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Heroic Materialism
- 1970 ----- color ----- 53 min ----- 16mm
- (Civilisation series, Part 13) Presents the Industrial Revolution and the suffering of the poor; the heroic achievements of technology and engineering and the increasing dehumanization of man; the realism of Courbet with his paintings of peasants, and the deeply committed art of Van Gogh. The rise of science creates a new and frightening age and raises the question of the future of man.
[ Note: this title is now available on video--look for it under the title Civilisation, Programs 12 & 13 ]- Topics: (Art: History, Civil Engineering, Engineering)
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