All Episodes

Kerry Dean Carso, "Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Kristina Wilson, "Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Keller Easterling, "Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World" (Verso, 2021)

Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick, "Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births" (MIT Press, 2021)

Peggy Wang, "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)

Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)

Kimberly Cassibry, "Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Simon Critchley, "Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts" (Yale UP, 2021)

Grant Tavinor, "The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality" (Routledge, 2021)

Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)

Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)

Bojana Videkanic, "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)

Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)

Eleanor Janega and Neil Max Emmanuel, "The Middle Ages: A Graphic History" (Icon Books, 2020)

Howard Philips Smith, "A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)

Ginger Nolan, "Savage Mind to Savage Machine: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Sanjukta Sunderason, "Partisan Aesthetics: Modern Art and India's Long Decolonization" (Stanford UP, 2020)

Michael Newall, "A Philosophy of the Art School" (Routledge, 2021)

Gil Z. Hochberg, "Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future" (Duke UP, 2021)

Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Miranda Campbell, "Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care" (Routledge, 2021)

Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)

David Karmon, "Architecture and the Senses in the Italian Renaissance: The Varieties of Architectural Experience" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia

Anna Watkins Fisher, "The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance" (Duke UP, 2020)

D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)

Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)

Anna Bokov, "Avant-Garde as Method: Vkhutemas and the Pedagogy of Space, 1920-1930" (Park Publishing, 2020)

Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Anna McSweeney, "From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola" (Kettler Verlag, 2020)

Aurelia Campbell, "What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming" (U Washington Press, 2020)

Rayna Denison, "Anime: A Critical Introduction" (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

Winka Dubbeldam, "Strange Objects, New Solids and Massive Forms" (Actar, 2022)

Jennifer Ferng and Lauren R. Cannady, "Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks" (Voltaire Foundation, 2021)

Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)

Aldona Jonaitis, "Art of the Northwest Coast," Second Edition (U Washington Press, 2021)

A Conversation with Anne F. Harris, Medieval Art Historian and President of Grinnell College

Kim Charnley, "Sociopolitical Aesthetics: Art, Crisis and Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

John Holmes McDowell et al., "Performing Environmentalisms: Expressive Culture and Ecological Change" (U Illinois Press, 2021)

Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar, "A History of Arab Graphic Design" (AU of Cairo Press, 2020)

Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)

Svitlana Biedarieva, "Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art" (Ibidem Press, 2021)

Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)

Katja Praznik, "Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

Genevieve Yue, "Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality" (Fordham UP, 2020)

Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)

Courtney J. Campbell and Allegra Giovine, "Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History" (U London Press, 2019)

Hongjian Wang, "Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation" (Cambria Press, 2020)

Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)

Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Matthew Fuller, "Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth" (Verso, 2021)

David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)

Alana Jelinek, "Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

M. E. J. Huff and Carole Ann King, "Alabama Quilts: Wilderness Through World War II, 1682-1950" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

Christian Parreno, "Boredom, Architecture, and Spatial Experience" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Anne Bogart, "The Art of Resonance" (Methuen Drama, 2021)

Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation" (UBC Press, 2020)

Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Art, Irrepressible: Titian, Comics and Hip Hop

Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Chinese-Inspired Architecture

Alexander Wragge-Morley, "Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

Amelia Jones, "In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance" (Routledge, 2020)

Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Michael Benedikt, "Architecture Beyond Experience" (Applied Research & Design, 2020)

Hannah Wohl, "Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Emilia Bachrach, "In the Service of Krishna: Illustrating the Lives of Eighty-Four Vaishnavas from a 1702 Manuscript" (Mapin, 2020)

Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)

Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)

Exploring Perspectives on Imagination and Art through the Lens of Contemporary Theory

Simon Ferdinand, "Mapping Beyond Measure: Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)

Lisa Heschong, "Visual Delight in Architecture: Visual Delight in Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)

Deborah Willis, "The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship" (NYU Press, 2021)

Cynthia J. Becker, "Blackness in Morocco: Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Under the Arch of Titus: A Gateway to the Jewish Community

Diana Seave Greenwald, "Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Grace Ong Yan, "Building Brands: The Architecture of Corporate Modernism" (Lund Humphries, 2021)

Christopher Wood, "A History of Art History" (Princeton UP, 2019)

Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, "Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe" (Routledge, 2021)

Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)

Sergio Lopez-Pineiro, "A Glossary of Urban Voids" (Jovis Verlag, 2020)

Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

Assaf Shelleg, "Theological Stains: Art Music and the Zionist Project" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Stuart Walker, "Design and Spirituality: A Philosophy of Material Cultures" (Routledge, 2021)

Caroline Seymour-Jorn, "Creating Spaces of Hope: Young Artists and the New Imagination in Egypt" (AU in Cairo Press, 2021)

Nuala Morse, "The Museum as a Space of Social Care" (Routledge, 2020)

Samuel Smiles, "The Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and His Critics" (Paul Mellon Centre, 2020)

Jessica Helfand, "Face: A Visual Odyssey" (MIT Press, 2019)

Elizabeth Emery, "Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

François Matarasso, "A Restless Art: How Participation Won, and Why it Matters" (CGF, 2019)

Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)