True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

How Art Made the World
This fancy BBC series reveals art to be not the product of culture, but
the producer and shaper of culture. It’s a wonderfully creative and
imaginative show of how great art changed our world, our ideas, and
even our humanity itself. Each episode tackles a big idea using the
latest state-of-the-art documentary techniques and special effects. It’s
brimming with news and consequential notions, but presented clearly
and with wit. I think the series succeeds admirably. It does so in part by
expanding your concept of what art is - without ever bringing up that
boring debate. I like that they often focus on underappreciated artworks.
In the end you see that art, like science and technology, has altered our
environment and our identity. We are art.
By Robin Dashwood
2005,, 290 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
Perfect proportions for
a Greek statue (left)
and why Egyptians
painted humans from
the side.
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