CREATING HOMOSEXUALITY “Chick equals nigger equals queer. Think it over.” Unattributed quote Homosexuality In his 1980s series of books on human (mostly male) sexuality, the French...
POSTMODERN PAINTING AS BRICOLAGE Postmodern painting can be characterized as a reaction against the “rule” of Modernist painting. Using the art of David Salle, Julian Schanbel, Carol Maria Mariani, MarkTansey and Eric Fischl, this podcast discusses the...
THE RISE AND FALL OF GUSTAVE COURBET Part Two The early career of Gustave Courbet is discussed within the historical context of class struggles during the middle of the nineteenth century. The Realism in Courbet’s paintings of the 1850s manifested itself not...
Early Nineteenth Century Utopian Philosophy The largest issue of the second half of the nineteenth century was the containment of people. The problem of how to control a growing population in Europe and an alien population in colonized lands occupied the...
The Industrial Revolution An English Invention For the artist of the modern period, the most essential problem was how to depict the modern: as a new style, as new content, as a new attitude? Each generation would find its own answer, only to have the next generation...
