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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 people portrayed themselves in some of the world's earliest art and why these images have sometimes been so contentious. Marking the 55th anniversary airing of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, Beard explores the 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. She explains how an ancient representation of the human body still influences, or distorts, the way people in the West see their own culture and that of others. From Angkor Wat to the Ravenna mosaics and the exquisite calligraphy of Islamic mosques, religions have wrestled with idolatry and iconoclasm. Throughout, Beard considers not only the artists who made art, but also those who used, viewed or interpreted it, asking how to look with an eye of faith.
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Author: Beardová Mary
Language: English
Publication date: July 4, 2024
Manufacturer: Bohemian Ventures, spol. s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, History books in english, Non-fiction literature in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN/EAN: 9781805222460