Two programmes about the channels of communication between artist and public
2: The Patron and his Purpose In this programme Edward Lucie -Smith turns to the function of the patron. Has his role changed during the last century? How far is he the ultimate creator of fashion in art? Is fashion influenced more by the intermediary and the critic than by the objective judgment of public or patron?
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH talks with HOWARD HODGKIN , painter
PAULINE VOGELPOEL , Secretary of the Contemporary Art Society PETER WILSON , Chairman of Sotheby's, and JOHN WEIGHTMAN , Reader in French Language and Literature at Westfield College, London