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November 2011

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Sam: In a world where I owned a burger restaurant, it would be called "The Burgers of Calais".

August 2011

2 posts

kissyourneck-slitmythroat asked: For my AP Euro class, we have to assemble an art folio for different artistic periods, and the first period is the Renaissance. Do you (or your followers) have any good ideas for at least one painting, sculpture and example of architecture that portrays the themes in that time period? I'm trying to steer clear of things like the Mona Lisa, lest every other student and their mother uses that....

July 2011

3 posts

May 2011

6 posts

iwillnothangmyselftoday asked: Wow.

Dear anonthropologist, I wrote the article to which you're objecting. See my icon up in the corner there above the post? Next time you have criticism of anything I've written I'd prefer you to contact me through my own blog. You could still stay anonymous if you wished to, but maybe we could have a more civil discussion that way.

Research certainly...

Anonymous asked: I wish you would put the same research and effort into your articles as you put into your rebuttals (even half as much would be nice). If that were the case your articles would be a lot more interesting and you would probably have fewer rebuttals to write.

unepetitesouris asked: I have to say... as an ACTUAL anthropology student... its clear that the original submission had nothing to do with race at all, or current hunter-gatherer societies, and the fact is hunter-gathers of past eras DID have pretty shitty lives in terms of longevity and ease in comparison to us now.

Some people just love being hateful on the internet machine too much.

Anonymous asked: Oh, I was SO CLOSE to loving your blog...but as an anthropologist, you really made me cringe with this post:
"The Neolithic Europeans made some brilliant sculptures of fat ladies, but this fact doesn’t automatically mean that they were living in feminist utopian bliss. Personally I suspect the “Old European” hunter gatherers may have had it together a little more in...

April 2011

19 posts

monstrousandloathsome asked: Hey I was wondering if you had any thoughts on Joshua Reynolds and the way in which he showed the upper classes as Greek goddesses...i'm trying to write an essay and struggling to find legit sources.... any input would be grand and is really appreciate it. Thank you, keep up the good work x

longvoiceofwater asked: Hello! You must get loads of these so I'll keep it brief. Yesterday I spent ages looking at history tumblrs and noticed that there was a bit of a gap when it came to the history of the working classes. I've set up Fuck Yeah Working Class History (http://fyworkingclasshistory.tumblr.com). I've not had much time to do much to it at the moment, I've only posted two things. Over...

pinksakuralove asked: Hey, I want you to know, you're one of the reasons I'm taking AP Art History next year.
When I was in elementary school, I always assumed that people who studied art history must be artists themselves, but I've never been an artist. Well, there were rare occasions when I could create art, but very rare. I liked looking at pictures and learning a few facts, but never actively...

ilnestjamaistroptard asked: I am in love with your blog! It is smart, funny, and feminist - absolutely wonderful! I am really impressed with your knowledge of art history, especially the history aspect. Are you still undergrads? How do you two know so much about so many different art traditions?

dentelle-antique asked: Hiya! I'm a Art History student at the University of Michigan and I have a few things to say...
1. If it were possible to marry this blog, I would have done so ages ago. I love it so much!
2. What sort of advice would you have for a girl just starting out in Art History (I'm just finishing up my freshman year...)? I don't expect a novel, but even one tip would be...

Girl in a Fairground Caravan, August Sander (German), 1926-32, gelatin silver print, 26.0 x 19.7 cm The majority of what we present on this tumblr is the historical context of art and artists. Indeed, this comprises the majority of what Art History is. An important skill in the field, however, is formal analysis, looking at a work and determining how the elements and principals of art...

1937: Abstract Expressionist and Anarchist Barnett...

Could you imagine that today? Fuck Yeah, Art History!

“It used to be that the conservatives in the art world were traditionalists. The...”

– Thierry De Duve, The Readymade and the Tube of Paint, originally published in Artforum International, 1986, Vol 24

Your Fuck Yeah, Art Historians feel bad that they haven’t been able to pay more attention to all their lovely followers, so here is a little video to tide you over until we can make more content happen. To think, the genus Homo has been making aesthetic choices for more than a million years. I’m not sure that it’s useful to cleave to any particular theory regarding art, but...

blizzard5291 asked: A defining feature of Pre-Modern Southeast Asian culture was the prominence of women in society, which was very different from the role of women in surrounding regions. This changed after centralized states spread through the region, and then colonialism. This situation was a bit better than the 'not as horrible as its neighbors' characterization mentioned in a previous question.

brushrealityaside asked: I just have to say that I adore this tumblr. Everything posted is interesting and engaging, and the text posts written by you are wonderful to read through. The asks you receive are, for the most part, so eloquently written and generally thought-provoking and your responses are always so level-headed and full of facts and information.

