Open Resources

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

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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. 

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

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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.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Hybridity

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

Leah Clark and Kathleen Christian discuss the term hybridity.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Globalisation

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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.

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

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

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

Open Arts Object: Edward Lutyens, Viceroy’s House, New Delhi, completed 1920

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Professor Elizabeth McKellar explores the central government building in New Delhi built as the Viceroy’s House, which combined both Indian and European architectural traditions.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Iconography

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Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Rembrandt Duits discussing the term iconography. Includes Giotto, Entry into Jerusalem, Arena chapel; a Byzantine panel painting (icon) of the Virgin and Child; Gianlorenzo Bernini’s sculpture of Apollo and Daphne; Jacob Matham’s engraving of ‘Envy’; Bellini, Madonna of the Meadow.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Commemoration

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Susie West and Leah Clark discussing commemoration and how it can be applied to works of art and architecture. Includes war memorials; tomb sculpture; Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Tower of London.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Modernism I: What is Modernism?

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https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/c6a532c652

Warren Carter and Paul Wood discuss the complex and shifting status of the term modernism from the nineteenth century through to the present.

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Modernism II: Modernism and the avant-garde

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Warren Carter and Paul Wood discuss the complex relationship between modernism and the avant-garde.