4.3.11

Saul Bass - Edifice and Artifice



One of 8 sections from Saul Bass' excellent Oscar winning 1968 short film 'Why Man Creates' which takes a sideways look at why man does what he does.  Here we see the rise of civilisation...
(I wonder if Sid Meier ever saw this - I wasted many hours of the early '90s sending those little tiles scrolling round the screen)

Bruegal the Elder's 'Tower of Babel (1563)

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