Listen to the narration of the correspondence between Forrest Bess and Meyer Schapiro discussing art
Excerpt from the documentary Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle (2000).
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Completed in 1931, the “melting clocks” in Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory quickly became a worldwide sensation.
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© American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about the chemistry of early photographic processes.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Flying a flag with a complicated design is like trying to read the Encyclopædia Britannica to someone from across a highway by screaming.
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Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)A discussion concerning the significance of art, and women artists in particular, from the documentary A Woman's Touch: National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)A discussion concerning Chinese art, from the documentary China: West Meets East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Great Museums Television (A Britannica Publishing Partner)A discussion of Chinese art, from the documentary China: West Meets East at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn from artist Peter Blake about the history of blue paint from the costly lapis lazuli-based ultramarine used by Hans Holbein the Younger in the 16th century to the ubiquitous acrylic-based pigments used by David Hockney in the 20th century.
