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This programme looks at Picasso's painting "Guernica", particularly it's origins and symbolism.
This programme looks at Picasso's painting "Guernica", particularly it's origins and symbolism.
| Module code and title: | A316, Modern art: practices and debates |
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| Item code: | A316; 16 |
| First transmission date: | 26-02-1992 |
| Published: | 1992 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:16 |
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| Producer: | Nick Levinson |
| Contributor: | Francis Frascina |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Guernica; Modern art; Spanish Civil War; World Fair 1936 |
| Subject terms: | Art, Modern--20th century; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Guernica; Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973 Criticism and interpretation; Guernica (Spain) in art; --Spain --History --Civil War, 1936-1939 |
| Footage description: | Footage - Ceiling of Cason del Buen Retiro (Prado Museum). Painting:"Guernica". Group of young people in front of "Guernica". Pan in to painting. Detail of studies for "Guernica". "Guernica". B/w film of fascists marching past Franco. Refugees. Military parade. Franco. Film clip: plane on airport runway in Spain, police & photographers, police motorcycles and car, men on steps of Prado Museum, crate containing "Guernica", crowd clapping (0'25"-2'25") - "Guernica". B/w stills of Picasso painting and seated with friends. B/w still of "Guernica" in Spanish Republics Pavilion. B/w still of Picasso. B/w film of planes dropping bombs and Guernica after bombing, woman crying & dead bodies. Pages from "L'Humanite" & "Le Figaro". Poster of woman & child (2'26"-4'25") - Fascist propaganda posters. B/w stills of Picasso & friends and in the sea. Poster: fascism. B/w film of buildings burning & dead horse. B/w still of Picasso. "Guernica". Detail. B/w still of Picasso in front of canvas. B/w film of fascists saluting, Franco, bodies, Guernica after bombing (4'26"-5'57") - "Guernica". Details. Photos of stages of work on "Guernica" taken by Dora Maar. B/w line sketches of "Guernica". Full compositional study of "Guernica". Still of full size sketch of "Guernica". Detail. Etching:"Minotauromaguia" by Picasso. Details. Etching:"Bull disembowelling a horse" by Picasso. Detail. Oil painting: "Bullfight". Detail. "Guernica" (5'58"-10'12") - Painting:"Raft of the Medusa" by Gericault. "Guernica". "Painter Studio" by Courbet. Details. "Guernica". Details. "Triptych" by Arteta. "Guernica". Details. "Mother with Dead Child" by Picasso. "Guernica". Studies for "Guernica". Still of full size "Guernica" sketch. Republican posters of clenched fists. B/w film of men walking with raised fists. "Guernica". Details (10'13"-14'18") - Posters: Council for the Defence of Madrid, woman & doves, child, woman & child. "Guernica" (14'19"-15'43"). Etchings: "The Dream & Lie of Franco" by Picasso & "Disasters of War" by Goya. "Guernica". Detail. B/w photo: Spanish Pavilion, exterior & interior. World fair statues. "Guernica" inside Pavilion. Nazi propaganda painting of family. "Guernica". Detail. Paintings:"The Front", "The Exodus" & "The Rearguard" by Aurelio Arteta (15'43"-19'07") - Photo of Franco on cover of "Heraldo Espanol". Print of painting "De Paracuellos" by Vivas. Detail. B/w photo: New Burlington Galleries. "Guernica". Detail. painting:"Male & Female" by Jackson Pollock. "Guernica". Detail. Young people looking at "Guernica" in Prado. Views of "Buen Retiro Palace" & "Army Museum". 4 people walking past canons. Spanish soldier. "Guernica". Group in front of "Guernica" (19'08"-24'17"). |
| Master spool number: | HOU7083 |
| Production number: | FOUA376P |
| Videofinder number: | 5535 |
| Available to public: | no |
