Civilisation (1969)

Directed by

Ann Turner, Peter Montagnon, Michael Gill

Genre

documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Art historian Kenneth Clark presents a personal tour through Western art, architecture, and philosophy from the Dark Ages onward. The series shows how visual culture changed over centuries and explains why those changes mattered.

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What happens

Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark is a 1969 British television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Sir Kenneth Clark. Its thirteen episodes outline the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. It was produced by the BBC and aired from February to May 1969 on BBC2. Then, and in later transmissions in Britain, the United States and other countries, it reached an unprecedented number of viewers for an art series. Its production standards were praised and set the pattern for subsequent television documentary series. The New Yorker described it as revelatory for the general viewer. Clark's 1969 book Civilisation: A Personal View, based on the series, has never been out of print, and the BBC's DVD issue of the series in 2005 has remained in the catalogues. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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