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Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season 02

Grade Levels:	6 - 13+
Core Subject(s):	Fine Arts - Visual Arts, Language Arts
Website:	http://www.uen.org/dms/
Usage rights:	Download and retain personal copies in perpetuity.

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Episodes:

• Episode 01-program 5: stories

  Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in this Emmy nominated, groundbreaking series. This unique series presents 16 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes - and beyond the museum or gallery experience - into artists' studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative process, and sources of inspiration. The artists profiled in Episode 01-program 5: Stories include Charles Atlas, Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh, and Trenton Doyle Hancock. These artists tell tales autobiographical, fictional, satirical, or fantastical through architecture, literature, mythology, fairytales, and history; provoking us to think about our own stories, the characters and caricatures, the morals and messages that define our real and imagined lives.

  Length:	00:55:37

• Episode 02-program 6: loss and desire

  Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in this Emmy nominated, groundbreaking series. This unique series presents 16 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes - and beyond the museum or gallery experience - into artists' studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative process, and sources of inspiration. Episode 02-program 6: loss & desire explores questions like ?How do artists express longing, love, and human experience in their work?? through the work of Charles Atlas, Collier Schorr, Gabriel Orozco, and Janine Antoni. In this program, specific works of art cause us to contemplate issues such as war and peace; the loss of community and the desire for connection; and the age-old human longing for perfection.

  Length:	00:54:50

• Episode 03-program 7: time

  Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in this Emmy nominated, groundbreaking series. This unique series presents 16 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes - and beyond the museum or gallery experience - into artists' studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative process, and sources of inspiration. Episode 03-program 7: time explores questions like "How does contemporary art relate to art of the ancient past, to nature, and to the rhythms of the life?" through the work of Charles Atlas, Martin Puryear, Paul Pfeiffer, Vija Celmins, and Tim Hawkinson. Some works of art are time-based in that the viewer must experience them through the passage of time, as with music, while others refer to time through links or references to art history, our collective human history, or the timelessness of nature.

  Length:	00:55:37

• Episode 04-program 8: humor

  Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words - direct, accessible, and unfiltered - in this Emmy nominated, groundbreaking series. This unique series presents 16 diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes - and beyond the museum or gallery experience - into artists' studios, homes and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative process, and sources of inspiration. Episode 04-program 8: humor explores questions like "Can an artwork be funny and critical at the same time?" through the work of Charles Atlas, Eleanor Antin, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Murray, and Walton Ford. These artists reveal how humor and satire can stimulate laughter as well as serve as a vehicle to explore serious subjects, such as feminism, the natural environment, the excesses of consumer culture, social injustice, and war.

  Length:	00:55:50

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