Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member!
Today’s guest is Maaheen Ahmed, who has edited a new collection of essays, The Cambridge Companion t
Recall This Book listeners already know the inimitable Martin Puchner (Professor of English and Thea
Is art education worthwhile? In The Value of Art Education: Cultural Engagements at the Swedish Folk
Frames That Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps (Brill, 2023) is the first systematic exploration
In Medievalist Comics and the American Century (UP of Mississippi, 2016), Chris Bishop surveys the m
Simon Grennan's book A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) offers an original new
Why study the arts in school? In Schools and Cultural Citizenship: Arts Education for Life (Routledg
Thieves (Fence Books, 2023) is an autofictional account of a gallery girl named Valerie – an art wor
Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US borde
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key
In the eighth century, the Byzantine Empire began a campaign to remove or suppress sacred images tha
In The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde (Duke UP, 2023),
Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and
A full transcript of the interview is available for accessibility.Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez's C
In this episode of High Theory, Margaret Galvan talks about the queer politics of Visibility. In her
Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in di
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar's Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art
Antony Kalashnikov's Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time (
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and
In In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s (U Minnesota Press, 2023), Ma