Can art exist without context? Should it? What responsibilities do we have to ensure that we educate ourselves about its history? This two-part series explores our complex historic associations with ART as a social phenomenon and the role it plays in our lives. Part one explores ideas of attribution and appropriation. Who and what influences art, tastes and contexts. Art is explored through fashion, music, dance, two clocks on a wall symbolising AIDS, paintings, the 2002 Oscar de la Renta collection of cerulean gowns and more. Episode transcripts available here Music: Long Road Ahead by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3996-long-road-ahead License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Evening Fall (Harp) by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3720-evening-fall-harp- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sorrow by Alexander Nakarada www.serpentsoundstudios.com Licensed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ownership of History matters, insofar as who gets to destroy it. Iconoclasm is explored through the power of political and religious symbolism. Byzantine, Roman, Egyptian, French and Chinese histories are framed as by their destruction. Created by Gayatri Music: [ Sampled] Nowhere Land by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)    Licensed under Creative   Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Trailer to the podcast Gestalt History. Now available on all major podcast hosting clients. Created by Gayatri.