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Simon Schama's Power of art [digital videodisc] / a BBC/Thirteen WNET New York co-production ; directors, Clare Beavan ... [et al.] ; written and presented by Simon Schama ; series producer, Clare Beavan.

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[S.l.] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

Art -- History.

Artists -- Biography.

Painting -- History.

Painters -- Biography.

Sculpture -- History.

Sculptors -- Biography.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

3 videodiscs in 1 container (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Disc 1: Caravaggio ; Bernini ; Rembrandt -- Disc 2: David ; Turner ; Van Gogh -- Disc 3: Picasso ; Rothko.

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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