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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
36 mins; August 29, 2019
Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)
44 mins; August 22, 2019
Sean Foley, "Changing Saudi Arabia: Art, Culture and Society in the Kingdom" (Lynne Rienner, 2019)
67 hours 4 mins; August 08, 2019
Elizabeth Otto, "Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics" (MIT Press, 2019)
74 hours 8 mins; August 06, 2019
Carlos Garrido Castellano, "Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
36 mins; July 17, 2019
Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion" (Princeton UP, 2018)
56 mins; July 17, 2019
Nancy S. Steinhardt, "Chinese Architecture: A History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
63 hours 2 mins; July 16, 2019
Sarah Anne Carter, "Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World" (Oxford UP, 2018)
62 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2019
Kimberly Alexander, "Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
64 hours 41 mins; June 26, 2019
Amy Lippert, "Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco" (Oxford UP, 2018)
118 hours 20 mins; June 25, 2019
Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
87 hours 11 mins; June 19, 2019
John Etty, "Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
44 mins; May 30, 2019
Linda M. Grasso, "Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism" (U New Mexico Press, 2017)
64 hours 9 mins; May 27, 2019
John J. Curley, "Global Art and the Cold War" (Laurence King Publishers, 2019)
53 mins; May 27, 2019
Dia Da Costa, "Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater" (U Illinois Press, 2016)
60 hours 46 mins; May 24, 2019
Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien, "Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit" (UNC Press, 2019)
88 hours 56 mins; May 22, 2019
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
36 mins; May 22, 2019
Chip Sullivan, “Cartooning the Landscape” (U Virginia Press, 2016)
60 hours 12 mins; May 16, 2019
CaitlĂ­n EilĂ­s Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens" (Oxford UP, 2019)
102 hours 22 mins; May 07, 2019
Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019)
67 hours 5 mins; April 19, 2019
Chip Colwell, "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
66 hours 49 mins; April 19, 2019
Sigrid Lien, "Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
64 hours 7 mins; April 08, 2019
Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface" (Oxford UP, 2017)
41 mins; March 25, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
32 mins; March 19, 2019
Seth Bernard, "Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy" (Oxford UP, 2018)
35 mins; March 14, 2019
Farhana Shaikh, "From Imposter to Impact: Arts Leadership in the 21st Century" (Dahlia Publishing, 2019)
35 mins; March 05, 2019
Alexander Langlands, "CrĂŚft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)
54 mins; March 03, 2019
S. A. Duncan and A. McClellan, "The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard" (Getty Research Institute, 2018)
63 hours 46 mins; February 27, 2019
Nadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: A Visual Collection of Landscape Architectural Drawings" (Routledge, 2012)
58 mins; February 21, 2019
Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
52 mins; February 01, 2019
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis. "Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham" (Empire States Editions, 2018)
38 mins; January 30, 2019
Elizabeth A. Fraser, "Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839" (Penn State UP, 2017)
82 hours 7 mins; January 23, 2019
BenoĂŽt Majerus, "From the Middle Ages to Today: Experiences and Representations of Madness in Paris" (Parigramme, 2018)
35 mins; January 16, 2019
Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American Artists in the 1960s and 1970s" (Duke UP, 2017)
49 mins; December 24, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
64 hours 1 min; December 06, 2018
Catherine Russell, "Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices" (Duke UP, 2018)
53 mins; November 29, 2018
Mark J. Blechner, "The Mindbrain and Dreams: An Exploration of Dreaming, Thinking, and Artistic Creation" (Routledge, 2018)
55 mins; November 28, 2018
Nivedita Lakhera, “Pillow of Dreams” (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017)
57 mins; November 21, 2018
Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
63 hours 26 mins; November 20, 2018
Pedith Pui Chan, “The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalization and Legitimization of Guohua in Republican Shanghai” (Brill, 2017)
60 hours 13 mins; November 20, 2018
Ronald Rael, “Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary” (U California Press, 2017)
43 mins; November 16, 2018
Dustin Parsons, “Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams” (U Georgia Press, 2018)
46 mins; November 07, 2018
Gary Alan Fine, “Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
42 mins; October 25, 2018
Jorge Coronado, “Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950” (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
65 hours 22 mins; September 24, 2018
Denise Y. Ho, “Curating Revolution: Politics on Display in Mao’s China” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
66 hours 47 mins; August 27, 2018
Laura Kina and Jan Christian Bernabe, “Queering Contemporary Asian American Art” (U Washington Press, 2017)
63 hours 52 mins; August 08, 2018
Simone Wesner, “Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
45 mins; August 03, 2018
Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
79 hours 7 mins; August 02, 2018
Jo Weldon, “Fierce: The History of Leopard Print” (Harper Design, 2018)
