But Waldemar Januszczak disagrees and in this three-part series he tries to bring Rococo art closer to us, and argues that the Rococo was the age in which the modern world was born. For Jacobson, Duchamp’s work was the death knell for creativity but Januszczak believes that the artist behind the infamous Fountain was the godfather of contemporary art. Arts Documentary hosted by Waldemar Januszczak, published by BBC in 2018 - English narration [] Cover[] InformationA history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak. From Amazon – “Famed British art critic Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of The Impressionists. Howard Jacobson is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. The spirit of a place, they say, is always in the art and in Waldemar Januszczak's fantastic recent series Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art:Made in the USA he makes a very good case for proving that to be particularly true of the art of the United States of America. With Waldemar Januzczak. Jacobson and Januszczak both feel passionately about Duchamp and conceptual art. Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous. That was just one of the unexpected facts in Waldemar Januszczak’s three-part foray into the special nature, as he sees it, of American art: as in his recent work, WJ the presenter doubled as WJ the director.
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak’s Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA was fun, accessible - and stunning. Even after the picture had been re-done-over by the restorer, Diane Modestini, ahead of the 15 November 2017 sale, the Sunday Times’ art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, responded with less tact than Graham-Dixon (“The Miracle of da Vinci: Turning a £45 Oddity into a £341m Old Master”, 19 November 2017): Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 1 : Series looking at American art. The Impressionists – Free With Amazon Prime – 2015 – Another excellent art documentary by Waldemar Januszczak – It’s more entertaining but equally educational to Tim Marlows 1999 with a similar title. General Information . The first episode is set in the Wild West and begins with the sublime art of the Hudson River School, whose 19th-century evocations of the vastness of America did so much to fuel the myth of the promised land.A history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak. English art writer, critic, filmmaker, historian and presenter Waldemar Januszczak has twice won the Critic of the Year award and his television series Impressionists Painting and Revolution produced in 2011 was a delightfully funny series that was exceedingly clever, slightly cocky, completely self-assured and an enlightening commentary about art in the modern era.