Art: Innovation and Commitment
In the first of two programmes
ANDREW FORGE talks to
H. S. EDE
NAUM GABO
DAVID GASCOYNE
NICOLETTE GRAY
JEAN HELION
BARBARA HEPWORTH
LESLIE MARTIN
ROBERT MEDLEY
HENRY MOORE
ROLAND PENROSE
JOHN and MYFANWY PIPER and HERBERT READ
By the early Thirties painting and sculpture had begun to recover the experimental momentum that they had had in England immediately before the war. Groups and magazines like Unit One, Axis, Circle, the Surrealist Exhibition of 1936. the presence in London of leading Continental artists, were among the factors which helped to lay the foundations of a vital modern school in this country.
Produced by LEONIE COHN
Part 2, Art-The Road These Times Must Take: December 2 Novelists of the Thirties: November 30