Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito
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Quito, Ecuador, was one of colonial South America's most important artistic centers. Yet the...

Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
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Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect...
Maria Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art
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Maria Izquierdo (1902-1955) and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) were the first two Mexican women artists to...

Mary Kelly
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When Mary Kelly's best-known work, Post-Partum Document (1973--1979), was shown at the Institute of...

Olafur Eliasson
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Ever since he made his debut on the international scene in the early 1990s, the originality of...

A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici
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Fakhr ad-Din Ma'n was a small man with outsize ambitions, and Renaissance Emir tells his story, a...

Allen Ginsberg
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In this new critical biography of Allen Ginsberg, Steve Finbow re-examines the life, poetry and...

Armageddon Fed Up with This: A Gunner's Tale
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In 1940 Eric Nudd, like millions of others, found himself unexpectedly in uniform - a raw conscript...

Bearing Witness: The Remarkable Life of Charles Bean, Australia's Greatest War Correspondent
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'Peter Rees has done what no one else has managed: read the vast Bean archive and get inside the...

Social Economics: Current and Emerging Avenues
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The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level...