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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

How art made the world / a BBC/KCET Hollywood co-production ; series producer, Mark Hedgecoe.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

2 videodiscs (290 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital video

videodisc

DVD

video file DVD

Summary:

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.

Subjects:

Art -- History.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Imagery (Psychology)

Art -- Psychological aspects.

Imagery (Psychology) in art.

Motion pictures -- Semiotics.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Other Author:

Spivey, Nigel Jonathan.

Hedgecoe, Mark.

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)

Other Title:

Subtitle on container: How humans made art and art made us human

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).

Closed-captioned; English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents:

More human than human / produced and directed by Nick Murphy ; The day pictures were born / directed by Robin Dashwood, Mark Hedgecoe ; The art of persuasion / produced and directed by Martin Wilson -- Once upon a time / produced and directed by Francis Whately ; To death and back / produced and directed by Ben McPherson ; Special features.

ISBN:

1419821040

9781419821042

1419821040

Publisher Number:

E2457

Other Number:

70701339

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

767771

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD 709 How art ma