Civilisation S01E12 · The Fallacies of Hope

Overview

Here Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romanticism artists is traced from Beethoven's, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

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1. 1 1. The Skin of Our Teeth1969-02-23 · 50mIn this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Da
2. 2 2. The Great Thaw1969-03-02 · 50mIn the second episode Clark tells of the sudden reawakening of European civilisation in the twelfth century . He traces it from its first manifestations in the Abbey of Cluny to it
3. 3 3. Romance and Reality1969-03-09 · 50mBeginning at a castle in the Loire, then travelling through the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to the cathedral baptistry at Pisa as he examines both the aspirations and achievements
4. 4 4. Man: The Measure of all Things1969-03-16 · 50mVisiting Florence, where, Clark argues, European thought gained a new impetus from its rediscovery of its classical past. He also visits the palaces at Urbino and Mantua, other cen
5. 5 5. The Hero as Artist1969-03-23 · 50mHere Clark takes us back to 16th century Papal Rome noting the convergence of Christianity and antiquity. He discusses Michelangelo, Raphael, and da Vinci, the courtyards of the Va
6. 6 6. Protest and Communication1969-03-30 · 50mHere Clark takes us back to the Reformation. That is to the Germany of Albrecht Duerer and Martin Luther, the world of the humanitarians Erasmus, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.
7. 7 7. Grandeur and Obedience1969-04-06 · 50mAgain in Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini, Clark tells of the Catholic Church's fight against the Protestant north, the Counter-Reformation and the Church's new splendour symbolize
8. 8 8. The Light of Experience1969-04-13 · 50mHere Clark tells of new worlds in space and in a drop of water that the telescope and microscope revealed, and the new realism in the Dutch paintings which took the observation of
9. 9 9. The Pursuit of Happiness1969-04-20 · 50mHere Clark talks of the harmonious flow and complex symmetries of the works of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart — and the reflection of these in the Rococo churches and palaces of Ba
10. 10 10. The Smile of Reason1969-04-27 · 50mHere Clark discusses the Age of Enlightenment tracing it from the polite conversations in the elegant Parisian salons of eighteenth-century, through the subsequent revolutionary po
11. 11 11. The Worship of Nature1969-05-04 · 50mBelief in the divinity of nature, Clark argues, usurped Christianity's position as the chief creative force in Western civilisation and ushered in the Romantic movement. Here Clark
12. 12 12. The Fallacies of Hope1969-05-11 · 50mHere Clark argues that the French Revolution led to the dictatorship of Napoleon and the dreary bureaucracies of the nineteenth century and traces the disillusionment of the Romant
13. 13 13. Heroic Materialism1969-05-18 · 50mClark concludes the series with his discussion of materialism and humanitarianism of the past century. This takes us from the industrial landscape of nineteenth century England to