Art is one of life's great joys, whether it is beautiful, ugly, sublime or shocking. Aesthetic responses to visual art involve sensory, cognitive and visceral processes. Neuroimaging studies have yielded a wealth of information regarding aesthetic appreciation and beauty using visual art as stimuli, but few have considered the effect of expertise on visual and visceral responses. To study the t...

This article examines how anti-imperialist thought in Mexico City inspired internationalism the 1920s. It uses concept of “tricontinentalism” to refer idea that Latin America, Africa, and Asia should stand solidarity with each other argues tricontinentalist thinking originated not Cold War, but aftermath First World War. The Mexican Russian Revolution had demonstrated radical social change was ...

This paper addresses the implications of the winner-take-all economy for income inequality among artists. Using the U.S. census public-use samples, as refined by the Minnesota Population Center, it employs the standard measure of income inequality—the Gini coefficient—to examine income inequality among artists in six major metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000. The paper compares income ineq...