Ninteenth Century France was a political powderkeg, a landscape of radical revolutions and imperial power-grabs. Its art was no less volatile, and while we often think of modernism as beginning with the Impressionists late in the century, the seeds for this artistic revolution were sown decades earlier, when a generation of artists left Paris for the Forest of Fontainebleau. In this episode, we visit this forest to find out how it inspired the painters who would upend centuries of landscape painting tradition, the palace that exemplifies everything they were rebelling against, and the town that would give this movement its name.
The Victorian Era was a chaotic period in which ideas and ideologies bounced off one another, with diverse and surprising results. Nowhere is this...
In this episode, we travel to London to follow the story of Charles Darwin in the years between his return to England following his...
In our first full-length episode we join Dr. Win McLaughlin of Pomona College and visit Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian country that has been...
