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The Art Assignment
Art About Migration
Season 6
Episode 2
Migration is central to human experience, and art history reflects that. Skipping through time and geography, we explore Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, Lapita pottery, the Akbarnama, and the MexicaN codex "Tira de la Peregrinación," and also discuss contemporary art about migration.
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