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- S1 E1 – The Second Moment of Creation17. april 201853minExamine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself. Images and artifacts found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and South America testify to the urge to develop civilizations.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E2 – How Do We Look?24. april 201853minExplore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, life-size and colossal, perform a role - assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear - and were instrumental in depicting the body today.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E3 – God and Art1. maj 201853minTrace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, and breathtaking works of art ever made. Yet beneath great works of religious art often lie conflict, intrigue and divine mysteries.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E4 – Encounters8. maj 201854minSee how seafaring advances and a thirst for trade and exploration sent human beings around the planet. Distant and disparate cultures met for the first time, and art became the great interface by which civilizations understood each other.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E5 – Renaissances15. maj 201853minExplore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E6 – Paradise on Earth12. juni 201853minExplore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward portrayal of observed nature; it's a projection of dreams, idylls, and refuges - the elusive paradise on earth.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E7 – Color and Light19. juni 201853minExplore the story of light and color in art - both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from Gothic cathedrals and Indian courtly painting to modern art.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E8 – The Cult of Progress26. juni 201853minExamine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology, and see how the “civilizing” project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions that troubled European artists in different ways.Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
- S1 E9 – What Is Art Good For?1. juli 201853minExplore the fate of art in the machine and profit-driven world: should art create a realm separate from the modern world, or should it plunge headlong into the chaos while transforming the way we see and live in it?Prøv PBS Documentaries gratis, eller køb
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