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TV : Documentary : HD 1080p / 1080i : English
Civilisations (BBC)

Arts, History Documentary hosted by David Olusoga and Mary Beard
and Simon Schama, published by BBC in 2018 - English narration

 

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A series which explores thousands of years of visual culture.


1) Second Moment of Creation 
Simon Schama looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination
have played in the forging of humanity itself.
The film opens with Simon's passionate endorsement of the
creative spirit in humanity and the way in which art can help to forge the civilised life. Civilisation may be
impossible to define, but its opposite - evidenced throughout history in the human urge to destroy - is all too evident
whenever and wherever it erupts. Simon Schama explores the remote origins of human creativity with the first known marks
made some 80,000 years ago in South African caves - marks which were not dictated merely by humanity's physical
needs. He marvels at the later cave works - shapes of hands, in red stencils on the walls of caves, and at the paintings
of bison and bulls, and Stone Age carvings.
As time passes, the elements of civilisation are assembled - written
language, codes of law, and expressions of warrior power forged in metals. And humanity begins to produce art not just
for ritual, as Simon discovers in Minoan civilisation. But how do such cultures arise and how do they fall? Simon
travels to the civilisations of Petra in the Middle East and the Maya in Central America to explore those questions. He
finds that ultimately civilisations depend on humanity's relationship with the environment for their survival, and
while all believe in their own continuity, all are doomed to fall.

2) How Do We Look 
Mary Beard
explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to
fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilisations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves?
What were these images for? And in what ways do some ancient conventions of representing the body still affect us now?
In raising these questions, Mary explores how the way we look can influence our ideas of what is civilised.
The
colossal prehistoric Olmec heads in Mexico set the scene. In a culture with no written record, all we can do is puzzle
about what these images were for, whom they represented, and why they were constructed. Mary Beard moves to other
ancient cultures where more evidence has survived. She looks at images that are far more than art objects - images from
Egyptian statues to the terracotta warriors of ancient China that actively participate in the social world, that teach
men and women how to behave, that assert power and assuage loss. Mary explores what makes a 'realistic' image
of the human form. She looks at the 'Greek Revolution', the extraordinary process in the sixth and fifth
centuries BCE, which saw the sculpture of the human body dramatically change from a series of static formulaic images to
what we now take as living naturalism. Mary shows that Greek ideas of the human form influence the way we look to this
day.

3) Picturing Paradise 
Simon Schama explores one of our deepest artistic urges - the
depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward
description of observed nature - rather it is a projection of dreams and idylls, as well as
of escapes and refuges from human turmoil, the elusive paradise on earth.
Simon begins in the 10th century, in Song
dynasty China. The Song's scrolls are never innocent of the values of that world - the landscapes depict immense
mountains projecting imperial authority. But as that authority was threatened and overwhelmed, majestic mountains are
represented in geological turmoil, writhing and heaving. Imagined paradises in Islamic and western art are often
responses to loss and absence. But paradise could be recovered in the country villas of the Renaissance.
Simon goes
to the beautiful Palladian house of Daniele Barbaro in the Veneto, with murals painted by Paolo Veronese to contemplate
the world of the cultivated country gentleman. It was in the cooler climate of northern Europe that landscape came into
its own as a distinctive type of art. Simon explores the works of the northern Renaissance in Germany and the
Netherlands, where emerging states sought expression of identity through depiction of their natural worlds. Simon ends
in America, where the landscapes of America are as expansive as the landscapes of Holland were confined, but there too,
in the numinous photography of Ansel Adams, a kind of earthly paradise is revealed and a sense of nationhood is
expressed in the natural world.

4) The Eye of Faith 
Mary Beard broaches the controversial,
sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has
inspired art. Yet there are fundamental problems, which all religions share, in making the divine visible in the human
world. How, and at what cost, do you make the unseen seen? Beneath all works of religious art there always lies conflict
and risk. The result is often iconoclasm - the destruction of works of art - which Mary believes can lead on to new
forms of creativity.
Mary visits sacred sites across the world to examine the contested boundaries between religion
and art. She goes to the temple of Angkor Wat, the Tintoretto Crucifixion in Venice, the Buddhist caves of Ajanta and
the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, as she seeks to break down the conventions that centre some religions around images, while
others are seen as hostile to artistic representation. She shows how all faiths (and their artists) face the same
fundamental problems of treading a careful line between glorifying gods in images and blaspheming by daring to represent
the divine.
She ends at the Parthenon in Athens, a building that has been in turn a pagan temple, a Christian
church and a mosque. Now, as a monument to Western civilisation itself and a tourist pilgrimage site, she asks us to
wonder what we now worship - how far we look at civilisation itself with 'the eye of faith'.

5)
The Triumph of Art 
Think Renaissance and you think of Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries, the great
Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. The two phenomena did not unfold in separate
artistic universes - they were acutely conscious of, and in competition with, each other and mutually open to influences
flowing both ways. The fifth film in Civilisations goes east and west with Simon Schama - to Papal Rome, but also to
Ottoman Istanbul and Mughal Lahore and Agra, exploring those connections and rivalries, and examining how the role of
artists from the different traditions of west and east developed in the years that followed the Renaissances.
That
rivalry unfolds most spectacularly over the creation of domes - in Ottoman Istanbul the great engineer-architect Mimar
Sinan builds the light-flooded Suleymaniye Mosque, while at the same time in Rome, Michelangelo designed the great dome
over the St Peter's Basilica. The fate of the hero-artist, seemingly touched by God, with the gift of making visual
miracles, henceforth diverged in the east and west. In Europe, as the century turned, artists such as Benvenuto Cellini,
with his sculpture of Perseus with the Head of Medusa, could lay claim to sovereignty over the world of art. The
greatest European artists like Caravaggio, Velasquez and Rembrandt shook off decorum and turned muscular, earthy and
theatrical.
Meanwhile in the east, Mughal art, still capable of acts of breathtaking architectural and painterly
beauty, as expressed in mausoleums like the I'timad-ud-Daulah and gorgeous miniature paintings, became ever more
refined, poetic and exquisite.

