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 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 made?whether at Angkor Wat, Ravenna, Venice, or in the art of Jewish and Islamic calligraphers? 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
Laughter in Ancient Rome : on Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Mary Beard
audiobookTwelve Caesars : Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Mary Beard
audiobookThe Parthenon
Mary Beard
audiobookThe Fires of Vesuvius
Mary Beard
audiobookVrouwen en macht : Een manifest
Mary Beard
bookRoms kejsare
Mary Beard
bookThe Invention of Jane Harrison
Mary Beard
audiobookThe Roman Triumph
Mary Beard
audiobookClassics
Mary Beard, John Henderson
audiobookThe Colosseum
Mary Beard, Keith Hopkins
audiobookSPQR : een geschiedenis van het Romeinse rijk
Mary Beard
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Weimar Culture
Peter Gay
audiobookHeretic : Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God
Catherine Nixey
audiobookWelcome to Your World : How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
audiobookA Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
Ilan Pappe
audiobook1776
David McCullough
audiobookbookThe Sign and the Seal
Graham Hancock
audiobookUnderworld
Graham Hancock
audiobookWitchcraft : A History in Thirteen Trials
Marion Gibson
audiobookbookCultish : The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell
audiobookWashington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
audiobookCommon Sense
Thomas Paine
audiobookbookSt Paul : The Misunderstood Apostle
Karen Armstrong
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