Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMariana Ortega, "Carnalities: The Art of Living in Latinidad" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 991
How can habits of racialization be affected by art, in its reception and its creation? How can a carnal aesthetics help us understand Latinx life? Wh…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ulinka Rublack, "Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Social Recognition" (CEU Press, 2025)
Episode 990
Jana Byars meets one of her academic heroes when Ulinka Rublack joins her to talk about Dürer's Coats: Renaissance Men and Material Cultures of Socia…
10 months, 1 week ago
Shilla Lee , "Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in Regional Revitalization" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 989
Centering collaborations and frictions around a Japanese town’s pottery industry, Crafting Rural Japan: Traditional Potters and Rural Creativity in R…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2024)
Episode 988
This important new work, Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2023) by Stephen Murphy, b…
10 months, 3 weeks 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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 117
Art After Liberalism (Columbia UP, 2022) is an account of creative practice at a moment of converging political and social rifts – a moment that coul…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Episode 36
Taylor McCall's The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe (Reaktion, 2023) is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrate…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Episode 351
Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – n…
11 months ago
Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
Episode 55
Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022)
edited by Ilan Kelman
Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and idea…
11 months ago
Ana Patricia Rodríguez, "Avocado Dreams: Remaking Salvadoran Life and Art in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area" (University of Arizona Press, 2025)
Episode 982
For more than four generations, Salvadorans have made themselves at home in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and have transformed the r…
11 months ago