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Great Artists in Their Own Words

Episode 2: Out of the Darkness (1939-1966)

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Second in a series unlocking the BBC archives to tell the story of modern art in the words of the artists themselves - from the tortured images of Francis Bacon born of the horror of the Second World War to the joyous, sometimes ironical celebration of consumer affluence in the pop art of Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol to the hedonistic freedom of the paintings of David Hockney. Show less

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