Civilisation - Episode 12: The Fallacies of Hope

BBC, Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Kenneth Clark (presenter)

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Title: Civilisation - Episode 12: The Fallacies of Hope
Producer: BBC, Michael Gill, Peter Montagnon, Kenneth Clark (presenter)
Category: History, Civilisation
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Added: Jan 24th 2011
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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 from Beethoven's music, Byron's poetry, Delacroix's paintings to Rodin's sculpture.

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