Civilisation 1969
Sir Kenneth Clark guides us through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilisation in western man. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider civilisation's articulations and expressions in some of man's finest works of art.
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S1·E1 The Skin of Our TeethIn this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his…
S1·E2 The Great ThawIn the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces it from its first manifestations in the Abbey of…
S1·E3 Romance and RealityBeginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and…
S1·E4 Man: The Measure of all ThingsVisiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and…
S1·E5 The Hero as ArtistHere Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the…
S1·E6 Protest and CommunicationHere Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of the humanitarians Erasmus, Montaigne, and…
S1·E7 Grandeur and ObedienceAgain in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the Counter-Reformation and the Church's new…
S1·E8 The Light of ExperienceHere Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in the Dutch paintings which took the…
S1·E9 The Pursuit of HappinessHere Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the reflection of these in the Rococo churches and…
S1·E10 The Smile of ReasonHere Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent…
S1·E11 The Worship of NatureBelief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement.…
S1·E12 The Fallacies of HopeHere Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of…
S1·E13 Heroic MaterialismClark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century…Cast
Crew
- Creator
- Kenneth Clark
- Writers
- Kenneth Clark
- Producers
- Peter Montagnon, Michael Gill
- Cinematography
- A.A. Englander
- Editing
- Allan Tyrer
- Composer
- Edwin Astley
Details
- First air date
- Feb 23, 1969
- Last air date
- May 18, 1969
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode runtime
- 50 min
- Network
- BBC Two
- Status
- Ended
- Studios
- BBC
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
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