The human figure made a spectacular return in visual art and literature in the 1920s.Following modernism's withdrawal, nonobjective painting gave way to realistic depictions of the bodyand experimenta
Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, Andre Breton,wanted it to be seen: as amovement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other,darker side: as an ar
Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most important visual artists of the second half of the twentieth century. In Random Order, Branden Joseph examines Rauschenberg's work in the context of the America
More than thirty years after the birth of the modern women's movement and the beginnings of feminist art-making and art history, the time is ripe to examine the legacies of those revolutions. In Wome
Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism; primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others.
This political thriller starts with Toby, an accountant, stopping at the shop of a friend to invite her over for dinner. An old woman there tells him she has been murdered with an ax. This news is fol
The job of an art critic is to take perpetual inventory, constantly revising her ideas about the direction of contemporary art and the significance of the work she writes about. In these essays, which
Dr Dakota Thomas isn't prepared for the gunshot victim who rolls through his ER doors. Michael Ricco looks like a young Marine who found a lot of trouble, but his dog tags tell a different story. Why
Cassidy Hart is your typical High School graduate: a little shy, a little sarcastic, and a little naive. But when an electromagnetic pulse takes down the United States, she's forced to kick into full
