How Art Made the World
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Actor: David Attenborough, George Miller, Nigel SpiveyBrand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Mark Molesworth
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 290 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
Product features:
- Why does our world look like it does? That great modern mystery is spectacularly unraveled in this international landmark series and epic quest across five continents and 100,000 years, via some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world -- to the heart of human creativity. Encompassing everything from cave paintings to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, How Art Made the World probes the global
DVD Reviews of How Art Made the World
DVD Review: Simply Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great video. Its very informative and visually interesting. It presents information about art in relation to now in a brilliant fashion. I would give it more stars if I could. DVD Review: Visually great, but not really informative.
Summary: 3 Stars
It has a great visual side, but pretty weak plot. No visual trick can rally keep one's attention for 290 mins. while monotonous voice tells a long boring story asking questions all the time but barely provide digestible answers. DVD Review: Great series but something's missing
Summary: 4 Stars
The series is very intriguing and enlightening and I hope that there will be more episodes added in the future. One thing that I find puzzling/disturbing however is that there is a conspicuous absence of Asian art.DVD Review: The Power of Art
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful photography and lighting make this program outstanding. The psychology, including some experiments done to back it up, was thought provoking and overall reminiscent of Joseph Campbell's series: The Power of Myth - also highly recommended. David Attenborough only appears in one episode, for about 10 minutes, both in the present and in some footage from the 1960s, which is a special treat for his fans. This is not a history of art, but an exploration of its meaning and impact through the ages and today. A bit uneven and overly dramatic at times, I think it is worth viewing and I plan on buying it eventually. DVD Review: Another excellent BBC production
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I'm missing David's lovely voice in the commentary, this DVD, produced by the BBC folks that brought us many other topics, is again of outstanding quality. This fact alone made me confident that I would get my money back, and that I would get another topic to watch for the years to come.
As usual, we were not disappointed! There is something for everybody in this documentary, it has a logical build-up, with great photography and excellent camera work. The topic is clear, and presented lively, with many facts. I learned a lot.
Highly recommended!
Description of How Art Made the World
Why does our world look like it does? That great modern mystery is spectacularly unraveled in this international landmark series and epic quest across five continents and 100,000 years?via some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world?to the heart of human creativity. Encompassing everything from cave paintings to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, How Art Made the World probes the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body; the secret powers of the feature film; how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily; visions of death and the afterlife; and, crucially, why we use imagery at all.As part of BBC's agenda to generate public awareness about art history's relevance to contemporary culture, the documentary series How Art Made the World is a landmark. Host Dr. Nigel Spivey, a Classical Archaeology professor from Cambridge, asserts, over five episodes, that not only have cultures thrived according to their abilities to communicate visually, but also that, though art, we can historically trace human needs and desires because our minds drive us to create images. Questioning how and why art influences society, Spivey employs art criticism, archaeology, political theory, and anthropology in order to posit theories in each hour-long segment. Episode one, "More Human than Human," traces our obsession with the human body by analyzing the Venus of Willendorf, Egyptian art, and Ancient Greece's preoccupation with athleticism. "The Day Pictures Were Born" discusses the birth of cave painting. "The Art of Persuasion" contextualizes Tony Blair and George Bush's political communication strategies with those in ancient cultures. "To Death and Back" ponders our preoccupation with death. "Once Upon A Time," the highlight in the series, insightfully connects our fascination with feature films to the cultural beginnings of storytelling. Starting with Mesopotamia's birth of the written tale, the Grecian invention of theater, and the Assyrian invention of pictorial narrative, this episode also stars BBC champion, David Attenborough, discussing the Australian Aborigine's use of art to trigger ancient cultural memories and myths. Potent, smart, and interdisciplinary, this series, filmed mostly on-location for full-effect, really does prove that culture dictates art. --Trinie Dalton
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