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How to Look at and Understand Great Art - Season 1 Episode 17 : Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art 2011

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The richness of signs (signifiers) in art includes the use of symbols, icons, and indexes as they reveal layers of meaning. See how, in different historical eras, symbolic associations change over time, how icons visually represent a subject, and how indexes exhibit direct connections with the thing signified.

Released: Jan 01, 1970
Runtime: 00:26:14 minutes
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Sharon Latchaw Hirsh
Network: The Great Courses

Season 1

Se-1 Ep-1. The Importance of First Impressions 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-2. Where Am I? Point of View and Focal Point 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-3. Color—Description, Symbol, and More 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-4. Line—Description and Expression 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-5. Space, Shape, Shade, and Shadow 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-6. Seeing the Big Picture—Composition 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-7. The Illusion—Getting the Right Perspective 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-8. Art That Moves Us—Time and Motion 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-9. Feeling with Our Eyes—Texture and Light 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-10. Drawing—Dry, Liquid, and Modern Media 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-11. Printmaking—Relief and Intaglio 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-12. Modern Printmaking—Planographic 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-13. Sculpture—Salt Cellars to Monuments 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-14. Development of Painting—Tempera and Oils 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-15. Modern Painting—Acrylics and Assemblages 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-16. Subject Matters 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-17. Signs—Symbols, Icons, and Indexes in Art 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-18. Portraits—How Artists See Others 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-19. Self-Portraits—How Artists See Themselves 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-20. Landscapes—Art of the Great Outdoors 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-21. Putting It All Together 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-22. Early Renaissance—Humanism Emergent 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-23. Northern Renaissance—Devil in the Details 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-24. High Renaissance—Humanism Perfected 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-25. Mannerism and Baroque—Distortion and Drama 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-26. Going Baroque—North versus South 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-27. 18th-Century Reality and Decorative Rococo 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-28. Revolutions—Neoclassicism and Romanticism 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-29. From Realism to Impressionism 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-30. Postimpressionism—Form and Content Re-Viewed 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-31. Expressionism—Empathy and Emotion 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-32. Cubism—An Experiment in Form 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-33. Abstraction/Modernism—New Visual Language 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-34. Dada Found Objects/Surreal Doodles and Dreams 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-35. Postmodernism—Focus on the Viewer 2011-01-01

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Se-1 Ep-36. Your Next Museum Visit—Do It Yourself! 2011-01-01

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