New Books in Art
Episodes
Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization (Stanford UP, 2020), Sanjukta Sunderason explores art's entanglements with histor...
Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If one were to devise a motto for the art school of today, the choice between 'you too are an artist' and 'abandon all hope you who enter here' would ...
Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South...
Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future (Duke UP, 2021), Gil Z. Hochberg examines how contemporary Palestinian artists, ...
Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make creative industries fair and inclusive? In Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Routledge,...
Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Sully was many things: a Dakota woman, an artist, and an American living through a heyday of early celebrity culture in the United States. All o...
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a team of divers led by renowned maritime archaeologist Dr Michael Flecker and sponsored by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute surveyed two hist...
David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience (Cambridge UP, 2021) is the first study of Renaissa...
Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinf...
D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his co...
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational...
Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray...
Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Publishing, 2020)
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930 (Park Publishing, 2020), Anna Bokov examines the history of the Higher Art ...
Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Uni...
Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the series CAHIM Connecting Art Histories in the Museum, Anna McSweeney's book From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola (Kettler Verlag, ...
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
20 Dec 2021
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...
Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rayna Denison’s Anime: A Critical Introduction (Bloomsbury, 2015) uses genre as a window into the evolving global phenomenon of Japanese animatio...
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
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...
Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The object as solid, having three dimensions, is not just a different formal trend, but a paradigm shift; a reconceiving of how the architectural obje...
Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From 1952 to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and artist...
Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A ground-breaking volume examining the transnational conditions of the European Enlightenment, Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transn...
Aldona Jonaitis, "Art of the Northwest Coast," Second Edition (U Washington Press, 2021)
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in 2006, Art of the Northwest Coast offers an expansive history of this great tradition, from the earliest known works to those...
A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Anne F. Harris. Anne wears two hats: she's a medieval art historian and president of Grinnell College. We talked about her new b...
John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The volume, Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change, edited by John Holmes McDowell, Katherine Borland, Rebecca Dirkse...
Kim Charnley, "Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the turn of the millennium, protests, meetings, schoolrooms, reading groups and many other social forms have been proposed as artworks or, more ...
Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Arab graphic design emerged in the early twentieth century out of a need to influence, and give expression to, the far-reaching economic, social, and ...
Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Cornell UP, 2021) considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from ...
Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Karla Huebner’s Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) follows the life and career Czech artist To...
Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art (Ibidem Press, 2021) focuses on political and social expressions in contemporary art of Ukraine, Estonia, Lithu...
Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
[This episode contains explicit content.] Artists from Kurt Cobain to Amy Winehouse command fascination not only for their work but also for their dru...
Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism (U Toronto Press, 2021), Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art ...
Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The female form has been a fraught site of filmic meaning – of desire and violence, of sex and death – from the very beginnings of cinema. But how...
Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aest...
Courtney J. Campbell and Allegra Giovine, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why hav...
Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
European Decadence, a controversial artistic movement that flourished mainly in late-nineteenth-century France and Britain, has inspired several gener...
Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite ...
Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do you do when you're not asleep and when you're not eating? You're most likely waiting--to finish work, to get home, or maybe even to be seen by...
Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, journalists, legal professionals, activists, and artists challenge the state's monopoly on investigation and the production of narratives of tr...
David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870 (UP of Mississippi, 2021) enters deep into an era of comic history that has been entir...
Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Some fields have an easier time describing themselves than others. "History is the study of past events." "Biology is the study of living organisms." ...
M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Khattak speaks with Carole Ann King, who, along with Mary Elizabeth “Sunshine” Johnson Huff, wrote Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through W...
Christian Parreno, "Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Boredom is a ubiquitous feature of modern life. Endured by everyone, it is both cause and effect of modernity, and of situations, spaces and surroundi...
Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Bogart's The Art of Resonance (Methuen Drama, 2021) locates the essence of theatre in the experience of resonant vibration among performers an...
Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How does colonialism still shape museums today? In Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation (UBC Press, 2020), Hannah ...
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmente...
Art, Irrepressible: Titian, Comics and Hip Hop
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Howard talks with Matthias Wivel, the Aud Jepsen Curator of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings at The National Gallery, about what i...
Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo (Fitzcarraldo, 2019) is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and ...
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Howard chats with Dang Qun, one of the three founding partners of Beijing-based MAD architects, about aesthetics, history, cultural distinctiveness an...
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the ...
Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic a...
Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performanc...
Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas O. Haakenson's book Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada (Bloomsbury, 2021) focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salo...
Michael Benedikt, "Architecture Beyond Experience" (Applied Research & Design, 2020)
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture Beyond Experience (Applied Research & Design, 2020) is a work in the service of one goal: the bringing about of a more relational, “po...
Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is creativity? While our traditional view of creative work might lead us to think of artists as solitary visionaries, the creative process is pro...
Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Dr. Emilia Bachrach about In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript in...
Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julia Jarcho's Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama (Cambridge UP, 2017) is a fascinating argument for the centrality of writing in ex...
Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis? What Crisis? At a time where there are repeated claims of the impending demise of art criticism, The Ends of Art Criticism (Lund Humphries P...
Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (Hart Publishing, 2021) looks at the way in which the 'call for justice'...
Exploring Perspectives on Imagination and Art through the Lens of Contemporary Theory
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagination is a fundamental trait of the human species. Given how our most commonplace experiences get filtered differently through the lens of our i...
Simon Ferdinand, "Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity (U Nebraska Press, 2019), Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-base...
Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Heschong's book Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture (Routledge, 2021) examines the many ways that our lives are enri...
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
21 Jul 2021
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...
Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
16 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Mor...
Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of...
Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Steven Fine, Churgin Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, Israel, discusses his new book Arch of Titus: From Jerusalem...
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art (Princeton UP, 2021) presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and socia...
Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between the Stock Market Crash and the Vietnam War, American corporations were responsible for the construction of thousands of headquarters across th...
Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art fr...
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to Post-Communist Bloc (Routledge, 2021) puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of t...
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, this is Eric LeMay, a host on the New Books Network. Today I interview Sergio Lopez-Pineiro about his new book, A Glossary of Urban Voids (...
Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
05 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Federico Fellini’s distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini’s Films ...
Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project (Oxford UP, 2020) offers the first in-depth study of the development of art music in Israel fr...
Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today on the podcast, Ruth Mazo Karras, the Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin talks about her new book, Thou Art the Man: The Masc...
Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures (Routledge, 2021) examines the philosophical context of our current situation and its impl...
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is now just over a decade since protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square started Egypt's chapter in the events of the Arab Spring. Much has been made in w...
Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future for the museum? In The Museum as a Space of Social Care (Routledge, 2020), Nuala Morse, a Lecturer in Museum Studies at the Un...
Samuel Smiles, "The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2020)
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) produced from 1835 to his death are seen by many as his most audacious and comp...
Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Jessica Helfand about her new book Face: A Visual Odyssey (MIT Press, 2019) Helfand is a designer, artist, and author. She’s tau...
Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Duncan O’Neill (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University) about Emery...
François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is almost twenty years since contemporary art took a ‘participation turn’. Now, just about every museum or theatre company has a participation ...
Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At the dawn of the 1950s, a promising and dedicated young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved back home to New York City to...
W. Patrick McCray, "Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty yea...
Donna Stein, "The Empress and I: How an Ancient Empire Collected, Rejected and Rediscovered Modern Art" (Skira, 2020)
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi g...
Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violen...
Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by Martha Moffitt Peacock, Professor of Art History at Brigham Young University about her new book, Heroines, Harpies, and Housew...
Sven Saaler, "Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan" (Brill, 2020)
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his pioneering study, Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan (Brill, 2020), Sven Saaler examines Japanese public ...
Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, acclaimed scholar and critic Louis Menand, Professor of English at Harvard U...
Suzanne L. Marchand, "Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Suzanne L. Marchand's new book Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) balances several histories at once t...
Carla Diana, "My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human" (Harvard Business, 2021)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Carla Diana about her new book My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human (Harvard Business Review Press...
Marisol D'Andrea, "The Power of Artistic Thinking: Think Like an Artist and Innovate" (CGRN, 2019)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In The Power of Artistic Thinking: Think Like an Artist and Innovate (Common Ground, 2019; 2021 paperback), Marisol D’Andrea, PhD explores the pot...
Heba Y. Amin, "The General's Stork" (Sternberg Press, 2020)
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2013, Egyptian authorities detained a migratory stork for espionage. This incident is the focus of Heba Y. Amin’s The General’s Stork, an ongo...
Nicole Tersigni, "Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020)
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today I talked to Nicole Tersigni about her book Men to Avoid in Art and Life" (Chronicle Books, 2020). Nicole Tersigni is a comedic writer experienc...
Adam Rogers, "Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern" (Houghton Mifflin, 2021)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From kelly green to millennial pink, our world is graced with a richness of colors. But our human-made colors haven’t always matched nature’s kale...
Simon Unwin, "Analysing Architecture: The Universal Language of Place-Making" (Routledge, 2020)
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Now in its fifth edition, Analyzing Architecture has become internationally established as the best introduction to architecture. Aimed primarily at...
Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Comm...
Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Souhami talks about her new book No Modernism Without Lesbians, out 2020 with Head of Zeus books. A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020. This ...
Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like the transdiscipline of cybernetics, the philosophical movement known as Existentialism rose to prominence in the decade following World War II, w...
Scott Berkun, "How Design Makes the World" (2020)
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everything you use, from your home to your smartphone, from highways to supermarkets, was designed by someone. What did they get right? Where did they...
Philip Ball, "The Beauty of Chemistry: Art, Wonder, and Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chemistry is not just about microscopic atoms doing inscrutable things; it is the process that makes flowers and galaxies. We rely on it for bread-bak...
Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How should we understand creative work? In Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries (Columbia UP, 2021), Michael Sicilia...