[music playing]
WOMAN: Art history
matters to me because it
allows me to explore the
histories and people's lives
in everyday objects and
images in the world around me.
MAN: Art history is a
kind of a means to an end.
MAN: As the things
that we write down
tell us something about who we
are, how we organise ourselves,
the things that are important
to us, so too the things
that we make tell
us about ourselves.
WOMAN: I value the
sense of the past
that encounters with art
and architecture bring.
WOMAN: For me, art history
matters as a relic of the past,
but also as a way of measuring
how the past has been always
part of the present.
[music playing]
WOMAN: Not only do
different cultures have
different ways of
communicating in language,
they also have different
visual language.
MAN: As a working-class kid,
it was never part of my world.
MAN: Art is clearly
about power and politics,
and all kinds of judgments
about what is and isn't art.
Censorship, all those
kinds of things.
WOMAN: It's one of
these subjects that
brings you in many directions.
So it really is mind expanding.
[music playing]
MAN: Art history matters
because it's our chance
to look out at the world.
MAN: And art history,
for me, is a way
of getting to grips
with human creativity
across the full range
of time and space.
MAN: If those things
are important to you,
you should be interested
in art history.
