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This film takes the viewer on a journey through innovative, futuristic, utopian and sometimes bizarre architecture projects from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. The film covers the most...
Literary critic Helen Vendler discusses the poetry of W.B.Yeats with Christopher Lydon. Describing him ‘in terms of formal invention, the first modernist’, she gives close readings of ‘An Irish Airman...
MARCEL DUCHAMP: THE LARGE GLASS AND READYMADES looks at details of the work of Marcel Duchamp who was a central figure in 20th century art. Several of his pieces such as ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’,...
Provides an introduction to postmodern theory which has has identified fundamental cultural and social changes that have transformed the nature of contemporary societies and, at the same time, raised...
This documentary tells the story of the Bauhaus school from its foundation by Walter Gropius in 1919, through its tumultuous history and far-reaching influence on 20th century art, design and architecture....
Film profile of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, whose radical approach to remodelling historic buildings, together with his modernist sensibility and sensitivity towards architectural form and natural...
Dr Briony Fer talks about the political aesthetic of film montage and the different approaches that the influential Soviet film-makers. Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov developed as they invented this new...
Clement Greenberg’s Modernist criticism argued that Impressionism was a critical stage in the movement towards flatness and abstraction. On the other hand, T J Clark saw flatness in Impressionism as...
Inspired by George Orwell’s "A Homage to Catalonia", Robert Hughes first visited Barcelona in 1968. Twenty-four years later, as the city prepares itself to host the 1992 Olympic Games, Hughes returns to...
Investigates some of the ways in which images of England were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a means of justifying and maintaining imperialism in the face of increasing doubt and...
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