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda" (FUEL, 2019)
46 mins; November 26, 2019
Gary Meisner, "The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics" (Race Point Press, 2018)
38 mins; November 22, 2019
Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement" (Palgrave, 2019)
34 mins; November 13, 2019
Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America" (U California Press, 2018)
81 hours 39 mins; November 09, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; October 24, 2019
Catherine Clark, "Paris and the Cliché of History: The City in Photographs, 1860-1970" (Oxford UP, 2018)
59 mins; October 18, 2019
Gabriel Jones, "Splashes" (RVB Press, 2018)
43 mins; September 19, 2019
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