Episode 6: Genius in Small Things: Chiaroscuro
A short Artecdote illustrating how important innovation often arises in apparently unpretentious discoveries. This is exemplified by chiaroscuro, the technique in paintings of using radical light-and-...
3 Tammi 20178min
Episode 5: Santa Claus's Look!
Christmas time! A podcast about how Santa Claus LOOKS --- the history of his visual appearance. St. Nicholas, Thomas Nast, Fred Mizen, myths like Coca-Cola, Luther, the Orthodox Santa, "Twas the night...
12 Joulu 20167min
Episode 4: The 'Problem' with Performance and Video Art
The question: What is the problem with Performance Art and Video Art? Are they really, as can seem, so often so bad?
4 Joulu 20165min
Episode 3: Pluralism, PluralismS, Schmuralism
Re-historicizing Pluralism in art. It is claimed to be a unique change and to reign right now, yet it is not so new and has a past. Pluralisms have occurred at least 7 times before.
15 Marras 201610min
Episode 2: Art Mottos, Modernism and PoMo
The slogan of Modernism was Ezra Pound's "Make it new. " Postmodernism (supposedly) rejects this. What is its motto and what could come after that?
30 Loka 20166min
Episode 1: Illegal to Teach Women Art
There were of course female artists at all times. Most simply have been ignored, or even later removed from mainstream art history. Worst of all, for most of history in the West and the East, it was i...
19 Loka 20165min
