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Imagination Episodes

2005, TV Show

Episode Detail: The Day Pictures Were Born - Imagination

Nigel Spivey investigates images made during what anthropologists call the “creative explosion” more than 30,000 years ago. His journey takes him to Altamira, Spain, where the earliest prehistoric paintings were discovered. He compares them with rock art made by the San bushmen of southern Africa just a few hundred years ago; and to similar drawings by American Indians. Rock-art experts David Lewis Williams and David Whitley lend insight.

Episodes: Imagination - 95 total Episodes

12/3/2008: Tim Marlow on...Rothko
9/27/2008: Tim Marlow On...Francis Bacon at Tate Britain
9/20/2008: Constantin Brancusi
9/13/2008: The Secret Life of the Mona Lisa
8/30/2008: The Kiss
8/23/2008: La Grande Jatte
8/16/2008: The Battle of San Romano
8/9/2008: The Art of Painting
8/2/2008: Liberty Leading the People
7/19/2008: The Divine Michelangelo
7/12/2008: Escape From Luanda
6/28/2008: When East Meets West
6/21/2008: The Glory of Byzantium
6/14/2008: Painting Paradise
5/17/2008: Whistler's Mother
5/11/2008: Muslim American Comics Come of Age
5/10/2008: The Sunflowers
5/3/2008: Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen
4/26/2008: The Great Wave
4/19/2008: La Primavera
1/26/2008: The Night Watch
1/19/2008: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
1/12/2008: The Third of May 1808
11/10/2007: China's Terracotta Army
11/3/2007: National Gallery's Grand Tour
10/27/2007: The Big, Fat Art of Fernando Botero
9/15/2007: Building for Islam
8/4/2007: To Death and Back
8/4/2007: Being a Concert Pianist
7/28/2007: Once Upon a Time
7/21/2007: Psalms of David
7/14/2007: The Day Pictures Were Born
7/14/2007: Marriage of Figaro
7/7/2007: More Human Than Human...
7/7/2007: Impression: Sunrise
6/30/2007: Velázquez: The Painter's Painter
6/23/2007: Who Cares About Art?
6/16/2007: Ingenious Thomas Heatherwick
6/9/2007: A Picture of a Painter: Howard Hodgkin
6/2/2007: Being Hamlet
5/26/2007: Hobart Shakespeareans
5/19/2007: John le Carré: The Secret Centre
5/12/2007: The Piano: A Love Affair
3/10/2007: Renaissance: Pure Radiance of the Past
7/10/2006: The Art of Persuasion
6/24/2006: Illuminations
6/24/2006: Da Vinci The Greatest Story Ever Sold
5/27/2006: Chess in Pieces: 21st Century Art
5/20/2006: Leonardo
5/13/2006: Leonardo
4/29/2006: Who Killed Caravaggio?
4/1/2006: The Mentors and Proteges
3/11/2006: Dan Cruickshank and the Art in the Canal
11/12/2005: A Short History of Tall Buildings
9/3/2005: The Tsar's Last Picture Show
8/13/2005: Art and Islam: The Hermitage and Khalili Collections
7/30/2005: Building Africa
5/7/2005: The Madness of Vermeer
4/30/2005: Michelangelo's David
4/23/2005: Edvard Munch: The Scream
4/16/2005: Constable in Love
4/9/2005: Secret Lives of the Artists
3/26/2005: Maria Callas: A Big Destiny
3/12/2005: Reggae: The Story of Jamaican Music
2/26/2005: Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2/19/2005: Richard Burton: Taylor-Made for Stardom
12/25/2004: J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and Me
12/25/2004: Pure Pop
12/18/2004: Soundtrack
12/11/2004: After the Gold Rush
11/27/2004: Producer Pop
11/20/2004: The Road to Rock 'n' Roll
11/13/2004: Stardust
11/6/2004: The Story of Popular Song: From Russia with Love
10/23/2004: David Hockney: Secret Knowledge
10/16/2004: David Hockney: Secret Knowledge
10/9/2004: Annie Proulx: Way Out West
10/2/2004: Billie Holiday: Sensational Lady
9/25/2004: Dancer's Body: Move Like You Mean It
9/18/2004: Dancer's Body: A Head Full of Footsteps
9/11/2004: Dancer's Body: A Machine That Dances
9/4/2004: Armani on Screen
8/28/2004: Rossetti: Sex, Drugs and Oil Paint
8/21/2004: Divas
8/14/2004: The Man Who Destroyed Everything: Michael Landy
8/7/2004: Blondie Beneath the Bleach
7/31/2004: Dame Alicia Markova: The People's Ballerina
7/24/2004: Michael Palin and the Ladies Who Loved Matisse
7/17/2004: The Voice of Bryn Terfel
7/10/2004: Entertaining Mr. Soane
7/3/2004: The Saatchi Phenomenon
6/26/2004: Barbara Hepworth
6/19/2004: The Hip Hop Generation
6/12/2004: An A-Z of the OED
6/5/2004: The Portrait of Omai

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Imagination Episodes

2005, TV Show

Episode Detail: The Day Pictures Were Born - Imagination

Episodes: Imagination - 95 total Episodes

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