Alastair Sooke
Biography: Born 1981, Alastair Sooke is an English art critic, journalist and broadcaster, most notable for reporting and commenting on art for the British media and writing and presenting documentaries on art and art history for BBC television and radio.
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The World's Most Expensive Paintings
2011-07-10
The World's Most Expensive Paintings
Overview: Art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down the ten most expensive paintings to sell at auction, and investigates the stories behind the astronomic prices art can reach. Gaining access to the glittering world of the super-rich, Sooke discovers why the planet's richest people want to spend their millions on art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-10
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The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
2013-12-21
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
Overview: Art critic Alastair Sooke delves into the murky world of art theft. Despite the high stakes - and often daring - involved, many cases are shrouded in mystery and go unnoticed by the media. Around 47,000 works of art are reported missing each year, yet it is only the heists involving the world's most valuable paintings that hit the headlines. But high-profile or not - once gone, the works are rarely recovered.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-21
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Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
2013-05-10
Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball
Overview: In Pride And Prejudice: Having A Ball, social historian Amanda Vickery leads the action as a team of experts recreate a Regency ball in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s popular novel. Joined by Alastair Sooke and a coterie of professionals – a food historian, a costume expert, music history academics and a choreographer who trains a team of dance students to take to the floor– cameras will follow the recreation inspired by Austen’s Netherfield ball. This intimate country house ball drives the plot of the Pride And Prejudice, and is a key turning point in the romance between Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-10
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BBC One - Modern Masters TV docu-series
2010-05-02
BBC One - Modern Masters TV docu-series
Overview: Journalist Alastair Sooke sets out to discover just how much artists like Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali have influenced our modern lives, and explains why their art is considered so great.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-02
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Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
2015-08-24
Soup Cans and Superstars: How Pop Art Changed the World
Overview: Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fresh eye to the work of pop art superstars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and tracks down pop's pioneers, from American artists like James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Ed Ruscha to British godfathers Peter Blake and Allen Jones. Alastair also explores how pop's fascination with celebrity, advertising and the mass media was part of a global art movement, and he travels to China to discover how a new generation of artists are reinventing pop art's satirical, political edge for the 21st century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-24
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Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
2013-02-25
Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern
Overview: Alastair Sooke takes us on an exclusive personal tour of the Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective at Tate Modern. Offering an in-depth look at one of the year's most talked about exhibitions, Alastair and guests explore the enduring appeal of Lichtenstein's imagery, debate the controversies around his work and his influence on today's generation of artists and tackle the big question - was Lichtenstein a Pop Art genius and one of the defining image-makers of the 20th century, or a one-trick wonder whose big idea was so powerful he could never let it go?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-25
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Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
2016-12-10
Robert Rauschenberg: Pop Art Pioneer
Overview: Rauschenberg was the first artist to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1964, creating a crucial bridge between the abstract expressionists of the 50s and the pop artists who emerged in the 60s. Famous for his 'combines' that elevated the rich junk of life to the status of high art, he continued to work right up to his death in 2008, collaborating with dancers, scientists and social activists on a startlingly broad array of projects.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Constable: A Country Rebel
2014-09-07
Constable: A Country Rebel
Overview: The Haywain by John Constable is such a comfortingly familiar image of rural Britain that it is difficult to believe it was ever regarded as a revolutionary painting, but in this film, made in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the V&A, Alastair Sooke discovers that Constable was painting in a way that was completely new and groundbreaking at the time. Through experimentation and innovation, he managed to make a sublime art from humble things and, though he struggled in his own country during his lifetime, his genius was surprisingly widely admired in France.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-07
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The Perfect Suit
2014-06-10
The Perfect Suit
Overview: Alastair Sooke explores the evolution of the gentleman's suit, which has evolved from working man's Sunday best to the casual wear of royalty over the last 100 years.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-10
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How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale
2012-10-29
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale
Overview: Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-29
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