S1E2:How Do We Look?

8 Mar 201854 minTV-PG

Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. She seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of ideas about civilizations. Why have human beings always made art about themselves and what were these images for? In raising these questions, Mary explores how the way we look can influence our ideas of what is civilized.