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Power of art / a BBC/Thirteen WNET New York co-production ; directors, Clare Beavan ... [and others] ; written and presented by Simon Schama ; series producer, Clare Beavan.
LIBRA DVD N5300 .S32 2007 discs 1-3 (in 1 container)
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Schama, Simon, author, commentator, host, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--History.
- Art.
- History.
- Artists--Biography.
- Artists.
- Painting--History.
- Painting.
- Painters--Biography.
- Painters.
- Sculpture--History.
- Sculpture.
- Sculptors--Biography.
- Sculptors.
- Genre:
- Cultural television programs.
- Television mini-series.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]
- Language Note:
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD9, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: Caravaggio ; Bernini ; Rembrandt
- Disc 2: David ; Turner ; Van Gogh
- Disc 3: Picasso ; Rothko.
- Participant:
- Featuring Andy Serkis as Van Gogh; Paul Popplewell as Caravaggio; Alan Corduner as Rothko.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally broadcast on television in 2006.
- Contains 8 episodes from the television series.
- Companion book of the same title published.
- "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.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1419851853
- 9781419851858
- OCLC:
- 140673236
- Publisher Number:
- 794051299628
- E2996 BBC Video
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