Cult of Progress
David Olusoga
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Kunst
Beschreibung
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations.
In Part One, First Contact, we discover what happened to art in the great Age of Discovery, when civilisations encountered each other for the first time. Although undoubtedly a period of conquest and destruction, it was also one of mutual curiosity, global trade and the exchange of ideas.
In Part Two, The Cult of Progress, we see how the Industrial Revolution transformed the world, impacting every corner, and every civilisation, from the cotton mills of the Midlands through Napoleon's conquest of Egypt to the decimation of both Native American and Maori populations and the advent of photography in Paris in 1839.
Incredible art - both looted and created - relays the key events and their outcomes throughout the world.
Rezensionen
[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.
An insightful take from a great writer
<b>Praise for </b> <b><i>The Kaiser'
Olusoga is a smart and inventive narrator, with a keen historical curiosity and effortless style
(A) provocative and uncomfortably absorbing book. ... <b>Impressively researched </b>... Olusoga and Erichsen, with their novelist'
A radical reappraisal of the parameters of history, exposing lacunae in the nation'
Told with great fluency and clarity of style ... a highly readable and engaging account
<b>Praise for <i>Black and British: A Forgotten History </i></b>You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. David Olusoga is a superb guide.
Groundbreaking
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