In Annie Ernaux’s novelistic memoir “The Years,” she charts how a woman’s selfhood can slip away as she becomes enmeshed in new identities such as wife or mother. Through photographs, though, her old ...

The discovery of the so-called “undiscovered genius” is the driving narrative behind the boom in what’s come to be called outsider art over the past few decades. The notion that great art is being ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Sixteenth Century -- In the beginning -- 2. Seventeenth Century -- new self-confidence -- 3. Eighteenth Century -- Professionals ...