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New Books in Art

Interviews with Scholars of Art about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

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Ian Condry, “The Soul of Anime” (Duke UP, 2013)

Ian Condry, “The Soul of Anime” (Duke UP, 2013)

You may come for the Astro Boy or Afro Samurai, but you’ll stay for the innovative ways that Ian Condry‘s new book bring... Read more

30 Apr 2013

1hr 11mins

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Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)

Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)

Piksa Niugini by Stephen Dupont, with forward by Robert Gardner and essay by Bob Connolly, is published by the Peabody P... Read more

18 Oct 2016

49mins

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Lauren Lessing, et.al., “A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art”(Colby College Museum of Art, 2016)

Lauren Lessing, et.al., “A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art”(Colby College Museum of Art, 2016)

A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art (Colby College Museum of Art, 2016) is a contemporar... Read more

15 Aug 2017

38mins

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Martha J. Cutter, “The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)

Martha J. Cutter, “The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)

Slavery as a system of torture and bondage has fascinated the optical imagination of the transatlantic world for centuri... Read more

19 Oct 2017

33mins

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Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)

Alexander Langlands, "Cræft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts" (Norton, 2017)

Alexander Langlands is a British archaeologist, historian, writer, and broadcaster.  His most recent book, Cræft: An Inq... Read more

4 Mar 2019

57mins

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Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)

Susan Cahan, “Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power” (Duke UP, 2016)

The struggle for representation within the art museum is the focus of a timely and important new book by Susan Cahan, As... Read more

21 Jul 2016

46mins

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Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)

Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)

Reginald Jackson’s inspiring new book takes a transdisciplinary approach to rethinking how we read, how we pay attention... Read more

2 Aug 2018

1hr 19mins

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Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)

Laura Kalba, “Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art” (Penn State UP, 2018)

When you imagine the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, what colors do you see? Whatever comes to mind, Laura ... Read more

14 Jun 2018

1hr

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Ping Foong, “The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Ping Foong, “The Efficacious Landscape: On the Authorities of Painting at the Northern Song Court” (Harvard UP, 2015)

Ink landscape painting was distinctive to the Song dynasty, and the Northern Song period was a special time for the medi... Read more

9 Nov 2015

1hr 8mins

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Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009)

Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009)

Ben Binstock‘s Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice (Routledge, 2009) is one of the m... Read more

9 Mar 2011

1hr 14mins

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Jonathan M. Reynolds, “Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Jonathan M. Reynolds, “Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)

Jonathan M. Reynolds‘s new book looks carefully at how photographers, architects, and others wrestled with a postwar ide... Read more

24 Jul 2015

1hr 9mins

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Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American Artists in the 1960s and 1970s" (Duke UP, 2017)

Kellie Jones, "South of Pico: African American Artists in the 1960s and 1970s" (Duke UP, 2017)

New York City might have been the epicenter of the twentieth century American art scene, but Los Angeles was no slouch e... Read more

24 Dec 2018

49mins

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Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)

Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)

In her book, The Caesar of Paris:  Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus B... Read more

22 Aug 2019

44mins

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Discussion with George White, President of Up With Paper/Jumping Jack Press (Bologna Book Fair, 2017)

Discussion with George White, President of Up With Paper/Jumping Jack Press (Bologna Book Fair, 2017)

George White, President and COO of Up With Paper and Jumping Jack Press interviewed following the Bologna Children’s Boo... Read more

23 May 2017

14mins

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David J. Carol, “No Plan B” (Peanut Press, 2017)

David J. Carol, “No Plan B” (Peanut Press, 2017)

No Plan B by David J. Carol was published by Peanut Press Books in 2017. The book is a retrospective of David’s work wit... Read more

21 Jun 2017

34mins

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Andrew Field, “Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954” (The Chinese University Press, 2010)

Andrew Field, “Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954” (The Chinese University Press, 2010)

“To think of Shanghai is to think of its nightlife: the two are synonymous.”From here, Andrew Field takes us on a dance ... Read more

7 Mar 2012

1hr 28mins

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Lee Ambrozy, “Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009” (MIT Press, 2011)

Lee Ambrozy, “Ai Weiwei’s Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009” (MIT Press, 2011)

Anyone who has been following the news this year has likely heard of Ai Weiwei. This provocative and gifted Chinese arti... Read more

21 Jun 2011

1hr 4mins

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Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

Sun-Young Park, "Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late... Read more

1 Feb 2019

52mins

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Looted Episode 2: Figure Drawing

Looted Episode 2: Figure Drawing

This is the second in a series of podcasts from Zoe Kontes’ terrific “Looted.”Marble figurines made ca. 5,000 years ago ... Read more

24 Nov 2017

5mins

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Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement" (Palgrave, 2019)

Johanna Taylor, "The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement" (Palgrave, 2019)

What is the future of the museum? In The Art Museum Redefined: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement (Palgrave Ma... Read more

13 Nov 2019

34mins

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