'Picturesque Irony: Brideshead Revisited as an Artist Programme'

Broughton, Mark (2010) 'Picturesque Irony: Brideshead Revisited as an Artist Programme'. In: Arts on TV, 2010-06-04, Birkbeck College, University of London.

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Shot entirely on film and on location, Brideshead Revisited deploys a constellation of artworks to chart the story of a painter, Charles Ryder. At the centre of the programme’s aesthetic geography is Brideshead Castle (Castle Howard). The estate’s picturesque landscape garden is deployed to place an ironic distance between Ryder and the programme’s discourse. This paper will analyse the way in which the gardens at Brideshead and the landscapes painted by Ryder mark his transformation from a naïf to an arriviste narrator sick with nostalgia. In doing so, it will consider Brideshead Revisited as an artist programme.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional information	Mark Broughton, ‘Picturesque Irony: Brideshead Revisited as an Artist Programme', paper presented at Arts on TV, London, UK, 4 June 2010.
Keywords	brideshead revisited, artist programme, arts documentary, künstlerroman, kenneth clark, british television, ken russell, location, architecture, landscape gardens, country estates
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 17:02
Last Modified	05 Feb 2026 00:17