Contemporary artist Janine Antoni generates multi-layered creative expressions by chewing on chocolate, nursing cows, and posing still amidst a dance company.
Maya Deren was an experimental filmmaker. Her films explore psychology, identity, and protofeminism in a world still reeling from World War II.
Held by some to have instigated a revolution in his subsequent art, Henri Matisse’s Notes of a Painter was a consolidation of his earlier aims.
Gilles Deleuze offers an original examination of Egyptian art in terms of its creative effort to withstand the destructive effect of time.
As a woman painter in nineteenth-century France, Rosa Bonheur had to file for a special permit to wear trousers in order to avoid harassment.
In the 1950s, a handful of American artists known as the “neo-dada” artists gained critical attention for their insouciant, complex, and medium-defying works of art.
Robert Mapplethorpe has been dead for over three decades, but the debate around his work is still alive. What makes this notorious photographer so revolutionary?
Anna Coleman Ladd was a Neoclassical sculptor from the US who made facial prosthetics for soldiers injured in World War I.
