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kobvindex_ZLB13905856
Format:
2 DVD-Video (ca. 290 Min.)
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Tonformat: DD/Stereo (engl.)
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Bildformat: 16:9
Content:
In "How Art Made The World", University of Cambridge Lecturer in Classics Nigel Spivey talks about the epic story of art; how the human mind made us artistic and how art made us human. Ambitious in scale and far-reaching in scope, "How Art Made the World" is a fresh introduction to the history of art and, through the visual image, the history of humankind. Embarking with the motto "veryone is an artist", Nigel Spivey takes us on a quest to find out when and how we humans acquired and then exploited our unique capacity for symbolic representation. In the late 19th Century, the first discoveries of prehistoric painting were greeted with incredulity. How could there have been such deft and skilful artists in the world over 30,000 years ago? The exploration of this mystery leads to a trail of further intriguing problems. Images came to us before the written word - so how did we use images to tell stories? The representation of our human form has been a preoccupation of artists through the centuries - so why is it that from the very beginning we have preferred images of the body with distorted or exaggerated features? By what means did we define some supernatural presence as immortal and invisible, and then attempt to visualize it? And when did our environment become styled as a landscape? In answering these questions and many more, Nigel Spivey takes us on a journey that also reveals how art has been used as a means of mass persuasion, essential to the creation of hierarchical societies, and finally, the extent to which art has served as a mode of terror management in the face of our inevitable death. The show celebrates the difference between men and monkeys," Spivey explains. "Its essential premise is that of all the defining characteristics of humanity as a species, none is more basic than the disposition to make art. Great apes will daub on canvas if they are given paintbrushes and shown how to paint; but they do not instinctively produce art, any more than a parrot produces conversation. We humans are alone in developing the capacity for symbolic images." (BBC)
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Ländercode: 2, 4
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Specials: behind the scenes footage, Interview with Dr. Nigel Spivey & Mark Hedgecoe
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Engl. mit engl. Untertiteln für Hörgeschädigte
Language:
English
Keywords:
Menschheit
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Künste
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Geschichte
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Miller, George
Author information:
Blair, Tony
Author information:
Attenborough, David
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