art history

How Art Made The World (2005)

Poster for How Art Made The World

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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Francis Whately
Poster for Season 1

Season 1

2005

6 episodes

Season 1 of How Art Made The World premiered on May 26, 2005

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.

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Keywords

  • art history