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Fruits of the Earth

Thursday 27 March 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)

A series in which four writers contemplate why fertility has been such an important preoccupation for humanity and its art and ideas.

Duration:

15 minutes

Playlist:

4/4. Writer Laura Cumming contemplates the curious nature of fertility today and argues that, despite a wealth of historical allusions to pregnancy, visual art has never fully turned its gaze on the subject.

Part of Radio 3's Rites of Spring season.




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