William Morris and the Red Thread Through Craft ft. Corrie from AHB

The Rebirth of Lilith

Burney Relief/Queen of the Night. 19th-18th Century CE.

Arslan Tash Amulets. 6th-7th c. CE.

John Collier. Lilith. 1892.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Lady Lilith. 1873.

Excerpt from Rosetti Poem, "Body's Beauty":

Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told
(The Witch he loved before the gift of Eve.)
That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive,
And her enchanted hair was the first gold.
And still she sits, young while the earth is old,
And subtly of herself contemplative,
Draws men to watch the bright web she can weave

Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1979.

detail from The Dinner Party.

Judy Chicago. Judith. The Dinner Party. 1979.

Alice Aycock. Babylonian Devil's Trap with Magical Inscription for Protection Against Lilith. 1988.

Melissa Meyer. Lilith. 1992.

Mark Rothko. Rites of Lilith. 1945.

Kiki Smith. Lilith. 1994.

Lilith Detail.

Picasso, For Peace and Communism

This week we discuss Pablo Picasso. We discuss his training and the art style of the period. We also cover Picasso and primitivism and imperialism in Europe in the early 1900s. Picasso's life was marked by war, we discuss work that shows his outspoken opinion against tragedy and destruction, and his lifelong commitment to communism and peace.

Charity and Science. 1897.

Man with a guitar. 1903.

Family of Saltimbanques. 1905.

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon. 1907.

Matisee's African figure he shared with picasso. Vili, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Guernica. 1937.

Massacre in Korea. 1951.

Take Art Back From The Rich

We discuss how the ruling class controls the art market and why that's so destructive. How do artists get into galleries? What types of galleries exists, and what is the culture like? We also cover the idea of conspicuous consumption and art buying and how the working artist struggles to get started in late stage capitalism.