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Art History for All

Art History for All

Allyson Healey

From art lovers to art haters to art-is-just-okay-ers, Art History for All aims to get all kinds of people thinking about art and what it means to them. Each episode, Allyson Healey tackles a single work of art and its history and larger significance, always asking the question: so what? Art History for All takes you beyond the art historical canon and helps you find the way in which art speaks to you (even if it's never spoken to you before)

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Art History for All episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Art History for All for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Art History for All episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Art History for All - Episode 28: No Foolin’

Episode 28: No Foolin’

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11/02/21 • 35 min

In this episode we delve into the portrait of Don Juan de Calabazas in the Cleveland Museum of Art! Allyson talks jesters, fools, disability history, and rethinking how we view disabled people.

Book rec: Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong, 2020. (I listened to the audiobook version, but you can Buy on Bookshop.org also)

© 2021 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2021 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Other Music:

Valse Gymnopedie by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/7928-valse-gymnopedie
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Floating Cities by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3765-floating-cities
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Art History for All - Episode 1: For the Love of Mona Lisa
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02/13/18 • 28 min

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Art History for All! In this episode, Allyson tells you all about Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and the impact it’s had on Western culture, breaking it down from the Renaissance to Dan Brown and beyond.

You can find a transcript of this podcast right here, or go to the Transcripts tab at https://arthistoryforall.com.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @arthistory4all

© 2018 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2018 Bruce Healey

Background music:

“Lasting Hope”, “Suonatore di Liuto”

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Art History for All - Episode 18: As Much Worker as Woman
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08/26/19 • 30 min

Allyson discusses Myra Albert Wiggins’s The Lacemaker (1899, Portland Museum of Art), workin’ hard for the money, and types of labor that we might not see as labor. This one’s for you, needleworkers!

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Drop us a tip on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

“Serenity” by Jason Shaw, Audionautix.com (https://audionautix.com/Music/Serenity.mp3)
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Music from https://filmmusic.io
“Breaktime” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
“Trio for Piano, Cello, and Clarinet” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Art History for All - Episode 16: Invasion of the Night
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05/27/19 • 29 min

It’s a mind-bending episode as Allyson guides you through Roberto Matta’s surreal mental landscape, Invasion of the Night (1941), and explores its connections to physics and psychology.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:

“Unanswered Questions” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“Thunderbird” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Art History for All - Episode 15: Compared to Rocks and Mountains
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04/29/19 • 29 min

Allyson guides you through the eleventh-century Chinese handscroll painting Summer Mountains, (北宋 傳屈鼎 夏山圖 卷) by little-known painter Qu Ding (屈鼎).

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:

“Dreams Become Real” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“Perspectives” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Art History for All - Episode 14: Happiness and Color
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03/26/19 • 25 min

Allyson teaches you all about québécoise painter and stained glass artist Marcelle Ferron, whose windows at the Champ-de-Mars Métro station in Montréal are a unique example of public art.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Additional Music Credits:

“Let That Sink In” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“You’re Enough (version a)” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Art History for All - Episode 10: A Sketch of Native American History
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11/26/18 • 31 min

This episode gets a bit obscure and focuses on a single woodcut from David Cusick’s 1828 book Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, the earliest English-language account of Iroquois history.
You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category.

© 2018 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2018 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Additional Music Credits:

“You’re Right But I’m Me” by Doctor Turtle, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Under the Stairs (Instrumental Version)” by Josh Woodward, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

“Completely Lost” by Lee Rosevere, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Art History for All - Episode 12: Wrecked

Episode 12: Wrecked

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01/29/19 • 31 min

Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa is part of a larger tangled web of colonialism, incompetence, and disaster. In this episode we get into the shipwreck on which it was based as well as how it’s used today in pop cultural milestones like Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s “APES**T” video.

You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category.

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Additional Music Credits:

“Betrayal” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Puzzle Pieces” by Lee Rosevere (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Caught in the Beat” by Broke for Free (via freemusicarchive.org). Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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Art History for All - Episode 9: Fiends, Frankenstein, and Fuseli
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10/29/18 • 34 min

We’re getting spooky in this episode and looking at Henry Fuseli’s 1781 painting The Nightmare, by far one of the eeriest paintings in Western art history! Perhaps this image reminds you of something...

You can find a transcript of this podcast at arthistoryforall.com under the Transcripts category.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or RadioPublic!

© 2018 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2018 Bruce Healey

Twitter: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Additional Music Credits:

“Fog” by Sergey Cheremisinov, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

“Nightcrawlers” by Parvus Decree, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.

“Farewell the Innocent” by Ars Sonor, via freemusicarchive.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Art History for All - Episode 17: First Lady to Travel Over Sea
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06/25/19 • 29 min

Esther Mahlangu’s Untitled, 2008 has simple geometry, but a complex context–Allyson talks about its connections to commerce, soccer, and... BMWs?

© 2019 Allyson Healey

Theme music © 2019 Bruce Healey

Twitter and Instagram: @arthistory4all

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/arthistoryforall

Other links: linktr.ee/arthistory4all

Additional Music Credits:

Music from https://filmmusic.io:
“The Complex,” “Enchanted Journey,” and “Babylon,” by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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FAQ

How many episodes does Art History for All have?

Art History for All currently has 30 episodes available.

What topics does Art History for All cover?

The podcast is about Painting, Society & Culture, Art, Visual Arts, History, Podcasts and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Art History for All?

The episode title 'Episode 28: No Foolin’' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Art History for All?

The average episode length on Art History for All is 28 minutes.

How often are episodes of Art History for All released?

Episodes of Art History for All are typically released every 32 days.

When was the first episode of Art History for All?

The first episode of Art History for All was released on Feb 13, 2018.

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