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The Essay: The Other Auld Alliance

The Essay: The Other Auld Alliance: Episode 4

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The Other Auld Alliance

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Stuart Kelly discusses Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys.

Stuart Kelly focuses on the work of Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and German artist Joseph Beuys.

Scotland's historical relationship with France is often termed the Auld Alliance. By 1560 the Auld Alliance was more or less over but it has lingered on in the Scottish sentimental memory. Stuart Kelly argues that the real Auld Alliance was between Scotland and the "various principalities, kingdoms, cantons, duchies and electorates that would eventually comprise Germany and its German-speaking neighbours." In these essays he explores the relationship between Scotland and the German world as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography. Here he explores the work of the Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka and the German artist Joseph Beuys.

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Stuart Kelly explores Scotland's close historical relationship with Germany

Stuart Kelly explores Scotland's close historical relationship with Germany as it has played out in literature, education, philosophy, the visual arts and historiography

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