José Rodeiro Cleo, the Muse of History, Asleep, 24" x 24" watercolor, 2003.

Francis Fukuyama’s posthistoricism “end-of-history” concept is the underlying theme of this image (CHECK Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man, 1992). Surrounded by ornate pillows, a young woman rests on a sofa in Mendham (NJ) beneath a print of Arthur G. Dove’s That Red One (1944). On a blanket-covered coffee-table, an unusually “thick” copy of Lugwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus rests.