Thank you sooooo much for these videos. I am fascinated by art history and have never come across lessons as complete nor as clearly constructed - let alone as fun! - as yours. Very very grateful. You made so many things much clearer in my mind, and less prone to be forgotten as a result
I love all of the extra insight you offer in your lessons! You aren't just reading off of a script and your passion shows! I loved the info you added about Sol Ross. I go to the University of North Texas and I think the campus is really pretty. Some of the buildings have an older look but I can't place the architecture. Some of it looks possibly Spanish. Have you ever had a chance to visit the campus? I would love to know if the buildings were inspired by a specific period or if it was more random.
thank youuuu so much for these awesome explanations... in fact i am iranian student in painting filed and none of my professores explained this beautifully art history in the way that you do. thank you soooooo much for that. i as an art student in middle east country , can understand and love art history because of you😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Im English and I've actually seen the East Pediment sculptures in the British Museum. Had no clue thats what they were about. TBH whilst the exhibits are amazing the way they present them is very inaccessable and disengaging (I work at another museum in london) and I wish they would just give the jig up and return these artifacts. Most londoners are bored of it and lots of people more and more politically don't agree with it. (this is very much coming from the perspective of someone living in london working in the arts so my close friendship group and work collegues are very bias). Theres a really great video on Vox talking about nigerian artefacts and its so upsetting to think how much these artefacts would be cherished and appreciated elsewhere. Have you seen the peice by Jake and Dinos Chapman that points fun at poeples attitudes in the UK towards these artefacts. I saw it in person they had a really dimly lit room with what seemed to be acient artefacts and at first (I was a teenager at the time) I was immediatly less interested. Then as I went around the room I realised they were all eating things from McDonnalds, and even had the branding and logos on. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/jake-and-dinos-chapman/jake-and-dinos-chapman-room-7 anyway just a rant from your lecture lol
Thank you Dr. Clark! I learn something new every lecture. Is there a course on youtube or lecturer you’d recommend for learning the history of Asian art?
Hallo I am greek ,i realy like your videos i find them very helpfull and intresting! I would argiu egenst the return of the marbles for these reasons: 1) The fakt that the marbles were stolen by the cooperation of to impirial empiers is part of the marbles history, a part of its history that will be easily forgoten if returnd 2)This reaturn will likly be acompaned with a masiv nasionalistik orgasm unlike a anty theft/impirialis stance wich whould probobly be beter 3)It will make the goverment of the time heros just like Melina Merkouri wich probobly wont be very good 4)why is it important to see the statiuse near the place were they were created? this is just food for thought it may likly be wrong . I would be very happy if i got a reply thank youuuuuuu
Spot on about the looting of antiquities and artefacts. The UNESCO convention stipulates that stolen artefacts have to be returned to the home country!
as an iranian me and many other iranians are totally ok if some better countries take care of Persepolis because in here in iran they (government) dont give a hoot about saving Persepolis and its vanishing and DESTROYING... honestly, when my family and i go there to visit Persepolis, we cry because its too hard to watch such this amazing building with all the rich history is vanishing in front of our eyes and the authorities dont care at alllll
In the Netherlands objects taken from foreign countries without consent are given back more and more by musea. It's one of the issues nowadays overhere. Another topic is art & dutch slavery. And a third is stolen WWII art from Jewish people that ended up in musea.
When you talk about entering the Parthenon and going around it at 25:37, wouldn't that be mainly because they wanted you to enter from the east side, where the sun rises? Of course, both can be valid at the same time, I'm unfamiliar with the geography around the parthenon
Really enjoying these lectures here in the UK. But it's very important to refer to the 'United Kingdom' or 'Great Britain' as opposed to 'England' which is simply like an American state within the UK that comprises England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Thanks again for the great lectures.
Sometimes but not usually. Honestly, Christians were just as bad at defacing pagan monuments as Muslims. But in most cases it's just wear and tear. All of these buildings were subject to fires, earthquakes, etc. and the heads and noses are the things that stick out. So if a statue falls face first the nose if the first thing to get hit.
@@caroluscitra you can ask the same about the Greeks. Why would a Cristian country care about pagan statues? But yet, they do. In the same way the modern Egypt (which has large and ancient Cristian Coptic community, by the way) can claim its rights to the remains of that ancient jew, st. Mark. Anyway, my point was to challenge that position about "removing an artifact from a country is robbery". That is not that simple and in many cases the country current population has no historic or cultural connection to a disputed artifact, that just happened to be in the same territory that their present day state occupies.
Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter. To be precise: Frisian. So not a Brit. Another thing and I will put it very mildly: only an American can talk speak so bluntly about ‘stolen art’ and all the rest this art historian claims on this subject. Rather a shame to be fair. Who really seems to know nothing about these complex matters.
Thank you sooooo much for these videos. I am fascinated by art history and have never come across lessons as complete nor as clearly constructed - let alone as fun! - as yours. Very very grateful. You made so many things much clearer in my mind, and less prone to be forgotten as a result
Even if there is a lot to learn, you make it easy! And thank you for the rant about the art stealing, it was really a point that needed to be made.
love the jokes and anecdotes as well...oh and the rant too
I love all of the extra insight you offer in your lessons! You aren't just reading off of a script and your passion shows! I loved the info you added about Sol Ross. I go to the University of North Texas and I think the campus is really pretty. Some of the buildings have an older look but I can't place the architecture. Some of it looks possibly Spanish. Have you ever had a chance to visit the campus? I would love to know if the buildings were inspired by a specific period or if it was more random.
