How Art Made the World (Disc 2)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Art, Documentary Film
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Duration
116 min.
Subject
Art -- History. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imagery (Psychology) Art -- Psychological aspects. Imagery (Psychology) in art. Motion pictures -- Semiotics.
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Abstract
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.
Disc 2 includes:
Ep.4: Once Upon A Time
The role of visual art in story-telling, from its earliest beginnings as carved scenes on the Palace walls of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, to the marble statues of Classical Greece, to the epic carvings on Trajan's Column, to the Hollywood spectacles of today. Includes a fascinating reappraisal of Australian Aboriginal art, seen in its cultural context as a blend of picture, story, music and dance and how one element cannot be divorced from the other, making it one of mankind's earliest forerunners to the modern film.
Ep.5: To Death and Back
Humanity's fear and fascination with death and how we utilize art in an attempt to conquer it. How images of death are used to gird a society under external threat. Examines the significance of ancient images of death. Compares Christian iconography with ancient Aztec and Incan representations of death.
Disc 2 includes:
Ep.4: Once Upon A Time
The role of visual art in story-telling, from its earliest beginnings as carved scenes on the Palace walls of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, to the marble statues of Classical Greece, to the epic carvings on Trajan's Column, to the Hollywood spectacles of today. Includes a fascinating reappraisal of Australian Aboriginal art, seen in its cultural context as a blend of picture, story, music and dance and how one element cannot be divorced from the other, making it one of mankind's earliest forerunners to the modern film.
Ep.5: To Death and Back
Humanity's fear and fascination with death and how we utilize art in an attempt to conquer it. How images of death are used to gird a society under external threat. Examines the significance of ancient images of death. Compares Christian iconography with ancient Aztec and Incan representations of death.
Description
One of 2 videodiscs (290 min. total) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audio: English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Each episode runs approximately 58 minutes
Audio: English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Each episode runs approximately 58 minutes
Biblio Notes
Films on Demand:
https://digital-films-com.swcproxy.swccd.edu/p_Collection.aspx?seriesID=206459
https://digital-films-com.swcproxy.swccd.edu/p_Collection.aspx?seriesID=206459
Number of Copies
1
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REVIEWS (1) -
Mark Van Stone
Spivey is an insightful and provocative performer/guide. Some people like his strongly English-art-critic pose, some do not. But he keeps things lively! I showed the fourth episode about art's role as a Storyteller. I am not sure I agree with his simplistic conclusion that the art of the aboriginal Australians has remained unchanged for millennia because they accompanied their paintings with music –they compose new "traditional" songs all the time (See John Greenway's account of the "Weet-bix song")– But in general this was an excellent mind-stretching experience for novice art historians.
4 years ago