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This presentation is based on two months of ethnographic field research in the village of San Vicente de Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, during which the current state of the community based museum called the Ecomuseum de la Cerámica Chorotega that opened in May of 2007 was studied. Read More…
Depictions of the banjo in the visual arts and literature of the Harlem Renaissance are reflective of both the banjo’s painful associations with black-face minstrelsy and its importance as a source of reclaimed heritage for Afro-Americans of the time. Read More…
The stories told through the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel have been long debated. Read More…
The copious amount of racial mixing in Colonial Mexico first became corporeal to Colonial Powers with the emergence of casta paintings during the 18th century. These paintings, which represented scenes from everyday life, documented the different racial mixtures found in Colonial Mexico at this time, and began a system of race classification and designation based on arbitrary characteristics commonly associated with certain lineages. Read More…
The popes of the 17th century faced one of the worst crises since the Great Schism divided the church between East and West. Read More…
In confronting the mirror in their photographs, contemporary women artists have addressed the boundaries that have historically limited women to over-sexualization or objectification. These artists have not only confronted the mirror but also the male gaze. Read More…
The work of the early fifteenth-century artists collectively called “the Limbourg Brothers” is neither unknown to scholars of medieval history nor fully understood by them. Read More…
The image of the female heroine in early modern art is one that varies greatly depending upon the artist portraying her. However, some of these works move beyond simple variation and into the exception. Read More…
Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Irises of 1889 has gained international attention for its beauty. Often described simply as a study, Irises seems to capture the essence of life through vivid colors and a mysterious sense of movement. Read More…
The tendency of postmodernism to redefine art historical works is evident through the work of contemporary artist Dotty Attie. Read More…