How do we look the body, the divine, and the question of 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 Civilis...
| Main Author: | Beard, Mary, 1955- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation,
2018.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Series: |
Civilisations (Television program)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a history of looking
- 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
- 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.