British Masters 是一部由三部分组成的关于 20 世纪英国艺术的 BBC 电视连续剧，由 James Fox 博士主持，并于 2011 年 7 月在 BBC 第四频道首播。该系列涵盖了从 1910 年到 1975 年的时期。

第一个节目探索了马克·格特勒、劳伦斯·阿尔玛-塔德玛、沃尔特·西克特、温德姆·刘易斯、劳伦斯·阿特金森、大卫·邦伯格、理查德·内文森、保罗·纳什和斯坦利·斯宾塞的生活和作品。第二个节目探索了约翰·纳什、斯坦利·斯宾塞、阿尔弗雷德·芒宁斯、威廉·科尔德斯特雷姆、保罗·纳什和约翰·派珀的作品。在第三个节目中，副标题为“新耶路撒冷”，福克斯探索了第二次世界大战后的英国艺术，并研究了卢西安·弗洛伊德、格雷厄姆·萨瑟兰、弗朗西斯·培根、理查德·汉密尔顿、大卫·霍克尼和基思·沃恩的作品。在该系列的最后一个节目中，福克斯探讨了如何在这些战后艺术家的作品中看到邪恶、野蛮、非人化、消费主义和乐观主义的主题。福克斯在这个节目中辩称，卢西安·弗洛伊德的去世和观念艺术的出现已经使英国具象绘画的传统边缘化、黯然失色并终结。

在每种情况下，都会根据当时的社会和政治事件，特别是两次世界大战、爱德华时代价值观和传统的衰落、贫困和经济动荡，对每位艺术家的背景、技术、主题和兴趣进行分析。 1920 年代和 1930 年代以及两场战争之后的相对乐观情绪。这些节目还反映了个人和国家在持久但难以捉摸的英国价值观、信仰和身份中寻求安全的过程，福克斯将其描述为一个世纪的危机和动荡，其中失去的可能比得到的要多得多。

British Masters is a three-part BBC television series on 20th century British art, presented by Dr James Fox and first broadcast in July 2011 on BBC Four. The series covers the period from 1910 to 1975.

The first programme explored the lives and works of Mark Gertler, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Walter Sickert, Wyndham Lewis, Lawrence Atkinson, David Bomberg, Richard Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer. The second programme explored the works of John Nash, Stanley Spencer, Alfred Munnings, William Coldstream, Paul Nash and John Piper. 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.

In each case, the backgrounds, techniques, subjects and interests of each artist are analysed against a backdrop of the social and political events of their day, especially the two world wars, the decline of Edwardian values and traditions, the poverty and economic turmoil of the 1920s and 1930s and the relative sense of optimism following both wars. 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.