| Description |
1 online resource (50 minutes) |
| Summary |
Andrew Graham Dixon dissects the art of Scandinavia in a series of three programmes that join the highly successful Art of strand. It's the story of art in a land without light for months on end and of how a landscape (and the art it inspired) gave us 20th Century existentialism. However it is also the story of eroticism, where the light is white and ultra-brilliant; the world of the Snow Queen and the Ugly Duckling; and of futuristic thinking and optimism that has given us bicycle-riding monarchs, the most democratic social structures, Lego and the Modernism. This fascinating series travels across Scandinavia to see how the different countries and cultures have contributed to a very distinct art. In the final instalment of Andrew Graham-Dixon's windswept journey through the art of the Norselands, we arrive in Sweden - home of Ikea and a tradition of brilliant furniture design stretching back to the early years of the 20th century. Sweden has made its modern democratic mission one of comfort and civilised living for the masses - but has it got there? |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed January 28, 2019) |
| Performer |
Written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Art, Swedish.
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Architecture, Swedish.
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Architecture, Swedish.
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Art, Swedish.
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Civilization.
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| SUBJECT |
Sweden -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001557
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| Subject |
Sweden.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, on-screen presenter
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Tickell, Paul, director, producer
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British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
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