Mary Beard's Forbidden Art

2022 · Documentary · 1 Season · 2 Episodes · 8.7

Art that challenges, questions and appals. Professor Mary Beard confronts controversial works tackling such unsettling subjects that they’ve been fought over, removed or 'forbidden'.

Episodes

E11. Vile Bodies2022-02-03Mary Beard explores ways artists have shown 'forbidden' aspects of the human body – including scenes of sex, violence, death and even defecation - and interviews the artist Tracey Emin.E22. To See or Not to See?2022-02-10Mary Beard interrogates how art and artists challenge viewers to confront ideas and opinions which, for all sorts of reasons, we would rather not face up to.

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