Art reveals the world to us in new ways. David and Art is KWBU's weekly feature focusing on art.
The module is hosted by David Smith, an American historian with broad interests in his field. He’s been at Baylor University since 2002 teaching classes in American history, military history, and cultural history. For eight years he wrote an arts and culture column for the Waco Tribune-Herald, and his writings on history, art, and culture have appeared in other newspapers from the Wall Street Journal to the Dallas Morning News.
The very first record he remembers listening to when he was little was Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic’s recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and that set him on a lifelong path of loving music and the arts. He’s loved history for almost as long, and finally saw them come together in his career. He believes that history illuminates the arts and the arts illuminate history—that they co-exist and are best understood together.
Follow David on Twitter @DavidASmith12
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Places that can be rooted in and by particular art, are fortunate places indeed.
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A rare, and deeply fascinating example of creating, purely through subtraction.
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Further examining the evocative work of Claude Debussy.
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An airplane ride opened his eyes, well, ears - to an amazing string quartet.
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When thinking of the creative process, we don't usually think about being alone.
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Even centuries after its creation, a classic work of art can be seen afresh through the work of another artist
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Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that just by picking up a book we can join a long tradition.