Seeking a specific Art Documentary/Series

I can't give much info. It was quite lengthy (many parts).

The host was (I assume) English (at least i gathered as much from his accent).

It was very thorough, and went to many museum's and had lots of detail throughout it's sections, and iirc, was a great series.

Saw it in 2001 in my class "Art and Music in Western Culture". It was all basically European art.

I've been really wanting to see it again. Yes I have tried googling, and youtubing.

thx.

Michael Palin?

Sister Nancy?

that Wolf guy?

btw, Im only listing PBS personalities.

none of those...thx tho :)

Something with Andrew Graham-Dixon?

Probably not though.

I don't know, but I love that art nun.

i have no idea but you would probably dig this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_Power_of_Art

I can't actually remember when this came out (00s some time) but it's quite fantastic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/howart/

American link which seems to be more recently updated:

http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/

I absolutely <3 Nigel Spivey, he's a Cambridge historian who does quite a lot of programmes about art history over here.

ACtually that's probably not your series, I think it's too late.

But it's still worth watching.

Especially anyone interested in the hallucinatory state/lucid dreaming/altered mind states, he actually has really convincing evidence that the very first human artists did so in an effort to replicate trance states.

http://www.pbs.org/howartmadetheworld/episodes/pictures/

maybe Ways Of Seeing?

probably not but Ways Of Seeing is amazing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing

Art Safari is a cool art show. Probably not what you're looking for though.

Civilization - Kenneth Clark

Shock of the New - Robert Hughes ?

The Ascent of Man by J. Bronowsky?

Ok, now I'm just shouting out random things on the telly that had massive effects on me as a child.

None of these are it so far. But thx for trying. And that stuff Kaen recommended looks awesome.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't PBS b/c iirc my professor said the set of all the videos was quite pricey.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Artists-Tim-Marlow/dp/B0000A59ZG/ref=pd_sim_d_4

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