S3 Ep4: Experiments in Art Writing: Roger Robinson
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, m...
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British Art Talks
British Art Talks is the audio series of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. It features new research and aims to enhance and expand knowledge of British art and architecture....
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13 episodes
S3 Ep3: Experiments in Art Writing: Maria Fusco
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, m...
S3 Ep2: Experiments in Art Writing: Adrian Rifkin
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, m...
S3 Ep1: Experiments in Art Writing: Catherine Grant
This series, Experiments In Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, m...
S2 Ep3: Ryan Gander: DIFFICULT TRUTHS TO LIVE INSIDE - TROUBLE WITH TIME
Ryan Gander’s inventive, shapeshifting and associative works materialise in many forms ranging from sculpture and writing to painting and pe...
S2 Ep1: Lucy Skaer: Leaving the House
Lucy Skaer has exhibited extensively and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico, SMAK, Gent and Kunstwerke, Berlin, and...
S1 Ep7: The Medicinal Garden
The garden has long been an important subject matter of the British history of art, but what of the medicinal garden, its visual culture and...
S1 Ep6: “Things in their natural surroundings”?: Marketing the British Country House as Home
When John, 13th Duke of Bedford, opened up Woburn Abbey to the paying public in 1955, he took care to maintain the sense that this was his f...
S1 Ep5: Exploring London's Art Scene in the 1960s
Lisa Tickner, a leading historian of British art, has just published a new book on the dynamic art world that emerged in 1960s London . In t...
S1 Ep4: Hard Times and Late Victorian Art
This talk focuses on a key instance of the social realism that played an important role in late Victorian art and culture. Hubert von Herkom...
S1 Ep3: The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence
The Carthusian order was founded in the late eleventh century in France. It spread rapidly and widely, and experienced great popularity duri...
S1 Ep2: “What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying hand-in-hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin would later desc...
S1 Ep1: William Etty and the Classical Body
William Etty was obsessed with the female form. At the height of his career as a history painter, long after his election to Royal Academici...