Art History for All Allyson Healey
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From art lovers to art haters to art-is-just-okay-ers, Art History for All aims to get all kinds of people thinking about art and what it means to them. Each episode, Allyson Healey tackles a single work of art and its history and larger significance, always asking the question: so what? Art History for All takes you beyond the art historical canon and helps you find the way in which art speaks to you (even if it's never spoken to you before).
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Episode 28: No Foolin’
In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability history,…
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Episode 27: The Incredible Flying Kris
The podcast returns as sharp as ever with a discussion of an example of a Malaysian blade called a kris! Allyson talks about the transition…
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Episode 26: The Case of Ingapirca
Allyson returns refreshed after a quarantine-induced slump to tell you all about Ingapirca, an Inka archaeological site whose function has been obscured by time and…
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Episode 25: Aboriginal Glyph
AH4A is back with an examination of Margaret Preston's 1958 work Aboriginal Glyph, and lots of thoughts about what it means for a white woman to claim her work is "aboriginal."
© 2020 Allyson Healey
Theme music © 2020 Bruce Healey
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Additional Music Credits:
Talking Drums with Guitar and Bass Mix by Bruce Healey © 2020 Bruce Healey
Pride by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4239-pride
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flow
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Episode 24: A Place to Rest
Lots of food for thought in this episode as Allyson discusses a Shona headrest from Zimbabwe in the Met’s collection: how do such objects come…
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#podcastblackout
In protest of the epidemic of racism and police brutality that affects Black people in America daily, this episode is part of #podcastblackout, a movement…
Customer Reviews
Great Variety
I enjoy Art History for All, and I appreciate the variety of work and artists Allyson Healey covers.
So annoying
I stopped listening after a couple of episodes. I found it ridiculous when she disqualified her opinion and insight regarding a painting because of the color of her skin. She is white and the painting was done by a black man. She basically denied her own humanity. Would my asian art history professor fumble through a similar disclaimer if we look at a Warhol print? At another point in the episode she uses a scoffing inflection in her voice when describing the white male european history of painting reclining female nudes. She tells us how this objectifies and codifies a certain power relationship….she then takes pains to tell us that the gay black artist’s depiction of a reclining sensual black man has no power dynamics, no objectification….simply because he is looking the viewer in the eye. Can’t we just accept that people paint and sculpt forms they find beautiful? Why do I need to be hit over the head with a woke stick when I learn about art? Why do we need to demonize European art, culture, technology, philosophy at every turn? So disappointed because she has selected wonderful pieces and is clearly passionate and knowledgeable about her subject.
Interesting
I have learned some interesting things I didn’t know, and been exposed to artists I didn’t know that well. It’s a little dry in places, and the posting is not regular enough to stay in my top podcast list, but it’s ok for a nice car ride.