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Dr James Fox

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James is an award-winning arts broadcaster, with over ten years of experience making television, radio and online content. He has written and presented numerous multi-part documentaries for BBC2, BBC4, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, and CNN.

Projects include the BAFTA-nominated British Masters (2011), RTS-nominated A History of Art in Three Colours (2012), Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature (2016), The Art of Japanese Life (2017), The Age of the Image (2020), and the multi-award-winning animated series Colorscope (2017), for CNN.

He has made short films for the British Museum, Tate, Royal Academy, Imperial War Museum, Christie's, the Art Fund, 14-18NOW, Landmark Trust, HENI Talks, Loewe, and the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park.

He has made frequent guest appearances on BBC Radio 4, Newsnight and The Review Show, and as an expert talking head on dozens of other programmes.

Watch some examples of his work below.

Broadcasting: Text

BBC The Art of Japanese Life Episode 1 Nature

BBC The Art of Japanese Life Episode 1 Nature

Age of the Image 1 - A New Reality (2020)

Age of the Image 1 - A New Reality (2020)

Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on modern art to our ability to peer inside the body and freeze time itself, the first episode is a dizzying journey of visual invention, which makes fascinating connections between the work of artists, film-makers, photographers and scientists. Revealing Salvador Dali’s debt to Einstein, the groundbreaking trickery of Buster Keaton and shockingly modern fakery of WWI photos, James Fox offers an endlessly surprising, eye-opening look at the beginnings of our image-saturated age. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fzm9

Exploring the mysteries of blue with Dr. James Fox

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Exploring the mysteries of blue with Dr. James Fox

The first episode of our series Color Scope examines why blue eyes aren't really blue and other color curiosities.

7 Forest, Field _ Sky_ Art out of Nature BBC Documentary 2016

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7 Forest, Field _ Sky_ Art out of Nature BBC Documentary 2016

BBC A History of Art in Three Colours E 1: Gold

BBC A History of Art in Three Colours E 1: Gold

BBC A History of Art in Three Colours E 1: Gold

Age of the Image 3 - Seductive Dreams (2020)

Age of the Image 3 - Seductive Dreams (2020)

James Fox tells the story of how, in the second half of the 20th century, artists, advertisers and film-makers used the power of images to sell us dreams. From the influence of Kodak on our family photos to psychologists persuading us what to buy, he explores how images seduced us with fantasies of a better life. It’s a journey that takes us from the early days of the Marlboro Man to the radical feminist art of Judy Chicago and the reaction to male-dominated visual culture. Along the way, he celebrates Fellini’s mastery of cinematic fantasy, David Hockney’s subversive visions of male desire and Madonna’s groundbreaking music videos. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gg2h

Broadcasting: Video

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