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Thirty Thousand Years of Western Art, Season 3: Contemporary Ways of Seeing

Art is life itself

Completed · 38 episodes

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0. Is Art Today a Giant Bag Anyone Can Toss Things Into? 1. The Birth of a New Kind of Art: From “Postmodern” to “Contemporary” 2. Duchamp, the “French Rascal”: Skimming Past Pain and Trouble Like a Bird Across Water 3. Reclaiming Nude Descending a Staircase: Modern Art Promised Freedom but Could Not Deliver It 4. When Art Kills I: Pollock, Imprisoned by Style, Lost Freedom in Drips, Flings, and Splashes 5. When Art Kills II: Rothko, Captive to the Price Tag, Fell from Radiance into Black 6. Duchamp Was Inevitable: Formal Beauty Reaches a Dead End and Art Faces a Crisis of Function 7. Tehching Hsieh’s “Inaction”: Art Is Knowing Not to Make Art Without a Good Idea 8. An Accident Fifty Years in the Making: D. T. Suzuki’s First Encounter with Western Art 9. Finding an Answer in Zen: Leave Discriminating Thought and Return to Things as They Are 10. John Cage Is a River: Putting Sound at the Center of the Universe and Carrying Zen Abroad 11. The Beat Generation’s Rebellion and Construction: Challenging the Mainstream, from One to Many 12. Where Cage and Zen Traveled I: Put the Interesting Above the Correct, and Pop Art Is Born 13. Where Cage and Zen Traveled II: Begin with Brushing Your Teeth as Kaprow and Others Redirect Art 14. Fluxus: Dragging Art into the Dust and Flattening Hierarchies Everywhere 15. Beuys the “Revolutionary”: Art as Medicine for Remaking the World 16. Beuys’s Misstep: Idealism Still Divides; Change Minds Before Changing Society 17. The “Unqualified” Artist: Mechanical Reproduction, Popular Copying, and Art Without Privilege 18. Warhol the “Mirror”: Nonintervention, No Change, and the Power of Wu Wei 19. Warhol’s Rule for Life: So What! What Can It Do to Me? 20. Yoko Ono “Conquers the World”: Beyond Hatred and Love, Determined to Be Herself 21. Marina Abramović, “Grandmother of Performance Art”: From Disturbing Bodies to Motionless Silence 22. Abramović at Her Quietest: Transmitting Spiritual Energy Through a Wordless Gaze 23. The Arrival of the Image Age: Creating Within the Spectacle and Facing a “Second Nature” 24. Jeff Koons: Joining the Society of Simulacra and Choosing a Balloon Dog for His Age 25. Takashi Murakami’s “Shallow Route”: Superflat, Super-Childish Realism for the Entertainment Age 26. Louise Bourgeois and Her “Bad Temper”: Changing Contexts Finally Make Room for the Spider 27. Bad Girl Tracey Emin: Her Messy Bed Shows Contemporary Art’s Tolerance for “Error” 28. The Best Contemporary Architecture Is Humble: Leaving Grand Narratives and Respecting How People Live 29. New Media and Digital Art: The Metaverse Is Already Rushing Toward Us 30. Conclusion: Learn to Let Go, and May Your Life Be Full of Joy Bonus: Even in Space, Art Must Still Solve Humanity’s “Old Problems” | Wang Ruiyun × Xu Bing 31. Everyone Was Poor, but Cultural Life Never Stopped | Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun 32. The Relationship Between Art and People Is That People Need Art | Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun 33. Everything Was Planned, Yet Art Happened | Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun 34. The Possibilities of Art and Life Lie Beyond the Narrow Path | Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun 35. We Will Still Encounter Art—and Let Our Imaginations Run | Chen Danqing × Wang Ruiyun New Book | Writing Needs Human Warmth: Can Art Still Be Sincere and Substantial?