Category: Art and Architecture

July 22, 2020

Design with Nature Now and the Pandemic

By Frederick Steiner

“Like Ian McHarg’s classic Design with Nature, this beautiful and fulsome reprise of his earlier work inspires us with its sheer virtuosity. Yes, it looks back at the pioneering work of McHarg but, much more, it elucidates contemporary challenges with...

June 5, 2020

Book Excerpt! Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, by Guojun Wang (introduction)

“A refreshing book that will encourage readers and researchers to pay closer attention to the modes and codes of theatrical costuming in association with issues of ethnicity, gender, and individual identities, embedded in the specific context of early Qing China.”...

June 3, 2020

Clothes Make the Person. Clothes Make the Nation
By Guojun Wang

“A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature...

April 4, 2020

What’s New From the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Welcome back to our UAA Virtual Booth! We’re excited to hear from Maureen Clark and Emma Zehner, representing the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, one of our distributed presses, as they introduce two exciting new books for the urban studies...

April 3, 2020

What’s New From Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

Welcome back our UAA Virtual Booth! In addition to publishing our own books, we distribute books for a wide range of exciting academic presses from around the world. In this post, Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and James Graham from Columbia Books on...

March 3, 2020

Yuhang Li on Becoming Guanyin

“Yuhang Li is, by training, an art historian. However, her take on Guanyin goes beyond the realms of art history. Li analyzes the female portrayal of Guanyin through paintings, material culture of embroidery, theatrical display of dance, archaeological objects, scripture,...

January 15, 2020

New from Columbia Books on Architecture and the City!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Ways of Knowing Cities Edited by Laura Kurgan and Dare Brawley Ways of Knowing Cities considers the role of technology in generating, materializing, and contesting urban epistemologies—from ubiquitous sites of “smart” urbanism...

October 25, 2019

Cameron Vanderscoff on Robert Rauschenberg in India

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation To close our week long celebration of Robert Rauschenberg, oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff brings Rauschenberg’s 1975...

October 24, 2019

Robert Rauschenberg from the Cutting Room Floor

“The informative and entertaining voices of this solid work are as idiosyncratic as the artist himself. This is an excellent history for fans of Rauschenberg and mid-20th-century art.” ~ Publishers Weekly Our celebration Robert Rauschenberg continues today with an inside...

October 23, 2019

Q&A: Sara Sinclair on Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~ Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation In today’s Q&A, the editor and lead interviewer for Robert Rauschenberg: An Oral History, Sara Sinclair, describes...

October 22, 2019

Make Your Acquaintance with Robert Rauschenberg!

“Fall in love with Robert Rauschenberg, galactic master of art and life, through his worldwide collaborations.” ~ Dorothy Lichtenstein, president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Today we are wishing Robert Rauschenberg—one of America’s most influential artists— a happy birthday. Rauschenberg is...

July 29, 2019

Summer Reading List: Art and Architecture

The summer heatwaves spanning the country might be hindering outdoor activities, but they shouldn’t impede on your summer reading. From Robert Rauschenberg to the Moscow’s Conceptualist to architecture for space settlements to building preservation policy, this week’s list of suggested...