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The lounge chair designed by American husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames in 1956 has come to symbolize the affluent 1950s. The Eames wanted the chair to have "the warm receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt". But the chair also reflects the prevailing Cold-War mentality of 1950s America, which the Eames' designs and advertisements actively and naively fed into.
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"Otto Wagner designed one of the first office blocks of the 20th century, radically departing from the style of architecture traditionally associated with bank. Built between 1903 and 1906, the Vienna Savings Bank covered an entire block. While the glass and steel design was more functional than other buildings designed at that time, Wagner also expressed beauty with a flow of movement throughout the bank."
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"For Wassily Kandinsky, the father of abstract art, geometric form was the external expression of inner meaning. What sensibilities do art lovers need in order to decode the shapes behind the shapes in his colorful--and, in their day, controversial--paintings? This program introduces the subject of symbolism in abstract expressionism through a close examination of Kadinsky's Yellow-Red Blue."--Container
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Alain Jaubert flushes out the details, interprets the symbols, and analyzes the composition of Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People. Why such polemics when the painting was unveiled in 1831? Was it the nudity of the armed woman? Or was it the triumphant people in this realistic setting? Since the painting did not come to the Louvre until well after Delacroix's death, we will never know for certain. But this program makes some educated guesses from...
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This documentary begins with the 1947 U.N. decision to partition Palestine and charts the ensuing half-century of enmity, warfare, mediation and negotiations. Includes interviews and news clips of heads of state and other military and intelligence leaders. Episodes on the first disc cover Israel's struggle for statehood, including the victories against Arab armies in 1948 and 1967, and the history of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The concluding...
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Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase is, with Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, an essential step in the 20th-century artistic revolution. But in spite of its worldwide reputation, the painting has never been commented on in-depth. This program is the first to completely dedicate itself to Duchamp's masterpiece. It asks what exactly the painting represents, and to what extent it is possible to analyze the work and dissect its symbolism.
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The setting of a Roman gallery brings together four characters in van Eyck's The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin. Nicolas Rolin, the Duke of Burgundy's minister of finance, is on his knees before the Madonna, who is being crowned by an angel. Rolin is being blessed by the infant Jesus. Outside, a rich landscape is peopled with a number of unknown characters. The work is analyzed as a complex painting, difficult to decipher.
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Crucifixion is a rather surprising painting coming from Picasso, a man who had little interest in religion or religious themes. This program explores the reasons why he might have placed a number of strange, indecipherable figures within this classical representation of Calvary. Many allusions found in the work's enigmatic composition seem to indicate that the painting may have been created during a personal crisis.