S1E8:Brilliant Isles

Art That Made Us

26 May 202259 minTV-MA

In the 1950s and 1960s, the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way to an explosion of new voices from across the British Isles, reinventing the arts and creating a richer, more diverse culture. Young artists rebelled against the old establishment, kicking against the confines of class, sex, nation and race. Soon a new British identity swept the globe.