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Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Mobility

Leah Clark and Kathleen Christian discussing the term mobility, and how it has changed the way we approach Renaissance works of art. Includes Holbein’s Ambassadors; Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and its circulation in print; a devotional diptych with a portrait of Joos van der Burch.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/19c068cf7b

Open Arts Object: Mantegna, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1495-1505, Getty Museum, LA

Dr Leah Clark discusses the global dimensions of a painting by the Renaissance court artist Andrea Mantegna.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/2e377db0e4

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Essentialism

Renate Dohmen and Kathleen Christian discussing the complexities of the term essentialism, exploring the ideas of art and culture it produced in the nineteenth century and what its legacies are today. Includes James Stephanoff, An Assemblage of Works of Art in Sculpture and in Painting, 1845; Johann Zoffany, Major William Palmer with his second wife, the Mughal princess Bibi Faiz Bakhsh; Rembrandt, Man in Oriental Costume.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/55a66559b8

Open Arts Object: Yinka Shonibare, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, 2010

In this film, Dr Clare Taylor looks at a work made by a living artist who works in London, Yinka Shonibare. The subject, materials and sites she talks about all encourage viewers to think of their own individual, national and global identity in new ways.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/f8c9635c33

Open Arts Object: The Pilkington Album (1893-94), University of Cambridge

Dr Renate Dohmen explores a nineteenth-century scrap album, the equivalent of today’s Facebook, created by a young British woman who travelled to British India.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/d4cd81f15e

Open Arts Object: Tipu’s Tiger, 18th century, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Dr Renate Dohmen explores the historical contexts and technical marvel of an extraordinary and infamous musical automaton commissioned by Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore in India. 

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/d649b06e9a

Open Arts Object: Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait along the Border Line between Mexico and the USA, 1932

Dr Warren Carter discusses a self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in which she depicts herself straddling the border between Mexico and the United States.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/2f603f2d2e

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Hybridity

Leah Clark and Kathleen Christian discuss the term hybridity.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/a81dab42cc

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Globalisation

Leon Wainwright and Leah Clark discussing the complexities of the term globalisation for Art History in relation to Renaissance and contemporary art. Includes Chinese porcelain, De Bry prints, and works on canvas by Frank Bowling.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/e8add94bdf

Open Arts Object: Benin plaque showing the façade of the Royal palace, 1550–1650 (British Museum)

Dr Kim Woods discusses a fascinating brass sculpture from the historic African kingdom of Benin.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/d553048299

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