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Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion, An Etholog
The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and acros
Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent boo
What role do algorithms play in the construction of images and the representation of the world and w
Digging My Own Grave: The Films of Caveh Zahedi (Factory 25, 2015) is the most comprehensive collect
Stephen Ramsey's On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations (University of Minnesota Press,
Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxie
Who was Harry Smith? Was he an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter? Was he a charlatan? A genius?
Art of Transition: The Field of Art in Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2022) investigates contemporar
In Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders (Syracuse UP, 2022), contributors draw upon a rich tre
Hamid Keshmirshekan's book The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the
Vanessa I. Corredera’s book Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh Univ
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and luna
Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Penn S
Today’s guest is Ramzi Fawaz, the Romnes Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French a
Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as if the very idea of art tha
Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works--not only as an artistic medium
In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor wher
Taylor McCall's The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe (Reaktion, 2023) is the first history of medie
