print email comment close How Art Made the World URL: http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/ Description: Companion to a television series about "mankind's unique capacity to understand and explain the world through artistic symbols." Features commentary and video clips about the art of early civilizations on topics such as ancient unrealistic images of the human body, reading images and cave painting, the art of persuasion, visual storytelling, and death. Also includes images galleries. From Community Television of Southern California (KCET) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Publisher: Community Television of Southern California (KCET); British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Extra Keywords Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) LII Database Information: Record 24737 created by Maria Brandt on 10/19/2007 Last modification on 04/20/2009 Published: 04/23/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24737