Art History

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as one of the most important painters in Western art, but nowhere else do we encounter his inimitab...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

Variously translated as estrangement, enstrangement or defamiliarization, Viktor Shklovskys concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever. This ...

In the decades following World War II, the creation and expansion of massive domestic markets and relatively stable economies allowed for mass cons...