To sum it up: I wanted to fangirl about that...

hemelbeestje asked: Hey! I reblogged your fabulous post about Gauguin the other day and though I obviously love it, I do have a question regarding one of the statements at the end, more specifically "Then the Expressionists took that idea and ran with it, so somewhere between 1912 and 1914, the ‘Primitive’ gave them an excuse to make the first completely abstract paintings in the Western...

completelynormalspace asked: Wait, is *anyone* a good example of ancient gender equality? I would think that the best you could hope for from any society before the 70's would be not being as awful as its neighbors.

meowling-deactivated20120226 asked: The Etruscans aren't exactly a prime example of ancient female equality.

Anonymous asked: I was just wondering if you folks knew much on the Surrealists’ (of the 1920s and 30s) relationship to the emergent field of psychoanalysis? Would you say it played a role as a crucial foundation/backing up to Breton's (and others) own ideas on the unconscious, or was it simply just another link drawn to provide some more theoretical framework to the movement. (I get the impression so...

National Gallery Visitor Attacks Gauguin Painting →

Now, I’m no fan of Gauguin, but, really?

March 2011

28 posts

Often the dialogue of art history concentrates on theory, the grand ideas behind art works put forth both by their creators and the observers that came after them, and the actual craftsmanship, the materials and process of creating the piece, merely becomes part of the citation. When visiting a museum or art gallery how many people (outside of trained artists or craftsmen) really think about the...

Chats et Chatons!

We have conferred, and because response has been overwhelmingly positive, we are opening up the submission feature. If you have some exciting Art History you want to share with the tumblrverse, you may do so here. We like feminist theory, queer theory, socialism/far-left politics, inclusiveness, anti-Eurocentrism, intolerance of intolerance, and most important, snark. There are no restrictions...

xurbanjungle asked: I thought I sent in a question about this the other day, maybe I didn't or maybe you guys didn't want to answer it haha. But just in case I never sent it... here I go!

I'm writing a huge paper for one of my Art History courses (I'm an Art History major), and I have chosen Picasso's Woman with the Yellow Hair. I was wondering fi I could get your guys'...

Hey Cats & Kittens

You may not have noticed, but we like talking here on Fuck Yeah, Art History! History, analysis, theory, debate - we like talking. Talking is good, you learn things from talking. I’m wondering, however, if anyone else would be interested in talking Art History in the Fuck Yeah! spirit on this tumblog as well. This is a Fox-Teeth/Salt Dragon operation all the way, and I still need to discuss...

turdliedoo asked: Also in response to the girl who'd like to be a Museum Curator: It's a load of complete bull. Honestly, people don't always do what they major in, and furthermore, women who choose the Stay at home life are perfectly entitled to, and are not less intelligent than any other woman.

That being said, there is a rather large amount of women who are Museos and work in the...

weirddeals asked: In response to the person who asked about Museum Curation: I'm currently studying Photography and Classics at Bard College (which makes me something of a tourist in the Art History world - the discipline is relevant to my studies but not my primary interest). Bard also runs a prestigious master's degree program in Museum Curation. I fully agree with your assessment that Art History and...

loveandchunkybits-deactivated20 asked: Yeah, your blog is very interesting. I was reading about the Blue Nude. And at first thought I was like "F yeah, like the colors, and that is one juicy white lady, f** that obesity epidemic." Then I read the summary, and I got very confused. Which made me confused. Bc the very things I admire about the painting is what, according to your assessment, makes it racist and patriarchial, etc....

leorizanzel asked: I'm an Art History major and I love what I study - I want to become a museum curator in the future. However, I have a lot of friends that don't think that it's a serious academic pursuit. I've even had a good friend of mine tell me that it's a "find a husband" major - it's only for women that want to go to college to find someone in a more serious major and...

blondelasagna asked: You guys like Klimt (referring to your user pic)? Do you like Eagon Scheile, he is my fave/ huge inspiration... ever think about posting his work?

windandfog asked: You have no idea how happy your blog makes me. I'm doubling in Studio Art and Art History so this is kinda my paradise via the interwebs.

thinking-thisisthelife asked: i've just put art history down for a levels. and i'm really excited for it!
whats it actually like? do you get to analyse art as well as go into it's history?