The Genius of British Art
A landmark arts series in which David Starkey - Power and Personality; Gus Casely-Hayford - Art for the People; Sir Roy Strong - Visions of England, Howard Jacobson - Flesh; Jon Snow - War and Janet Street-Porter - Modern Times; present six passionate polemics on how British art made us who we are today.
Press Reviews
Jacobson is on cracking form – knowledgeable, engaged, outspoken, refreshingly honest and ferociously articulate. It is a truly wonderful programme
Sir Roy Strong...makes for a charismatic and impassioned presenter as he argues for that decidedly unfashionable form of British Art – the landscape painting.
…refreshingly original...
...a brilliantly engaging polemic
Accessible without being patronizing and passionate without being one-eyed, the first two instalements of ‘Genius of British Art’ have confirmed C4’s mastery… of the authored documentary series.
