
Mary Beard gives a personal and provocative take on the nude in Western art, from Ancient Greece to the present. Just why do artists and viewers seem so obsessed by nudity?
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Air Date: 2020-02-03
In the first programme of her provocative two-part essay, classicist and broadcaster Mary Beard takes on the nude. Fr...
Air Date: 2020-02-10
In episode two Mary looks at an eclectic range of works to show how artists have challenged the idea of 'the body bea...