All but forgotten today, Gene Stratton-Porter was—in the early 20th century ...

Rebecca Zorach
Rebecca Zorach teaches and writes on early modern European art, contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. Particular interests include print media, feminist and queer theory, theory of representation, the Black Arts Movement, and the multiple intersections of art and politics. Her books include Art for People’s Sake (Duke University Press, 2019), The Passionate Triangle (University of Chicago Press, 2011), and Blood, Milk, Ink, Gold: Abundance and Excess in the French Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
Reading as Inoculation
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith has a few books to recommend. Her Human_3.0 Reading List, on exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago through October 29, contains 57 drawings ...