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Simon Schama's Power of art

Simon Schama's Power of art

DVD 2007

Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses a...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Art History
Art criticism
Artists Biography
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610
David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825
Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
Painters Biography
Painting History
Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970
Sculptors Biography
Sculpture History
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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ISBN:
9781419851858
1419851853
Description:
3 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
video file
DVD video
Other Title:
Power of art [DVD]
Simon Schama's power of art (Television program)
Notes:
Originally broadcast on television in 2006
Photography, Gary Clarke ... [et al.] ; editor, Gary Dollner ... [et al.] ; music, Peter Salem ... [et al.]
Presentor: Simon Schama
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
Contents:
Disc 1: Caravaggio / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch ; Bernini / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Rembrandt / produced & directed by James Runcie, Clare Beavan
Disc 2: David / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Turner / produced & directed by Steven Condie ; Van Gogh / produced & directed by David Belton
Disc 3: Picasso / produced & directed by Steven Condie; Rothko / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch
Control Number:
532538
Other Authors:
Schama, Simon
Schama, Simon, screenwriter, host
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