Art, rage, us

This book focuses on six of Miriam Toews’s Mennonite novels—Swing Low: A Life (2000),A Complicated Kindness(2004),Irma Voth(2011),All My Puny Sorrows(2014),Women Talking(2018), and...

With Universal Mother, Sinead O’Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix. Released in the winter of 1994,...

Abstract The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s symbolized black liberation and sophistication--the final shaking off of slavery, in the mind, spirit, and character of ...

John Cale’s enigmatic masterpiece,Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever.It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil cri...

A readable guide to the art of looking at art. There’s an art to viewing art. A sizable portion of the population regards art with varying degrees of reverence, bewilderm...

This chapter examines how entertainment television addressed the theme of race relations and “black and white together” by focusing on CBS's East Side/West Side, one of the first p...

This psychological study focuses on one of Japan's most prolific writers, Yukio Mishima, whose fiction was suffused with images of sadomasochism, homosexual rape, hatred of women, ...

Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead th...