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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: NR
Origin: GB

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The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 17, 2018
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Nutopia, BBC

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9 hrs

9 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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Liev Schreiber

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SERIES

20181 Season60m episodes6.6

Documentary

TMDB6.6

Votes19

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: NR
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

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Stream

Britbox Apple TV channel

BBC Select Apple Tv channel

Buy

Google Play Movies

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

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E1 · Airs Apr 17, 2018 · 53m · ★ 5.0
Second Moment of Creation
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity itself. Images and artifacts found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and South America testify to the urge to develop civilizations. Liev Schreiber narrates.
E2 · Airs Apr 24, 2018 · 53m · ★ 4.2
How Do We Look?
Explore the many functions of the human image in art. Portraits, paintings and sculptures, both life-size and colossal, perform a role—assuaging loss, expressing strength, inspiring fear—and were instrumental in depicting the human body today.
E3 · Airs May 1, 2018 · 53m · ★ 3.0
God and Art
Trace the relationship between religion and art, which has inspired some of the most ingenious, affecting, majestic and breathtaking works of art ever made. Yet beneath great works of religious art often lie conflict, intrigue and divine mysteries.
E4 · Airs May 8, 2018 · 53m · ★ 3.4
Encounters
See how advances in seafaring and a thirst for trade and exploration sent human beings around the planet. Distant and disparate cultures met for the first time, and art became the great interface by which civilizations understood each other.
E5 · Airs May 15, 2018 · 53m · ★ 3.4
Renaissances
Travel east and west to explore the connections and rivalries between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic empires that experienced their own cultural flowering in the 15th and 16th centuries. Both spheres were open to influences flowing both ways.
E6 · Airs Jun 12, 2018 · 53m · ★ 2.5
Paradise on Earth
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. But landscape painting is seldom a straightforward portrayal of observed nature; it's a projection of dreams, idylls, escapes and refuges—the elusive paradise on earth.
E7 · Airs Jun 19, 2018 · 53m · ★ 2.5
Color and Light
Explore the story of light and color in art—both in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy. Journey from Gothic cathedrals and Indian courtly painting to modern art.
E8 · Airs Jun 26, 2018 · 53m · ★ 2.5
The Cult of Progress
Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology, and see how the “civilizing” project that arose from Enlightenment ideas was fraught with contradictions that troubled European artists in different ways.
E9 · Airs Jul 3, 2018 · 53m · ★ 2.8
What is Art Good For?
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change and consider the question: Should art create a separate realm, a place of escape, or should it plunge into the chaos, transforming the way we see and live in the world?

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Apr 17, 2018
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Nutopia, BBC

Time to finish

9 hrs

9 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Liev Schreiber

Narrator

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