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Back to SearchAsha 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
Clémentine Deliss, "The Metabolic Museum" (Hatje Cantz, 2020)
Episode 121
In The Metabolic Museum (Hatje Cantz, 2020), Clémentine Deliss, a curator, researcher, and former director of the Frankfurt Weltkulturen Museum, expl…
4 years ago
Bob Brier, "Tutankhamun and the Tomb That Changed the World" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 12
It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported t…
4 years ago
Juliane Noth, "Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 41
Juliane Noth’s Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Paintings, coming very soon from the Harvard University Asia Center (2022), tracks a relativ…
4 years, 1 month ago
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
Episode 76
In Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press (2022), Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk i…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Women Who Transformed the National Gallery of Canada
Episode 4
Greg Marchildon interviews Diana Nemiroff. As a former curator of contemporary and modern art at the National Gallery of Canada and former director o…
4 years, 1 month ago
Gregory Sholette, "The Art of Activism and the Activism of Art" (Lund Humphries, 2021)
Episode 120
Since the global financial crash of 2008, artists have become increasingly engaged in a wide range of cultural activism targeted against capitalism, …
4 years, 1 month ago
Annie-B Parson, "The Choreography of Everyday Life" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 110
Renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson's new book The Choreography of Everyday Life (Verso, 2022) is many things: a pandemic diary, a discourse of Gre…
4 years, 1 month ago