In the past ten years, the term “heritage” in African art
studies has gone from being a cliché used only by cultural
bureaucrats to a burgeoning academic growth industry, brought into
being by studies of collective memory or national trauma in...
Late medieval and Renaissance painters in northern Europe took
pride in characterizing the forms of attention specific to the
votive encounter. Amidst the hubbub of the Crucifixion, certain
witnesses to the event are shown poised between acceptance...
