Tempera painting is often the preferred medium of artists because the paint is nontoxic and the colors are clear, bright and pure, enabling the paper to use greater detail. Andrew Wyeth's "Scuba" is used as an example.

In "Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum," Finbarr Barry Flood expresses many ideas concerning Islamic iconoclasm.

Provides an analysis of Hellenistic art in ancient Greece. Describes how the advancement in sculpture in the Hellenistic period is the shift from idealism to realism.

Discusses the role of art in society. Examines why it is needed. Debates public funding of the arts.

In the late 1880's in Missouri two men named Chris L. Rutt and Charles G. Underwood created a revolutionary instant pancake flour mix. They created the trademark of a black woman in an apron, and red bandanas after seeing a performance of a song entitled "Old Aunt Jemima." This popular song of the time inspired them to use this very image as their company logo. The way they did this was by taking the image of a stereotypical depiction of African American women as servants, and portrayed these servants as fat, unattractive, but happy. Aunt Jemima is a characteristic of most advertising (at this time called reconstruction advertising) with African American women, showing how their place was in the kitchen and to serve the public