Dr. Nigel Spivey gave a virtual lecture to 75 high school students in Los Angeles from his office at the University of Cambridge in England. The students had contacted Dr. Spivey after being inspired by his descriptions of art history. They organized a film festival of his lectures and formulated thoughtful questions for his Skype call, gaining new perspectives on art and its influence.
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research and travels. Come to Nigelfest film festival this is a partial list of questions in the works that we all have
during lunch to get ideas and watch the films in the so far:
series you might have missed. 1) What compelled you to study art history?
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2) What would say would be the most important thing you
have learned through studying art history?
3) Personally, what is your favorite type of art from a culture
group or single person; whether is be ancient or
contemporary?
4) Were you ever interested in creating art yourself?
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5) When you were growing up, did you want to be an art
historian?
6)What more do you think art historians can do for the world,
besides teach future art historians?
7)How did you get into the study of art history?
8) What events led you the realization that it was your calling?
#s 5, 7, and 8 seem a little redundant and can probably be combined into one or two 9)While studying art abroad, what is the most interesting
questions. This is a combo of a bunch of people's questions. What do you think/How thing you have experienced?
should we edit them? What more can be asked? 10) How do you research for your revolutionary ideas and
Also, how many questions can we have?, we don’t want to take too much of O' Great discoveries on art history?
11) How does traveling to actual sites change your view on art
Nigel's time.
history, rather than just looking at images in a book?
