3 self-taught Pennsylvania artists, Hicks, Kane (and) Pippin

Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thin...

This chapter describes Pippin, the first of Bob Fosse’s two book musicals from the 1970s (Chicago being the second). Both shows engaged with cultural and social currents and were c...

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897–1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin arg...

Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951 is a collaborative project of The Spencer Art Reference Library of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in partnership with the Kan...

African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists int...

Italian-Argentine artist Leonor Fini (1907-1996) can be seen as the original artist-celebrity; her self-mythologization was promulgated by some of the 20th century’s most prominent...