Opening the archive
Back in the last century, when St Petersburg was still called Leningrad/Petragrad and mobile phones were still a dream, the OCA commissioned a hugely expensive nine hour series of videos on Art History. These videos were sent to students who enrolled on the Understanding Art 1. We have now rewritten the course and it is no longer dependent on the videos. We were then faced with a dilemma, could we bear to throw out material which although dated was still relevant?
The answer we have come up with is to edit the videos into individual episodes and put them on the OCA Elements website. We hope that students and non-students alike will find the material in the videos of interest. There are 18 half hour videos covering western art from origins in Greece and Rome to public and environmental art in the 1970’s.
If this whets your appetite and you are not averse to the odd kipper tie, John Berger’s ground breaking series Ways of Seeing is available to watch on Youtube
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Thanks for this, it sounds like a useful resource. Nine hours…cough, splutter…better get myself comfortable, hehe!!
Nothing else to get up to in the snowy weather, eh Penny?
Thanks for letting us know about this, Jane. It sounds like a very good resource, much appreciated, and i look forward to dipping into the videos.
Roberta
I just enrolled for this course last month and I have the videos. Does this mean my course materials had become outdated?
Hi Alan, the course has been continuously updated over the years, but we couldn’t do that with the videos. The learning aims for all editions of the course have remained the same.
By the by Jane, Stalingrad was/is Volgograd and St. Petersburg became Petrograd and then Leningrad…not that that makes a ha’p’orth of difference to your good news about the fate of the videos!
Thank you for sharing your most interesting archive material.
There is great study period ahead.
Brian
Thank you Paul for your comment, as I still have these videos to work from as part of my Understanding Art 1 course that I started in 2009! I don’t want to feel out dated…
This sounds very interesting.
As such I do not have a video recorder, but if I can get them on dvd I would like to watch them.Is this possible.
Hi Tom, we have stopped dispatching them as DVDs, but they are available to watch online here