Video Review

The key concepts of the video Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach are:

·         MOMA art started around 1929

·         Henry Tate’s International museum opened and within the first 47 days it had 1 million visitors and within one year 4 million people and visited.

·         Art was displayed in four sections Landscape and that also included matter and environment, Still-life and that included object and real life, History included memory and society, and last was nude which included action and body.

·         There is controversy one Long’s and Monet’s art work because they are very different and yet they are placed together in the same room.

·         Sometime when visitors go to the Tate museum they are hit with an abrupt transition between rooms.

·         Some critics say that art should be more than a form of entertainment and that visitors who go to the Tate are required to have no prior knowledge of art due to its presentation of art.

·         Joseph Beuys room creates a church like atmosphere and some people have a hard time understanding it especially since the next room is so completely different.

I like this video because it was full of information which focused on one museum and its art work. This one also helped me with learning about art curators.

In the video George Eastman House: Picture Perfect the key concepts are:

·         He was born in 1854 and he was the father of photography.

·         Eastman and his company have made many achievements in art, science, and the phenomenon of photography.

·         He is the founder of Eastman Kodak and the inventor of motion picture films.

·         1949 his house was opened to public and they could go there to study the history and medium of photography.

·         Treasure Trove contains about 400,000 photos, 25,000 films and many different machines for film making.

·         There are about 14,000 amateur and professional photographs.

·         The collections have many types of photos from famous to obscure and documentary to fine art.

·         In 1882 the first photo of lighting cause captured by William Jennings and he did this because he wanted to show people what lighting actually looked like.

·         The Eastman house holds the largest Daguerreotype collection outside of France.

·         Daguer was the first commercial camera created to be sold to the public.

·         The first camera sold in 1846 to Samuel Beamish for $76.

·         2 million went into the restorations of the Eastman home and it was redone just the way it was when he was alive due to the get photo’s Eastman took of his home.

·         140,000 images of Eastman’s collection are viewable online.

·         He killed himself on March 14, 1932.

I found this video very informative about the entire process of the development of photos and the camera and I never knew that this place existed and that it’s so close to Buffalo.

In the video The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art the key concepts are:

·         The dictionary meaning for Lowbrow art is a person regarded as uncultivated and lacking in taste.

·         Robert William says he invented the term but he doesn’t like the definition.

·         Some people like the term while others like the term lowbrow surrealism.

·         This art type appeals to many different cultures, pop, car, folk, and comic. These different cultures also helped influence this style of genre.

·         Rock posters fit into this genre of art and they were shown in museums all over Europe but not in the U.S.

·         Underground comics began in the late 60’s and Robert Crumb was the one who really set it off.

·         Lowbrow art was not easily accepted so the artist’s would create their own scene.

·         Female artists increased in Lowbrow because it was more open to women than any other movement.

·         The Internet really helped lowbrow artists get their art out there.

·         Lowbrow art exploded with punk rock because artist could use album covers to get their work out to the people.

·         Pop Tarts are a group of women lowbrow artists who held shows in California

·         Lowbrow art has been highly recognized over the past 10 years.

I enjoyed this video because I had no idea what this type of art was called until I watched this video. I learned a lot about Lowbrow art and what types of art work would fall into this category.

In the video Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology the key concepts are:

·         Back rooms of museums and universities are full of the remains of Native Americans who many of them have been victim of Genocide.

·         Native Americans want their remains back and researchers fear that history will be forgotten or lost forever.

·         Hidden graveyards reveal Anglo remains that are buried and they were taken for science to be studied.

·         Maria Person fought for the return of the bones and a law passed in Iowa 1976 the protection of Native American’s and soon other states followed except California.

·          David Van Horn was charged with criminal possession of Native American remains.

·         California laws against the possession of Native American remains hurt archaeologists and museums everywhere.

·         Burial mounds were considered too civilized to be created by Native Americans but research shows that it was in fact the Native Americans who created them.

·         Brains were studied to relation of intelligence and studies showed that whites were larger Native Americans were middle size and African Americans were the smallest. This was obvious racism against other cultures.

·         Susan Harjo fought to have Native American remains to be returned.

·         18,000 Native American bones were stored in the Smithsonian’s inventory.

·         Lifestyles and manufacturing led to the death and decreased birth rate of Omaha women.

·         New York opens a museum N.M.N.A and that holds the largest exhibits of Native American artifacts.

·         Native Americans were allowed to design and set up the exhibits within the museum. It’s a show case of their culture past and present.

This video was a little sad because I never knew that all of this was going on and there was such a fight for the return of remains. I learned a lot from this video.