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The Art Assignment
Why You Don't Like Art History
Season 5
Episode 5
Was your Art History class an endless succession of names and dates and movements? Art History doesn't have to be that way! We discuss new (and much more compelling) approaches the study of art.
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Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised b
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Taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night.
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She's probably the most famous artwork of all time, but what do you know about her?
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Surrealist artist Salvador Dali is well known, but what about his 1973 cookbook?
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We explore the life, evolution, and legacy of Jackson Pollock.
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"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.
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We take a trip to LA and look at the Getty-funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography.
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We meet with Hope Ginsburg, an artist who often works outside of a traditional studio.
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How many assignments can we complete in a day?
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This week we talk about Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, and many others.