Season 1

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  8.2/1042 votes

  Psychological Aspects

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1972

  The first part of the television series drew on ideas from Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction arguing that through reproduction an Old Master's painting's modern context is severed from that which existed at the time of its making.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.3/1038 votes

  Women in Art

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/1972

  The second film discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject of male idealisation or desire.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1031 votes

  Collectors and Collecting

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/1972

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.3/1031 votes

  Commercial Art

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/1972

  In the fourth programme, on publicity and advertising, Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised potential for the viewer (via consumption) is considered a substitution for the actual reality depicted in old master portraits.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown