The Fort Worth School was a group of closely knit artists in the 1940s and 50s who explored new types of subject matter and art-making techniques. In direct contrast to their colleagues in the Dallas Nine, the Fort Worth School emphasized the mysterious, the uncanny, and the experimental.

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Among the Igbo peoples of north central Igboland, pubescent girls (agbogho) prepared for womanhood through a process called nkpu, which translates as “fattening confinement.” While overeating and maintaining the weight gained by not working or exercising for six months or longer (depending upon the family’s economic situ

Lower Central America (eastern Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama) together with Colombia and Ecuador are often classified roughly together as the “intermediate area” between the larger culture areas of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Although the cultures that developed in this area were interrelated and experienced influences from both north and south, this occurred most significantly during the Inca Empire, or Late Horizon (1400-1532 CE).

Most African sculptures of human figures may seem distorted to Western eyes accustomed to the proportions of classical Greek statuary. The head, for instance, is out of proportion to the rest of the body.