Alastair Sooke

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The World's Most Expensive Paintings
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The World's Most Expensive Paintings

Jul 10, 2011

The World's Most Expensive Paintings
2011 60 min 1 vues
Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the planet's richest people want to spend their millions on art.
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The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
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The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings

Dec 21, 2013

The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
2013 59 min 1 vues
Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in mystery and go unnoticed by the media. Around 47,000 works of art are reported missing each year, yet it is only the heists involving the world's most valuable paintings that hit the headlines. But high-profile or not - once gone, the works are rarely recovered.
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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball

May 10, 2013

Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
2013 89 min 1 vues
In Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball, social historian Amanda Vickery leads the action as a team of experts recreate a Regency ball in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s popular novel. Joined by Alastair Sooke and a coterie of professionals – a food historian, a costume expert, music history academics and a choreographer who trains a team of dance students to take to the floor– cameras will follow the recreation inspired by Austen’s Netherfield ball. This intimate country house ball drives the plot of the Pride And Prejudice, and is a key turning point in the romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.
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Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
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Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World

Aug 24, 2015

Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
2015 90 min 1 vues
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fresh eye to the work of pop art superstars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and tracks down pop's pioneers, from American artists like James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Ed Ruscha to British godfathers Peter Blake and Allen Jones. Alastair also explores how pop's fascination with celebrity, advertising and the mass media was part of a global art movement, and he travels to China to discover how a new generation of artists are reinventing pop art's satirical, political edge for the 21st century.
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Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
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Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern

Feb 25, 2013

Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
2013 59 min 1 vues
Alastair Sooke takes us on an exclusive personal tour of the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at Tate Modern. Offering an in-depth look at one of the year's most talked about exhibitions, Alastair and guests explore the enduring appeal of Lichtenstein's imagery, debate the controversies around his work and his influence on today's generation of artists and tackle the big question - was Lichtenstein a Pop Art genius and one of the defining image-makers of the 20th century, or a one-trick wonder whose big idea was so powerful he could never let it go?
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Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
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Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer

Dec 10, 2016

Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
2016 60 min 1 vues
Rauschenberg was the first artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1964, creating a crucial bridge between the abstract expressionists of the 50s and the pop artists who emerged in the 60s. Famous for his 'combines' that elevated the rich junk of life to the status of high art, he continued to work right up to his death in 2008, collaborating with dancers, scientists and social activists on a startlingly broad array of projects.
Constable: A Country Rebel
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Constable: A Country Rebel

Sep 07, 2014

Constable: A Country Rebel
2014 58 min 1 vues
The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.
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The Perfect Suit
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The Perfect Suit

Jun 10, 2014

The Perfect Suit
2014 60 min 1 vues
Alastair Sooke explores the evolution of the gentleman's suit, which has evolved from working man's Sunday best to the casual wear of royalty over the last 100 years.
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
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The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings

Dec 21, 2013

The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
2013 59 min 1 vues
Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in mystery and go unnoticed by the media. Around 47,000 works of art are reported missing each year, yet it is only the heists involving the world's most valuable paintings that hit the headlines. But high-profile or not - once gone, the works are rarely recovered.
Documentary
The World's Most Expensive Paintings
1

The World's Most Expensive Paintings

Jul 10, 2011

The World's Most Expensive Paintings
2011 60 min 1 vues
Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the planet's richest people want to spend their millions on art.
Documentary
Treasures of Ancient Rome
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Treasures of Ancient Rome

Sep 17, 2012

Treasures of Ancient Rome
2012 min 1 vues
Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and originally aired in September 2012 on BBC Four. In the documentary Sooke sets out to "debunk the myth that Romans didn't do art and were unoriginal". This is based on the view that Romans heavily incorporated Greek style in their art, and hence produced nothing new or original. Sooke has received some criticism from the media owing to the fact that there is no consensus among academics on this topic, and hence no 'myth' exists in the first place.
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An Art Lovers' Guide
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An Art Lovers' Guide

Apr 23, 2018

An Art Lovers' Guide
2018 min 1 vues
With sumptuous palaces, exquisite artworks and stunning architecture, every great city offers a dizzying multitude of cultural highlights. So what should an art lover see on a flying visit? Art historians Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke take us on entertaining and revealing cultural city breaks, offering surprising new insights into famous locations and uncovering hidden gems and untold stories, as they discover how religion, revolution and trailblazing individuals can shape the art - and soul - of a city.
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An Art Lovers' Guide
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An Art Lovers' Guide

Sep 17, 2012

An Art Lovers' Guide
2012 min 1 vues
Treasures of Ancient Rome is a 2012 three-part documentary written and presented by Alastair Sooke. The series was produced by the BBC, and originally aired in September 2012 on BBC Four. In the documentary Sooke sets out to "debunk the myth that Romans didn't do art and were unoriginal". This is based on the view that Romans heavily incorporated Greek style in their art, and hence produced nothing new or original. Sooke has received some criticism from the media owing to the fact that there is no consensus among academics on this topic, and hence no 'myth' exists in the first place.
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