“Within this archetype, there are intertwined issues of race, democracy, manifest destiny ... more straightforward reason why the cowboy aesthetic is hard to escape: It looks cool.

“What is most modern in our time frequently turns out ... This insight, or tension, lies at the heart of Davenport’s peculiar aesthetic: Returning to the archaic is a source of art’s ...

SRS: We have come to see that, in a modern economy, with the abundance of provisions and the growth of people’s expectations, democracy can only be stable if the state plays an active part in ...

An aesthetic ideal or the stuff of the everyday ... from Athenian democracy to the Magna Carta through to modern liberal democracy, which has sustained us through the Cold War to the modern ...

Harald Jähner’s “Vertigo” recaptures and endorses the era’s spirit of modern excess, and argues that it could have lasted.

Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre ... pointed to folk art as the product of a great ...

It’s even debated in the academe whether fascism is an ideology or an aesthetic — a way of looking ... citing the way Trump had mastered modern media and presented himself as the last ...

In a respite from their endless hysterical warnings over the fate of democracy, the Democrats ... In his cultural and aesthetic tastes, Trump is arguably one of the last tribunes of American ...

Contemporary literature and culture, politics and aesthetics, culture and capitalism, manifestos, democracy and authoritarianism ... Accident in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy," Mfs: Modern ...

As cultural institutions face an existential crisis over who funds them and how, the 88-year-old artist Hans Haacke is still ...

One of the big ideas of the 21st century, "smart cities" promised a new world of connected, data-driven and sustainable ...