[PDF] Art And Civilization eBook

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349948691

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Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode. Building a visual cultural account of shifting forms of culture, power, and subjectivity, Maleuvre illustrates how art gave a pattern and a language to the model of social authority rather than simply functioning as a reflective one. Through a broad cultural study of the relationship between humanity, art, and the culture of civilization, Maleuvre introduces a new set of paradigms that critique and affirm the relationship between humanity and art, arguing for it as an engine of social reproduction that transforms how culture is inhabited.

Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Survey of the arts and ideas of Western Civilization from Paleolithic times to the present.

Author : Denis Vialou
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Discusses prehistoric civilization as represented by art and artifacts of the period, including weapons and tools, architecture, cave paintings, engravings, and statues.

Author : Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Hindu art
ISBN : 9788120807518

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This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

Author : Arnold Rubin
Publisher : University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,68 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Body piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This collection of essays, photographs and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies.

Author : Eileen Boris
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 31,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Eileen Boris explores the ways in which the Arts and Crafts Movement was related to the trends of its time. She both describes the leading participants and puts the movement into a new and larger context that involves labor as well as art.

Author : Thomas Hoving
Publisher : Artisan Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1997-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781885183538

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A former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York chooses the 111 works of art--culled from the entire history of Western civilization--that have influenced him most, reproduced in full-color and complemented by his interpretations. Tour.