Sex and Sensibility: The Allure of Art Nouveau, 9pm, BBC4
“Stephen Smith continues his history of art nouveau, looking at how the movement came to, and developed in, Britain. He traces how newly imported Japanese art works – all sensual and exoztic to Victorian eyes – influenced the young Aubrey Beardsley, whose resulting drawings shocked society. William Morris’s historicised arts and crafts vision was more palatable and, of course, there’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the poster boy of British art nouveau. But Smith also looks at lesser-known artists, including Mackintosh’s wife, Margaret McDonald, and Mary Watts.” (Martin Skegg in The Guardian, 28 March 2012)
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