The Reith LecturesNikolaus Pevsner - The Englishness of English ArtEpisodes Episode guide

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1. Architecture and Planning: The Functional Approach

   7/7Nikolaus Pevsner explores how England's town centres have traditionally been planned.
2. Constable and the Pursuit of Nature

   6/7Nikolaus Pevsner examines the flowering of English landscape painting in the 18th century.
3. Blake and the Planing Line

   5/7Nikolaus Pevsner places the artist William Blake in the context of an English tradition.
4. Perpendicular England

   4/7Nikolaus Pevsner examines 'the most English creation in architecture'.
5. Reynolds and Detachment

   3/7Nikolaus Pevsner examines the contradiction at the heart of Sir Joshua Reynolds' work.
6. Hogarth and Observed Life

   2/7Nikolaus Pevsner considers the 'Englishness' of the artist William Hogarth.
7. The Geography of Art

   1/7Nikolaus Pevsner explores the English national character as expressed in terms of art.