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Alexis L. Boylan is Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, and is Director of Academic Affairs for University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute. She is author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man and editor of Thomas Kinkade: The Artist in the Mall.
Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity.
Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.
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