Art is, at some basic level, personal. People made it, reacted to it, treasured it in ways we can
identify with. But art is also intrinsically political, designed to shape a view of the world in
empowering ways, ways that write certain people and ideas into the record and leave others out. We
need to see art from both perspectives.
—Holland Cotter“Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix (French), 1830
“Third of May 1808,” Francisco Goya (Spanish), 1814