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How did cabinets of curiosities become temples to the Enlightenment? Explore the fascinating history of museums.
1. A brief history of the art ...
"It is to kill art to make history of it" — the neutralizing effect of the art museum.
3. Art Museums and (Art) Objects
Just as museums have nurtured artistic creativity, they have also become the target of serious critique from artists themselves.
4. Artists in and against the museum
Far from being neutral, museum are deeply rooted in a thicket of political, sociological, and ideological histories.
6. Looking at Art Museums
This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism.
Daily life in 1820 Brooklyn
Japanese objects came through Mexico on their way to Spain, and had a lasting impact on the arts of the New World.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...
This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism.
Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn
Japanese objects came through Mexico on their way to Spain, and had a lasting impact on the arts of the New World.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...
Chorrera ceramic artists were specialists who developed a sophisticated ceramic technology that allowed them to create elaborate vessels and highly expressive sculptural works.
Chorrera Ceramics from Ecuador
Many thousands of brightly painted and beautifully detailed sculptures were produced by the Jama-Coaque culture of modern-day Ecuador’s lush western coast.
Jama-Coaque ceramics
Even within single countries in Asia, there is lots of cultural diversity.
Cultural diversity in East Asia
Asia is a vast continent, but the trading of goods and materials across land and sea routes brought ideas and cultures across long distances.
Trade in East Asia
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
Annie Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth II
Lord Krishna is an important figure in the Hindu pantheon who appears often in works of art and architecture.
Representations of Krishna
Suffused with the contemporary racist pseudoscience of Social Darwinism—which claimed that white people with northern European ancestry were the most “evolved” race—the World’s Columbian Exposition cast other races and cultures as the living relatives of white people’s distant ancestors.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: Introduction
Odundo's pottery draws on traditions from around the world and reveals the relationship of clay to the body
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black ...
Odundo's pottery draws on traditions from around the world and reveals the relationship of clay to the body
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black ...
All artists are influenced by the styles and media of others, even those who stridently claim otherwise.
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