January 8, 1972 • 1h 56m
The first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction...Read more
January 15, 1972 • 1h 56m
The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition ...Read more
January 22, 1972 • 1h 56m
The third programme is on the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who commissioned the work of art.
January 29, 1972 • 1h 56m
In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint,...Read more