Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSarah Bassett, "Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 40
How do we best see and understand the art of late antiquity? One of the perceived challenges of so doing is that this is a period whose visual produc…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Micaiah Carter: What's My Name" (Prestel, 2023)
Episode 497
Over the past decade Micaiah Carter has established himself as one of the most exciting and admired young photographers working in the field of portr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Rahul Rao, "The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2025)
Episode 762
From Cape Town to Bristol and Richmond, statues have become sites of resistance and contestation of our imperial past and postcolonial present. The P…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matt Lodder, "Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 163
There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the …
1 year, 7 months ago
Maggie M. Cao, "Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Episode 168
Painting US Empire: Nineteenth-Century Art and Its Legacies (University of Chicago Press, 2025) by Dr. Maggie Cao is the first book to offer a synthe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Michael J. Hatch, "Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Episode 558
In early nineteenth-century China, a remarkable transformation took place in the art world: artists among China's educated elites began to use touch …
1 year, 7 months ago
Harriet Atkinson, "Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53" (Manchester UP, 2024)
Episode 167
How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were …
1 year, 7 months ago
Jamie Jelinski, "Needle Work: A History of Commercial Tattooing in Canada" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024)
Episode 45
In 1891 J. Murakami travelled from Japan, via San Francisco, to Vancouver Island and began working in and around Victoria. His occupation: creating p…
1 year, 7 months ago
Kirsten L. Scheid, "Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 164
In Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920–1950 (Indiana UP, 2022), Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in L…
1 year, 7 months ago
Anna Lise Seastrand, "Body, History, Myth: Early Modern Murals in South India" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 579
An astonishing variety of murals greet visitors to the temples and palaces of southern India. Beautiful in execution and extensive in scope, murals p…
1 year, 7 months ago