Monitor S08E19 · Art and Delusion

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Three ways of looking at the world. Why so thin? The art critic, John Berger looks at the work of the great sculptor, Giacometti whose strange spindly figures have been one of the great mysteries of modern European sculpture. Berger solves the mystery in terms of Giacometti's theories of vision. The Middle-class Magician The art critic, George Melly went to Brussels and made a film about the Belgian surrealist. Rene Magritte whose pictures are conundrums about the way the world looks. Cheese! Or what really did happen in Andy Warhol's Studio Monitor comes to an end with a surprise of its own making.

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1. 1 1. Episode 11964-11-17The opening programme in the new series. Introduced by Jonathan Miller.
2. 2 2. Joe Tilson1964-12-01With Jonathan Miller including Peter Brook with actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company talking about the portrayal of madness. Monitor meets artist Joe Tilson, who gains insp
3. 3 3. Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road1964-12-15With Jonathan Miller including: Philip Larkin, who talks to John Betjeman about himself and his poetry and the city of Hull where he lives. "From a purely practical point of view
4. 4 4. A Christmas Stocking1964-12-29With Jonathan Miller. Including: Dwight MacDonald, the American critic talking to Robert Kee… Sandy Claus, by Barry Humphries… Father Christmas, as seen by the French anthropologis
5. 5 5. Robert Lowell1965-01-12with Jonathan Miller; including: Robert Lowell. The Pulitzer prize-winning American poet filmed in New York and Boston. Second of a series on living poets… Michael Podro. Art as de
6. 6 6. Empson Apart1965-01-26with Jonathan Miller including Empson Apart William Empson holds a curious and special place among modern English poets. He started life as a mathematician and wrote much of his
7. 7 7. David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say1965-02-09with Jonathan Miller. including David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say David Sylvester, the art critic, takes a sidelong look at the critics as they discuss the paintings of the
8. 8 8. Beginning to End1965-02-23with Jonathan Miller A television exploration of the world of Samuel Beckett. [Starring] Jack MacGowran Since Waiting for Godot burst on a startled and sometimes outraged Englis
9. 9 9. Matters of Time1965-03-09with Jonathan Miller Robert Lowell Widely regarded as the greatest living American poet, Lowell talks in this film about the challenges of his craft and reads poems in which he g
10. 10 10. JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli1965-03-11With Lady Barbirolli, The Halle Orchestra (Leader, Martin Milner), The Orchestra of the Royal Manchester College of Music, The King's Lynn Quartet and members of the Halle Concert
11. 11 11. Choice of Surroundings1965-03-23with Jonathan Miller Dobcross Henry Livings, the young English playwright, left London to live in Dobcross, a small workaday village near Oldham. His friends there work in the lo
12. 12 12. People in Rather Odd Circumstances1965-04-06with Jonathan Miller Including: People in Rather Odd Circumstances The poems, drawings, and conversation of Stevie Smith. and Poet As Art Critic Michael Podro on the art crit
13. 13 13. Silence, Exile, and Cunning1965-04-20A film on James Joyce Written by Anthony Burgess
14. 14 14. Norman Mailer1965-05-04
15. 15 15. The Debussy Film1965-05-18 · 1h 22mWives, mistresses, and the sinister Pierre Louys, artist, photographer, pornographer, make up the strange circle surrounding the life and music of the French composer. A new featu
16. 16 16. The Frozen Frame1965-06-01A programme on the illustration of the instantaneous. Including The Camera and the Canvas Aaron Scharf describes the impact of photography on painters during the last hundred ye
17. 17 17. Private Eye and Public Place1965-06-15Donald McCullin A film portrait of the prize-winning news photographer which brings us face to face with the courage and energy of one of the most exciting figures in modern photo
18. 18 18. Always on Sunday1965-06-29 · 45mA new film produced and directed by Ken Russell about Henri 'Douanier' Rousseau artist-painter. The excise clerk who became the great primitive painter-his friendship with Alfred J
19. 19 19. Art and Delusion1965-07-13Three ways of looking at the world. Why so thin? The art critic, John Berger looks at the work of the great sculptor, Giacometti whose strange spindly figures have been one of th