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The Baule people believe that all individuals have spirit mates in the ‘other world'. Under normal circumstances, these spirit spouses reside in their own place and aid the individual. However, due to certain circumstances, the spirit mate may become…

Romare Bearden's collages are some of his most powerful and expressive works. Stylistically, they reference the Cubist works of Picasso and Braque, whom Bearden met in Paris in 1950, and the photomontages of the Berlin Dadaists whom Bearden was…

This painting by Domenico Beccafumi is probably a fragment of a full-length figure of the Roman heroine Lucretia, it has been cut down on all sides.

The ancient historian Livy originally told the story of Lucretia, wife of a Roman nobleman, who…

Entitled East of Eden: Vietnam, this chapter became a documentation of people who were physically maimed by the war that officially ended over thirty years ago. East of Eden: Vietnam was partly inspired by my experience growing up in Vietnam with my…

As an associate of the Fluxus movement during the 1960s, Yoko Ono staged provocative performance events that encouraged audience participation, such as her Cut Piece (1964) in which audience members were asked to snip away pieces of Ono’s clothing…

Lifelike-and nearly life-size-statues such as this arresting Saint Sebastian were prevalent in churches in Renaissance Italy. It is carved in inexpensive wood, which was more easily worked than marble or bronze, and allowed for an easy naturalism.…