Book interviews tagged Art

Le Corbusier: A Life
- ISBN: 978 0 375 41043 7
- featured in: What Le Corbusier was like as a human beingJanuary 13, 2009

Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4117 4
- featured in: On the fraught relationship between art and Los Angeles politicsMarch 20, 2009

The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009

On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition
- ISBN: 978 0807859407
- featured in: Tracking the transformation of a national cinema into a transnational audiovisual practiceJuly 6, 2009

Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism
- ISBN: 978 0804758901
- featured in: How modern art embraces mediocre life without falling prey to itJuly 24, 2009

Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy
- ISBN: 978 0271034089
- featured in: The prehistory of modern painting as a secular artAugust 19, 2009

On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
- ISBN: 978 0674033573
- featured in: Why we engage in art and fiction, and why these make us a special speciesSeptember 23, 2009

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
- ISBN: 978 0231147804
- featured in: Abstract ideas, concrete experiences, and life dilemmas in the form of a philosophical memoirOctober 30, 2009

The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03584 3
- featured in: The globalization cycle will start again, but it will not start up immediatelyNovember 9, 2009

Thinking in Place: Art, Action, and Cultural Production
- ISBN: 978 1594515972 pb
- featured in: About wandering as a way of organizing the experience of the worldNovember 11, 2009

Others in Mind: Social Origins of Self-Consciousness
- ISBN: 978 0521729659
- featured in: Psychic life is determined by what we imagine others perceive of usNovember 25, 2009

The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
- ISBN: 978 0231145664
- featured in: Bertolucci called us a kind of wild cinema universityNovember 27, 2009

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
- ISBN: 978 0195382853
- featured in: Can we consume the city without destroying it?December 16, 2009

Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
- ISBN: 978 0872864917
- featured in: Both Iraqis and Americans are victims and pawns in power plays beyond their controlDecember 25, 2009

The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology
- ISBN: 978 0804759540 pb
- featured in: The human self is a “natural artifact”January 11, 2010

Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
- ISBN: 978 080189370 4
- featured in: Why can’t I just write a normal history book?February 3, 2010