| Description |
3 videodiscs (approximately 513 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + guide (15 pages) |
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digital optical rda |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, 4:3 full screen; Dolby Digital stereo. |
| Performer |
Host, Michael Wood. |
| Credits |
Directed by Geoff Dunlop, Bayley Silleck, Perry Miller Adato, Mick Gold, Eugene Marner, Teri Wehn-Damisch, Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, Ian Potts, and Suzanne Bauman ; film editor, Roderic Cooke ... [et al.] ; cinematographer, Jeremy Stavenhagen ... [et al.]. |
| Note |
Previously broadcast on PBS in 1989. |
| Summary |
Historian Michael Wood leads a nine-part tour through 2,500 years of Western painting, sculpture, and architecture, filmed at over 150 locations in eight countries and featuring commentary by historians and scholars. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The Classical ideal / produced, directed and written by Geoff Dunlop, Bayley Silleck -- A white garment of churches : Romanesque and Gothic art / produced, directed and written by Perry Miller Adato -- The Early Renaissance / produced, directed and written by Mick Gold -- Artist biographies: Kritios and Nesiotes, Gislebertus, Filippo Brunelleschi, Jan van Eyck. -- Michael Wood Biography. |
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Disc 2. The High Renaissance / produced, directed and written by Geoff Dunlop -- Realms of light : the Baroque / produced, written by Eugene Marner, Carole Lucia Satrina ; directed by Eugene Marner -- An age of reason, an age of passion / produced, directed by Teri Wehn-Damisch -- Artists biographies: Leonardo da Vinci, Andrea Palladio, Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David. |
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Disc 3. A fresh view : Impressionism and Post-Impressionism / produced, directed and written by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies -- Into the 20th century / produced, directed by Ian Potts -- In our own time / produced, directed by Suzanne Bauman ; written by Suzanne Bauman, Robert Seidman -- Artists biographies: Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jackson Pollock. |
| Note |
Special features: include artist biographies and Michael Wood biography. |
| Contents |
Viewer's guide booklet: A conversation with Perry Miller Adato (executive producer) ; Chartres Cathedral's stained-glass windows ; The exacting art of the fresco ; The power or the Paris Salon ; The pop-art controversy : art or advertising? ; Missing masterpieces ; Timeline of major movements in Western art. |
| Audience |
Rating: not rated. |
| Terms Of Use |
Public performance rights not included. |
| Language |
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
| Form |
Preview and viewer's guide issued online. |
| Subject |
Art -- History.
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Art -- Europe -- History.
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Genre/Form |
Television programs -- Great Britain.
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Documentary television programs.
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Nonfiction television programs.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Documentary television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710387
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| Subject |
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Nonfiction television programs. (OCoLC)fst01710270
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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| Added Author |
Cash, Tony, producer.
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Snell, Andrew, producer.
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Adato, Perry Miller.
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Wood, Michael, 1948- host.
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Dunlop, Geoff, screenwriter, producer, director.
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Silleck, Bayley, screenwriter, producer, director.
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Gold, Mick, 1947- screenwriter, producer, director.
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Marner, Eugene, screenwriter, producer, director.
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Satrina, Carole Lucia., screenwriter, producer.
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Wehn-Damisch, Teri, producer, director.
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Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa, screenwriter, producer, director.
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Potts, Ian, producer, director.
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Bauman, Suzanne., screenwriter, producer, director.
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Seidman, Robert, screenwriter.
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Annenberg Media.
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WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
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Athena (Firm)
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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| Added Title |
Art of the Western world (Television program)
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| ISBN |
9781598286861 |
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1598286862 |
| Standard No. |
054961868698 |
| Music No. |
AMP-8686 Athena |
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