Camino Camp

Your camp counselors talk about Vincent Van Gogh and how you might not have enjoyed hanging out with him. Now everyone wants to be his friend. No texts for this one, but check out "At Eternity's Gate".

We're talking John Berger: lefty art critic, novelist, artist, brit and Black Panther patron. Our guide is his classic book and BBC series "Ways of Seeing".

We talk about the visionary poet, painter and printmaker William Blake. Death of God theologian Thomas JJ Altizer helps us parse the radical theology with his book "The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake".

Ben & Paul talk about American cowboy-painter Jackson Pollock and how the CIA boosted Abstract Expressionism in order to look cooler than Communists. We draw heavily on "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" by Frances Stonor Saunders.