You, Myself and Art
Episode 4 - The Truth About Contemporary Art
Season 1, Episode 4
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Educational, Documentary
Type: TV series
Genre: Fine Art
Director: Thomas Deshays
Presenters: Anjan Chatterjee, Serge Guilbaut
Year: 2015
Explore the systems, ideas, and social forces that shape contemporary art. Why does it often leave people confused by a blank wall, or a banana taped to a telephone? Rather than treating art only as beauty, the episode looks at the way contemporary works engage politics, activism, identity, institutions, and audience response. Modern artists use unconventional materials, public spaces, social issues, and conceptual strategies to challenge what art can be and to present a living conversation.
Up Next in Season 1
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Episode 5 - Different Voices
Type: TV series
Genre: Fine Art
Director: Thomas Deshays
Presenters: Anjan Chatterjee, Serge Guilbaut
Year: 2015Episode 5 looks at the artists, communities, and movements that have challenged traditional ideas about who gets to make art, whose stories are preserved, and which experiences are co...
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Episode 6 - Art and Money
Type: TV series
Genre: Fine Art
Director: Thomas Deshays
Presenters: Anjan Chatterjee, Serge Guilbaut
Year: 2015Explore the complicated relationship between creativity and commerce. Consider how art is made, bought, sold, collected, funded, and valued, not only as a cultural object, but as a fi...
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Episode 7 - The Role of Museums
Type: TV series
Genre: Fine Art
Director: Thomas Deshays
Presenters: Anjan Chatterjee, Serge Guilbaut
Year: 2015Episode 7 explores how museums shape the way we see, preserve, and interpret culture by deciding what is displayed, and what stories are told, whose voices are amplified, and which hi...
