Is It Art Tho?

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  • The art history podcast that keeps your highbrow on fleek. In each episode Ellie and Augustina discuss art, culture and stanning Andrew Graham-Dixon from their South London living room.
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  • Episode 6 - Dada

    Episode 6 - Dada
    Jan 31 2022
    We’re back dear listeners and this time we’ve decided to go all Modernist on you with an episode dedicated to the Dada art movement! Join us on this weird and wonderful Dadaist trip through inter-war Europe and New York as we explore avant-garde art, sound poetry, performance, photomontage, and the mystery of the world’s most famous urinal. Artworks: Karawane – Hugo Ball https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/news/3001/Salonen-premiere-of-Karawane-to-launch-Creative-Chair-position-at-Tonhalle-Zurich/ Voices of dada https://open.spotify.com/album/3LuikTBq28HdPlK2DVuUCb?si=JRffH5zFTGKWjHR2hydW8w Dada manifesto – Hugo Ball https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dada_Manifesto_(1916,_Hugo_Ball) First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920 http://www.cocosse-journal.org/2014/06/the-first-international-dada-fair.html Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany – Hannah Hoch https://www.artsy.net/artwork/hannah-hoch-cut-with-the-dada-kitchen-knife-through-the-last-weimar-beer-belly-cultural-epoch-in-germany Staatshäupter - Hannah Hoch http://cdn.artobserved.com/2014/03/Hannah-H%C3%B6ch_Whitechapel-Gallery_Staatsh%C3%A4upter-Heads-of-State-1930.jpg Indian Dancer – Hannah Hoch https://www.moma.org/collection/works/37360 Untitled (From an Ethnographic Museum), 1929 – Hannah Hoch https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/gallery/8183/dada-africa-dialogue-with-the-other/2 Fountain – Marcel Duchamp (Maybe) https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-duchamps-urinal-changed-art-forever Bicycle Wheel – Marcel Duchamp https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81631 Further reading: https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I https://www.dw.com/en/africa-and-world-war-i/a-17573462#:~:text=A%20million%20people%20died%20in%20East%20Africa%20alone%20during%20World%20War%20I.&text=Some%2010%2C000%20South%20African%20soldiers,Africa%20which%20honors%20their%20sacrifice. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada#:~:text=Dada%20was%20an%20art%20movement,satirical%20and%20nonsensical%20in%20nature https://www.minniemuse.com/articles/musings/the-cabaret-volatire https://www.theartstory.org/movement/dada/ https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/09/hannah-hoch-art-punk-whitechapel https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8931/hannah-hoch-reimagines-indigenous-african-artefacts Further listening: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AUeo6HFPySTJWCjz2cvDX?si=k3KgycUNSCSegmPQl8otKg https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LFk1IeayMcApEkVhuQfEG?si=sIrCG2QXRea_RoeiyVptaQ Further viewing: Documentary - Dada: The original art rebels (2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed1NfFMkYmE Documentary - Dada and Surrealism: Europe After the Rain (1978) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdBaS8fgwNs Marie Osmond reciting Karawane for Ripley's Believe It Or Not - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E87lHNl6HnE
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    2 hrs and 4 mins
  • Episode 5 - Old Man Baby Jesus (aka The Homunculus 101) CHRISTMAS ART SPECIAL

    Episode 5 - Old Man Baby Jesus (aka The Homunculus 101) CHRISTMAS ART SPECIAL
    Dec 31 2021

    Happy Festive Season listeners! We've just squeaked in a Christmas-themed episode for you to enjoy before the New Year. This time, we wanted answers to a question that has bothered the IIAT household for some time: what's the deal with Old Man Baby Jesus in early art?

    We discover why people couldn't get enough of balding / jacked / eye bags / combover portrayals of the little baby Jesus, via Netflix Christmas specials, some Medieval alchemy, and some strange ideas about animals.

    Artworks:

    Jacopo Bellini - Madonna and Child with Angels (1440s) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacopo_Bellini_-_The_Madonna_and_Child_with_angels,_6282010.jpg https://www.meisterdrucke.uk/fine-art-prints/Jacopo-Bellini/712673/Madonna-and-Child,-15th-century,-1926.html

    Barnaba de Modena - Madonna Breastfeeding Child (active 1361-1383) https://www.agefotostock.com/age/en/details-photo/madonna-breastfeeding-child-by-barnaba-da-modena-active-1361-1383-pisa-museo-nazionale-di-san-matteo-art-museum/DAE-11175251

    Unattributed - Madonna and Child, Madonna delle Vergini or Icon from Bitonto (1304) https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/italy-puglia-bari-pinacoteca-provinciale-corrado-giaquinto-news-photo/187388764

    Nicola di Maestro Antonio - Mother and Child Enthroned (c 1490) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2225/madonna-and-child-enthroned-nicola-di-maestro-antonio

    Pacino di Bonaguida - Details from Tree of Life (1310) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacino-di-bonaguida-florence-1310-1315.jpg Detail: https://www.akg-images.com/archive/The-tree-of-life-2UMEBMYDJL5QZ.html

