Portraits Of An Artist
Matthew Collings explains how contemporary artists are interpreting the idea of the self portrait. The OpenLearn team.First published on Tue, 15 Mar 2005 as Portraits Of An Artist. To find out more...
View ArticleFields of Gold: Meet Duggie Fields
Artist Duggie Fields explains how the digital revolution has added new dimensions to his work. Duggie Fields.First published on Fri, 01 Apr 2005 as Fields of Gold: Meet Duggie Fields. To find out more...
View ArticleUzupis - Long live the art republic...?
The Republic of Uzupis - home of the free spirit, but not for long. Dr Mark Banks.First published on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 as Uzupis - Long live the art republic...?. To find out more visit The Open...
View ArticleThe Colours of Money
An innovative way of funding new artists - or a risky investment? Can you bank on artmoney? Dr Mark Banks.First published on Fri, 10 Oct 2008 as The Colours of Money. To find out more visit The Open...
View ArticleCannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination
We know drunk-driving causes death on the roads, but how does taking drugs like cannabis affect your driving skills? This album offers a chance to see how psychologists perform experiments which...
View ArticleLearning from human remains: Seianti's skeleton
How much can we learn from an entombed skeleton? This album introduces Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, an Etruscan noblewoman whose remains, along with her magnificent painted sarcophagus and life-size...
View ArticleAnalysing European Romanticism
The principal tenets of the movement known as Romanticism first began in Germany and England, with the former pioneering the moral and philosophical beliefs and the latter producing the first Romantic...
View ArticleBlack British Jazz
What is Black British Jazz? This short film explores the research carried out by The Open University research team led by Dr Jason Toynbee who has been examining the history of Black British Jazz and...
View ArticleArt and architecture
The Louvre was designed to house a great art collection for the people of France. Was there a plan from the outset to build a canon of work where the relationships between artists, their origins, their...
View ArticleCognitive Psychology
The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and Salvador Dali to Virginia Wolfe and Gertrude Stein....
View ArticleArtist insight: Clare Shaw
Clare Shaw is an acclaimed poet and performer. She talks about her own experiences of self-harm and her work with the self-harm awareness organisation, harm-ed. Clare Shaw.First published on Tue, 25...
View ArticleA tribute to the world of myth: Ovid and Holkham Hall
How do the themes of classical mythology come to be refashioned through the ages? Holkham Hall in Norfolk, England, is the estate of an 18th century gentleman, Thomas Coke - a scholar of epic classical...
View ArticleCulture and Climate Change
Every generation faces challenges that previous generations could scarcely imagine. Twenty years ago, few people were talking about climate change, now it's one of the most hotly-contested areas in...
View ArticleArt history: modern and contemporary
Baffled by modern art and architecture? You’re not alone! This collection gives new insight into today’s shifting kaleidoscope of visual culture by placing it in the context of the developments of the...
View ArticleArt history: early modern
The world of the early modern period (C10th - C16th) was one of religious obsession, power struggles and plunder. But it was also a world of stunning artistic endeavour. This collection shows how,...
View ArticleMizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
Manga artist, folklorist and icon Mizuki Shigeru has died. Nevin Thompson explains the role he played in Japanese culture, and why he'll be so missed. Nevin Thompson.First published on Mon, 07 Dec 2015...
View ArticleFrom A Distance
From a Distance: A conversation on the ethics of representing the refugee crisis between Umut Erel and Behjat Omer Abdulla Behjat Omer Abdulla.First published on Thu, 02 Mar 2017 as From A Distance. To...
View ArticleSeeing the internet
How do we see the internet? Gillian Rose explores why some artists and campaigners think it's important that the internet is made more visible. Professor Gillian Rose. Professor of Human Geography at...
View ArticleWho are we?: Movement and Immobility: Catalan Political Prisoners and exiles
Georgina Blakeley and Joan Soler-Adillon, explored how political repression can at once be a cause for people to flee their countries, but it can also turn into experiences of enforced immobility, a...
View ArticleWho are we? Desire Lines* and Precarious Work in the Arts
Questions of belonging and participation were addressed by legal scholar Robert Herian Senior Lecturer in Law (OU), who looked at the experience of place through his collaboration with artist Lucy...
View ArticleExploring art and visual culture
What is art and how has it changed through history? How do artists create works of art? If you're interested in the place of the visual in our lives, then this module is for you. You'll look at major...
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