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How do we look? : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation / Mary Beard.
"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"-- Publisher's description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631494406 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton and Company, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | This book is an accompaniment to two episodes, out of a total of nine, of the television program Civilisations presented by Mary Beard. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 211-226) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Art and religion. Human beings in art > History. Civilization. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"A companion to PBS' ""Civilisations"" chronicles the intertwined histories of art and religion to explain the irreconcilable problems that all faiths have navigated while trying to represent the divine. By the award-winning author of ""Women & Power.""" - Baker & Taylor
A companion to PBS' "Civilizations" chronicles the intertwined histories of art and religion to explain the irreconcilable problems that all faiths have navigated while trying to represent the divine. - Book News
Exploring art and texts from ancient civilizations around the world, this art history for general readers and students features larger type, a timeline, and a wealth of color photos. The book investigates how people have depicted the human figure from prehistoric times to early Christianity and considers the role of religion in art. The first part of the book focuses on several very early depictions of men and women, such as a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the terracotta warriors in China. The second part looks at images of God and gods and reflects on how all ancient and modern religions have faced problems portraying the divine. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - WW Norton
From prehistoric Mexico to modern Istanbul,Mary Beard looks beyond the familiarcanon of Western imagery to explore thehistory of art, religion, and humanity. - WW Norton
Conceived as a gorgeously illustrated accompaniment to âHow Do We Lookâ and âThe Eye of Faith,â the famed Civilisations shows on PBS, renowned classicist Mary Beard has created this elegant volume on how we have looked at art. Focusing in Part I on the Olmec heads of early Mesoamerica, the colossal statues of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, and the nudes of classical Greece, Beard explores the power, hierarchy, and gender politics of the art of the ancient world, and explains how it came to define the so-called civilized world. In Part II, Beard chronicles some of the most breathtaking religious imagery ever madeâwhether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphersâ to show how all religions, ancient and modern, have faced irreconcilable problems in trying to picture the divine. With this classic volume, Beard redefines the Western-and male-centric legacies of Ernst Gombrich and Kenneth Clark.
