How Does Art Tell Stories? : Crash Course Art History #7

From cave paintings to public murals, humans have told stories with art for thousands of years. In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we discover that visual storytelling is elementally human — and so is competing over whose story is told.

Introduction: Narrative Art 00:00
History as Story 00:55
Contradictory Stories 04:10
Official & Unofficial Stories 07:01
Review & Credits 08:51

Image Descriptions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...

Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G...

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