Episode 4
Lachlan Goudie traces the development of Scottish art. He explores how it has left a remarkable legacy over the last century through wrestling with questions of identity.
The climactic episode of the series explores how, over the last 100 years, Scottish art has wrestled as never before with questions of identity and exploded like a visual firecracker of different ideas and styles. During the last century, Scottish artists embroiled themselves with some of the most exciting and dynamic art movements ever seen - provoking, participating and creating stimulating works of art that have left an extraordinary legacy.
Lachlan Goudie discovers how artists such as William McCance attempted to bring about a Scottish renaissance in the visual arts, while a creative diaspora of artists such as Alan Davie and William Gear would court controversy and play vital roles in the revolutions of postwar art.
Long before the 'Glasgow Miracle', the Glasgow School of Art was responsible for upholding a very different kind of tradition, of which Lachlan's father was proud to be a part. He discovers how artists such as Joan Eardley helped to bring the city to life, just as John Bellany did for the fishing villages of the east coast. Rebels such as Bruce McLean help explain how conceptual art would come to play such a large role in the Scottish art of today, and Lachlan meets one of the world's most expensive living artists, Peter Doig, to delve into the complexities of what it actually means to be a Scottish artist in today's market-dominated art world. He finishes his epic journey on the Isle of Lewis with a powerful call to arms for the continued relevance of Scottish art today.
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Clips
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Joan Eardley's Catterline paintings
Duration: 02:55
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The Scottish pioneers of post-war abstract art
Duration: 03:53
Music Played
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Chilly Gonzales
Prelude to a Feud
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Four Tet
Circling
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Hildur GuΓ°nadΓ³ttir
Into Warmer Air
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Evidence
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Django Django
Shake and Tremble
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Nils Frahm
Says
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Jon Hopkins
The Wider Sun
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Jon Hopkins
Vessel
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Richard Hawley
Last Orders
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King Creosote
A Prairie Tale
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Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg
Je t'aime...moi non plus
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Mogwai
Heard About You Last Night
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Portishead
Wandering Star
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Josef K
Fun N Frenzy
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Dustin O’Halloran
An Ending, A Beginning
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Robert Moran
Ten Miles High Over Albania
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Lachlan Goudie |
Series Producer | Matthew Springford |
Series Producer | Pauline Law |
Executive Producer | David Harron |
Producer | Maurice O'Brien |
Director | Maurice O'Brien |
Broadcasts
- Wed 28 Oct 2015 21:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Scotland
- Wed 27 Jan 2016 20:00
- Thu 28 Jan 2016 02:00
- Wed 17 May 2017 01:30
- Tue 18 Sep 2018 01:00
- Wed 25 May 2022 20:00
- Thu 26 May 2022 01:20
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