How art made the world
By: a BBC/KCET Hollywood co-production ; series producer, Mark Hedgecoe
Contributors: Whately, Francis; McPherson, Ben; Wilson, Martin; Murphy, Nick; Dashwood, Robin; Mulhern, Daniel; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; BBC Video (Firm); BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc; KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.); Warner Home Video (Firm)
Publisher: BBC Video; Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [New York]; Burbank, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781419821042
Subjects: Art; History; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Imagery (Psychology); Psychological aspects; Imagery (Psychology) in art; Motion pictures; Semiotics
Other titles: How humans made art and art made us human
Description: Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores 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 the afterlife; and why we use imagery at all.
Notes: Originally produced in 2005.

Originally broadcast on PBS as a documentary over five consecutive Mondays from June 26 to July 24, 2006.

Special features: Behind the scenes : Gobekli Tepe; Series interview (with presenter Nigel Spivey and producer Mark Hedgecoe).

Photography, Chris Hartley (1,2), David Baillie (2), Tim Cragg (3), Jim Ashcroft (3,5), Louis Caulfield (4); editors, Peter Norrey (1,3), Paul Carlin (2,5), Andrea Carnevali (4), Jane Greenwood (5), Andrew Quigley (5); music, Daniel Mulhern.

Presented by Nigel Spivey.

DVD ; NTSC ; region 1 ; widescreen (16:9) presentation ; Dolby Digital stereo ; dual layer single sided (DVD-9).

English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: More human than human  -- produced and directed by Nick Murphy ;; title: The day pictures were born  -- directed by Robin Dashwood, Mark Hedgecoe ;; title: The art of persuasion / produced and directed by Martin Wilson --  -- disc 2.; title: Once upon a time  -- produced and directed by Francis Whately ;; title: To death and back / produced and directed by Ben McPherson ;; title: Special features.