Name: How Art Made The World
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-05-26
Duration: 60 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Nigel Spivey

Overview

Nigel Spivey reveals how the images which surround us today come from the ancient world. It's an epic journey spanning five continents and a hundred thousand years of history.

How Art Made The World Collection

Season 1 (6 Episodes)
Dr. Spivey takes viewers on a quest to comprehend mankind's unique capacity to understand and explain the world through artistic symbols. Speaking in colorful, non-technical language and aided by state-of-the-art computer graphics, Spivey explores the latest thinking by historians, neuroscientists and psychologists regarding the deep-seated and universal human desire to create art.