Beard, Mary: Civilisations. How do we look
How do we look : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation / Mary Beard.
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Beard, Mary, 1955- (author.)
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- Civilisations (Television program)
- ISBN 9781631494406
- First American edition.
- Publicerad: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
- Engelska 240 pages
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- Introduction: A history of looking -- Part 1. The body in question. Prologue : heads and bodies -- A singing statue -- Greek bodies -- The look of loss : from Greece to Rome -- The emperor of China and the power of images -- Supersizing a pharaoh -- The Greek revolution -- The stain on the thigh -- The revolution's legacy -- The Olmec wrestler -- Part 2. The eye of faith. Prologue : sunrise at Angkor Wat -- Who's looking? : 'cave art' at Ajanta -- Who or what was Jesus? -- Questions of vanity -- A living statue? -- The artfulness of Islam -- Bible stories -- The scars of battle -- Hindu images, Islamic idioms -- Faith in civilisation -- Afterword: Looking at civilisation.
- "From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul, Mary Beard looks beyond the familiar canon of Western imagery to explore the history of art, religion, and humanity. Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to "How Do We Look" and "The Eye of Faith," the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art"--
Ämnesord
- Konst och religion (sao)
- Konst och samhälle (sao)
- Art and society. (LCSH)
- Art and religion. (LCSH)
- Civilization in art. (LCSH)
- Human beings in art -- History. (LCSH)
- Art and religion. (fast)
- HISTORY -- Civilization. (bisacsh)
- ART -- History -- Ancient & Classical. (bisacsh)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. (bisacsh)
- Art and religion.
- Human beings in art -- History.
- Art and society (LCSH)
- Art and religion (LCSH)
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- N7625.5 (LCC)
- 704.942 (DDC)
- Ibvz (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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