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

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.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/1db8065ba5

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Iconography

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.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/b428ed767f

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Commemoration

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.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/4d56821ebd

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

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

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

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

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

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/66cac60880

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Modernism III: Modernism and contemporary art

Warren Carter and Paul Wood discuss the complex relationship between modernism and contemporary art.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/3e8d893ed2

Open Arts Object: Critical Term - Classicism

Emma Barker and Kathleen Christian discuss the term Classicism. 

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/d23854eef6

Open Arts Objects: Bichitr and Ramdas, Shah-Jahan receives his three eldest sons and Asaf Khan during his accession ceremonies, 1630-40, from the Padshahnama Royal Library, Windsor Castle

Emily Hannam brings the Mughal court to life in her discussion of paintings from the Padshahnama (‘Book of Emperors’) housed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/de3dc61c88

Open Arts Object: Bridget Riley, Kashan, 1984, National Museum Wales, Cardiff

Bryony White (Senior Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art) discussing Bridget Riley, Kashan, 1984, National Museum Wales, Cardiff.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/8c5b85f051

Open Arts Object: Pyxis, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Francesca Leoni (Curator of Islamic Art) discussing a Spanish cylindrical ivory casket (pyxis) lid with huntsmen and animals, 389 in the Islamic calendar, or 998-999, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Resource link: 
https://player.open.ac.uk/embed/969001d03d

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