46 mins; July 31, 2018
Marsha MacDowell, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson, “Quilts and Health” (Indiana UP, 2017)
58 mins; July 25, 2018
madison moore, “Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric” (Yale UP, 2018)
62 hours 49 mins; July 23, 2018
Stacey Pierson, “Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: The Burlington Fine Arts Club” (Routledge, 2017)
44 mins; July 11, 2018
Ari Heinrich, “Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body” (Duke UP, 2018)
47 mins; July 10, 2018
Cary Cordova, “The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
61 hours 39 mins; July 10, 2018
Michelle C. Wang, “Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang” (Brill, 2018)
66 hours 47 mins; July 05, 2018
Paula Serafini, “Performance Action: The Politics of Art Activism” (Routledge, 2018)
39 mins; June 28, 2018
Pamela Potter, “Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts” (U California Press, 2016)
49 mins; June 27, 2018
Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)
60 hours 33 mins; June 14, 2018
Steven Lubar, “Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present” (Harvard UP, 2017)
76 hours 24 mins; June 13, 2018
Wojtek Sawa, “The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard” (National Center of Culture, 2016)
46 mins; June 05, 2018
Catherine Soussloff, “Foucault on Painting” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
36 mins; May 22, 2018
Joseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018)
63 hours 22 mins; May 08, 2018
Erin Edwards, “The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
47 mins; May 07, 2018
Susan M. Squier, “Epigenetic Landscapes: Drawings as Metaphor” (Duke UP, 2017)
46 mins; April 17, 2018
Nadia Yaqub and Rula Quawas, “Bad Girls of the Arab World” (U Texas Press, 2017)
47 mins; April 16, 2018
Stephen Monteiro, “The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender” (MIT Press, 2017)
27 mins; April 06, 2018
Craig Clunas, “Chinese Painting and Its Audiences” (Princeton UP, 2017)
76 hours 19 mins; April 05, 2018
Natchee Blu Barnd, “Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism” (Oregon State UP, 2017)
59 mins; March 29, 2018
Jo Farb Hernandez, “Singular Spaces: From the Eccentric to the Extraordinary in Spanish Art Environments” (Raw Vision, 2013)
64 hours 27 mins; March 28, 2018
Looted Episode 4: Village Pillage (“Field Notes”)
6 mins; March 10, 2018
James Reston, Jr., “A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial” (Arcade Publishing, 2017)
59 mins; March 07, 2018
Molly Wright Steenson, “Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape” (MIT Press, 2017)
24 mins; February 27, 2018
Stephen Sheehi, “The Arab Imago: A Social History of Indigenous Photography 1860-1910” (Princeton UP, 2016)
50 mins; February 15, 2018
James Delbourgo, “Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane” (Allen Lane, 2017)
92 hours 26 mins; February 09, 2018
Kevin Patrick, “The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero” (U Iowa Press, 2017)
67 hours 47 mins; February 02, 2018
Alison Gerber, “The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers” (Stanford UP, 2017)
52 mins; January 19, 2018
Thomas Mullaney, “The Chinese Typewriter: A History” (MIT Press, 2017)
137 hours 4 mins; January 09, 2018
Looted Episode 3: Big Bronzes
3 mins; January 02, 2018
miriam cooke, “Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution” (Routledge, 2017)
63 hours 41 mins; January 01, 2018
Bob Batchelor, “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
71 hours 4 mins; December 12, 2017
John Neel, “Focus in Photography: Master the Advanced Techniques That Will Change Your Photography Forever (Ilex Press, 2016)
54 mins; November 29, 2017
Laura E. Smith, “Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity” (U. Nebraska Press, 2016)
36 mins; November 28, 2017
Looted Episode 2: Figure Drawing
5 mins; November 24, 2017
Amanda Bidnall, “The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965” (Liverpool UP, 2017)
46 mins; November 24, 2017
Kathryn Brown. ed., “Perspectives on Degas” (Routledge, 2016)
56 mins; November 22, 2017
Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).
50 mins; November 20, 2017
Confederate Monuments with Kevin Levin
31 mins; November 16, 2017
Looted Episode 1: Gold Digger
3 mins; November 02, 2017
Richard Rabinowitz, “Curating America: Journeys through Storyscapes of the American Past” (UNC Press, 2016)
61 hours 51 mins; October 30, 2017
Martha J. Cutter, “The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)
33 mins; October 19, 2017
Marion Deshmukh, “Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany” (Routledge, 2015)
68 hours 15 mins; October 17, 2017
Robert W. Cherny, “Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
56 mins; October 04, 2017
Lauren Lessing, et.al., “A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art”(Colby College Museum of Art, 2016)
38 mins; August 15, 2017
Donna M. Cassidy, Elizabeth Finch, and Randall R. Griffey, “Marsden Hartley’s Maine” (Yale UP, 2017)
44 mins; July 28, 2017
Laura Larson, “Hidden Mother” (Saint Lucy Press, 2017)
45 mins; July 20, 2017
Dana Mills, “Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries” (Manchester University Press, 2017)
46 mins; July 10, 2017
Jeanine Michna-Bales, “Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017)
41 mins; June 23, 2017
David J. Carol, “No Plan B” (Peanut Press, 2017)
34 mins; June 21, 2017
Gillian McIver, “Art History for Filmmakers: The Art of Visual Storytelling” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
49 mins; June 14, 2017
Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
53 mins; May 27, 2017
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