Tag Archives: Art history

Nature and the Self

Eugene Goodheart speaks about his book Desire and Its Discontents, a cultural study of the self, ideology, and desire. In the second segment [14:00], Carl Woodring discusses the research and writing that resulted in his book Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain. … Continue reading

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India’s Princely States

From the perspective of history and art history, B. N. Goswamy and Barbara Ramusack note that for thousands of years, India witnessed the rise and fall of great empires. When the last of these declined in the eighteenth century, the princely … Continue reading

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Patronage and Society

According to Dale Kent, patronage was an essential element in the cultural fabric of the early Renaissance in Florence, Italy and was expressed socially, politically, and aesthetically. Drawing upon letters and political documents at the time of the Medici, Kent seeks … Continue reading

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Communicating the Sacred, Part 2 of 2

The sacred and the secular: in the history of art and ideas, from antiquity into the modern world, how do these combine and diverge to form patterns of religious and social behavior and thought? Robert Gregg and Anabel Wharton discuss their study, which combines … Continue reading

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Communicating the Sacred, Part 1 of 2

In the history of art and ideas, the communication of the sacred through words and images is a theme of continuing interest. Lawrence Hoey and Roger Stalley discuss how societies express and understand words and pictures that communicate notions of the … Continue reading

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