Reading the book... should I get lazy and skip to the TV?
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Yes! The book is good, but the visual and narrative experience conveys much.
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BBC is producing something of a sequel, but I have my doubts... See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisations_(TV_series)#Preview … Schama and Beard are however genuine scholars so I hold out some hope.pic.twitter.com/3k5TRJAERi
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Too much Christian iconography for my tastes. I seem to have developed somewhat of an aversive reaction thereto.
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How did you develop it? It is hard to get away from Christian iconography when looking at Western art history.
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I don't like (a) weird naked babies with wings, (b) people nailed to things or gorily shot with arrows, (c) obsession with a lady in a robe holding a baby. The entire religious aesthetic seems focused on the human body and bodily suffering and dirtiness and obsessive guilt.
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I want to see beauty in my art. Not moralizing, not indignity, not wretchedness, not reminders of suffering.
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Ubiquitous across much contemporary non-religious art too. Implied social or political messaging. Bug off with that and just make me a pretty picture.
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agreed...the man was a legend.
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Thanks for the suggestion!
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It’s a gorgeous piece of work.
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The new BBC update: "Civilisations", hosted by lefty feminist classicist Mary Beard, lefty historian Simon Schama, and some other dude, has been thoroughly skewered by the conservative British press.
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