Simon Schama's History of Now
Season 1 • Episode 1: Truth and Democracy • Watch with subtitles
Episode 1: Truth and Democracy
November 27, 2022 • 60 min
Simon opens the film with Picasso’s Guernica. Painted in 1937, in response to the bombing of a small town by the Nazis in the Spanish Civil War, no work of art has so powerfully captured the true horror of civilian bombings. Ever since, Picasso’s masterpiece has stood as a testament to the power of art to preserve the historical record and to speak truth to power.
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