The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the ...

This classic work is must reading for anyone who would understand Brazil and Latin America, past ...

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The gun-toting woman holds enormous symbolic significance in American culture. For over two centu...

This pioneering work traces the emergence of the modern and contemporary art of Muslim South Asia...

Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we...