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Espresso Media
Art and Millionaires: A Journey Through the Riviera's Artistic Heritage
This video explores the artistic heritage of the French Riviera, from the American millionaires who brought patronage to the artists in the 1920s to the modern works of Jean Plensa. The trail of the Riviera's great masters, such as...
Crash Course
The Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #41
In the 1920s, there was a blossoming of all kinds of art made by African Americans in the New York neighborhood Harlem. Let's call it a renaissance. While all the arts were having a great run, some extremely interesting things were...
Curated Video
James Joyce: Early Life and Inspiration for Ulysses
This video introduces us to the life and influences of the author James Joyce as well as the controversial reception and subsequent acclaim of his novel "Ulysses". Following its initial publication in 1922, the novel faced and...
Mr. Beat
1920s American Culture (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time, a horrible war known as World War 1 devastated the planet. Immediately after the war, a lot of people in the United States were passionate about various causes, some good, some not so much. While women had finally won...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Roaring Twenties - The Harlem Renaissance
Just the Facts: The Emergence of America Uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades thats shaped Modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of the early 20th century,...
Mr. Beat
The Lost Generation Writers (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time there was city, named Paris, France. During the 1920s, lots of Americans moved there to escape institutionalized racism and the associated race riots, xenophobia, censorship, materialism, and Prohibition. Perhaps most...
Cerebellum
Emergence Of Modern America: The Depression - Works Progress Administration
Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern America: The Depression uses fascinating historical footage to explore six decades that shaped modern America. The series examines the Gilded Age in the late 19th century, the Progressive Era of...
Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet rehearse Elite Syncopations
The Royal Ballet rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Elite Syncopations, filmed as part of #WorldBalletDay 2017. Find out more at href='http://www.roh.org.uk' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>at In 1974 Kenneth MacMillan created the perfect...
Sotheby's
How Asia’s Pioneers Inspired a Generation of Modern Masters
Find out how pioneering Asian artists who travelled to the West in the 1920s returned home to mentor and inspire a new generation. These post-war artists would go on to become a major force behind Asian art’s journey towards...
Gresham College
China: New Nation, New Art, 1911-1932 - Professor Craig Clunas
Gresham College
Is there a One-Way Conversation Between Western & Chinese Art?
A Question from Prof. Craig Clunas' lecture on 'China: New Nation, New Art, 1911-1932' As the imperial system collapsed in China, the ‘New Culture Movement’ focused debate on new categories of ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’. For artists, it...
Curated Video
How this house took over the US
Why is the Craftsman bungalow everywhere? It’s due to a socialist artist, an entrepreneurial furniture maker, and a real estate movement. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videosf='http://goo.gl/0bsAjO'...
Curated Video
Susan B Anthony: "Vote! Vote! Vote!" | SUNG HISTORY
Curated Video
This Woman Was Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald's Muse
Tate
The Radical Eye with Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota
Sir Elton John and Nicholas Serota take a tour of The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection in a gallery walkthrough at the Tate. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from...
Tate
Sir Elton John’s Modernist Photography Collection – A Home Tour
Sir Elton John introduces us to his passion for collecting and his Modernist Photography collection which he lives with, in a home tour. Made up of over 70 artists and nearly 150 rare vintage prints on show from seminal figures including...
Ashmolean Museum
America's Cool Modernism – at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, until 22 July 2018
This is the first exhibition to explore the 'cool' in American art in the early 20th century, from early experiments in abstraction by artists like Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove and Paul Strand to the strict, clean precisionist paintings...
Curated Video
Harlem Renaissance Made Easy
Discover the exciting story of the Harlem Renaissance, a vibrant cultural movement during the 1920s and 1930s. This video explores how African American artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers changed American culture forever. Learn...