Civilisations. [Episode 4], God and art / written & presented by Mary Beard ; producer, Caroline Buckley ; produced & directed by Matthew Hill ; a BBC Open University partnership.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Beard, Mary, 1955- on-screen presenter.

Hill, Matthew (Producer), director, producer.

Buckley, Caroline (Documentary television producer), producer.

Schreiber, Liev, narrator.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Open University, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious art--History.

Religious art.

Art and religion--History.

Art and religion.

Religion in art--History.

Religion in art.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (54 minutes)

Other Title:

Eye of faith

God and art

Place of Publication:

London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Yet there are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making God or gods visible in the human world. How, and at what cost, do you make the unseen, seen? Beneath all works of religious art there always lies conflict and risk. And the result is often iconoclasm - the destruction of works of art - which Mary believes can, paradoxically, lead on to new forms of creativity.

Participant:

Narrated by Liev Schreiber.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed November 20, 2019).

OCLC:

1130724239