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The history of abstract art is usually told in negative terms, as a development away from representation and meaning and away from all the conventions of subject and communication that had served art and its...
Throughout history depictions of the naked human body have been totemic, reverential, religious, salacious or immoral, depending on when, where and why they were created. In this documentary contemporary art...
A multimedia survey of the history and development Western art, featuring six main movements: the late medieval world, the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo to revolution, Romanticism, and Impressionism and...
Introductory courses in history and theory of art; Russian art and architecture.*
Discusses a series of works which pose fundamental questions about the ways of looking at the visual arts of the Renaissance period. Topics considered include spatial illusion, the multi-figure composition,...
The victory of Emperor Menilek of Ethiopia over the Italians in the Battle of Adwa in 1896 was a major event in the history of Africa. As a result Ethiopia survived the nineteenth century European scramble...
Hosted by art historian, broadcaster and writer Tim Marlow, THE NUDE IN ART explores the depiction and symbolic resonance of the naked body throughout history. The four part series takes an in-depth look at...
Examines the development of different styles in the history of 20th-century photography in the USA and Europe. Aspirations towards pictorial photography are surveyed as are the kinds of realistic documentary...
Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at the art of the German middle ages and Renaissance, explores how artists were at the forefront of Germany’s drive to become a single nation, and how the dark times of...
A Royal Institution Discourse in which David Bomford of the National Gallery, London, examines the long tradition of applying scientific techniques to the study of works of art. He reviews past and present...
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