    Jean Mancel - Illustration from Vie de Nostre Seigneur Jésus Christ (15th C) https://www.pinterest.com/pin/525091637798032930/

    Unattributed - The Annunciation, The Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt (Late 12th C) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon_of_the_Annunciation,_St._Catherine%27s_Monastery Further reading:

    https://thedecodinghistory.wordpress.com/2020/11/06/story-behind-why-babies-in-medieval-art-look-like-creepy-adults/

    https://blog.artsper.com/en/a-closer-look/history-of-art-ugliest-paintings-of-jesus/

    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66691/why-do-babies-medieval-paintings-look-so-old-and-scary

    https://www.thecollector.com/baby-jesus-in-medieval-religious-iconography/

    https://wtfarthistory.com/post/7886097565/homunculus-n-a-little-human

    https://artandtheology.org/tag/homunculus/
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 4 - Crazy for Witches HALLOWEEN SPECIAL

    Episode 4 - Crazy for Witches HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
    Oct 30 2021
    It is the season of the WITCH, baby!!! This time we have a Halloween special for you. From Lilith the OG, via Circe, Hekate and Europe’s early modern Witch Craze, we are giving you a whistle-stop tour of all things witchy and woo woo. Along the way we discuss crow armies, personal taxidermists, and whether Albrecht Dürer was a fan of the Curly Girl Method. The list of artworks we discuss in order are: The Burney Relief, Old Babylonian 19th-18thC BC: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_2003-0718-1 Story of Circe on an Ancient Greek pot, c. 440 BC: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253627 John Collier, Lilith, 1889: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lilith-65854 Albrecht Dürer The Witch, c. 1500: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/391139 Four Witches, 1497: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-2-119 Self Portrait, 1500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_(D%C3%BCrer,_Munich) Hans Baldung Grien The Witches, 1510: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/416796 Bewitched Groom, 1544/45: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/bewitched-groom Woodcuts A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile,1579: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/witchcraft-pamphlet-a-rehearsal-both-strange-and-true-1579 Title page of Matthew Hopkins’ “A Discovery of Witches”, 1647: http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large107868.html The History of Witches and Wizards in England, 1720: https://wellcomecollection.org/images?query=abkab8tq Daniel Gardner, The Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw144816/The-Three-Witches-from-Macbeth-Elizabeth-Lamb-Viscountess-Melbourne-Georgiana-Duchess-of-Devonshire-Anne-Seymour-Damer Henry Fuseli Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches, 1793-4: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/macbeth-banquo-and-the-witches-219771 The Weird Sisters, c. 1783: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/macbeth-act-i-scene-3-the-weird-sisters-54899 Francisco Goya Witches’ Flight, c. 1798: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/witches-flight/5e44d19d-7cda-472b-b6d8-8868c599d252 Witches’ Sabbath, 1797-8: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/el-aquelarre/kAFyfuppyHHyBw?hl=en-GB Truth, Time and History, 1812: https://fundaciongoyaenaragon.es/eng/obra/la-verdad-el-tiempo-y-la-historia/165 Witches’ Sabbath, or The Great He-Goat, 1820-3: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/witches-sabbath-or-the-great-he-goat/09559184-cfeb-48fe-8acc-89b070b64d92 JW Waterhouse, The Magic Circle, 1886: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/waterhouse-the-magic-circle-n01572 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1866-8: https://emuseum.delart.org/objects/6457/lady-lilith?ctx=7daa5724c2dab253a5696066e15664624303a27d&idx=5 You can follow us on Instagram (@isit_arttho), Facebook (@isitarttho) or Twitter (@isitarttho1) to see the artworks we discuss. We also did a lot of research for this episode which we weren’t able to fit in, so if you want to get your witch on, check out these articles and other podcast episodes below: Lilith https://www.learnreligions.com/legend-of-lilith-origins-2076660 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/ Medieval witches https://theconversation.com/the-evolution-of-the-medieval-witch-and-why-shes-usually-a-woman-104861 Gone Medieval, Royal Witches: https://podfollow.com/gone-medieval/episode/bacf891c71399cabaaec98a5a4f0552e7a85aef9/view https://www.grunge.com/417990/royalty-who-dabbled-in-witchcraft/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-making-beer The Witch Craze You’re Dead To Me (BBC), The Witch Craze: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nx05j https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodcuts-and-witches#1-1 https://historycollection.com/12-shocking-beliefs-from-the-malleus-maleficarum-the-witchfinders-guidebook/12/ https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/abject-eroticism-in-northern-renaissance-art-the-witches-and-femmes-fatales-of-hans-baldung-grien/foreword [There’s a free sample you can read] Goya: https://stevengambardella.medium.com/the-horror-is-real-51ba933efb5b JW Waterhouse and Circe: https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/waterhouse-circe/ General witchiness: Art History Babes, Witches Bitches: https://podfollow.com/1123488172/episode/9d1cc1fc0f192c2ad5721e7563390c8b1b0e61f5/view Art Matters, The Art History of Witches: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-matters-podcast-the-art-history-of-witches
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    2 hrs and 2 mins

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