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In the early 80s, a new artistic avant-garde began to sweep across the walls and streets of downtown New York with the emergence of a 15-year-old Brooklyn teenager who would change the course of art history....
A compilation of 5-minute programmes about the work of leading contemporary artists. DVD extras include biographies of the individual artists featured and information on contemporary arts in the UK.
American figurative painter John Currin presents his views on figurative painting, representation and masculine identity.
At the height of the Great Depression in the USA, President Franklin D Roosevelt promised the people a New Deal. The Works Project Administration (WPA) employed artists within the Federal Art Project, part...
In a programme made shortly before his death, Robert Motherwell, one of the chief protagonists of the New York school, this film recalls the ‘heroic age’ of American abstract expressionism, tracing the...
Roy Lichtenstein was a leading exponent of the American pop art movement of the 1960s, and his monumental paintings of comic-strip images have become modern icons. In a rare interview he discusses both his...
Jasper Johns (b.1930) is one of the most influential figures in American modern art. Filmed in 1988 at the time of his retrospective exhibition at the 1988 Venice Biennale , this assessment of his career...
Profiles American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987), tracing the development of his work in art and film and discusses his involvement in publishing ‘Interview’ magazine. Uses footage from interviews and...
A biographical critique of the achievements of the American painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), who was a leading figure of the abstract expressionist movement, famous for his ‘drip-and-splash’ action...
A documentary portrait of American artist Edward Hopper by director Brian O’Doherty, who compares the paintings to the locations that inspired them. Includes footage of Hopper and his wife Jo from a...
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