A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence. Immediately censored by Russian authorities and banned by the U.S. Postal...
Arts and society
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Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary: -
Author:Spiegel, Jennifer Beth, Choukroun, Benjamin OrtizSummary:Amidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion. Rejecting the radical individualism of the...
- Author:Nayeri, FarahSummary:
For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon. Today, censorship can also happen from the bottom-up, thanks to social media. But what should the people do with this new power?
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality?...
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Author:Brault, SimonSummary:"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits," proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Simon Brault takes...
- Author:Waugh, Thomas, Arroyo, BrandonSummary:
In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the...
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Author:Miller, Elizabeth, Little, Edward, High, StevenSummary:Going Public responds to the urgent need to expand current thinking on what it means to co-create and to actively involve the public in research activities. Drawing on conversations with over thirty practitioners across multiple...
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
Jusqu'au xxe siècle, les Noirs sont rarement représentés dans la littérature et l'art des nations occidentales et, quand ils le sont, ils n'apparaissent presque jamais comme des êtres humains à part entière. À l'instar des corps...
