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Simon Schama's Power of art /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: E2996 | BBC VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Publisher: [London] : BBC Video : 2/entertain, ©2007Distributor: Burbank, Calif. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Bros. Video. Copyright date: ©2007Description: 3 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1419851853
  • 9781419851858
Other title:
  • Power of art
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709 22
LOC classification:
  • N5300 .S56 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
disc 1: Caravaggio / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch ; Bernini / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Rembrandt / produced & directed by James Runcie, Clare Beavan -- disc 2: David / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Turner / produced & directed by Steven Condie ; Van Gogh / produced & directed by David Belton -- disc 3: Picasso / produced & directed by Steven Condie; Rothko / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch.
Production credits:
  • Photography, Gary Clarke [and others] ; editor, Gary Dollner [and others] ; music, Peter Salem [and others].
Presentor, Simon Schama.Cast: Paul Popplewell as Caravaggio, Andrea Gherpelli as Bernini, Aubrey Wakeling as David, Mark Hyde as Turner, Andy Serkis as Van Gogh, Pep Cortes as Picasso, Alan Corduner as Rothko.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.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02139 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050183139

Originally broadcast on television in 2006.

Contains 8 episodes from the television series.

"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 (disc 3).

disc 1: Caravaggio / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch ; Bernini / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Rembrandt / produced & directed by James Runcie, Clare Beavan -- disc 2: David / produced & directed by Clare Beavan ; Turner / produced & directed by Steven Condie ; Van Gogh / produced & directed by David Belton -- disc 3: Picasso / produced & directed by Steven Condie; Rothko / produced & directed by Carl Hindmarch.

"Major funding for the PBS broadcast of this series is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Dorothy and Lewis Cullman; the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation; Judith B. Resnick; Rosalind P. Walter; Ralph W. Voorhees, in memory of Barbara B. Voorhees; the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, and PBS."

DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) enhanced presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD9, NTSC.

English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.

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