British Masters (TV series)

In the third programme, subtitled 'A New Jerusalem,' Fox explored British art in the aftermath of the 2nd World War, and examined the works of Lucian Freud, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Keith Vaughan.

In this final programme of the series Fox explored how the themes of evil, brutality, dehumanisation, consumerism and optimism can be seen in the works of these postwar artists.

Fox contends in this programme that the death of Lucian Freud and the emergence of conceptual art have marginalised, eclipsed and brought to an end the tradition of British figurative painting.

The programmes also reflect a personal and national search for security in enduring but elusive British values, beliefs and identity in what Fox depicts as a century of crisis and upheaval, in which much more had perhaps been lost than gained.

Fox's provocative approach seems to have divided the critics: The Times called the series "superb television;"[2] and The Observer called it "absurdly lucid,"[3] but one critic criticised the series for its "grandiose, inflammatory statements,"[4] while Fisun Güner described Fox's revisionist case as "ludicrous.