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Playlist-style category page for art, gathering 5 Book Bag videos into one searchable site section.
1:03:10
Hans Holbein's masterpieces are world-renowned, but who was the man behind those brilliantly observed portraits of the Tudor court? Elizabeth Goldring drops into the Book Bag to discuss her marvellous new biography.
1:01:42
It's almost Halloween, so we have conjured up Owen Davies to talk about his spectacular new book 'The Art of the Grimoire', an illustrated history of magical books and spellcraft from the dawn of time to the era of Buffy and Harry Potter. Curses upon all ye who fail to Like and Subscribe!
1:21:34
Art critic and broadcaster Charlotte Mullins drops into the Book Bag to discuss 'A Little History of Art', which covers a mere 17,000 years of global mark-making from the cave paintings to the present day. It's a stimulating survey that goes way beyond the big Western names - though they're there too.
59:02
Poet and art historian Kelly Grovier joins Suzi in the Book Bag to talk about his new book, 'The Art of Colour', on the frequently murky origin of the pigments used in sublime works of art. Why did Burne-Jones conduct a funeral rite for a tube of paint?
1:06:30
Charles Darwent was chief art critic of the Independent on Sunday for 14 years and is the author of 'Josef Albers: Life and work'. Today he talks about his new book 'Surrealists in New York', which tells how artists fleeing Hitler boosted the New York art scene in the 40s and 50s and how one daring small atelier spawned the Abstract Impressionist movement.
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