/lit/ - Literature

>>18908797
I love this serie.

>>18908797
I remember that Scruton one about Beauty being decent.

>>18908797
>>18908825

Yes, it has a similar feel.

Weirdly, the BBC, having shown it, then hated it and never played it again, possibly even destroying it, as no one was ever able to get a proper copy of it subsequent to its airing.

The only known version remaining is https://vimeo.com/128428182, which is subtitled in Portugese.

>>18908797
The Ascent of Man
Alistair Cooke's America

>>18908797
connections by james burke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVQ4dfC34TI&t=367s

>>18908797
OP here, for those anon's who are also looking for stuff I, would also like to recommend
>The World At War 1973

Ken Burns' Civil War is exceptionally good. It's a work of art.

Melvyn Bragg's Adventure of English

From the same era as Civilisation, made as a response to it, against that fusty patrician view

>>18908797
The Shock of the New and American Visions by Robert Hughes.

We don't watch; we only read here

>>18910357
I don't trust a marxist to talk about art.

>>18911592
>We don't watch; we only read here

>>18911569
seconding Shock of the New

>>18908797
The Owl’s Legacy

>>18908797
Okay just please fucking save it this time because I'm tired of starting threads like this all over.

Here goes my collection of links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn1PwtcJfwE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC6a2SPvSh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWJtd4VtBG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUga2prcIE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMu-G51yTY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVXLo9gJq-U

>>18908797
any werner herzog documentary. i'd say go with land of silence and darkness.
frederick wiseman as well. hospital is fantastic.

Anything by Michael Wood.

>>18908797
I thought I would love this series but it turned out to be pure midwit garbage. Doesn't teach you a damn useful thing about art criticism or intellectual history

>>18914361
Well, I'd argue that it wasn't made to teach art criticism or intellectual history. It's an introduction to western culture, aesthetics and most importantly the sensibility of different periods. The takeaway for me was that I had increased my appreciation of all things culture and art. That behind every human object, there is thought, ideal and life behind it.

>>18908825
Whats decent about it? He doesnt give any definition of beauty.

This is modern art by Matthew Collings and shock of the new.by Robert Hughes.

>>18908797
Africa Addio.

>>18911817
If only he was just a marxist...

>>18908797
I have much respect for Kenneth Clark, his series is so re-watchable and so deeply fulfilling

>>18908825
Currently reading his "very short introduction" on beauty, highly recommend. The reading has such ease