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What can art reveal about history or current events?

Scholars

Ian Alden Russell

Date Filmed

March 25, 2013

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Videos from Ian Alden Russell

What is the value of art?
  • March 25, 2013
How is exploring art useful as a way to learn about other societies?
  • March 25, 2013
What can art reveal about history or current events?
  • March 25, 2013
Who are you and what do you do?
  • March 25, 2013
How do you choose art for an exhibit?
  • March 25, 2013
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870-1873
  • March 25, 2013
Dorothea Lange, Destitute peapickers in California, 1936
  • March 25, 2013
How do you go about analyzing a work of art?
  • March 25, 2013
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