Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose
• DVD Release Date: September 18, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000IU33YM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #265,071 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Robert Hughes, art critic, Rob Reiner, director, Norm Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time, Sheryl Crow, Grammy-Award-winning artist and Anna Deveare Smith, founder of the Institute of the Arts, discuss the impact and importance of Picasso and whether he is indeed the Artist of the Century. The discussion includes comparisons of other important figures in other fields, such as Orson Welles and Jackie Robinson, and the difference between impact and talent.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An amusing parlor- game look at the great artistic works of the twentieth- century, March 27, 2008

By	Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

Everyone involved here understands that they are engaged in a not- very- serious kind of conversation, a parlor- game in which name- dropping is the principal activity. The aim is to survery the Arts in the twentieth- century and come up with the big names. Painting, Architecture, Photography, Music, Literature, Film, Theatre are taken one- by- one and briefly surveyed. There is no effort to distinguish between the various Arts as to their importance and weight. And I had a sense of distortion here in the fact that Literature was given about three seconds. A quick mention of Joyce by Reiner, a mention of Kafka by Robert Hughes and not much else. At the end Charlie Rose went around the table and the general conclusion was that Picasso was the most significant cultural creator in the century. At some point Charlie Rose also pointed to the audience and gave them a chance to throw out some names, all of which were also accepted.