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The French artist Christian Boltanski (b.1944) is acclaimed for his installations, which often combine an exploration of his own biography wity the European legacy of the Holocaust. The film presents a...
This programme is structured around interviews conducted in November 1991 by Francis Frascina with artists, critics and museum curators active in resistance to the Vietnam War, and racism in the USA during...
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...
Jasper Johns’ painting (or more properly, collage) ‘Flag ‘was a subject of controversy when first exhibited in 1958. Since then John’s ambiguous image of the US flag has become an icon of modernity....
Art historian T J Clark interviews Clement Greenberg, well-known art critic, about writing art criticism and opinion on artists. Questions such as what might be the essential qualities that made for great...
Art historian T J Clark interviews Clement Greenberg, the eminent critic of modern art, on the subject of the painter Jackson Pollock. Greenberg speaks of his first meeting with Pollock, Pollock’s early...
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...
Examines the history of the Villa La Roche in Paris and explores the motives of Le Corbusier in developing the site for the Swiss Banker and art collector, Roal La Roche. Sets out to explain why and how the...
Professor T J Clark examines the possible meanings of two notorious paintings by Manet: ‘Olympia’ (1863) and the ‘Bar at the Folies Bergère’ (1881-2). Using contemporary criticism as evidence,...
Deals with questions of interpretations, and specifically with the interpretation of expressive content. Focuses on a number of works by Henri Matisse, for whom the expression of feeling was the central...
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