The Genius of British Art

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  • Premiered: Oct 2010
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • Channel 4
  • Sunday at 19
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Power and Personality
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Air date
Oct 03, 2010
Historian Dr David Starkey examines how royal portraiture from Henry VIII to Princess Diana has had an enduring influence on the iconic power of personality.
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Art for the People
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Air date
Oct 10, 2010
Dr Gus Casely-Hayford shows how our sense of identity was changed forever by the most distinctively British artist this country has ever produced: William Hogarth. Until the 18th .. show full overview
1x3
Flesh
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Air date
Oct 17, 2010
Writer Howard Jacobson celebrates the way British artists depict sex and desire, and argues that the most compelling expression is to be found where we might least expect it: in the art of the Victorians.
1x4
Visions of England
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Air date
Oct 24, 2010
At a time when Britain's contemporary art world has been dominated by the 'Sensation' generation of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, it's easy to dismiss English landscape art as nothing .. show full overview
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Modern Times
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Air date
Oct 31, 2010
Modern Art has made us who we are and it has certainly made Janet Street Porter who she is. Beginning in the stifling 1950s, Janet revisits her teenage years to show how modern art .. show full overview
1x6 Show finale
The Art of War
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Nov 07, 2010
Former war reporter Jon Snow presents a timely reminder of how British artists have expressed and defined our response to the horror of war and, in the process, have triggered a debate .. show full overview

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