Civilizations (2018)

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  • PBS
  • Documentary History

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The Second Moment of Creation
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The first film in the series looks at the role that art and creative imagination has played in the forging of humanity itself. We attempt to define what civilization is – by identifying .. show full overview
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How Do We Look?
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This episode explores images of the human body in ancient art. We travel from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China, finishing in modern day New York, asking why human beings have always .. show full overview
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God and Art
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This episode broaches the controversial and divisive topic of religion and art, from antiquity to the present day. We travel the world’s temples, churches, mosques and ancient and .. show full overview
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Encounters
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In the late 1400s, technological advances in seafaring and a thirst for trade conspired to send human beings around the planet further and faster than they'd ever been before. The result .. show full overview
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Renaissances
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In many European minds, the word Renaissance evokes ideas about the radical transformation in thought and art that took place in Italy starting in the 1400s. But in the 15th and 16th .. show full overview
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Paradise on Earth
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This episode explores how cultures have depicted the natural world in landscape painting throughout history. We investigate the way that landscape painting is created as a response to .. show full overview
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Color and Light
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In this episode we explore the roles that color and light have played in the formation of art throughout history. We explore the background of the European use of color and the .. show full overview
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The Cult of Progress
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This episode is about the "Progress" as an ideology, and how the "civilizing" project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions. During a time when many .. show full overview
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What is Art Good For?
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The last episode in the series explores the fate of art in the machine and profit-driven world and asks: should art create a realm separate from the modern world, or should it plunge .. show full overview

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