(Civilisation [VHS] series, Part 5)
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 Twelve--The Fallacies of Hope:
The Age of Reason gives way to the age of revolution, of violence and anarchy, succeeded in turn by the Napoleonic Empire; both the hopes and the despair were expressed in the music of Beethoven and the painting of Goya, first and greatest of the artists committed to be mankind's conscience; the paintings of protest by Gericault and Delacroix, given force by the feelings let loose by Romanticism; Daumier and his compassion for man and Rodin as the last great Romantic artist who gave final expression to Romantic man's tragic destiny (52 minutes).
Program Thirteen--Heroic Materialism:
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 (53 minutes).
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