British Art Talks
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
S3 Ep4: Experiments in Art Writing: Roger Robinson
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, ...
S3 Ep3: Experiments in Art Writing: Maria Fusco
28 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, ...
S3 Ep2: Experiments in Art Writing: Adrian Rifkin
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This series, Experiments in Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, ...
S3 Ep1: Experiments in Art Writing: Catherine Grant
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This series, Experiments In Art Writing, features a set of highly innovative UK-based art writers, asking them to describe the encounters, materials, ...
S2 Ep3: Ryan Gander: DIFFICULT TRUTHS TO LIVE INSIDE - TROUBLE WITH TIME
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Gander’s inventive, shapeshifting and associative works materialise in many forms ranging from sculpture and writing to painting and performanc...
S2 Ep1: Lucy Skaer: Leaving the House
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Skaer has exhibited extensively and has had recent solo exhibitions at the Museo Tamayo, Mexico, SMAK, Gent and Kunstwerke, Berlin, and a current...
S1 Ep7: The Medicinal Garden
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 aesthetic...
S1 Ep6: “Things in their natural surroundings”?: Marketing the British Country House as Home
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 family’s ...
S1 Ep5: Exploring London's Art Scene in the 1960s
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
S1 Ep4: Hard Times and Late Victorian Art
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Har...
S1 Ep3: The English Carthusians and the Art of Abstinence
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Carthusian order was founded in the late eleventh century in France. It spread rapidly and widely, and experienced great popularity during the lat...
S1 Ep2: “What Will Survive of Us Is Love”: Memory and Emotion in Late-Medieval England
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying hand-in-hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin would later describe in hi...
S1 Ep1: William Etty and the Classical Body
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...