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Зачем я это увидел? (Arzamas)

Arzamas on art: what you are actually looking at in a famous painting, in twenty minutes.

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What it is

An art historian walks a host through one work or one movement — an icon, a Malevich, a Soviet mosaic — explaining what a contemporary viewer would have seen in it. Because there is a concrete object at the centre, you can look the picture up and follow along visually, which props up comprehension in a way a pure discussion show cannot. Free, from the same team as the Arzamas courses. No transcripts, and art-historical vocabulary is specific.

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Зачем я это увидел? (Arzamas)
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