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Back to SearchRobert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
Episode 144
It’s amazing that art historians like Robert Hillenbrand got to study the “Great Mongol Shahnama” at all.
500 pages of Firahdosi’s epic poem, with 300…
3 years, 3 months ago
Brahma Prakash, "Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India" (LeftWord, 2023)
Episode 198
Brahma Prakash's book Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India (LeftWord, 2023) is an interesting gaze into life, art, …
3 years, 3 months ago
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 231
I am excited to welcome Eliot Borenstein to the podcast today to discuss his new monograph, Marvel Comics in the 1970s: The World Inside Your Head, p…
3 years, 3 months ago
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 146
A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher in…
3 years, 3 months ago
Stephen Davies, "Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Episode 239
Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, Stephen Davies's Ador…
3 years, 3 months ago
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Episode 42
Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago, 2015) explores the relation between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval c…
3 years, 3 months ago
Rose Marie San Juan, "Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Episode 40
Nothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel li…
3 years, 4 months ago
Adrian Rifkin, "Future Imperfect: The Past Between My Fingers..." (2021)
Episode 145
Then let the story really begin in 1968, though it has little to do with May. By chance it opens in January of that year, and it really concerns me r…
3 years, 4 months ago
Deirdre Bair on Artist Saul Steinberg
Episode 59
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear a 2011 talk by Deirdre Bair about the artist Saul Steinberg. Bair received the 1978 National Book…
3 years, 4 months ago
Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding
Episode 119
Surfboards were once made of wood and shaped by hand, objects of both cultural and recreational significance. Today most surfboards are mass-produced…
3 years, 4 months ago