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How Art Made The World

★ 8.7 (6 votes) | 2005 | 1h 0m
Documentary
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.

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  • Status Ended
  • First Air Date May 26, 2005
  • Last Air Date June 24, 2005
  • Seasons 1
  • Episodes 6
  • Networks BBC Two

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6 episodes • 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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