Titled “The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment,” the show assembles ... is etched with symbols that declare it as a product of colonial ambition: a llama (an animal that ...

The Age of Enlightenment was a period during the 17th and 18th centuries in which intellectuals considered a wide range of ideas, many of which focused on the value of human happiness. While the ...

Dashkova was a living symbol of the Russian Enlightenment, which saw Russia compete for the title of most advanced country in Europe. Before Dashkova became an Age of Enlightenment powerhouse ...

They take flight from their original context and are capacious to a dangerous degree. The Enlightenment, Richard Whatmore contends in this book, is just such an idea. Well yes, since it appears to ...

Her iconic representation of a Frenchwoman dressed in a 1940s-style suit, seated next to Jean-Paul Sartre in either the Cafe de Flore or La Coupole, writing tirelessly, evolved into a symbol itself.