Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEden Collinsworth, "What the Ermine Saw: The Extraordinary Journey of Leonardo Da Vinci's Most Mysterious Portrait" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
Episode 1273
In the tradition of The Lady in Gold and The Hare with Amber Eyes, the remarkable history behind one of the world's most beloved paintings, Leonardo …
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Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 122
Formless, mutable, transparent: the element of water posed major challenges for the visual artists of the Renaissance. To the engineers of the era, w…
4 years ago
Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, "In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity" (Brill, 2022)
Episode 66
There has been no greater surge in global fashion trends and expressions of personal style than in the contemporary era of social media fashion influ…
4 years ago
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
Episode 68
The Asmat are an indigenous people of Indonesian Papua and are renowned for their artistic carving flair and complex life-cycle rituals. They also ha…
4 years ago
Salim Tamari, "Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
Episode 197
Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (U California Press, 2022) is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler W…
4 years ago
Ewa Stańczyk, "Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Episode 175
Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland (Ohio State UP, 2022) offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular…
4 years ago
Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Episode 182
What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These confl…
4 years ago
Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 322
How does the state support writers? In State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity after 1945 (Oxford UP, 2020), Asha Rogers, Senior L…
4 years ago
Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)
Episode 11
What comes to mind when we think of swans? Likely their beauty in domestic settings, their preserved status, their association with royalty, and poss…
4 years ago
C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 189
Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game design…
4 years ago