The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
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What's your impression of the CIA? A bumbling agency that can't protect its own spies? A rogue...
Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities
Vladimir Kuli, Timothy Parker, Monica Penick and Frederick Steiner
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In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside...
A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
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In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production,...
Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America
Aaron Deter-Wolf and Carol Diaz-Granados
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For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the...
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...
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...
Relentless: The Stories Behind the Photographs
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Neil Leifer is the best-known sports photographer of the past half century. Beginning in 1960, his...
The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach
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Massive yet elegantly executed masonry architecture and andenes (agricultural terraces) set against...
The Relacion De Michoacan (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
Angelica Jimena Afanador-Pujol
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The Relacion de Michoacan (1539-1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from...
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows,...