Episode 12: Wrecked
Art History for All
English - January 29, 2019 00:05 - 31 minutes - 44 MB - ★★★★★ - 147 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Society & Culture art sculpture painting history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get…
Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get into the shipwreck on which it was based as well as how it’s used today in pop cultural milestones like Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APES**T” video.
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“Betrayal” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
“Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
“Caught in the Beat” by Broke for Free (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.