New Books in Art

Daniel Neofetou, "Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

2023/4/9

Daniel Neofetou's Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War (Bloomsbury,

Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

2023/4/8

Feeling is not “feelin”. Feelin, in African American Vernacular English, is how Black women artists

Simon Strange, "Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity and the Development of Punk, Post Punk and New Wave Music" (Intellect, 2023)

2023/4/8

In Blank Canvas: Art School Creativity From Punk to New Wave (Intellect Publishing, 2022), Simon Str

Natilee Harren, "Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network" (U Chicago Press, 2020)

2023/4/5

In Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network (U Chicago Press, 2020), Natilee Harren

Mauro Resmini, "Italian Political Cinema: Figure of the Long '68" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

2023/4/4

Traditionally, the definition of political cinema assumes a relationship between cinema and politics

Rhea Myers, "Proof of Work: Blockchain Provocations 2011-2021" (MIT Press, 2023)

2023/4/3

NFT, BTC, DAO, ETH, WAGMI, HODL. It would have been hard to avoid these acronyms only a year ago. Th

Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)

2023/4/2

Mike Jay's Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind (Yale UP, 2023) is a provocative and

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

2023/3/31

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the

Larisa Grollemond and Bryan C. Keene, "The Fantasy of the Middle Ages: An Epic Journey through Imaginary Medieval Worlds" (Getty, 2022)

2023/3/27

This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on

Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)

2023/3/26

Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic P

Claudia Brittenham, "Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica" (U Texas Press, 2023)

2023/3/24

In Unseen Art: Making, Vision, and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica (U Texas Press, 2023), Claudia Britt

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

2023/3/24

Maximilian Schich, Isabel Meirelles, and Roger Malina discuss the contents and creation of the new a

Seeing Truth in the Climate Crisis

2023/3/23

Feeling bad about the environment? You should. Artist Alexis Rockman talks about his art, the potent

David Houston Jones, "Visual Culture and the Forensic: Culture, Memory, Ethics" (Routledge, 2022)

2023/3/22

The relationship between images and truth has a complicated history. In the Western tradition, the K

Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)

2023/3/20

Based on sources from rare book libraries in Russia and around the world, Picturing the Page: Illust

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