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Art and Crisis in the Middle East
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The rise of organizations like ISIS (or ISIL) has brought attention to the looting and destruction of ancient artifacts in the Middle East. In today's episode, Colette LeRoux and Gina Konstantopoulos join us to discuss the history of looting and iconoclasm in the Middle East, and how contemporary events and civil strife are impacting research in their fields.
Released:
Feb 25, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (34)
The Parthenon Marbles: At the beginning of the 19th century, the Parthenon (a temple atop the Acropolis in Athens that was constructed in the 5th century BCE) had fallen into a state of ruin. From 1800 until 1812, Lord Elgin, who had been England's Ambassador to the Ottoman... by Art History Happy Hour