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1977: Fyfe Robertson on Tate Bricks and modern art

Name: Fyfe Robertson calls Tate Gallery Bricks phoney art, or PHART
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: The veteran reporter calls the Tate Bricks phoney art, or 'PHART'

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Minimal sculptor Carl Andre's 1966 work Equivalent VIII, known as The Bricks, was at the centre of a media outcry 10 years later over the use of taxpayers' money.

The Tate Gallery had acquired the 120 firebricks in 1972, at a cost of $6,000.

Veteran BBC reporter Fyfe Robertson was not too impressed by this type of modern art.

"They're phoney art - you can condense these two words into one, which is the proper flavour of contemptuous derision: PHART," he said.

This episode of Robbie was first broadcast on 15 August 1977.

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