Tag Joshua Shannon

April 22, 2020
in A Personal Canon, Art & Architecture

A Personal Canon: Joshua Shannon on Five Influential Texts

April 22, 2020
in A Personal Canon, Art & Architecture

My personal canon, especially in the world’s current political climate, cannot possibly belong to single field. The most important books for me now are calls from several corners of intellectual life, reminders of the urgency and possibilities of scholarship. They are all critical and humanizing. They remind me of the

April 20, 2017
in Art & Architecture

The Modern Experience of Surfaces (sneak peek)

April 20, 2017
in Art & Architecture

This summer, Yale University Press is delighted to publish a smart book about the transformation of photography and the visual arts around the year 1968. The book is The Recording Machine: Art and Fact During the Cold War; in it, author Joshua Shannon explains what he calls “factualism,” the tendency