Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley: How Art Began

Antony Gormley: How Art Began

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Antony Gormley – How Art Began: Why do humans make art? When did we begin to make our mark on the world? And where? In this film, Britain’s most celebrated sculptor Antony Gormley is setting out on a journey to see for himself the very beginnings of art.     Once we believed that art began with the cave paintings of Ice Age Europe, tens of thousands of years ago. But now, extraordinary new discoveries around the world are overturning that idea. Antony is going to travel across the globe, and thousands of years back in time, to piece together […]

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 3

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‘Sculpture has changed more in the last hundred years,’ says Alastair Sooke, ‘than in the previous thirty thousand.’ The third and last episode of the series tells the dramatic story of a century of innovation, scandal, shock and creativity.     Romancing the Stone – The Golden Ages of British Sculpture episode 3   It begins with the moment at the turn of the 20th century when young sculptors ceased visiting the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum and looked instead at the ‘primitive’ works of Africa and the Pacific islands. The result was an artistic revolution spearheaded by Eric

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