Symbolic
History
Through
Sight and Sound
VHS and CD ROM (Windows only).
1) Nature, the Perceptive Field 2) Cycles 3) Greece: The Tragic Myth and Deed 5) The Search for Rome 8) Gothic Prelude 9) Gothic Ground and Vault 12) Ars Nova (l4th Century) 36) The Atomic Age
Samples:
List of Titles
Vol.
Title
Subtitle
Time
Sample
1)
Nature, the Perceptive Field:
Heraclitean celebration of our cosmos
(90m)
2)
Cycles:
patterns of history/early civilizations; where are we now?
(61m)
3)
Greece: The Tragic Myth and Deed:
Homer to Plato, fruit of the fall
(61m)
4)
The Alexandrian Melt:
East and West, backgrounds and convergence
(90m)
5)
The Search for Rome:
outward vault, inner deepening
(62m) (or cut: 35m)
6)
Early Christianity:
from the origins to the fall of Rome
(59m)
7)
The Dark Ages:
Luminous! the-world scene, birth of a culture
(63m)
8)
Gothic Prelude:
The New Light: Romanesque to Gothic, Suger/ Abelard
(67m)
9)
Gothic Ground and Vault:
A Buttressed Soaring: Chartes, Rheims, Amiens to compare Thomas Aquinas
(65m)
10)
The Gothic Wave:
the spread of Gothic over Europe
(69m)
11)
Dante: Threshold of 1300:
Gothic synthesis and revolt of the new man
(73m)
12)
Ars Nova (l4th Century):
Western Awakening, against the quietest East
(76m)
13)
1400: Pilgrims All (Chaucer's World):
"in the temple playing"
(60m)
14)
15th Century: Early Renaissance:
Late-Gothic grace; humanist -wedge
(90m)
15)
1500: Explosive Balance:
High Renaissance, Protestantism, the New World
(68m)
16)
Giants in the Earth:
16th century, titanic enactments
(90m)
17)
Michelangelo:
Storm Center: man, style, culture, world-soul
(71m)
18)
A Review of Period Styles:
phases of the Western incarnation
(75m)
19)
1600: The Tragic Divide (Shakespeare):
vortex of transformation: El Greco with chromatic music, etc.
(72m)
20)
Baroque Formulation:
Quixotic rebirth. Cartesian consciousness
(70m)
21)
Milton: Mind's Dark: Glory:
Tenebrist and Classical Baroque
(75m)
22)
Pascal's Reversal:
Baroque antinomies of reason and faith
(84m)
23)
1700: The Comic Divide:
heroic and mock-heroic
(75m)
24)
Bach, Fort of Post-Baroque:
German extension of sacred might
(74m)
25)
18th Century:
Voltaire's Smile: shadow-haunted game of reason
(80m)
26)
Mozart: Age of Critique and Imperative:
Rococo to revolution
(75m)
27)
The Larger Declaration:
America against the ferment of Europe
(60m;
28)
Blake: Fire-Fugue of Delight:
The Wine-press of Los...War on earth
(89m)
29)
Faust:
Creative War of Spirit: peak of Goethe, Beethoven, Hegel
(84m)
30)
0h Western Star (Whitman's America):
trial and the will to affirm
(92m)
31)
19th Century: Loaded Dream:
Romantic, Realist, Symbolist, Socialist
(90m)
32)
Face and Landscape:
a resume of man and world, from Egypt to 1000 A.D. , then 1000 to 1900's
(62m)
33)
1890: Avant Garde Break:
Impressionism and The Drunken Boat
(70m)
34)
1914: Crisis of the Abstract:
"dancing to a frenzied drum"
(80m)
35)
Between. Wars -- 20th Century:
poles of art and politics
(90m)
36)
The Atomic Age:
a strange euphoria
(92m) (or short form: 54m)
37)
20th Century: World Melt:
zero-all: melt or melt-down
(75m)
38-40)
NOW
(a triple show: From Becoming to Being: to draw from time past and passing, an abiding Now of creative inwardness)
38)
Alpha (of Self)
39)
Omega (of World)
40)
The Rooted Future
Deutscher Charakter in der Kunst
A Special German Show
(56m)
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