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Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye Of Faith
Publisher:
Profile Books Private Ltd
| Author:
Professor Mary Beard
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Profile Books Private Ltd
Author:
Professor Mary Beard
Language:
English
Format:
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What are civilisations?
At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain’s most famous classicist Mary Beard asks: how have we portrayed ourselves in some of the world’s earliest art? Why have these images sometimes been so contentious?
Beard explores gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec in Central America, the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks, and the first emperor of China’s terracotta army. And she explains how one ancient representation of the human body still influences (or distorts) how people in the West see their own culture, and that of others.
From Angkor Wat to the Ravenna mosaics and exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques, all religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm. Throughout this story, Beard is concerned not only with the artists who made art, but with those who have used, viewed, or interpreted it – and asked how to look with The Eye of Faith.
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What are civilisations?
At the heart of this big question is how people have depicted the human and divine, from prehistory to the present day. Britain’s most famous classicist Mary Beard asks: how have we portrayed ourselves in some of the world’s earliest art? Why have these images sometimes been so contentious?
Beard explores gigantic stone heads carved by the Olmec in Central America, the statues and pottery of the ancient Greeks, and the first emperor of China’s terracotta army. And she explains how one ancient representation of the human body still influences (or distorts) how people in the West see their own culture, and that of others.
From Angkor Wat to the Ravenna mosaics and exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques, all religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm. Throughout this story, Beard is concerned not only with the artists who made art, but with those who have used, viewed, or interpreted it – and asked how to look with The Eye of Faith.
About Author
Mary Beard is one of the most original and best-known classicists working today. She is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the Classics editor of the TLS. She is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her books include the Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (2008) and the best-selling SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (2015). Her popular TLS blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day.
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