This is Civilisation: Save Our Souls
A look at non-Western art traditions and the ways in which they have shaped Western civilization. On an epic journey through stunning locations in Greece, Turkey, France, Italy, Switzerland, Britain, Germany, Spain, Egypt, China and the United States, this series explores how art reflects the fantastic leaps that civilization has made.Each episode of the series tells a self-contained story about how the art of the past has given us new ways of thinking and feeling that still inform our lives today. This episode focuses on the effect industrialization has had in the art world. Matthew Collings and fellow art critic John Ruskin travel through Venice, the Swiss Alps and Britain's resplendent Lake District as they show us the ways that art is able to reconnect us with nature, which has been tarnished by man's journey through the industrial age.