Ep. 138 – Around the World in Public Art
August 27, 2024
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to art and architectural historian Andrew Wasserman about his new book, The World Atlas of Public Art.
Tag: art history
Nature and Artifice: A Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Not Seen Before
July 11, 2024
David Ebony interviews Michael Lobel, author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature In his latest book, Van Gogh and the End of Nature, author Michael Lobel situates Vincent… READ MORE
Rochelle Gurstein on The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
May 22, 2024
In Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art, intellectual historian and critic Rochelle Gurstein explores the nature of the classic in art from the 18th century… READ MORE
An “Active Absence”: the Materiality of Lost Images
February 5, 2024
Jennifer Van Horn— How do we study an image that is no longer there, one that cannot be experienced? This question gains urgency when we consider portraits of enslaved Americans… READ MORE
The Art Plunderer of Paris
January 12, 2024
Jonathan Petropoulos— The evening was planned as a form of theater, a series of carefully staged scenes. Each room, or set, in the extraordinary eighteenth-century Parisian hôtel particulier featured a… READ MORE
Sculpture Between Life and Death
December 12, 2023
Seth Estrin— On a monument erected in Athens in the fourth century BCE, a seated woman is seen from two different perspectives. To our eyes, she appears as a living… READ MORE
Ep. 127 — Julia Bryan-Wilson on Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture
December 5, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to professor Julia Bryan-Wilson about her new book, Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Spotify | Soundcloud
Ep. 125 — Vid Simoniti on the Relationship Between Politics and Contemporary Art
November 14, 2023
In this episode of the Yale University Press podcast, we talk to Vid Simoniti about his new book, Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Pandora | Spotify | Soundcloud
Books of Magic, Spells, Charms, and Incantations
October 10, 2023
Owen Davies — The contents of magic texts represent much more than magic itself. Their little-studied artistic qualities reveal unique traditions of illustration, design, and imagination. Text and image were often… READ MORE
Mark Rothko, A Painter of Ideas
July 11, 2023
The new edition of The Artist’s Reality, Mark Rothko’s revered book on artistic practice and philosophy, features an afterword written for this occasion by artist and award-winning author Makoto Fujimura, whose own… READ MORE
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