S1E9:The Vital Spark
Civilizations
26 Apr 201853 minTV-MA
Simon Schama explores the fate of art in the machine and profit-driven world, looking at the rise of art as a tradeable commodity. He explores if culture should create a realm separate from the modern world, a place where we can escape and pull the ladder up after us? Or if it should it plunge headlong into the chaos and cacophony around us, while transforming the way we see it and live in it?
