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Art of the Western World

IMDb ID: tt0363314 · Year: 1989 · Rating: 8.3 (89 votes)

Genres: Documentary

Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

IMDb Details

Content TypeTVSeriesAlternate TitlesAustralia: Art of the Western World
Canada: Art of the Western World (English)
United Kingdom: Art of the Western World
Ireland: Art of the Western World (English)
India: Art of the Western World (English)
New Zealand: Art of the Western World (English)
United States: Art of the Western World
South Africa: Art of the Western World (English)
Germany: Auf der Suche nach Vollkommenheit
Auf der Suche nach Vollkommenheit
Release Date1989-10-15IMDb Popularity0User Reviews2Critic Reviews0Countries / RegionsUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguagesEnglishKeywordsart documentary
art
renaissance
architecture
sculpture
Production CompaniesTelevision South (TVS)
Thirteen / WNET
IMDb URLhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363314/Local Poster/d/file/imdb/03/tt0363314.jpgUpdated At2025-05-02T21:08:37

Stars

Michael Wood
Germano Celant
Rosalind Krauss
John Boardman
Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
John White
Irving Lavin
William Clark
Robin Middleton
John House

Directors

Geoff Dunlop
Mick Gold
Eugene Marner
Perry Miller Adato
Suzanne Bauman
Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
Ian Potts
Teri Wehn-Damisch
Bayley Silleck

Writers

Perry Miller Adato
Eugene Marner
Carole Lucia Satrina
Geoff Dunlop
Mick Gold
Bayley Silleck
Suzanne Bauman
Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
Robert Seidman

Full Cast & Crew

[Cast Group]
Actor: Michael Wood | Character: Self - Presenter, Self - Host
Actor: Germano Celant | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Rosalind Krauss | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: John Boardman | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: John White | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Irving Lavin | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: William Clark | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Robin Middleton | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: John House | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Christopher Green | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Simon Schama | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: David Rosand | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Paul Crossley | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Colin T. Eisler | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Pierre Rosenberg | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Margit Rowell | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Griselda Pollock | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Richard Brilliant | Character: Self - Art Professor
Actor: Anne Prache | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Andrew Stewart | Character: Self - Art Historian
Actor: Clement Greenberg | Character: Self - Art Historian

[Directors Group]
Name: Geoff Dunlop | Role: Director
Name: Mick Gold | Role: Director
Name: Eugene Marner | Role: Director
Name: Perry Miller Adato | Role: Director
Name: Suzanne Bauman | Role: Director
Name: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies | Role: Director
Name: Ian Potts | Role: Director
Name: Teri Wehn-Damisch | Role: Director
Name: Bayley Silleck | Role: Director

[Writers Group]
Name: Perry Miller Adato | Role: Writer
Name: Eugene Marner | Role: Writer
Name: Carole Lucia Satrina | Role: Writer
Name: Geoff Dunlop | Role: Writer
Name: Mick Gold | Role: Writer
Name: Bayley Silleck | Role: Writer
Name: Suzanne Bauman | Role: Writer
Name: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies | Role: Writer
Name: Robert Seidman | Role: Writer

[Producers Group]
Name: Jane Alexander | Role: Producer
Name: Tony Cash | Role: Producer
Name: Gail Jansen | Role: Producer
Name: Perry Miller Adato | Role: Producer
Name: Andrew Snell | Role: Producer
Name: Geoff Dunlop | Role: Producer
Name: Mick Gold | Role: Producer
Name: Eugene Marner | Role: Producer
Name: Carole Lucia Satrina | Role: Producer
Name: Suzanne Bauman | Role: Producer
Name: Melissa Llewelyn-Davies | Role: Producer
Name: Carolyn Neipris | Role: Producer
Name: Teri Wehn-Damisch | Role: Producer
Name: Bayley Silleck | Role: Producer
Name: Ian Potts | Role: Producer
Name: Sarah Teale | Role: Producer
Name: Olivier Gal | Role: Producer
Name: Catherine Stoeblen | Role: Producer

[Music Group]
Name: Wilfred Josephs | Role: Composer

[Cinematography Group]
Name: Chris O'Dell | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Jeremy Stavenhagen | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Reuben Aaronson | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Norman Langley | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Francis Thompson | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Anthony Forma | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Jean-Pierre Janssen | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Don Lenzer | Role: Cinematographer
Name: Jean-Paul Rabié | Role: Cinematographer

[Editing Group]
Name: Roderic Cooke | Role: Editor
Name: Greg Harris | Role: Editor
Name: Russell Oxenden | Role: Editor
Name: Milton Moses Ginsberg | Role: Editor
Name: Ian McGargle | Role: Editor
Name: Jason Rosenfield | Role: Editor
Name: Laurence Cochet-Ottone | Role: Editor
Name: Melinda Hess | Role: Editor
Name: Kevin Boland | Role: Editor
Name: Kim David Ferguson | Role: Editor
Name: Andrew Morreale | Role: Editor
Name: Rochelle Pinkowitz | Role: Editor
Name: Andrew Maskell | Role: Editor

[Production Management]
Name: Susan Benaroya | Role: Production Manager
Name: Olivier Gal | Role: Production Manager
Name: Thierry De Becker | Role: Production Manager
Name: Coco Kemlich | Role: Production Manager
Name: Catherine Stoeblen | Role: Production Manager
Name: Nina Shulman | Role: Production Manager

