Civilisation
Kenneth Clark's landmark series tracing the development of civilisation
Civilisation - Heroic Materialism
Kenneth Clark considers the ways in which the heroic materialism of the past hundred years has been linked to an equally remarkable increase in humanitarianism.
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Civilisation - Man - The Measure of all Things
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man.
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Civilisation - Protest and Communication
Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe, and looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus and the printing press and Durer.
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Civilisation - Romance and Reality
Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to Pisa, as he explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.
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Civilisation - The Fallacies of Hope
Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century.
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Civilisation - The Great Thaw
Kenneth Clark presents the landmark arts documentary series first shown in 1969. This programme traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century.
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Civilisation - The Hero as Artist
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at individuals of genius, notably Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci.
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Civilisation - The Light of Experience
Sir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.
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Civilisation - The Pursuit of Happiness
Kenneth Clark reflects on the nature of the 18th-century music, and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of rococo architecture.
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Civilisation - The Skin of Our Teeth
Landmark arts documentary series from 1969. Kenneth Clark Kenneth Clark looks at the re-establishment of civilisation in Western Europe after the fall of Rome.
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Civilisation - The Smile of Reason
Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century.
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Civilisation - The Worship of Nature
Sir Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature.
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