/** * https://gist.github.com/samthor/64b114e4a4f539915a95b91ffd340acc */ (function() { var check = document.createElement('script'); if (!('noModule' in check) && 'onbeforeload' in check) { var = false; document.addEventListener('beforeload', function(e) { if (e.target === check) { = true; } else if (!e.target.hasAttribute('nomodule') || !) { return; } e.preventDefault(); }, true); check.type = 'module'; check.src = '.'; document.head.appendChild(check); check.remove(); } }());

1977: Fyfe Robertson on Tate Bricks and modern art

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.

Follow BBC Archive

  • Published