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Making the Most of Your Art Program
Jul 02 2024
By Stephanie Summerhays, Senior Production Editor at UC PressWhoever coined the old adage about a picture being worth a thousand words clearly wasn’t in the business of bookmaking. When it comes to producing books, even simple art programs require a kind of careful handling that many thousands o
Will the Return to Work Mean a Return to the Open Office?
May 10 2024
The first Herman Miller Action Office II installation, at JFN Associates, Chicago, 1969 (photo: Herman Miller)The rise of the knowledge economy was one of the key developments of the 20th century. Buildings for white-collar work have transformed the heart of every major city—and their role conti
Celebrating Southwestern US Architectural History
Apr 17 2024
The 77th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians is being held in Albuquerque, New Mexico from April 17-21, 2024. In light of the conference's location, we have temporarily removed the paywall from a selection of articles and reviews from the Journal of the Society of Architectu
Q&A with Alice Tseng, Editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Apr 03 2024
Alice Y. Tseng, JSAH Editor, 2024-25Alice Y. Tseng assumed the Editor-in-Chief position of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH) in January 2024, after serving as the Associate Editor for the journal for the past two years and following the completion of David Karmon's ed
AI and the End of Photography
Mar 07 2024
By Brooke Belisle, author of Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to ComputationRecent headlines are announcing the end of photography, as AI changes what counts as a photograph or makes it impossible to judge. The New York Times has published multiple, interactive articles prompting reader
Q&A with Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, author of Erotic Resistance
Feb 08 2024
Erotic Resistance: The Struggle for the Soul of San Francisco celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of
Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture Announces New Co-Editors-in-Chief
Nov 30 2023
We are pleased to introduce the incoming co-editors-in-chief for Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture who will assume their positions in January 2024 after the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Charlene Villaseñor Black, steps down.Mariola Alvarez is a historian of Latin American
Q&A with Angela Miller and Nick Mauss, authors of Body Language
Nov 29 2023
Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their prac
Q&A with Jacek Blaszkiewicz, UC Press author and FirstGen scholar
Nov 07 2023
FirstGen scholar and author Jacek Blaskiewicz talks about his academic journey and new book "Fanfare for a City"
Telling the Forgotten Stories of Minimalism
Nov 01 2023
By Kerry O’Brien and William Robin, co-authors of On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement“Thursday evening was a major moment for musical Minimalism,” the New York Times declared last month. The Chicago Symphony had played a new Philip Glass work at Carnegie Hall while, nine blocks uptown,