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What do art movement names tell us?
Michael Rosen, linguist Dr Laura Wright and art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon take a tour through the naming of art movements such as Surrealism and Impressionism. How did they get their names and what does that tell us? Which terms have subsequently entered our everyday language?
First broadcast on Word of Mouth, 17 May 2016.
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