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The Brancusi Trial

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The story of the extraordinary trial – told on it’s 75th anniversary - which is to art history what the Lady Chatterley's Lover trial is to literature: Brancusi vs The United States. This was a defining moment in modern art history, when the legal profession literally attempted to answer the elusive question: "what is a work of art"?


Producer: Margaret Renn
Executive Producer: Bruce Hyman


Broadcast:
9th November


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