Please put the CC on. History of art, Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant, Romanticism, the sublime, the era of disorder, 19th and 20th century art movements. Susan Sontag and John M. Coetzee on beauty. Works of art: 00:02 The Destroyed City - Ossip Zadkine, 1951 (Rotterdam, NL) 00:24 Immanuel Kant - Vernet, 1795 00:48 Self-portrait - Angelica Kauffmann, 1770 01:08 Woman dressed as Vestal Virgin - Angelica Kauffmann, 1775/1800 01:32 Sappho - Charles-Auguste Mengin, 1867 01:50 Le château de la Royère, Nechin - Jean-Baptiste de Jonghe, 1810 01:53 Gulf of Naples - Josephus Augustus Knip, 1818 01:56 The Ruins of Eldena - Caspar David Friedrich, c1825 01:59 River landscape with ruins - Wijnandus Johannes Josephus Nuyen, 1838 02:02 Egyptian Temple - Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, 1840 02:05 Mountain landscape with ruin - Louwrens Hanedoes, 1849 02:10 Summer landscape with the ruins of the Barbarossa Chapel - Marinus Kruseman,1858 02:15 Povazsky Hrad castle - Thomas Ender, 1860s 02:17 Ruins of the O.L. Vrouwekerk, Leiden - Jacobus Ludovicus Cornet (1815-1882) 02:19 Artist and Spectator in Ruin - Samuel Rayner, 1876 02:21 Ruins of Vredenburg castle, Utrecht - Albertus Verhoesen, 1826 02:22 Ruins of the Abbey of Villers - François Stroobant (1819-1916) 02:24 The eruption of Mt. Merapi at night, Java - Raden Saleh, 1865 02:36 The pass of St. Gotthard - J.M.W. Turner, 1803/04 02:46 The Ice-Sea (Das Eisenmeer) - Caspar David Friedrich, 1824 02:57 View of the Sermitsialik glacier - William Bradford, c1870 03:12 The Devil's Bridge - Caspar Wolf, 1777 03:24 Wanderer above a sea of fog - Caspar David Friedrich, c1818 03:36 Chalk-cliffs, Fügen - Caspar David Friedrich, 1818 03:46 The nightmare - Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1781 03:57 Day-dreaming - Jozef Israëls, 1850 04:14 The first ever screen kiss in 1896 (Thomas A. Edison Compagny) 04:24 Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926) and Agnes Ayres 04:29 Louise Brooks (1906-1985) 04:32 Rita Hayworth (1918-1987) 04:35 Marlon Brando (1924-2004) 04:38 Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) 04:40 James Dean (1931-1955) 04:43 Liz Taylor (1932-2011) 04:47 Brigitte Bardot (1934) 04:50 Robert Redford (1936) 04:52 Brad Pitt (1963) 04:55 Nicole Kidman (1967) 04:59 Olympia - Edouard Manet, 1863 05:11 Nude in a landscape - Salvador Dali, c1923 05:21 Realism: The Stone Breakers - Gustave Courbet, 1849 05:24 Impressionism: Impression, Sunrise - Claude Monet, 1872 05:28 Neo-impressionism: Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat, 1884/86 05:32 Post-impressionism: Cafe Terrace at Night - Vincent van Gogh, 1888 05:36 Symbolism: The Death of the Grave-Digger - Carlos Schwabe, 1895 05:40 Fauvism: Landscape at Collioure - Henri Matisse, 1905 05:45 Art Nouveau: Giséle - Elizabeth Shippen Green, 1908 05:50 Expressionism: The Scream - Edvard Munch, 1893 05:54 Cubism: Violin and Candlestick - Georges Braque, 1910 05:59 Futurism: Abstract Speed + Sound - Giacomo Balla 1913/14 06:03 Dadaism: The And-Picture (Das Undbild) - Kurt Schwitters, 1919 06:07 Bauhaus: Composition VIII -- Kandinsky, 1923 06:11 Art Deco: Young girl in green dress - Tamara de Lempicka, 1930 06:14 Surrealism: The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí, 1931 06:18 Magic realism: Simeon the pillar saint - Carel Willink, 1939 06:22 Abstract Expressionism: No. 5 - Jackson Pollock, 1948 06:30 Pop-Art: Campbell's Soup Cans - Andy Warhol, 1962 06:34 Portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne - Francis Bacon, 1966 06:44 Woman III - Willem de Kooning, 1953 06:46 The Son of Man - René Magritte 1964 06:49 Four Darks in Red 1958 - Mark Rothko 1958 06:51 Stiched felt - Josef Beuys, 1970 06:54 Weeping Woman - Pablo Picasso, 1937 06:56 Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin - Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1971 06:59 Cloud peeper -- Marlene Dumas, 1997 07:06 Great deeds against the dead -- Jake and Dinos Chapman, 1994 07:24 An argument about beauty - Susan Sontag (1933-2004), De Groene Amsterdammer, 29 june 29, 2002, p26 - 29. 08:09 About Beauty and Consolation -- John M. Coetzee (1940), VPRO TV series of Wim Kayzer, 17th episode, 2000. 12:31 The Watzmann - Caspar David Friedrich, 1824/25 Literature: Eco, U. (2002). On Beauty. London: Secker & Warburg. Gombrich, E.H. (1990). Eeuwige schoonheid (The story of art). Houten (NL): De Haan. Music: Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801), Concerto in C major, oboe and strings. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Sonate K 380 in E major and Sonate K 531 in E major. See my playlist on art: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL61C3B135E7EBE785

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