Peter Greenaway's 'A TV Dante'
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In 1991, Peter Greenaway won the Prix Italia for Cantos I-VIII of A TV Dante, his ambitious project to produce a video version Dantes Inferno. This literary masterpiece has proved an irresistible challenge to artists from Botticelli via William Blake to Rauschenberg .
Greenaway was first inspired by artist Tom Phillips illustrated translation of the work and conceived the idea of creating a series of eleven-minute videos illustrating each of the thirty-four Cantos. He collaborated with Phillips on the first eight programmes, using all the resources available to the electronic media, and the press was unanimous in welcoming their bold new approach to the art of television when they were transmitted on Channel Four in 1990: That rare and beautiful thing, an attempt to do something new with the medium. (The Observer) Nothing quite like it has been seen on television before. The extraordinary, multi-layered images on the screen are not so much state-of-the-art video but the state after that. (The Times) A dazzling and inventive piece of video-image making...an eye-stitching use of television. (The Guardian)
In 1991, Peter Greenaway won the Prix Italia for Cantos I-VIII of A TV Dante, his ambitious project to produce a video version Dantes Inferno. This literary masterpiece has proved an irresistible challenge to artists from Botticelli via William Blake to Rauschenberg .
Greenaway was first inspired by artist Tom Phillips illustrated translation of the work and conceived the idea of creating a series of eleven-minute videos illustrating each of the thirty-four Cantos. He collaborated with Phillips on the first eight programmes, using all the resources available to the electronic media, and the press was unanimous in welcoming their bold new approach to the art of television when they were transmitted on Channel Four in 1990: That rare and beautiful thing, an attempt to do something new with the medium. (The Observer) Nothing quite like it has been seen on television before. The extraordinary, multi-layered images on the screen are not so much state-of-the-art video but the state after that. (The Times) A dazzling and inventive piece of video-image making...an eye-stitching use of television. (The Guardian)
