This book describes the history of storytelling, including how each form, from scrolls to printing presses to film and social media, works on the human brain, a

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power. Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a fo

Essays on the enduring complex relationship between word and image, from hieroglyphics to new media.

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. th

Presents a collection of art that showcases visual tropes of masters with their adoring slaves and Africans as victims and individuals.