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Examines the relationship between the revolutionary rhetoric of surrealist literature and the works of Max Ernst, which are not evidently about revolutionary subjects. The essential link lies in the process...
Discusses the abstract art of the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). Painting is conventionally understood as clinical, calculated art from which all traces of life have been expunged by a process of...
This programme on the Museum of Modern Art has several contributors - a founding member of the Museum, the architect Philip Johnson; the present director of paintings Kirk Vernedoe; an art critic who...
Charles Harrison at the Tate Gallery explores the theme of ‘pictures and paintings’, discussing different ways of thinking about how works of art represent and, in that sense, have meaning. We tend to...
Presented by three art historians, all experts on different aspects of 19th-century French art and urbanism. Each displays a particular art historical methodology: that’s the point. Francis Frascina...
Francis Frascina discusses one of Picasso’s best-known works, ‘Guernica’ (1936). How and why did Picasso paint this vast work representing the destruction of the town of Guernica during the Spanish...
At his death, Rodin was the most famous artist in the western world, but the critical reception of his works was far from positive. As a sculptor making public works, Rodin was exposed to public criticism....
Art historian T J Clark and art critic Michael Fried in the past occupied opposing positions. Clark was the eminent protagonist of the social history of art, structured on a Marxist approach to history which...
Five programmes covering art from the start of the century to the present and are based on a 1988 Royal Academy exhibition and showing 150 paintings and sculptures in their historical and cultural contexts:...
The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a leading member of the surrealist movement, and his later work continued to combine technical experimentation with vivid fantasy. This film celebrates...
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