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-- Power of art.By Schama, Simon Beavan, Clare Hindmarch, Carl Runcie, James Condie, Steven Belton, David Popplewell, Paul Gherpelli, Andrea Wakeling, Aubrey Hyde, Mark Serkis, Andy Cortes, Pep Corduner, Allan British Broadcasting Corporation WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) BBC Video (Firm) 2 Entertain (Firm) BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc Warner Home Video (Firm)[2007], 2/entertain : BBC Video ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Bros. Video Call No: DVD 709 S299p Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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.