How Do We Look?
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore how we look at the human body in art.
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
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How Do We Look?
Preview: Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
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Clip: Ep2 | 1m 39s | Our compulsion to create images of ourselves is a defining artistic motif of humanity. (1m 39s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 38s | Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do. (38s)
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