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See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
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Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
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Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
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Explore how we look at the human body in art.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
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Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
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Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
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In December 1942, a Jewish teacher brings art supplies to children held by Nazis.
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Some of the strongest contemporary art has the magical power of transformation.
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For artist Ai Weiwei, the calamity of our time is the disaster of the displaced.
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In the autumn of 1914, Mondrian had an epiphany that would bring true abstraction.
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Albrecht Altdorfer sidesteps religious conflict by using nature.
