James Elkins
These are 70+ short videos for art students, covering subjects like media, style, practice, skill and deskilling, the history of art education, ideas of the beautiful and sublime, politics and art, gender and art, Eurocentrism, decolonizing art, ideas of modernism and postmodernism, many more.
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H51: Influences on contemporary art
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture C32: Indigenous methodologies
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture C30: Nationalism and postnationalism
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture C29: Decolonizing art history
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H26: History of first-year art instruction
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H28: Art history in an art school
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H27: History ofthe BFA
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H10: How museums tell the history of modernism
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H21: The big North American textbooks
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H22: Rewriting art history, part 1
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H23: Rewriting art history, part two
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H25: Rewriting art history, part 4, Beyond art
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H24: Rewriting art history, part threee
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H12: Is postmodernism a period?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H13: Theories of contemporary art
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H14: Who is art history for?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H15: Art history in 7th c. India, 9th c. China...
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H20: E.H. Gombrich's textbook
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H19: Art history textbooks in different countries
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H18: Writing world art histories
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H17: Hegel and his ideas of history and art
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H16: Who wrote art history in the Renaissance?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H11: When did postmodernism begin?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H9: How many modernisms were there?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H8: When did modernism begin?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H7: When did art begin?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H1: The idea of art history
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H2: How does art history appear to you?
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H3: Timelines of art history
Concepts and Problems in the Visual Arts, Lecture H4: Dividing art into periods