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| Genre/Form: | Television programs Documentary television programs Cultural television programs Biographical television programs Video recordings for the hearing impaired Documentary Art Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Gian Lorenzo Bernini; Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Jacques Louis David; J M W Turner; Vincent van Gogh; Pablo Picasso; Mark Rothko |
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Schama; Clare Beavan; Carl Hindmarch; James Runcie; Steven Condie; David Belton; Paul Popplewell; Andrea Gherpelli; Aubrey Wakeling; Mark Hyde; Andy Serkis; Pep Cortes; Allan Corduner; British Broadcasting Corporation.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); BBC Video (Firm); 2 Entertain (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.; Warner Home Video (Firm) |
| ISBN: | 1419851853 9781419851858 |
| OCLC Number: | 140673236 |
| Language Note: | English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired. |
| Notes: | Originally broadcast on television in 2006. Contains 8 episodes from the television series. "Due to contractual restrictions, certain edits have been made to the originally transmitted programs." Special features: audio commentaries with Simon Schama, Clare Beavan, David Belton & Andy Serkis ; interview with Simon Schama (disc 3). |
| Credits: | Photography, Gary Clarke ... [et al.] ; editor, Gary Dollner ... [et al.] ; music, Peter Salem ... [et al.]. |
| Cast: | Paul Popplewell as Caravaggio, Andrea Gherpelli as Bernini, Aubrey Wakeling as David, Mark Hyde as Turner, Andy Serkis as Van Gogh, Pep Cortes as Picasso, Alan Corduner as Rothko. |
| Performer(s): | Presentor, Simon Schama. |
| Description: | 3 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Details: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) enhanced presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD9, NTSC. |
| 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. |
| Other Titles: | Power of art |
| Responsibility: | a BBC/Thirteen WNET New York co-production ; written and presented by Simon Schama ; series producer, Clare Beavan. |
Abstract:
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 and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time.
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Related Subjects:(14)
- Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, -- 1573-1610.
- Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, -- 1598-1680.
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, -- 1606-1669.
- David, Jacques Louis, -- 1748-1825.
- Turner, J. M. W. -- (Joseph Mallord William), -- 1775-1851.
- Gogh, Vincent van, -- 1853-1890.
- Picasso, Pablo, -- 1881-1973.
- Rothko, Mark, -- 1903-1970.
- Art -- History.
- Artists -- Biography.
- Painting -- History.
- Painters -- Biography.
- Sculpture -- History.
- Sculptors -- Biography.
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