How Do We Look?
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
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Episode 2 Preview | How Do We Look?
S1 E2 - 30s
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
The Most Enduring Art Form
S1 E2 - 1m 39s
Our compulsion to create images of ourselves is one of the most intimate and defining statements on who we think we are.
Recording Social Norms
S1 E2 - 38s
Though it may have been an unintended consequence, Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do.
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