Stories of Art

How did William Hogarth help create the modern art world as we know it?  Did he really stage the first conceptual art exhibition?  And why in the final years of his life was he the subject of ridicule? Join Alastair and James as they chart the life and times of the man that helped transform the story of British art. 

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Artworks in this episode:
William Hogarth, O the Roast Beef of Old England (‘The Gate of Calais’), 1748, Tate Britain, London
Canaletto, London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge, 1747, Private Collection
Jean Siméon Chardin, The Ray, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Jean Siméon Chardin, Still-Life with Cuts of Meat, 1730, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
Anthony van Dyck, Lord John Stuart and His Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, c.1638, National Gallery, London
William Hogarth, George Arnold, 1738-40, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
William Hogarth, Heads of Six of Hogarth's Servants, c.1750-55, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, c.1740, The Foundling Museum, London
William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: Plates 1-6, 1743, National Gallery, London
William Hogarth, Gin Lane, 1751
William Hogarth, Beer Street, 1751
William Hogarth, The Analysis of Beauty, 1753
William Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug, 1745, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, Sigismunda Mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo, 1759, Tate Britain, London
William Hogarth, The Bathos, 1764

Recommended Reading:
Jenny Uglow, William Hogarth: A Life and a World, 1998
Mark Hallett, Hogarth, 2007
Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth: Life in Progress, 2022

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Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Social Producer: Grace Dewar
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac

How did William Hogarth transcend his humble origins to become one of the wealthiest artists in 18th century Britain? And in doing so, did he invent a new kind of art? Join Alastair and James as they chart the life and times of that most English of artists - William Hogarth.

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Artworks in this episode:
William Hogarth, The Painter and his Pug, 1745, Tate, London
William Hogarth, Hogarth's Shop Card, 1720
Marcellus Laroon, Sir James Thornhill, c.1712-15, National Maritime Museum, London
Sir James Thornhill, The Painted Hall, 1707-26, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
William Hogarth, Self Portrait, c.1735, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
William Hogarth, Falstaff Examining his Recruits, 1730
William Hogarth, The Cholmondeley Family, 1732, Private Collection
William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress, Plates 1-6, 1732
William Hogarth, A Midnight Modern Conversation, c. 1732, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Recommended Reading:
Jenny Uglow, William Hogarth: A Life and a World, 1998
Mark Hallett, Hogarth, 2007
Jacqueline Riding, Hogarth: Life in Progress, 2022

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For more great art content visit www.heni.com or visit the Heni Talks YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@HENITalks

Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Social Producer: Grace Dewar
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac

Is The Garden of Earthly Delights the strangest painting in all of art history? Is Bosch's bizarre masterpiece a vision of paradise or apocalyptic doom? And what's with all the giant fruit? Join Alastair and James as they dive headlong into the weird and wonderful world of Hieronymus Bosch.
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Artworks in this episode:
Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1500, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Hieronymus Bosch, Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns), c.1490/1510, The National Gallery, London
Hieronymus Bosch, The Adoration of the Magi, c.1494, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Salvador Dalí, The Great Masturbator, 1929, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Recommended Reading:
Matthijs Ilsink et al, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman: Catalogue Raisonné, 2016
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Follow Stories of Art on Instagram: @storiesofart.heni
For more great art content visit www.heni.com or visit the Heni Talks YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@HENITalks
Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Social Producer: Grace Dewar
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac

How did Lee Miller find her way into Hitler's apartment on the day his death was announced? And did what she witness in the Nazi concentration camps change her forever? Join Alastair and James as they conclude the story of one of art history's most remarkable photographers - Lee Miller.

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Artworks in this episode:
Lee Miller, The Deputy Bürgermeister's daughter (Regina Lisso), 1945
Margaret Bourke-White, The Leipzig Suicides, 1945
Lee Miller, Fire Masks, London, England, 1941
Lee Miller, Non-conformist Chapel, 1940
Robert Capa, US troops assault Omaha Beach during the D-Day landings, 1944
Lee Miller, Bad Burns Case, 1944
Lee Miller, Beaten SS Prison Guard, 1945
Lee Miller, US soldiers examine a rail truck load of dead prisoners, 1945
Lee Miller, Dead SS Prison Guard Floating in Canal, 1945
Lee Miller and David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub, 1945
Lee Miller and David E. Scherman, David E. Scherman in Hitler's Bathtub, 1945

Recommended Reading:
Anthony Penrose, The Lives of Lee Miller, 1985
Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera, 2006

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For more great art content visit www.heni.com or visit the Heni Talks YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@HENITalks

Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Social Producer: Grace Dewar
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac

How did Lee Miller transform herself from Jazz Age beauty to Surrealist photographer in 1930s Paris? And what lay behind her extraordinary capacity for reinvention? Join Alastair and James as they tell the first part of the remarkable story of the American model, artist, photojournalist and celebrity chef Lee Miller.
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Artworks in this episode:
Lee Miller and David E. Scherman, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub, 1945
Lee Miller, Charlie Chaplin with Chandelier, 1932
Lee Miller, Untitled (Severed Breast from Radical Surgery), c.1930
Man Ray, Indestructible Object (or Object to Be Destroyed), 1964 (replica of 1923 original), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lee Miller, Joseph Cornell, c.1933
Lee Miller, From the Top of the Great Pyramid, 1938
Lee Miller, Portrait of Space, Al Bulyaweb, near Siwa, Egypt, 1937
Lee Miller, Eileen Agar, 1937
Lee Miller, Picnic, Mougins (Nusch and Paul Eluard, Roland Penrose, Man Ray and Ady Fidelin), 1937
Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, 1937, Private Collection/National Galleries of Scotland
Recommended Reading:
Anthony Penrose, The Lives of Lee Miller, 1985
Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller: On Both Sides of the Camera, 2006
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Follow Stories of Art on Instagram: @storiesofart.heni
For more great art content visit www.heni.com or visit the Heni Talks YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@HENITalks
Hosts: Alastair Sooke and Dr James Fox
Additional Research: Catherine Ingram
Social Producer: Grace Dewar
Producer and Editor: Ben Harding
Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac