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"Impeccably researched and grippingly told, Andrés Mario Zervigón's John Heartfield and the Agitated Image presents a fundamentally new picture of the German photomontage pioneer: as an artist who took his ...

The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with ...

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many ...

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was ...

Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) was a true nineteenth-century visionary-a painter, printmaker, set designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and pioneer of photography. Though he was widely celebrated beyond his own lifetime for ...

In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set ...

In September 1644 the election of Pope Innocent X Pamphilj catapulted his family to the height of Roman society. From that moment on, the Pamphilj became active patrons of the ...

In a suburb just north of Philadelphia stands Beth Sholom Synagogue, Frank Lloyd Wright's only synagogue and among his finest religious buildings. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 2007, Beth ...

Many studies have shown that images-their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses-were at the heart of ...

As part of a raft of neoliberal economic reforms in the early 1990s, Brazilian president Fernando Collor de Mello and Argentine president Carlos Menem eliminated long-standing state financial support for ...

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, ...

Fundamentally different from other more prominent, Jewish traditions and experiences, the Sephardic tradition has long served to bind together the various Jewish communities of the Mediterranean basin. In The Sephardic ...

For nearly twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for ...

"In these truly beautiful images, Stanley Greenberg deftly realizes one of Louis Kahn''s most iconic insights: that a building is at its most sublime at two moments-when it is under ...

Europes formative encounter with its 'others' is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before ...

Impressively researched, splendidly illustrated, and beautifully written, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury's Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City offers a truly fresh reconsideration of the nature and significance of Chicago's iconic ...

In 1540 Antonio Lafreri, a native of Besançon transplanted to Rome, began publishing maps and other printed images that depicted major monuments and antiquities in Rome. These prints-of statues and ...

With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction. Documenting the first heady years of this profoundly influential ...

During a pivotal point in Spanish history, aristocrat María de Guevara (?-1683) produced two extraordinary essays that appealed for strong leadership, protested political corruption, and demanded the inclusion of women ...

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment ...