Heroic materialism

Duration: 0:55:00

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | National Educational Television: Distributor | Time-Life Films: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Focuses on the new age created by the rise of science and raises the question of the future of man. Highlights the writing of Engels, Marx, and Tolstoy, who pointed out the disadvantages and injustices of the new systems. Examines the art of Millet and Courbet, who painted ordinary people realistically; the Impressionists, who sought escape in beauty; and Van Gogh, who expressed the despair of the oppressed., Surveys the development of western civilization during the 1900's as evidenced in the advance of technology shown through the work of Brunel, the designer of the Thames Tunnel, and in the development of the atom bomb. Notes that the advance in technology and the importance attached to it have been accompanied by an upsurge in humanitarianism.

Complete Record: , Surveys the development of western civilization during the 1900's as evidenced in the advance of technology shown through the work of Brunel, the designer of the Thames Tunnel, and in the development of the atom bomb. Notes that the advance in technology and the importance attached to it have been accompanied by an upsurge in humanitarianism.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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