6) First Contact 
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and
disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. And, as
historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art was always on the frontline. Each cultural contact at this time left a mark
on both sides: the magnificent Benin bronzes record the meeting of an ancient West African kingdom and Portuguese
voyagers in a spirit of mutual respect and exchange. By contrast we think Spain's conquest of Central America in
the 16th century as decimating the Aztecs and eviscerating their culture. But David shows even in Mexico rare surviving
Aztec artworks recall a more nuanced story. He travels to Japan to explore how the Tokugawa Shogunate, after an initial
embrace, became so wary of outside interference that they sought to cut ties with the outside world. But in their art,
as in their trade, they could never truly isolate themselves from foreign influences.
By contrast the Protestant
Dutch Republic was itself an entirely new kind of creature: a market driven nation-state. It was a system that created
new freedoms and opportunities as embodied in the world-infused art of Johannes Vermeer, or the watercolours of the
naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian. David ends with the transitional story of the British in India: at
first the British were as open to foreign influence as the Dutch. But by the 1800s they became more aggressive and the
era of encounters gave way to the era of muscular empire, that was dismissive of India's arts and cultures.

7) Radiance 
Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic
cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice where masterpieces such as Giovanni
Bellini's San Zaccaria altarpiece and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne contested the assumption that drawing would
always be superior to colouring. As the Baroque took hold in enlightenment Europe another Venetian, Giambattista
Tiepolo, created a ceiling fresco Apollo and the Four Continents at the Bishop's palace in Würzburg.
In a
glorious sequence Simon celebrates this grand opera of light, colour, and dancing line: a dizzying lift-off into 18th
century elation. But if light could open the gates of ecstasy it could also drop art into the abyss. Francisco Goya
began by working in the Venetian tradition but in the last years of his life his Black Paintings drained colour from the
world of light. The art of colour discovered a new mission which somehow sustained the old: how to make life in cities
bearable, even beautiful. Simon travels to Japan to where in the 18th and 19th century an urban explosion generated a
demand for cheap, mass produced woodblock prints suffused with dazzling colour. These prints by artists such as Hokusai
were hugely influential on the impressionists and post impressionists.
Simon ends the film in Matisse's great
chapel at Vence, where colour is used - against a backdrop of the Second World War - once more to enrapture, enlighten
and as a path to God.

8) The Cult of Progress 
David Olusoga explores the artistic reaction to
imperialism in the 19th century. David shows the growing ambivalence with which artists reacted to the idea of progress
- both intellectual and scientific - that underpinned the imperial mission and followed the Enlightenment and the
Industrial Revolution. Advances in knowledge and technology imbued Europeans in the 19th century with a sense of their
civilisation's superiority. It justified their imperial ideology. But it created among artists a deep fascinations
with other civilisations which in turn produced a scepticism about their own. By contrast, as European artists
questioned their civilisation's 'advance', in America painters sought to capture an idea of their new
nation's 'manifest destiny' in landscapes. And in their representation of the Native Americans they
sought to record for posterity the world and the cultures they were violently displacing. But this was not always the
case.
David shows how in New Zealand one artist was co-opted by the Maori who used his sills to record their
culture and celebrate their ancestors. As the 19th Century came to an end, the certainties of industrial and scientific
advance were increasingly questioned; many artists (Gauguin and Picasso amongst them) turned to non-Western art and
culture for inspiration. And in the face of the catastrophic conflict of the First World War, the idea that progress,
reason and industrial advance were guarantors of higher 'civilisation' was rejected.
David ends the film
with a powerful meditation on Otto Dix's nightmarish and ironic evocation of the horror of the trenches, the
triptych Der Krieg (The War).

9) The Vital Spark 
Simon Schama begins Civilisations with this
premise: that it is in art - the play of the creative imagination - that humanity expresses its most essential self: the
power to break the tyranny of the humdrum, the grind of everyday. Art, then, makes life worth living; it is the great
window into human potential. And societies become civilised to the extent that they take culture as seriously as the
prosecution of power, or the accumulation of wealth. But in the century of total war and industrial slaughter was (and
is) that enough? The cause of humanity went up in the smoke of the Nazi crematoria. Horror and terror brushed beauty
aside and stamped on its pretensions. And in the modern world art has become increasingly commodified.
Simon's
last programme explores the fate of art in the machine and profit-driven world. It looks at the rise of art as a
tradeable commodity and turns on one central question: should art create a realm separate from the modern world, a place
where we can escape and pull the ladder up after us? Or should it plunge headlong into the chaos and cacophony while
transforming the way we see it and live in it? Using the works of both dead and contemporary artists of the 20th and
21st Simon seeks answers to these profound questions.
His conclusion is imbued with hope: despite all the travails
of the present, by engaging with the here-and-now art still offers civilisation an insight into the incomprehensibility
of the world and a way to transcend its horrors with the enduring creativity of the human spirit.

10)
Civilisations On Your Doorstep 
In this special accompanying programme to Civilisations, Mary Beard goes in
search of extraordinary works of art from all over the world that can be seen here in Britain, from Roman marbles and
Egyptian mummies to Renaissance masterpieces and African sculptures.

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 * Run-Time: 59 mins
 * Number of Parts: 10

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1) Further Information 
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[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05xxp5j BBC]

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* The Ancient Worlds
 * The High Art of the Low Countries (BBC)
 * Civilisation under
Attack
 * Sir Kenneth Clark: Portrait of a Civilised Man

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