Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith - Couverture rigide

Beard, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781259992 ISBN 13 : 9781781259993

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2018

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama

The idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depicted themselves and others, both human and divine. Distinguished historian Mary Beard explores how art has shaped, and been shaped by, the people who created it. How have we looked at these images? Why have they sometimes been so contentious?

In Part One, she examines how the human figure was portrayed in some of the earliest art in the world - from the gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec of Central America to the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks to the terracotta army of the first emperor of China. And she explains how one particular version of representing the human body, which goes back to the ancient world, still influences (and sometimes distorts) how people in the West see their own culture and that of others. Throughout this story, she is concerned not only with the artists who made images, but with those who have used them, viewed them and inter¬preted them. In other words: How Do We Look?

In Part Two, Mary Beard turns to the relationship between art and religion. For centuries, religion has inspired art: from the Hindu temple at Angkor Wat to the Christian mosaics of Ravenna to the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques. But making the divine visible in the human world has never been simple. All religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm, destroying art as well as creating it - and asking how to look with The Eye of Faith.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Tying in with the new BBC TV series }Civilization{, which builds on Kenneth Clarke's classic 1969 series of the same name, these two books each feature two explorations of history from two acclaimed historians

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1781259992
• ISBN 13: 9781781259993
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240