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A course for high school, college, and adult learners, including 13 half-hour video programs, a website with art images, accompanying text, and course guide.
Art Through Time: A Global View examines themes connecting works of art created around the world in different eras. The thirteen-part series explores diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences.
Take a trip across the world and back through the ages to experience the art of many cultures and historical periods. Thirteen themes encompass hundreds of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photos, and works in non-traditional media in this vibrant approach to the study and appreciation of art. International artists, scholars and curators from major museums and specialized collections guide the viewer through the millennia of human thought and expression while contemporary artists and their work bring the forms into the present day. An extensive website includes sortable images of more than 250 works, as well as online text helping viewers to explore the works and topics in greater depth. The series, text, and web resources can be used to supplement art history courses, or for individual learning and enrichment.
The human impulse to create art is universal. Art has been a way to communicate beliefs and express ideas about the human experience throughout all stages of civilization and in every region of the world. As cultural documents, works of art provide important insights into past and existing cultures, helping us to understand how others have lived and what they valued.
Art Through Time: A Global View, featuring thirteen half-hour programs, a guide, text, and other Web resources, takes a thematic approach to art history and appreciation. Rather than a linear chronology, the materials explore connections in Western and non-Western art, illuminating the breadth, complexity, and beauty of works produced around the world and at different periods of time.
In each program focusing on a particular theme, a diverse group of leading experts, together with a living artist, contextualize and connect featured works from different cultures and eras. The Web site, guide, and text provide a variety of opportunities to learn more.
Overview
This overview program includes a sample of each of the 13 programs as well as information on the course’s Web based resources.
THIRTEEN, a member of the WNET.ORG family of companies, is America’s most-watched public television station and a major producer of public media for national and international audiences. Through such acclaimed series as American Masters, Nature, Great Performances, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, NOW on PBS, Bill Moyers Journal, and Cyberchase—as well as unique local programming, web content and educational outreach—THIRTEEN’s mission is to serve New York City, America and the world with media experiences that inform, enlighten and inspire.
Other projects THIRTEEN has produced for Annenberg Media include: Teaching Multicultural Literature: A Workshop for the Middle Grades; The Expanding Canon: Teaching Multicultural Literature in High School; Science, Simply Amazing; Learning Science Through Inquiry; and, Insights Into Algebra 1.
Executive Producer
Jill Peters
Series Producer
Suzanne Rose
Managing Editor / Writer / Coordinating Producer
Jennifer Hallam, Ph.D.
Producers
Jennifer Hallam, Arash Hoda, Gail Levin, Mark Mannucci, Eva Zelig
Associate Producers
Mark Kachelries, Melissa Mathes
Editors
Molly Bernstein, Jawad Metni, Jed Parker, Tom Patterson, Federico Rosenzvit, Nelson Ryland, Leigh Ann Sides, Mary Ann Toman
Camera / Sound
Steve Baum, Ryan Edwards, Ari Haberberg, Arash Hoda, Sven Lindahl, Mark Kachelries, Bernard McWilliams, Michael Pruitt-Bruun, Ben Shapiro, Ryan Holden Singer
Composers
Julian Harris, Richard Jay, Clare Manchon, Olivier Manchon, Dave Mazza
Sound Mix
Jon Berman, Josh Broome, Ed Campbell
Project Manager
Rekha Menon
Series Graphic Design
B.T. Whitehill
Web Researchers / Writers
Stephanie Carter, Michelle Chen, Beck Feibelman, Claire Levenson, Tony Sachs, Freyda Spier
Production Associate
Margaret Restivo
Production Coordinator
Eliana Cruz
Production Assistants
Tad Barker, Steven Camello, Dana Kirchoff, Maren Landry, Shaun Mader, Matthew McBrayer, Stanley Steen
Interns
Ceylan Conger, Melanie Gelfand, Stephen Grant Haskell, Caroline Healey, Matthew McBrayer, Ji-Sun O, Kelly Perkins, Emily Ridder-Beardsley, Heather Scheuerman, Jami Schultz, Sondra Tannenbaum, Katie Weiller
Lead Content Consultant / Writer
Marilyn JS Goodman, Ed.D.
Content Consultants
Tom L. Freudenheim, Harriet F. Senie, Ph.D.
Advisory Board
Isolde Brielmaier, Ph.D., Lowry Burgess, Jay A. Levenson, J.D., Judith E. Stein, Ph.D., Ann Yonemura
Project Executive
Sandra Sheppard
Executive in Charge
Stephen Segaller
SECOND STORY is a team of visionary designers, developers, and producers that strives to expand the possibilities of interactive media, both technologically and experientially.
We invite you to explore these selected works to experience the diverse ways art, technology and storytelling can blend to fuel wonder.