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TV Series

How Art Made The World

Name: How Art Made The World
Released: 2005-05-26
Rating: 8.9

8.92005 · 1 seasons60 min / episode

Documentary

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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.

Status

Ended

Latest episode aired Jun 24, 2005

Season 1

~6 episodes

Total episodes

Where to watch

JustWatch

Streaming region

Videos

Seasons

Season 1

6 episodes

Aired 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.