British Masters

Arts Documentary hosted by James Fox, published by BBC in 2011 - English narration


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Art historian James Fox explores 20th-century British art, a period he considers an extraordinary flowering of genius.


1)  We are Making a New World 
In the years immediately before and during the First World War, a radical generation of painters determined to eject Victorian sentimentality and nostalgia from their art pioneered a new style of painting that would capture and make sense of the modern experience. Walter Sickert shocked the public by making the low-lives of Camden Town and a brutal murder the subject of his gaze. Wyndham Lewis and David Bomberg broke with centuries of realist tradition, reducing humanity to cold geometric forms. But as the country descended into war, three painters - Christopher Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer - reconciled what was best of the avant-garde with Britain's rich painterly tradition to create powerful images of war that would speak to us all.

2)  In Search of England 
The inter-war years were a period of alarming national change. With a generation of youth lost to the trenches and the cracks in the Empire growing fast, the nation's confidence was in tatters. If we were no longer a mighty Imperial power, what were we? John Nash's mesmerising visions of rural arcadia, Stanley Spencer's glimpses of everyday divinity, Alfred Munnings' prelapsarian nostalgia, Paul Nash's timeless mysticism, John Piper's crumbling ruins, even William Coldstream's blunt celebration of working-class life - all, in their own way, were attempts to answer this question. And, as a reprise of war grew ever more likely, they struggled more urgently than ever to create an image of Britain we could fight for.

3)  A New Jerusalem 
In the decades after the Second World War, at a time when many had lost their faith in humanity, British artists turned to the great figurative painting tradition to address the biggest questions of all: what does it mean to be human and how do we create a more humane world? Such existential angst is captured in Lucien Freud's harrowing early portraits and Graham Sutherland's Pembrokeshire landscapes. Francis Bacon stared deep into his own soul to explore the human capacity for evil, while Richard Hamilton warned against the false hope of consumerism. As national pessimism gave way to a new optimism, David Hockney dared to suggest Paradise might be available to us all. But in the early 1970s, just as the world finally began to recognise the genius of Britain's painterly tradition, young artists at home turned against it.

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1)  HD Version 
 * Video Codec: x264 CABAC
 * Video Bitrate: 5000 Kbps
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.777:1
 * Video Resolution: 1440x810
 * Audio Codec: AAC
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps ABR 48KHz
 * Audio Channels: 2
 * Run-Time: 59 mins
 * Framerate: 25FPS
 * Number of Parts: 3
 * Part Size: 2.10 GB
 * Source: HDTV
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2)  SD Version 
 * Video Codec: Xvid
 * Video Bitrate: 1600 Kbps
 * Video Aspect Ratio: 1.800:1
 * Video Resolution: 720x400
 * Audio Codec: AC3
 * Audio Bitrate: 128 Kbps CBR 48KHz
 * Audio Channels: 2
 * Run-Time: 59 mins
 * Framerate: 25FPS
 * Number of Parts: 3
 * Part Size: 740 MB
 * Source: HDTV
 * Encoded by JungleBoy



Links
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1)  Further Information 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012lk7m

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