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Interviews with artists and scholars of art about their new books.

Kerry Meakin, "The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

November 25, 2024

The Professionalization of Window Display in Britain, 1919-1939

Kerry Meakin
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In recent decades, the disciplines of retail history, business history, design and cultural history have contributed to the study of department stores…

Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation with Dalia Nassar

November 17, 2024

Collaboration, Presentation, and Representation

Dalia Nassar
Hosted by Pat McConville

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Dalia Nassar, author of Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt (Cambridge UP, 2022) …

Eric Drooker, "Naked City: A Graphic Novel" (Dark Horse Books, 2024)

November 17, 2024

Naked City: A Graphic Novel

Eric Drooker
Hosted by Gregory Soden

Born and raised on Manhattan Island, Eric Drooker began to slap his art on the streets at night as a teenager. Since then, his drawings and posters ha…

Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)

November 16, 2024

Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene

Deborah Parker
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the m…

Risk

November 15, 2024

Risk

Faye Raquel Gleisser

In this episode of High Theory, Faye Raquel Gleisser tells us about Risk. A calculable danger in economics, athletics, sociology, or healthcare, risk …

Alison Stone, "Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900" (Oxford UP, 2024)

November 12, 2024

Women on Philosophy of Art

Alison Stone

Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 (Oxford UP, 2024) is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. …

Non-literary Fiction

November 9, 2024

Non-literary Fiction

Esther Gabara

In this episode of High Theory, Esther Gabara talks with us about Non-Literary Fiction, that is, works of fiction that belong to the world of contempo…

R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), Part 1

November 4, 2024

R. Murray Schafer (1933-2021), Part 1

Hosted by Mack Hagood

R. Murray Schafer recently passed away on August 14th 2021. If you’re someone who works with sound or enjoys sound art or experimental music–or you’ve…

Freya Gowrley, "Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage" (Princeton UP, 2024)

November 2, 2024

Fragmentary Forms

Freya Gowrley
Hosted by Kendall Dinniene

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage (Princeton UP, 2024) is a beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to t…

On Listening In

October 28, 2024

On Listening In

Lawrence English
Hosted by Mack Hagood

Today, in honor of World Listening Day, we rebroadcast our story on renowned Australian sound composer, media artist and curator Lawrence English. Th…

Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction with Lucy Benjamin

October 27, 2024

Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction

Lucy Benjamin
Hosted by Pat McConville

In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin. Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural theory and creative practice. Her work focuses on…

Christopher Smith, "Samurai with Telephones: Anachronism in Japanese Literature" (U Michigan Press, 2024)

October 18, 2024

Samurai with Telephones

Christopher Smith
Hosted by Jingyi Li

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching i…

Rochelle Gurstein, "Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art" (Yale UP, 2024)

October 13, 2024

Written in Water

Rochelle Gurstein
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Dr. Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and establish a solid foundation for the…

Eunsong Kim, "The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property" (Duke UP, 2024)

October 12, 2024

The Politics of Collecting

Eunsong Kim
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property (Duke University Press, 2024), Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and c…

Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)

October 8, 2024

Comics and Pop Culture

Scott Henderson and Barry Keith Grant
Hosted by Joel Tscherne

It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster suc…

For Some Odd Reason

October 7, 2024

For Some Odd Reason

Kate Carr
Hosted by Mack Hagood

Today’s guest, Kate Carr, is an accomplished sound artist and field recordist whose recent work grapples with issues of communication and longing—them…

Natalie Wall, "Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race" (Emerald Publishing, 2024)

October 7, 2024

Black Expression and White Generosity

Natalie Wall
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Black Expression and White Generosity: A Theoretical Framework of Race (Emerald Publishing, 2024), Dr. Natalie Wall takes readers on a journey thro…

Jason Weiss, "Listenings" (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023)

September 29, 2024

Listenings

Jason Weiss

Listenings (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) is a collection of meditations on the art of experiencing sound. The writings reflect Jason Weiss's passion for illu…

Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600" (Penn State UP, 2024)

September 26, 2024

A New Antiquity

Alessandra Russo
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A N…

Lucy Weir, "Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury" (Routledge, 2024)

September 21, 2024

Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury

Lucy Weir
Hosted by Dave O'Brien

Can self-harm be art? In Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), Lucy Weir, a Reader in History of Art at the University of Edinb…