Simon Schamas Power of Art – Simon Schama

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Summary

• Archive: Simon Schama's Power of Art (DVD)Beautiful.

• Art is all of the above.

• These are the works that not only lift you off your feet in their sheer artistry, they forever alter the human psyche.

• Focusing on eight iconic works of art, Power of Art reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages, from the murderous world of baroque Rome to paranoid, revolutionary Paris; from the carnage of civil-war Spain to the paradox of 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter.

• A combination of dramatic reconstruction, spectacular photography and Simon Schama's unique, personal style of storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments that great works were conceived and born.