• 1989
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Episode list

Art of the Western World
Painting the Modern World
Sat, Feb 17, 1990
  • S1.E13
  • Painting the Modern World
This episode examines the very beginnings of modern art, in those painters who rejected the academic conventions of Salon art and instead sought to engage directly with the world around them.
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The Passionate Eye
Sat, Feb 10, 1990
  • S1.E12
  • The Passionate Eye
Napoleon's charisma and promise, and the changes he wrought, had an enormous impact on French artistic life. This episode includes the French Revolution and its aftermath, and Napoleon's rise and fall from power.
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The Age of Reason
Sat, Feb 03, 1990
  • S1.E11
  • The Age of Reason
This episode examines the Neo-Classical revival which occurred in 18th-century France and England.
0 /10
The Legacy of Greece

S1.E1 ∙ The Legacy of Greece

Sat, Oct 14, 1989
This episode looks closely at Greek sculpture, architecture, and art, and at the society that produced them. This seminal episode presages the effects that Greek art, style, and culture had on all Western civilizations that came afterwards.
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Imperial Stone: The Art of Rome

S1.E2 ∙ Imperial Stone: The Art of Rome

Sat, Oct 21, 1989
Ancient Roman architecture, sculpture, art, and engineering and their roots and influences from Greece. The Roman Empire as expressed in its great public monuments. Roman art, like that of Greece, is the cornerstone of all Western art.
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The Age of Gothic

S1.E4 ∙ The Age of Gothic

Sat, Nov 04, 1989
This episode explores and celebrates the origins, development, innovations, and glory of Gothic cathedrals, including one of its highest achievements, the cathedral of Chartres.
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The Northern Renaissance

S1.E6 ∙ The Northern Renaissance

Sat, Nov 18, 1989
This episode explores the 15th-century Renaissance in Northern Europe, where artists like Van Eyck and Durer produced uniquely realistic effects.
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Heroic Ambitions

S1.E7 ∙ Heroic Ambitions

Sat, Nov 25, 1989
This episode focuses on the supreme achievements of the masters of the High Renaissance in Italy: Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
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The Play of Light

S1.E8 ∙ The Play of Light

Sat, Dec 02, 1989
16th-century Venice sought to present itself as the ideal city-state, and was infused with poetry and spectacle. Venetian art and architecture mirrored this and proclaimed it to the world.
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Birth of the Baroque

S1.E9 ∙ Birth of the Baroque

Sat, Dec 09, 1989
This episode looks at the exuberant Baroque style of early 17th-century Rome, in the works of artists such as Cortona, Caravaggio, and Bernini.
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Masters of the Baroque

S1.E10 ∙ Masters of the Baroque

Sat, Dec 16, 1989
This episode explores the art and societies of 17th-century Catholic Spain, the Spanish Netherlands, France, and the Protestant Dutch Republic. Artists examined include Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velasquez.
0 /10
The Age of Reason

S1.E11 ∙ The Age of Reason

Sat, Feb 03, 1990
This episode examines the Neo-Classical revival which occurred in 18th-century France and England.
0 /10
The Passionate Eye

S1.E12 ∙ The Passionate Eye

Sat, Feb 10, 1990
Napoleon's charisma and promise, and the changes he wrought, had an enormous impact on French artistic life. This episode includes the French Revolution and its aftermath, and Napoleon's rise and fall from power.
0 /10
Painting the Modern World

S1.E13 ∙ Painting the Modern World

Sat, Feb 17, 1990
This episode examines the very beginnings of modern art, in those painters who rejected the academic conventions of Salon art and instead sought to engage directly with the world around them.
0 /10
Distanced Creations

S1.E14 ∙ Distanced Creations

Sat, Mar 03, 1990
This episode focuses on the post-impressionists -- Gaugin, Seurat, Van Gogh, Cezanne, etc. -- who were part of the competitive avant-garde in France in the 1880s and 1890s.
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Between Genius and the Abyss

S1.E15 ∙ Between Genius and the Abyss

Sat, Mar 10, 1990
This episode examines the works of the rebellious "Viennese Secession" artists and architects, headed by Gustav Klimt, beginning in the late 1890s.
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Between Utopia and Crisis

S1.E16 ∙ Between Utopia and Crisis

Sat, Mar 17, 1990
This episode examines art in the years between WWI and WWII, and the close link between art and politics during that time. The styles examined include Dada, Art Deco, and Surrealism.
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The Aftermath

S1.E17 ∙ The Aftermath

Sat, Mar 24, 1990
The aftermath of World War Two caused artists to turn away from the public and political domain and instead explore their inner, subjective world. Jackson Pollock and other artists chose abstract expressionism.
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New, Newer, Newest

S1.E18 ∙ New, Newer, Newest

Sat, Mar 31, 1990
This concluding episode examines the great diversity of art in 1970s and 1980s, including its diversification, decentralization, internationalism, and quest for meaning and direction.
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