Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member!
Arts and culture are under threat in the age of austerity. This threat is underpinned by the misuse
Steven Shaviro‘s new book is a wonderfully engaging study of speculative realism, new materialism, a
I love picking up a historical monograph in which the footnotes count for a quarter or more of the t
Daniel Margocsy‘s beautiful new book opens with a trip to Amsterdam by Baron Zacharias Conrad von Uf
Carolyn L. Kane’s new book traces the modern history of digital color, focusing on the role of elect
Joan Kee‘s new book is a gorgeous and thoughtful introduction to the history of contemporary art in
Seeking to fill the gap in scholarship focused on African American artisans in the American South, C
Lara Netting’s new book explores the life, career, and work of one man as a window into the history
It is a rare event when a dissertation focused on a single work yields a rich and fruitful account o
Craig Clunas‘s new book explores the significance of members of the imperial clan, or “kings” in Min
In Omar W. Nasim‘s new book, a series of fascinating characters sketch, paint, and etch their way to
The pages of Matthew C. Hunter‘s wonderful new book are full of paper fish, comets, sleepy-eyed gaze
Beautiful Geometry (Princeton UP, 2014), by the mathematician prof. Eli Maor and the noted artist Eu
In the field of children’s programming, few people- with the possible exception of Fred Rogers- are
The "primitivist idea" has played an important role in art and culture from at least the late ninete
This cat has a complicated history. In addition to filling stationery stores across the globe with c
Pauline Turner Strong‘s new book American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representatio
Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China (University of Hawai’i Press, 2010)
Reporter Anne-Marie O’Connor uses the iconic gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer to engage us in the
The title says it all: Diana Vreeland was, in fact, that Empress of Fashion, reigning over Harper’s
