EPISODE 1 - "MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN"
The human artist and instinct for art as a means of making "special"
- Gay Brown, art historian
Proportion and style in Ancient Egyptian Art
University of Texas Press, 1994 - Ellen Dissanayake, anthropologist
Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes from and Why?
University of Washington Press, 1995 - Christopher Frayling, cultural historian; Helen Frayling, painter; and Ron Van Der Meer, illustrator
The Art Pack: a Unique, Three-Dimensional Tour Through the Creation of Art over the Centuries: What Artists Do, How They Do It, and the Masterpieces
Knopf, 1992 - David Freedberg, art historian
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response
University of Chicago Press, 1989 - Vilaynur S. Ramachandran, physician and experimental psychologist
The Emerging Mind (Reith Lectures 2003)
BBC and Profile Books UK, 2003
EPISODE 2 - "THE DAY PICTURES WERE BORN"
Prehistoric Society and the discovery, analysis and importance of prehistoric art
- P.G. Bahn, archaeologist
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art
University of Cambridge University Press, 1998) - Jacques Cauvin, prehistorian
The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
Cambridge University Press, 2000 - Jean-Marie Chauvet (et al), speliologist, discoverer of the Chauvet Cave
Chauvet Cave: The Discovery of the World's Oldest Paintings
Gardners Books, 2001 - Bradford Keeney, cultural scholar, shaman, therapist
Ropes to God: Experiencing the Bushman Spiritual Universe
Ringing Rocks Press in association with Leete's Island Books, 2003 - David Lewis-Williams, cognitive archaeologist
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
Thames & Hudson, 2002 & 2004
EPISODE 3 - "THE ART OF PERSUASION"
Art as expression of power and means of influence
- John Boardman, archaeologist
Persia and the West: An Archaeological Investigation of the Genesis of Achaemenid Persian Art
Thames & Hudson, 2000 - Murray Edelman, political scientist
From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions
University Of Chicago Press, 1996 - Jane DeRose Evans, art historian
The Art of Persuasion Political Propaganda from Aeneas to Brutus
University of Michigan Press, 1992 - Richard Lewis, computational/cognitive psychologist; and Susan Ingalls Lewis, historian
The Power of Art
Wadsworth Publishing, 1994 - J. Nicholas Postgate, specialist in Oriental studies
Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History
Routledge, 1992, 1994
EPISODE 4 - "ONCE UPON A TIME"
Art as storytelling
- Peter Sutton (ed.), linguist, anthropologist
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
George Braziller, 1997 - Anonymous; and Andrew George, orientalist
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation
Penguin Classics, 2003 - Ian Lilley, archaeologist
Archaeology Of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands
Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2006 - Harvey A. Shapiro, classics specialist
Myth into Art: Poet and Painter in Classical Greece
Routledge, 1994 - Tom Shone, writer
Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer
Free Press (Simon & Schuster) 2004
EPISODE 5 - "TO DEATH AND BACK"
Human awareness of mortality; art as depiction of and accompaniment to death
- Phillipe Ariès, historian (Helen Weaver, translator)
The Hour of Our Death
Oxford University Press, 1991 - Jan N. Bremmer, historian
The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the University of Bristol
Routledge, 2001 - Dean Koontz, writer; and David Robinson, photographer
The Art of the Cemetery
Penguin Studio Books, 1996 - D. H. Lawrence; writer
Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays
Cambridge University Press, 2002 - Don McCullin, retired photojournalist
Don McCullin
Jonathan Cape, 2003