Never been to UNT but googling the pics it looks gorgeous. Some Neoclassical and some Spanish Colonial Revival.
thank youuuu so much for these awesome explanations... in fact i am iranian student in painting filed and none of my professores explained this beautifully art history in the way that you do. thank you soooooo much for that. i as an art student in middle east country , can understand and love art history because of you😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Let's cancel the British Museum by writing its name on broken Ikea mugs and leaving them on the porch until they give the marbles back✨💕
I LOVE this idea. lol.
Pericles didn’t die fighting the Peloponessian Wars, but of the Plague of Athens.
Pericles did not die at the Peleponnesian war! He died at home in Athens.
Im English and I've actually seen the East Pediment sculptures in the British Museum. Had no clue thats what they were about. TBH whilst the exhibits are amazing the way they present them is very inaccessable and disengaging (I work at another museum in london) and I wish they would just give the jig up and return these artifacts. Most londoners are bored of it and lots of people more and more politically don't agree with it. (this is very much coming from the perspective of someone living in london working in the arts so my close friendship group and work collegues are very bias). Theres a really great video on Vox talking about nigerian artefacts and its so upsetting to think how much these artefacts would be cherished and appreciated elsewhere. Have you seen the peice by Jake and Dinos Chapman that points fun at poeples attitudes in the UK towards these artefacts. I saw it in person they had a really dimly lit room with what seemed to be acient artefacts and at first (I was a teenager at the time) I was immediatly less interested. Then as I went around the room I realised they were all eating things from McDonnalds, and even had the branding and logos on.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/jake-and-dinos-chapman/jake-and-dinos-chapman-room-7
anyway just a rant from your lecture lol
I'll take a look, thanks! Yeah, cultural repatriation is a big issue. The Decolonization of collections is a growing movement.
A bit on your high-horse re: ‘finders keepers’ rant TLC.
Wouldn’t it be Athena niké?
It was the UK that joined the EU
i wish you were my professor 🤩🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃and i introduced you to many of my Iranian friends to learn art history by your videos..
Thank you Dr. Clark! I learn something new every lecture. Is there a course on youtube or lecturer you’d recommend for learning the history of Asian art?
Written content will probably be the most abundant. Takes a lot of work to put it in video format so it'd probably be easiest to read on Asian art
Hallo I am greek ,i realy like your videos i find them very helpfull and intresting!
I would argiu egenst the return of the marbles for these reasons:
1) The fakt that the marbles were stolen by the cooperation of to impirial empiers is part of the marbles history, a part of its history that will be easily forgoten if returnd
2)This reaturn will likly be acompaned with a masiv nasionalistik orgasm unlike a anty theft/impirialis stance wich whould probobly be beter
3)It will make the goverment of the time heros just like Melina Merkouri wich probobly wont be very good
4)why is it important to see the statiuse near the place were they were created?
this is just food for thought it may likly be wrong . I would be very happy if i got a reply thank youuuuuuu
Spot on about the looting of antiquities and artefacts. The UNESCO convention stipulates that stolen artefacts have to be returned to the home country!
as an iranian me and many other iranians are totally ok if some better countries take care of Persepolis because in here in iran they (government) dont give a hoot about saving Persepolis and its vanishing and DESTROYING... honestly, when my family and i go there to visit Persepolis, we cry because its too hard to watch such this amazing building with all the rich history is vanishing in front of our eyes and the authorities dont care at alllll
In the Netherlands objects taken from foreign countries without consent are given back more and more by musea. It's one of the issues nowadays overhere. Another topic is art & dutch slavery. And a third is stolen WWII art from Jewish people that ended up in musea.
When you talk about entering the Parthenon and going around it at 25:37, wouldn't that be mainly because they wanted you to enter from the east side, where the sun rises? Of course, both can be valid at the same time, I'm unfamiliar with the geography around the parthenon
Really enjoying these lectures here in the UK. But it's very important to refer to the 'United Kingdom' or 'Great Britain' as opposed to 'England' which is simply like an American state within the UK that comprises England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Thanks again for the great lectures.
It seems many of the statues are missing heads and faces. Were they destroyed on purpose? Have it something to do with the Islam rules?
Sometimes but not usually. Honestly, Christians were just as bad at defacing pagan monuments as Muslims. But in most cases it's just wear and tear. All of these buildings were subject to fires, earthquakes, etc. and the heads and noses are the things that stick out. So if a statue falls face first the nose if the first thing to get hit.
Nowadawys we have cancel culture doing exactly the same things or even worse: tearing down statues, burning books etc.
Venetians stole the remains of st Mark the evangelist from Egypt. Are they going to send them back as well?
I doubt it.
why Egypt, a Muslim country, would care about the spoils of a dead person who was not even an egyptian citizen
@@caroluscitra you can ask the same about the Greeks. Why would a Cristian country care about pagan statues? But yet, they do. In the same way the modern Egypt (which has large and ancient Cristian Coptic community, by the way) can claim its rights to the remains of that ancient jew, st. Mark.
Anyway, my point was to challenge that position about "removing an artifact from a country is robbery". That is not that simple and in many cases the country current population has no historic or cultural connection to a disputed artifact, that just happened to be in the same territory that their present day state occupies.
Alma-Tadema was a Dutch painter. To be precise: Frisian. So not a Brit.
Another thing and I will put it very mildly: only an American can talk speak so bluntly about ‘stolen art’ and all the rest this art historian claims on this subject. Rather a shame to be fair. Who really seems to know nothing about these complex matters.
D'oh! I always hate it when I made these mistakes. Looks like he lived and was active in England but was indeed Dutch. Thanks for the correction!
@@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343 :)
Athena’s head dress was designed to prevent people putting traffic cones ⚠️ on her head.
The Greeks thought of everything!