Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member!
Today’s book is: Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press, 2024), by Dr
How do bureaucratic documents create and reproduce a state’s capacity to see? What kinds of worlds d
The Study of Photography in Latin America: Critical Insights and Methodological Approaches (Universi
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-kno
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Colu
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distributio
Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Marilyn Stendera, co-author (with Emily Hughes) of Heidegger’s Al
Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from
Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology (Academic Studies Press, 2023) is the first-
The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of hist
What happens when beauty intersects with horror? In Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity (U New M
What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Ann
In their edited volume Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media (Syracuse Univer
How do art schools influence music? In No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Pu
How can artists survive today? In Cultural Work and Creative Subjectivity: Recentralising the Artist
A lot of what we claim to know we learn from other people's testimony: they tell us, and in many ord
Carmen Fracchia's book Black But Human': Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700 (Oxfor
A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital st
The marvellous, a key concept in literary debates at the turn of the seventeenth century, involved s
