New Books in Art

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antonio c. cuyler, "Achieving Creative Justice in the U.S. Creative Sector" (Routledge, 2025)
Jun 10, 2025 – 42:37
Stefanie Lenk, "Roman Identity and Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Jun 9, 2025 – 46:01
Snotty Punk Bands and Ancient Aliens with Timothy Deane-Freeman
Jun 8, 2025 – 35:32
Katie Beswick, "Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture" (Routledge, 2025)
May 31, 2025 – 43:20
Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 27, 2025 – 45:48
Jaleh Mansoor, "Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction: A Counterhistory" (Duke UP, 2025)
May 22, 2025 – 01:23:13
Andrew Griebeler, "Botanical Icons: Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
May 12, 2025 – 01:04:24
Alison J. Miller and Eunyoung Park, "Transposed Memory: Visual Sites of National Recollection in 20th and 21st Century East Asia" (Brill, 2024)
May 9, 2025 – 36:13
Samuel Jay Keyser, "Play It Again, Sam: Repetition in the Arts" (MIT Press, 2025)
May 8, 2025 – 01:05:20
Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023)
May 4, 2025 – 48:05
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
Apr 29, 2025 – 55:43
Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Apr 23, 2025 – 46:34
Farouk Yahya, "Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts" (Brill, 2015)
Apr 19, 2025 – 32:26
Faith Tibble, "Crown of Thorns: Humble Gods and Humiliated Kings" (T&T Clark, 2025)
Apr 18, 2025 – 41:51
Jaye Early, "Confessional Video Art and Subjectivity: Private Experiences in Public Spaces" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Apr 11, 2025 – 01:09:15
Stephen J. Campbell, "Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Apr 9, 2025 – 46:44
Rebecca Zorach, "Temporary Monuments: Art, Land, and America's Racial Enterprise" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Apr 8, 2025 – 01:04:41
Loretta Vandi, "Eufrasia Burlamacchi" (Getty Publications and Lund Humphries, 2025)
Apr 6, 2025 – 47:13
Sinem Arcak Casale, "Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Apr 1, 2025 – 01:11:28
Sarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Mar 31, 2025 – 01:20:15
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
Mar 20, 2025 – 39:14
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
Mar 19, 2025 – 01:00:48
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Mar 17, 2025 – 01:09:31
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Mar 14, 2025 – 42:53
Michael J. Hatch, "Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Mar 13, 2025 – 01:36:04
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Mar 12, 2025 – 37:45
Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)
Mar 10, 2025 – 54:36
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Mar 9, 2025 – 01:31:42
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Mar 6, 2025 – 44:07
Hallie Franks, "Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood: Venus Envy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 2, 2025 – 59:41
Christina Kiaer, "Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Feb 26, 2025 – 01:48:43
David Graves, "New Realism in Contemporary Israeli Painting" (Austin Macauley, 2023)
Feb 11, 2025 – 49:56
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Feb 11, 2025 – 44:00
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Life in Soundscape Composition
Feb 10, 2025 – 44:12
Astrid J. Smith, "Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
Feb 10, 2025 – 42:34
Edward Simon, "The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues: A Visual History" (Cernunnos, 2024)
Feb 10, 2025 – 46:32
Magdalena Buchczyk, "Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum: Textiles, History and Ethnography at the Museum of European Cultures, Berlin" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 10, 2025 – 53:48
William Gallois, "Qayrawan: The Amuletic City" (Penn State UP, 2024)
Feb 7, 2025 – 44:51
Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
Feb 4, 2025 – 36:55
Elizabeth Campbell, "Museum Worthy: Nazi Art Plunder in Postwar Western Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Jan 29, 2025 – 58:41
Petya Andreeva, "Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea: Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Jan 25, 2025 – 01:20:54
Elizabeth King and W. David Todd, "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend" (Getty, 2023)
Jan 19, 2025 – 50:56
(Re)Making Radio with the Shortwave Collective
Jan 13, 2025 – 56:49
Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 6, 2025 – 01:03:11
Fernando Domínguez Rubio, "Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jan 3, 2025 – 01:03:42
Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jan 2, 2025 – 01:27:10
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jan 2, 2025 – 01:06:48
Rachel Emily Taylor, "Illustration and Heritage" (Bloombury, 2024)
Dec 27, 2024 – 27:21
Theresa Flanigan, "The Ponte Vecchio: Architecture, Politics, and Civic Identity in Late Medieval Florence" (Brepols, 2024)
Dec 21, 2024 – 49:43
Erich Hatala Matthes, "What to Save and Why: Identity, Authenticity, and the Ethics of Conservation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024 – 43:38

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