Monitor · SEASON 8
Art and Delusion
Episode 19 · 1965-07-13
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
Season 8 episodes
1. Episode 11964-11-17
2. Joe Tilson1964-12-01
3. Larkin and Betjeman: Down Cemetery Road1964-12-15
4. A Christmas Stocking1964-12-29
5. Robert Lowell1965-01-12
6. Empson Apart1965-01-26
7. David Sylvester: What the Pundits Say1965-02-09
8. Beginning to End1965-02-23
9. Matters of Time1965-03-09
10. JB: A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli1965-03-11
11. Choice of Surroundings1965-03-23
12. People in Rather Odd Circumstances1965-04-06
13. Silence, Exile, and Cunning1965-04-20
14. Norman Mailer1965-05-04
15. The Debussy Film1965-05-18
16. The Frozen Frame1965-06-01
17. Private Eye and Public Place1965-06-15
18. Always on Sunday1965-06-29
19. Art and Delusion1965-07-13
