(Civilisation [VHS] series, Part 4)
The Civilisation series is a 13-part tale of the history of Western civilization. Filmed on location in 11 countries and 118 museums in Europe and America, this unique series explores 16 centuries of humankind's most glorious achievements in architecture, art, philosophy, literature, and music. Included on this tape are two episodes:
Program Ten--The Smile of Reason:
The Age of Reason, of Voltaire and his wit and passion for justice, of the creation of encyclopedias, of the salon with its brilliant conversation; an age in which the pursuit of reason led to revolution; an age of the accomplished sculpture of Houdon and the painting of Jacques Louis David; the era which saw the birth of the United States, whose foundation in the principles of the Age of Reason in reflected in the career, both political and architectural, of Thomas Jefferson (51 minutes).
Program Eleven--The Worship of Nature:
The birth of Romanticism with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Goethe, Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the rediscovery of the beauty of natural landscape by John Constable, and the tremendous achievement of Turner, whose work anticipates generations of painters to come, including the impressionists (52 minutes).
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