New Books in Art
Episodes
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christianity is often considered prevalent when it comes to defining the key values of late antique society, whereas 'feeling connected to the Roman p...
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman. Dr Timothy Deane-Freeman works as a teacher and researcher in philosophy in Naarm/Melbourne...
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are working class women represented in contemporary culture? In Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture (Routledge, 2025),...
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious pro...
Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, Univer...
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the p...
Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia (Brill, 2024) explores the visual culture of national rec...
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leonard Bernstein, in his famous Norton Lectures, extolled repetition, saying that it gave poetry its musical qualities and that music theorists' ref...
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, in Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Env...
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering...
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Or...
Farouk Yahya, "Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts" (Brill, 2015)
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts (Brill, 2015) offers an integrated study of the texts and images of illustrated Malay manuscri...
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jesus' Crown of Thorns has become one of the most ubiquitous features of Christian religious art, but was the original crown anything like the crown o...
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity Private Experiences in Public Spaces (Bloomsbury, 2025) examines the development of the confessional subject ...
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never signed a painting, and none of his supposed self-portraits can be securely ascribed to his hand. He revealed nex...
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art has long played a key role in constructing how people understand and imagine America. Starting with contemporary controversies over public monumen...
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications and Lund Humphries, 2025)
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eufrasia Burlamacchi (Getty Publications and Lund Humphries, 2025) by Dr. Loretta Vandi is a timely exploration of the skilful illuminated manuscript...
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi’ism, it prompted the more established Otto...
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual product...
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portra...
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The P...
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the...
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by Dr. Maggie Cao is the first book to offer a synthe...
Michael J. Hatch, "Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840" (Penn State UP, 2023)
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch t...
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were t...
Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating pe...
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art i...
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals pa...
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy (Bloomsbury, 2025) by Dr. Hallie Franks examines the reception of Graeco-Roman...
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dislodging the avant-garde from its central position in the narrative of Soviet art, Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Rea...
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. David Graves is a philosopher, artist, musician and author. He helped found the Academic College of Tel Aviv, where he is Senior Lecturer in Art a...
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique appr...
Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building on the field of modern archival practice, Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age (ARC Humanities Press, 2024) ...
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, history and ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Magdalena...
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we speak to Hildegard Westerkamp, the pioneering composer, radio artist and sound ecologist. The centerpiece of all of her work is a close atte...
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, Seven Sins and Seven Virtues (Abram...
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
07 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
William Gallois joins the podcast to discuss his latest book, Qayrawān: The Amuletic City, published by The Pennsylvania State University Press in 2...
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art d...
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation, in both the Third Reich and occupied territories. After the war, the fa...
Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Across Iron Age Central Eurasia, non-sedentary people created, viewed, and considered animal-style imagery, creating designs replete with feline bodie...
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend (Getty Publications, 2023) tells the singular story of an uncanny, rare object a...
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Shortwave Collective describe themselves as “an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material.” I was first int...
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most famous rulers in Chinese history, the Yongle emperor (r. 1402–24) gained renown for constructing Beijing’s magnificent Forbidden C...
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render ...
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the...
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparallel...
Rachel Emily Taylor, "Illustration and Heritage" (Bloombury, 2024)
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Illustration and Heritage (Bloomsbury, 2024), Rachel Emily Taylor explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through ...
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Famous today for the shops lining its sloped street, the Ponte Vecchio is the last premodern bridge spanning the Arno River at Florence and one of the...
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m speaking with Erich Hatala Matthes, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Advisory Faculty for Environmental Studies at Wellesley College....
Aesthetic Conversions
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paloma Checa-Gismero talks about the many processes of re-evaluation, re-contextualization, and re-animation that designates an object as art. To illu...
Christine Coulson, "One Woman Show" (Avid Reader Press, 2023)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum...
A. L. McClanan, "Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art" (Reaktion, 2024)
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A. L. McClanan's Griffinology: The Griffin's Place in Myth, History and Art (Reaktion, 2024) is a fascinating exploration of the mythical creature'...
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled life of the Jewish-Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani...
Jonathan Conlin, "The Met: A History of a Museum and Its People" (Columbia UP, 2024)
07 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including p...
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Johanna Drucker’s Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020) uncovers the enigmatic life and work of Ilia Zdan...
Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department stores...
Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation with Dalia Nassar
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 202...
Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters ha...
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles th...
Risk
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk ...
Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain....
R. Murray Schaffer (1933-2021), Part 2
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How to think about the contradictory figure of R. Murray Schafer? A renegade scholar who used sound technology to create an entirely new field of stu...
Non-literary Fiction
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, works of fiction that belong to the world of contempo...
R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), Part 1
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound or enjoys sound art or experimental music–or ...
Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to...
On Listening In
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound composer, media artist and curator Lawrence English. Th...
Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction with Lucy Benjamin
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin. Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural theory and creative practice. Her work focuses on ...
Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching i...
Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the...
Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and...
Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster suc...
For Some Odd Reason
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grapples with issues of communication and longing—...
Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey th...
Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for il...
Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A ...
Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of E...
Julia Kindt, "The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, the answer to these q...
Jordan Magnuson, "Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice" (Amherst College Press, 2023)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being “poetic,” yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game...
Aaron M. Hyman, "Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America" (Getty, 2021)
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemi...
What is Radio Art?
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is radio art? It’s a rather unfamiliar term in the United States, but in other countries, it’s a something of an artistic tradition. Today’...
Sumana Roy, "Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries" (Yale UP, 2024)
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmm...
Jennifer Ponce de León, "Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War" (Duke UP, 2021)
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art c...
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we diversify the creative industries? In Craft as a Creative Industry (Routledge, 2024), Karen Patel, an Associate Professor in Media an...
Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh, "Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940" (Manchester UP, 2023)
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940 (Manchester UP, 2023) features new research on Russia's ...
Gold, Silver, and Bronze with Yuri Cath
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Yuri Cath. Dr Yuri Cath's work explores epistemological questions about the nature and sources of different kinds o...
Leslie Ramos, "Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an era where the financial stability of many arts organizations is increasingly precarious, arts philanthropy stands at a critical juncture. The re...
Murad Khan Mumtaz, "Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800" (Brill, 2023)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South As...
Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusi...
Sonia-Doris Andras, "The Women of 'Little Paris': Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Filling a gap in Eastern European fashion studies, this book presents middle-class women consuming fashion in the symbolic 'Little Paris' of interwar ...
Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023)
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal...
Breanne Fahs, "Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution" (Verso, 2020)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution (Verso, 2020), Breanne Fahs has curated a comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos from t...
Frances Tanzer, "Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstru...
Filmmaker, Artist, Writer: A Conversation with Paromita Vohra
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Co...
Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making...
Anri Yasuda, "Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930" (Columbia UP, 2024)
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters: Modern Ja...
Joanne Leow, "Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise" (Liverpool UP, 2024)
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool UP, 2024) draws from a body of Anglophone and multilingual cultural texts created in co...
Breathing Together
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Working across and among languages, media, and art forms, Caroline Bergvall’s writing takes form as published poetic works and performance, frequen...
Tara Ward, "Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram" (U California Press, 2024)
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post: Towards an Art History of Instagram (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr...
Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary quee...
Christina M. García, "Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking" (U Florida Press, 2024)
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Christina M. García’s book, Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art: The Body, the Inhuman, and Ecological Thinking (University Press of ...