WatchingSimon Schama's Power of Artis like taking an Ivy League course in art ... more
appreciation, with the folksy but knowledgeable Schama as guide and interpreter. A collection of hour-long films on eight seminal artists and their groundbreaking works, whic...
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WatchingSimon Schama's Power of Artis like taking an Ivy League course in art ... more
appreciation, with the folksy but knowledgeable Schama as guide and interpreter. A collection of hour-long films on eight seminal artists and their groundbreaking works, whic...
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Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual ... more
imagination through the ages. A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique, personal style of storytelling transport the vie...
Great art has dreadful manners Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and ... more
explosive exploration of the power and whole point of art. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; vision...
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Explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived ... more
through, capturing the flamboyant theater of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of civil-war Spain. This work traces the evolution of eight world-class works of art.
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Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic ... more
exploration of the power and whole point of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things visions that soothe charm and beguile but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' With the same disarming force "Power of Art" jolts us far from the comfort zone of the hushed art gallery as Schama closes in on intense make-or-break turning points in the lives of eight great artists who under extreme stress created something unprecedented altering the course of art forever. The embattled heroes - Caravaggio Bernini Rembrandt David Turner Van Gogh Picasso and Rothko - each in his own resolute way faced crisis with steadfast defiance. The masterpieces they created challenged convention shattered complacency shifted awareness and changed the way we look at the world.With powerfully vivid story-telling Schama explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through capturing the flamboyant theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris and the carnage and pathos of civil-war Spain. Most compelling of all "Power of Art" traces the extraordinary evolution of eight world-class works of art. Created in a bolt of illumination such works 'tell us something about how the world is how it is to be inside our skins that no more prosaic source of wisdom can deliver. And when they do that they answer irrefutably and majestically the nagging question of every reluctant art-conscript... "OK OK but what's art really for?"
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Join Simon Schama as he journeys back through the ages to the time in which eight of the ... more
most famous works of art were created. Its a story of intrigue, as many of these iconic works were created in turbulent times, with their artists living through the likes of the Spanish Civil War and the upheaval caused during the revolution in Paris.
Advantages: Survey of 300 years of history Disadvantages: Don't expect the Spanish Inquisition
Historian Simon Scharma, CBE, and well known for his television programmes, has produced A History of Britain to accompany his 15 part TV series (or perhaps the series accompanies the book). Volume 3 covers the period from the late eighteenth to the mid twentieth century.
As professor of history and art history at Columbia University, Scharma's previous published works include 'Landscape and Memory', 'Dead Certainties', 'Rembrandt's Eyes', and 'Citizens', the latter a history of the French Revolution. He has a strong and prolific interest in culture and art history, having previously studied and lectured at Christ's College, Cambridge and at Oxford.
This is a comprehensive general history of Britain, covering political and social change, with some reference to Ireland and a long hard look at imperial policy in India - the Union ...
Advantages: The quality of the paintings which are reproduced and the photography are stunning. Disadvantages: Slightly too gruesome.
So far in the two programmes which have been broadcast from the second series of SimonSchama's History of Britain the interest has been kept high with his account of the revolution.
The Civil War and the beheading of Charles Ist was followed by an assessment of Cromwell's contribution to the history of the British Isles. His role in Ireland was dealt with in a most telling manner. The brutality shown to the Cavalier soldiers at Drogheddon, after most of them had surrendered was graphically conveyed. The photography is gruesome but it emphasises the sufferings of people from the past.
The Restoration of Charles IInd brought light relief for a few minutes as the fun and frolic was described.
If you saw this programme and were interested in this period there is a little essay by David Cressy whhich decribes all the festivals ...
Advantages: A definite classic from the 1960s Disadvantages: Disadvantages? Are you crazy !
THE DEFINITIVE SIMON & GARFUNKEL - CD - £14.99 new, but you can purchase used versions on amazon and other internet sites for as little as £3.49
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are pure musicians who have left an everlasting mark on popular music. The album of 20 songs, carefullly selected by Art for this compilation completey epitomise what the duo were all about ... acoustic harmonies, soulful and haunting lyrics ... not what you would term as typical rock and roll, in an era dominated by such music. In fact, a more apt desription of their music would be "folk", which is where the duo's early influences lay, particularly from Bob Dylan and the Everley Brothers.
The album sleeve is simple with a picture of the duo whilst recording, with the inner sleeve providing three pages of text, detailing some very interesting facts, such as ...
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Product details
Genre
Special Interest - Antiques & Fine Art
Classification
12 years and over
Running Time
8 hours
Video Category
Television
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DVD
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2 ENTERTAIN VIDEO; SONY DADC
Release date
13/11/2006
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
BBCDVD 1887
Barcode
5014503188726
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Simon Schama
Languages
Main Language
English
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Join Simon Schama as he journeys back through the ages to the time in which eight of the most famous works of art were created. It’s a story of intrigue, as many of these iconic works were created in turbulent times, with their artists living through the likes of the Spanish Civil War and the upheaval caused during the revolution in Paris.
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