Channel Title: Art History with Travis Lee Clark Channel Description: Art History with Travis Clark Hi! I'm an Art Historian at Utah Valley University. This is where I post lectures online for my students or anyone else who is interested. I cover a wide variety of topics in Art History. Mostly these are full hour lectures for my courses on Western Art but I will be posting some shorter topical videos in the future. I am taking a bunch of short road trips to see some of the great art and visual culture of Utah. Be sure to like and subscribe. Thanks for coming by! <video> Lecture11 Photorealism & The New Naturalism Description: Lecture11 Photorealism & The New Naturalism ARTH3120 Contemporary Art History Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University All things old are new again. After the craziness of the 60s it makes sense that people would return to naturalism, but this time, it's different. It's not your grandfather's naturalism. We cover Photorealism and its obsession with reflective surfaces and then cover hyperrealism in sculpture and then finally, naturalistic painters who care more about textures than the people they paint. </video> <video> Lecture07 Intro to Maya Description: Lecture 07 Intro to Maya ARTH350G Latin American Art History Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this lecture I introduce the Maya, their geography, their chronology and their culture. We talk about the Hero Twins, and how to write in Maya, and why the world never was going to end in 2012. I also rip on Apocalypto a bit and lie about covering the early Preclassic Maya because my voice give out. </video> <video> ARTH309G Lecture 07 Post-Classic Mesoamerica: Toltecs & Aztecs Description: Lecture 07 Post-Classic Mesoamerica: Toltecs & Aztecs ARTH309G Non-Western Art History Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this lecture we cover the Post-Classic civilizations of the Toltecs and the Aztecs. We talk about Tula and why the Toltecs were so revered by the Aztecs and even used the term Tolteca to mean artisan and intellectual. We compare Tula to Chichen Itza and talk about Tolpitsin Queztalcoatl, the Toltec folk hero and how there might be a connection there. Then we talk about the might Aztecs, their migrations, their religion, art and the incredible city of Tenochtitlan, the Venice of the West. Also, I hope snake lip labrets make a comeback because they are just so freaking cool. </video> <video> Lecture 09 Land & Environmental Art Description: Lecture 09 Land & Environmental Art ARTH3120 Contemporary Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University </video> <video> Lecture 09 Postclassic Maya & Toltec Description: Lecture 09 Postclassic Maya & Toltec ARTH350G Latin American Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this lecture we cover the dynamic and styles of the Post-Classic period in the Yucatan. We talk about the Puuc, Chenes & Rio Bec styles, and how much they overlap, and the major sites of Uxmal & Chichen Itza. Then we wrap it up by comparing Chichen Itza to the Toltec city of Tula in the Mexican Basin. </video> <video> Lecture 08 The Classic Maya Description: Lecture 08 The Classic Maya ARTH350G Latin American Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University </video> <video> Lecture10 Aztec Conquest Part 2: The Conquest Description: Lecture10 Aztecs & The Conquest Part 2: The Conquest ARTH350G Latin American Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University </video> <video> Lecture10 Aztecs Description: Lecture 10 The Aztecs ARTH350G Latin American Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this lecture we cover the Aztecs, their mythology and migrations, their religion and the principle monuments of the great city of Tenochtitlan. </video> <video> Atlatls at Fremont Indian State Park Description: Ever wondered what it was like to hunt a mammoth? Fremont Indian State Park has atlatl (spear-throwers) so you can practice what it was like to hunt in Paleo-Indian times. Watch me as I demonstrate how challenging it can be. This is from my most recent trip to Fremont Indian State Park, so stay on the look out for future videos on the Rock Art (or Rock Imagery) from this and other sites around the state. Link to the Atlatl competition at Fremont State Park here: https://worldatlatl.org/events/fremont-indian-state-park-atlatl-competition/ Update: Alas! I have just heard that the Atlatal competition has been cancelled due to unforeseen events. </video> <video> Lecture 11 Iberian Visual Heritage Description: Lecture 11 Iberian Visual Heritage ARTH350G Latin American Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this video we go over the visual culture of the Iberian Peninsula, well, at least all of it up to the time of the Conquest. It's a complicated history, Celti-Iberian, Roman, Visigothic, Muslim, and Early Modern. All of these styles blend together and are imported to the New World, so it's important to get them down when we start talking about Mexico and Peru in the 16th C. </video> <video> Art History with Travis Clark on the road. Description: Travel with me as I bring you the art history and visual culture of Utah. </video> <video> Lecture10 Feminist Art Description: Lecture10 Feminist Art ARTH3120 Contemporary Art History Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University Okay, this is the first ever video that needed a trigger warning. Feminist artists were fighting against a lot of sexism and gender bias and they pulled every tool out the toolbox to fight the patriarchy and by tool I mean...well never mean what I mean. Just be aware this video has a LOT of nudity and sexual content. You've been warned and please don't tell my mom. In between me blushing we talk about the foundation of feminist art, including Womanhouse under the CalArts program and take it all the way to the fracturing of 2nd Wave Feminism with Hannah Wilke and Ana Mendieta. Enjoy. </video> <video> Lecture 08 North American Native Art & Archaeology Description: Lecture 08 North American Native Art & Archaeology ARTH309 Non Western Art History Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University In this lecture we discuss the art and archaeology of North America. We talk about the Mound Builders, the Hopewell and Mississippi Cultures. We then talk about the American Southwest and the Ancestral Pueblo. Highlights are the cutest otter effigy pipe you've ever seen!! </video> <video> Lecture07 Post Gestural Abstraction & Minimalism Description: Lecture07 Post Gestural Abstraction & Minimalism ARTH3120 Contemporary Art Travis Lee Clark Utah Valley University This is a "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." kinda lecture. So what happened to Modernist painting in the 60s and 70s after the revolution in Conceptual and Pop Art? Well, Modernism ran aground on the shores of Conceptual, Performance and Pop Art it had a long talk with itself about what kind of movement it wanted to be. It was down, but it wasn't out. In fact it "Moderned" HARDER. It moved away from the gestural and painterly styles of the Abstract Expressionists to a more hard edge style, a style that emphasized the object. TBH it was kinda heading this way ANYWAY, but this spurred on a whole new direction, and spawned Minimalism which brought it into the third dimension. More to point, by responding to Pop and Conceptul Art it too became MORE conceptual, spawning process art. Along the way our old friend Clement Greenburg got to save some face, and a critic of Warhol's Pop Art, Donald Judd, got to put his money where his mouth is. </video> <video> Lecture 08 Post-Minimalism & Light Art Description: Lecture 08 Post-Minimalism & Light Art ARTH3120 Contemporary Art </video>

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Art History with Travis Clark

Hi! I'm an Art Historian at Utah Valley University. This is where I post lectures online for my students or anyone else who is interested. I cover a wide variety of topics in Art History. Mostly these are full hour lectures for my courses on Western Art but I will be posting some shorter topical videos in the future. I am taking a bunch of short road trips to see some of the great art and visual culture of Utah. Be sure to like and subscribe. Thanks for coming by!

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