07:23
The Art Assignment
Better Know: The Starry Night
Taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night.
The Case for Surrealism
The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.
The Case for Surrealism
Season 4 Episode 1 | 10m 17s | CC
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our wider culture up to today. Here's our case for what Surrealism is, and why you should care about it.
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