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 this podcast, she talks with Mark Hallett about the remarkable...
10 Jun 202027min
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 Herkomer’s Hard Times (1885), has to do with conditions of migrant...
3 Jun 202033min
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 during the later Middle Ages, when dozens of new charterhouses w...
27 Mai 202030min
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 describe in his celebrated poem, An Arundel Tomb, as their ‘ston...
13 Mai 202031min
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 Academician in 1828, he sat side-by-side with novices to study naked ...
6 Mai 202034min
