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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wyver, John. Vision on. London : Wallflower, 2007 (OCoLC)608306039 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Wyver |
ISBN: | 9781905674404 1905674406 1905674392 9781905674398 |
OCLC Number: | 154711368 |
Description: | xvi, 236 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Lord Clark and me -- Take three histories -- Things to come -- Ch. 1. 'A Means to Raise the Public Taste': British Television and the Arts 1951-82 -- A pre-history for the arts on film -- Early arts on screen in Britain -- 'A specifically British modernism': the films of John Read -- Graham Sutherland -- 'What the public wants': ITV arrives -- The first magazine: Monitor -- Ken Russell: the biggest director in the world -- Tempo: 'a swinging Monitor' -- BBC2's new line-up -- The age of Aquarius -- The golden years of Omnibus -- One Foot in Eden -- Arts from the south bank -- Ch. 2. 'A Crisis of Confidence': Arts Television into the Twenty-First Century -- What's this Channel Four? -- 'Here were riches': Channel 4's first five years -- Shadows from Light -- Their way: Arena -- Art as the new politics: The Late Show -- Art is dead: Michael Grade's Channel 4 -- Dance for the Camera -- 'The arts programme is not dead': the BBC in the 1990s -- A Portrait of Arshile -- The multi-channel new world -- Dumb and dumber? -- Arts and broadcasting at the millennium -- 'Everybody needs a place to think': BBC Four -- Ch. 3. 'The Odd Couple?': The Arts Council and Television -- State patronage creeps in -- 'An emphatic success': the art film tours -- Artists Must Live -- First films from the Arts Council and the BFI -- The Stained Glass at Fairford -- A guardian angel for the arts -- Richard Hamilton -- The Attenborough Enquiry -- The best of times -- Dread Beat and Blood -- Channel 4 changes the rules -- Picturing Derry -- Identity and diversity -- Television times -- Sound on Film -- A new era -- Two Melons and a Stinking Fish -- Endgame: the Lottery and a legacy -- Ch. 4. Mainstream Approaches and Alternative Forms -- Tell and show -- The lecture: a television (and radio) tradition -- Beaubourg: Four Films by Denis Postle -- Lanternists, lecturers and connoisseurs -- John Berger strikes back: Ways of Seeing -- A Sign Is a Fine Investment -- Encountering the real thing -- Tom Phillips -- Edward Hopper -- The drama of artists' lives -- Animated Artists' Lives -- Artists and filmmakers -- Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask -- Alternative lives from the Arts Council -- The Third Front -- Extending the forms -- Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara -- Artists and collaborations -- Expanding pictures -- 'Make it new': State of the Art -- Correction. Please or How We Got into Pictures -- The Brothers Quay: Anamorphosis -- Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti -- Memory and Outrage -- Dramatic screens -- The look of surprise: the films of John Akomfrah -- The Impersonation -- O Blue come forth -- Last notes from abroad -- Ch. 5. Future Vision -- The continuing life of linear forms -- Make Me Think: Bruce Nauman -- Doing it digitally -- So what's next? -- Last words. |
Series Title: | Nonfictions. |
Responsibility: | John Wyver. |
Abstract:
'Vision On' illuminates the vanguard role the arts have played in the proud history of British public broadcasting, and attempts to locate the place of arts broadcasting in today's multi-channel, multi-media world.
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