[Assistant Directors]
Name: Laurent Chomel | Role: Second Unit or Assistant Director

[Art Department]
Name: Dick Burn | Role: Art Department
Name: Clive Helfet | Role: Art Department
Name: Chris Kogler | Role: Art Department

[Sound Department]
Name: Martin H. Clarke | Role: Sound Department
Name: Maurice Hillier | Role: Sound Department
Name: Dave Fallon | Role: Sound Department
Name: Nigel Edwards | Role: Sound Department
Name: Paul Hamblin | Role: Sound Department
Name: Mel Zelnicker | Role: Sound Department
Name: Clement Barclay | Role: Sound Department
Name: Dan Devaney | Role: Sound Department
Name: Karen Gebura | Role: Sound Department
Name: Michel Lamy | Role: Sound Department
Name: Bruno Legent | Role: Sound Department
Name: Rick Patterson | Role: Sound Department
Name: Paul Vigars | Role: Sound Department
Name: Paul Fitzgerald | Role: Sound Department
Name: Eoin McCann | Role: Sound Department
Name: Carole Lucia Satrina | Role: Sound Department
Name: Peter Waggoner | Role: Sound Department
Name: Saverio Camporeale | Role: Sound Department
Name: Corey Shaff | Role: Sound Department

[Camera and Electrical Department]
Name: Julian Barber | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Ivor Richardson | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Chris Kogler | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Chris O'Dell | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jeremy Stavenhagen | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Claude Joly | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Derek Waterman | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Philippe Couston | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Wayne De la Roche | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Christopher Lanzenberg | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Don Lenzer | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jean-Claude Mareschal | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Andrew Millstein | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Georges Orset | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Francis Valero | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Lawrence Dodds | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Norman Langley | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Hugh Fairs | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Anthony Forma | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jean-Pierre Janssen | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jean-Paul Rabié | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Andy Calvert | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jean-Noël Delamarre | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Dan Devaney | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Gilbert Loreaux | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Jacques Vigier | Role: Camera and Electrical Department

[animation department]
Name: Chris Kogler | Role: Animation Department

[Editorial Department]
Name: Ian McGargle | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Shannon Burroughs | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Thierry De Becker | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Andrew Morreale | Role: Editorial Department
Name: Julie Parroni | Role: Editorial Department

[Location Management]
Name: Jacqueline Sigaar | Role: Location Management
Name: Gianni Ponti | Role: Location Management
Name: Pierre-Alain Cremieux | Role: Location Management
Name: Jenny King | Role: Location Management
Name: Regina Koerner | Role: Location Management
Name: Luis Alaejos | Role: Location Management
Name: Valerie Ames | Role: Location Management
Name: Carl Lawrence Ludwig | Role: Location Management
Name: Kitty van Hofwegen | Role: Location Management
Name: Robin Poppelsdorff | Role: Location Management
Name: Andrea Gabler | Role: Location Management
Name: Marc Petitjean | Role: Location Management

[Music Department]
Name: David Measham | Role: Music Department
Name: Mitch Farber | Role: Music Department
Name: John Adams | Role: Music Department
Name: Robert Dennis | Role: Music Department
Name: The Hilliard Ensemble | Role: Music Department
Name: Rogers Covey-Crump | Role: Music Department
Name: Gillian Fisher | Role: Music Department
Name: Paul Hillier | Role: Music Department
Name: David James | Role: Music Department
Name: Gordon Jones | Role: Music Department
Name: Jakob Lindberg | Role: Music Department
Name: John Potter | Role: Music Department
Name: Ashley Stafford | Role: Music Department
Name: Rosemary Fishel | Role: Music Department

[Production Department]
Name: Jackie Unsworth | Role: Production Department
Name: Anne Troise | Role: Production Department
Name: Pauline Taplin | Role: Production Department
Name: Gill Slaven | Role: Production Department
Name: Nina Manolson | Role: Production Department
Name: Nika Cavat | Role: Production Department
Name: Coco Kemlich | Role: Production Department
Name: Petra Lent | Role: Production Department
Name: En Chuan Liu | Role: Production Department
Name: Mary Ann Marino | Role: Production Department
Name: Susan McCarthy | Role: Production Department
Name: Jonathan Skurnik | Role: Production Department
Name: Tessa Van Hoogstraten | Role: Production Department
Name: Tina York | Role: Production Department

[Additional Crew]
Name: James S. Ackerman | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Richard Brilliant | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Denise Hooker | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Linda Nochlin | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Leo Steinberg | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Michael Corcoran | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Robert Kotlowitz | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Robert Miller | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Beatrice Rehl | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Nick Rowling | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Sarah Teale | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Steve Bergson | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Diane Best | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Bertrand Gauthier | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Emma Laybourne | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Nancy Spector | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Paula Lieber Gerson | Role: Additional Crew
Name: David Maconochie | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Linda Seidel | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Marvin Trachtenberg | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Grover A. Zinn Jr. | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Robert Rosenblum | Role: Additional Crew
Name: Linda Scherer | Role: Additional Crew

Trailers

IMDb Video Gallery: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363314/videogallery/

Release Schedule

United Kingdom: October 15, 1989
West Germany: July 21, 1990

Awards

No awards or nominations listed on IMDb.

Box Office

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