23 min
Breaking Good: The Department of Missing Limbs The Object
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- Arts
The first episode of Season 5 is a story as old as life itself: things fall apart. But what really happened to all those ancient statues missing arms, legs, heads, and other appendages? How have we come to treat them as normal--a normal way of seeing the classical age, like paintings of the Renaissance or black-and-white photos of the 1900s? Have they shaped a perception of the past as more remote, mysterious, and, well, broken than it really was?
See some of the battered artworks mentioned in this episode, including the Tiber muse: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1280/the-tiber-muse-graeco-roman
A Graeco-Roman torso: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8483/torso-graeco-roman
An ancient Egyptian figure: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1346/striding-figure-ancient-egyptian
And the Venus de Milo: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010277627
The first episode of Season 5 is a story as old as life itself: things fall apart. But what really happened to all those ancient statues missing arms, legs, heads, and other appendages? How have we come to treat them as normal--a normal way of seeing the classical age, like paintings of the Renaissance or black-and-white photos of the 1900s? Have they shaped a perception of the past as more remote, mysterious, and, well, broken than it really was?
See some of the battered artworks mentioned in this episode, including the Tiber muse: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1280/the-tiber-muse-graeco-roman
A Graeco-Roman torso: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8483/torso-graeco-roman
An ancient Egyptian figure: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1346/striding-figure-ancient-egyptian
And the Venus de Milo: https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010277627
23 min