Mary Beard's Forbidden Art (2022)
Art that challenges, questions and appals. Professor Mary Beard confronts controversial works tackling such unsettling subjects that they’ve been fought over, removed or 'forbidden'.
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Season 1 Episode List
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Episode 1 - Vile Bodies
Release Date: 2022-02-03Mary Beard explores ways artists have shown 'forbidden' aspects of the human body – including scenes of sex, violence, death and even defecation - and interviews the artist Tracey Emin.
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Episode 2 - To See or Not to See?
Release Date: 2022-02-10Mary Beard interrogates how art and artists challenge viewers to confront ideas and opinions which, for all sorts of reasons, we would rather not face up to.